Movie Man
When film critic Will Pfeifer isn’t watching movies, he’s reading about movies, talking about movies, thinking about movies or dreaming about movies. Now he shares that unhealthy obsession with you. From Hollywood hits to Japanese obscurities, from Oscar night to the summer season, he’s got movies on the brain — and on this blog.

Archive for June 30th, 2008

Trailer for QUANTUM OF SOLACE debuts

4 comments June 30th, 2008

Here’s the trailer for the new James Bond movie, QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

 

It looks good, definitely follows in the footsteps of the last one, and has a certain BOURNE vibe, with M (Judi Densch) pursuing Bond (Daniel Craig), who’s apparently gone rogue. Nice to see Jeffrey Wright back as CIA agent Felix Leiter, too. It’ll be out Nov. 7.

And, in case you’ve forgotten how far we’ve come, here’s the original trailer for 1978’s MOONRAKER, one of the goofiest films in Bond history…

Follow along with BULLITT

1 comment June 30th, 2008

Courtesy of dedicated reader Dan, here’s the classic chase from BULLITT linked to a Google map showing just where those cars are going. Nice!

 The moment when Steve McQueen finally guns the engine after all that build-up (at about the 2:50 mark on this clip) is one of the great moments in movie chase scenes. And what follows ain’t bad either!