Movie Make-out

The full trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe (a.k.a. X-Files 2) is up courtesy IGN. (It’s available in some higher quality formats there.) I was never very much into the TV series, and I get a tired “let’s get the band back together” vibe from the “I need you on this with me” scene glimpsed in the trailer, but I’m sure fans of the show will be excited anyway.

The stand-alone (non-mythology-related) sequel is directed by series creator Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (of course), with Xzibit, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Callum Keith Rennie and Adam Godley along for the ride. X-Files 2 opens July 25th.

A trailer for The Dhamma Brothers, a documentary about 36 prisoners with life sentences who undergo a 10-day Buddhist retreat and the controversy that it sparked — about whether it was successful and the propriety of teaching Buddhism to prisoners in the Bible Belt. Not having seen it, I can’t say much about it, save that it looks very interesting.

The Dhamma Brothers is now playing in San Francisco and will hit LA, Seattle, Boston and Portland, Oregon, in the coming weeks. The official website provides dates and locations.

The new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is online over at the official website.

Still looking great to me…

Related posts: Trailer Watch: Indiana Jones

A new trailer for The Dark Knight is online now. You can see it in HD over here.

The most interesting part of it to me was that, as you can see above, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is seen with burn marks right at the edge of his profile. The right (his left) side of the suit looks like it could possibly be made from a different material as the other side, too. Speculate away.

The Dark Knight returns to theaters on July 18th.

The full second teaser trailer for The Wackness is up at MySpace, and it’s a big improvement on the earlier (first) teaser trailer, which just looked kind of odd and hard to pin down. Director Jonathan Levine’s Sundance hit stars Josh Peck as a high school grad in the ’90s whose eccentric psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) has… unorthodox ideas about how to “fix” his young patient. The Wackness co-stars Olivia Thirlby (Snow Angels, Juno), Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man, and hits theaters on July 3rd.

American Beauty screenwriter and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball makes his feature directorial debut with the upcoming adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel, Towelhead. The film had previously been retitled Nothing Is Private, but apparently the producers decided to stick with the book’s title anyway.

The coming-of-age story revolves around Jasira (Summer Bishil), a 13-year old half-Lebanese girl sent to live with her strict father (Peter Macdissi) in Houston. Aaron Eckhart returns to his In the Company of Men roots as a contemptible mother fucker (or in this case would-be child fucker), as a neighbor who takes a rather unsettling interest in the girl.

The trailer demonstrates a similar sensibility to Ball’s previous work, a pensive sort of malaise that should unfold in a less sensationalistic manner than the events seen in the trailer may lead you to expect. Towelhead premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, but finally makes its proper release on August 8, 2008.

A trailer for the Martin Gero’s acclaimed sex comedy/drama Young People Fucking has hit the interwebs, thanks to YouTube. The film involves five separate, interrelated but not intertwined sexual encounters (four couples and a threesome), yet the trailer and the reviews I’ve seen all indicate a smarter, more intelligent, and more mature film than the title or the premise might lead you to assume. YPF shoots its load all over Canada on June 13th; there is no US release date yet.