‘Trailers’ Archives
Movie Marketing Madness: Lovely, Still
Very few people actually want to go through their last years alone, without someone to love in the twilight of their lives. I think of George Carlin's line in Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl when, confronted with his son and granddaughter moving out of his house, he admits simply that he doesn't want them to go because he doesn't want to die alone. [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: Heartbreaker
Guys who appear out of nowhere and proceed to break-up a relationship, whether it’s one where the couple is dating, engaged or even married usually have one of a handful of monikers applied to them. Usually these labels cast disparagement upon that gentleman’s character and call in to question his cleanliness and perhaps even the [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: Going the Distance
Long-distance relationships are hard. Something about never being able to actually see the person you're dating and communication being awkward after a while…it all sounds, quite frankly, ghastly. I've never been in one myself, but that's what I hear at least from the few friends who were in some kind of long distance relationship. These [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: The American
Last year we saw George Clooney play a man who enjoys being a lone wolf. His character in Up in the Air, Ryan Bingham, spent 320+ days in the air flying from one place to the next working on laying people off, for which he needed to be as dispassionate as possible about not just the damage he was inflicting on others but also his own life, [...]
Movie Marketing Madness: The Switch
There's a great line from When Harry Met Sally about waiting too long to have a baby. While she's telling her girlfriends over lunch that she's left her longtime boyfriend because he didn't want a family, one of Sally's friends points out that her biological clock must be ticking. But Sally corrects her and points out that, no, the clock [...]
