<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Filmonic &#187; Jeff Bridges</title> <atom:link href="http://filmonic.com/tag/jeff-bridges/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://filmonic.com</link> <description>Movie news, trailers, reviews and release dates</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:35:48 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Ben Barnes in talks for The Seventh Son</title><link>http://filmonic.com/ben-barnes-in-talks-for-the-seventh-son</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/ben-barnes-in-talks-for-the-seventh-son#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:55:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben Barnes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Julianne Moore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Seventh Son]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=13047</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ben Barnes, the British actor who is best known for his role as Prince Caspian in The Chronicles Of Narnia franchise, is in negotiations to join Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in The Seventh Son according to Variety. Warner Bros. were previously in talks with Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) but [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/ben-barnes-in-talks-for-the-seventh-son">Ben Barnes in talks for The Seventh Son</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ben-barnes-seventh-son.jpg" alt="ben barnes seventh son " title="ben barnes seventh son" width="500" height="255" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13048" /> Ben Barnes, the British actor who is best known for his role as Prince Caspian in <strong>The Chronicles Of Narnia</strong> franchise, is in negotiations to join Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in <strong>The Seventh Son</strong> according to <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039092">Variety</a>.</p><p>Warner Bros. were previously in talks with Sam Claflin (<strong>Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides</strong>) but those talks fell through, so the studio moved onto Barnes.</p><p><span id="more-13047"></span>The movie was previously known as <strong>The Spook&#8217;s Apprentice</strong> and is an adaptation of the Joseph Delaney book series. The story follows Tom (Barnes), a young apprentice to an exorcist (Bridges) who battles ghosts and witches in the 1700s. A long time ago the Spook had bound a witch called Mother Malkin (Moore), who sucks the blood out of young women to keep her youth, to a pit in the ground. However Mother Malkin breaks out of her pit prison and the Spook and his apprentice must use their powers to defeat her. Alicia Vikander will play a witch named Alice who joins Tom on his journey.</p><p><strong>Mongol</strong> director Sergey Bodrov is directing and the aim is to begin shooting later this year.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/ben-barnes-in-talks-for-the-seventh-son">Ben Barnes in talks for The Seventh Son</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/ben-barnes-in-talks-for-the-seventh-son/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>True Grit DVD and Blu-ray set for June</title><link>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-dvd-release-date</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-dvd-release-date#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:47:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DVD Release Date]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blu-ray]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hailee Steinfeld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Brolin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[True Grit]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=12096</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paramount has announced that the Coen Brothers&#8217; True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Brolin, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray June 7th. True Grit is now available to pre-order from Amazon on: - DVD - Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy The movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-dvd-release-date">True Grit DVD and Blu-ray set for June</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="true grit movie " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/true_grit_movie.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="248" title="true grit movie" /> Paramount has announced that the Coen Brothers&#8217;<strong> True Grit</strong>, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Brolin, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray June 7th.</p><p><strong>True Grit</strong> is now available to pre-order from Amazon on:</p><p>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UESJME/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmonic-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003UESJME"><strong>DVD</strong></a><br /> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UESJMO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmonic-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003UESJMO"><strong>Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy</strong></a></p><p>The movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including acting nods for Bridges and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, and is considered one of the best film of 2010. The movie also shattering the notion that Western&#8217;s are a turn-off for audiences by making $230 million worldwide, becoming the most successful Western since <strong>Unforgiven</strong>.</p><p><span id="more-12096"></span>The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack contents are as follows:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Blu-ray:<br /> </strong><br /> - Mattie&#8217;s True Grit<br /> - From Bustles to Buckskin—Dressing for the 1880s<br /> - Colts, Winchesters &#038; Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western<br /> - Re-Creating Fort Smith<br /> - The Cast<br /> - Charles Portis—The Greatest Writer You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of&#8230;<br /> - The Cinematography of True Grit<br /> - Theatrical Trailer</p><p><strong>DVD:<br /> </strong><br /> - Feature Film<br /> - Digital Copy</p><p>The standard DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with English 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description with French, English and Spanish subtitles.</p><p>The single disc DVD includes the following:</p><p>- Hailee&#8217;s True Grit<br /> - From Bustles to Buckskin—Dressing for the 1880s<br /> - Re-Creating Fort Smith<br /> - The Cast</p></blockquote><p><strong>True Grit</strong> is now available to pre-order from Amazon on:</p><p>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UESJME/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmonic-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003UESJME"><strong>DVD</strong></a><br /> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UESJMO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmonic-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003UESJMO"><strong>Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy</strong></a></p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-dvd-release-date">True Grit DVD and Blu-ray set for June</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-dvd-release-date/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeff Bridges on his CG face, Olivia Wilde on Tron sequel ideas</title><link>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-on-his-cg-face-olivia-wilde-talks-tron-sequel-ideas</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-on-his-cg-face-olivia-wilde-talks-tron-sequel-ideas#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:07:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olivia Wilde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron Legacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron Legacy sequel]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=11371</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just over a week ago Tron Legacy hit to mixed-negative reviews and a fairly mild box office. Critics argue that behind the cool visuals and booming Daft Punk soundtrack lies a weak story and, while I agree with them, I had a lot of fun watching it and hope it makes enough to warrant a [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-on-his-cg-face-olivia-wilde-talks-tron-sequel-ideas">Jeff Bridges on his CG face, Olivia Wilde on Tron sequel ideas</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="jeff bridges tron legacy " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jeff-bridges-tron-legacy.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="249" title="jeff bridges tron legacy" /> Just over a week ago <strong>Tron Legacy</strong> hit to <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011582-TRON_legacy">mixed-negative reviews</a> and a fairly mild box office. Critics argue that behind the cool visuals and booming Daft Punk soundtrack lies a weak story and, while I agree with them, I had a lot of fun watching it and hope it makes enough to warrant a sequel.</p><p>Critics have also commented on the CG used on Jeff Bridges to make him appear younger for flashback scenes and for his portrayal of Clu (some have described Clu as looking &#8220;dead-faced&#8221; with &#8220;an animated death mask&#8221;). When recently questioned on the issue Bridges didn&#8217;t address it directly, but he did offer an excuse of sorts.</p><p><span id="more-11371"></span>From <a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/12/26/tron-legacy-jeff-bridges-face-to-face-with-cg-issue/">Hero Complex</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Bridges seemed to search for the right words when asked about the face-to-face issue. There have been some fairly harsh appraisals of the appearance of CLU in some sequences, and he wasn’t prepared to argue with them, but he did look for a bright side.  “It does change the way you watch a movie. But for that thing you’re talking about, what greases that a little bit is that in this movie it is a computer world. Things are off a little bit. You’re looking into a different reality. Not everything looks human there.”</p></blockquote><p>When watching the movie I noticed it looked a little off in places, but it wasn&#8217;t a huge distraction that reduced my enjoyment in any way. De-aging is still a fairly new technology, and it&#8217;s always harder to make someone appear younger than older.</p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="tron legacy olivia wilde " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tron_legacy_olivia_wilde.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="253" title="tron legacy olivia wilde" />In other <strong>Tron Legacy</strong> news Olivia Wilde spoke to <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654531/20101217/story.jhtml">MTV</a> about her hopes for a sequel, and what she wants to see from her character.</p><p><strong><em>[Spoilers for those who haven't seen the movie]</em></strong></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so thrilled to play with Quorra in the human world. It would be sort of like &#8216;Splash,&#8217; &#8221; she said, referring to the &#8217;80s comedy starring Daryl Hannah as a mermaid unleashed in Manhattan. &#8220;I want to see her whispering to laptops and hugging toasters&#8230; There&#8217;s a whole other chapter ahead.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Disney hired writers to get started on a script for a sequel <a href="http://filmonic.com/disney-hire-writers-for-tron-legacy-sequel-2013">back in April</a>, but the studio will no doubt be waiting to see how <strong>Tron Legacy</strong> fares at the box office over the upcoming weeks before moving forward. It may be a similar case to <strong>G.I. Joe</strong> whereby the movie made average numbers, but made a lot of money from toys and merchandising, prompting a sequel.</p><p><strong>What did you think of the de-aging CG in Tron Legacy? Do you want a sequel?</strong></p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-on-his-cg-face-olivia-wilde-talks-tron-sequel-ideas">Jeff Bridges on his CG face, Olivia Wilde on Tron sequel ideas</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-on-his-cg-face-olivia-wilde-talks-tron-sequel-ideas/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Halle Berry named as Oscar presenters</title><link>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-sandra-bullock-and-halle-berry-names-as-oscar-presenters</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-sandra-bullock-and-halle-berry-names-as-oscar-presenters#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:14:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Awards Season]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marisa Tomei]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sandra Bullock]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=11289</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 83rd annual Academy Awards producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer today announced the first batch of names who will be presenting Oscars next February. They include Jeff Bridges, who won best actor for Crazy Heart at this years ceremony and fellow winner Sandra Bullock who picked up best actress for The Blind Side. Halle [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-sandra-bullock-and-halle-berry-names-as-oscar-presenters">Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Halle Berry named as Oscar presenters</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="halle berry " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/halle-berry.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="246" title="halle berry" />The 83rd annual Academy Awards producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer today announced the first batch of names who will be presenting Oscars next February. They include Jeff Bridges, who won best actor for <strong>Crazy Heart</strong> at this years ceremony and fellow winner Sandra Bullock who picked up best actress for <strong>The Blind Side</strong>.</p><p><span id="more-11289"></span>Halle Berry (won best actress in 2002 for <strong>Monster&#8217;s Ball</strong>), Marisa Tomei (won in 1992 for <strong>My Cousin Vinny</strong>), and Oprah Winfrey (nominated for her supporting role in <strong>The Color Purple</strong>), will also be presenting.</p><p>The 2011 Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 27, 2011 and will be hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-sandra-bullock-and-halle-berry-names-as-oscar-presenters">Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Halle Berry named as Oscar presenters</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/jeff-bridges-sandra-bullock-and-halle-berry-names-as-oscar-presenters/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Review: True Grit (2010)</title><link>http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:09:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2010]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barry Pepper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coen Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ethan Coen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hailee Steinfeld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joel Coen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Brolin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roger Deakins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Coen Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[True Grit]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=11266</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the biggest changes in the American film landscape over time has been the decline of the western. The genre once comprised a ludicrous percentage of the overall film output due to their cheap production costs and limited locations, and most of the films were shot on movie ranches in Southern California. And though [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010">Review: True Grit (2010)</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-11267" href="http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010/true-grit-filmonic"><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11267" src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/True-Grit-Filmonic.jpg" alt="True Grit Filmonic " width="500" height="271" title="True Grit Filmonic" /></a></p><p>One of the biggest changes in the American film landscape over time has been the decline of the western. The genre once comprised a ludicrous percentage of the overall film output due to their cheap production costs and limited locations, and most of the films were shot on movie ranches in Southern California. And though the number of theatrical westerns has dramatically fallen since the 1980&#8242;s, there has been a bit of a resurgence in the past few years. Movies like Andrew Dominik&#8217;s <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2010/06/assassination-of-jesse-james-by-coward.html"><strong>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</strong></a>, James Mangold&#8217;s remake of <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2007/09/310-to-yuma.html"><strong>3:10 to Yuma</strong></a>, and the modern day Coen Brothers western <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2009/12/my-favorites-of-2000s-2007.html"><strong>No Country For Old Men</strong></a> have been welcome additions to the genre, continuing a mini-revival sparked by <strong>Unforgiven</strong>, Clint Eastwood&#8217;s 1992 Best Picture winner.</p><p>I&#8217;ve got some good news: the classic western is back. <strong>True Grit</strong> is one of the best films of 2010. Ostensibly a remake of the 1969 John Wayne film of the same name &#8211; one which earned The Duke his only Academy Award &#8211; the Coen Brothers want to make it clear that a remake was actually not their intention. In a <a href="http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/12/9/true-grit-press-junket-coverage-spoiler-free.html">recent interview</a>, they said they had seen the original film in theaters when they were kids but haven&#8217;t revisited it since then, and now only have a vague recollection of it. Their version is an adaptation of Charles Portis&#8217; novel, and remake or not, that detail is entirely inconsequential; this is easily one of my favorite movies of the year, one in which I got that feeling I&#8217;m lucky to get a few times a year when I know I&#8217;m watching something special. With this movie in theaters and Red Dead Redemption tearing up video game consoles, 2010 is a great year for westerns.<span id="more-11266"></span></p><p>It&#8217;s strange seeing a pure, classic western out of the Coens so soon after their modern take on the genre won Best Picture only three years ago. It&#8217;s undoubtedly &#8220;their&#8221; movie, with all of the brothers&#8217; trademark dark humor and gorgeous cinematography from collaborator Roger Deakins, but at times it felt as if this was a western from the mind of Quentin Tarantino. The dialogue was highly stylized and removed contractions from the equation almost entirely (providing some very funny moments thanks to the actors&#8217; delivery), with a rapid-fire barter scene between young Mattie Ross and a horse dealer standing out as a highlight. Like <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2009/12/inglourious-basterds.html"><strong>Inglourious Basterds</strong></a>, I was surprised how much of the movie was people sitting around talking, but also surprised at how intriguing the film was in spite of that. It shares one more thing with the work of QT: <strong>True Grit</strong> is punctuated by points of shocking violence, and because they&#8217;re so sparse, it lends real meaning to those scenes, making them feel as if they truly matter.</p><p>The biggest surprise for me was the phenomenal performance by relative newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, appearing in her first major film and easily holding her own against some of the most intimidating actors in Hollywood. True, her character is extraordinarily well-written, but it takes a special kind of talent from a thirteen-year-old girl to pull off a convincing performance like this; I&#8217;m predicting big things from this girl in the future. And I&#8217;m not just saying this to be nice, either: if there were more than five nominees in the Best Actress category, I&#8217;d say she was a lock for a nomination. Heck, she still might be &#8211; although there&#8217;s very little chance of a win, she still deserves all the praise she will surely receive for her work here. Regardless of professional accolades, she delivers one of my personal favorite performances of the entire year.</p><p>The rest of the cast, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve guessed, was outstanding as well. Jeff Bridges makes the iconic character of Rooster Cogburn his own, grumbling and slurring his way through the film. For the awards-obsessed out there, it&#8217;s very possible Bridges could repeat as Best Actor, a feat not accomplished since Tom Hanks did it in &#8217;93 (<strong>Philadelphia</strong>) and &#8217;94 (<strong>Forrest Gump</strong>). For those who&#8217;ve seen the original <strong>True Grit</strong> and are wondering if the famous &#8220;fill your hands, you sons of bitches!&#8221; scene is represented here, the answer is yes; it&#8217;s a testament to Bridges that he can separate himself so much from one of the most famous characters in western history while participating in many of the same story beats as the original film.</p><p>The villains were equally enjoyable. Josh Brolin, though he doesn&#8217;t get much screen time, is effective as Tom Chaney, the man who killed Mattie&#8217;s father. He&#8217;s a man mentioned many times throughout the film but who doesn&#8217;t appear until near the end, allowing the audience to build up our own vision of what this character might be like based on hearsay from other characters in the film (see: <strong>The Third Man</strong>). But Chaney turns out to be alternatively idiotic and terrifying. He&#8217;s a moronic psychopath, and since you never know what they&#8217;re going to do, there&#8217;s no kind more dangerous. In a convenient bit of casting, the underrated Barry Pepper (seriously Hollywood, get this guy some more work) plays a man with the same last name &#8211; &#8220;Lucky&#8221; Ned Pepper, the leader of Brolin&#8217;s gang of outlaws. He&#8217;s not the biggest guy in real life or on screen, but he commands respect with his presence in this movie and you can tell the much larger Tom Chaney fears him; it&#8217;s a small part, but an important one and one in which Pepper is easily able to excel.</p><p>The dusty landscapes and snow-covered settings were captured wonderfully by Roger Deakins, certainly inspired here by classic westerns in the look and tone of the cinematography. One shot in particular, of Rooster Cogburn framed in the entrance of a mine cart shaft, is a direct homage to John Ford&#8217;s iconic shot in <strong>The Searchers</strong>. Deakins keeps his camera still unless it&#8217;s absolutely necessary to move it. This is not a Scorsese picture in which the camera slowly rotates around a group as people converse; this is straightforward filmmaking, allowing the audience to savor the locales and expansive backdrops and have a perfect sense of geography at all times.</p><p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever heard a score quite like this one. Carter Burwell composed the score, but nearly every song &#8211; and that&#8217;s not an exaggeration &#8211; is a riff on the old hymn &#8220;Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.&#8221; It&#8217;s really weird to hear, since it comes up every few minutes in the movie in a different form &#8211; slower, faster, more piano, more strings &#8211; but it&#8217;s all essentially the same song. It&#8217;s not bad; in fact, I think it worked very well and absolutely added to the atmosphere of the movie. It just struck me as strange, since I can&#8217;t think of another score offhand that is so heavily inspired by just one song.</p><p>I need to see this movie again to discuss it more thoroughly. I was so sucked in by the characters and wave after wave of awesome scenes (the opening hanging in the square, the courtroom questioning, the list goes on) that I found myself almost unable to watch the movie with a critical eye because I was enjoying it too freaking much. When you see as many movies as I do (and I presume if you&#8217;re reading this, you might), you know how rare this reaction is.</p><p>It&#8217;s hard to credit the Coens for much originality here, considering their script is based heavily on Portis&#8217; original novel. The thing about this movie, though, is that even though it isn&#8217;t entirely original, their take on the source material makes it <em>feel</em> brand new. Ultimately, isn&#8217;t that what matters? The visceral feeling of watching a movie? Isn&#8217;t that why we watch movies in the first place? In the tradition of the 1969 film, the Coen Brothers have crafted a smart movie that breaks from conventions and presents a highly personalized look at the Old West and the notions of law and retribution in society. It&#8217;s also way funnier than the serious trailers make it out to be &#8211; in fact, the humor was my favorite part of the entire film. Even with the Coens impressive resume, I&#8217;d rank <strong>True Grit</strong> as one of my favorite films from the talented siblings. I&#8217;d highly recommend everyone check this one out over the holidays. Until next time&#8230;</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010">Review: True Grit (2010)</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/review-true-grit-2010/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Review: TRON: Legacy</title><link>http://filmonic.com/review-tron-legacy</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/review-tron-legacy#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:53:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Garrett Hedlund]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joseph Kosinski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Sheen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olivia Wilde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron Legacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Walt Disney Pictures]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=11207</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 2008, test footage for TRON: Legacy surprised audiences at San Diego Comic-Con and the enthusiastic reaction from fans helped greenlight the sequel to the 1982 original.* This footage prompted me to see TRON for the first time, and while I enjoyed the movie, more than anything it raised my anticipation for Legacy. This is one of those [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/review-tron-legacy">Review: TRON: Legacy</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a rel="attachment wp-att-9936" href="http://filmonic.com/tron-legacy-banners/tron-legacy-banner-3-lightcycle-race"><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9936" src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tron-Legacy-Banner-3-Lightcycle-Race.jpg" alt="Tron Legacy Banner 3 Lightcycle Race " width="500" height="260" title="Tron Legacy Banner 3 Lightcycle Race" /></a></p><p>In 2008, test footage for <strong>TRON: Legacy</strong> surprised audiences at San Diego Comic-Con and the enthusiastic reaction from fans helped greenlight the sequel to the 1982 original.* This footage prompted me to see <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2009/08/tron.html"><strong>TRON</strong></a> for the first time, and while I enjoyed the movie, more than anything it raised my anticipation for <strong>Legacy</strong>. This is one of those rare sequels that is totally justified due to drastic updates in filmmaking technology and a story that is served by exploring those technological possibilities.</p><p><span id="more-11207"></span>I&#8217;ll come right out and say it: I was disappointed with the movie. There were aspects I really dug &#8211; I&#8217;ll get to those in a minute &#8211; but taking Disney&#8217;s overkill marketing approach out of the equation and looking directly at the trailer, I was half-expecting a transcendent experience. Unfortunately, what I ended up with is just a shell of a movie. The world of the Grid, strangely enough, is a good metaphor for the film itself: it&#8217;s sleek, sexy, gorgeous to look at, and unlike anything we&#8217;ve seen before &#8211; but it&#8217;s also cold, harsh, and unforgiving, a world made up solely of 1&#8242;s and 0&#8242;s incapable of convincing anyone that a heart beats inside its mechanical chest.</p><p>If you&#8217;re looking for eye candy, you&#8217;ve hit the jackpot. Director Joseph Kosinski makes his feature debut here, and his past experience as an architect is on glorious full display here, highlighting the expanse of the Grid with a wondrous originality and dynamic visual flair never before seen in movies. It&#8217;s easily the sexiest city I&#8217;ve ever seen, and with its dichotomy of dark glassy panes and bright LED light strips embedded everywhere, the movie serves as a shining beacon of what is possible with today&#8217;s technology. All the staples of the original are updated with pizazz: the disc war sequence is exciting enough, but the light cycle race was the highlight of the film for me. Watching Hedlund speed through Kosinski&#8217;s world really allowed us to bask in the glory of what the director and his production designers created.</p><p>Kosinski is capable of handling the action &#8211; as Zack Snyder will tell you, slickness and style will get you a long way in this industry &#8211; but when he has to settle down and actually tell a story, that&#8217;s when the problems begin. Based on the stunning visuals we&#8217;d seen over the years, I&#8217;d (perhaps unfairly) hoped the quality of the story would meet or exceed the quality of those images. Due to a lackluster script, it doesn&#8217;t quite play out like that. I can easily see two scenarios here: if <strong>Legacy</strong> fails to meet box office expectations and turns into a financial disaster, I can see Kosinski returning to the commercial world and never directing another feature. But if it does gangbusters over this holiday season, it&#8217;s easy to imagine Disney latching onto him for future franchises. (They&#8217;ve already got him signed for a remake of <strong>The Black Hole</strong>.) Enough speculation &#8211; let&#8217;s get back to the movie at hand.</p><p>Jeff Bridges reprises his dual roles as Kevin Flynn and Clu. Flynn, older and trapped in the Grid for years, has developed as one might expect for the character, but with one semi-distracting exception: his dialogue seems intent on reminding us that he was once <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/">The Dude</a>.  <a href="http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/review-tron-legacy-dazzles-visually-but-ultimately-disappoints">Drew McWeeny at HitFix</a> brilliantly summed up the elder Flynn in <strong>TRON: Legacy</strong>: &#8220;he&#8217;s Obi-Wan Lebowski.&#8221; His affability works with this character (if you watch the original, you&#8217;ll essentially see a young hacker version of The Dude), but with lines like &#8220;it&#8217;s biodigital jazz, man,&#8221; and &#8220;you&#8217;re messing with my zen thing, man,&#8221; the writers are relying a bit too much on our outside knowledge of Jeff Bridges and not giving us enough Kevin Flynn. Those are direct quotes, too &#8211; no exaggeration, that&#8217;s exactly how they were stated in the film. My audience openly laughed at lines like that on more than one occasion.</p><p>With Clu, Flynn&#8217;s computer counterpart designed to help build a perfect system capable of shepherding the world into a new digital age, the filmmakers opted to take a motion-captured approach to the character, meaning that he appears as a younger version of Bridges in the final product. Unfortunately, this CG Bridges looks completely unconvincing (save for some brief moments) and took me out of the movie entirely. I can see why they&#8217;d need that version inside the world of the Grid, but in the film&#8217;s opening minutes (set in the &#8220;real world&#8221;) they choose to show that version of Bridges in a flashback sequence that absolutely does not fit into anything aiming for reality.</p><p>Early rumors warned of a terrible performance from Garrett Hedlund (an actor I&#8217;ve actually liked in a number of things), but I found no issue with his performance. He&#8217;s the &#8220;tech geek badass&#8221; prototype here, able to infiltrate a Fortune 500 company, base jump, and ride a motorcycle with equal ease. He does a fine job at all of the above, and while the writing may force some questionable dialogue out of him every few minutes, for the most part he sells and it and totally worked for me as the action hero of this movie.</p><p>Olivia Wilde looked stunning, and brought a kind of wide-eyed naivety to her character that was endearing but ultimately didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. When the true nature of her character is revealed, some of her actions don&#8217;t hold up under scrutiny &#8211; again, a writing issue, nothing having to do with her acting. For my money, she was one of the more enjoyable aspects of the film, questionable character or not; her willingness to commit to the role seemed a bit more genuine than Hedlund&#8217;s performance, which seemed tired at times. Michael Sheen, aside from being almost unrecognizable covered in white makeup, seemed to have more fun than everyone else on set combined. He played the flamboyant character of Castor as a brash loudmouth who loves to be the center of attention. While grating as a character, Sheen gave a memorable performance and shows a willingness to go from British royalty films like <strong>The Queen</strong> to big budget blockbuster with no problems in between.</p><p>(Very minor spoiler in the next paragraph.)</p><p>Like most blockbusters these days, <strong>TRON: Legacy</strong> borrows heavily from other sources, but this one regularly strayed from paying homage into more dicey territory of quasi-theft that caused me to wince a few times. Cillian Murphy makes an uncredited surprise appearance in the beginning of the film as the son of Flynn&#8217;s nemesis Dillinger, the villain from the first film. He now heads up the technical operations at ENCOM, the company made famous by Kevin Flynn years before. But his appearance is limited to about five minutes of screen time (if that), and then he&#8217;s never seen or mentioned again. As if blatant set-up for sequels wasn&#8217;t a big enough sin, writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis actually have Murphy utter a famous line from another franchise sequel in which he made a tiny appearance: <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2008/07/dark-knight.html"><strong>The Dark Knight</strong></a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s all part of the plan,&#8221; the younger Dillinger says, with a hint of Heath Ledger in his voice. Immediately following this scene, there&#8217;s an epic helicopter shot of Sam Flynn standing on top of a building at night that looked suspiciously similar to <strong>TDK</strong> even before Sam base-jumps from the roof.</p><p>Using <strong>The Wizard of Oz</strong> as inspiration, the movie stays in 2D for the &#8220;real world&#8221; aspects until switching into 3D as soon as we enter the Grid, just as Dorothy and Toto stayed black-and-white until they hit full color in Oz. (Incidentally, I think <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2009/12/avatar.html"><strong>Avatar</strong></a> would have benefited by using this same approach.) Like the first <strong>TRON</strong>, there are plenty of <strong>Star Wars</strong> rip offs here (the gunner battles are near identical in all three films, actually) and also a visual callback to <a href="http://www.notjustnewmovies.com/2009/01/terminator-2-judgment-day.html"><strong>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</strong></a>, hearkening back to James Cameron&#8217;s T-1000 innovation when programs are &#8220;derezzed&#8221; in the Grid. Even the notion of Castor and Zeus being the same person dates was notably featured in science fiction in Schwarzenegger&#8217;s <strong>Total Recall</strong>.</p><p>Musical duo Daft Punk composed the score for the movie, sending shock waves through the online film world when it was announced. I won&#8217;t pretend to know anything at all about Daft Punk, but from what I can gather, the original movie was a massive influence on them as artists; it&#8217;s fitting, then, that they would provide the score for the sequel. Trouble is, the score sounded an awful lot like Hans Zimmer&#8217;s already-iconic score for <strong><a href="http://filmonic.com/bens-review-inception" target="_blank">Inception</a></strong>, with the same frenzied strings and intermittent bursts of loud horns. That doesn&#8217;t mean it wasn&#8217;t a great score &#8211; it certainly was &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think it reached the groundbreaking level many assumed it would reach when they heard DP were on board. Daft Punk even made a cameo in the film as the DJ&#8217;s at The End of the Line Club.</p><p>Over at GeekTyrant, we recorded a video of our initial thoughts right after we left the theater. After I expressed disappointment with the storyline, Mazer wondered what I (we, anyone) would have done to change it. I didn&#8217;t have an answer right then, but after a few hours to think it over, I&#8217;ve got a couple of ideas. For starters, I actually liked the look of the movie outside of the Grid, so I would have featured more of the &#8220;real world&#8221; in the film. Not in the way the movie was hinting, in which Clu would lead an army out into the world to cleanse it of its imperfections in an updated Nazi storytelling device that we&#8217;ve seen dozens of times before, but perhaps feature Bruce Boxleitner&#8217;s returning Alan Bradley character more on the outside, helping Sam out or working behind the scenes to cause trouble for the corporate hackjobs who have taken over ENCOM since Kevin&#8217;s disappearance. Sure, now that sequels are being planned and an animated series is in the works, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll find out all sorts of different ways to tell a story within this franchise. I just wish we would have seen a better one here to get it all started again.</p><p><strong>TRON: Legacy</strong> is a mindless action movie, and I take issue with that because more than many other blockbusters, this one had the potential to offer us something to think about instead of just something to look at. Though the first film looks cheesy now, there was a definite sense of something deeper going on under the surface; concepts and ideas about the digital world were highlighted with CGI and wrapped in a new and exciting story. Here, the world has been retrofitted with better tech, but all of the heart from the original is gone. It devolves into the exact cliches longtime movie-watchers will see coming from light-years away (&#8220;he&#8217;s building an army!&#8221; &#8220;Get to the portal!&#8221;), but it does a great job of making me want to ride a light cycle. And hey &#8211; any movie that features Journey&#8217;s &#8220;Separate Ways&#8221; can&#8217;t be all bad. Until next time&#8230;</p><p>*A similar tactic was used to convince Frank Miller that a movie version of <strong>Sin City</strong> would work, with Robert Rodriguez shooting the opening scene as a test and shopping the concept footage to Miller and the rest of the soon-to-be lead actors.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/review-tron-legacy">Review: TRON: Legacy</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/review-tron-legacy/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Another Tron Legacy trailer released</title><link>http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie Trailers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Garrett Hedlund]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Sheen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olivia Wilde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron Legacy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=10985</guid> <description><![CDATA[Disney has released a new trailer for Tron Legacy which focuses more on the father/son story of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) and Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). There aren&#8217;t as many action shots compared to previous trailers, but it&#8217;s still a cool trailer. Watch below: I&#8217;m still not feeling Bridges&#8217; de-aged face. Hopefully it will look [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released">Another Tron Legacy trailer released</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released/jeff-bridges-tron-legacy" rel="attachment wp-att-10986"><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jeff-bridges-tron-legacy.jpg" alt="jeff bridges tron legacy " title="jeff bridges tron legacy" width="500" height="249" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10986" /></a>Disney has released a new trailer for <strong>Tron Legacy</strong> which focuses more on the father/son story of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) and Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). There aren&#8217;t as many action shots compared to previous trailers, but it&#8217;s still a cool trailer.</p><p><span id="more-10985"></span>Watch below:</p><p><object width="590" height="357"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d4RiUy23e9s?version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d4RiUy23e9s?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="590" height="357" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p>I&#8217;m still not feeling Bridges&#8217; de-aged face. Hopefully it will look better on the big screen.</p><p>Sean Flynn is the 20-something son of Tron protagonist Kevin Flynn, whose curiosity about his father’s disappearance leads him to the now-abandoned site of Kevin’s old arcade. Inside the old building, Sean is transported into the Computer World and embarks on an adventure in which he learns what has happened to his father, and of the shocking new threat to the Computer World.</p><p><strong>Tron Legacy</strong> will be released in 3D on December 17th and also stars Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, and Bruce Boxleitner.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released">Another Tron Legacy trailer released</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/another-tron-legacy-trailer-released/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>True Grit theatrical trailer</title><link>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-theatrical-trailer</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-theatrical-trailer#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie Trailers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coen Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Brolin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[True Grit]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=10659</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last week we got a teaser trailer for the Coen Brother’s True Grit remake, and now Paramount has released a full theatrical trailer. We get an extra minute or so of footage, which all looks amazing. The movie stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin, with Hailee Steinfeld making her first big screen debut [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-theatrical-trailer">True Grit theatrical trailer</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="true grit movie " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/true_grit_movie.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="248" title="true grit movie" />Last week we got a teaser trailer for the Coen Brother’s <strong>True Grit</strong> remake, and now Paramount has released a full theatrical trailer. We get an extra minute or so of footage, which all looks amazing. The movie stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin, with Hailee Steinfeld making her first big screen debut as a girl looking for her father&#8217;s murderer.</p><p><span id="more-10659"></span>Watch the trailer below:</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfTSvFSdyRg</p><p>Here’s the synopsis:</p><blockquote><p>Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.</p></blockquote><p><strong>True Grit</strong> will be released on December 25th in the US and January 14th in the UK.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-theatrical-trailer">True Grit theatrical trailer</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-theatrical-trailer/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>True Grit trailer</title><link>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie Trailers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coen Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Brolin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[True Grit]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=10586</guid> <description><![CDATA[The first trailer for the Coen Brother&#8217;s True Grit remake has appeared online. The western, which looks rather stunning thanks to Roger Deakins&#8217; cinematography, stars Oscar regulars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. Hailee Steinfeld also looks promising in her first big screen role. Watch the trailer below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uco41pOKeJg (The song is &#8220;Where No [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer">True Grit trailer</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer/true_grit_movie" rel="attachment wp-att-10587"><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/true_grit_movie.jpg" alt="true grit movie " title="true grit movie" width="500" height="248" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10587" /></a>The first trailer for the Coen Brother&#8217;s <strong>True Grit</strong> remake has appeared online. The western, which looks rather stunning thanks to Roger Deakins&#8217; cinematography, stars Oscar regulars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. Hailee Steinfeld also looks promising in her first big screen role.</p><p><span id="more-10586"></span>Watch the trailer below:</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uco41pOKeJg</p><p>(The song is &#8220;Where No One Stands Alone&#8221; by the Peasall Sisters.)</p><p>Here&#8217;s the synopsis:</p><blockquote><p>Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with &#8220;true grit,&#8221; Reuben J. &#8220;Rooster&#8221; Cogburn (Jeff Bridges). Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her &#8220;grit&#8221; tested.</p></blockquote><p><strong>True Grit</strong> will be released on December 25th in the US and January 14th in the UK.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer">True Grit trailer</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/true-grit-movie-trailer/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Second full trailer for Tron Legacy</title><link>http://filmonic.com/second-full-trailer-for-tron-legacy</link> <comments>http://filmonic.com/second-full-trailer-for-tron-legacy#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:41:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liam</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movie Trailers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Garrett Hedlund]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Sheen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olivia Wilde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tron Legacy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmonic.com/?p=9983</guid> <description><![CDATA[Following the debut of the new trailer for Tron Legacy at Comic Con Disney has released the trailer online for all to see. If you enjoyed the teaser trailer you will love this. We see Jeff Bridges looking all youthful, more light cycles and more disc battles. Watch below: You can download the trailer by [...]<p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/second-full-trailer-for-tron-legacy">Second full trailer for Tron Legacy</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img style=' display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;'  alt="Tron Legacy Banner 3 Lightcycle Race " src="http://fcdn.filmonic.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tron-Legacy-Banner-3-Lightcycle-Race.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="500" height="260" title="Tron Legacy Banner 3 Lightcycle Race" />Following the debut of the new trailer for <strong>Tron Legacy</strong> at Comic Con Disney has released the trailer online for all to see. If you enjoyed the teaser trailer you will love this. We see Jeff Bridges looking all youthful, more light cycles and more disc battles.</p><p><span id="more-9983"></span>Watch below:</p><p><object width="500" height="271"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/24842"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/24842" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="271"></embed></object></p><p>You can download the trailer by right clicking these link and choosing &#8216;Save Link As&#8217; (or whatever phrase your particular browser uses)</p><blockquote><p> <a href="http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sdm=web&#038;pt=rd&#038;sid=111401731">480p</a><br /> <a href="http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sdm=web&#038;pt=rd&#038;sid=111401733">720p</a><br /> <a href="http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sdm=web&#038;pt=rd&#038;sid=111401738">1080p</a></p></blockquote><p>Sean Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is the 20-something son of Tron protagonist Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), whose curiosity about his father’s disappearance leads him to the now-abandoned site of Kevin’s old arcade. Inside the old building, Sean is transported into the Computer World and embarks on an adventure in which he learns what has happened to his father, and of the shocking new threat to the Computer World.</p><p><strong>Tron Legacy</strong> will be released in 3D in December and stars this year’s Best Actor Oscar winner Jeff Bridges along with Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Garrett Hedlund and Bruce Boxleitner.</p><p>Read similar posts to <a href="http://filmonic.com/second-full-trailer-for-tron-legacy">Second full trailer for Tron Legacy</a> at <a href="http://filmonic.com">Filmonic</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://filmonic.com/second-full-trailer-for-tron-legacy/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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