Movie Trailers for November 2024

Heretic (November 8th)

I hate an evil atheist, but we're due, I guess. I'm also living for this Hugh Grant turn into horror. I mean, despite all the stereotypes from the 90's, he's not a bad actor. Can a full-length movie live up to this trailer? I'm willing to find out. 

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (November 8th) 

I like Pete Holmes. I mean, Pete Holmes can do no wrong because he's Badman. 

That said, this looks like a surprisingly heartfelt Christmas movie about the misfit kids told from the unusual perspective of outsiders. It looks...good? 

Why November? I can't imagine.

A Real Pain (November 1st)

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are estranged cousins on a Holocaust tour. It's a coming-of-middle-age movie turned up to 11. I mean, probably good, but at what cost?

Red One (November 15th)

Yeah, I try not to include Netflix movies here, and it looks like it's going to be bad. But it also looks like it will be some very stupid, bad, fun. Don't know how or why Chris Evans took this role from Ryan Reynolds, but Hollywood is mysterious like that.

Here (November 15th)

When I first heard the concept, I wondered how far back they'd go. I figured to the start of construction. I guess they committed to the bit. Not sure that a movie about our common human nature across eons squares with the mid-20th Century nuclear family story it will inevitably tell, but I'm sure it will be an okay movie that makes a shitzillion dollars.

Absolution (November 1st)

Not the hit Steven Segal film from 2015 wherein an aging actor uses the magic of film to fight people half his age over a woman half his age versus equally aging actor Vinnie Jones. This is the hit Liam Neeson film from 2024 wherein an aging actor uses the magic of film to fight people half his age over a woman half his age versus equally aging actor Ron Perlman.

Glad we sorted that out.

Flow (November 15th)

I'm sorry if I'm getting verklempt here. It's just...it's just that someone who was going to make one of those boring walking simulator video games finally did it. I'm so happy, they finally made a movie instead of a "press X to advance the linear plot" video game. 

This is one of the best days of my life. 😿

Wicked: Part One

I just watched the whole movie so why would I pay money and sit in a theater to watch something this broad and tedious?

Small Things Like These (November 8th)

I was at the 0:59 mark when I realized this thing was going to be intense. Maybe too intense. Like Requiem for a Dream intense.

Grats to Ben Affleck for graduating from Boston to Super-Boston (aka Ireland).

My Dead Friend Zoe (November 1st)

My Dead Friend Zoe doesn't have a trailer. It's release date is either November 1st or February 28th, 2025. 

It does have Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, and Sonequa Martin-Green, who is best known as the main character of Star Trek: Discovery, a show which I have stolidly neutral feelings about--but which is a Star Trek.

It uses the Scrubs trick of someone seeing a dead friend combined with the impact of an Afghanistan War veteran and a Vietnam War veteran dealing with PTSD. 

I'm not sure why its release date was (probably) pushed back to February 28th. It was screened at SXSW in March of 2024. Sure, maybe the ending didn't screen well, but Legion M studios doesn't seem like the type of studio with the money to do a ton of reshoots and if you're making an art piece specifically dedicated to veterans, why would you alter that piece for an audience of randos?

I dunno; maybe they got feedback from veterans to change it. I'm tired and so many of these movies have inspired me to take a few extra shots for the night, so I'm just going to call it.

Man, I hope we all live through this November. 

See you on the other side.