Promised Land is the new contemporary drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate salesman who is sent along with his partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), to close a key rural town in his company’s expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a…

I’m not really sure what to say about this. I don’t really think you could call this a spoiler at all. It’s three frames long. And Conan so the set up is funny.

Have fun.

Hey, look what just showed up! A teaser trailer for A Good Day to Die Hard.

I have enjoyed each installment in the Die Hard series, some more than others. The previous film, Live Free or Die Hard was one of the better ones actually. So I’m actually looking forward to this film. And who doesn’t like to see Bruce Willis beat people up?

New in theaters for the weekend is Taken 2, Frankenweenie, Wuthering Heights (limited release), and many others. I would imagine if you haven’t seen the trailers for these three top films yet that you are probably here to see them and not read this, so please watch:

Studio’s synopsis of Taken 2:

Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a “particular set of skills” who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim…

While attending a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo. this summer, Stephen Barton was shot in the face and neck. But compared to several other victims, he was lucky; Barton lived, and now he’s working to raise awareness of gun violence. According to his new PSA, 48,000 Americans will be shot and murdered during the next four years — “enough to fill over 200 theaters.” He urges viewers to visit DemandAPlan.org, an organization that’s working to end gun violence. See Barton’s poignant PSA below.

Because we just absolutely have to take a tragedy and make it…

Now this is a lot of fun. I can’t imaging what it would take on the actors parts to film a scene like this much less the crew, lighting, camera, trying to direct that thing. It’s really quite a fascinating peak at all that.

Joseph has already asked us, why would you mess with Liam Neeson twice? Now it looks like we get to start seeing early looks at those repercussions.

In this clip I really love the use of the grenade explosion to figure out distance and map intersection and cool things like that. For some reason I never saw the first Taken film. Now I think I’m going to need to do that.

Taken 2 is set to open tomorrow.

Following last night’s presidential debate, a new trailer for Lincoln debuted. With all the bluster and hype, half truths, lies, posturing, double tongued speak, and promises that will be broken associated with the debate, it seems only fitting to debut a new trailer for what is likely a historical revisionism film (hey, Joseph had his say, now I’m having mine…).

Although I was surprised that in this trailer, a part of Lincoln’s highly unconstitutional ways seemed to be showing forth a little, yet I have no doubt that the intention is to cast a positive spin on the whole charade as has…

Just exactly what Cloud Atlas is really about is anyone’s guess at this point. The trailers have all been both intriguing, and confusing as to the actual plot. It appears to have six different threads running through the film that will be in some manner weaved together. I’m picking up a strong Hindu vibe, but this isn’t really surprising since the previous well known film trilogy by the Wachowskis started heading majorly in this direction in the second installment. I have a feeling this is really going to annoy me, but perhaps, if done right, a fanciful world can be created that won’t annoy…