Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

A handful of new red band trailers hit the net in the last few days and they’re worth checking out (if you’re over 18, of course). Well, actually, it’s only two red band trailer and one internet only teaser, but you get the idea.

The first two are available only through Apple and iTunes. I’m tired of the Apatow formula of putting adults with arrested development at the center of a movie and having them grow up by the end and I think the mini-genre he’s created around himself has pretty much run dry. Granted, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, his last producural effort was pretty funny. So, at first I thought the new Apatow-McKay-Ferrell-Reilly comedy Step Brothers would be same old same old, but the more I see of it, the funnier it looks. You can find the trailer here . Is it just me, or is John C. Reilly better than Will Ferrell in the doofus role and half as annoying to watch?

Next is the Coen Brothers’ follow up to No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading. Tonally, it’s completely different from NCFOM and seems more along the lines of The Big Lebowski It’s about a dimwitted gym employee (Brad Pitt) who finds a disk filled with CIA secrets. He and his wife/girlfriend/not sure (Francis McDormand) try to blackmail the agent who lost it (John Malkovich), and a handful of other people get involved in what seems like a espionage adventure gone way, way wrong. George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons and Richard Jenkins also appear. Find that one here .

Then there’s the first teaser for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which is about, well, two people who make a porno. The clip is short and doesn’t reveal much by way of story or plot, because I think the title pretty much sums everything up nicely. It does, however, give an idea of the chemistry between Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks and the comedy that will populate the film. It oddly reminds me of a Christopher Guest movie, just very, very dirty.

This weekend sees Sex and the City make a triumphant (?) return to pop culture. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, the film only has a 58% Tomatometer rating, and the general consensus reads, “Sex and the City loses steam in the transition to the big screen, but will still thrill fans of the show.” That pretty much captures the vibe the trailers had and, besides, with a run time of 2.5 hours, fans can’t complain too much; they’re getting a new half of the season of the show. Trying to nab all the guys who promise take their girlfriends to go see Sex and the City, but then get a ticket to their own movie down the hall is the creepy looking The Strangers. It ranks lower than SATC (44%), but poor quality doesn’t really affect the success of horror movies these days. (See: Saw, Hostel, The Grudge). Still industry estimates put one man, not four women, or three strangers, back on the top of the box office list this weekend: Indy.

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