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“Chappaquiddick” Trailers, Clips, and Posters

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Directed by John Curran, Chappaquiddick follows Ted Kennedy, played by Jason Clarke,  who destroys his life and political career when he is involved in a fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne, played by Kate Mara.

The fatal accident occurred two days before Apollo 11 walk on the moon and became one of the top scandals of the 1970s.

Ed Helms also stars. I am looking forward to seeing him step out of comedy and into this serious role.

The movie received two nominations. One with Golden Trailers Best Drama and the other screenplay from the Miami Film Festival brings me to the conclusion that the script is watch makes the movie.  Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan honed a screenplay worth producing. 

The Blu-ray/DVD movie trailer is so much better than the trailers promoting the release of the movie. This trailer shows what the story is about and what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne that fateful night. The story unfolds like a chess game.

I watched the movie with my husband.  We found the movie to be slow and depressing.  The acting is great. Ed Helms played the role as Kennedy’s cousin brilliantly.  Jason Clarke is just as good. But, such a sad occurrence is what made it so hard for us to watch.  Kennedy still ended up being a Senator for most his life.

The movie clip shows how Ted Kennedy completely lost all responsibility for what he did.

The final trailer says it all. The true story is hard to stomach because it so hard to understand how anyone could be so stupid and negligent.

The movie clips show how unready and unprofessional Kennedy’s staff handled Ted Kennedy’s mess up.  Ed Helms performance is stellar.

This clip is awfully dark and the sound quality is not that great.

Chappaquiddick is a tragic story full of conflicting testimonies and odd behavior by Ted Kennedy and his friends.

“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” TV Spot, Trailers, Movie Clips, Featurettes & Posters

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Co-directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney, Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch tells the story of a pessimistic grouch who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous holiday spirit. Benedict Cumberbatch provides his voice to the notorious Grinch, who lives a solitary life inside a cave on Mt. Crumpet with only his loyal dog, Max, for companionship. With a cave rigged with inventions and contraptions for his day-to-day needs, the Grinch only sees his neighbors in Whoville when he runs out of food.

The story follows the problem of each year at Christmas. They disrupt his tranquil solitude with increasingly bigger, brighter, and louder celebrations. When the Whos declare they will make Christmas three times bigger this year, the Grinch realizes there is only one way for him to gain some peace: he must steal Christmas. To do so, he poses as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, even trapping a lackadaisical misfit reindeer to pull his sleigh.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are perfect for the holiday season or anytime. You purchase the discs or stream the movies for your kids. The film is a keeper because kids love to play it over and over again. 

I am digging these featurettes. They are so much fun to watch. Cumberbatch’s wit is so dry and funny, a joke.

This movie clip is funny and shows the right side of The Grinch.

This featurette is fun for the kids and parents. It’s Grinch Trivia!

The next poster only shows the Grinch and no dog. Otherwise, the newest poster is pretty much the same.

The two movie clips are so cute and fun to watch. Kids are going to love this movie.

More is added to the story down in Whoville, Cindy-Lou Who—a young girl overflowing with holiday cheer—plots with her gang of friends to trap Santa Claus as he makes his Christmas Eve rounds so that she can thank him for help for her overworked single mother.

The movie trailer shows how the narrative reads like Seuss’ book. Do the cookie reindeer eyes move?

The next poster sets up the holiday theme of the movie.

The cute but straightforward Olympics TV Spot has nothing to do with the movie.

Gringo Trailers and Poster

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Directed by Nash Edgerton, Gringo looks like a lot of fun and action starring  David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.

 

“Hereditary” Trailers and Posters

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Written and directed by Ari Aster, Hereditary follows a family’s aftermath of when the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away. The daughter, played by Toni Collette, begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The whole family gets involved in uncovering the mystery. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.

Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown. The movie is about a familial tragedy that is ominous and deeply disquieting and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

The Blu-ray and DVD are available with streaming happening as well.  Now is the time to watch the horror movie because, if you are a fan of horror, you don’t want to miss it.  This is one creepy and horrific movie that any horror fan will slit their gums to see.

The below Blu-ray/DVD trailer is far better than any of the theatrical trailers.  I am impressed, to say the least.

The movie also stars Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, and Milly Shapiro. Shapiro plays the creepy daughter.  Watch her in the movie trailer and you will see how creepy she is, which is horrifically entertaining.

“The Vanishing of Sidney Hall” Trailer and Poster

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Co-written and directed by Shawn Christensen, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is an intense mystery that follows a detective, played by Kyle Chandler,  who is looking for Sidney Hall, played by Logan Lerman.   

After publishing a bestselling novel based on the death of one of his high school classmates, known as a controversial writer,  Hall finds himself catapulted to unexpected fame and prestige.

His relationship with his girlfriend, played by Elle Fanning, begins to fall apart as the dark consequences of the book intrude on their life together, and he disappears without a trace. Except, his books are connected to a string of mysterious arsons. Nearly a decade later, the detective searches for the missing author.

Christensen won an Oscar in 2013 for his short film Curfew. He keeps himself busy with an indie rock band, and he wrote some screenplays including Before I Disappear, Cul de Sac, and Karma Coalition.

The movie trailer is intense and drew me in as I watched it. I hope the movie is as good as the trailer.  With such a great cast, I can’t see why it wouldn’t be good.

“I Feel Pretty” Trailer, Movie Clip, Poster & Blu-ray/DVD

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In the musical Westside Story,  Maria sings Stephen Sondheim’s lyrical song “I Feel Pretty” while she fancies herself with a new dress, “I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright! And I pity any girl who isn’t me tonight.”

Written and directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, I Feel Pretty is far from like Maria’s song. The story follows Renee Barrett, played by Amy Schumer, who doesn’t feel pretty or looks like the ingenue in a Sondheim musical. 

Yet, according to her own measures, Renne struggles with insecurity because she is not the perfect woman.

Like a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, she wakes from a fall, believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly. Watch the movie trailer, and you will see how fearlessly she lives. So, as the old saying goes, “Is beauty only skin deep?”

The critical point of the fairy tale is what happens when she realizes her appearance never changes.

The Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming are happening now. You can catch it on Amazon if you haven’t seen it yet.

It’s a cute clip about being pretty from the inside out.

The movie also stars some stellar talent: Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski, Tom Hopper, and Lauren Hutton. 

“Venom” Trailers and Posters

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Directed by Ruben Fleischer, who helmed movies like Zombieland and Gangster Squad, the movie’s storyline took some time to become fully available. The overall story is amazing with Tom Hardy adding his dynamic talent. You can watch the trailer and get a feel for what is happening in Venom.  Each trailer gradually tells about the story, and it is cool to watch as it unfolds.

You might recall Venom in the Spider-man comics. Comic book fans will tell you that Venom arrived on the streets in 1993 with Lethal Protector. David Micheline wrote the limited series and Mark Bagley, Ron Lim, and Sam DeLarosa designed the art.

In the comic book story, it is understood that Venom turns into a complete anti-hero. Heading to San Francisco, Venom and Spider-man team up and fight some villains.  My curiosity wanted to know if the movie followed the comic books. After watching the movie trailer, I doubted it, which was correct.

The first poster from the top shows a sinister and very dark character. The second poster shows Tom Hardy’s transformation. The movie is streaming now or available on Blu-ray and DVD.

One thing is for sure, the movie is about one of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and distinctly threatening superheroes to ever come to the comic world. Hardy stars as the destructive protector called Venom.

Michelle Williams, and Riz Ahmed star alongside Brady. At what capacity their roles are, there is no word as of yet, though in the trailer there is an indication Williams plays a former girlfriend. It seems the overall storyline is hush-hush, which is written by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel.

The fourth trailer is three minutes long with a full-length frame of Venom. He is wicked and totally anti-superhero.

The second trailer is scary, like a horror movie.  Tom Hardy is good as the reluctant anti-hero.  The Venom looks a lot like the alien in Aliens. I just don’t like that tongue.

“Spinning Man” Trailer, Poster, Featurettes, Clip

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Directed by Simon Kaijser, Spinning Man is based on the book of the same name by George Harrar adapted for the screen by Matt Aldrich. The move follows Evan Birch, played by Guy Pearce. He is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished college, where his charm and reputation have made his philosophy class very popular.

When a female student named Hannah, played by Jamie Kennedy, goes missing, Evan’s previous off-campus dalliances make his wife, played by Minnie Driver, question his alibi.

Gruff police Detective Malloy, played by Pierce Brosnan, has even more reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in Hannah’s disappearance. Suddenly, the questions Evan comes to grip with aren’t merely academic – they’re a matter of life or death.

The movie trailer is tight and suspenseful, and I keep wondering what happened to the student. It appears in the 100-minute movie there is a twist at the end of a storyline about examining a crime, punishment, and conscience undertones.

I have a feeling Brosnan is going to steal the show. He has developed into quite an actor. He was amazing in the  Only Boy in New York. The movie also stars Clark Gregg, Odeya Rush, Alexandra Shipp, and Freya Tingley.

This clip seems like they shouldn’t worry, but they sure seem worried.

This movie clip gets intense and he sure seems guilty.

In Part 1 of the Featurette Brosnan and Driver talk about when they worked together on Brosnan’s first James Bond Movie.

In Part 2, the Featurette is filled with the actors talking about working with the director. The director, Simon Kaijser, talks about working with the story and actors.

“Detective Chinatown 2” Trailer and Poster

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Directed by Sicheng Chen and following a huge success from the original Detective Chinatown, which holds the ninth place as the highest grossing film in China, we meet, once again, the madcap buddies Qin, played by Haoran Liu, and Tang, played by Baoqing Wang. Detective Chinatown 2 is just as hilarious.

They take a transatlantic trip to New York City. Qin ends up in a global detective contest with a large cash prize. The task contest requires him to locate the grandson of the godfather of Chinatown. Qin and Tang become the ‘Detective Chinatown Duo’ hot on the trail until the missing person case becomes a murder case.

Watch the video and you will see some funny antics. Chen has impeccable comedic timing. It’s just belly roll of laughter after belly roll of laughter.

Promising But Unusual “Life is a Party” Trailer

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Directed by Ben Falcone and co-written with the star Melissa McCarthy, we follow a typical storyline of a fish out of water theme that turns for the best, and everyone learns to be a better person. The plus point is that we get to laugh along the way. Watch the Life is a Party trailer and see McCarthy completely blow herself up, funny visual.

Her husband unexpectedly dumps her, as a longtime dedicated housewife, Deanna turns regret into changing her life for the best. She goes back to college – landing in the same class and school as her daughter is not in her favor or entirely sold on the idea.

Plummeting headlong into the campus experience and even making out with a college boy in the library, the increasingly outspoken Deanna — now Dee Rock — embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys. But, it is on her terms, finding her true self by becoming a college senior and taking the chances she never took before when she should have taken them – her life might have turned out different.

The movie also stars Debby Ryan and Gilliam Jacobs.