You may be unfamiliar with the name Edge of Tomorrow, as it has been going by the moniker “All You Need is Kill” until quite recently, but it is the same project entirely. Directed by Doug Liman of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow follows officer Bill Cage (Cruise). Suited up in some advanced mecha gear, Cage is killed in alien combat and subsequently reanimated via a time rift to return to fight the same battle and die again…and again…and again.

Essentially Groundhog Day meets Terminator, Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Charlotte Riley. Personally, the concept works for me and I like this first look. Furthermore, Cruise and Blunt sound like a good combo especially with an intelligent director like Liman standing behind the project. Are you excited to see more of this?

Edge of Tomorrow is directed by Doug Liman andstars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Charlotte Riley. It hits theaters next summer, June 6, 2014.

Apparently the little kerfuffle back in The Avengers where Thor leaped through the air and brought his Godly-powered magical hammer down on Captain America’s shield was horseplay compared to the carnage going down in this sequel, Captain America: The Winter Solider, as the All-Americano custom job on Cap’s shield is chipping away like bargain-bin paint. While this teaser hardly gives us much to go on in terms of character or plot, it seems pretty congruous with the dark-horse sophomore picture that superhero films seem to be so fond of nowadays.

If the first films in a planned franchise are now exclusively origin stories, the follow-ups seem to be finding their own pattern where the hero is faced with a breed of “darkness” that they never could have imagined. Since Batman Begins, the whole genre has undergone a categorical shift in tone with everyone and their mother trying to emulate the dark, gritty nature of Nolan’s franchise. But up to this point, Marvel has done a good job at keeping things light (almost too much at times) so we’ll see have deep down the rabbit hole they plan to take us with this second installment.

Captain America: The Winter Solider is based on the popular comic line in which Cap’s old friend and war buddy Sebastian Stan returns as his arch-nemesis; an assassin also frozen in time, the Winter Soldier. So long as he’s not spouting off lines like “Ice to meet you*,” or “You are not sending me to the cooler*” or worst of all, “What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age! (proceed to blast freeze ray)*” then I’ll give this a shot.

*These are all actual lines from Batman and Robin‘s Mr Freeze, as is “Allow my to break the ice,” “Stay cool, bird boy,” “Let’s kick some ice,” “Cool party,” and the classic “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo stars Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp and Robert Redford. It hits theaters April 4, 2014.

Ten years after Chan-wook Park’s Korean film Oldboy made waves internationally, American filmmaker Spike Lee‘s remake is closing in on its October release date. Starring Josh Brolin as a man who is kidnapped, held for twenty years and then suddenly released, Oldboy is a bloody story of vengeance. The film co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli.

This first official poster is rather metaphorical and I like it. Brolin looking cool bustin’ out of a box? I’m sold.

Oldboy is directed by Spike Lee and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli. It hits theaters on October 25.

After adapting the tomes of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings series into three massively scaled films, Peter Jackson made the folly of trying to do the same with the 276-page The Hobbit. Splicing the minor film into three films seemed like a poor choice from the get-go so it was no huge surprise that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was a big letdown.

If the sequel, the smugly named Desolation of Smaug, has anything going for it, it’s low expectations- exactly opposite to what An Unexpected Journey had working against it. While I can’t help but admit that my faith level in the franchise as it exists is hardly soaring, there are worse things in the world than hanging out in Middle Earth for a few hours.

This first look at The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug cues us into the fact that Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch), and his layer, will indeed play a large role in the film. Oh and we’ll probably see Legolas chilling somewhere too.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is directed by Peter Jackson and stars Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Luke Evans, Cate Blanchette, Evangeline Lilly, Richard Artmitage, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis and Stephen Fry. It hits theaters over this holiday season on December 13.

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Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men was an astonishing piece of work and the mystery and intrigue behind his new film Gravity made me pop it into the highest spot on my Most Anticipated Films of 2013 List. Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two solitary astronauts stuck on a damaged spacecraft, Gravity tells the story disaster in the worst possible location: space.

One of the most intriguing aspects of  Cuaron’s work is his lengthy shots and Gravity is supposed to open with one breathtaking 17-minute long shot. If Cuaron is able to live up to hype and deliver a film on caliber with Children of Men, I’m sure Gravity will be one of the best the year has to offer.

The trailer is expected to float down to Earth tomorrow so this little teaser and poster will have to do for now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAn276ujB4

Gravity is directed by Alfonso Cuaron and stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. It hits theaters on October 18.

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Chartering a woman named Joe’s sex life from birth to age 50, Lars von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac will be sure to shock and ostracize critics and the public at large. Trier has a penchant for tiptoeing the line between film and snuff and it’s hard to imagine that this one won’t be just as perverse and challenging as his most offensive and challenging work. The first official image featured a topless Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) sandwiched between two equally bare black bulls and this poster seems to be all but suggesting the same kind of gang-bangin’ situation. Oh Lars, how you be so tasteful?

There’s a fine line between art and pornography and I have a feeling the MPAA is gonna come down hard on Trier and slap this with the dreaded NC-17, that is if it gets rated at all. Trier’s second to last film, Antichrist, didn’t bother with a rating and so I guessed I shouldn’t have been so shocked when I saw full penetration in slo-mo, that same fully penetrating penis getting lobbed off or a woman circumcising herself with a dirty pair of scissors. Yeahhhhh… Antichrist wasn’t quite my favorite movie of all time.

Nymphomaniac is directed by Lars von Trier and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg,  Stacy Martin, Shia Labeouf, Jamie Bell, Connie Nielsen, Mia Goth, Jens Albinus, Severin von Hoensbroech, Peter Gilberg Cotton, Nicolas Bro, Tabea Tarbiat, Janine Romanowski, Jesper Christensen, Tania Carlin, Felicity Gilbert and Shanti Roney. There is no release date nor is does it have a festival lined up for its premiere yet.

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This first poster for Thor 2 may be simple and boring and a result of lazy Photoshopping but hey, it’s something. He holds a hammer, a lightning does a strike and his golden, godly locks are a-blowin’.

 Two years ago, I was down on the whole Avengers prospect but I will admit that I was won over by the one-two-punch of Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. Light fare though they may be, they were perfectly entertaining, albeit formulaic, and were all the razzle-dazzle spectacle to keep my inner-nerd at bay.

But now that Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (a mouthful, I know) is complete, we begin the descent into the second act of the journey. After the massive influence of The Empire Strikes Back, act two’s generally take on a darker tone and attempt to dig into the characters more. After Joss Whedon’s promise that the second Avengers movie will be “more personal” and will include more “awful” things taking place, we can assume that Phase Two will adopt a darker tone in general.

Thor 2 is directed by Game of Thrones helmer Alan Taylor andstars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins and opens in theaters on November 8, 2013.

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300: Rise of an Empire and Only God Forgives may have a few similarities – gruesome violence, hard R-rating – but I don’t think that there is much to tie the two films together outside the fact that I have brand spankin’ new posters for each of them. One poster is swattered in a tasteful string of neon lights while the other features a bare-chested, muscle-bound warrior. Care to guess which is which

300: Rise of an Empire will follow the exploits of Greek general Themistokles played by Sullivan Stapleton and his relatively untrained militia as they battle the seemingly limitless Persian army at sea under the command of Artemesia (Eva Green).

Nicolas Winding Refn‘s follow-up to the near perfect Drive, Only God Forgives follows Julian, played by Ryan Gosling, an irreverent drug-slinger in Bangkok and his rivalry with the local police chief, a rivalry that can only be settled in the Muay Thai boxing ring. Check out the red-band trailer here.

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The Hangover franchise may have banked quite a bit of cash for The Hangover: Part 2, $254.4 million following an epic $85.9 million opening weekend, but it didn’t leave a good taste in audience’s mouths and most have taken to slamming it for being an unimaginative do-over of the original. Well director Todd Phillips took this criticism to heart and has promised that the third and final installment, The Hangover: Part 3, won’t follow the blacked-out night followed by a hungover trail of clues formula. Instead, he’s suggested that it will involve the wolf pack breaking Alan out of a mental institution. Whether that’s how the chips will fall when the movie is finally released, we’ll see but the first marketing poster definitely suggests that they’re going a new route and are taking new inspiration.

This poster is clearly a tip of the hat to the poster art from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and I’m totally on-board the imitation bus. It worked tremendously with the marketing for The Muppets who spoofed Twilight, Paranormal Activity, Green Lantern and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. If the entirety of the Hangover media blitz follows suit and goes the mockery route, we could be in store for some good stuff.

Anyone unfamiliar with Zack Galifinikas‘ music video for Kayne West‘s ‘Cant Tell Me Nothing’ or his faux-cable-access talk show Between Two Ferns will be sure that the comedian actor isn’t unfamiliar with the art of mockery and should check them out here:

Zack Galifinikas’ version of Kayne West’s ‘Cant Tell Me Nothing’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bCc0EGP6U

Zack Galifinikas interviewing Steve Carrell on Between Two Ferns

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