Trailer: Toy Story 3

I wouldn’t expect this to stay on YouTube long, but the first trailer for Toy Story 3 by Pixar is up now. If you went back and watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in the 3D double feature (as you should), you’ve seen this before but it’s still work another glance. If you haven’t been following the news, Andy is moving off to college (yes that makes me feel old) and his old box of toys is accidentally shipped off to a day-care center. The laughs and all the heart from the first two are here and I can’t wait for this to drop in June. The official trailer should be out next week, but enjoy this while it lasts. Trailer after the jump.

Trailer: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

The official trailer for Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant is out, and it looks every bit as ridiculous as I hoped it would. This is the role Nicolas Cage was born to play, and may even surpass his performance in the bear punching, women beating classic The Wicker Man. Eric was worried that the tagline made him, “imagine Nicolas Cage walking around his house alone with handcuffs on,” but after this trailer anything is possible. When you’ve made Xzibit look like the normal one, you’ve done your job sir. Bravo.

Video after the jump.

Trailer: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Domestic)

It has been nearly two months since we first got the international trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but now, thanks to Yahoo!, we now have a domestic trailer for the film. If I had to make complaints, it would be that the run-time is still pretty short for a theatrical trailer (it only runs 1:43), and it doesn’t include anything truly different from the international edition (despite being ten seconds longer).

Problems aside, the film still looks incredible and Christmas Day cannot come soon enough, even if it is in limited release. Check out the trailer after the jump.

Trailer: The Messenger

One of the biggest hits of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and a double winner at the Berlin Film Festival, The Messenger stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster as soldiers assigned to inform the next of kin that their loved one died while fighting overseas (can you think of a worse job?). The trailer is without a doubt one of the best that I have seen this year, most notably because of the Willie Nelson cover of “Amazing Grace,” which could get tears out of Anton Chigurh. Major props must be given to Woody Harrelson, who somehow managed to pull off this role and then dress up in a snake-skin jacket to kill zombies. The film is scheduled to have a limited release in November and you can see the trailer after the jump.

Trailer: Chi bi (Red Cliff)

Any film that gets an R-rating due to “sequences of EPIC warfare” deserves some notice.

Though he kind of disappeared from American cinema after the disaster that 2003’s Paycheck, John Woo has kept busy and, in 2008, wrote and directed Red Cliff, which, despite critical response, is only coming to America now. Feeling more like a Yimou Zhang film than classic Woo, the film takes place during in early third century China as the three kingdoms, Han, Xu and East Wu, begin a war that culminates as the incredible Battle of Red Cliff.

It should be noted that the film, which was originally more than four-and-a-half hours long, will be cut to just under two-and-a-half, so expect some extra plot-lines if you see it in theaters and then buy it on DVD. Check out the trailer after the jump.

Trailer: Shutter Island

Perhaps just to torture us, Apple released the newest trailer for Shutter Island last Friday – which was scheduled to be the films original release date before Paramount was forced to push it back to February due to the financial crisis. Somehow the newest trailer actually ups the creepy level from the previous one (that was possible?) mostly by giving us a better look at Elias Koteas (for the last time, that’s not DeNiro) and Jackie Earle Haley’s character. Prepare to curse and slam your fist with the final title card.

Trailer: Up in the Air

Movie Rule #62391: If you have “Passenger” by Iggy Pop in your film’s trailer, it better deliver. I’ve burned before (The Weather Man) and I refuse to be burned again.

Although it feels like just yesterday that the teaser trailer was released, we now have the theatrical trailer for Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and a slew of comedic stars. While it is still hard to get a read on the comedy/drama balance that the film strikes (not too uncommon with Reitman’s films), this new trailer is certainly a lot brighter than the last, which told us that everything in our lives is simply weighing us down (a real uplifting message.) The film got incredible buzz coming out of the Telluride Film Festival and is sporting a big fat 100% over at Rotten Tomatoes. If you didn’t know already, this is a film to watch for. Check it out after the jump.

Trailer: The Crazies

Many may not know this, but when he wasn’t directing super-successful zombie movies during the 1970s and 1980s, George A. Romero displayed range as a horror director, making films such as the constantly-satirized Monkey Shines, Knightriders, Creepshow and his low-budget affair from 1973 – The Crazies.

Just as every other horror film finds its way into being remade, so has the Romero classic about a weaponized virus in a small town’s water supply that causes people to go insane. The new film stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell as an engaged couple who slowly watch the inhabitants of their small town go crazy.

The trailer moves along quite nicely with some interesting editing and a scene involving a combine harvester, but things go immediately downhill at the 1:42 mark when “Mad World” by Gary Jules begins to play. There are some songs so ingrained to particular films (every Simon and Garfunkel song in The Graduate come to mind) that they simply cannot be used elsewhere with the exception of parody, and not enough time has passed for “Mad World” to be used effectively outside of  Donnie Darko.

Check out the trailer after the jump, but I can almost guarantee that we are going to get a lot more out of the red band than we do out of this.

Trailer: Fantastic Mr. Fox (#2)

The second trailer for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox has shown up online and it is nothing short of, for lack of a better word, fantastic. In comparison, the first trailer seemed to be a way to introduce the audience to the animation style with a few funny lines thrown in. The new trailer, however, completely flips the script and gives us a much better idea of what the film is about and, especially, its main character’s motivations. There are some truly funny scenes that will no doubt have you howling (my personal favorite is towards the end with Owen Wilson’s character explaining how to play “Whack Bat.” Prepare to feel good with the trailer below the jump.

Trailer: A Christmas Carol

Who wants to take a trip into the uncanny valley? All kidding aside, the new trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol looks like an interesting take on the classic Dickens story. While I don’t exactly remember Scrooge shrinking, being shot through a pipe and being assaulted with icicles, I am sure that it will all look pretty damn cool on an eighty foot screen in 3D (Screw you, Jeff Katzenberg. You can’t make me not enjoy it). All we can really hope for at this point is that the film is nothing like The Polar Express. Trailer after the jump.