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Movie Talk After seeing in the New Year with a jumbo-sized post, Trailer Trash returns this week with some lighter fare – sci-fi comedy Paul. Here’s the trailer… If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or … Continue reading → Read More
Jan 19, 2011

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Movie Talk January is not a good month. It’s cold. Read More
Jan 5, 2011

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Movie Talk The last time Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway appeared on screen together things did not end well. In 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, Jake’s Jack met a premature end and Anne’s Lureen lost forever the husband whose heart belonged to another, Heath … Continue reading → Read More
Dec 8, 2010

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Movie Talk What’s that coming over the hill? It’s Monsters – the sci-fi drama debut from British director Gareth Edwards. Read More
Oct 12, 2010

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Movie Talk Facebook connects people. In fact, it connects more than 500 million people globally, according to membership figures revealed in July this year. Read More
Aug 24, 2010

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Movie Talk Owls tend not to land central roles in Hollywood movies. In the Harry Potter films, these big-eyed birds of prey are little more than harassed postal workers and in the recent remake of Clash of the Titans, the mechanical owl Bubo makes the briefest of cameo appearances before being unceremoniously discarded. Read More
Aug 17, 2010

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Movie Talk Elevators unnerve me and I think I know the reason why: Damien: Omen II (1978). Much of this horror sequel is largely forgotten to me now, but I vividly remember the scene in which a doctor discovers that demonic youngster Damien’s blood structure resembles that of a jackal and soon after is sliced in two [. Read More
Aug 10, 2010

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Movie Talk Ladies and Gentlemen, Boggarts and Grindlylows: put down your butterbeers, sit back and behold… the trailer for the finale of the Harry Potter franchise: First, let me apologise for not bringing this trailer to your attention sooner. I appear to have been the unwitting victim of a misdirected confundus charm, the effects of which have only [. Read More
Aug 3, 2010

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Movie Talk Some trailers are best viewed with no introduction. Like this one… Director J.J. Abrams has, of course, established himself as a modern master of mystery – it underpins his series Alias, Lost and Fringe and now even seems to be a hallmark of his movie marketing campaigns. As with his 2008 ‘monster hit’, Cloverfield, the trailer [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trailer Trash – Super 8", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movieta..." }); Read More
May 26, 2010

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Movie Talk Few film franchises can lay claim to fans as fervent as Star Wars. From conventions to online forums, devotees of George Lucas’ epic space opera have consistently found ways of coming together to show just how strongly they feel the Force. Read More
May 19, 2010

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Movie Talk Ever since the audacious final act twist of his 1999 supernatural thriller, The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan’s films have tended to buckle under the weight of expectation and, perhaps, the extra scrutiny placed on them by audiences keen to spot an impending ‘big reveal’. Read More
May 11, 2010

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Movie Talk Imagine, if you will, a future in which mechanical internal organs could be bought as readily as new TVs or kettles or toasters. A future in which people lived longer because their failing hearts, and livers, and lungs could be upgraded to artificial, high-performance alternatives. Read More
Feb 23, 2010

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Movie Talk Once upon a time there was a director. And that director enchanted audiences with his twisted tales and fabulous fables. Read More
Feb 2, 2010

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Movie Talk There is arguably nothing in cinema more strikingly appealing and terrifying in equal measure than the sight of a major city completely devoid of life. 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, and even Pixar’s family animation WAll·E have unsettled and intrigued audiences with shots of desolate cityscapes. Read More
Dec 8, 2009

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Movie Talk What do you get when you cross a 1963 children’s picture book about a boisterous boy who encounters monsters with Spike Jonze, the visionary director of Being John Malkovich? You get Where the Wild Things Are. Here’s the trailer… To activate the sound in the trailer: hold your cursor over the screen to reveal the control [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trailer Trash – Where the Wild Things Are", url: "http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movieta...... Read More
Nov 17, 2009

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