The sole purpose of the latest clip from Prometheus seems to be to show off the movie’s titular spaceship.  It looks great and all, but I have my fingers crossed in the hope that this movie isn’t just an hour and a half of special effects.

I’m loving this new storyline, but that costume is a major downgrade from the Tobey Maguire version. It looks cartoonish. That’s not going to stop me from buying a ticket, though.

I want to like Sucker Punch so much, but every trailer makes me more nervous than the next. Pleeease be more like The Matrix than Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Just received this press release about the upcoming indie film Grave Encounters from Twin Engine Films. It looks like a film version of Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, with a Blair Witch Project twist. In fact, 1 min 45 secs in you can see that they quite explicitly pay homage to the conclusion of the Blair Witch Project.

Synopsis: “Lance Preston and the crew of “Grave Encounters”, a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years.

All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.

They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted – it is alive – and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients.

They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital’s dark past…and taping what turns out to be their final episode.”

Check out the website of the film’s production company, Darclight Films.

This Your Highness trailer features butt-sex jokes, dragons, and a medieval thong! It’s almost enough to make me forgive Natalie Portman for Revenge of the Sith. Almost.

It’s kind of like a raunchy American version of The Black Adder.

Relativity Media and Universal have released the teaser trailer for Battle: Los Angeles, a big budget alien invasion movie due out in March. If it looks a lot like this weekend’s release, Skyline, it’s not a coincidence. Skyline directors Greg and Colin Strause are the heads of Hydraulx, the visual effects house that did the effects for Battle: Los Angeles. After the Straus siblings had a chance to look under the hood of the film, they quietly produced Skyline and slated it for release four months before Battlefield. The entire incident is the subject of a reportedly bitter falling out between the two films’ studios.

Personally, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I could watch aliens destroy Earth all day. It just doesn’t get old. In fact, there ought to be a cable channel devoted to rampant mass destruction 24/7. I mean other than Fox News.

“For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered before.”

The first theatrical trailer for Skyline really didn’t do it for me, but this one looks like an amazing mix of Independence Day and War of the Worlds. At least, amazing in terms of visuals. I’m still withholding judgment, as a lot of recent Hollywood invasion movies has bombed at the box office lately, and the actual plot behind the film sounds suspiciously like Cloverfield. You know the one. Aliens land, people run, people run some more.

Still, just from the visuals in this trailer, I can already tell that I’m definitely going to see this one at some point. The question is whether I’ll pop for a ten dollar ticket or wait to Red Box it.

Carfeul Harry, he doesn’t have a nose! It’s funny, because you never stop to consider how ridiculously over-dramatic trailers are until someone draws your attention to it.

The trailer for Matt Reeves’ Let Me In remake was released this weekend. Reeves directed episodes of “Felicity” as well as J.J. Abrams’ monster movie Cloverfield. The mix is an odd one, but fitting, given the subject matter. The film will be released nationwide October 1st, making this the first Halloween season in recent memory to feature a good, solid horror movie in theaters.

I’m surprised to see that this movie actually looks like it’s going to have some broad appeal. I didn’t expect that, despite loving the book.

Synopsis: FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong).

The latest film to be teased is Universal’s Skyline looks to be a cross between War of the Worlds and Independence Day. It also looks to be insanely CG-heavy. The invasion thriller stars Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel, David Zayas and a few more indie actors. The trailer premiered at Comic-Con, but now its loose on the new so that you can see it for yourself. It premieres November 12th.

You can also watch the official Skyline trailer in High Definition on Apple.

Each new trailer makes Solomon Kane look even more exciting. This one is mini-featurette that previews the film’s spectacular fight scenes. From what I can see, this film is going to stick very closely to Robert Howard’s version, which is exactly the way it should be. I can’t wait.

The full theatrical trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar was finally released yesterday. I’m still not sure whether I’m stoked or disappointed. The whole thing looks something like Last of the Mohicans meets Starship Troopers, with a pinch of the Battle of Endor. (Seriously, tell me you’re not getting some Ewok vibes.)

Sci-fi in 3D is rare enough that I would probably go see it no matter what, but the way these trailers are unfolding, my review is likely going to look like a Mad Lib.

The films I look forward to the most are the ones that take an established trope or hollywood cliche and turn it on its head, and this looks to one of those films. Daybreakers is a sci-fi vampire flick that looks a lot like 30 Days of Night meets Children of Men. In it, vampires have overrun the Earth, and the humans that they hunt as a food source are becoming scarce.

Unlike Twilight, which just sucked, this looks to be a sparkle and heart-throb-free film aimed at genre fans! Woohoo!

The downside is that it casts Ethan Hawke in a role that looks as if it may come perilously close to re-hashing his part in Gattaca. Still… no sparkling in sight!