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A few months back Monika brought you some info on an international trailer for James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night -- but now we've got a brand-new domestic trailer to check out ... and I'd say the flick looks pretty solid! (Maybe not all that startlingly original, but certainly something worth seeing.) Click here to check out the trailer at IGN Movies, and then take a second to wonder if Mark Wahlberg really likes playing a cop. (I'd say he does.)

Based on what I saw in the promotional clip, We Own the Night is about two brothers: one a decent cop (Wahlberg) and the other a nightclub owner (Joaquin Phoenix) who (unwisely) gets involved with some big-time Russian drug dealers. Cue conflict. Also on board are (the fantastic) Robert Duvall as the patriarch and (the rather attractive) Eva Mendes as the worried girlfriend.

You may remember James Gray from The Yards and Little Odessa, both of which are definitely worth a rental some night. The film played the Cannes Film Festival a few months back, prompting Variety's Todd McCarthy to write the following: "Adequately acted and flecked with the required quota of action to satisfy genre fans, pic recalls numerous good police dramas of the 1970s, but mostly in superficial ways that bring nothing new to the table." Our own James Rocchi had this to say: "May feel curiously at odds with itself, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad movie; if Gray's movie excels at one thing, it's how it takes the title phrase and makes a boast into something like a curse."

Sony looks poised to release Night on October 12.

I might have seen Guillermo del Toro's Cronos a whole lot later than the rest of my fellow horror-freaks did, but when it came to The Devil's Backbone, I was there on opening day ... and I just loved it. Sure, sure, Mimic has its moments, Blade 2 is bad-ass, and Hellboy rocks multiple dimensions -- but I think El Espinazo del Diablo is the Mexican flickmaker's finest piece of work by far.

And to say that the pre-release fest-buzz on Senor del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is "positive" would be kind of like saying Taco Bell makes you have to go to the bathroom "mildly." In a fourth quarter swollen with great-looking movies, Pan's Labyrinth stands up as one of my hardcore gimme-gimme titles, right up there with the new films from Christopher Guest, Martin Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky.

Del Toro fanatics have kept us abreast of the various teasers, clips and trailers that are careening through the interweb, but CHUD.com has scored a great little exclusive: The debut of the domestic trailer for Pan's Labyrinth. And it's pretty darn awesome. (You can tell the trailer was made for American audiences because there's no dialogue in it. If there's one thing that American moviegoers hate, it's when their movie characters speak in foreign languages.)

The movie is about a young girl who uses her (rather impressive) fantasy world to escape from the harsh realities of Spain circa 1944. I've been extremely vigilant about avoiding spoilers on this movie, so that's all the plot synopsis I can offer. But if this thing's even half as good as The Devil's Backbone, I may just have to write Guillermo an email full of love.