Trailers
Coming attractions trailers for movies screening in and around Los Angeles
Groundhouse & Machete
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Date: March 15 at 7:30pm & 11pm
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Description: The New Beverly presents a double bill of GRINDHOUSE (comprised of PLANET TERROR and DEATH PROOF) and MACHETE, the film that began as a faux trailer in GRINDHOUSE.
Grindhouse – Tues: 7:30: 2007, USA, 191 minutes. Directed [...]
Paul
Location: nationwide
Date: March 18
Description: Universal Pictures releases this science-fiction comedy, about two British comic-book geeks (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) who encounter a smart-ass alien who wants to escape from the top-secret military facility at Area 51. Taking their new friend for a ride, our hapless heroes are pursued by federal agents and by [...]
Limitless
Location: nationwide
Date: March 18
Description: Relativity Media releases this science fiction-themed thriller, about a mild-mannered copywriter (Bradley Cooper), who discovers a top-secret drug that gives him superhuman mental and physical abilities (we’re talking about enhanced intellect rather than leaping tall buildings at a single bound, so we’re not quite into comic book territory). Neil Burger (THE [...]
Life of Brian
Location: The Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Dates: April 10, 11, 13
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Description: Monty Python fans rejoice: The comedy troup’s 1979 satire, MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN, screens for three days in Seal Beach at the venerable Bay Theatre. Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm; no [...]
Red Riding Hood
Location: nationwide
Date: March 11
Description: Warner Brothers releases what sounds like a TWILIGHT-take on the classic fairy tale – directed, naturally enough, by TWILIGHT-helmer Catherine Hardwicke. Amanda Seyfried stars in the title role, a young girl who falls for an orphaned woodcutter (Lukas Haas); unfortunately, there is a werewolf lurking about the medieval village. We’re [...]
Jane Eyre
Location: nationwide (select theatres)
Date: March 11
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Description: Focus features offers up a new feature film version of Charlotte Bronte’s famous Gothic tale, about the titular governess, whose employer Rochester has a mysterious, guilty secret lurking in the attic. The tale is not, strictly speaking, horror, but there is a moody aura and things [...]
Black Death
Location: The Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, 90046
Date: March 11
Description: Magnet Releasing is opening this period horror film in limited engagements, including a stop at Laemmle Theatres’ Sunset 5. The story is set during the time of the titular plague; a knight (Sean Bean) and a monk (Eddie Redmayne) travel to a village unaffected by the disease.
Battle: Los Angeles
Location: nationwide
Date: March 11
Description: Columbia Pictures unleashes this film about – yes – another alien invasion of Earth. (Didn’t that just happen in SKYLINE?) Aaron Eckhart stars as a marine sergeant on his last day in the service, who is sent to La-La-Land to lead his men in a battle against what turns out [...]
Red State with Kevin Smith in person
[ April 9, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: The Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010
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Description: Kevin Smith’s horror film – presumably we can all guess the content , judging by the title (hint: fundamentalism gone wild) - shows up for a one-night stand at the Wiltern Theatre. Smith is taking his film around the country one [...]
The Adjustment Bureau
Location: nationwide
Date: March 4
Description: Universal Pictures distributes this paranoid science-fiction thriller, in which a secret organization “adjusts” your life to make sure everything goes according to plan – whether or not you approve of the plan. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star as the couple who meet accidentally – a meeting that was not intended [...]
Rango
Location: nationwide
Date: March 4
Description: Paramount Pictures releases this computer-animated fantasy-comedy, featuring the voice of Johnny Depp as the title character, a chameleon with an identity crisis. Gore Verbinski directed the motion-capture performances, working from a script by John Logan, derived from a story by Logan, Verbinski, and James Ward Byrkit. Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill [...]
Drive Angry 3D
Location: nationwide
Date: opens February 25
Description: Summit Entertainment releases this action-packed fantasy film, starring Nicolas Cage (THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE) as one of the damned, who escapes from the infernal region hoping to redeem himself by preventing his granddaughter from being sacrificed by a cult. Amber Heard (ZOMBIELAND) plays the requisite hot, tough girl who decides to help out Cage’s character, and William Fichtner (THE DARK KNIGHT) is the demonic “Accountant” sent to retrieve the wayward soul and return him to the Devil. Unlike too many recent 3D movies, DRIVE ANGRY was actually shot in the stereoscopic process. Director Patrick Lussier and co-writer Todd Farmer previously gave us the enjoyably over-the-top MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D, so we expect similar fun here.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
[ March 27, 2011 6:00 pm to March 30, 2011 8:00 pm. ] Location: The Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Dates: March 27, 28, 30
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Description: Fans of Pee-Wee Herman have three chances to see his first feature film on the big screen at the Bay Theatre: Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm; no screening Tuesday. PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE [...]
The Wizard of Oz
[ March 13, 2011 6:00 pm to March 16, 2011 8:00 pm. ] Location: The Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Dates: March 13, 14, 16
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Description: The Bay Theatre in Seal Beach presents three screenings of the classic fantasy film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, the young Kansas girls swept up by a tornado and deposited in the magical land of Oz. Sure, [...]
Batman
Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Date: April 8 at midnight
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Description: Landmark Theatres presents a midnight screening of Warner Brothers 1989 adaptation of the caped crusader, scripted by Sam Hamm and directed by Tim Burton, with Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne and Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
Vanishing on 7th Street one-week run
Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Dates: February 25 through March 3
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Description: Magnet Releasing offers limited theatrical engagements of this TWILIGHT ZONE-type film, including a one-week run at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre. The story: When a massive power blackout causes a city’s population to vanish, a handful of [...]
I Am Number Four nationwide
Location: nationwide
Date: February 18
Description: Walt Disney Studios releases this science fiction adventure about nine alien teen-agers who seek sanctuary on Earth after their planet is obliterated. Unfortunately, their enemies show up and begin hunting them down, one by one. As you can guess from the title, our hero is fourth in line for extermination. D. J. Caruso directed from a script by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, and Marti Noxon, based on the novel by Jobie Hughes and James Frey (under the pseudonym “Pittacus Lore”). Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, and Dianna Agron head the cast.
Lost Highway
[ March 11, 2011; 11:59 pm; ] Location: The Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 East Fourth Street, Long Beach, CA
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Description: The venerable Long Beach revival house presents a Mondo Midnight screening of one of David Lynch’s finest efforts, 1997’s LOST HIGHWAY, starring Balthazar Getty, Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, and in a truly amazing big of oddball cast Robert [...]
Black Swan & Pi w/Aronofsky in person
[ February 7, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: February 7 at 7:30pm
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a double bill from director Darren Aronofsky, with the director schedule to appear in person for a Q&A between the screenings; other guests are to be confirmed.
From the website:
Darren Aronofsky has been pushing the [...]
Se7en & Zodiac
[ February 6, 2011 7:30 pm to February 8, 2011 7:30 pm. ] Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: February 6-8
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Description: The New Beverly presents the terrifying horror-thriller directed by David Fincher from the screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt star. SE7EN screens on a double bill with ZODIAC, Fincher’s fact-based examination of the infamous serial [...]
Back to the Future & Back to the Future II
[ February 2, 2011 7:30 pm to February 3, 2011 9:50 pm. ] Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: February 2 & 3
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Description: The New Beverly presents the first two-thirds of the trilogy. Contrary to critical consensus and popular opinion, I have always found PART II to be by far the best, thanks to the crazed pacing and imaginative take [...]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
[ March 11, 2011 8:15 pm to March 13, 2011 2:50 pm. ] Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA
Dates: March 11-13
Description: The venerable revival house screens the classic Universal silent movie, starring Lon Chaney (beneath pounds of makeup, including an uncomfortable rubber hump on his back), Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry.
The Wizard of Oz
[ February 23, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Agoura Hills 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
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Description: When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog Toto, to run away. A cyclone appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the [...]
