Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

While my trip to New York has nothing to do with movies, the play I just saw, Monty Python’s Spamalot, does. If you’re in any of the cities in which it’s playing, go see it, it’s a hilarious adaptation of the movie.

While I wish I could review it, I’ve about as much knowledge of musical theater as I do of carburetors (which isn’t very much, considering I had to rely on spell check to even write carburetors), so instead, I’ll do my regular Saturday ritual of rounding up this week’s trailers.

Tyler Perry is back to make a gajilion more dollars at the box office with this film, Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys. See the trailer here.

Mark Wahlberg gets noir in the big-screen adaptation of the video game Max Payne. It looks… interesting, and I mean that in kind of an apathetic way, if that makes any sense. You can see the trailer here.

Repo! The Genetic Opera, on the other hand, looks downright bizarre. Someone on the ‘nets gave it the high-concept “Blade Runner meets Rocky Horror,” and if you watch this trailer (click on the link on the top right), it definitely has what it takes to sit alongside those as a cult classic.

The Spanish zombie-flick [Rec], which I’ve read is extremely terrifying/good, has been Americanized and named Quarantine. Unfortunately for the producers of this movie they released their remake after Cloverfield, and this will probably be referred to as “that zombie movie like Cloverfield” until the end of time. Unless, of course, it’s really good, but it doesn’t look that way. See the trailer here.

As if Tropic Thunder didn’t parody war movies enough, now they’ve made a faux-documentary (or is it just a trailer for a faux-documentary?) that parodies documentaries about war movies. You can find the Web site and trailer for the film, Rain of Madness, here.

Since Dark Knight fever is building up around the country, here’s something trailer-related to the newest Batman movie: what trailers will be appearing before it. And the good folks at JoBlo.com have put together all the theatrical trailers for each Batman film, so you can watch and compare. Find them all here.

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