Margot At The Wedding Trailer

The trailer for Margot at the Wedding is available on the film's "Offical Site." I'm excited for this latest Noah Baumbach film (I recently fell in love with Kicking and Screaming. And if all that title invokes in you is anger and confusion directed at Will Ferrell, get thee to a video store -- the 1995 version is golden). Nicole Kidman bothers me a lot of times in films, but it looks like she's at least supposed to in this film. Jack Black? I think I can forgive him for The Holiday. Maybe (the more I remember of this film, the less likely that possibility seems). The thing that really got me though?

The trailer's got Phantom Planet's absolutely gorgeous cover of CSNY's "Our House" in it. So good I had to go and look it up before they even got to the part of the song I recognized when I was watching the trailer. They win again!

LISTEN:
"Our House (CSNY cover)" [MP3]

ON THE WEB:
Phantom Planet's website

The Darjeeling Limited Trailer

This is sort of the blogging equivalent of beating a dead horse (and if you haven't already checked out the trailer for the upcoming Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited, you probably don't care to) -- but it's something I must post. It included my love for all things Jason Schwartzman, Wes Anderson, yellow suits, The Kinks... Be still, my heart.

ON THE WEB:
On IMDB

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Cloverfield - Conspiracy?

What's up with Cloverfield? I don't know, I haven't thought much of JJ Abrams since broke my 10th grade heart by gradually ruining Alias. I don't know if it's possible for a show like Alias to jump the shark, since it kind of was an excersize in shark-jumping, when I think about it, but it did something to that effect. Anyways, though I don't understand the appeal of Cloverfield and its gimmicky trailer, I REALLY don't understand why the people at the studios would be asking websites to take down the trailer. I was glancing through The Movie Blog this morning, and I saw a rant from one of the sight's proprietors angrily stating that he'd gotten some requests from lawyers to remove the link to the TRAILER. I mean, it's a trailer. It's basically an ad for the movie. And then I thought about it a little, and realized it's because they want us all to go down to our local cineplexes and shell out $9.50 for a "matinee" ticket to see Transformers (before which Cloverfield's runs). So in addition to killing Alias, Abrams is now conspiring with Michael Bay. To make more money for a film that's already broken all the monetary records. Ew. I guess JJ Abrams really is smarter than we are though: he got us to pay money to see Mission Impossible 3, after all.