"Archer" voice regulars Amber Nash and Lucky Yates have launched a new, occasional gig on Dads Garage TV with trailer trash, in which they puckishly review the coming attractions of new movies both big (Mirror Mirror) and small (ATM — or, as Nash calls it, "ATM Machine"). Note: it's better to watch the original trailer first (like Mirror Mirror's) before watching them break it down.

Movie studios bestowed their generosity on the Internet yesterday with juicy movie samples. Hulu has the first five minutes of Stephen Soderbergh's Haywire, an action flick starring Gina Carano, former "American Gladiator" Crush, along with such actors as Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender. Meanwhile, Red Tails, the WWII drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, ups the ante on Haywire by offering a nearly seven minute sample.

RT Clip from Tambay Obenson on Vimeo.

Both films open Feb. 20.

The trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's beloved fantasy novel, didn't exactly sneak onto the Internet yesterday. The Hobbit launched the usual spate of analysis via blogs and tweets, but didn't really match the hubbub over The Dark Knight Rises. The polite interest in The Hobbit doesn't come close to matching the mania for the original trailer of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings in 2000, however. I remember the dial-up days of a decade ago and waiting more than an hour for the first trailer to download:

In April 2000, when New Line posted the film's first Internet trailer — a combination of clips and behind-the-scenes material — it was downloaded by 1.7 million people (a figure hyped as being "more than any other film marketing footage in history"). When the final, full-length trailer of The Fellowship of the Rings was unveiled during the September 24, 2001, premiere of the WB series "Angel," you literally couldn't tell if the TV show was being used to promote the movie trailer, or vice versa.

The trailer for The Hobbit really works the prequel angle, conspicuously showing objects of future import like The Sword That Was Broken and the One Ring. But I like the way the trailer embraces atmosphere, having the dwarves' song carry into a montage of Bilbo Baggins' travels. It also makes next year's upcoming spate of fantasy films (including Wrath of the Titans and Jack the Giant Killer) look frivolous indeed. Maybe I'll watch The Lord of the RIngs again over the holidays.

The Farrelly Brothers seem to enjoy filming movies in Atlanta, but the downside is that their recent local output, so far, consists of Hall Pass and next year's The Three Stooges. The long-gestating project once attracted the likes of Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benecio del Toro, but will star Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, and Chris Diamantopolous as the dope-slapping, eye-poking threesome. Even in their heyday, the Stooges' brand of slapstick was best confined to short films, so putting them on the big screen seems like a case of fools rushing in. The comedy opens April 4: check out Larry David as the first nun in the new trailer:

O.K., now I really, really want to see Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a movie I'd never heard of before five minutes ago. Through Dec. 4, GSU's Cinefest is screening this Finnish film that involves the mythos of Santa Claus, but looks a heckuva lot more like The Thing than Arthur Christmas. What is the identity of the supernatural being found interred in "the world's largest burial mound" in the frozen North? And what if it's still alive? I imagine the tag-line: "You'd Better Be Good For Goodness Sake."

This week sees the release of 2012's competing Snow White movies, which look like Bizarro world opposites of each other. The first due in theaters is Mirror Mirror (March 16) which, despite having style-drunk director Tarsem Singh at the helm, looks to be more like Shrek-like comedy, with Julia Roberts apparently having a grand old time as the funny-evil queen, Lily Collins as Snow White and Armie Hammer as the Prince:

Meanwhile, Snow White and the Huntsman (June 1) looks highly influenced by Tim Burton's treatment of Alice in Wonderland as an action movie, with a scary-evil Charlize Theron as the queen, Twilight's Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Thor's Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman.

So which looks better? "None of the above" might be an option here.

American Reunion - Trailer #1 [VO|HD] by cinemakervideo

Who's excited about the American Pie reunion movie? Err, me neither. So why am I posting this trailer of hollow nostalgia? Because it was filmed in Atlanta (though the set looks New Englandy), and I saw droopy Tara Reid at the Colony Square Athletic Club. Enjoy!

Cars 2 comes out on DVD today. If you vaguely resent Pixar Animation Studios for pushing its parallel universe of talking automobiles on the moviegoing public, you will not appreciate the way the DVD plugs Planes. Sometimes, Pixar's DVDs contain extras on the same creative level as the films themselves. On the disc for the original Cars, the short "Mater and the Ghost Light" had all the prankish, anarchic humor the movie lacked. The Cars 2 extras seem designed only to promote Planes, a direct-to-DVD spinoff set in the Cars world but produced by DisneyToon Studios, not Pixar.

Not only does the disc include a Planes teaser trailer that looks like a Top Gun parody, the short "Mater's Tall Tales: Air Mater" pretty much only serves to set-up a plane-based town comparable to Cars' Radiator Springs. Some of the "Mater's Tall Tales" shorts are pretty amusing, but "Air Mater" seems to have been written by the auto pilot. Here's an excerpt, such as it is.

Studio Ghibli, the totally splendid Japanese animation production house, has released an English-language trailer for its 2012 release, The Secret World of Arrietty. While Studio Ghibli's best known for the modern classics by director/co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the youngest director in the company's history, helms Arrietty (although Miyazaki co-wrote the screenplay). Called The Borrower Arrietty in Japan, the film adapts Mary Norton's classic 1952 children's book The Borrowers, which was most recently made into a tepidly-received John Goodman film in 1997. Judging from the trailer, the eponymous Arrietty looks like a typical Studio Ghibli heroine: a smart, spunky young woman who experiences adventures as a member of a doll-sized race of beings who live in the homes of unsuspecting humans. Could be fun for all ages.

In the spirit of And the Band Played On..., The Plaza Theatre presents We Were Here, David Weissman's documentary about the devastating impact of AIDS, a.k.a. "the gay plague," in the 1980s. Subtitled The AIDS Years in San Francisco, the documentary harks back 30 years ago to the emergency of the disease: "Early in the epidemic, San Francisco’s compassionate, multifaceted, and creative response to AIDS became known as “The San Francisco Model”. The city’s activist and progressive infrastructure that evolved out of the 1960’s, combined with San Francisco’s highly politicized gay community centered around the Castro Street neighborhood, helped overcome the obstacles of a nation both homophobic and lacking in universal health care."

We Were Here plays at the Plaza until Oct. 20.