Awesome Trailers

A brilliant young boy searches for the lock that fits the key left by his father killed on 9/11. This one has Oscar written all over it – assuming the movie’s as good as the trailer.

Mark Wahlberg stars as a security guard with financial troubles who considers returning to his smuggling ways when someone offers a lucrative opportunity in Baltasar Kormákur’s Contraband.

Elmo is one of the most famous puppets in the world, but little is known about Kevin Clash, the man behind the beloved Sesame Street resident. This is his story. Directed by Constance Marks.

Trailer for the upcoming 3DS game Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney. Millions of fans will object if you don’t release this outside of Japan, Nintendo. Turn on annotations to read the subtitles.

Sam Worthington plays an ex-cop turned fugitive who threatens to jump off the ledge of a building when accused of a theft he says he didn’t commit. But is the ledge walk itself a cover for a heist?

After a plane crash, Liam Neeson finds himself lost in Alaska, struggling to survive and return home. En route, he takes on wolves with broken mini-bar bottles taped to his knuckles. You heard us right.

Can an action game be over-the-top and still have a decent story? Yep. Asura’s Wrath is not that game though. But if it plays as good as it looks, screw the story. Bring on the planet-sized enemies.

The prequel to John Carpenter’s chilly Antarctic horror flick The Thing (which itself was a remake of a 1950s flick) shows its awesomely gory side in this newly released R-rated trailer.

The gravel-voiced cop who pioneered bullet time in video games is back. Rockstar Games picks up the Max Payne franchise from Remedy Entertainment, losing the noir style but keeping it gritty.

Ian Palmer’s Knuckle is an epic 12-year journey into the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveler bare-knuckle fighting; the gritty film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this thriller about a New York bike messenger who gets caught up in a web of intrigue during what starts as a routine package delivery. In theaters 1/13/2012.

Writer and director Nacho Vigalondo, who made the headache-inducing Timecrimes, is back with another sci-fi thriller with Extraterrestrial. One night stands just got a whole lot creepier.

Sean William Scott plays Doug Glatt, a bouncer who is signed by a cellar dweller hockey team solely for his skill in beating people up. Also stars Liev Schrieber, Jay Baruchel and Alison Pill.

Suriviving Progress is a documentary about the double-edged sword of human advancement and the certain end that faces us all, unless we commit to use less and produce only what is needed.

This visceral Indonesian film follows the story of a SWAT team trapped in a gritty tenement run by a vicious mobster and his army of thugs. The US release adds music by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

Most of us dread the words “snowstorm” – extreme skiers live for seasons when the snow won’t end. Matchstick Productions shares the beauty of nature and drama of the sport in their new documentary.

Richard Gere stars as a retired CIA operative paired with a FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator’s murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin, in Michael Brandt’s The Double.

A young Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) finds himself at odds with his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), when both men fall in love with one of Jung’s patients (Kiera Knightley).

Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games tells the tale of teenage pawns who must fight with one another until one survivor remains, relying on raw instinct and making impossible choices. (Thanks Simon!)

Antonio Banderas plays a brilliant plastic surgeon who creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage and uses a volatile woman as his guinea pig in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.

Johnny Depp plays an itinerant Eisenhower-era journalist who travels to Puerto Rico, where he becomes obsessed with the drink of pirates and a woman in Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary.

Sam Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star as a bayou homicide detective and a NYC cop who team up to investigate a grisly series of unsolved murders in Ami Canaan Mann’s Texas Killing Fields.

im8bit put together two of our favorite things to create his tee for Threadless: Space Invaders and Angry Birds. It’s currently being scored so it hasn’t gone to print yet, but it might be fun if it does.