Your weekly serving of trailers is coming a bit late, but that's just because we wanted to maximize the Super Bowl wellspring and see what Sundance Film Festival gems would be available for consumption. After all, we can't say it's the superior round up of pre-movies unless we've seen 'em all—or at least as many as we can find! But you've got a lot of video to sort through here, so let's get right to it.
This is where we were expecting to put the new massive DC Comics movie trailer that everyone thought was going to premiere during the Super Bowl. But then they let us down.
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Our resident Super Expert Graeme McMillan covered this release in last week's Cape Watch. Read his response to the at-long-last trailer here.
Pause at: 0:45 for an Easter egg. (Hint: It's an IP address, 23.21.190.125)! Is it bad news already for Johnny and Sue Storm at 1:11?
Essential Quote: "With every new discovery there is risk. There is sacrifice. There are consequences."—Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey)
From the pages of Rolling Stone to the premium programming on HBO and now to CNN Films, the epidemic of obfuscating sexual assaults on college campuses is one of the biggest issues in American popular dialogue. And it should be. The Hunting Ground, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, comes from the team behind The Invisible War and this time they're gunning to expose rape culture on college campuses across the country. It chronicles attacks, cover ups, and the uprising of a group of sexual assault survivors who've taken the cause of justice into their own hands after being failed by the institutions meant to defend them.
Pause at: 0:15, 0:24, 0:48, 0:56, because sexual assault victims look like anyone you could know.
Essential Quote: "They told me despite the fact that I had a written admission of guilt that I presented to them, it could only prove that he loved me."—Rape survivor
It's 1952 and a serial killer of children is on the loose in Soviet Russia. Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) is a disgraced secret police agent. Raisa is his traitorous wife (Noomi Rapace) and Vasili is his psychotic rival (Joel Kinnaman). But the point here is: Tom Hardy. More Tom Hardy all the time. Child 44 is based on a novel of the same name by Tom Rob Smith, and it's the first in a trilogy. So if all goes well, we'll get a Hardy-anchored franchise even if he did drop out of Suicide Squad.
Pause at: 1:01. Those tools don't look like they're for dentistry.
Essential Quote: "I'm sure you realize murder is strictly a capitalist disease."—Major Kuzim (Vincent Cassel), with some great perspective on Soviet Russia
It's the summer of 1981, and Camp Firewood is about to open for business.
Pause at: Every 1.5 seconds to see all these names!
Song: Pretty sure this isn't a real song...
Tim Kring is returning to the well and reviving Heroes for a 13-episode miniseries. For even more supernatural fun, the next run will be preceded by a digital series in which viewers can meet new characters and get familiar with their storylines. Let's hope this new slate of episodes looks a lot more like Season 1 than Season 4 of the one-time white-hot show. Zachary Quinto has confirmed he will not return as Sylar (major sad face). Ali Larter has pretty much shut down any discussion of her coming back as well. Milo Ventimiglia posted on Twitter that he's not coming back, and the consensus says Hayden Panettiere is done for too. So, maybe it’s just going to be Heroes Born, instead of REborn?
Pause at: 0:03. That looks like a little body for such a big power. Good old HRG at 0:08!
Funny thing about Season 5 of GoT: It pulls from book four, A Feast for Crows, as well as book five, A Dance With Dragons, as the two books have concurrent timelines. That means by the end of Season 5, the HBO program will be fresh out of source material to pull from—or at least close to it. Book six, The Winds of Winter, hasn't been released yet, and there's no information suggestingit will arrive in 2015. So that's ... awkward? Maybe it will just go Star Wars on us and start breaking off into tangent mini series focusing on individual characters until George R.R. Martin gets it all sorted out. We'd watch a Tyrion stand-alone season for sure.
Pause at: 0:36. Finally. The dream team is out in the world together. Is Ser Jorah fighting for redemption at 0:51? Poor Jorah. Serpent Gram for Cersei at 0:53. The Martells are on your case now, girlfriend! Melisandre is just up to her old tricks at 1:37. Who you holding on to at 1:43, Margaery?
Song: TV On the Radio, "Heroes"
Essential Quote: "I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel."—Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)
Most of the Super Bowl TV spots for movies were just faster cut versions of material we've already seen, but Jurassic World gave us a little more information with some more polished up visual effects. (Check out some great shot-by-shot comparisons for here and here.) We also get to see more of the new Super Killersaurus created by severely styled Bryce Dallas Howard (playing Claire, the evil version of John Hammond from Jurassic Park), and it also becomes more clear that the raptors are now man's best friend—at least for now.
Pause at: 0:17. Chris Pratt is the Crocodile Dundee of raptors. At 0:31, Super Killersaurus 1, humanity 0. The Big Man on campus at 0:42.
Essential Quote: "It's killing for sport."—Owen (Pratt)
There's nothing we can say here that isn't better accomplished by the image of The Rock wielding a Gatling gun with nothing but his own raw strength.
Pause at: 0:10 for the only thing this franchise was missing. Is this the force of two super cars colliding causing a wall of windows to shatter at 0:29? Stop at 0:47. And you thought they couldn't top Fast & Furious 6.
Song: Bassnectar feat. Rye, "Now"
Essential Quote: "Daddy's gotta go to work."—Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson)
Even if this TV spot is only 30 seconds, it still gives us a little more to go on than the first Tomorrowland teaser did. It's the same voiceover from George Clooney, but at least we get some more shots of the vague but wondrous Land.
Pause at: 0:10, 0:21, 0:26—your guess is as good as ours!
Essential Quote: "Buckle up!"—Frank Walker (George Clooney)
The first Ted grossed nearly $220 million at the domestic box office alone. So, I guess that means we asked for this.
Pause at: 0:47. Yeah, that's Mark Wahlberg about to get hit by a wall of sperm. And now it's Action Ted at 2:08!
Song: Public Enemy, "Fight the Power" and Aretha Franklin, "Think"
Essential Quote: "We'll get a lawyer and we'll sue the government for your civil rights!"—John (Wahlberg), and there you have it!
