Here at Uproxx, we do our best to deliver the newest movie trailers hot, fresh, and directly to your face. Sometimes, though, a trailer isn’t particularly deserving of its own news post, because it’s a wonky thriller with Jessica Biel or it’s the 916th Paranormal Activity movie. In that case, we’ll freeze it and hold on to it until the end of the week, then put it in a giant bowl with a bunch of other trailers and hope it still tastes okay. Is this metaphor still working? Anyway, let’s review the trailers we haven’t yet seen that dropped this week:
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (out October 23)
So, yes, here’s another trailer for the new Paranormal Activity movie. It’s the sixth in the franchise, if that matters to you. By my account, the first one was great, the next two were alright, and the next few have just congealed inside my mind and I cannot distinguish between them anymore. This is the last movie, though, which means we should go into it with an open mind. So, let’s do that. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension follows another young, adorable child (Ivy George) who’s casually befriended an unholy demon. Meanwhile, her attractive parents (Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw) are too busy playing around with a video camera and taking “spirit photography” to notice she’s being seduced over to the dark side. Whatever, Toby’s back!
45 Years (out December 23)
45 Years won the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Charlotte Rampling) and Best Actor (Tom Courtenay) at the Berlin International Film Festival, and it’s not hard to see why — even the few bits of acting we see in the trailer appear award-worthy. Andrew Haigh’s latest is, according to its official description, a “moving and profound look at marriage and the secrets we keep.” In this case, the secrets being kept are Tom Courtenay’s — namely, he’s got a dead girlfriend, and her body’s just been found frozen in the Alps after decades. This discovery upsets the balance of his seemingly solid marriage, as it would; the timing’s not great, either, as the couple is in the midst of planning a party for their 45th wedding anniversary. Things go from bad to worse when Tom and Charlotte find out they’re part of an ancient prophecy that dictates they must sacrifice themselves to a demonic entity named Toby.
Junun (available now on mubi.com)
This is not technically a trailer, but let’s pay attention to it anyway, okay? Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a pithy lil’ 54-minute feature, debuted at the New York Film Festival last week, and is now available to stream on Mubi. Yes, there’s a new PTA film, and no, nobody told you about it, but it’s fine. You know now. The rock doc follows Jonny Greenwood — Radiohead guitarist and composer of the soundtracks for There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Inherent Vice, among others — to India, where he works with a group of Indian music producers to lay down a new album. PTA’s breaking out the drones for this one, too, which is a break from tradition for the filmmaker, as is his choice to secretly film Greenwood while he sleeps, being tormented by an immortal minion of Satan named Toby.
Bleeding Heart (out December 11)
In Bleeding Heart, Jessica Biel figures out Zosia Mamet is her sister with the help of a private investigator, then barges into Zosia’s home repeatedly in an attempt to save her from her bummer of a life, which includes stripping, prostitution, and an abusive boyfriend. But Zosia is not here for it. She wants to keep seductively rolling joints and sleeping with Harry Hamlin, okay, Jessica? Just let her live! The pacing and tone of this trailer makes me very uncomfortable, not in a “Ooh, this looks like a very tense thriller” way, but more of a “Ooh, why is Jessica Biel intensely applying red lipstick just to go over to her sister’s house with a gun?” way.
Race (out February 19, 2016)
The title of Race is a double entendre so clever, the world may never know one like it again. The film follows Stephan James as Jesse Owens, who famously competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and won four gold medals and, as a fun bonus, totally pissed off Hitler. Race looks like a classically uplifting biopic, replete with a cynical Jason Sudeikis and several moments that will bring me to tears in a public setting.
Bone Tomahawk (out October 23)
Bone Tomahawk isn’t just the name your fratboy college boyfriend bestowed upon his genitalia. It’s now a movie, starring Kurt Russell as Sheriff Franklin Hunt, a man helping an “unlikely team of gunslingers” — including Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins, a group of men who, yes, could be described as “unlikely” — battle a group of “cannibal savages” who’ve kidnapped Patrick Wilson’s girlfriend. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, the only problem is all of them are old and Patrick Wilson has a broken leg and they’re making a five-day journey in three days and not sleeping and turning their guns on each other and it’s hot as fuck and there are cannibals. So.
