New Trailer for 'Penguins of Madagascar' Sends Birds on a Secret Mission

Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich, and...Werner Herzog? Hardly the line-up one would expect to be a part of Dreamworks' Penguins of Madgascar, but with the franchise proving to be one of the most successful in animated history it's no wonder big stars are flocking to it.

A new trailer for Penguins of Madgascar has been released and clearly this is one aiming at the kiddies. The film is a spinoff of the $2B-grossing Madgascar movies and reveals that Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private are actually agents in the secret organization, The North Wind. I've seen exactly zero minutes of any Madagascar movies and that's not likely to change, although the espionage angle does look like fun. Here's the official synopsis:

Discover the secrets of the most entertaining and mysterious birds in the global espionage game: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private now must join forces with the chic spy organization, the North Wind, led by Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then… you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from taking over the world.

Penguins of Madasgascar opens November 26th.


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Powerful trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary 'The Act of Killing'

Hailed as a remarkable achievement in documentary filmmaking, enough to warrant Werner Herzog and Errol Morris putting their good names on it, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing not only explores the actions of violent men, it could completely change the way we look at movie violence. It deals with men like Anwar Congo, who in 1965 Indonesia went from being a petty crook to the leader of a death squad, responsible for the deaths of upwards of  1 million people in the wake of a failed political coup. All these years later, Congo and his men are considered heroes and celebrities rather than war criminals, and Oppenheimer's film boldly challenges them to confront their pasts.

In the film's newly-released trailer, we see the mechanism by which Oppenheimer plans to study these genocidal figures. Perhaps due to their previous love of American cinema, they agree to recreate their brutal killings in the form of their favorite genres of film. Some choose musicals, some select what appear to be comedies and horrors, but they are all deeply disturbing to watch. Most chilling of all is the reaction by Congo, who doesn't seem to completely grasp the damage he has caused until it's way too late. How much of this will be a personal journey of redemption for him is unclear, but I can't wait to find out.

The Act of Killing opens on July 19th.

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