It’s been a rough week for a lot of folks. People are
looking for hope, and maybe, just maybe, two new international trailers for
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story can help with that a bit. Hope and resistance are what we've got to lean on right now, and like what we’ve seen thus far, they hammer that home hard once again.
It’s safe to say, most of us are excited for a Star
Wars movie, any Star Wars movie. But we have a lot
to look forward to with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story later
this year—it’s the first of the “standalone” films, it explores different
corners of that far, far away galaxy we all adore, it’s supposedly a gritty war
film, it has little to do with the Force, and much more. And it looks
incredible, including the latest, purportedly final trailer. Check it out
below.
Everyone is all pumped for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, especially in the wake of the trailer that dropped last week.
It looks like an awesome war movie that, while bearing obvious hallmarks of a
Star Wars movie, promises to bring something new to that
far, far away galaxy. And what would a Star Wars movie be without
some daddy issues? Which is what we get a glimpse of in this new Japanese
trailer.
At this point, can we all agree that every major movie
undergoes reshoots and that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story going
back for more isn’t the huge, end-of-days-are-upon-us deal that many have made
it out to be? Maybe the movie was/is in trouble, we won’t know for a few months
until we actually see it for ourselves. But in the meantime, the latest trailer
looks fucking fantastic. Don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.
Sci-fi is my jam, and as much as I love alien invasions
where the outsiders show up and wreak havoc, the pinnacle of the genre has
always been the thoughtful, brainy, human works that use the speculative
trappings to hold a mirror up to society. Not that the two are necessarily
mutually exclusive, but Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival promises
to fall firmly into that second camp. Yesterday we got our first look at the
film, and today arrives with a shiny new teaser trailer. Check it out below.
If you know anything at all about the movie going into
Southpaw, you know precisely what you’re going to see. This
is a paint-by-numbers redemptive sports saga from the opening scene, and though
star Jake Gyllenhaal gives yet another fantastic performance as boxer Billy
Hope (yes, the protagonist’s name is Billy Hope in case you were expecting any
subtlety at all), a pugilist bruised both physically and emotionally, he can’t
elevate the rote story.
