Non- Stop Action, Festival Favorites and More: A Winter 2. Film Preview . Maybe my time watching trailers and checking out buzz has gotten me used to a foul stench, but I'm thinking there just might be a chance that the first film months of 2. As you'll see below, it's going to be a busy set of months (which we're referring to as the winter season, for simplicity's sake). There are a LOT of action movies on the horizon, a fair amount of horror stories that lie in wait, a healthy handful of exciting filmmaker projects, and just one movie directed by Zach Braff.
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That's not to forget the awards season leftovers from 2. Heat And Dust (2017) Movie Dvd Watch. There is, of course, a whole section named . Advertisement. Below is just a whiff of what's playing in the winter season, with plenty of films due in theaters that we will surely be reviewing here at Roger. Ebert. com. Release dates are listed but subject to change, as are expectations in case that Zach Braff movie proves to be a halfway decent. Non- Stop Action.
If this winter schedule looks like a summer season sequel, you can blame the mess of action movies that are coming, making this a more loaded set of months, action- wise, than this past summer. The following week on January 2. Anderson polarizing direction and promises that it's the last one.
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The Friday after that, on February 3, Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones star in the Autobahn- set thriller . In a possible season highlight, just in time for Valentine's Day the world will give us . The following week, Matt Damon makes a bit of movie history with the US- Chinese production . Action fans will get one week off until March 3, when James Mangold's Wolverine movie . The following week on March 1. King Kong reboot .
Jackson, Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell) and Doug Liman's . The gun action reaches a possible peak the following Friday (March 1. Ben Wheatley's . No Control. March ends with the long- anticipated . It's worth noting, too, that these latter titles also have that summer feeling of being possible franchise- starters. Advertisement. April only has one major action movie on the docket, and it's for good reason. Future Best Picture winner .
A Healthy Amount of Horror. At a rate second to action movies, horror films are set to keep most of the winter season busy with titles of various degrees of curiosity. Sure, we start with generic- looking boogey- guy story . Night Shyamalan thriller . I'm hoping that the movie is productively unusual, at the very least. In February, the world will finally see another questionably- needed sequel to . And not for nothing, viewers will get to see the latest horror effort from .
Here's hoping that the genre ends its time with a memorable bang, as Jordan Peele (of . Even if the horror servings are a bust, there's no doubt that Peele's .
It's a curious list of movies that screened for select voting groups and were hosted at a tiny amount of LA/NY theaters, waiting for a more . If it sounds confusing, that's because it is, but can usually be isolated to movies that didn't seem to carry buzz (either with preliminary awards or even critic group nominations). This includes Ben Affleck's gangster throwback . On February 3, Robert De Niro's offers his latest take on dirty words with . Exciting Players. When it comes to an overwhelming season, sometimes you have to look at the players involved.
In this case, it’s directors or actors taking on ambitious projects, either with debuts or breakouts, in ventures that have a clear potential to be great. I’m particularly curious about “Belle” director Amma Asante continuing her rise as a filmmaker, this time with the interracial love story “A United Kingdom” (opening February 1.
Botswana (played by David Oyelowo) marrying a white woman from London (Rosamund Pike). There's a similar curiosity in how director Chris Mc. Kay will do with the unenviable task of duplicating .
And on the same day, stateside viewers with Netflix accounts will get a chance to see how Ricky Gervais does with his own . The original cast returns, including Ewan Mc.
Gregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle. There’s also something enticing about “Table 1. March 1. 0 will also be the Netflix premiere of . I'm also rooting for the Jessica Chastain vehicle . Advertisement. For fans of “The Spectacular Now” or “The End of the Tour,” director James Ponsoldt takes on sci- fi thrillers, a David Eggers novel and an evil(?) Tom Hanks with his new film “The Circle” (April 2. It sounds like “Antitrust” for a new generation, while throwing Emma Watson, Karen Gillan and John Boyega into the mix, but I trust that Ponsoldt has a few tricks up his sleeves.
And, not to be overlooked, comedian Ken Marino makes his debut as a feature director (after directing the amazing “The Bachelor” parody series “Burning Love”) with “How to Be a Latin Lover,” also arriving on April 2. Even more important, the film marks one of Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez’s biggest projects yet, and his first English language starring role.
Films We've Seen at Previous Festivals This is the category which involves movies we’ve actually seen (instead of me just hurling two cents into the wind). For example, I can vouch for “As You Are. Simon Abrams even called the film “unmissable” in his write- up. On the same release day, Julia Ducournau's cannibal story “Raw” finally comes to limited theaters, a movie that Matt Fagerholm called “revolting, hilarious and oddly moving.” In the following month, “.
A week later, “The Immigrant” director James Gray will see his latest film hit theaters, the adventure story “The Lost City of Z” (April 1. Tom Holland, Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. Our own Godfrey Cheshire saw it during its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this past October, and called it a “beautifully wrought drama.” Advertisement. Last and Probably Least While the action and horror line- up has its promise, or at least enough offerings that there's something for everyone, the comedies on the horizon offer a collective grimness. Ed Helms and Owen Wilson play brothers looking for their biological father in . These are bound to be as forgettable as “Unforgettable” (April 2.
For good measure, Adam Sandler will add to the mess on an unspecified date in spring with Netflix project . And of course, no preview of the upcoming months would be complete without a few mentions of some big, possibly disastrous ventures. On the same level of temptation, Zach Braff tries his hand at studio comedy, this time working with . Not to be forgotten, of course, is the March 3. Or, if you'd prefer to hear Josh Gad as a dog, he voices many of them in the reincarnation drama . It's going to be an eventful pseudo- summer.
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