Smashed has been built up as Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s career-maker — a character-driven piece about an alcoholic woman entering AA — although time will tell if the addiction dramedy has the mojo to muscle in on the awards race with folks like Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence hogging all the buzz with their respective festival hits. But take a look at the first Smashed trailer and four additional clips, co-starring Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Megan Mullally, and Nick Offerman (courtesy of Sony Classics) and get to early prognosticating on Winstead’s chances.
Official Trailer (via Yahoo):
It’s meaty stuff for Winstead, and director James Ponsoldt makes great use of her wonderfully wide-open face. Paul threatens to be a force as well, with that constant crackling energy of his. Hell, everyone in this ensemble is pretty fantastic in their own right (see following clips for scenes with Paul, Mullally, and the erstwhile Ron Swanson) though for my money the scene below of Winstead’s Kate going from flip to crushingly emotional in the span of a single shot as she introduces herself at an AA meeting is the most powerful and telling sign yet that this is a big moment for Winstead.
Smashed will hit theaters on October 12.
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I’m not watching these four new clips (and a bonus featurette) from Prometheus, which I can watch in its entirety when it opens in nine days. You are on your own. But while I presume we can probably piece together roughly 64 percent of the film from these and other previously released clips, commercials, teasers and trailers, can anyone really blame Fox for emulating Marvel’s Avengers strategy of keeping the glimpses coming all the way to opening day — especially as positive but not gushing reviews trickle out for their R-rated tentpole? If the buzz fits, wear it.
Except for that whole Coors Light thing. That was just… no.
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I know, I know — to paraphrase a popular rejoinder to the overexposed, “How can I ever anticipate On the Road if it won’t go away?” Nevertheless, consider the two new clips released by IFC Films as complements to Brian’s coverage from Cannes, where the long-awaited Jack Kerouac adaptation premiered this morning.
Via our video-devouring partners at ENTV, take a few minutes to enjoy Kristen Stewart’s aborted front-seat handy, Kirsten Dunst’s sweet Colorado slow-dance and Movieline favorite Sam Riley as the beneficiary of both. And if That’s not enough, hop over to our just-refreshed Cannes 2012 photo gallery for red-carpet pics.
Read more of Movieline’s Cannes 2012 coverage here.
After taking a 13-year sabbatical from feature directing, comedy legend John Landis is back with the black comedy Burke and Hare, which stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis (sans CG, looking like himself!) as notorious 19th century criminals William Burke (Pegg) and William Hare (Serkis), who committed a series of murders in order to sell their victims’ bodies to science. Watch three new clips from the September release and decide: Is Landis back in fine comic form?
Burke and Hare is based on the true story of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who were found responsible for an infamous string of killings in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1827 and 1828. Their 17 victims were sold to Dr. Robert Knox, a local lecturer, for dissection. Landis’s black comedy also stars Isla Fisher as Burke’s paramour, Jessica Hynes as Hare’s wife, and Tom Wilkinson as Knox; Christopher Lee, Tim Curry, Stephen Merchant and more also appear.
Get a taste of Burke and Hare in four newly released clips from the film, which is currently available online at SundanceNow.com and on VOD. Burke and Hare hits theaters stateside on September 9 (it opened in the U.K. last year and currently sits at 31 percent at Rotten Tomatoes).
Clip 2: Burke and Hare sell their first cadaver to Dr. Knox, who promises to buy more “unfortunates” from them at five pounds a pop:
Clip 3: Burke and Hare go grave robbing:
Clip 4: Former prostitute Helen MacDougal (Isla Fisher) plots to stage an all-female production of Macbeth with her fellow ex-hookers:
Clip 6: Burke and Hare encounter a stranger in a darkened alley:
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Full Story »Somehow Kung Fu Panda is a much more intriguing concept than Sumo Seahorse or Capoeira Jaguar — apologies to our Japanese and Brazilian readers, respectively — and in the 3-D sequel, we get more of the Jack Black-voiced antics we’ve come to (honestly) love about this franchise. Plus: How cute is that damn tiger? Seriously knocks Shrek’s Puss in Boots right out of the animated zoo enclosure.
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For the younger readers out there, spring usually means one thing: prom season! With that in mind, what better time than now for Disney to release Prom, a PG-rated teen comedy about the highs and lows of this universal rite of passage? Click ahead to watch two clips from the new film — one that illustrates the joy of asking your high school sweetheart to prom, and the other that, well… doesn’t.
Adorbs. Prom hits theaters on April 29.
Full Story »If I watch anymore Scream 4 teasers, I’m going to figure out who the killer is. In fact, I already have five guesses: 1) Old age; 2) Kristen Bell’s alcoholic character from Burlesque; 3) Sidney “Pushed to the Edge” Prescott; 4) Kevin Williamson; 5) Mike Ryan, now that he’s spent six hours sitting through the first three movies. Let’s check out two more clips from the fourth installment starring Hayden Panettiere and Courteney Cox as the divine Gale Weathers.
Is Hayden in a dorm room in that scene? She should’ve called up the RA immediately. The RA would’ve phoned the front desk, snatched up Ghostface’s ID, and escorted him back to his Honors room on the dorky side of campus. Then we’d be down a murder!
As for Courteney’s scene: When will this trick learn to turn around? Stop staring fixedly at the walls when Ghostface is storming the premises singing “The Music of the Night,” please. He’s got stabbing on the brain. Not an episode of Cougar Town co-starring the delightful Christa Miller. Wake up.
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