A quick gander at Will Ferrell’s 50+ film appearances shows that he has made quite the career out of playing absurdly out of place characters. He has played a Christmas elf, a figure skater, a failed disco singer, a time-traveling paleontologist, and the star of a telenovela just to name a few. Now you can add Icelandic pop singer to the list.

In “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” Ferrell and co-star Rachel McAdams play a musical duo hoping to represent Iceland in the upcoming international Eurovision competition. Obviously Ferrell and McAdams are terrible and obviously they somehow find themselves with the opportunity to represent their homeland. As the trailer shows, absurdity is the main course and it looks like we’ll get plenty of it. For me a little Ferrell goes a long way so we’ll see how this one turns out.

“Eurovision Song Contest” debuts on Netflix June 26th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

If a pilot squawks transponder code 7500 it means the aircraft has been hijacked. That alone should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from the upcoming Amazon Original “7500”.  The action-thriller is the feature film debut for German writer-director Patrick Vollrath. Paul Dano was originally slated to be the film’s star but left after a scheduling conflict. He was replaced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who comes across as a much better fit.

Set within the tight confines of a passenger plane traveling from Berlin to Paris, Gordon-Levitt plays a co-pilot of an aircraft taken over by a brutal handful of bad guys. He follows protocol and closes off the cockpit, but the threats of violence to his passengers and crew push him to the brink. The nibble we get from the new trailer shows a tense, claustrophobic thriller that could be a lot of fun.

“7500” hits Amazon Prime on June 19th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

For those needing evidence that absolutely ANY movie can get a sequel, I present to you “Bill & Ted Face the Music”. Now to be fair this is actually the second sequel to the original 1989 “Excellent Adventure”. It was followed by the pair’s “Bogus Journey” in 1991. But when rumors started swirling of a third movie some thirty years later, let’s just say the prospects weren’t what I would call most triumphant.

But yet all the rumors were indeed true and Orion Pictures has dropped their first trailer. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprise their roles as the air-headed but lovable best buds who must go back to their Wyld Stallyns roots to put together one more song that can save the world. Sound preposterous? Of course it does. It’s supposed to. That said, the trailer doesn’t reveal much and what’s there is more nostalgic than impressive. Hopefully they can give us another goofy, light-hearted adventure.

“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is set for release August 21st. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

Universal Pictures dropped a nice little surprise for film fans announcing that their new movie “You Should Have Left” will drop direct to VOD in a few weeks. The Blumhouse produced haunted house/psychological thriller is written and directed by David Koepp. What will undoubtedly catch most people’s eye is the film’s star, Kevin Bacon. The film reunites Bacon and Koepp who worked together on the 1999 supernatural horror flick “Stir of Echoes”.

Bacon and Amanda Seyfried play a couple who seek to repair their strained marriage by taking a vacation with their young daughter (Avery Essex). The older screenwriter and his much younger actress wife rent a beautiful country home in Wales and all seems well. But spookiness ensues and bacon’s character slowly begins to unravel, losing his grip on reality and unearthing what looks like some dark secrets in the process. Doesn’t sound especially fresh, but it looks fun and seeing Bacon is a definite plus.

“You Should Have Left” will be released On Demand June 19th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

How does the idea of Charlize Theron leading a band of age-old immortal mercenaries sound to you? What if it tossed in Matthias Schoenaerts, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and “If Beale Street Could Talk” standout Kiki Layne? Put it all together and you get “The Old Guard”, an upcoming action-superhero mashup coming to Netflix based on a Greg Rucka graphic novel.

The trailer shows Theron playing the character Andromache (Andy for short). She gathers her team of unkillable soldiers to take out a new villain bent on exploiting and weaponizing their special powers. The action looks gritty and intense, but can the movie separate itself from others which look strikingly similar? We won’t have to wait long to see.

“The Old Guard” drops on Netflix July 10th. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.

Whether you’re a fan or not, everyone seems to pay attention when a new Spike Lee movie comes around. Personally, I find him to be incredibly talented behind the camera yet a bit hit-or-miss when it comes to end results. For me the question is always whether he’ll get too heavy-handed and preachy or get out of the way and trusts his material and direction to do the talking.

After seeing the first trailer for his new Netflix film “Da 5 Bloods” those questions still linger. At the same time his knack for provocative storytelling and shrewd visual style is on healthy display in this first look. It seems like four Army vets head back to Vietnam to retrieve a crate of gold bars they hid during the war. Questionable motives, unquestionable heroism, painful flashbacks, and plenty of commentary – the trailer is crammed packed with all of that and more.

“Da 5 Bloods” is set to drop June 12th on Netflix. Check out the trailer below and let me know if you’ll be seeing it or taking a pass.