This Week in Trailers: 'Expendables,' 'Goats,' Gibson

I had the occasion to attend the 2009 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival last night in Tempe, Arizona and became engaged or entangled in a conversation about Stallone's The Expendables. To sum up: Someone was really looking forward to it and I told her to watch the trailer to see if she still held that opinion afterwards. It's not a very good selling tool. That trailer came out this week, as did a few that acutally do look good. The latest teaser for The Men Who Stare at Goats with George Clooney and Ewan McGregor makes it look like one of the must-see flicks over the next couple months, and we're getting another Almodovar/Penelope Cruz film, too. Oh, and Mel Gibson's back in the movies after an absence of about half a decade. Lights...camera...the Professor and Mary Ann: Mel Gibson returns in Edge of Darkness The Men Who Stare at Goats keeps looking better Ouch! This may not bode well for The Expendables Get your Oscar pool ballot ready for Precious Good news for The Expendables: It looks better than The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan Carla Gugino, other hot chicks in Women in Trouble Broken Embraces with Penelope Cruz A TV movie headed for theaters: The Apartheid drama Endgame