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Finding Amanda trailer

More or less charming trailer for the comedy Finding Amanda. The film has Matthew Broderick playing a compulsive gambler whose marriage is on the rocks because of that gambling. He finds out his 20-year old niece has become a hooker in Las Vegas and so, to prove himself to his wife, he goes to try [...]


The Signal dials up mobile campaign

Both Steve Smith at MediaPost and Rick Mathieson have stories up about the mobile click-to-call campaign run by ad network Ringleader Digital in support of the horror movieĀ .
The campaign run by Ringleader place banners on mobile Websites. When people clicked the ad they dialed a number that played the same noise that, in the movie, [...]


New The Life Before Her Eyes trailer

This new trailer for The Life Before Her Eyes is a fair sight better than the first one that was released. It lays out the story of a woman who’s still haunted by a violent incident at her high school when she was a student there in a little better fashion. I think part of [...]


Mister Foe trailer

If you’re wondering where you might have heard the name Hallam Foe before as you watch this new trailer for Mister Foe, it’s because it’s the name of the main character and used to be the name of the movie. Happy to clear that up for you.
As to the trailer itself it certainly takes pains [...]


New Life Before Her Eyes poster

I’d probably like this new poster for The Life Before Her Eyes if Uma Thurman didn’t look like she had been turned into a featureless avatar out of Second Life or something.
Aside from that I actually think the one-sheet works pretty well. I like the mirror effect of Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood as her [...]


Flawless trailer

It should come as no surprise that the best parts of this trailer for Flawless involve Michael Caine. He breezes through as a janitor who convinces a female executive of a bank to help him steal a vault full of diamonds with practiced ease. Demi Moore as that female executive, though, seems weighed down with [...]


Shrooms trailer

I don’t even know what to make of this trailer for Shrooms. Put simply, it’s about a bunch of stoners that go into the woods to trip on a very specific type of mushroom. But things go south when they start tripping more than they thought they would. Or they’re not and something bad really [...]


New The Signal trailer

This new trailer for The Signal expands on the teaser in one key area: It actually gives you a glimpse of the movie’s story and its main characters. Seems that some mysterious signal that’s become embedded in all radio, TV and other broadcasts is turning half the population into savage murderers and one woman who’s [...]


Redacted trailer

You barely see anything other than title cards in this trailer for Redacted from director Brian De Palma and it’s all the more stirring for that. It’s more a teaser than anything - and the movie has already created quite a buzz in political commentary circles - but it’s quite good.
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Weirdsville trailer

This trailer for Weirdsville is just awful. The plot is inscrutable, the acting just awful and the look and feel of it actively turned me off of seeing the film. It’s supposed to present a movie that’s filled with unique characters and trippy images but in reality it just comes off looking like they didn’t [...]


Closing Escrow trailer

This trailer for Closing Escrow, a mockumentary type flick about cut-throat real estate agents and their buyers, is funnier than I really expected it to be. There’s lots of genuinely funny moments in it and I liked it quite a bit. There’s not one but two of the cast from “Reno 911″ in there, which [...]


The Signal trailer

OK. The Signal is about some mysterious signal (natch) that drives people crazy. One guy who’s not effected then tries to find his lover, a married woman, and save her at the same time he’s trying to figure out what’s causing this mayhem in the first place. Got it? Cause this trailer tells you none [...]


Exiled trailer

This trailer for Exiled looks very cool. It’s about the Hong Kong mob in 1998 and how some members just can’t let go of the old lifestyle, even as the territory they control is about to come under Chinese control. It’s all high emotion and action but is very slickly cut together. I like it [...]


Cashback trailer

This is a mesmerizing trailer for the film Cashback, about a young man who finds he can’t fall asleep. Deciding to put those extra hours to use he takes a job at a grocery store, where he imagines/finds he can pause life. [via CINE]
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Broken English trailer

What do you want? This trailer for Broken English, starring Parker Posey as a woman looking for love in all the wrong places, is great. There’s not much more to say.