Filed under: Animation, Fandom, Exhibition, Newsstand, Home Entertainment, Movie Marketing

During the Chargers vs. Colts playoff game yesterday, NBC was airing commercials advertising a 3D trailer for the movie Monsters vs. Aliens (first of its kind?), which will also coincide with the airing of a full episode of the TV show Chuck in 3D.

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During the Chargers vs. Colts playoff game yesterday, NBC was airing commercials advertising a 3D trailer for the movie Monsters vs. Aliens (first of its kind?), which will also coincide with the airing of a full episode of the TV show Chuck in 3D.

Filed under: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Newsstand, Johnny Depp, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images

Above: Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Public Enemies, and Christian Bale as John Connor in Terminator: Salvation

To celebrate the new year, Entertainment Weekly has gone live with a gallery full of brand new photos from some of the hottest films in 2009.

Filed under: Action, Fandom, Trailer Trash, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips

So the first trailer for Crank 2: High Voltage has hit the internets, and the thing is beyond NSFW (not safe for work). It opens with Asian men performing some sort of weird surgery on Jason Statham (who’s awake and watching), then leaps into a montage of foul-mouthed obscenities before introducing a character who apparently likes to spend his days slapping the bare behind of an African American woman — and then we get action, guns, blood, sex, nudity, more cursing and then Amy Smart shows up.

Filed under: Fandom, Home Entertainment

Yes, folks, from time to time we’re going to promote a book on Cinematical – which means you’d actually have to read something — but trust us when we say it’s good for ya, like eating vegetables or running naked through Banana Republic.

Filed under: Horror, DVD Reviews, Home Entertainment, Lists

Scott Weinberg and I are the Cinematical night owls. You’re probably reading this at a very sensible time of the day, enjoying something called “sunshine” and a “blue sky,” and we’re probably sleeping. That’s how dedicated the folks at Cinematical are — we work around the clock!

I tell you this because you might be wondering why one Cinematical writer is posting about another.

Filed under: Drama, Independent, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews, Home Entertainment

(We’re reposting our SXSW review of The Lost Coast to coincide with the film’s release via Amazon VOD)

By: Eric D. Snider

As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of The Lost Coast, begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, “We found a dead body — but more on that later.” You know it’s an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn’t even the lead story.

Filed under: New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Indie

What are you renting this week? Let us know in the comments! To get you started, here’s our look at more than a dozen new releases.

Serenity
Joss Whedon’s TV series Firefly inspired a rabid fan base, myself included.

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Images

(Updated from yesterday with more images after the jump)

It’s finally time for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to make some noise, and while all of us slowly awake from our holiday daze, Empire Magazine has released the first official images from the film, while USA Today has a report from the set.

Filed under: Action, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Games and Game Movies, Trailers and Clips

The first trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li is now online, and although it’s the Japanese version (which would explain the non-English voiceover), it still looks like a half-decent fighting flick.