Here's a previously unseen Super 8 poster.

From Access Hollywood

From iAfrica:

The casting of the young filmmakers is a masterstroke. These kids aren't meant to be Disney cutouts – they're cheeky, loud, swear like troopers and are obsessed with blood, explosions and death… In other words, they're real boys. Super 8's star is not the aspiring director, as one would expect, but rather the gentle, quiet Joe Lamb (marvellously portrayed by newcomer Joel Courtney), who is the film's make-up artist and who is struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother.

Here are two new Super 8 trailers.

From the NY Times: Male Archetypes.

The male archetypes populating contemporary movies don’t line up with reality, yet they offer clues about what the men of our dreams look like, or at least what moviemakers are trying to sell us. What do men want? What does it mean to be a man? How does a man relate to other men? And perhaps above all, how does he relate to women, who increasingly occupy a separate sphere on the big screen even as they appear to have more room on television, for themselves and in their relationships with men?

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The young hero (Joel Courtney) of “Super 8” — with his dead mom and distracted dad — is another fine specimen of this type, one concocted by the writer and director J. J. Abrams in tribute to the American cinema’s own ageless Brave Boy, Steven Spielberg.