The trailer simply establishes who Compaq was as it started out, what market forces were against it, what internal forces were against it, but it seems wildly entertaining. There's got to be more than one of you who bought a Compaq Presario in the mid 1990's.ĭirector Jason Cohen, who was nominated for his documentary short, Facing Fear, in 2013, is taking a look at Compaq and while it has all the hallmarks of something that might not appeal to dweebs with the amount of Dockers and broom pushing mustaches in the file footage but these are the stories that I enjoy consuming when done right. It's a living document to injustice and the quest to get answers. I'm kind of impressed by how quick you get sucked in to the story and it's for all the right reasons.

I get it, it's tough material but as a story that is going to be told it's straight up as in-your-face as it can be. The trailer here just gets right to a specific moment in Rio's history and it's wildly gripping. Director Dan Jackson seems to have done that here without getting bogged down with history or trying to make sense of something that can't be understood in two and a half minutes. When you have movies like Fast Five that treats the favelas of Rio like a borderline cool hiding spot as Dwayne Johnson's arm butter shines brightly against any available light source or the recent Olympics coverage that didn't dwell on the more egregious social problems facing Rio you have an opportunity to tell us something real. I'm completely dialed in to what it's selling and the trailer is delightfully edited in that it keeps you entertained while ignoring everything else it should be doing. It's going to be its own entity and you can either embrace it and trust the pull-quotes it provides or you can shuffle right along, thank you very much. This trailer plays just like Buzzard in that it just doesn't care about giving you any kind of narrative help up to understand what it's putting out there. True, I don't revisit it but sometimes you need a movie like that just to squeegee that third eye a little bit from time to time just to make sure your calibration is in working order. A mix of the unconventional and the odd, Buzzard was/is about as fascinating as anything I had watched that year.

Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we go find ourselves in the woods, go toe to toe with Rio's police, use a camera to document a life, go hardcore nerd, and dance like everyone's watching.ĭirector Joel Potrykus first leaped and smothered his body on top of my cinematic radar when he released 2014's Buzzard into the world. Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they're seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect.

The alchemist cookbook film