Movies I'm Looking Forward To: The Experiment

Follows the course of four families through the charter school experiment here in New Orleans.  I'm on the fence about charter schools.  I think you can't really judge them on a whole - each one has to be looked at individually, because some of them are doing amazing things, and some of them only appear to do well because they picked students who were already bright and easy to teach.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: The Black Power Mixtape (September 2011)

I really hope they show this at the New Orleans Film Festival in October, because I'm doubtful that I'll get to see it in theaters otherwise.  Oh well, there's always Netflix.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Drive

I'm a fan of Ryan Gosling's, so I'm definitely going to check this out.

More Drive (2011) Videos

H/T to /Film

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: In Time (October 28th)

This is a cool idea.  I believe this is Justin Timberlake's first leading role, and I think it might work for him.

More In Time Videos

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Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Columbiana (Sept. 2nd)

This is the first trailer in a while that really excited me.  This film could turn Zoe Saldana into the next Angelina Jolie (on the action level, I don't know if she can cross the line between looking sexy and being sexy the way Angelina can, yet).  And this trailer is so good.  It felt long, but it left me wanting more.  It showed a lot, but I didn't feel like I might as well not see the movie since it showed all of the good parts.  I cannot wait for this.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Cowboys and Aliens (July 29th) and Sleeping Beauty (Cannes)

Two very different movies that I just saw the trailers for on /Film.  I love the genre mashup going on in Cowboys and Aliens, and am appalled at how ugly, yet sexy, Daniel Craig is.



Sleeping Beauty looks very eerie and disturbing, but I always tend to like disturbing movies the most because they tend to say something about humans that people are afraid to acknowledge.  You can't really tell from the trailer what the movie is about, but this is not a straight modern retelling of the fairy tale the way Red Riding Hood attempted to do.  The plot goes:

A haunting erotic fairy tale about Lucy, a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.

I'm a little annoyed with Emily Browning, but it's probably not completely her fault that she looked like a platinum blonde blow-up doll in Sucker Punch (although, I believe that my Amanda Seyfried would have managed to not look so dumb in all of those promotional pictures).  She has a very interesting face now that I see her in this trailer, not as generic as I thought she was.  The trailer is pretty vague, but I am bothered that I didn't really detect any sort of personality in her character.

Sleeping Beauty from Pollen Digital on Vimeo.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Bad Teacher (6.24.11)

It's been a while since there was a comedy coming out that I wanted to see, but I've been looking forward to the trailer for this for a while, and it did not disappoint.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Transfer

This looks like a really cool concept, so of course it's a foreign film. I'm really tired of remakes and board game/toy adaptations, Hollywood.





H/T to Shadow and Act.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Apollo 18 (April 22nd), Blacktino, Black Power Mixtape, X

Apollo 18
This looks pretty cool, it's been a while since I've seen a good sci fi movie.  But the trailer tells way too much.  Why show us the critters?  Why show us what happens to one of the astronauts?  When will the people who are responsible for producing these trailers learn that less is more?  I should want to see this movie because I'm dying to know what happens, what these astronauts find.  Instead, I can figure out the beginning and the middle of the movie - I just don't know how it ends.



H/T to /Film.

Blacktino
Ooh, a movie that depicts black people who don't fit into the mold of commonly held stereotypes? Sign me up! It's an indie, so it might not end up in theaters, but I hope to see it on Netflix soon.


blacktino SXSW Trailer from Aaron Burns on Vimeo.

H/T to Shadow and Act.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975



This movie is found footage that was recorded by Swedish journalists decades ago. I'm hoping they'll show it at the New Orleans Film Festival.

H/T to Liberator Magazine.

X
I don't really know why I want to see this, but I do.



H/T to /Film.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Battle Los Angeles - 3.11.11

Must. See.  At the very least, because I have a little girl crush on Michelle Rodriguez.

H/T to /Film.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: True Grit (December 2010)

I'm not a fan of westerns, but this looks fantastic.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Mooz-lum

Looks interesting, click here to demand that it be brought to New Orleans.



H/T to Shadow And Act.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Black Swan

I love a dark thriller, and this looks fantastic.



H/T to Shadow And Act.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Sucker Punch

This movie looks great.  Here's the plot summary, from /Film:

Snyder has called the film “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, a 1950’s-period action movie which tells the story of a girl named Baby Doll (Browning) who is confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While imprisoned, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain. In this fantasy world, where she needs to steal five objects to help her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.

Read more: What is Going On with Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch?! | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/20/what-is-going-on-with-zack-snyders-sucker-punch/#ixzz0vJK2hAZx

My only annoyance?  Why, in the mind of a young woman, would herself and her fellow barely legal (if legal at all) friends be dressed like typical naughty half-naked male fantasy comic book heroines?

A Multitude of Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Sus, Stone, Buried, An Omar Broadway Film, The Town

Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds.

H/T to /Film.  I've heard that this movie is really good, I hope that one of it's September limited releases is in this area.

Stone, starring Edward Norton and Robert DeNiro (what?!  I'm already there!).

H/T to Shadow and Act.  The cast alone is enough for me to want to see this film.

Sus, starring Clint Dyer.

H/T to Shadow and Act.  I really hope that this film can find an American distributor.

"An Omar Broadway Film", starring Omar Broadway, a prisoner who managed to smuggle a camera into the penitentiary and film various acts of correctional officer brutality.

H/T to Shadow and Act.  This film supposedly aired on HBO last Wednesday, but I haven't been able to...uh...procure it anywhere else on the internets.

And finally, The Town, starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner.

H/T to Shadow and Act.  You know, I never believed that Ben Affleck sucked as much as everyone else thought, and it's good to see him finally living up to his potential and choosing good movies.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: The Loved Ones

H/T to /Film. This looks bizarre, I wonder if it will end up in the New Orleans Film Festival.

Shadow And Act » Trailer – The Last Exorcism

I'm not much of a horror fan anymore, too many movies with stupid plots, unlikeable characters, and cheap jumps, but this one looks pretty creepy.

Shadow And Act » Trailer – The Last Exorcism

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Adjustment Bureau

This looks really cool.  Although, it sort of contradicts itself.  If all of those moments were according to plan, why are the men who keep us on our paths pissed?

Movies I'm Looking Forward To: The Killer Inside Me (Limited June 18th)

H/T to /Film.

Special Cinco De Mayo Trailer for "Machete"