Quentin Tarantino finally has his Once Upon a Time movie. You knew it was bound to happen. I honestly expected it to be a western, but as he’s done that the last two times out of the gate, I guess that wasn’t in the cards. As you might imagine, some folks are frothing over at the prospect of a new QT movie, so without further ado, here’s the first trailer for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
What’s the one thing Guardians of the
Galaxy, Marvel’s 2014 deep space adventure, is missing? That’s right,
Kurt Russell. Fortunately for everyone, writer/director James Gunn’s follow up,
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 rectifies that oversight with
a vengeance. Oh yeah, and there’s Baby Groot, who may be the most adorable
character to ever grace the silver screen.
If 2015’s Furious 7 was a bit too
reserved and subdued—what with cars parachuting from cargo planes and leaping
skyscraper to skyscraper—don’t worry, The Fate of the Furious,
also known as the eighth Fast and Furious movie (AKA #F8),
rectifies that with gleeful abandon. It walks a fine line between sheer idiocy and
inspired brilliance, often leaping back and forth between the two, and
represents a marked drop in quality in the franchise for the first time in
almost a decade.
As long as they keep cranking out Fast &
Furious movies, and as long as they continue to spiral into insanity,
I’ll keep watching. And if you thought Furious 7, with it’s
CGI Paul Walker and cars jumping from building to building and parachuting out
of cargo planes was bonkers, well, you need to watch the new Fate of the Furious trailer. I don’t even know what they’re doing anymore,
but hot damn do I love it. Seriously, there’s a submarine in a car chase, what
more can a growing boy ask for?
While the real world continued its descent into a once-thought-fictional
dystopia, it turns out last night was one hell of a night for trailers for
science fiction movies. Both Alien: Covenant and
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped new trailers, and
both are goddamn fantastic, albeit for very different reasons. Take a gander at
both after the jump.
Between Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto turning his back on his
makeshift family, Charlize Theron’s terrible, terrible pseudo-dreadlocks (is
she going to a rave?), and a goddamn submarine bursting through the icepack and
getting into a high-speed chase with a Lamborghini and a tank, I have no clue
what’s going on in the first trailer for The Fate of the
Furious, the latest in the Fast and Furious
franchise. But holy hell, whatever it is, I love the shit out of it.
As a filmmaker, Peter Berg is in love with the process of
things. He fills his films, even Battleship, with
meticulous, methodical sequences, like a helicopter refueling early on in his
latest tale of real-life disaster and heroism, Deepwater
Horizon. An affection and even tenderness washes over what amounts to
little more than a mechanical interaction between man and machine.
Quentin Tarantino may be engaged in an epic war of words
(and thinly veiled threats) with police departments across the country, but
while that situation spins steadily out of control, let’s not forget that
The Hateful Eight is on the way. A new Tarantino movie is
always worth getting excited about, and I’ll take a gritty, violent western any
day of the week, so when the two come together, goddamn. And just in case you
can’t wait, there’s a new trailer to check out.
While I was less than enthused with Eli Roth’s latest
addition to the cannibal movie sweepstakes, The Green Inferno, there’s another on the way that I’m rather psyched to see.
Bone Tomahawk is a very different take on the subject
matter, trading in do-gooders being devoured by a jungle tribe for the
trappings of a grim revenge western. The movie recently premiered at Fantastic
Fest and now a new trailer has hit the airwaves.
Any time Quentin Tarantino drops a new movie, it’s going to
be a big deal. That much is a given. When it’s a western with a stacked cast,
like his upcoming The Hateful Eight, well, to say we’re
excited is an understatement. We’ve seen photos and random whatnots from the
film, but now we have our first trailer, and it looks like a damn fine time.
Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming The Hateful Eight
has a lot to be excited about. First off, it’s a Tarantino movie, which are
always an event; it’s also a western, and we’re stoked to see what he brings to
the genre, especially after getting his feet wet with Django
Unchained; and, of course, he’s put together a cast that makes us
jump up and down and clap our hands with glee. And now, thanks to EW, we’ve got
a ton of new images that reveal just how grizzled and tore up these badasses
are.
Through Kurt Russell into a western and you’ve got our
attention. Throw him into a horror western, and it’s like you’re reading our damn
mind. And that’s just what we have with S. Craig Zahler’s directorial debut
Bone Tomahawk, which, in addition to Russell, has an awesome
cast that also includes Patrick Wilson, Sean Young, Matthew Fox, and Richard
Jenkins. The film just revealed an awesome, throwback style poster, check it
out below.
Dear Sweet Baby Jesus, can is just go ahead and be April 3
already? Everything that happens between now and when I can finally see
Furious 7 (or Fast 7, or The Fast and the Furious 7, or whatever the hell you want to call it
because I’ll be there no matter what the title is) is largely inconsequential.
And I mean everything. Just to tease me, they released this new IMAX trailer
and, well, yeah, I’ll just let you take a look, it speaks for itself.
