My friend, Pete Spedale, does a hell of a job keeping his friends in the loop on upcoming movies. As someone that doesn't really keep tabs on what is coming out, I found this to be incredibly helpful. Take a look...
1. The Master (Sep 21) - Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood) created a story loosely based on the Scientology Church creator (L Ron Hubbard). Philip Seymour Hoffman is the leader of "The Cause" and Joaquin Phoenix is a lost soul loyal follower. Tom Cruise was supposedly unhappy with this movie's creation.
2. Looper (Sep 28) - Director Rian Johnson (Brick) teams up with Joseph Gordon-Levitt again to craft a sci-fi feature where he is a time-assassin that has to come face-to-face with his future self (Bruce Willis). Lots of great buzz from the Toronto Film Festival.
3. Argo (Oct 12) - Ben Affleck stars in and directs a movie about hostages freed from Iran using a fake film crew making a fake movie. Ebert predicted it would win best picture.
4. The Sessions (Oct 19) - John Hawkes is a man who can't move his body from a disease so he hires a sex therapist (Helen Hunt) to help him through his first time. Acting Buzz surrounds this one.
5. Cloud Atlas (Oct 26) - A historical/sci-fi movie directed by the Wachowskis (The Matrix, Bound) that spans several milennia from the distant past to distant future. Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, and Tom Hanks star. Lots of great buzz out of Toronto.
6. Flight (Nov 2) - Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future) and Denzel Washington team up to tell the story of a pilot who impossibly lands a crashing plane saving lives, but a lot of the story lies beneath the surface.
7. Lincoln (Nov 9) - Spielberg's biopic on Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) and how he got us through the civil war. Everyone should be excited about this one.
8. Anna Karenina (Nov 16) - Kiera Knightley teams with her Atonement director (she was oscar-nominated in that movie) to retell Tolstoy's psychological study masterpiece. Should be good, but will be overshadowed by Les Miserables.
9. Life of Pi (Nov 23) - Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) director a story of a boy and a tiger who are shipwrecked and learn to live with each other to survive. The visuals look stunning, and it should be family friendly.
10. The Hobbit (Dec 14) - The pre-story to Lord of the Rings tells the story of how Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) came to acquire the Ring. First movie of 3, with Peter Jackson directing. Should be visually engrossing and long.
11. Les Miserables (Dec 14) - Tom Hooper (the King's Speech) directs Victor Hugo's tale. Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and Russell Crowe star. Should be the frontrunner for several oscars including best picture.
12. Zero Dark Thirty (Dec 21) - Kathryn Bigelow (the Hurt Locker) directs the tale of how the US and Seal Team 6 successfully found and killed Bin Laden. Very controversial, should still be very tense and patriotic.
13. Django Unchained (Dec 28) - Quentin Tarantino's (Pulp Fiction) story about a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) turned into a bounty hunter who has to save his wife, who is still owned by the slave's former plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). The sentence describing the movie is so bizarre this is the one movie I want to see more than any other. I believe it opens on Christmas.
Thanks Pete! This is awesome.
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