Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Will Ferrell showed the first trailer for The Campaign starring Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell, and it looks surprisingly funny. I say surprisingly because I haven’t laughed at much of anything these guys have done in some time.
The film also stars Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, and Dan Aykroyd.
The Campaign opens August 10th. After the jump read a full synopsis and watch the trailer:
Here is the first trailer for Ruben Fleischer‘s (Zombieland) Gangster Squad starring everyone cool in Hollywood. The trailer is awesome, but that’s easy for me to say because I love watching anything that takes us back to the 1940s. Sean Penn is gangster Mickey Cohen, Josh Brolin is the head of the LA task force trying to bring him down.
The film stars Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie, and Giovanni Ribisi. Gangster Squad opens this year.
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and–if he has his way–every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. “The Gangster Squad” is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time.
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*God Bless America opens on Friday in a few theaters, it’s also out there on VOD/Digital. This is a re-post of my review from April 17th
GOD BLESS AMERICA (2011)
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr
Written by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Release Date: VOD April 6th, limited theaters May 11th
Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of American culture. Divorced, recently fired, and possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has nothing left to live for. He buys a gun and decides to take out his frustration on the cruelest, stupidest, most intolerant people he can imagine. [Trailer]
God Bless America is a wildly over-the-top black comedy for anyone who’s ever been angry at the state of our culture. If you liked Falling Down or Natural Born Killers, you get the best of both films with Bobcat Goldwait’s latest. He brought us World’s Greatest Dad which also touched on the world of celebrity, but we get something very different here. I should mention this is from the same man who brought us Sleeping Dogs Lie, a movie about a woman who gives a blowjob to her dog. So please note what you’re getting into here.
Matthew McConaughe plays a killer, is that a first? If Kate Hudson isn’t around, that even better. You can watch the trailer for Killer Joe below, in the NC-17-rated film Emile Hirsch and his father Thomas Haden Church hire cop/hitman Matthew McConaughey to murder their mother in order to get her insurance policy.
Killer Joe was directed by Academy Award winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and also stars Juno Temple and Gina Gershon.
Killer Joe opens July 27th.
Here is the first trailer for Ben Affleck’s Argo, it’s a great look at the film that if it turns out as good as it looks here, would make a hat trick of terrific features for Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).
Based on a true story, Argo follows a CIA agent (Affleck) who attempts to rescue six Americans trapped in the home of the Canadian ambassador during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The rescue mission was to go in under the auspices of filming a science fiction movie entitled “Argo”. The film’s cast alone makes for something to see, we get Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Kerry Bishe, Alan Arkin, Philip Baker Hall and Victor Garber.
Argo opens October 12th, watch the trailer below.
Neighborhood Watch has a new red band trailer and to distance itself from the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, it will now simply be called The Watch. The movie looks entertaining still, what’s in a title anyways? The film stars Vaughn, Hill, Stiller and Richard Ayoade. I suspect from the trailer there was a lot of ad-libbing on this one, nothing wrong with that when it comes to comedy I think.
An outrageous comedy in which four everyday suburban guys (played by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade) come together to form a neighborhood watch group, but only as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood — and the world — from total extermination.
After City Strip #100 and Ryan having another go at filling the void, the comic is back. Kevin is back at his desk working on the next hundred comics, does he have pants on? No one knows. Here is #101.
T-u-r-t-l-e power!
So here is what we know: Michael Bay and his team of remake artists at Platinum Dunes (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street) are behind the upcoming reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Bay has since announced few details that have enraged many:
“When you see this movie, kids are going to believe, one day, that these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable.”
Thus, people acted accordingly:
Michael Bay then responded to the feedback on his official site with the following:
The 2012 Summer Movie Season is on and The City of Films has put together your guide of the must-see movies including each superhero extravaganza, highly anticipated blockbusters and the lesser known movies getting a limited release.
So sit back and grab a cold one as we take a look at this summer’s releases.
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The Expendables 2 much like the first installment won’t be winning any major awards, but it’s sure going to be fun. Van Damme is the villian here and is looking to get his hands on a lot of plutonium or something.
Watch the trailer below, The Expendables 2 opens on August 17th.
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