When trailers fall in between the Cinema Blend’s couch cushions, they eventually get vacuumed up and deposited here in Trailer Trash. Today's bag of Trailer Trash contains six future viewing possibilities, and one camp classic.
First we have a trailer for the new Mike White movie Year of the Dog. Unfortunately, Molly Shannon is in it. Next up is the first trailer for Lindsay Lohan’s pre-rehab movie Georgia Rule. Then we’ve got a trailer for the cute little Keri Russell indie movie Waitress. Fourth, we have the slick trailer for the thriller Slow Burn. Then by way of reminder we have an old trailer for my favorite movie of the year, The Lookout. Last in new trailers we have one for the American version of the Russian movie Day Watch.
Year of the Dog - trailer
Peggy (Molly Shannon) and her dog Pencil are inseparable companions. They sleep together, eat together, and even take-in Friday night movies together. Life is uncomplicated and safe. Peggy’s world comes crashing down when Pencil meets a mysterious demise in the neighbor’s yard. Left to pick-up the pieces of her shattered life, Peggy embarks on a personal journey to fill the void. Friends, family and co-workers try to distract Peggy from her misery with their own obsessive quests for happiness, but in the end, she emerges from her loss with a new found sense of her place in the world and what it takes to make her happy. The film is written and directed by the great Mike White (School of Rock, Nacho Libre) and stars a cast of personal favorites like John C. Reilly and Peter Sarsgaard. One problem though… it starts Molly Shannon. She’s kind of like my arch enemy. But the trailer is great and I long ago vowed to see anything involving Mike White. I may have to give her a chance on this one. Watch the first Year of the Dog trailer in high-res by going here or just click play on the embedded video below:
Georgia Rule - trailer
Georgia Rule casts Lindsay Lohan as… well… herself. She plays a hard drinking, hard partying slut who goes with her mother to live with a cranky granny in middle America where she’s put on the straight and narrow. Along with Lohan are Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman as her grandmother and mother respectively. The film looks like it’s going for one of those estrogen powered, generational movies. They’re looking for the Steel Magnolias crowd clearly. The trailer is very stock stuff, right down to the slightly whimsical narrator they’ve used and the two tone, easygoing titles. Watch the first Georgia Rule trailer in high-res by going here or just click play on the embedded video below:
Waitress - trailer
Waitress is the story of one woman trapped in a life from which she dreams of escape. Jenna's (Russell) secret ambition is to save enough money from her waitressing job to leave her overbearing and controlling husband (Sisto). Jenna is a sharp, sassy woman with a gift for making unusual pies whose recipes are inspired by the trials, tribulations and circumstances of her life. An unwanted pregnancy changes the course of events giving her an unexpected confidence via letters to her unborn baby. The trailer is cute, sweet, and it has a lot of Nathan Fillian. Maybe it’ll be this year’s Little Miss Sunshine. Watch the first trailer for it by clicking on the embedded video below:
Slow Burn - trailer
Slow Burn stars Ray Liotta as Ford Cole, a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor’s office and a big problem on his hands. One of his deputies, the beautiful assistant district attorney, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), has just confessed to killing a man in what she claims was self-defense. A bad situation gets worse when an enigmatic stranger named Luther Pinks (James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J) turns up at the police station to contradict Nora’s story and paint a very different picture of Ford’s talented colleague. With his career and perhaps his life on the line, Ford has a mere handful of hours to sort the truth from the lies in a saga involving Nora, a record store clerk (Mekhi Phifer), and a powerful gang lord. The trailer is sexy and stylish, which is nice. But the surprising thing here is that Jolene Blaclock is suddenly black. Who knew? Watch the Slow Burn trailer in high-res by clicking here or by playing the embedded video below.
The Lookout - trailer
There’s nothing new about this trailer for The Lookout, but I don’t think the film has been getting nearly enough attention. I saw it a few days ago at SXSW, and it’s now my favorite movie of 2007. Though the movie hits theaters in only a couple of weeks, whenever I tell anyone about how much I loved it, my proclamation is always met with blank stares and the inevitable question, “The Lookout? Never heard of it.” Well now you’ve heard of it, and if you click here or play the embedded video below you’ll have seen the trailer too. Don’t miss The Lookout.
Day Watch - trailer
Day Watch is a sequel to the highest grossing film in Russian history, Night Watch. Fox Searchlight is bringing Day Watch to America and releasing it. The film is about a man trapped in a war between the forces of dark and light who must save Moscow by controlling a magic piece of chalk. That’s right, magic chalk. I wonder if it can be defeated by a magic eraser? Alright, the plot seems kind of hokey but the effects on display in the trailer are pretty impressive. Sure, they’re overusing the slow motion thing to death and sure, a lot of it seems like a ripoff of The Matrix. But Day Watch could be fun. Watch the trailer in high-res by clicking here or just click play on the embedded video below.
CLASSIC TRASH: Barbarella
Long before she was a cranky old granny in Georgia Rule, before she was forced into threesomes by her mega-rich husband, before she became one of the country’s most loathed political lightning rods… Jane Fonda was a lot of fun. Take a minute to remember the good old days of Fonda with the classic, trash, goddess of love trailer for Barbarella. Make sure you watch it through to the end for the horrible Beach Boys knockoff themesong. It hurts good.
