MacGruber, Alice and civilian contractor Paul

A hapless special op agent tries to stop a bomb, a girl falls down a rabbit hole to be faced with a tyrannical Queen and a man wakes to find himself trapped in a box underground. It’s an ordinary Thursday for IndieMoviesOnline.

Two trailers for MacGruber have been released, one red and one green band. If you’re not really into the idea of a film derived from an SNL (Saturday Night Live) character there’s no need to watch both – they share practically the same jokes, but those with sensitive ears be warned: the red band includes swearing.

The team that created and work on the MacGruber sketch are all on board for the adaptation, so fans are sure to get exactly what they want: a feature length adventure of MacGruber. Jorma Taccone, character creator directs; sketchwriters Taccone, Will Forte and John Solomon penned the script; Forte will continue his portrayal of the clueless soldier himself; and Kristen Wiig will also bring her disillusioned assistant role to the big screen. Each sketch typically features MacGruber and his assistant as he is faced with a bomb – and ends with him getting distracted and the bomb detonating. The idea was to parody MacGyver but in doing so it seems a lot like Inspector Clouseau from The Pink Panther and Get Smart.

MacGruber green band trailer:

The movie sees MacGruber, on a mission to reclaim a nuclear warhead from his sworn enemy Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Along with a team of experts, Special Agent Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St Elmo (Wiig), MacGruber must hunt down Cunth and disable the bomb. Whether or not it will end in true SNL fashion is yet to be seen.

Previous movies that began their existence as SNL sketches include The Blues Brothers, Wayne’s World, A Night at the Roxbury and Coneheads. From this list, you’ll probably know whether or not you’ll be there to check out MacGruber in the cinema in the US April 23.

MacGruber red band trailer:

Just over a month left to go until Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland arrives in all its 3D glory and let’s face it, it looks pretty awesome. But how did they make it look so good? We have pictures of the Cheshire Cat throughout its development stages, from the basic 3D modelling right up to the furry feline you will see in March. Prepare to be amazed.

We also have some new stills featuring a sword-wielding, kilted Mad Hatter, his orange hair aflame against the murky sky and ahead of, we assume, his army; a rather dishevelled March Hare at the tea party; and a raging Jabberwock running through the giant mushroom field (or is he just small?)

Our Alice treats don’t end there. Johnny Depp also talks briefly about his character giving an insight into the Mad Hatter and what to expect from him. You can breathe a sigh of relief: Depp is back to his old self, not a curly orange hair in sight.

Johnny Depp talks Alice in Wonderland:

Alice has also gotten itself a slightly surprising synopsis: Underland, says screenwriter Linda Woolverton, is a part of the earth. “But it lies somewhere far beneath our world. The only way to get there is to fall down a rabbit hole.” It is the same fantastical land that Alice visited as a child, but she misheard the word “Underland” and thought they said “Wonderland.” Alice, now age 19, heads back down the rabbit hole and though she has no memory of her previous adventures in Underland, she is reunited with its inhabitants, including a swashbuckling Dormouse, an off-his-rocker Mad Hatter, a grinning Cheshire Cat, a caterpillar called Absolem, a beautiful White Queen and her spiteful older sister the Red Queen. “Time has passed,” says Woolverton. “The Red Queen rules the whole land. It’s under her thumb. And the people of Underland need Alice.” Underland has come upon hard times since the malevolent Red Queen took over the throne. It is, however, a truly wonderful land, which might explain why the girl who mistook it for Wonderland has been called upon to help return it to its glory. But, says Woolverton, “Underland has always been Underland since the Beginning, no matter who sits on the throne. It will remain Underland until the End.”

So why isn’t it called Alice in Underland?

A trailer for indie thriller, Buried has been released. You can see Ryan Reynolds’ Paul, a civilian contractor who wakes up in the confines of his coffin where he has been buried alive with a torch, mobile phone and a knife. He appears to be making a video explaining who he is and his ransom fee, but how exactly he’s meant to send it to anyone is a bit of a mystery: how will he get signal underground?

You can see Buried first at the Sundance Film Festival.

Buried trailer: