Back this summer with a new Marvel television series is Riri Williams, aka Ironheart (Dominique Thorne), whom we met in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She’s the teen genius who built an Iron Man suit in her MIT dorm room. The trailer’s soundtrack sports high energy grooves from pop star Doechii.

This week we’re listening to the official trailer for the 2024 TIFF People’s Choice Award-winning film The Life of Chuck, directed by Mike Flanagan, based on a 2020 Stephen King novella. The trailer opens with a 5-second micro-teaser which shows the author of this story is Stephen King, but it's not horror. The micro-teaser is accompanied by a triumphant orchestral chord and percussion flourishes on the beat which align with the visual cuts, while we get glimpses of main characters including adult Chuck (Tom Hiddleston) dancing joyfully, and Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor) laughing.

Him is a sports horror film produced by Jordan Peele, and its recent teaser trailer uses a blend of classical and electronic music which pivots from catchy to terrifying. After opening with the sound of a bank of stadium lights turning on, orchestral strings begin playing a single note, in octaves. The music gets louder as we see a claustrophobically close shot of a man’s face, eyes shut. Music cuts at 0:07 when the man opens his eyes. As fighter jets fly in formation high above a football stadium at 0:10, we hear a version of Bach’s “Badinerie” from the Orchestral Suite No. 2 enter with a pulsing rhythm and melody in B Minor.