First preview of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

After winning last year’s Oscar for Best Original Musical Score for The Social Network (2010), David Fincher recruited Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross again for his English-language remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011).  Just a few months away from release, the studio has begun its marketing campaign, first with the teaser trailer (more information found HERE) and now with an early, seven-minute preview of Reznor and Ross’s haunting score.

Sensory overload in the teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2012)

Acclaimed director David Fincher is no stranger to crafting excellent previews as he helped make arguably the best one of 2010 with the trailer for The Social Network.  Furthermore, as evidenced by that trailer, he (or his marketing team) seems to like using covers of hit songs.  Instead of Radiohead’s “Creep,” this time its Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” that hauntingly permeates the teaser for his The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Trailer for Moneyball (2011) Reveals Billy Beane’s “Reinvention” of Baseball

Based on the true story of Oakland Athletics’ Billy Beane, who is still General Manager, and adapted from the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Moneyball (2011) tells the story of Beane’s struggles to field a winning baseball team despite financial restrictions, aka with a league-low budget.  When he teams up with Ivy League graduate Peter Brand, who believes in innovative computer-generated analysis (basically sabermetrics for baseball fans today), the two attempt to change the business of baseball and allow a way for smaller-market teams to bring in/find better players and compete.

Film Review: The Conspirator (2011)

As a history nerd with a B.A. History degree, the preview for Robert Redford’s The Conspirator (2011) intrigued me.  I didn’t learn or know too much about the legal aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, so seeing Redford’s latest directorial effort was of great interest.  Going into it, though, I was worried the political undertones would overwhelm the film, but they weren’t too distracting or offensive; even those really explicit statements that seemed to target today’s audience and current issues were off base, beside the point, or actually admirable.  The Conspirator is a well cast period piece and fairly entertaining and fascinating history lesson, but it may lack the necessary drama or excitement for the big screen or audiences beyond history fans, some of whom may find parts of the story inaccurate or insufficiently portrayed.