Another year means another bout of movies! Now that the New Year has begun it means we need to look at what we’ll be spending our time watching. As always release dates are always in flux, and as we know Warner Bros. like to just not release their movies on a whim but here’s what we know is coming and why we should be excited.
JANUARY
A MAN CALLED OTTO
Comedy / Drama
Dir. Marc Forster
Starring: Tom Hanks, Kailey Hyman, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mike Birbiglia, Cameron Britton
Plot: A grumpy widower meets his match when a lively young family moves in next door.
Expect: Tom Cranks
THE PALE BLUE EYE
Horror / Thiller
Dir. Scott Cooper
Starring: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Fred Hechinger, Lucy Boynton, Robert Duvall, Toby Jones, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Timothy Spall, Simon McBurney
Plot: A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Expect: This is a remake of The Raven, isn’t it?
TILL
Biographical / Drama
Dir. Chinonye Chukwu
Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Whoopi Goldberg, Sea, Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson
Plot: After the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, his mother goes on a crusade to bring his killers to justice.
Expect: A powerful, painful film.
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
Drama / Romance
Dir. Sam Mendes
Starring: Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow
Plot: A cinema in a sea-side 1980s town becomes a catalyst for two people’s change.
Expect: Cinema… amirite?
M3GAN
Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Amie Donald, Jenna David (voice)
Plot: A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of it’s own.
Expect:Yassification of Chucky
TÁR
Drama
Dir. Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Mark Strong, Sophie Kauer
Plot: Set in the international world of Western classical music, we follow Lydia Tár, widely considered the greatest living conductors.
Expect: It to be tár-ed with awards.
BABYLON
Comedy / Drama / History
Dir. Damien Chazalle
Starring: Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Tobey Maguire, Phoebe Tonkin, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Eric Roberts, Lukas Haas, Jennifer Grant, Spike Jonze, Lewis Tan, Flea
Plot: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of depravity in Hollywood.
Expect: Once upon another time in Hollywood.
UNWELCOME
Horror
Dir. Joe Wright
Starring: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Kristian Nairn, Niamh Cusack, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Plot: Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murder in the woods.
Expect: A very welcome horror outing.
THE FABELMANS
Drama
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters, Keeley Karsten, Oakes Fegley
Plot: Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence but soon discovers a shattering revelation.
Expect: Spielberg doing a story about Spielberg? PEAK CINEMA.
FEBRUARY
THE WHALE
Drama
Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton
Plot: A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Expect: Best Actor 2023
KNOCK AT THE CABIN
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Dave Bautista, Ben Aldridge, Rupert Grint, Jonathan Groff, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Abby Quinn
Plot: While vacationing a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that th family make a choice that will stop the apocalypse.
Expect: Worst AirBnB ever
MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE
Comedy / Drama
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Caitlin Gerard
Plot: Unknown at present
Expect: Hotties with their corresponding bodies
THE SON
Drama
Dir. Florian Zeller
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins, Zen McGrath, Hugh Quarshie
Plot: When his son turns up, peter and his new partner Beth grapple with his emotional troubles.
Expect: Hopefully important conversations regarding mental health
WOMEN TALKING
Drama
Dir. Sarah Polley
Starring: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Ben Whishaw
Plot: In a religious community a group of women grapple with a choice to stay, fight or leave the abuse they have endured.
Expect: Men listening
DISTANT
Comedy / Drama / Science Fiction
Dir. Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott, Kristofer Hivju, Zachary Quinto
Plot: An asteroid miner crashes on an alien planet and must make his way through harsh terrain with depleting oxygen to reach the only other survivor.
Expect: A star man?
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA
Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
Dir. Peyton Reed
Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, William Jackson Harper, Bill Murray, Randall Park
Plot: Scott Lang must traverse the Quantum Realm while hoping to come to terms with his place in the universe.
Expect: BIG MOVIE. BIG STAKES. LITTLE PEOPLE.
COCAINE BEAR
Thriller
Dir. Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Scott Seiss, Alden Ehrenreich, Margo Martindale, Kristofer Hibju, Kahyun Kim, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Matthew Rhys, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince
Plot: When a grizzly bear ingests cocaine the 500-pound predator goes on a rampage that terrorises a small town.
Expect: A great big grizzo to chow on some bizzo
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Comedy / Romance
Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Lily James, Emma Thompson, Oliver Chris, Shazad Latif, Ben Astenden, Shabana Azmi, Asim Chaudhry, Nosheen Phoenix, Nikkita Chadha, Yassine Anaddam, Sajal Ali
Plot: A cross-cultural romantic comedy
Expect: A second hand emotion
MISSING
Thriller
Dir. Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick
Starring: Storm Reid, Ken Leung, Nia Long, Daniel Henney, Joaquim de Almdeia, Amy Landecker
Plot: A young girl desperately searches for her mother when she goes missing
Expect: For everyone to check their internet connection when they get out.
MARCH
CREED III
Drama / Sports
Dir. Michael B. Jordan
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors, Tessa Thompson
Plot: When a figure from his past returns Adonis Creed faces his greatest challenge yet.
Expect: A gut-punch of a movie
65
Adventure / Science Fiction
Dir. Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Starring: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman
Plot: An astronaut lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he is not alone.
Expect: Land solo
PEARL
Horror
Dir. Ti West
Starring: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistar Sewell, Amelia Reid
Plot: In 1918 a young woman on the brink of madness pursues her dreams of stardom.
Expect: This is Mia Goth’s world and we’re all just living in it.
SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS
Action / Comedy
Dir. David F. Sandberg
Starring: Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, Adam Brody, Grace Caroline Carrey, Rachel Zegler, Diedrich Bader, Meagan Good, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, P.J. Byrne, Marta Milans, Ross Butler, Cooper Andrews
Plot: A new face arises forcing Billy Batson and his adopted family to get back into superhero work by shouting the magic word SHAZAM!
Expect: The other franchise movie with Helen Mirren that’s all about family.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
Action / Crime / Thriller
Dir. Chad Stahelski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins, Ian McShane, Natalia Tena, Clancy Brown
Plot: John Wick uncovers a path to defeating the High Table, but before he can earn his freedom he must face off against a new enemy.
Expect: Baba Yaga returns…
THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
Animation / Adventure / Comedy
Dir. Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Starring: (voice) Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen
Plot: Plot is being kept under wraps
Expect: If it does well this might lead to a Smash Bros universe? Will their avengers be a version of Smash Bros. Melee?
SCREAM 6
Horror / Thriller
Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Oplin, Tyler Gillet
Starring: Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Courtney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panetierre, Devyn Nekoda, Josh Seggara, Liana Liberato, Tony Revolori, Jack Shampion, Samara Weaving, Dermot Mulroney, Henry Czerny, (voice) Roger L. Jackson
Plot: After surviving several massacres, the survivors of Woodsboro decide to start again in New York.
Expect: No Sydney? Risky proposition.
LUTHER
Crime / Drama
Dir. Jamie Payne
Starring: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley, Jess Liaudin
Plot: A feature length mystery involving the conflicted detective.
Expect: Loofah in that awesome coat.
APRIL
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES
Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Starring: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Jason Wong, Daisy Head, Alexis Rodney
Plot: A charming chief and a band of adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic.
Expect: Probably not a Jeremy Irons cameo.
THE POPE’S EXORCIST
Horror / Thriller
Dir. Julius Avery
Starring: Russell Crowe, Franco Nero, Alex Essoe, Daniel Zovatto, Paloma Bloyd, Cornell John
Plot: The true story of Father Gabriele Amorth, a priest who acted as chief exorcist of the Vatican and who performed more than 100,000 exorcisms in his lifetime.
Expect: If Avery can bring some of the Overlord joy, this could be really fun.
RENFIELD
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
Dir. Chris McKay
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Awkwafina, Jenna Kanell, Ben Schwartz
Plot: Dracula’s henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum.
Expect: Cage on full scenery chewing form
ASASSIN CLUB
Action
Dir. Camille Delamarre
Starring: Henry Golding, Daniela Melchoir, Sam Neill, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Noomi Rapace
Plot: An assassin is given a contract to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are also assassins who have been hired to kill him.
Expect: Shots hired.
NEXT GOAL WINS
Comedy / Drama / Sport
Dir. Taika Waititi
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Will Arnett, Rhys Darby, Uli Latukefu, Frankie Adams, Rachel House, Sisa Grey, Beulah Koale, Angus Sampson
Plot: Following the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-00.
Expect: Our goal means death
EVIL DEAD RISE
Horror
Dir. Lee Cronin
Starring: Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Morgan Davies, Nell Fisher, Jayden Daniels, Gabrielle Echols
Plot: A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons.
Expect: Not doing a follow up to the 2013 movie or having Bruce Campbell in it? NOT Groovey
ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
Comedy / Drama
Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie, Abby Ryder Fortson, Ellie Graham, Wilbur Fitzgerald
Plot: When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings and adolescence.
Expect: Could be a really enjoyable coming of age story.
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
Drama
Dir. Hertie Macdonald
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Monika Gossmann, Maanuv Thiara
Plot: Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter and just keeps water.
Expect: Forrest Grump
MAY
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
Action / Comedy / Science Fiction
Dir. James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Sean Gunn, Will Poulter, Chukwudi Iwuji, Daniela Melchoir, Michael Rosenbau, Nico Santos, (voice) Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Maria Bakalova
FAST X
Action / Crime
Dir. Louis Letterier
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Momoa, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Michael Rooker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Scott Eastwood, Rita Moreno, Jordana Brewster, Daniela Melchoir, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Ludacris, Cardi B
Plot: The next instalment in the series
Expect: More grumbling about family
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Adventure / Fantasy / Musical
Dir. Rob Marshall
Starring: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Jessica Alexander (voice) David Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay
Plot: A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can leave the water and impress a prince.
Expect: Poor unfortunate souls
ABOUT MY FATHER
Comedy
Dir. Laura Terruso
Starring: Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, Anders Holm, David Roasche, Brett Dier, Kim Cattrall
Plot: When Sebastian tells his old-school Italian immigrant father Salvo that he is going to propose to his all-American girlfriend, Salvo insists on crashing a weekend with her parents.
Expect: DADFELLAS
JUNE
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Animation / Action / Adventure
Dir. Joaquín Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Starring: (voice) Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Jake Johnson, Issa Rae, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Rachel Dratch, Daniel Kaluuya, Jorma Taccone, Jason Schwartzmann, Shea Whigham
Plot: Miles Morales must traverse the multiverse to stop a threat
Expect: BRING IT THE FUCK ON
ELEMENTAL
Animation/ Adventure / Comedy
Dir. Peter Sohn
Starring: (voice) Mamoudou Athie, Leah Lewis
Plot: Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire, water, land and air are residents liking together.
Expect: It has all the elements of a hit… I’ll see myself out.
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
Dir. Steven Caple Jr.
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, (voice) Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage, Liza Koshy, Pete Davidson, John DiMaggio
Plot: Autobots must team up with the maximals to stop a threat.
Expect: Robots in disguise I should expect.
THE FLASH
Action / Adventure
Dir. Andy Muschietti
Starring: Ezra Miller, Ben Affleck, Michael Shannon, Michael Keaton, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Antje Traue, Temuera Morrison, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemons, Sasha Calle
Plot: Plot currently unknown
Expect: If this film gets released at all it might very well be a miracle. It’s not too late to deep-fake Elliot Page.
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
Action / Adventure
Dir. James Mangold
Starring: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook
Plot: Unknown
Expect: This man belongs in a museum!
JULY
INSIDIOUS: FEAR THE DARK
Horror
Dir. Patrick Wilson
Starring: Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Hiam Abbass, Andrew Astor, Sinclair Daniel, Aj Dyer
Plot: 10 years after they were originally haunted, The Lamberts help Dalton prepare to go to college.
Expect: Things to go very very bump in the night and probably in the day too.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson, Cary Elwes, Hayley Atwell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, Ving Rhames, Shea Whigham, Mark Gatiss, Esai Morales, Charles Parnell, Henry Czerny
Plot: Follow up to Fallout
Expect: Your enjoyment… should you choose to accept it.
BARBIE
Comedy
Dir. Greta Gerwig
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Rhea Perlman, Nicola Coughlan, Kate McKinnon Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ritu Arya, American Ferrera, Simulacra Liu, Emerald Fennell, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Jamie Demetriou, Alexandra Shipp, Marisa Abela, Ncuti Gatwa, Issa Rae
Plot: The plot is being kept under wraps
Expect: A Barbie girl in a Barie world
OPPENHEIMER
Drama / History
Dir. Christopher Nolan
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, David Krumholtz, Gary Oldman, James Remar, Matthias Schweighöfer, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Jack Quaid, Josh Hartnett, Michael Angarano, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alden Ehrenreich, Casey Affleck, Olivia Thirlby, Devon Bostwick, Dane DeHaan, Tony Goldwyn, Matthew Modine, Scott Grimes, David Dastmalchian, James D’Arcy, Jason Clarke, Alex Wolff, Josh Peck, Benny Safdie, Emma Dumont, Louise Lombard, Tom Conti
Plot: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Expect: If it doesn’t bomb it’ll blow up the box office
THE MARVELS
Action / Science Fiction
Dir. Nia DaCosta
Starring: Brie Larson, Teonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Park Seo-joo
Plot: Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau must team up with a threat emerges in the galaxy.
Expect: A marvel-ous new outing
AUGUST
THE MEG 2: THE TRENCH
Action / Thriller
Dir. Ben Wheatley
Starring: Jason Statham, Sienna Guillory, Cliff Curtis, Skyler Samuels, Melissanthi Mahut, Shuya Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Jing Wu, Whoopi Van Raam
Plot: Sequel to the 2018 surprise hit
Expect: If Michael Smiley doesn’t get eaten by a shark i’ll be writing a letter of complaint to Wheatley
GRAN TURISMO
Action / Drama
Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Starring: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Darren Barnet, Emelia Hartford, Geri Horner, Joshua Stradowski
Plot: The ultimate wish fulfilment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racer.
Expect: Someone to commission a Ridge Racer Type 4 movie within the month
HAUNTED MANSION
Comedy / Family
Dir. Justin Simien
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Owe Wilson, Dan Levy, LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Hasan Minhaj
Plot: A single mother named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise the newly bought mansion.
Expect: Thing to go “lol” in the night
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER
Horror
Dir. Andrew Øvredal
Starring: David Dastmalchian, Liam Cunningham, Aisling Francoisi, Javier Botet, Corey Hawkins, Stefan Kapiçic, Woody Norman
Plot: The Russian schooner ship Demeter was charted to carry private cargo – twenty-four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. When the boat arrived at Whitby Harbour it was derelict, and the crew was gone without a trace.
Expect: Blood curdling horror across the scariest desert of all – the ocean.
BLUE BEETLE
Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
Dir. Angel Manuel Soto
Starring: Xolo Maridueña, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillén, George Lopez, Raoul Max Trujillo, Elpidia Carillo, Damián Alcázar, Adriana Barraza, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo
Plot: A Mexican teenager finds an alien battle that gives him superpowers armour
Expect: The best comic book movies are often the ones based on lesser properties.
SEPTEMBER
THE EQUALIZER 3
Action / Thriller
Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Sonia ammar, Remo Firren, Gaia Scodellaro
Plot: Unknown at this time
Expect: Equalizer 3? Ha! More like Man on Fire 2!
A HAUNTING IN VENICE
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Kyle Allen, Tina Fey, Emma Laird, Riccardo Scamarcio Jude Hill
Plot: In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile reluctantly agrees to attend a seance, but when one of the guests is murdered it’s up to him to uncover the real killer.
Expect: The return of the glorious ‘stache.
THE EXPENDABLES 4
Action
Dir. Scott Waugh
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, 50 Cent, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Eko Uwais, Randy Couture, Jacob Scipio, Andy Garcia
Plot: The Expendables go toe-to-toe with an arms dealer who commands a massive private army.
Expect: Lots of jokes about how old they are.
OCTOBER
KRAVEN THE HUNTER
Action
Dir. J.C. Chandor
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Russell Crowe, Fred Hechinger, Christopher Abbott, Alessandro Nivola, Levi Miller
Plot: Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove he is the greatest hunter in the world
Expect: To be KRAVEN some good action!
TRUE LOVE
Drama / Romance / Science Fiction
Dir. Gareth Edwards
Starring: Amar Chadha-Patel, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Ralph Ineson, John David Washington, Ken Watanabe
Plot: Unknown at this time
Expect: Good cast, lets hope this is something interesting.
THE EXORCIST
Horror
Dir. David Gordon Green
Plot: The father of a possessed child, desperate for help goes in search of someone who has had similar experiences – Chris MacNeil.
Expect: Well, two things. 1) That faint screaming you hear is Mark Kermode losing his shit and 2) given how badly Gordon Green screwed the pooch with his two Halloween sequels this could go either way.
PAW PATROL: THE MIGHTY MOVIE
Animation / Adventure
Dir. Cal Bruckner
Starring: (voice) Dax Shepard, Taraji P. Henson, Marsai Martin, Tyler Perry, Kim Kardashian, Jake T. Austin, Tara Shahidi, Jimmy Kimmell
Plot: A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into the mighty pups.
Expect: Given how great the first film was, this should be really enjoyable.
SAW X
Horror
Dir. Kevin Greutert
Starring: Tobin Bell
Plot: Unknown at present
Expect: Blood, gore and traps galore.
NOVEMBER
DUNE: PART II
Science Fiction
Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Plot: Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge.
Expect: A spicey movie
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
Action / Drama
Dir. Francis Lawrence
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Viola Davis Burn Gorman, Jason Schwartzmann, Rachel Zegler, Fionnula Flanagan, Tom Blyth
Plot: Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games
Expect: The YA craze had died but this could resurrect it.
WISH
Animation / Comedy
Dir. Chris Buck, Fawn Veersunthorn
Starring: (voice) Ariana DeBose, Alan Tudyk
Plot: 17-year-old Asha and her goat Valentino navigate Rosas, the kingdom of wishes, where wishes literally come true.
Expect: The magical kingdom to make a wish fulfilment kingdom.
DECEMBER
WONKA
Adventure / Family / Musical
Dir. Paul King
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Colman, Keegan-Michael Key, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Matt Lucas, Natasha Rothwell, Matthew Boynton, Jim Carter, Simon Farnaby, Paterson Joseph, Tom Davis, Rakhee Thakrar, Rufus Jones, Kobna Holbrook-Smith
Plot: Young Willy Wonka travel and meets the Oompa-Loompas
Expect: Looking at the top hat more like WANKA!
GHOSTBUSTERS SEQUEL
Comedy / Fantasy
Dir. Gil Kenan
Starring: McKenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard
Plot: The Spengler family return to New York to mentor new Ghostbusters led by Winston Zeddemore
Expect: I ain’t ‘fraid of no follow ups to surprisingly poignant legacy sequels.
THE COLOUR PURPLE
Drama / Musical
Dir. Blitz Bazawule
Starring: Halle Bailey, Elizabeth Marvel, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo, Louis Gossett Jr, Danielle Brooks, David Alan Grier, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Aunjanue Ellis, Deon Cole, Stephen Hill, Fantasia Barrino, Ciara
Plot: A musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life-long struggles and an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s.
Expect: While flawed the Spielberg version, for many, is still a classic. This however, could become the new definitive and a big awards contender for sure.
