Trailer Park
Trailers are the best part of going to the movies, and there was nowhere on the site to just watch them. Now there is. Trailer Park is a television that plays trailers, with a menu beside it and nothing else on the page.
The set
It's a real set. Power and play are buttons. The tape ejects to static. The vote rocker on the deck presses down and stays down while your vote stands, with the tally on the tape's paper. Nothing autoplays: every trailer waits on the film's own backdrop behind the glass until you press play, so you never get YouTube's title card first. There's a switch to take the frame off if you just want a widescreen player.
The shelves
Four of them.
Staff Picks is one trailer a week, mine. This week it's The Devils, restored and back in cinemas October 16. I filled in the six weeks before it with trailers I still think about: the first Prometheus teaser, The Social Network, the Godzilla teaser with the HALO jump, Where the Wild Things Are, Alien, and The Shining's elevator.
New releases is the newest trailers as they land, cut by genre if you want.
Popular is the votes: hot, rising, best, or top over any stretch from today to all time.
Coming soon is what's ahead, by genre too.
Votes
Up or down on any trailer, from the menu or the deck. That's the whole ranking. No editors beyond the weekly pick, no algorithm. What people vote up rises.
Any film
Type a film's name into the search at the foot of the menu and its trailer is on the set, whether or not a shelf holds it. New trailers come in on their own from TMDB's playing, coming, popular, top and trending lists through the day, so the shelves keep moving without anyone tending them.
Every trailer has a page
Each trailer has its own address, like /trailerpark/practical-magic-2/official-trailer, and its own discussion, about the trailer rather than the film. Queue it on the set adds the film to your queue. On a phone the menu is a sheet from the bottom.
Watching is free and works without an account. Voting needs one.