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"There's something you need to know about me. I came from the garden." Honestly, as strange and peculiar as the first trailer for The Odd Life of Timothy Green seemed, there's a certain kind of magic to a live-action Disney movie like this. Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton star in the film, along with C.J. Adams as Timothy Green, a kid that comes from a box buried in their backyard after their inability to have a child on their own leaves with only the dreams of what their offspring might be like. Now we have a new trailer for the film, and while it looks a little sappy, I definitely want to see it later this year. Watch below! ›››

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Our friends at Drafthouse Films have been getting plenty of attention lately with their terrorist comedy Four Lions (available to watch on Netflix Instant) and the Oscar-nominated drama Bullhead, and they're keeping great films from across the country coming to the U.S. with their latest push of Klown, a dark danish comedy that follows two wildly inappropriate friends, played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen, as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries. Now we have the red band trailer below! ›››

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Five years following the events of Knocked Up, we're catching up with Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) as they inch closer to being over the hill in the first trailer for This is 40 from director Judd Apatow. Honestly, I have to say it doesn't seem to be quite as funny as Knocked Up or The 40-year Old Virgin, but this trailer still brings plenty of laughs. We also get a glimpse at Jason Segel and Melissa McCarthy in the trailer, but the cherry on the sundae is the compromising position in which we see Rudd towards the end of the trailer, something that I'm betting certain married couples know all too well. Watch! ›››

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If you haven't heard of Elizabeth Olsen by now, who is seemingly much more suited for feature films than her twin siblings Mary-Kate and Ashley, then you're missing out on some fantastic performances. She made a splash at Sundance in 2011 with Silent House and Martha Marcy May Marlene and shined again at the festival this year with Liberal Arts and Red Lights. Now she's back in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, a film about an uptight NYC lawyer (Catherine Keener) who takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's (Jane Fonda) farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. Watch below! ›››

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After directing the quirky, funny festival favorite Lymelife, director Derick Martini is back with a completely different kind of film. The adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel Hick follows a 13-year-old Nebraska girl (Chloe Moretz), who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas and finds herself under the tutelage of Glenda (Blake Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes the young girl under her wing. Now the first red band trailer gives us a taste of the gritty, edgy drama, but it's still fairly tame with the only real controversial material being the focus on a 13-year old girl being risque and violent. Watch below! ›››

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"I want a real marriage again." Marriage is tough, and sometimes keeping the spark alive takes some real effort. That's why Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep decide to get some intensive couples counseling from Steve Carell. You would think that marriage counseling from Carell would be a little funnier, but the film seems to take the more serious route, and there aren't many laughs to be had in the first trailer for Hope Springs. It looks like this is going to be a film for the older, married crowd, perhaps with some wisdom for the young lovers looking to get hitched sooner or later. It might be pretty good. Watch below! ›››

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"Welcome to hell." The newest trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation tore apart London and gave quite an introduction to the doomsday weapon that Cobra Commander and his team plan to use in their scheme for world domination. Now we get a different look at that weapon and a faux president threatening the world with it in a new international trailer that brings plenty more ninja action, more awesome action shots, and another great appearance from Bruce Willis as the original G.I. Joe. This looks like it's going to be a lot of fun, and that's coming from another viewer who didn't really like the first one all that much. Watch below! ›››

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We just got our first official look at Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke as bootlegging brothers in the period crime drama Lawless from director John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition), and lo and behold a trailer has just shown up as well. Brazen and fearless, three young rebel brothers helped build the American Dream in this exuberant tale of what was to become crime’s first major gold rush. I could do without the quick black and white freeze frames, but all of the performances look great including supporting turns from Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Mia Wasikowska. Watch! ›››

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Following their fantastic films Baraka, filmmakers Ron Fricke (who also edited the iconic Koyaanisqatsi) and Mark Magidson are back with a stunning new documentary called Samsara. Fricke says the film "will delve deeper into my favorite theme: humanity's relationship to the eternal." Shot entirely on 70mm film (which hasn't been done in over a decade), the feature length documentary was shot in about 100 locations in 25 countries, and took over four years to complete. The trailer speaks for itself as the imagery is just beautiful, stunning, and would make Terrence Malick turn his head. Watch the gorgeous trailer below! ›››

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"It's just a normal hotel, nothing going on here." At the end of last month the first teaser trailer for the Genndy Tartakovsky directed animated film Hotel Transylania from Sony Pictures Animation made its way online. Now we have a slightly different teaser with some different comedic beats though, and a better look at some of the various monsters staying at the hotel like The Mummy (Cee-Lo Green), Frankenstein (Kevin James) and especially Adam Sandler as the proprietor Dracula. It looks a little too childish for my taste, but I hope it'll surprise me like Sony's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film. Watch! ›››

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