The summer film season is now over, done, behind me. I enjoy the summer blockbusters, they’re fun the way an ice cream cone is fun. Fall though is my favorite time of year for movies. The movies tend to be a bit more serious. There were some serious movies Fruitvale Station for instance. Also not all fall movies will be serious, some will have that summer blockbuster flair. Thor The Dark World & Ender’s Game come to mind.
So what am I excited about?
September will bring Riddick, a leftover summer science fiction movie. I do enjoy Vin Diesel’s tireless glair. Rush looks exciting. Chris Hemsworth has become one of my favorite stars in recent years and Ron Howard can direct drama with suspense sprinkled in very well. Prisoners also comes in September and I’m excited for it the way I get excited about a Law & Order marathon. (Yes I occasionally get excited for those).
October brings Gravity, the new movie from Children of Men Alfonso Cuaron. I can’t stand Sandra Bullock and unfortunately she’s in it. On the flip side George Clooney is the other anchor of the movie and that maybe enough to make it decent. Machete Kills looks like a blast. While the Tom Hanks release Captain Phillips and the new Cormac McCarthy movie The Counselor both look like the kind of Oscar bait I love.
November will bring The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Thor: The Dark World, and Ender’s Game. All exciting popcorn movies. The Wolf of Wall Street is the new ensemble piece directed by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo Dicaprio as its lead. Dicaprio has done some of his best work for Scorsese.
December will also bring some popcorn flicks that excite me: Anchorman 2 and Jack Ryan. Inside Llewyn Davis, the new movie from the Coen Brothers is due to be released. Directors David O’ Russell and George Clooney are releasing American Hustle & The Monuments Men respectively. The Hobbit sequel is coming out. I couldn’t care less honestly after the tragically disappointing first Hobbit entry.
Somewhere along the way we’ll get the animated Frozen, the Robert Redford thriller All is Lost, the intense Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, the Oscar bait Nebraska, and the documentary Sallinger.
I’m sure there are other movies on the way out that will peak my interest but in the mean time let’s go to the movies.
