Trailers

It looks like there’s a new indie coming-of-age film to get excited about on the way, in the form of Lady Bird, the directorial debut of actress and writer Greta Gerwig (star of **Frances Ha). Lady Bird features Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn) in the lead role as a somewhat troublesome youth, who appears to be struggling with her identity as well as a fiery relationship with her mother, played by Laurie Metcalf(The Big Bang Theory). ...

Netflix dropped the full trailer recently for their upcoming movie original**Bright, starring Will Smith and directed by David Ayers. You know those creatures, like orcs and elves and things, that you normally see in stuff like **Lord of the Rings or **World of Warcraft? In **Bright, these mystical beings are part of modern day life in a world where, after a huge war in decades past, they live side by side with humans. ...

The first teaser has arrived for **I, Tonya, the dark comedy-sports-biopic of American figure skating star Tonya Harding. We get to see Margot Robbie (**Wolf of Wall Street) as the champion skater, poofy fringe and all, and a glimpse of the snarky laughs and violence in store from the film – which Robbie also produced. Directed by Craig Gillespie, I, Tonya is based on the life of Tonya Harding, a two-time Olympian and two-time Skate America Champion, famous for being one of the first few women to complete a triple axel jump during a competition. She also won the U.S Figure Skating Championships and came second in the World Championships, but was later banned for reasons sure to be revealed in the film. ...

Today Netflix released a full length trailer for **The Punisher, a solo series for Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the ex-military man with a tragic backstory that we met in Netflix’s **Daredevil Season 2. The trailer also confirms the release date of November 17 for the series. Frank brought an altogether darker and dramatic feel to the second season of Daredevil, and delivered some emotional punches that really made the show, so we’re excited to delve further into his story in this full series of thirteen episodes. ...

After the critical acclaim and success of more edgy superhero and X-Men films **Deadpool and Logan, it seems we’re going to see more of this kind of experimentation within the genre and how it can combine with others (such as horror) as we saw the release of Josh Boone‘s **The New Mutants trailer this week. Promising some seriously scary moments, the trailer (scroll down to watch) shows stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlie Heaton as young mutants in some kind of asylum, being haunted by all manner of things. ...

First seen in **Captain America: Civil War, the comic book fandom has been waiting for the **Black Panther solo film for what feels like too long now! Starring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, the ruler of Wakanda after his father’s death in Civil War, the film is directed by Joe Robert Cole and will hit screens on 16 February 2018. It will also star Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K.Brown, and Martin Freeman and Andy Serkiswho have previously seen featured in the MCU. Michael B. Jordan also features as the antagonist Erik Killmonger. ...