Trailer Round-Up: ‘On Chesil Beach’, ‘Pandas’, ‘Pyewacket’, ‘Andre The Giant’ And More
Are you looking for some excitement? Well, nothing, and I meannothing, is more exciting than a trailer round-up. This latest trailer round-up features a new film featuringSaoirse Ronan;Pandas!; a horror movie thatlooksgood but has a bit of a poor title; a documentary aboutAndre the Giant; yet anotherThoroughbredstrailer; and much more. The trailer round-up awaits you below.
On Chesil Beach
Panda watch! Look, I don’t know ifPandaswill be a great film. But I do know it features a bunch of adorable pandas making adorable sounds and doing adorable stuff. So, honestly, I’m sold. Life is misery, folks! I’ll take joy where I can get it. This documentary comes from Warner Bros. and IMAX, and featuresKristen Bellproviding some very up-beat narration. Also, there’s a long shot in this trailer where a panda is just chilling on its back munching on some bamboo. What more do you need?PandasopensApril 6, 2018.
Pandas are beloved around the world, and now they are coming to the big screen in the IMAX® original film “Pandas,” a breathtaking documentary adventure and amazing experience for the whole family narrated by Kristen Bell (“Frozen,” TV’s “The Good Place”).
At Chengdu Panda Base in China, scientists are taking the captive breeding program to the next level and preparing captive-born cubs for the wild. This film follows one such researcher, whose passion leads her to initiate a new technique inspired by a black bear rehabilitator in rural New Hampshire. What starts as a cross-cultural collaboration becomes a life-changing journey for one special panda named Qian Qian. The film, captured with IMAX® cameras, follows Qian Qian on an exciting new adventure into the mountains of Sichuan as she experiences nature for the first time and discovers her wild side.
Pyewacketis a bad name for a movie. That said, this trailer looksgood. It’s conflicting! I suppose you should never judge a film by its title, so I’ll happily overlook that goofy title and give this indie horror flick a chance. In the film, teenage Leah (Nicole Muñoz) decides to mess around with the occult, which any easily frightened parent will tell you is abad idea.PyewacketopensMarch 23, 2018.
Final Portrait
Very handsome manArmie Hammerco-stars inFinal Portrait. Hammer plays an American writer in Paris who is asked to sit for a portrait by a famous artist played byGeoffrey Rush. A friendship develops between the two men, and while Rush’s character first tells Hammer’s character the portrait will only take a few days, that turns out to not be the case after all.Final Portraitcomes from actor and directorStanley Tucci, and opens in select theatersMarch 23, 2018.
FINAL PORTRAIT is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend, Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, promises Giacometti, will take only a few days and so Lord agrees — ultimately wondering “how much longer can it go on like this?”
Christian Petzold’sPhoenixwas one of the best films of 2015. Petzold is back withTransit, a film that takes a 1944 World War II novel and updates it to modern-day, while still remaining the original novel’s plot. Here, the World War II Nazis from the novel have been updated to modern-day fascists. It sounds intriguing, and afterPhoenix, I’m interested in watching anything new Petzold makes.Transitdoesn’t have a U.S. release date, and the trailer above doesn’t have subtitles. Still, you can get the feel for the film, and it looks like it might be another winner from the filmmaker.
The Breaker Upperers
InThe Breaker Upperers, “two best friends run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.” That’s a premise with a lot of potential for comedy, andThe Breaker Upperershas the added bonus of having very funny personTaika Waititiserving as executive producer. The film comes from written by, directors and starsJackie van BeekandMadeleine Sami.The Breaker Upperersdoesn’t have a wide U.S. release date yet, but the film will play at SXSW next month.
Andre the Giant
Andre the Giant, one of the most famous wrestlers in the history of the medium, and the co-star ofThe Princess Bride, gets his own documentary from HBO films. The doc,Andre the Giant, chronicles the late wrestler’s life, including the ups and downs. I’ll confess I know very little about Mr. The Giant beyond the fact that he was a wrestler who occasionally appeared in movies. This doc looks interesting, and also a bit bleak, so I’ll give it a chance when it hits HBOApril 10, 2018.
The Forgiven
Forest Whitakerplays Archbishop Desmond Tutu inThe Forgiven, a thriller based on a true story. Whitaker’s Archbishop Tutu finds himself summoned to speak with an imprisoned murderer (Eric Bana). I never thought I’d see athrillerfeaturing Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a character, but this trailer certainly ratchets up the tension and plays up the proposed thriller aspect.The ForgivenopensMarch 9, 2018.
Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbredshas spent a very long time on the festival circuit, but the official release of this dark comedy isalmostat hand.ThoroughbredsstarsAnya Taylor-JoyandOlivia Cookeas former childhood friends who reunite, and then proceed to bring out each other’s destructive tendencies. This new trailer is very pull-quote heavy, playing up the long list of praise the film has picked-up after playing one film festival after another.ThoroughbredsopensMarch 9, 2018.
I Am Evidence
I Am Evidenceis a harrowing-looking documentary from HBO that sets out to expose the shocking amount of rape kits that remain untested. The doc features Mariska Hargitay, whose role onLaw and Order: Special Victims Unitinspired her to become an activist for victims of sexual assault. “The rape-kit backlog is just a perfect microcosm for how women and these crimes are regarded, and so through excavating and digging you really see those victim-blaming attitudes,” Hargitay said (viaIndiewire). “It’s painful to watch, but it’s something that needs to be uncovered and a big, bright, bright light needs to be shined on it, so that’s what we’re hoping to do. In this watershed moment we’re hoping that the tides turn. “I Am Evidencewill debut on HBOApril 16, 2018.
