A smallish update tonight with four new trailers and five new posters. The trailers out today are for The Four-Faced Liar, Kalamity, 127 Hours and The Tacqwacores. On the poster side, we have yet another two for Harry Potter, two nearly-identical posters for Monsters and finally a poster for 127 Hours.

THE TAQWACORES

	Plot Summary: A naive Muslim college student moves in with a group of Muslim punks living life the only way they know how. Release Date: October 22, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Rating: B+ Commentary: I’m not sure what it is about this trailer, but it makes the film seem like it could be a good deal of fun mixed with an important message. The pacing is fast, but understandable, though some of the dialogue is a bit difficult to understand.	Rating: C Commentary: Looking a bit too much like a poster that might accompany Grindhouse and films of its ilk, the poster doesn’t do a great job conveying the purpose of the film and isn’t as visually appealing as it could be.
	Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: None.

127 HOURS, trailer #2, poster #1

	Plot Summary: Trapped in a crevasse in the Grand Canyon, a young outdoorsman tries to cope with his situation and hope for survival. Release Date: November 5, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Rating: B- Commentary: I’m still not 100% sold on the film and its Oscar chances, but it doesn’t look too bad and spending 2 hours with James Franco isn’t such a bad prospect. He has proven himself frequently as an interesting and inventive actor.	Rating: B- Commentary: I can’t really say the poster doesn’t use colors well, as it does. It also uses its space fairly well, though it does seem like the creators are trying exceptionally hard to make something memorable, which does hurt the poster a bit.
	Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview

THE FOUR-FACED LIAR

	Plot Summary: When are two couples not two couples? When one member of a couple is bi-sexual. Release Date: October 15, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Rating: B- Commentary: It doesn’t seem as preachy as a lot of the new wave of indie features, so it may have something honest to say. Of course, there are elements in the trailer that suggests the film is simply an attempt to titillate audiences without an adequate deeper message.	Rating: B Commentary: The image does a fairly good, if too straight forward, job of depicting the film’s general plot elements, which can greatly help entertain someone looking at the poster who’s already familiar with the film.
	Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: None.

KALAMITY

	Plot Summary: Three friends looking for a personal connection at a party find themselves in the midst of a missing person case where one of them is suspected of having killed a girl. Release Date: October 22, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Rating: C Commentary: Apart from the nice vocal music at the end, the trailer has far too many “look at how tense we are being” moments. It seems like they are trying to embellish a film that may be short in several important filmmaking areas.	Rating: C- Commentary: A shattered world in red, white and black. It’s never thrilling, pointlessly chaotic and artistically bereft.
	Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: None.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART I, posters #13 & #14

	Plot Summary: The first half of the final film in the acclaimed series takes Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione and puts them square into the battle against Voldemart and his resurfaced army as they attempt to bring their new dominion to the world and kill Potter in the process. Release Date: November 19, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Previous Preview: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I	Rating: C+ Commentary: A continuation of the first series of posters featuring the two “villains” of the film. They aren’t an improvement or degradation of the others, so they get the same grade.
	Trailer Link: See Previous Preview Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview

MONSTERS, posters #3 & #4

	Plot Summary: After an NASA probe crash lands in Mexico, strange new lifeforms begin appearing and threaten to kill everyone they meet. Release Date: October 29, 2010
	Trailer	Poster
	Previous Preview: Monsters	Rating: B- Commentary: At first glance, I was skeptical of the artistic merits of the poster, but as I looked more closely at them, I realized that they were both built on the same notion and it is a rather creative outlet for them. Adding the couple to the second image does not increase or decrease the potency of the whole.
	Trailer Link: See Previous Preview Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview