Movie trailers that make you feel all gushy inside....

By Margaret Lyons

In the teaser trailer for HBO's The Girl, Toby Jones's Alfred Hitchock seemed plenty menacing. Now in the full-length trailer, Jones's Hitchcock is straight-up terrifying as he tortures Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren. If you thought having a bunch of birds attack you was scary, try having someone habitually sexually degrade you at work!

A movie about one member of a famous New York City string quartet feeling inferior and making a power play doesn't, on its face, sound enthralling. Sprinkle in some Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the story's arrogant, entitled Walter White, Catherine Keener as his also-in-the-quartet wife, and Christopher Walken, and suddenly you're looking at an intriguing film. Walken appears to be doing some real showpiece acting, playing the quartet's leader, who's facing retirement due to Parkinson's. The latter half of the trailer is set to Walken monologuing about Beethoven's "Opus 131," a difficult seven-movement piece that's totally analogous to the plot of A Late Quartet.

Gambit Trailer: Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth, via the Coen Brothers
By Kyle Buchanan

Joel and Ethan Coen didn't direct Gambit, though you'd be forgiven for thinking so, since this new trailer relies so heavily on those good ol' Coen tropes: wacky dialects and hare-brained crime plots. Instead, the Coens only scripted this remake of the 1966 Michael Caine–Shirley MacLaine comedy, which now casts Colin Firth as a man who's hoping to con his boss (Alan Rickman) with the help of a conniving cowgirl (Cameron Diaz). What ensues is something that looks like a high-energy Coen comedy in the Intolerable Cruelty mode, but it's actually directed by Michael Hoffman. Hopefully, it's closer to his Soapdish than it is to the turgid The Last Station.

Stoker Trailer: Nicole Kidman’s a Mean Mom, But Have You Met Uncle Charlie?
By Kyle Buchanan

It's hard to tell who Mia Wasikowska should be more afraid of in Stoker: her viper of a mother (Nicole Kidman), who spits at her, "I can't wait to watch life tear you apart," or her visiting Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who may be a killer. We'd probably be more freaked out by Kidman, to judge from this trailer, and in any case, the preternaturally still Wasikowska seems more intrigued than turned off by her uncle's murderous predilections. As scripted by Prison Break's Wentworth Miller and directed by Park Chan-wook, Stoker seems like a high-style take on Hitchcock's classic Shadow of a Doubt. And we're totally in.

Wentworth Miller wrote the screenplay for Stoker, as well as a prequel, Uncle Charlie. He used the pseudonym Ted Foulke, later explaining "I just wanted the scripts to sink or swim on their own." Miller's script was voted to the 2010 "Black List" of the 10 best unproduced screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood. Miller described it as a "horror film, a family drama and a psychological thriller." Although influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, Miller clarified that Stoker was "not about vampires. It was never meant to be about vampires but it is a horror story. A stoker is one who stokes, which also ties in nicely with the narrative." Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt also influenced the film. Miller said: "The jumping off point is actually Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. So, that's where we begin, and then we take it in a very, very different direction."

Even If You Don’t Care About Wreck-It Ralph, You Should Probably Watch This
By Eliot Glazer

Because they can, Disney created a fake vintage commercial to promote Fix-It Felix Jr., the fictional video game at the center of their upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph. That's quite a length to go to promote a video-game movie, but even better, you can actually play the video game! What's next, Disney-sponsored Atari?