Trailer Tuesday: Argo & Beasts of the Southern Wild

I'm not a huge Ben Affleck fan, but the word on the street is that he's actually a decent director. Critics loved The Town, which I have yet to see, and now there is some good buzz around Affleck's new film, Argo. As the tagline says, Argo is a film "based on a declassified true story."  it's about the U.S. government trying to free and/or sneak out American hostages from Iran during the hostage crisis in 1979. The cast looks more than decent with Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Viktor Garber, to name a few. The movie itself looks pretty intense.

I randomly clicked on the trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild and was pleasantly surprised. I've never heard of it, the actors in it, or the director, which isn't surprising since it debuted at Sundance. The movie is set in the wilds of the bayou and inside both the reality and imagination of a little girl called Hushpuppy. Through circumstance of an ailing father and a flood, Hushpuppy is forced to leave her home and search for her mother. Just based on the preview, it feels like a mix between Where the Wild Things Are and The Pursuit of Happyness.