Awesome Movies

The latest trailer for The LEGO Movie sums up its plot – an ordinary minifigure (voiced by Chris Pratt) is mistaken as being the heroic “Master Builder” – while spoofing Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. The movie drops on 2/7/14.

The new trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier gives us our first look at Sam Wilson aka Falcon. You’ll also see more of the titular villain and Scarlett Johansson’s return as Black Widow. Oh and the SHIELD Helicarrier crashes. Again.

This sizzle reel for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 shows the movie’s takes on Spidey’s classic villains. See Electro’s origin, Rhino’s tank-like armor and Harry Osborn’s general creepiness. Seriously who talks like that?

A compilation of famous scenes from the movies that won the Academy Awards’ Best Visual Effects category. Made by filmmaker & video essayist Nelson Carvajal. Our money’s on he Desolation of Smaug or Gravity for this year.

A wide-eyed romantic (Fran Kranz) makes the mistake of deciding that a girl who complains about nice guys is the love of his life. To get her back he’ll have to enlist the help of his ex-best friend (Dichen Lachman) to learn to woo women.

Four strangers meet on top of a building on New Year’s Eve, each originally planning to jump to his or her death. They decide to postpone their suicide and help each other out. Based on Nick Hornby’s eponymous novel.

(SPOILERS) After taking Tyler Durden out of Fight Club, Richard Trammell takes his talents to Overlook Hotel. Here he removes the specter of Delbert Grady as he talks to Jack about “correcting” people.

If you thought pulling off BMX tricks on the back of a moving truck was daring, check out these guys mixing street skateboarding with the perils of vert. And then some. A clip from the upcoming skate movie Tengu: God of Mischief.

In an Orwellian dystopia, a computer genius tries to crack The Zero Theorem, a formula that will supposedly determine the meaning of existence, if any. Directed by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) and starring Christoph Waltz.

(NSFW) Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilide star in this dark comedy about a meek small-town pharmacist who finds himself stealing drugs from his own store to please his mistress. Also starring Ray Liotta, Michelle Monaghan and Jane Fonda.

“What we are now realizing is that we are guided, constrained and even controlled by the systems we have made.” From Kirby Ferguson (Everything is a Remix) comes a documentary miniseries about the forces that shape our lives.

(SPOILERS) Cinefix imagines an extra scene in Spike Jonze’s Her. Recognizing that its product poses unique problems, Element Software set up the appropriate additional options for customers in its tech support.

Orphaned through a random crime, Bruce appears to vent his anger by hurting other people. But he’s actually trying to acquit himself of his parents’ deaths, or die trying. Can he forget his past and learn to enjoy life?

Back in 2005, the American Film Institute presented their list of 100 best movie quotes. Designer Nathan Yau of Flowing Data turned the quotes into simple charts and put them into one large poster. You’re gonna need a bigger view.

If you think visual effects are only used in science fiction and fantasy genres, check out the work that VFX studio Brainstorm Digital did for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. What’s even real anymore?

A widow’s son insists that the monster in his recurring nightmares is real. One day a book about that monster turns up in their house. The Babadook is an offshoot of writer and director Jennifer Kent’s short film Monster.

(Gore) The Raid 2: Berandal premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and got a lot of positive reviews. The sequel seems to be a martial arts-infused mix of Die Hard, The Godfather, The Fast & The Furious and Kill Bill.

These great new prints from Chet Phillips pay tribute to three classic flicks: Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein and Office Space. Each has iconic imagery and catchphrase typography. We also dig his Princess Bride, Breaking Bad and Holy Grail.

TWD is coming back soon enough, but meanwhile let’s cherish the genre and enjoy David Freyne’s creepy short film about a mysterious outbreak, a woman in a hospital and the terrifying bedlam that led her there. (Thanks Badu!)

(NSFW) The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing, which means it’s time for guilt-inducing, annoyingly quirky or hilariously tragic pseudo-indie movies directed by b-list actors. Yep, we’re just as bitter and envious as Tastes Funny.

(NSFW: Language, SPOILERS) Richard Trammell edited a pivotal scene in Fight Club – where Tyler Durden challenges the unnamed protagonist to a fist fight for the first time – to show what happened from an outsider’s point of view.

A Blu-ray and DVD bundle of Alfonso Cuarón’s Academy Award-nominated space thriller Gravity. Bonus features include an Ultraviolet copy, the short film Aningaaq and a “Silent Space Version.” Also in Blu-ray 3D.

We can’t tell you how many times we’ve quoted movie lines in our lives, but it turns out that some of the most oft-repeated catchphrases are flat out wrong. AllTime10s sets us straight on some of the most frequently-uttered misquotes.