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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House trailer: Those Who Don’t Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat It

August 30, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Liam Neeson playing Liam Neeson playing Mark Felt.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Joey Armstrong, Liam Neeson, Mark Felt

New Blade Runner Poster puts Han Solo in a new (old) light.

August 24, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Because he was in the old one.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Blade Runner, Denis Villeneuve, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling

mother! trailer: Aronofsky makes your skin crawl. Again.

August 9, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem play a couple in Darren Aronofsky’s forthcoming thriller mother! No need to mention that J-Law is only 26 and Bardem is 48, because Aronofksy is back! After his disappointing turn at the helm of 2014’s Noah, Aronofsky is back in Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and Black Swan territory […]

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Goodbye Christopher Robin trailer: Finding Neverland, only…

August 7, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

No, it’s pretty much Finding Neverland

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Domhnall Gleason, Goodbye Christopher Robin

I Do … Until I Don’t trailer: Is marriage for life too long?

August 1, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

I Do … Until I Don’t is the second written and directed by Lake Bell that has an elipses in the title. Which is two for two, after In A World…, so we’ll have to find out what Ms. Bell’s interest is in triune dots. I Do… Until I Don’t is an ensemble comedy following three couples stuck […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: I Do...Until I Don't, Lake Bell

Lemon trailer: Wes Anderson meets Little Miss Sunshine plus extra hipsterness

July 26, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

A hipster picture with Michael Cera smoking a cigarette to boot.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Brett Gelman, Joey Armstrong, Lemon

My Friend Dahmer trailer: Portrait of a Serial Killer as A Young Man

July 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Derf Backderf’s graphic novel comes to the big-screen.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Derf Backderf, Jeffrey Dahmer, My Friend Dahmer

Ready Player One trailer: Videogamification of movies comes full circle

July 22, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

A first look at Spielberg’s nostalgia machine.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Nostalgia, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg

The Shape of Water trailer

July 19, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

del Toro returns to his monster-movie origins.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Doug Jones, Guillermo Del Toro, Joey Armstrong, Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

What you need to know about the radical roots of Wonder Woman

July 19, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

A new film, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, explores the family behind Diana Prince

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Trailers Tagged With: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman

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