A few days ago we got a tiny teaser for Amazon’s “The Tomorrow War”. Today the streaming studio dropped the first full trailer for this upcoming action science-fiction flick and one-time Paramount property. The film is directed by Chris McKay who’s probably best known for “The Lego Batman Movie”. This was yet another victim of the COVID-19 delays and was quickly gobbled up by Amazon just last month. Now it’s all set for an early July release.

Chris Pratt stars a former Delta Force operator who in order to save his family must join a fight in the future to save the planet. Sound confusing? The trailer only gives us the basics which leaves a lot of questions that hopefully will be answered. In a nutshell the military of the future are under siege by an attacking alien species. So they develop a technology to travel back in time in order to draft soldiers from the past to bring back to the future. Now you have even more questions, right? Anyway, this could be a fun popcorn flick if they’re able to make some sense of it all. The trailer doesn’t sell itself very well with a pretty generic feel and numerous hokey, overly dramatic lines. But the concept has me holding out hope.

“The Tomorrow War” premieres July 2nd on Amazon Prime streaming. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

The exciting first trailer for Edgar Wright’s new movie “Last Night in Soho” dropped today and it didn’t disappoint. This psychological horror film is built around a wonderfully twisted premise and the first images we get are eerie, moody, and soaked in tension. And while the wonderful Anya Taylor-Joy gets top billing, the most exciting for me is seeing Thomasin McKenzie handed such a meaty role. Talk about a great young actress on the rise.

Set in London and with a time travel element, “Last Night in Soho” centers around an aspiring fashion designer named Eloise (McKenzie) who is mysteriously transported to 1960’s London. There her identity seems interwoven with that of her idol, a vivacious wanna-be singer named Sandy (Taylor-Joy). But as the trailer shows all is not what it seems. Wright and Focus Features are still keeping a lot under wraps, but what they show us looks great and definitely piques my curiosity.

“Last Night in Soho” hits theaters October 22nd. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

Marvel Studios seems prepped and ready for their next big box office blitz. “Black Widow” finally hits theaters in July. “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” arrives in September. And then you have November’s “Eternals”, the star-studded superhero ensemble film co-written and directed by recent Oscar winner Chloé Zhao. That peculiar mix of filmmaker and material is enough to make me want to see the film. But outside of that I’m having a hard time getting excited for this particular MCU installment.

The new teaser trailer gives us just a glimpse of what this $200 million blockbuster has in store for loyal MCU followers. It’s great seeing Gemma Chan have such a prominent spot in the clips we get. We also see Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayak, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Barry Keoghan, and others. We learn practically nothing about this secret team of immortal protectors, but we do get to see them all costumed up. I figure that will be enough for the multitude of Marvel die-hards, but I found it to be surprisingly generic. In fairness it is just a teaser. But I need more than famous faces in spandex.

“Eternals” hits theaters November 5th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

“American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally” is the new film from Michael Polish that tells the story of Mildred Gillars, later given the nickname “Axis Sally”. She was an American broadcaster who shared propaganda over the airwaves for Nazi Germany during World War II. After the war she was taken into custody and put on trial by the US government. But it was quickly learned that her case was far from cut-and-dry.

The film sees Al Pacino in his first role since his Oscar-nominated work in “The Irishman”. He plays James Laughlin, an attorney tasked with defending Mildred Gillars (played by Meadow Williams) who faces eight counts of treason. “You are right now at this very moment the most hated person in America,” he tells her. I’m a sucker for a good courtroom drama and I’m interested in seeing how this one turns out. It may not be the best trailer, but the story is intriguing and watching Pacino is (almost) always a treat.

“American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally” comes out May 28th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

Stephen Chbosky, best known for helming 2017’s “Wonder” and 2012’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, is back in the director’s chair with the teen musical “Dear Evan Hansen”, an adaptation of the Tony Award winning stage play by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The film stars Ben Platt who won a Tony himself for starring in the stage version. The first trailer dropped yesterday and is a little hard to read. In fact you wouldn’t even know it was a musical until close to the end when Platt suddenly breaks out in song.

The 27-year-old Platt plays Evan Hansen, an insecure and isolated high school student who pens letters to himself as recommended by his therapist. A classmate played by Colton Ryan snatches one of Evan’s letters hours before committing suicide. The boy’s parents find the letter and think it was written from their son to Evan leading to complicated but well-meaning deception that sees Evan forming a close bond with the grieving family. The film sports quite a cast including Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, and Danny Pino. The trailer really lays on the emotion and sure seems to lay out pretty much the entire story. I’m not sure what to think of it.

“Dear Evan Hansen” opens in theaters September 24th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

Liam Neeson playing an ice road trucker leading the charge to save the lives of some trapped diamond miners? Sure, I’m in. What can I say, I’m a sucker for these Neeson thrillers that often feel unmistakably similar minus a few small story details. “The Ice Road” actually does feel a little different. While the new trailer doesn’t rule out gunfights, violent antagonists, a special forces background, etc., it does see Neeson showing off a very different ‘particular set of skills’. Namely handling a big-rig across 300 miles of frozen highways, thawing lakes, and collapsing bridges. As I said, I’m in.

“The Ice Road” is written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh whose last film was 2011’s “Kill the Irishman”. Here he puts together a movie that seems right up Neeson’s alley. It also stars Laurence Fishburne, Holt McCallany, and Amber Midthunder. The trailer alone lets us know that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And with only thirty hours of air left before the miners suffocate we are ensured a steady race-against-the-clock element. So we’re given a good idea of what to expect and that’s more than enough for me.

“The Ice Road” opens June 25th on Netflix. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.