mystery
09/14/2007
David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises"
This trailer for David Cronenberg's new thriller manages to introduce all its major plot elements -- orphaned baby, abandoned corpse, secret diary, Naomi Watts -- while maintaining a sense of intriguing mystery. How does it all add up? No telling. Only thing we know for sure is that Viggo Mortensen is one sexy tattooed Russian gangster. Eastern Promises opens today; if its success is anything compared to that of A History of Violence, it'll stick around for quite some time.
07/09/2007
Cloverfield
This kind of thing doesn't happen in the upper reaches of Hollywood. J.J. Abrams, one of the hottest non-actors in Hollywood (he created Lost as well as directed Mission: Impossible III), doesn't just come out of nowhere with a new movie. Especially if that movie is what seems to be a mega-budget disaster flick set in New York. But that's exactly what happened last week, when a teaser trailer screened before Transformers. And it's big, like Statue-Liberty-crashing-down-in-the -middle-of-Midtown big.
The film is known as both Cloverfield and Clover, but neither its IMDb page nor its official Web site gives any detailed information whatsoever, except for the fact that it's coming out next January. After a few cameraphone-captured versions of the trailer surfaced last week, Paramount finally posted an official version to the Apple trailer page.
At his always-excellent indieWIRE blog, Matt Dentler has been on top of the story, and so have his readers -- one comment mentions a page that lists the myriad theories surrounding the film. Stay tuned to find out if any of them turn out to be true.
