Trailers of the Week: Avengers 4, GoT Final Season Teaser, Captain Marvel

This week, three major 2019 releases gave us a taste of whats to come: We finally got a look at the last Avengers movie (or at least the last one with the original line-up); another MCU property dropped a longer, juicier trailer; and HBOs monster-hit showed us a chilly version of the coming winter in Westeros. Also, because man cant live on cinematic and premium-cable cheeseburgers alone, there we were gifted with a look at next years big Shakespeare bio-drama from Kenneth Brannagh and a Netflix doc on social-media celebrity. Voila! Your best-trailers-of-the-week round-up.

All Is True

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Mr. Shakespeare, I dont want to pester you Kenneth Brannagh goes once more unto the breach with the Bard, only this time the actor-director is forgoing adapting one of Billy Shakes works for a biopic on the great writer. (For once, the plays not the thing!) Brannagh himself plays the author of every iambic-pentametric work you had to read in high school, as he edges toward retirement. Only theres one story he has left to tell . [dramatic pause] His own. Judi Dench plays Anne Hathaway (no, not that one); Sir Ian McKellen is Shakespeares patron, Henry Wriothesley. It hits theaters in 2019.

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American Meme

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Everyone knows social media is horrible (or at least thats what weve read them post on Instagram). This documentary takes a look at the online do-it-for-the-lulz culture thats given us digital influencers like Paris Hilton and Josh The Fat Jew Ostrovsky, as well as folks whove courted celebrity one nude selife and/or viral pepper-eating video at a time. Appropriately enough, the trailer is one long series of flash-cuts, which mirrors the world the doc is depicting to a T(witter). Its streaming now on Netflix. Dont forget to give it some likes if you dig it.

Avengers: Endgame
It opens on a broken, bashed up Iron Man helmet, with Robert Downey Jr. conversing with it like its Yorricks skull while floating in space and things only get bleaker from there. The very first look we get regarding the very last Avengers movie paints a pretty dark picture, as the remaining superheroes assemble to fight the all-but-unstoppable Thanos. The purple villain does not really appear in this trailer, except for a brief shot of hand. But Hawkeye does (brooding in the rain!). So does Bruce Banner (in non-Hulk mode!), Black Widow (looking somber!), Captain America (same!), Thor (him too!), and Scott Lang, a.k.a. Ant-Man (God bless you, Paul Rudd). Part of the journey is the end, sayeth Tony Stark. But does anything ever really end when theres this much franchise loot at stake? It opens April 26th. This wont be the last youll hear of this movie, we think.

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Captain Marvel
Really, who doesnt want to watch Brie Larson, all tricked out in a lovely noble warrior hero uniform, deck an old lady on a bus? As the second trailer for this upcoming MCU entry quickly explains, its not really an old lady but a Skrull, a shape-shifting alien race who have been involved in a centuries-long war with the Kree, another alien race, and Larsons Carol Danvers is a human pilot but also shes bleeding blue from her nose, and it seems Annette Bening rescued her, plus Samuel L. Jackson is trying to get the lowdown on whats going on, did we mention Jude Law shows up too, and and [collapses from exhaustion]. Larson could not be more charismatic, and the action scenes suggest directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (the same duo behind Half Nelson) are aiming for pure mondo cosmic spectacle. If nothing else, this will be a fine time killer for fans until Avengers: They Werent All Dead After All! our bad, Endgame hits theaters later in the spring. March 8th, 2019. Youll undoubtedly be there.

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Game of Thrones: The Final Season
Its less than a minute long, and shows exactly zero footage from the new episodes that will conclude the fight for the Iron Throne. But by theBlack Goat of Qohor, does this Game of Thrones teaser manage to sell the HBO shows final season or what? Ice slowly creeps over a statue of a dire wolf; fire engulfs a stone lion; the two forces meet over what appears to be a map of Westeros. Boom. Thats it. But its enough. April 2019 between this and the Avengers, its going to be one hell of a saga-ending month.