Scooped up out of Cannes by Fox Searchlight for a whooping $9.75 million, The Way, Way Back is sure to be a player come Oscar season as it was written and directed by the scribing team behind 2011’s acclaimed The Descendents: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

Starring Liam James (The Killing), Toni Collette (United States of Tara), Steve Carell (The Office) and Sam Rockwell (Moon), The Way, Way Back is a coming of age story about a circular kid trying to fit into a square hole who finds an unlikely friend at a water park.

Check out the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO4Ni9XGWuI

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I just love the suggestiveness rolling out of Jon S. Baird‘s Filth, a film that’s sure to be an out-of-control romp. Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, who also wrote Trainspotting, this film follows a perverted, bigoted, alcoholic, cocaine-snorting officer of the law, played by James McAvoy. The red -band trailer is vulgar, sexy and not decent for work.

Taking the fact that Welsh wrote the source material, it looks like the story will have real promise. The only question is can Baird, whose only other directorial gig was on Cass which scored a lowly 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, pull off the same wild electricity which made Danny Boyle‘s Trainspotting such a winner?

Have a look at the trailer and see for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObE-AEO17Sw

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Rush tells the true story of the 1976 Formula-One season and the budding rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth (Thor) will fill the shoes of Hunt with Daniel Brühl (Inglorious Basterds) playing Lauda and Ron Howard behind the camera.

Howard is an interesting Hollywood talent. He’s directed such Oscar-winning pictures as A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon and Apollo 13 as well as some dead-in-the-water duds like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Dilemma and a pair of lackluster adaptations of Dan Brown novels – Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

Early expectations are that Rush will play a major factor in this year’s Oscar race so catch and early look and watch the trailer below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aphGbb07xk8

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Behind the Candelabra is set to hit HBO Sunday, May 26 but will premiere before at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Michael Douglas stars as musical genius Liberace in this biopic that unravels his tumultuous, secret love affair with Scott Thorson (Matt Damon).

Soderbergh has talked at length lately about his alleged retirement from making movies, insisting that he wants to transition onto the television platform full time. While I take Soderbergh’s retirement plan with a grain of salt, it will be interesting to see what he was able to accomplish with little to no studio influence.

Behind the Candelabra was picked up by HBO after other studios shied away from the film, referring to it as “too gay.” Sure, Liberace and this film may on the far-side of the drag-queen spectrum but it doesn’t look like Soderbergh is making a “gay film.” There may be a gay love affair at the center of it but to reduce it to those most base elements is retrograde thinking.

So take a look at the pompadour-haired, piano-key-dancing, all-frills-blasting full trailer below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9OgbLCsUM

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Baz Luhrmann‘s The Great Gatsby is a risky project. Originally slated for release during the thick of Award’s season last December, the release was pushed back a substantial five months to May 10th in order to go for the typically larger summer audience. What this seems to suggest is The Great Gatsby it sees itself more as a flashy blockbuster event type of film than a quiet award savvy drama. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan and Carey Mulligan as Daisey, Gatsby has one thing in it’s favor and that’s one hell of a cast.

Although it’s tough to call how the film will be received critically and commercially, there is clearly some faith in it as it will be opening the Toronto International Film Festival in May. I’m matter that the stand out cast, glossy vintage looks and classic Americano story are sure to add up to a winner.

This third trailer for The Great Gatsby really opens up the roaring world of the 20’s and features the music of Beyonce, Andre 3000, Lana Del Rey and Florence + The Machine.

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

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Brian De Palma adapted the Steven King classic Carrie to middling success back in 1976 and to go along with the recent Hollywood trend of 1970-something horror adaptations, this re-envisioned Carrie starring Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore looks it really churn out the eerie, gory goods.

Where De Palma’s film largely deviated from the source material, this one seems to pay more attention to the twisted mother-daughter relationship at the heart of the story as well as take Carrie’s destruction outside of the limited playground of prom.

From this more fleshed out look, the simple juxtaposition of Carrie’s guttural screams over her mother’s faux-soothing hymn sing-a-long essentially captures the spirit of the book. Moore seems to really be onto something with her creepy evangelism and I just love the idea of Moretz playing this iconic character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSn7JyijA8k

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