The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

On this grey and depressing morning I thought I'd lighten my heart with the trailer for the new and live action Spongebob Movie! Spongebob Square Pants is a great cartoon; I love that their town is called bikini bottom, its so inappropriate for kids. One of the main plot points of the cartoon is Mr. Krabs (voiced by Clancy Brown, so random) has a secret recipe for Krabby Patties, the most wonderful undersea hamburgers ever. Some land lover (not Plankton) has stolen the recipe and start a burger joint above water! The gang goes to the surface and hilarity ensues. Watch this trailer and feel happy again; and feel renewed the in mix of cartoon/live action mediums. 

Ex Machina

We can all agree that Sci Fi movies are the best movies. That being said there have been many terrible artificial intelligence themed movies (there should be a list of bad movies here, but I can't think of any). Ex Machina is written by Alex Garland who did 28 Days Later and Sunshine, so the expectations are set extremely high. Here Oscar Isaac is our engineer and Domhnall Gleeson is the dumb fuck who is going to fall in love with a robot which will be humanity's undoing. Alicia Vikander plays a shiny robot. Was it a strategic choice to make the robot a female? Are fem-bots better at lying then man-bots? Was the robot lying at all? These are questions that keep me up at night. 

Why Don't You Play In Hell

What would happen if the Yakuza made a movie? Fun + Profit. Shion Sono, a Japanese director, is best known for his 2001 film Suicide Club which is kind of a messed up horror film. This movie looks straight up awesome. If I understood what I just saw, I think the movie is about a Yakuza boss deciding to make a movie to impress one women. I think there is also money to be made but they didn't explicitly say that in the trailer. The film crew is not Yakuza, the death is real, and they cut in some special effects to make it more surreal and Japanese. It almost looks like a movie version of a Japanese game show. Watch this trailer. If you are still itching for violence and katana-play then watch Kill Bill. Or wait, this movie is probably already out, find a subbed version and enjoy. 

Comet

Comet is a romantic comedy, but don't hold that against it. Justin Long and Emmy Rossum are a couple so perfect for each other but their relationship is overly-complicated and they can't be together for no reason. Classic romantic comedy, and when I say classic romantic comedy I mean it in a good way. I guess this movie is like the script of 500 Days of Summer combined with the sets of What Dreams May Come. I love surreal, aesthetically beautiful films. You should either watch this trailer, or go watch the movie The Fall, it's amazing. 

Top Five

I haven't seen a Chris Rock movie since Pootie Tang. Have I missed anything? I'm not sure I don't watch many movies. But I watch a ton of trailers and Top Five looks like a genuinely funny comedy. From what I can tell the movie is about a comedian turned comedic-actor who wants to make the leap to serious film. Why? I don't know, maybe it was money related, I wasn't paying attention. He has a terribly beautiful, terribly vapid fiance, but don't worry because Rosario Dawson is in this picture and she will warm all of our hearts. Watch this trailer. You get to see Brian Regan in the first ten seconds; you get to see JB Smoove, Cedric the Entertainer, Tracy Morgan, and Kevin Hart being funny; Whoopi Goldberg is handing out advice; and etc.