Movie Buzz This supercut demonstrates the proper way to accent your action-packed Hollywood movie trailer. Just show someone shooting a gun, then cut to a car blowing up.
Culture Buzz The new trailer for “LC” gives us a pretty good idea how zombie fighter Juliet Starling is going to spend her Valentine's Day with her severed-head boyfriend. The rest of us won't get to play with her until later this year. (Release date TBA.)
Politics Buzz Anyone who's seen Cameron's accidental 2008 masterpiece “Fireproof” has to be stoked for his next filmic endeavor — a cinematic field trip that Mike Seaver hopes will “guide us back to the foundation of America's success.” “Monumental” will hit theaters for one night only, March 27.
Movie Buzz How would you spend your last days on Earth? Here's the first official trailer for “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” an apocalyptic rom-com starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley as neighbors who team up to make each other's End of Days dreams come true. It'll hit theaters this summer.
Movie Buzz Space Nazis from the moon. This is exactly the culmination of awesome I was looking for in 2012. “Iron Sky” hits theaters April 4.
Sans Matt Damon. Still, Jeremy Renner's mug is reason enough to check out the fourth installment in Universal's spy thriller.
Movie Buzz Bin Laden is back. Well, he could be back. It just depends how much cash Arrowstorm Entertainment can round up to finish post-production. Here's their Kickstarter page if you want to help them bring the Axis of Evil Dead b-movie to life.
Movie Buzz Just when you thought “The Phantom Menace” couldn't get any worse, along comes a trailer for the “Star Wars: Episode I” re-release for the kids! I want to believe that, at age nine, I could have picked up on the condescension.
Movie Buzz This clandestine documentary, smuggled into France for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi. “This is Not a Film” was shot partially on an iPhone during Panahi's house arrest in his Tehran apartment while appealing his sentence — six years in prison and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
Movie Buzz Rodrigo Cortes’s psychological thriller opened to mixed reviews at Sundance in January. That still doesn’t mean we tire of a scary DeNiro shouting at people on the big screen. (via.)
Movie Buzz Mel does his best Jack Palance impression in the trailer for Adrian Grunberg’s action comedy. (Seriously, it’s like he had some gravel with a side of gravel for breakfast or something.) 20th Century Fox isn’t planning a U.S. theatrical release for “Get the Gringo,” but you can catch it on demand May 1.
Culture Buzz No sign of Ripley in “Aliens: Colonial Marines” — just a bunch of soldiers battling acid blood-riddled monsters, and that’ll do just fine. The game’s release, originally slated for the spring, has been pushed back until fall 2012 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Movie Buzz Bobcat’s fifth feature-length film stars Joel Murray (“Mad Men”, “One Crazy Summer”) as a suicidal man gone homicidal — particularly taking aim at reality TV stars. Oh, and pretty much any other moron who gets in his way. In theaters May 11.
Movie Buzz Well, his name is “Snow” in this dystopian action thriller. But this is clearly a retelling of John Carpenter’s “Escape From … ” classics. See Pearce pay homage to Kurt Russell on April 20.
Movie Buzz I got $5 that says Cage loses his shit in the first 30 minutes of Roger Donaldson’s vigilante thriller. What, no one wanna take that bet? “Seeking Justice” opens March 16.
Movie Buzz Still better than a zoo, amirite? If you ever wanted to know what the trailer for “We Bought a Zoo” would look like when mashed up with footage from “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile,” well, look no further!
Movie Buzz Smells a lot like “LOTR” but looks damn good. Bella and Thor face off with Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen June 1.
Movie Buzz Segel and Ed Helms are brothers in Jay and Mark Duplass’s quirky slacker comedy. In theaters March 16.
Barry Bostwick plays FDR in a movie that sees him get Polio from the bite of a Nazi werewolf, an event that leads to World War II. At one point in the trailer he shoots a machine gun while screaming “Fuck Polio.” Yes. Please. (via ology.com)
Movie Buzz Some hardcore fan of the Batman mashed up Christopher Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises” trailer with bits from “Batman: The Animated Series.” And it's wonderful.