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I’m telling y’all here and now, that when Star Trek Into Darkness comes out in May… that for the first time in my life I will show up on its premiere night wearing a Starfleet costume. And I will wear the uniform proudly! I even have an idea for it but you good readers will have to just wait and see 🙂

So what is it that would so motivate your friend and humble narrator to make such a drastic departure from his usual space saga haberdashery?

Boldly go and watch this teaser trailer! Do it NOW!!

Okay, I am going to place my bets now: that is Khan Noonien Singh who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. And that’s my final answer until we know for sure. Because whoever Cumberbatch’s character is he is absurdly strong, agile and blessed with apparently superior intellect. Sound like a certain genetically-enhanced superman to ...

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This. Looks. INCREDIBLE.

Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren should just go ahead and make more room on their respective mantles for all the awards they’re no doubt gonna get from their work in this movie.

Hitchcock opens in limited release on November 23rd. Here’s hoping and praying that it’ll opened wide not long afterward!

And if you want this trailer in gloriously full HD Quicktime then slash here!...

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And high-def Quicktime versions of the trailer are up at trailers.apple.com. We wants it my Precious, yesssss…

I made Kristen promise me something late last year: that we will see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey together at its midnight premiere, Lord willing, no matter what. Seeing this trailer has stoked my longing for this movie that much more. December 14th cannot get here fast enough! Okay yeah it can, but you know what I mean…...

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Yeah, I’ve seen The Dark Knight Rises. I’m still mulling it over but increasingly it’s becoming a movie that I like the more that I think about it. Will try to post a review soon (something which I never got around to doing with The Dark Knight).

But while we’re on the subject of Batman, here’s the just-released trailer for DC Animated’s The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, due out on Blu-ray and DVD on September 25th. And it looks to be a spot-on perfect adaptation of the revered graphic novel by Frank Miller!

This is the first time I’m hearing Peter Weller as Bruce Wayne/Batman since his casting was announced. Part of me is always going to be hearing Clint Eastwood’s voice (especially during the book’s later scenes when Batman is on horseback) but Weller’s is just fine.

Batman shooting at young people: makes ya glad ...

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“You don’t owe these people anymore. You’ve given them everything.”

“Not everything. Not yet.”

For the first time, I am beginning to warm up to the “eight years later…” aspect of The Dark Knight Rises. Mainly ‘cuz it looks like Christopher Nolan really is giving us something we’ve never seen cinematically before: a Batman facing his own doubts and mortality. That Nolan is apparently drawing from three of the greatest Batman storylines ever – The Dark Knight Returns, Knightfall and No Man’s Land – is convincing me even more that I can accept this being the closing chapter of a trilogy, instead of that ongoing Batman film franchise that I had hoped Batman Begins would have been the start of.

‘Course it goes without saying that this trailer is gorgeous, in a hauntingly subtle way that I can’t remember seeing from a trailer for a comic book ...

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This is looking to be the most fun of the comic book movies set for this summer…

As jazzed as I am about The Dark Knight Rises, the more that I see of The Avengers, the more it’s looking like the superhero movie that we always dreamed as kids of seeing but thought we’d never get to have.

The Avengers assemble on May 4th....

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All of a sudden, we have a huge fight at the box office come July between Batman and this guy…

Can’t put my finger on it but… this seems spot-on Spider-Man, in all the right places. Now I love love love what Sam Raimi did with his 2002 Spider-Man flick. But The Amazing Spider-Man already seems darker, more serious a take on the Spidey mythos. Looking forward to seeing this. Along with The Avengers, 2012 is shaping up to be Marvel’s year to shine!...

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Did you know that next year will be thirty years since Blade Runner: the last time that Ridley Scott gave us a science-fiction movie?

Based on this much-awaited first trailer for Prometheus, I’m praying that it won’t be another thirty years before Scott delves into the genre again!

So if you don’t know already, Prometheus is sort-of a prequel to Ridley’s 1979 Alien (and by extension also a prequel to James Cameron’s Aliens from 1986). It just won’t have those chest-bursting xenomorphs, allegedly. Ummmm confused by that? Yeah me too, a bit. Still gonna see this on opening day though 🙂...

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It was ten years ago this week that The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out and last night on the way out of town for the evening I had that movie’s score soundtrack playin’ good and epicly loud from my car’s stereo… and I found myself thinking then “I wonder when we’ll see that first trailer for The Hobbit?”.

Lookee what was already several hours online when I got home a few hours ago!

Ohmigoshohmigoshohmigosh…!!!!!!!!!!!!

That. Is. One. Hell. Of. A. Toad-strangler. Of. A. Trailer.

Heck, it is insanely better looking than anything I had expected of The Hobbit movie, now a decade after Peter Jackson and his crew delivered The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yeah I didn’t know if The Hobbit was gonna work at all…

Color me persuaded with extra portions of giddy!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey comes out next ...

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