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BLACKkKLANSMAN Trailer Sets Up What Could Be a Great Blaxploitation Satire
May 14, 2018
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Spike Lee’s latest offering, BLACKkKLANSMAN looks like the most cohesive and fun work he’s put out in awhile, which also happens to be based on a true story.

John David Washington and Adam Driver appear to be a nice 70s cop pairing amidst an undercover operation to undermine the KKK. Having Jordan Peele attached as EP is another point for the movie. 

If you’re were obsessing over Donald Glover’s This Is America, this film might just be the perfect next thing for you to obsess over.

Just see for yourself in the trailer, then look for BLACKkKLANSMAN in theaters on August 10th.

Watch Trailer for Tig Notaro’s Latest Hour “Happy To Be Here”
May 12, 2018
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Tig Notaro is in rarefied hour in that we’d love to hear her talk about pretty much anything for an hour. 

Thusly, we’re excited for later this month (Tuesday, May 22nd) when Happy To Be Here, Tig’s latest hour special, hits Netflix.

Until then, you can get a taste of it with this trailer.

Arrested Development Season 5 Trailer Is a Pretty Great Way to Start Off This Week
May 7, 2018
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The Bluth Family will be at their disastrous, but thoroughly entertaining hijinks yet again at the end of the month (Tuesday, May 29th) on Netflix.

From the looks of the new season’s trailer, season 5 of Arrested Development looks so very promising and definitely made us smile to start off a week (a first in a very long time).

Watch it, enjoy it, and repeat here until 5/29.

Watch Trailer for Comedy About French New Wave Pioneer Jean Luc Godard “Godard Mon Amour”
April 10, 2018
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Director Michel Hazanavicius wowed Hollywood with a movie about silent film with The Artist. In that vein, he is continuing down his path of movies about movies with telling a specific story (it’s from the perspective of a woman that was married to Godard) in the life of iconic director Jean-Luc Godard, a trailblazing pillar to French New Wave Cinema.

Called Godard Mon Amour, it seems to float playfully between capturing this portion of Godard’s life in 1968 and also delving into his groundbreaking auteur style, which mischievously broke almost all previous filmic conventions.

Get a taste of it with the trailer here.

Look for Godard Mon Amour in a limited theatrical run on April, 20th.

Here’s the Trailer for Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity Netflix Special
April 2, 2018
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Tiffany Haddish, John Mulaney, Ike Barinholtz as Satan, Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, and more joined Seth Rogen in raising a bunch of money to fight Alzheimer’s Disease in an exclusive event.

Normally, none of us would get to watch, but this year it was taped as a special for Netflix, so we’ll get to see what happened for this annual big shindig, charity event on April 6th.

Get a taste of it with the trailer here.

Watch Trailer for What Might Be New Zealand’s Latest Comedy Gem “The Breaker Upperers”
March 26, 2018
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New Zealand’s Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek mischievously turn the romantic comedy genre upside down with their film The Breaker Upperers, which focuses on an actual “breaking-up agency”.

In other words, if you’re too scared to initiate break-up with a significant other, there are “guns for hire” in this movie that will facilitate a break-up on your behalf. The concept itself has loads of potential for devilish fun and the trailer definitely delivers on that.

Just so you know, The Breaker Upperers has Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Ragnarok and America’s current favorite New Zealand export, attached and just played by SXSW. We can only hope that means that it will find its way into theaters across North America soon.

Watch Trailer for Bo Burnham’s Writer-Director Debut “Eighth Grade”
March 15, 2018
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Bo Burnham really is making an impressive showing as a director after making himself into a formidable comedian. From his work on his own specials to directing comedy specials for Jerrod Carmichael and Chris Rock, Burnham has made the next step to a feature length film Eighth Grade that he both wrote and directed. 

The trailer promises a coming of age of story that has a bit of wry, satiric edge and something that could be really special (perhaps, 2018′s Lady Bird). The trailer will definitely make you think about how painful a time 8th grade might have been for you.

Look for Eighth Grade in theaters on July 13th.

Watch Trailer for Season 2 of The Standups, Netflix’s Latest Round of Half Hour Specials
March 13, 2018
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Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Gina Yashere, Joe List, Rachel Feinstein, and Brent Morin are the latest batch for Netflix’s half hour stand-up special series The Standups and should make for a very solid showing of Netflix’s continued march forward in dominating the world of televised stand-up comedy.

Season 2 of The Standups gets released next week on Tues. March 20th and you can get a taste with this trailer here.

Watch Trailer for Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, Coming to HBO in April
March 12, 2018
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Netflix has been really piling it on in their late night/talk show line-up. 

Not to be outdone, HBO has gotten Wyatt Cenac his own mini-doc late night series, Problem Areas, which looks like it will compliment HBO’s line-up of Last Week Tonight and Real Time quite nicely. 

You can see what we’re saying in this announcement trailer here.

Look for Problem Areas to premiere on Friday, April 13 on HBO.

Please Enjoy the Bonkers Trailer for Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”
March 12, 2018
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Boots Riley’s satire centered around a black telemarketer is making plenty of noise down at SXSW and you can kind of see why from this crazy and great trailer.

Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in what might be the trippiest movie this year.

See for yourself here, then look for Sorry To Bother You in theaters on July 6th.

Teaser Trailer for Wreck It Ralph 2 Promises Ralph Will Deal with the Existential Crisis-Inducing Nature of the Internet
March 1, 2018
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The voices of John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman will be returning this Thanksgiving to their beloved characters in the Wreck It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2. 

According to this extended teaser, this installment seems like like it’ll be hitting some existential notes that should please the more adult audience, perhaps in an Inside Out-sort-of-a-way.

Also, if this teaser’s over two minutes, we can only wonder what Disney has planned for the full trailer.

“The Feels” Promises One of the More Intriguing Love Stories That We’ve Heard/Seen in Awhile
February 23, 2018
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While The Feels from Jeneé LaMarque and Lauren Marks is a story about a lesbian bachelorette party with an awkward secret, the trailer for the movie promises a certain universal humanity that everyone can relate to. 

Also, they’ve got a cast of folks whose name you should have already been on the look out for including Constance Wu, Angela Trimbur, Josh Fadem, and Ever Mainard.

If you’re into it from watching the trailer, look for The Feels in limited release on March, 9th.

Nicole Byer Will Host and Judge Amateur Baking Competition “Nailed It” on Netflix
February 22, 2018
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Nicole Byer is, if we may, the icing on the cake that will make this show work. Attempts at amazing snacks and treats by non-professional bakers like you and me is a fun cooking competition format, but Byer’s energy and charm are undeniable.

See for yourself in the trailer for Nailed It.

Look for Nailed It to come out on Netflix on Friday, March 9th.

Here’s Your First Look at Tracy Morgan’s Return to TV with “The Last OG”
February 16, 2018
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The Last O.G. is yet another highly anticipated series up TBS’ sleeve as it not only marks the return of Tracy Morgan to a being TV series star, but it’s a series that’s co-created by Jordan Peele and features Tiffany Haddish as the co-star.

The show’s premise is simple enough with contrasting the Brooklyn of yesteryear to the Brooklyn of 2018 through Morgan’s character of a former prison inmate. Peele, Morgan, and Haddish together should have plenty of fun espousing their sensibilities within this comedic framework. This series could have been a multi-cam, but we are thankful that it’s not as that will open up the series to so much more possibility. 

See for yourself in the trailer.

The Last O.G. premieres on Tues. April 3rd on TBS.

Amy Schumer Satirizes the Idea of Beauty in “I Feel Pretty”
February 9, 2018
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If you’ve been missing Inside Amy Schumer, the trailer for Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein’s I Feel Pretty seems to promise you the next closest thing to some new sketches Schumer. It stars Amy in what could possibly be a reverse engineered, turned-inside-out, feminist version of Shallow Hal.

Schumer herself gave a bit on a preface to the movie’s trailer release on Ellen here.

You can look for I Feel Pretty in theaters this Summer on June 29th.

“Untitled Deadpool Sequel” Trailer Has Meta Level Fun in Introducing Cable
February 7, 2018
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The R-rated action comedy franchise, Deadpool, that centers its humor on making fun of itself shows no signs of slowing down in the sequel.

While introducing a much more traditional looking and sounding character, Cable, this time around, Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds do their diligence in adding their trademark hijinks throughout the trailer.

On top of that, it would seem that Deadpool also wrote the description to the movie: 

After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.

Also, it was made sure that the main billing reads: 

Director: Unconfirmed
Writers: Unconfirmed
Actors: Unconfirmed

Needless to say, you should look forward to May 18th when the Untitled Deadpool Sequel hits theaters.

Fred Armisen Is Doing a Netflix Comedy Special “Standup for Drummers”
January 26, 2018
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Fred Armisen is taking his many comedic skills in putting them all in one comedy special, Standup for Drummers. That includes impressions, drumming, a generally asymmetrical approach to humor, regional impressions, very niche impressions that have nothing to do with regions, and repetition for comedic effect.

See for yourself in the trailer.

Standup for Drummers starts streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, Feb. 6th.

Watch Roy Wood Jr. as Host of This Is Not Happening in Season 4 Trailer
January 24, 2018
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Roy Wood Jr. has taken over hosting duties from Ari Shaffir for the fourth season of Comedy Central’s storytelling series This Is Not Happening.

Per usual, there are very insane stories, several of which probably benefit from certain statutes of limitations being over, and crazy looking interstitials inspired by the title of the show. 

By the way, Roy looks pretty damn slick in his get up, doesn’t he?

Here’s the trailer.

This Is Not Happening season 4 premieres Friday, Feb. 2nd at Midnight on Comedy Central.

Watch the Melodrama of The OC Meet Westerns in “Townies”
January 19, 2018
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Though you may have never thought of a Venn diagram where fans of teen drama and Westerns might overlap, Julia Prescott’s Townies realizes a world where the twain will meet in a fun genre mash-up.  

Also, folks that we really want you to see more of, Natalie Palamides, Josh Androsky, Brodie Reed, Dave Child and John Ennis, star in the series.

See for yourself in this trailer.

If you’re digging all of this, you can stream all six episodes of Townies on Wednesday, January 24th on the mobile streaming app, Blackpills.

See the 2018 Update for “Heathers” in First Full Red Band Trailer
January 19, 2018
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Though the tone may relatively be the same, the TV adaption for Heathers is definitely made to be as timely as possibly can be (there is a Shannen Doherty cameo for you nostalgia obsessives out there). Combined with Waco, the newly minted Paramount Network isn’t off to a bad start at all.

See for yourself in the series first full trailer, which is thankfully uncensored as it’s “red band”, here.

Look for the premiere of Heathers on Wednesday, March 7th on the Paramount Network.

TBS’ New Animated Sci Fi Series “Final Space” Gets a Full Trailer
January 16, 2018
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Olan Rogers’ Final Space will be TBS’ newest animated series as well as an sci-fi series that seems to offer up something that’s equally as silly as it is a show that gives “all the feels”. Think of the more cathartic episodes of Futurama, perhaps? 

Watch and see for yourself in the full trailer here, then look for the series premiere on Monday, February 26th.

Here’s a Better Look at Bill Hader Switching Between Acting and Being a Hitman in HBO’s New Comedy “Barry”
January 9, 2018
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We didn’t really think about it too much until now, but this show will really let Bill Hader play a bunch of different personalities all in one very conflicted character. 

See for yourself in the latest trailer.

Barry premieres on Sunday, March 25th on HBO.

Here’s the Trailer for the Colbert Animated Trump Spin-Off “Our Cartoon President”
January 7, 2018
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The spin-off from the animated Trump segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is coming to Showtime next month, specifically on Sunday, February 11th 8PM.

As you can see in the trailer, everything going on the Trump Presidency if it were just a cartoon and connected to reality in anyway.

Here’s the Trailer for the 8th and Final Season of Portlandia
January 3, 2018
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Later this month, the final venture into Portlandia will begin as the characters of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will return for the 8th and final season.

Here’s a trailer for what they’ve got in store for us all.

The last leg of Portlandia premieres Thurs., Jan. 18th at 10PM on IFC.

“The End of the F**king World” Trailer Has Crazy People Fall in Love(?) for Netflix’s Latest Series
January 2, 2018
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At the very least, you have to appreciate the timing of Jan. 1st trailer release for a series called The End of the F**king World.

Also, this adaptation of the Charles Forsman graphic novel of the same name by Jonathan Entwhistle looks like a promising entry in one of our favorite movie genres, dark romantic comedies. Watch the trailer here.

You only have to wait until this Friday, January 5th for the series to start streaming.

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