Super Trailer Thursday: Superman isn’t the only one “Returning”

Get out your Superman underoos, the Caped Crusader is back in full force in Brian Singer’s Superman Returns. Brandon Routh looks the part, but can he act? Superman has come back to Earth to find Loise Lane has moved on to find another man and make a child in the process. He also finds that Lex Luthor is waiting for him with a diabolical scheme. The best part is that Luthor is a very creepy, Seven-esque version of Kevin Spacey. Just check out that evil gaze. Just click the photo above or click here to see the trailer.

Superman is not the only fan favorite making a return to the silver screen. There are plenty of sequels, prequels and remakes to fill our year. Clerks II, Saw III, another Rocky movie, Indiana Jones, more Star Trek, and even Basic Instinct 2 are all films that have the cinema literati scratching their collective head and asking themselves: Has the Hollywood mainstream lost its originality? Ok, maybe that is just me. But for my money the most anticipated sequel of the entire year is Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. I felt that way even before I almost soiled myself watching the trailer. This one looks to be a rollercoaster ride that far outdoes the lame attraction upon which this franchise is based. You have to see this one to believe it; just make sure you clean up after yourself.

A soldier returns home to seek revenge on a group of men who tortured and murdered his mentally handicapped brother many years ago… Yeah, I know. It doesn’t sound like a riveting Indie classic, but Dead Man’s Shoes appears, at least from the trailer, to be so much more than your run-of-the-mill British revenge slasher flick. It is set for limited release in May and a more broad release during June and July, but Film School Rejects will have an exclusive review in the next week. Yes, we do feel special. Check out the trailer with this link.

Film Noir meets high school romance flick with Brick, the first offering from director Rian Johnson. This film will be opening up the Columbus alive! Deep Focus Film Festival tomorrow night, so I am particularly interested. The trailer is probably one of the best Indie trailers I have seen in a while, and the film looks to be something special. Check out the trailer here.

The director of The Descent, Neil Marshall, described his film as ‘Deliverance goes underground.’ And that may seem to be less than appealing until you find out that the store centers around 6 young females that go on a caving expedition. Sound better now? I thought so. This trailer is solid, and the film looks to be uber-suspenseful. The flick is due out here on the other side of the pond sometime in August. Check out the trailer here.