Best New Movie Trailers week 9: 27 Feb 23

Yet more Watchlistable movie trailers. I’ve worked with Finnish people across a couple of different jobs but I met my first Finnish soldier in 1999 in Kosovo and he made me think the comically violent trailer Sisu (below) is actually a documentary. Love the Finns.

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Or check out last week’s watchlistable trailers from week 8 2023.

Or how about week 7’s movie trailers?

Or did you miss any of 2022’s  interesting Indie films?

Watchlistable movies image features a still image from the film Sisue with a a close up of a man with a knife that's been thrust through his head. It's pretty grim. He looks surprised.

Sisu​

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

Director: Jalmari Helander

Stars: Jorma Tommila (Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Cocaine Bear, The Last of Us), Aksel Hennie (Hercules, uno,90 MINUTTER), Jack Doolan (Green Street, The Nan Movie, Bachelor)

Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game

The story of Roger Sharpe, the young midwesterner who overturned New York City’s 35-year-old ban on pinball machines.

Directors: Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg

Stars: Mike Faist (Challengers, The Grief of Others, Wildling), Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf: The Movie, Too Late, Skyline ), Dennis Boutsikaris (And Then There Was One, Cherry Crush, Survival on the Mountain)

Boston Strangler​

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city’s most notorious serial killer.

Director: Matt Ruskin

Stars: Keira Knightley (Begin Again, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Anna Karenina), Carrie Coon (Avengers: Infinity War, Ghostbusters, Widows), Chris Cooper (Demolition, Remember Me, The Horse Whisperer,Atracción peligrosa)

Charcoal​

A family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.

Director: Carolina Markowicz

Stars: César Bordón (Axiomas,The Call , La Última Fiesta), Rômulo Braga (Sol, The Intrusion, Island City), Jean de Almeida Costa

The Pope’s Exorcist​

Portrayal of a real-life figure Father Gabriele Amorth, a priest who acted as chief exorcist of the Vatican and who performed more than 100,000 exorcisms in his lifetime. (He passed away in 2016 at the age of 91.) Amorth wrote two memoirs — An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories — and detailed his experiences battling Satan and demons that had clutched people in their evil.

Director: Julius Avery

Stars: Russell Crowe (The Nice Guys, Unhinged, 3:10 to Yuma), Ralph Ineson (The Green Knight, Harry Potter 7, The Hurricane Heist), Franco Nero (Enter the Ninja, Killer Mermaid, Confessions of a Police Captain)