Trailer Round-up

With summer almost upon us, it's time for another round-up of new movie/TV trailers and clips!

See the rest below the cut.

Trailer roundup

You can tell movie season is upon us, can't you? We can barely keep up with all the clips - let alone trailers. Below the cut you'll find the last week-and-a-half's worth, for those who might have missed one!

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell teaser

And when we say teaser...we mean teaser.

BBC has long since sold us on all its ventures. When we heard a while back that a Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell miniseries, based on the hefty but delicious book by Susanna Clarke, was in the works, we were cautiously excited. Well, all the sudden (two years later), we have our first hard-and-fast teaser.

For those of you who are understandably lost, here's how Wikipedia sums up the series, which is set to debut this summer:

Set in England during the Industrial Revolution at the beginning of the 19th century, the series presents an alternate history where magic is widely acknowledged, but rarely practiced. Living in the rural north, Mr Norrell (Eddie Marsan) of Hurtfew Abbey is able to make the statues of York Cathedral talk and move. His manservant John Childermass (Enzo Cilenti) persuades him to travel to London to help in the war against France. While there, Mr Norrell encounters a leading member of the government and makes magic respectable in the realm when he conjures a fairy to bring the minister's fiancée (Alice Englert) back to life.

I personally really enjoyed the book and am excited to see how the premise - with some of its slower exposition - translates on TV. What about you guys? Any concerns?

New movie trailer roundup

We don't have a ton this week, but what we do have by way of new to nearly-new trailers (and clips) are all whoppers we've been waiting for for a while.

Our team has mixed reactions to Ant-Man and its new trailer. We're excited, but tentatively. Marvel doesn't mess much up, but we're still really going to need to be sold on the "coolness" factor of shrinking down and fighting on a toy train. We have faith, though.

From scanning the YouTube comments - which is always a treat of culture - it seems like folks are pretty miffed/bummed or just WHY-ing over the plot twist reveal. But I fall more into the category of being pleased. The first trailer just didn't hook me; this one did.

And lastly...you're going to be seeing more and more on the Avengers front these next two weeks. That's not a bad thing, right? What did you guys think of the Hulkbuster clip from last night's MTV awards?

New movie trailer roundup

Alright. We've got a lot of catching up to do on trailers. It feels like movie news has hit hard and fast this last week, and with so much going on with MyGeekery - the new site, trying to get the blog rolling, plus a sudden surge of orders (thanks, guys! We don't know where you're coming from, but thanks!) - we haven't had much time to trailer binge.

Let's remedy that! Here are all the trailers and spots from the last week, give or take, that have caught our eye...