Gawd... another week, another round-up of trailers for upcoming movie/TV projects. It's the Chinese New Year week and movie marketers still gotta market. Here's another instalment of trailer judging.
We posted about this before, but in keeping with the noirish aspect of Spider-Noir (it's in the title, dammit!), we are presented with the monochromic goodness of a Sam Spade novel. Mood is paramount to the genre as it sets the stage for the seedy world of 1933 New York. But if you're the sort of mid individual who lurves their colours, there's also a "full colour" version.
When I heard that after Obsession's maiden screening at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, a month later, Focus Film acquired distribution rights to the movie. What kind of horror film would grab the attention of a distributor? The movie is director and writer Curry Barker's first feature, and Barker is also the latest addition to a small, yet burgeoning, group of horror-directors-with-comedy-roots. This teaser doesn't leave us with much, but it's enough to get us to look forward to a proper trailer.
There was supposed to be a fourth season of The Mandalorian, but thanks to labour disputes (PAY YOUR WORKERS FAIRLY, BIG CORP) filming was delayed and Lucasfilm decided to take the complete season four scripts and turn them into a feature-length film called, The Mandalorian and Grogu.
There are four takeaways from this latest trailer. One, it's weird seeing so much of the titular bounty hunter's face. Pedro Pascal is a handsome fella but given the Mandalorian culture, they almost never remove their helmet in front of other people. Two, that Carl Weathers tribute. Three, Martin Scorsese returns to the voice acting sphere, this time as a shopkeep (at 0:21). Four, Jeremy Allen White voices one of the Hutts and we see one of them being really swole (at 1:23); we like to assume that that's who White plays and that in one scene, Swole Hutt will be in a pair of Calvin Klein brief.
