I’m Still Here

There are 6.8 billion people on this planet and most of them don’t know who you are and don’t want to. Maybe you’ll be famous, maybe you’ll be on television, but those people will still never know the real you. At best they’ll only know the public you

Watch: Trailer for UK Post-Apocalyptic Movie ‘The Last Seven’

London Population: 7 Million. Until Today. I’ve never heard of this film before today, but it doesn’t actually look that bad, although I will admit that I think we’re starting to see a little too many of these “a few people are left alive” post-apocalyptic thrillers these days. Film School Rejects recently featured the trailer for The Last Seven , a straight-to-DVD film directed by Imran Naqvi about seven people in London who find out they’re apparently the last seven people in existence. What happened

Must Watch: First Awesome Trailer for Hobo With a Shotgun!

Ohhhhhh hell yes, this looks awesome! Ain’t It Cool News has just debuted the first teaser trailer for Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun , the first feature-length film from the guys behind Treevenge . We ran a first look at some early footage back in April, but this is the trailer you’ve been waiting for. I know this kind of style isn’t for everyone, but I love it.

Going the Distance

Early in Going the Distance you can tell there’s something different going on here. A female character (Drew Barrymore’s Erin) is frustrated at work, and rather than crying about it with girlfriends over coffee or ice cream, she hightails it to the bar, downs a few beers, and sets out to beat her own high score on the old-school video game in the back. When she meets new guy Garrett (Justin Long) she doesn’t hesitate to join in the trash talk with his friends, and when he takes her home and his roommate proves to be a little weird, Erin rolls with it, allowing their make out to be scored to “Take My Breath Away” from Top Gun . First-time writer Geoff LaTulippe could have written Erin as nothing but a male fantasy of the “cool” girlfriend, but guided by his smart script, directed by Nanette Burstein and played by the timelessly appealing Barrymore, Erin turns into a real, vulnerable, relatable person. The same goes for Long as Garrett, and the rest of the movie for that matter– Going the Distance is by no means perfect, but it’s light years beyond the average rom-com, bracingly honest and genuinely funny about the ups and downs of relationships

Another Great International Trailer for Ryan Reynolds’ Buried!

Paul Conroy Isn’t Ready To Die. We’ve seen a few official trailers for Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried before today, but this new international trailer (via UK’s The Sun ) actually has some good footage in it. I think Lionsgate’s trailers are very bold, but I liked that they didn’t show much footage because there’s only so much they can show without ruining it. As a quick recap, Buried is that one-man, buried alive, stuck in a coffin thriller that I raved about at Sundance

Watch: Funny International Trailer for Todd Phillips’ Due Date

Warner Brothers recently debuted this brand new international trailer on YouTube for Todd Phillips’ Due Date , starring comedy champions Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis as well as Juliette Lewis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx, Alan Arkin, RZA and others. It’s not too different from the official trailer we featured back in July, but it is just as funny and it definitely has some great moments that you all need to see. I’m not easily sold on comedies, but this is definitely one I’m looking forward to seeing this fall, it looks hilarious. Yes, it’s just like Plane, Trains & Automobiles , but there’s nothing wrong with that! Watch below

Machete

In Grindhouse directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez tackled the idea of making an homage to exploitation films from different angles. With Death Proof Quentin Tarantino set out to make an actual grindhouse movie, complete with all those films’ flaws and foibles; the endless lulls, the dull conversations, punctuated by occasionally interesting and sometimes innovative stunts and violence. Rodriguez on the other hand set out to make more of a grindhouse homage, an idealized exploitation film in which he portrayed them without all the warts. His Planet Terror wasn’t so much an exploitation movie as a re-imagining of what exploitation movies should have been. His take was a movie without all the boring in between parts, and instead composed entirely of all the really cool stuff they were likely to use in the trailers

The American

Once you’ve seen The American the stylish, 70s-inspired one sheet makes perfect sense–this is a movie that bows at the feet of European art films, and isn’t so much a thriller as a meditation on hitman movies and cinema history itself. Everything about it, from the placid camerawork and minimal dialogue to the ancient Italian settings, asks you to settle down into an earlier time. Director Anton Corbijn is not afraid to bore his audience in what’s essentially a character study about a career assassin, and while he and Clooney happen upon some striking visuals and dig up a few interesting ideas, the flashy visuals tend to say a lot more than the story itself. Things start well with a striking and intense confrontation in snowy Sweden, leaving three dead and Clooney’s assassin Jack on the run to Italy, where he meets up with the mysterious man (Bruce Altman) who gives him his orders. Jack hides out in one of those Italian cities that’s all cobblestones balanced precariously on a hilltop, working on a weapon specially ordered by a mystery woman (Tekla Reuten) and frequenting a whorehouse where he repeatedly asks for the dark and beautiful Clara (Violante Placido)

Watch: Carl Bessai’s Time Loop Sci-Fi Film ‘Repeaters’ Trailer

Well this is definitely on my “radar” now. HitFix just debuted an early trailer for a “gritty, sci-fi film” called Repeaters , from director Carl Bessai , that will be premiering at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The film plays with the Groundhog Day stuck-in-a-time-loop concept, but twists it into a “aggressive, fast-paced thriller” that addresses the morals of starting over with a clean slate every day in some of the most extreme ways (you’ll see). It looks okay, not great, but wait – why did a random motorbike just fly across the screen? Why aren’t there more explosions! Kidding, of course, but that was just a bit cheesy.

Wu Ershan’s The Butcher, The Chef & The Swordsman Trailer

Screening up at the Toronto Film Festival next month is a new kung fu comedy in the same vein as Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle called The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman from Chinese filmmaker Wu Ershan. I’m not exactly sure why, but Doug Liman is presenting the film at the festival and Twitch now has an official trailer from TIFF which you can check out below. This actually looks a lot more like a bloody, awesome, stylized martial arts movie than it does a kung fu comedy, but I’m in either way. It looks like we’ll get three vignettes for each of the different stories, too.

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