Booze and drugs trailers

It would be no surprise to find you flagging a bit on a Wednesday lunchtime; marooned between weekends, the human filling in a drudgery sandwich. We are therefore offering a double helping of illicit substances in order to perk you up a bit, with trailers from new prohibition-era gangster show Boardwalk Empire and Gaspar Noé's psychedelic drugs and death drama Enter the Void.

We don't big up telly stuff to often here at Indie Movies Online (all to do with the trade name), but when Martin Scorsese is involved we are willing to make a wee exception. The Goodfellas and Gangs of New York director is executive producing new HBO show Boardwalk Empire, which debuts on American TV later this year, and for which a new trailer has just been released. Light on story specifics, heavy on period style, and soundtracked by the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Straight Up and Down, you can check the clip out below.

Packed with movie acting talent like Steve Buscemi, Kelly MacDonald, Michaels Pitt and Shannon, and Stephen Graham (as Al Capone), Boardwalk Empire has been adapted by Sopranos writer Terence Winter from the Nelson Johnson book of the same name. It is set in Atlantic City during the period when kicking back with a beer was a criminal offence, and it looks set to be the kind of lavish, labyrinthine saga of lowlife hoodlums and bent politicians with which Scorsese is often associated. 12 episodes have been ordered apparently, and Marty is demonstrating his commitment to the project by helming the pilot outing.

Also cropping up in Boardwalk Empire is actress Paz de la Huerta, who is one of the stars of Enter the Void, the latest movie from Gaspar Noé. And a new Japanese trailer for Noé's flick has just surfaced on Wild Grounds. No UK release date has been set as yet, but the film has been doing the festival rounds for the last six months or so, with viewer opinion seemingly being as polarised as it was for the director's previous film Irréversible. Some have hailed it as a visionary masterpiece. Some have tagged it as unwatchable dreck. Indie Movies' very own intrepid editor caught it at the London Film Festival last autumn, and thought it was a bit of a mix of the two (you can read her review here). The sound effects director on Enter the Void was Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk who are of course scoring Tron Legacy, which is interesting as some of the neon visuals in the new trailer do have a certain Tron-y quality to them. See for yourself below.