Awesome Movies

Mike Mitchell shows his love of the movies by creating his digitally produced collection of favorite film characters; if you’re in Austin 4/26-5/25/13, check them out in person at Mondo.

MU is bustling with all kinds of odd characters, and we see how competitive they are as the students try to get into the Scare Program in the official trailer for Monsters University.

Based on Lloyd Jones’ eponymous novel, about a teenage girl on a tropical island who becomes enamored with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Will her imagination prove to be her undoing or her inspiration to persevere?

The Bling Ring is about a group of parasitic Californian teens who burglarized the homes of various celebrities. Starring Emma Watson. Directed by Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation).

Own a copy of Quentin Tarantino’s latest masterpiece in both Blu-ray and DVD discs, along with an Ultraviolet digital copy. Bonuses include features about the movie’s stunts and horses as well as its soundtrack.

Ratchet and Clank’s snarky sense of humor is coming to the big screen, with a feature-length 3D CGI movie in 2015. We sure hope animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment can successfully take the reins from Insomniac.

The god of thunder returns to Earth to protect it from a new threat. But the enemy’s strength forces Thor to seek help from the most unlikely source. Where are the Avengers when you need them?

Here we learn a little more of the story that brings lawman John Reid together with Tonto, forming one of the great alliances of Wild West. Here’s hoping it still delivers the humor we’ve come to expect from director Gore Verbinski.

It seems that Kal-El is as antisocial as Clark Kent in Man of Steel. But when General Zod and his army threaten Earth, Supes is forced to come out of his shell. And uppercut some Kryptonian fools to the stratosphere.

Captain Kirk rallies his crew to battle, the nameless villain is really bitter about something and the Starship Enterprise looks like its going to meet its maker in the latest trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness.

A coming-of-age summer movie about an awkward teenager – is there any other kind? – starring Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell and Toni Collette. Co-written and directed by Jim Rash aka Dean Pelton from Community.

By surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta gained a victory over the cruel rulers of the Capitol. But will they continue to lead and inspire the oppressed or are they doomed to serve as tools of distraction?

There are only so many ways you can tell a story – even the beloved Silver Linings Playbook follows Pleated Jeans’ playbook – but perhaps there are other stories that can be told. Either that or all we have left are meta-commentaries.

A dramatic compilation of back-to-the-camera shots from movies – often made to direct the viewer’s eyes to the background or landscape – assembled by Zach Prewitt. The song is God Moving Over the Face of the Waters by Moby.

(NSFW: you name it) James McAvoy plays a corrupt and scheming policeman who’s up for a promotion and will stop at nothing and no one to get what he wants, in Jon S. Baird’s Filth.

The trailer for The Hangover Part 3 reveals the setup for the Wolf Pack’s final (mis)adventure. Whether they still get wasted or not is still up in the air. What’s certain is that Zach Galifianakis is funny as hell. And we love John Goodman.

“More powerful than the fear of death, is the will to win.” The new trailer for Rush highlights the tangential personalities of F1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, whose rivalry came to a head in the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix.

Magicians make it rain in the second trailer for Now You See Me. The movie is about a mysterious group that pulls off seemingly impossible bank heists only to give away the money they get to their audiences.

Neill Blomkamp’s first film since the awesome District 9 puts the elite on an idyllic world with no disease, poverty, or war. Everyone else is stuck here on good old, terrible Earth. Stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Out 8/9/13.

Nora Thoes and Damian Pérez’ brief documentary about the title sequence. Learn about its utilitarian origin, the technologies that influenced its evolution and one director who doesn’t like using title sequences.

Leonardo DiCaprio points to the sky, Carey Mulligan is adorably tiny and Joel Edgerton tends to an evil mustache in the latest trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s larger-than-life adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Jurassic Park 3D exists so we can look back and appreciate its finer details. Like why UNIX blows kids’ minds, why Jeff Goldblum has sexy poses in a kids movie, and that one talking dinosaur. The what now?

Carrie is abused at home and ostracized at school. Stephen King himself doesn’t think highly of his own creation. Is it any wonder that she’d flip out? A cautionary tale for bullies. And a great alternate origin story for Jean Grey.