A weapons deal goes south when two of the lowest men on the organizational depth chart go full wakka-wakka-garbanzo-beans nuts. The result is a one-act setup and an hour of what might be described as Tex Avery directing Quentin Tarantino action sequences.
Tag: Brie Larson
He’s King Around Here Trailer: Kong: Skull Island!
The new trailer for Kong: Skull Island premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live. It’s our first real look at Kong – and a cast that includes Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly and more. Kong: Skull Island opens on March 10, 2017. Check it out after the break.
Warehouse Gunfight Trailer: Free Fire!
Unless my eyes are deceiving me, Brie Larson (soon to be Marvel’s Captain Marvel) is starring in a movie about the world’s worst weapons dealers and the world’s worst weapons buyers. The film is called Free Fire and the re-band trailer follows the jump. The A24 film will be in theaters in 2017. It has […]
Comic-Con 2016: Captain Marvel Has Its Cosmic Crusader!
Brie Larson – winner of the 2016 Best Actress Oscar® for her role in Room – is officially Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers. To check out the new title treatment for Captain Marvel, follow the jump.
Claustrophobic Trailer: Room!
Based on Emma Donoghue’s best selling novel, Room stars Brie Larson as a woman who, with her five-year old son (Jacob Tremblay), has been locked in a single room for a long time. When she comes up with a risky escape plan, the two will have to contend with big, complicated world outside. Room will […]
Messy Human Experience Trailer: Trainwreck!
Amy Schumer is making the jump from stand up comic and star of her own sketch comedy show to movie star – and in Judd Apatow’s fifth movie as a director, no less. Trainwreck is about a woman whose take on relationships is based on her father’s words, ‘Monogamy isn’t realistic.’ (To be fair, he’d […]
The Gambler Jams Out!
The Gambler is a remake of the 1974 classic about a man with an addiction to gambling – to the point of endangering his life. In this version, a university professor gets in deep with three very deadly members of the gambling underworld. This version has a unique take on character that, just barely, allows […]
Fresh, Crude, Funny! Sheldon Loves 21 Jump Street!
Every year, it seems like there’s at least one movie that has awful trailers but turns out to be amazing. In 2009, it was The Hangover. Last year, it was Bridesmaids. This year, it’s 21 Jump Street – a fast-paced crude comedy that pulls off its Judd Apatow-like mix of cringeworthy humor and heart with […]
TELEVISION: The United States of Tara Takes a Unique Approach to Dissociative Identity Disorder!
Tara Gregson [Toni Collette] is a struggling artist/designer with a charming husband, Max [John Corbett] and two kids – studious Marshall [Kier Gilchrist] and uber-brat Kate [Brie Larson]. She also has three more personalities [slutty teen, T; macho redneck Buck, and super Betty Crocker, Alice – and a sister, Charmaine [Rosemarie DeWitt] who thinks she’s […]