Trailers/Clips

There are a number of reasons I wish I had never gotten around to seeing Legion, the directorial debut of visual effects artist Scott Stewart. It's not a very good movie...it wasted potential left and right...it made me want to claw my eyeballs out...it showed very little promise for Stewart as an action director. But now having seen the trailer for Priest, Stewart's sophomore film, I have a new reason to hate Legion: It was bad enough to make me not want to see a post-apocalyptic movie. That's just unforgivable.

Had I not been so thoroughly unimpressed by his angelic apocalypse, I might actually be looking forward to this second team-up between Stewart and star Paul Bettany. Sadly that is not the case, and as a result I can't help but watch this otherwise intriguing trailer with an inner mantra of "Remember, this is made by the guy who made Legion. You hated Legion. Never Forget." Were it not for that nagging bit of situational awareness, I think I'd be quite happy to sit down with a tub of popcorn and enjoy a sci-fi flick about a priest in the future who is hellbent on killing the pack of vampires who kidnapped his niece.

Plus I also can't let myself forget that this will be a post-production 3D conversion. Ugh.

[Written by Joe Utichi.]

I may only have spent a couple of months with Cinematical, but if you've read more than a few of my posts in that time you've probably heard me banging on about the brilliance of Gareth Edwards's Monsters, which I saw at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival in June.

IGN today has your first proper look at the film, courtesy of a brand new teaser trailer, in which I'm quoted banging on about its brilliance yet again. But it can't be understated: Monsters is genuinely one of the most exciting debut feature films I've seen in my career, and it marks the arrival of a talent whose ability to handle epic scale whilst still maintaining an emotional core is sorely lacking from most of his Hollywood competitors.

Read the rest of this post and see the Monsters trailer at Cinematical.

Electronic music guru Bruce Haack has been a huge influence on generations of musicians and is adored by fans across the globe. Some of his best work is actually geared toward children -- whom Haack believed processed information in computer-like ways. When the artist realized that a lot of children's music was lacking creativity and alternative thinking, he composed records that combined dancing, singing, and sound -- like on the 1968 LP The Way Out Record for Children.

After the jump, check out Haack's song School for Robots -- which features lines like, "Greetings, fellow robots. I hope oil goes well with you," and "Here is your robot music. Do not rest until you can't move to it." Love! If this doesn't make you want to answer the call for wacky robot dancing, I don't know what will.

When it was declared that God of War would be slaughtering its way to the big screen, I balked at the idea. Don't get me wrong, I love the games. How can you not loving flaying man and beast with the Blades of Chaos, arguably the most extravagant and dynamic weapon system of the current generation of games? The problem is, I think it would be incredibly hard to bring all the ridiculous excess of the games to the big screen convincingly. It could be done, sure, it just would require an incredibly talented director and a mountain of cash.

Or, if you're Gamervision, you just adapt God of War like it's a quirky indie comedy. Check out the trailer for just such a film below.

RG Entertainment have just released the first poster and teaser trailer for their new adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel, The Wind in the Willows. When the project was first announced, I was under the impression that it was going to be done with animatronic pops created by Weta Workshop, but unless my eyes are deceiving me (not an impossibility given I just awoke), the teaser trailer is all CGI...

Hop over to the official website to check it out, then let us know if you're feeling the more menacing, dark fantasy tone it looks like director Ray Griggs is going for. And thanks to Film School Rejects for the find.

English model, actress, designer, and television presenter Kelly Brook teamed up with Total Film Magazine in Los Angeles for a set of film-related bikini photos -- including a super hot slave Leia costume. Other iconic film bikini shots include one inspired by Sophia Loren and what appears to be a little Raquel Welch, among others. Check it out in the gallery below. Also, there's a little video tease after the jump. Thank me later.

I'm a native New Yorker, but have long since traded the Big Apple's subway system for another city's trains. While my commuting experience is always full of the stench and surprises that come with battling humanoid underground dwellers, nothing can ever top the characters you'll meet in NYC's train cars. The folks at Improv Everywhere are helping to secure New York's subway rep with their latest video -- one that pairs beloved Star Wars' characters with a group of unsuspecting commuters on a subway car.

You'll probably remember Improv Everywhere's "Frozen" videos -- where masses of people froze space and time in Grand Central Station. And who could forget the famous "No Pants Subway Ride?" I wouldn't want to sit on those seats afterward. This time, the gang's mission includes Princess Leia and Darth Vader, and a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope -- recreated on the 6 train.

I wish Improv Everywhere would make my train ride more exciting. The guy who flashes me his chest taco meat just isn't cutting it anymore. Check out the video after the jump.

Even by the title alone, Predators promised a ton of Predators, in much the same way Aliens delivered a lot more aliens than the original film. We even got that great shot in the trailer of Adrien Brody as Royce, covered in dozens of the three-dot laser sightings that Predators use before blowing their subject away. It turned out only to be a bait-and-switch advertising moment -- a scene used to sell a moment that is drastically different in the actual film, where Royce is pinpointed by only one laser sight.

"A lot of my movies have trailer shots that I shoot just for the trailer," Predators producer Robert Rodriguez told MTV, "so that people haven't seen the movie already but they get the feeling of what it's supposed to represent." And what was that supposed to represent? According to the image, it represents a film with at least fifteen Predators, not the mere three that are on the hunt in the movie.

This isn't a case of cutting the scene from the final film or filming a scene explicitly for a trailer -- it's a deliberate, deceitful post-production fake-out to sell people on the film by promising them more Predators than ever before. I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between three and fifteen. I don't think anybody went to the movies to see that one single shot, but it's still a sneaky cheat, and when you reach that point in the movie, the glaring difference in the scene will take you out of the film just as surely as someone's cell phone going off. I'm sure that wasn't the filmmakers' intent.

I've been looking forward to Gareth Edwards' Monsters ever since I first heard about it earlier this year. The film made a pretty big splash at the SXSW Film Festival, and now there's news as to when the rest of us will finally get to see it for ourselves.

Monsters will play in New York and L.A. starting on October 29th of this year. The film is being released through Magnolia Pictures' genre division, Magnet. No word yet on whether it might play more markets after its debut, but Magnet is cool about getting these films out on VOD in short order (sometimes before their actual theatrical appearances..). So, even if you don't live in NYC or Los Angeles, don't fret -- you'll still be able to check this film out at some point.

Made with a five-man crew and two actors, for very little money (some reports have placed the budget as low as $15,000), Monsters could become this year's Paranormal Activity -- which is ironic, since a late October release date will put it in direct competition with that film's sequel.

The movie is centered on an American journalist (Scoot McNairy) tasked with finding his boss' daughter (Whitney Able) and escorting her through an infected zone of Mexico to the US border. This particular stretch of land is quarantined because NASA discovered the existence of alien life in our solar system and sent a probe to take samples -- but the probe crashed over the region on its return and now extra-terrestrial lifeforms are flourishing there while the US and Mexican military try to contain it.

Click past the jump for a look at a clip from the film.

The live-action adaptation of the vintage Japanese anime Space Battleship Yamato has been teasing fans for months, but now we have a full trailer to give us a more substantial taste of what's in store. Thing is, this full trailer is still fully in Japanese, so unless you're fluent in the language, you're going to have to subsist off of the visuals alone on this one.

Space Battleship Yamato is directed by Returner's Takashi Yamazaki and, according to Wikipedia, is about, "The crew of the Space Battleship Yamato set out on a journey to the planet Iscandar to acquire a device that can heal the ravaged Earth."

Check out the trailer below and head over to YouTube to catch it in its slightly-less blocky 720p. Thanks to Quiet Earth for the find.