Welcome to “Trailer Park,” our regular Friday feature where we collect the week’s new trailers all in one place and do a little “judging a book by its cover,” ranking them from worst to best and taking our best guess at what they may be hiding. Though we took a week off for the holidays, the pre-Christmas trailer flood has slowed to a trickle; that said, we’ve managed to rustle up six new films for you. Check ‘em all out after the jump.

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Today at Flavorpill, we couldn’t decide which we wanted more: a crazy octopus chair or a Stephen Colbert sofa. We learned four reasons why zombies will overtake vampires in 2011. We bookmarked Full Stop, a new website that’s “committed to an earnest, expansive, and rigorous discussion of literature and literary culture.” We wondered what Richard Simmons was doing hanging out in this tree. We discovered that the original name for softball was “kitten ball,” and that volleyball was once known as “Mintonette,” thanks to our friends at Mental Floss. We were amused by one 31-year-old man’s angst-ridden love for Conor Oberst. We swooned a little over this hilarious but sweet speech Bill Murray gave about Sofia Coppola at the National Board of Review Awards last night. We just said no to this Simpsons porn parody. And finally, we were sad to hear that Showtime had passed on The Kennedys miniseries — but probably not as sad as Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear are.

At first glance director Paul Greengrass‘s new thriller Green Zone is bound to remind you of his past work with Matt Damon — The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum — only set in the Middle East. As fans of the way those two handle action, we think this is a good thing. Damon plays an army warrant officer who’s “looking for answers”; Amy Ryan is a Wall Street Journal reporter, Greg Kinnear, some sort of angry government type with a really big phone. Read More »