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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JUNO (December 14) - Early awards buzz swarms around this comedy by Thank You For Smoking director/Hollywood legacy Jason Reitman. It’s about a teenage girl, played by enchanting X-Men: The Last Stand waif Ellen Page, who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby to a childless couple, played by Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman. The story behind it is bound to create many a water cooler discussion, too: first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is a former stripper/ad exec (which is the more honest living?) Studio Fox Searchlight seems to have a lot of confidence in what could be a big sleeper hit for them, as they are screening it aggressively in advance of its opening (Click here to find out about free advance Boston area screenings.)
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (December 21) - The Midas touch of Judd Apatow, the man behind The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad, may falter with this apparently lowbrow spoof of music biographies like Walk the Line, Ray and the fictional Dreamgirls. Perpetual supporting player John C. Reilly (Year of the Dog) steps up and plays a Cash-like star over numerous decades, though the real star may turn out to be the music, all crafted to be period authentic and played pretty straight (which is why it, like the tunes from Christopher Guest’s A Mighty Wind did, might get some mention come Awards Time).
27 DRESSES (January 11, 2008) - If the Writers’ strike isn’t resolved soon, January may be the soonest that a lot of “Grey’s Anatomy” fans will get to see Emmy winner Katherine Heigl. This romantic comedy, written by The Devil Wears Prada scribe Aline Brosh McKenna, is about a woman who, after playing bridesmaid 27 times, falls for her sister’s fiancé. James Marsden (Hairspray), Judy Greer (The TV Set) and Malin Akerman (The Heartbreak Kid) co-star in one of 2008’s first post-Holiday releases.
BE KIND REWIND (January 25, 2008) - Lately, Jack Black has played it alternately straight (The Holiday) and silly (Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny). This one fits into the latter category, about a guy who accidentally erases all the tapes in his friend’s video store and sets out to create home-made versions of all of them, looks like it may be fun, if director Michel Gondry can get beyond the gimmick. He pulled this off in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but wasn’t able to overcome it in The Science of Sleep. Black, who has taken to producing movies like Year of the Dog, stars in DreamWorks’ summer 2008, the CGI comedy Kung-Fu Panda.
HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY (February 8, 2008) - 2004’s Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle may have been a fun lark, but did it really need a sequel? Someone thought so, which is why Kal Penn, who is now on “House,” and John Cho, who will star as Sulu in “Alias” creator J.J. Abrams’s untitled 2008 Star Trek prequel, is on tap. The stoner buds get mistaken for terrorists while en route to Amsterdam, which sounds suspiciously like the plot to a Cheech & Chong movie, but we supposed that is the point.
