Welcome to a brand new weekly feature here at WorcesterMovies.com, “Trailer Stash.” As a remedy to Monday morning, we will offer up a quintet of trailers for your information, entertainment and misappropriation of company time while at work. We will do our best to theme them appropriately, though if we’re really tired from watching movies all weekend, they might be just five trailers that we want to share.Make sure you have QuickTime installed, as most of the trailers we share with you will be in that format (yes, we are Mac loyalists).
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FEAST OF LOVE [Sept. 28] - A trio of Oscar nominees and winners — Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear and Jane Alexander — head up a cast of familiar faces which also includes Selma Blair, Missi Pyle and Fred Ward. Wrangling them all is Oscar-winning writer-director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer), delivering a story that explores love’s many faces set in a community in Oregon. A date movie if there ever was one, which looks like it might require an extra bundle of napkins from the concession stand. Also check out the Cary Brothers’ music video for “Honestly” from the movie.
MICHAEL CLAYTON [Oct. 5] - For those who like their drama with a sinister edge, there is this angsty legal thriller about a law firm’s “fixer” (George Clooney) who gets deeper than he planned with a prosecutor (Tilda Swinton) and a loose cannon attorney at his own firm. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, who penned all three movies in the hugely popular Bourne series.
TYLER PERRY’S WHY DID I GET MARRIED? [Oct. 12] - Many-hatted man Tyler Perry adds his name to the title of his latest ensemble drama, just so we don’t confuse it with William Shakespeare’s Why Did I Get Married? This one is about a quartet of couples working out their issues at a ski lodge, and stars Perry (not in drag as giant matron Madea this time), Janet Jackson and Michael Jai White.
THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE [Oct. 19] - The elements for great drama are here, in the form of a pedigree. There’s the decorated Suzanne Bier, the Danish director who made the soul-slamming After The Wedding. There’s producer Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for directing American Beauty. And Oscar winners Halle Berry, off of formula fare like Perfect Stranger (at least for now) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro. Berry plays a recent widow who invites the troubled best friend (Del Toro) of her late husband to live with her and her children, and then things get really heavy. With David Duchovny, Alison Lohman and a whole lot of sexual tension and crying.
THE KITE RUNNER [Nov. 2] - And speaking of Halle Berry, her director on Monster’s Ball, for which she won her Oscar, sure has some range. He’s made historical dramas like Finding Neverland, deep human comedies like Stranger Than Fiction and soon, the next James Bond movie. In this one, he tells the story of Amir, a man who returns to his native Afghanistan after years in the U.S., only to find that his friend Hassan’s son is in trouble. Peeping the MPAA’s reason for the film’s rating reveals that it’s not a heartwarming culture clash comedy — “Rated PG-13 for for strong thematic material including the sexual assault of a child, violence and brief strong language.”