Trailers depicting chaos and disorder are never less than intriguing, and so that proves to be the case here. The teaser for Fernando Meirelles’s latest flick, released earlier this year, was a taster of this interesting premise of a mystery illness that’s causing wide scale blindness. Now, this full-blown trailer expands further, suggesting a story that will deal with themes of loss and the breakdown of society.
Watch it here.
The Wackness
The Wackness is basically about Luke Shapiro, a young drug dealing kid who’s also looking for love. This latest trailer is really promising, with funny lines, a great performance from Peck, references to 90s stars like Jason Priestly and loads of stylish visual styles thrown in for good measure. Probably won’t get the audience it deserves but I for one can’t wait to see it. Not even the presence of Mary-Kate Olsen can steer me away.
Watch it here.
The last time I saw Don Cheadle was in Ocean’s Twelve. Witnessing the return of his mockney shtick as Basher, I held my head in my hands. Here is a fine actor, one that elicited a few tears in his standout performance in the harrowing, but excellent Hotel Rwanda. Naturally, I ignored Ocean’s Thirteen on principal and missed Reign Over Me. So his upcoming appearance in Traitor, an espionage thriller with the usual who-dun-it, why-dun-it kind of vibe going on, has me in two minds. While it’s great to see him tackling more serious stuff again, these types of trailers always worry me. It looks to be the same kind of vehicle they gave to the Cloon-dog in The Peacemaker, Will Smith in Enemy of the State, hell, even Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines. All bluster and crossed purposes, with the odd curve ball thrown in for good measure, the end result is a two-minute spot that looks suitably slick, but is ultimately a bit of a confusing mess.
Check it out for yourself here.
