Trailer Tuesday (Dan’s Pick): Up In The Air

Jason Reitman, director of Thank You for Smoking and Juno, is batting 1000. If early reviews for his next (Up In The Air) hold true, that’s not about to change.

Set in the world of airports and the corporate jet-setters who call them home, Up in the Air explores the life of a corporate hack-man (played by the uncannily charming George Clooney)– a guy who embodies the position based on his complete lack of roots to anything but himself and the fast-paced, disconnected world he thrives in. If all that sounds artsy-fartsy and hoighty-toity, you may be right. Still, Reitman’s shown he can execute movies like this with both heart and emotion and isn’t that what we go to the movies for in the first place? Well, that and explosions and violence without consequence.

Up In The Air comes to town on Christmas day (January 15, 2010 for you, Susan), when you can watch it and be one of the first to hop on its love train. That way, when the Academy Awards roll into town and Up In The Air nails a nomination, you can say you were on the bandwagon first.

Up in the Air also stars Twilight‘s scene stealing Bella-pal Anna Kendrick as Clooney’s buttoned up, emotionally roiled apprentice, with some fantastic cameos by the likes of J.K Simmons, Zach Galifianakis, Danny McBride and Jason Bateman.

I think Up In The Air looks fantastic. Agree with me, won’t you?

Mustachio. Goatee. Mustachio. Goat.

Not long ago, we shared the trailer for the quirky, funny, golden-cast The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s pure sell, magic and win-win… and I haven’t even seen it yet. So what’s up with all the premature prognosticating?

This poster. Sure, it may be a liiiiittle too Burn After Reading-esque, but those hairy new age faces, peacefully smiling at the honor of serving both country and The Age of Aquarius, are sublime.

Trailer Tuesday: The Fantastic Mr. Fox

I was singing the praises of Coraline last night via my Facebook status when I came across the trailer for the new Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited) stop-motion-animation movie, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It wasn’t by coincidence I happened upon another seemingly stop-motion gem, rather I was reading up on Coraline director Henry Selick, who, it was noted in his Wikipedia biography, worked on The Fantastic Mr. Fox with Anderson, as well as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

As for the trailer below, I’m not quite sure what to think. It looks quirky and seems to have that Wes Anderson feel, even though it’s not live action. I think the voice talent – George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Huston and Brian Cox – will be the real driver of this Roald Dahl tale.