Come Cry With Me Over This Week’s Three Trailers

Generally, I do not like to have emotional outbursts in the summer. It’s hot, I’m already tired and sweaty. Crying is only going to make all of that worse. But sometimes the world is just too much, and you need to get it out of your system. This week, I’ve gathered all the tearjerker trailers I’ve found, so we can get through them all in one fell swoop.

And then we can all have some ice cream.

While I’m extremely over WWII movies, I have infinite patience for WWI movies. I’m not sure what the difference is in my mind. Perhaps it’s the general naïveté with which we all entered WWI and how devastating it was. It used to be referred to as “the war to end all wars” because it was supposed to change the world. I wish it had.

The Choral brings Ralph Fiennes back to his British period drama roots. Incidentally, it also brings him back to a character that isn’t particularly old, infirm, grizzled, or missing any facial features.

The Choral also stars Mark Addy (Game of Thrones), Alun Armstrong (Krull), Roger Allam (Tetris), Lyndsey Marshal (Restless), Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin), Amara Okereke (Andor), Ron Cook, and Thomas Howes (Downton Abbey). It will open in theaters for Christmas.

Eleanor The Great is Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut. Much like her album debut leaned heavily on the songwriting strength of Tom Waits and David Bowie, this movie leans heavily on the talents of beloved Hollywood grandma, June Squibb. Everyone loved her in last year’s Thelma. Let’s see if she can do it again with Eleanor The Great.

Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Willow), Jessica Hecht (The Boys), Rita Zohar, and Chiwetel Ejiofor also star in Eleanor The Great.

I can already feel all of my emotions being manipulated, and the movie doesn’t even open until September 26th.

If neither of those trailers did it for you, I saved the saddest for last.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is directed by Amy Berg, who also directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Deliver Us from Evil. It began playing in theaters on August 8th.

Let me lighten the mood with this week’s lagniappe. Have a little Zootopia 2. My kid is 14 and suffering from cringe culture-induced apathy for anything fun. But, he sure did love the first one.