This looks odd, and endearing, and funny, but not in a laugh out loud way. Which is exactly what I expect a Wes Anderson film to be like.

This film isn’t going to be everybody’s cup of tea, but I think it will be great for those of us who do loved some of Anderson’s previous movies.

Before I saw the Korean monster movie The Host I was worried that whatever the merits of that movie, they would be spoiled by bad CGI. After all this was a movie that had a very modest budget by Hollywood standards and that had a completely CGI creature at the center of the action.

My worries turned out to be misguided. The CGI in The Host was great and didn’t take me out of the movie at all. But now I’m having the same fears for D-War, and this time the trailer seems to confirm them a little. There were some scenes in there that looked really bad and that made me feel like the CGI just might be bad enough to completely ruin the movie.

I’ll wait and see if some more reassuring footage comes out. But right now I’m no very hopeful.

This looks quite interesting. Kind of funny, but also with some scary beats. Has the potential to be a very interesting addition for us horror lovers, and it will be certainly quite different than most other horror films coming out this year.

Oh, there is nothing quite as funny as death is it? Well, ok, perhaps there is a few things funnier than death. But still, funerals are events were families come together in a stressful situation, which make it a comedy goldmine. And I have to admit that I love me some black humor.

Anyway, this looks really funny, so keep an eye out for it. Death at a Funeral opens August 17.

It’s a little weird to see Daniel Radcliff in any role besides Potter. He has become synonymous to me with that character and I guess it will take me a while to be able to unthinkingly accept him as someone else.

But the movies does look interesting. It’s the sort of movie I would probably love when I was younger, but that I can still appreciate nowadays.

You know, I love road trip movies. Add a bunch of quirky characters to it and I become even more interested. And yet, this trailer did nothing for me. It’s not funny at all and the characters all seem dull. Count me in as not looking forward to it at all.

This second trailer for The Golden Compass is much more effective, in my opinion, than the first. It makes both the movie’s visuals and story seem more compelling. It still lacks a great visual or story hook to really make you have to go see the movie, but it certainly made much more interested.

Father son relationships and the death of a parent are both ripe themes for movies, but the films based on these themes often turn into very so-so or melodramatic affairs. I think what distinguishes the good ones from the bad ones is, mainly, well developed characters and relationships that ring true.

A trailer is not enough to say whether And When Did You Last See Your Father? will have those things, but this one certainly seems to indicate it will. At the very least the acting should be superb.

There is a reason why we get so many revenge flicks. There is something very satisfying, in a very primal way, about seeing one good person go outside the system in order to make some very bad people pay. It’s something we sometimes wish we could do, but we can’t, for very good reasons. Films allow us to see that wish fulfilled, and in the movies everything goes right, the revenge is totally justified and the bad people do indeed pay.

Unless we are talking about Oldboy, of course.

But anyway. With all the revenge flicks we had over the years, good and bad, there is some pressure put in any new film to deliver something a little different. This trailer doesn’t convince me that Death Sentence will have anything new to add, but it also doesn’t convince me it won’t. There certainly seem to be some stylish scenes, and perhaps even some non cliched story turns. And Kevin bacon can definitely pull the crazier side of the character we see towards the end of the trailer. So perhaps there is hope for this one.

Death Sentence opens August 31.

This is just a small teaser, but it’s enough to convince me completely that Steve Carell will be perfect as Agent 86. No matter how bad the rest of the movie turns out to be, just seeing Carell play this role should be worth the price of admission.