Jessica Chastain Faces the Past in 'It: Chapter Two'

The kids are all grown up in the sequel to It, the smash horror hit from a couple years ago. This is traditionally the less revered half of Stephen King’s book, but they’ve got some good actors to play the adult versions of the kids at least- Chastain, Bill Hader, and James McAvoy take over as the new leads. Unusual for a trailer, in that most of this is one long scene.

Peter Copes With 'Endgame' Spoilers in New 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Trailer

I haven’t seen the movie yet but I have never been someone who cares about not getting spoiled. In fact, the shows and movies I was obsessed with in the past were always the things I aggressively sought out spoilers for the most. It’s never bothered me or hurt my enjoyment of anything to know what happens in it, and it’s kind of impossible not to know what happened in Endgame by now anyway, so I watched the trailer freely and unconcernedly. The thing I liked about the last Spider-Man movie was the high school stuff and the kids though, so I couldn’t care less about the action plot or the villain. It looks fun, but I’m hoping it has more in that vein than it’s suggesting. I don’t care about Nick Fury at all. I could take an entire Spider-Man movie about him hanging out at school, occasionally stopping neighborhood criminals, while dealing with teen stuff.

Sundance Hit 'Blinded By the Light' Gets a Trailer

The director of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride & Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha has directed this new comedy inspired by the life of a real life journalist that was a huge crowdpleaser at this year’s Sundance film festival in January. It’s slated for a summer release and looks a bit corny (but then, so did Beckham back in the day). It kinda reminds me a little but of Sing Street too, with its 80’s setting.

Jim Carrey Stars in 'Sonic the Hedgehog'

So yeah, this looks about as bad as you could have possibly imagined. Was there really no other vehicle for Jim Carrey to take as a return to his old school comedic persona? But what do I know, maybe there are so many Sonic fans out there that this succeeds based on 90s nostalgia for those video game sound effects alone (it sure won’t be because Sonic himself looks good- yikes).

John Singleton 1968-2019

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After suffering a stroke twelve days ago, filmmaker John Singleton was taken off life support by his family and has passed away at the age of 51. His directing debut was the 1991 classic Boyz N the Hood, an enormous success that garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Director at 24, both the first African-American to achieve that honor and the youngest person ever to be nominated in the category. He went on to have a directing career that included the films Poetic Justice (1993), Rosewood (1997), Shaft (2000), Baby Boy (2001) and Four Brothers (2005). Celebrate his too short life today by watching a film of his, particularly Boyz n the Hood if you haven’t see it, or the historical drama Rosewood, his most underrated and critically acclaimed film next to his debut.

Trailer for Boyz N the Hood:

Trailer for Rosewood:

The Monsters are Named in Final 'Godzilla' Trailer

Mothra and the rest show up and it’s Godzilla’s job to take them down as the humans watch helplessly in this new sequel. He’s the King of the Monsters, after all, so there should be no suspense about who’s going to win this fight. I didn’t like the last one much (and I’m not sure how much general audiences did either), so who knows if there’s a big appetite for this- but it definitely looks more action packed than the first one was.

Will Smith Fights His Younger Self in 'Gemini Man'

The digital de-aging process is all the rage these days with actors over a certain age, but Will Smith doesn’t look that different from his 25 years younger self. This kind of action movie also looks atypical for a director like Ang Lee, so it’s a little surprising to see him doing something like this, unless the it was the special effects that really drew him to it.

The Origin of the Phoenix Revealed in Final 'Dark Phoenix' Trailer

This is the first trailer for the new X-Men movie that shows you where the Phoenix actually comes from- and it looks like they’re going with the “alien entity” origin in this one? I still doubt making Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey the center of the movie is a good idea though. They’ve just done the whole Phoenix thing too many times at this point (and the movie’s gone through several rounds of reshoots and been delayed almost two years by now, so who knows what came out of it).

Billy Dee Williams Returns in First Look at 'Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker'

For the first time since 1983, Billy Dee Williams dons the Lando Calrissian cape again, which to me is really the only notable thing about this teaser. With Han, Luke and presumably Leia gone (thought it looks like Carrie Fisher has maybe one scene in this) I guess it makes sense for Lando to come back, but how long into the movie before they kill him off too? JJ Abrams returns to direct this final entry in the trilogy and it looks like he’s bringing back Emperor Palpatine (that is his cackle, right?) and Mark Hamill’s narration at least. I really don’t like this trilogy and I really hate this title- does it mean Daisy Ridley’s Rey is related to Luke after all? The whole reboot series has felt like a strange blend of nostalgic fan fiction (The Force Awakens) and bizarre, prequel-esque randomness (The Last Jedi). It’s hard to care about what happens to any of these people.