Movies

Watchmen’s Tales of the Black Freighter gets a proper trailer, above; the hard rockin’ guitars and violently fluid artistic style are a throwback to cult animated classic Heavy Metal 2000.

The third cinematic version of a 1973 novel, The Taking of Pelham 123 is a hostage thriller with Denzel Washington and John Travolta at odds in a contemporary, post 9/11 setting.

Most of us have a love or hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino, and the purposely misspelled, Nazi-killin’ Inglourious Basterds promises to be no different; it’ll be in theaters 8/21.

Though unconfirmed, the pics above are possibly the first concrete shots of The Fallen and Devastator from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; both are surprisingly badass.

Gomorrah is a movie about the Camorra that critics say redefines the Mafia genre, effectively stripping out the romance of The Godfather; the last scene in the trailer above is chilling.

Part of an ongoing series of webisodes for the upcoming Watchmen movie, the video above focuses mainly on the special effects for the various inkblots on Rorschach’s mask.

With Snoop Dogg, Penn Jillette and Seth MacFarlane, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder promises to take the series out with a bang; it’s the last of four straight-to-DVD movies.

Will Ferrell can be a polarizing actor, but we’re looking forward to his performance in Land of the Lost; he plays a time-traveling paleontologist. Best line: “Matt Lauer can eat it!”

Humans take on the role of space invaders in Planet 51, an animated movie with astronauts landing in an alien planet that looks a bit like 1950s America; it’s due out 11/20/09.

These 1960s-style paperback covers actually show off contemporary movies including Shaun of the Dead and Big; made by Mitch Ansara, they’re a funky blend of cinema and literature.

The upcoming G.I. Joe movie will either answer a thousand childhood prayers or utterly destroy them, but this first ever trailer looks very promising; it’s like 24 meets Crysis.

Based off a successful 2006 novel, we like the quirky feel of this trailer for The Damned United; it chronicles the short and largely disastrous tenure of Leeds United coach Brian Clough.

We’re not sure how long this trailer will stay up, so get it while it’s hot: this latest Star Trek trailer offers a few snippets of a bruised Kirk and the Enterprise with guns ablazin’.

Fresh for the Superbowl, the first Transformers 2 teaser is up and it features: 1) stuff blowing up, 2) more stuff blowing up and 3) really large stuff blowing up; consider us gob smacked.

Available March 24th, Tales of the Black Freighter (DVD, BD) is an animated retelling of a fictional comic book within the Watchmen; for some, it’s arguably the best part of the graphic novel.

Starring a familiar (if not nameable) cast, Alien Trespass is an homage to sci-fi B-movies with flying saucers, rayguns and one-eyed aliens; it’ll see a limited release April 3.

Holy Taco’s Honest Movie Posters cut through the marketing B.S. and truthfully retitle several famous flicks; ironically, we’d be more likely to watch these movies with Taco’s new titles.

We’re still saving our opinions for the upcoming movie, but these Watchmen Kubricks (available 6/09) are pretty awesome, film or no film; the Comedian and Rorschach are our faves.

Crank: High Voltage is the sequel to the original 2006 film; Jason Statham still stars as a hitman, this time with an artificial heart that he needs to periodically jump start to stay alive. Thanks, J!