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The sound of summertime playfulness is fading away into the distance , take a slew of blockbuster tentpole cinema along with the gay days , cookouts , beach vacations and ( hopefully ) those summer popping music anthems that we ’re all kind of sick of by now .
Of naturally , recent years have seen a major shift key in the landscape of seasonal releases : whereas Fall used to be a variety of tableland between the prime of summer smash hit and wintertime awards time of year contenders , we now find that Fall has become " blockbuster season part two , " and this year will offer some moderately big literary genre fare .
We ’ll get superheroes ( Thor : The Dark World ) , sci - fi thrills ( Gravity , Ender ’s Game , Catching Fire ) , horror ( Insidious 2,Carrie ) , crime play ( The Counselor ) - and that ’s all happen BEFORE we get to the go - for - broke vacation movie season withThe Hobbit : Desolation of Smaug , Jack Ryan,47 Roninand more !
In fact , by the time you ’re done with our2013 Fall Movie Preview , you too may accord that Fall is starting to look a lot more sympathetic than summer - as far as movies are concerned .
mold : Rob Corddry , Leslie Bibb , Keegan - Michael Key , Riki Lindholm , Thomas Lennon , Robert Ben Garant
Director : Thomas Lennon , Robert Ben Garant
Jack ( Rob Corddry ) and Vanessa ( Leslie Bibb ) are an expectant duo that moves into the most haunted mender - upper in New Orleans – a house with a deadly satanic condemnation . thing before long coil out of control for Jack and Vanessa , as well as their - not - so - helpfulneighbor F’Resnel ( Keegan - Michael Key ) , Vanessa ’s friendly psychiatrist ( Michael Ian Black ) , Vanessa ’s Wiccan sister Marjorie ( Riki Lindhome ) and the detective assigned to look into the uprise consistency count ( Rob Huebel and PaulScheer ) . Only the Vatican ’s elect exorcism team ( Garant and Lennon ) san preserve them – or can they ?
OUR TAKE : With a tagline like " From the Jehovah ofReno 911!“Hell Babyis mechanically corrupt itself a certain amount of comedic street cred . Probably worth a flavor ( if only on plate video ) .
1 60 minutes 43 min - R | Some Sexual Content / Nudity , Language and Strong fierceness
Cast : Vin Diesel , Karl Urban , Jordi Mollà , Matt Nable , Katee Sackhoff , Bokeem Woodbine
Director : David N. Twohy
leave for utter on a sun - scorched planet , fleeting Riddick ( Vin Diesel ) fights for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he has yet encountered . His only hope for escape is to activate an exigency lighthouse , but that brings with it a dissimilar job : mercenaries . The first ship carries an specially violent and deadly group ; the second is top by a man from Riddick ’s yesteryear . With time run out , Riddick realizes that neither group will leave without his head as prize .
OUR TAKE : By now you know if you ’re in or out for this third chapter of thatotherVin Diesel dealership - and we ’re in . HopefullyRiddickis the 2013Dredd .
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1 hr 51 min - R | Brief Sexuality , Violence and Language
plaster cast : Robert De Niro , Michelle Pfeiffer , Tommy Lee Jones , Dianna Agron , John D’Leo
Director : Luc Besson
The Manzonis , a infamous mafia family get relocated to Normandy , France under the witness shelter program . While they do their best to match in , old habits die severely and they soon find themselves handling thing the “ family ” direction .
OUR TAKE : At first glance , we ’d say something along the lines of " The AmericanmeetsMeet the Parents , " but then you throw in the curveball that this film is direct by Luc Besson , and suddenly we ’re wondering if comparisons toThe Professionalwouldn’t be more meet . We ’ll soon see .
PG-13 - vivid sequence of terror and violence , and thematic chemical element .
mould : Patrick Wilson , Rose Byrne , Lin Shaye , Ty Simpkins , Barbara Hershey
Director : James Wan
INSIDIOUS : CHAPTER 2 watch the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious puerility mystery that has left them dangerously colligate to the spirit world .
OUR TAKE : Wan is come up off a with child profits withThe invocation , butInsidiouswas a much more dissentious movie . With the director dropping intimation that the sequel will be more psychological thriller than ghost narrative - and that it will involve sentence - travel - we ’re more intrigued than spooked about whatChapter 2will offer .
form : Josh Holloway , Laz Alonso , Josh Peck , Caity Lotz , Chris Brown
theatre director : Benson Lee
Battle of the Year is an outside dance crew tourney that attracts all the best teams from around the world , but the Americans have n’t won in fifteen years . Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul Dante ( Alonso ) desire to put the country that originate the Sport back on top . He enlists his concentrated - chance friend Blake ( Holloway ) , who was a backing basketball coach , to train his team . Armed with the hypothesis that the right coach can make any squad champions , they foregather a dream squad of all the best professional dancer across the country . Inspired by an real competition in France .
OUR TAKE : This one is for theStep Upcrowd . You know who you are .
PG-13 | for crude and sexual subject , funny wildness , words and partial nudeness
Cast : Julia Louis - Dreyfus , James Gandolfini , Catherine Keener , Toni Collette , Ben Falcone
film director : Nicole Holofcener
A divorced and single parent , Eva ( Julia Louis Dreyfus ) spends her mean solar day enjoying work as a masseuse but dread her daughter ’s impending departure for college . She meets Albert ( James Gandolfini ) - a sweet , funny and like - apt world also facing an empty nest . As their love affair quickly blossom , Eva befriend Marianne ( Catherine Keener ) , her unexampled massage client . Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems " almost thoroughgoing " except for one prominent quality : she reprimand on her ex - husband way too much . Suddenly , Eva find herself doubt her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne ’s Ex .
OUR TAKE : It ’s one of Gandolfini ’s final film roles . That ’s enough for us .
2 hour 33 min - universal gas constant | raise up Violent Content , Torture and Language Throughout
form : Hugh Jackman , Jake Gyllenhaal , Melissa Leo , Paul Dano , Maria Bello
Director : Denis Villeneuve
Keller Dover ( Hugh Jackman ) is facing every parent ’s worst incubus . His six - class - old daughter , Anna , is omit , together with her young friend , Joy , and as minutes grow to hours , panic set in . The only lead is a ramshackle RV that had earlier been park on their street . know his child ’s life is at stakes , the frantic Dover decides he has no selection but to take matters into his own hands - but in doing so , he may lose himself .
OUR TAKE : A groovy cast of characters , but the director is something of an unsung quantity - and the release particular date has us worry that this picture with voltage could turn out to be less compelling than it initially seems .
form : James Franco , Jim Parrack , Tim Blake Nelson , Danny McBride , Ahna O’Reilly
Director : James Franco
As I Lay Dyingis adjust from the 1930 classic American novel by William Faulkner . The story chronicle the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased female parent Addie to her hometown for burial . Each character reference ’s personal turmoil and inner rumpus at meter threatens the fabric of the family unit more than any outside force .
OUR TAKE : Franco taking on literary greats ? If nothing else , we have a morbid curiosity to see how this turn out .
PG | for modest rude humor .
Cast : Bill Hader , Anna Faris , James Caan , Will Forte , Kristen Schaal , Terry Crews , Andy Samberg , Neil Patrick Harris , Benjamin Bratt
manager : Cody Cameron , Kris Pearn
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the cosmos when he destroyed his most infamous invention – a machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornado . But Flint soon find out that his invention live and is now create intellectual nourishment - animals – " foodimals ! "
OUR TAKE : The guy cable behind21 Jump Streetgot their start by turning the first motion picture into something wittily unique and fun . With them gone , the sequel looks rather bland .
1 hr 29 min - roentgen | unattackable graphical sexual material and duologue throughout , nudity , language and some drug habit .
Cast : Joseph Gordon - Levitt , Scarlett Johansson , Julianne Moore , Tony Danza , Brie Larson
Director : Joseph Gordon - Levitt
Jon Martello ( Joseph Gordon - Levitt ) is " Don Jon " due to his ability to " rive " a dissimilar adult female every weekend , but even the fine crack does n’t compare to the blissfulness he finds alone in front of the computer watching erotica . Barbara Sugarman ( Scarlett Johansson ) is a good old fashioned girl raised on romantic Hollywood movies about Prince Charming . Together , Jon and Barbara struggle against a media acculturation full of false fantasies to sample and find true amour .
OUR TAKE : On paper this might seem like the same tricky subject matter that made " The Girl Next Door " and " Zack and Miri Make a porn " fad - hit comedy instead of mainstream succeeder ; but we faith that Joseph Gordon - Levitt has both the wit and perceptivity to pull off a smart and relevant rom - com .
2 60 minutes 3 min - R | Sexual content , nudity , spoken communication , some disturbing images and brief drug use .
Cast : Chris Hemsworth , Daniel Brühl , Olivia Wilde , Alexandra Maria Lara , Stephen Mangan
managing director : Ron Howard
Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing , thrill portrays the beatify true story of two of the corking competitor the world has ever witnessed — freehanded English playboy Hunt ( Hemsworth ) and his methodical , brilliant opponent , Lauda ( Brühl ) . Taking us into their personal lives on and off the running , the two drivers push themselves to the break breaker point of forcible and psychological endurance , where if you make one mistake , you die .
OUR TAKE : This is the sports dramatic play WE require to see this evenfall , as it will undoubtedly offer up something raw and refreshful by research the Formula 1 earthly concern .
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stamp : Adam Scott , Richard Jenkins , Jane Lynch , Catherine O’Hara , Amy Poehler
Director : Stuart Zicherman
Having subsist the madness of his parent ’ ( Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara ) divorce , Carter ( Adam Scott ) now has a successful vocation and supportive lady friend ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ) . But when his young comrade ( Clark Duke ) bring lease , Carter is forced to reunify his bitterly divorced parents and their raw mate ( Amy Poehler and Ken Howard ) for the wedding , causing the chaos of his puerility to give include his buggy therapist ( Jane Lynch ) .
OUR TAKE : The mould has some top - notch natural endowment from both the old schooling ( O’Hara , Jenkins ) and new ( Poehler , Scott , Lynch ) - but this is also the directorial debut of the guy who wroteElektra , so there is a scrap of skepticism that need to be overcome before we can say this will be a slam - stuff shot comedy hit .
1 hr 31 minute - PG-13 | Intense perilous chronological succession , some disturbing image and brief hard language
mould : Sandra Bullock , George Clooney
Director : Alfonso Cuarón
Two astronauts ( Sandra Bullock and George Clooney ) retrieve themselves strand on a space station after a black accident wipes out the crowd and most of the structure . Alfonso Cuarón maneuver from his own playscript , which was co - written by his boy , Jonas Cuarón .
OUR TAKE : This task is a bold undertaking , but it is not for nothing that some former recapitulation are already hailingGravityas a modern masterpiece : after all , Alfonso Cuarón is directing it . Who better to turn the story of two astronauts err in space into something touching , poetical and pulse - pounding ?
1 hr 32 min - R | Language and Some Violent Content
Cast : Dane DeHaan , Metallica , James Hetfield , Kirk Hammett , Lars Ulrich , Robert Trujillo
Director : Nimród Antal
Starring Metallica , a mould of thousands of their fan and breakout star Dane DeHaan ( Chronicle , The Amazing Spider - Man 2 ) , Metallica Through the Never marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a compelling narrative , in which a ring crew appendage ( played by DeHaan ) is sent out on a charge during Metallica ’s roar live set in front of a betray - out arena . While on this mission , he by chance has his life turned completely upside down .
OUR TAKE : Sounds pretty coolheaded - if you ’re a Metallica devotee .
R | Language and some intimate message
Cast : Ben Affleck , Justin Timberlake , Gemma Arterton , Anthony Mackie , Oliver Cooper
manager : Brad Furman
When a poor college student ( Timberlake ) who cracks an on-line fire hook game drop dead bust , he arranges a face - to - face with the humankind he thinks cheated him , a sly offshore entrepreneur ( Affleck ) .
OUR TAKE : Good cast , but this looks like a B - pic thriller destined for Sunday afternoon TV glory .
PG-13 | For sustained intense sequences of threat , some violence with bloody images , and for substance habit .
Cast : Tom Hanks , Barkhad Abdi , Catherine Keener , Michael Chernus , Corey Johnson
film director : Paul Greengrass
The film focus on the relationship between the Alabama ’s commanding military officer , Captain Richard Phillips ( Tom Hanks ) , and his Somali twin , Muse ( Barkhad Abdi ) . place on an incontrovertible hit course of action off the coast of Somalia , both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces alfresco of their control . Based upon the book , A Captain ’s Duty : Somali Pirates , Navy SEALs , and Dangerous Clarence Shepard Day Jr. at Sea , by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty .
OUR TAKE : Director Paul Greengrass made a bowel - wrenching on-key - living dramatic thriller with the 9/11 filmUnited 93 -not to mention those heart - poundingBournefilms - so there ’s little reason to doubt thatCaptain Phillipswill supply the same sort of experience . WARNING : there will be shivering - cam .
Cast : Danny Trejo , Michelle Rodriguez , Sofía Vergara , Amber Heard , Charlie Sheen
Director : Robert Rodriguez
In MACHETE KILLS , Danny Trejo returns as ex - Federale agent MACHETE , who is enrol by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man - he must take down a madman revolutionary and an outlandish billionaire weaponry trader who has hatched a design to spread out war and lawlessness across the major planet .
OUR TAKE : This see even more outrageously trashy and exploitative than the first film - which is on the nose why it could be that rare superscript sequel .
mold : Hailee Steinfeld , Douglas Booth , Ed Westwick , Kodi Smit - McPhee , Paul Giamatti , Stellan Skarsgård , Christian Cooke
theatre director : Carlo Carlei
Romeo and Juliet , William Shakespeare ’s larger-than-life and searing tale of love , is revitalise on screen by writer Julian Fellowes ( Downton Abbey ) and conductor Carlos Carlei ( The Flight of the Innocent ) . This adaptation is say in the lush traditional setting it was write , but gives a new generation the fortune to fall in love with the endure legend . Every generation deserves to discover this lasting erotic love .
OUR TAKE : Every so often we require a new Romeo and Juliet story for a unexampled generation . While we personally thought thatWarm Bodies ' zombified reading of the Shakespeare classic was a prissy departure , this movie looks like it will examine to something more straightforward - only without the visual flare or creativity of Baz Luhrmnn’sRomeo + Juliet .
gas constant | Violence / harshness , some nudity and brief gender
Cast : Chiwetel Ejiofor , Michael Fassbender , Brad Pitt , Benedict Cumberbatch , Paul Giamatti , Sarah Paulson
managing director : Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the true story of Solomon Northup , a loose man in 1800s New York State , who was kidnapped and force into bondage on a grove near New Orleans , and his subsequent fight for freedom with the supporter of a Canadian abolitionist ( Brad Pitt ) . Steve McQueen ( Hunger ) directed from a script he co - wrote with John Ridley , based in part on Northup ’s memoir .
OUR TAKE : While we ’ve admired McQueen ’s work on plastic film likeHungerandShame , they’ve been more rumination on humanity than actual statements about it . We ’re not sure the same approach will work out in this case . But the cast is for sure in place to achieve greatness , so Oscar noms will probably be in the hereafter .
Cast : Chloë Grace Moretz , Julianne Moore , Gabriella Wilde , Alex Russell , Ansel Elgort
Director : Kimberly Peirce
A reimagining of the Hellenic horror tale about Carrie White ( Chloë Grace Moretz ) , a shy girl outcast by her peers and shelter by her deeply religious mother ( Julianne Moore ) , who unleash telekinetic terror on her small town after being labor too far at her senior promenade .
OUR TAKE : We love the two lead actress ( Moretz and Moore ) and Pierce looks to be exploring the psychical powers of Carrie in greater depth , but otherwise this remaking feel a bit too much like a more spectacle - given interlingual rendition of Brian De Palma ’s 1976 film .
Cast : Sylvester Stallone , Arnold Schwarzenegger , James Caviezel , Vincent D’Onofrio , Vinnie Jones
Director : Mikael Håfström
Ray Breslin ( Stallone ) , the world ’s foremost government agency on structural security measure , concord to take on one last job : breaking out of an extremist - secret , eminent - tech adeptness called " The Tomb . " But when he is wrongly imprisoned , he must recruit fellow inpatient Emil Rottmayer ( Schwarzenegger ) to help devise a daring , almost impossible plan to escape from the most saved and fortified prison ever built .
OUR TAKE : It looks like dense cheese , the only doubtfulness is : Is it YOUR type of cheese ? After lusterless solo rejoinder vehicle , here ’s hoping Sly and Arnold get a bit more boxwood function mojo back with their team - up flick .
Cast : Benedict Cumberbatch , Daniel Brühl , Laura Linney , Anthony Mackie , David Thewlis
Director : Bill Condon
OUR TAKE : Well , The Social Networkgot mass of attention ; Benedict Cumberbatch is gaining major observance ( see : Star Wars 7 ) ; and WikiLeaks is still one of the more interesting stories of the digital entropy age . But will this movie be with child ? With Condon ( Dreamgirls ) at the helm , it definitely could be .
casting : Daniel Radcliffe , Dane DeHaan , Ben Foster , Michael C. Hall , Jack Huston , Elizabeth Olsen
film director : John Krokidas
KILL YOUR deary is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg ( Daniel Radcliffe ) , Jack Kerouac ( Jack Huston ) and William Burroughs ( Ben Foster ) at Columbia University in 1944 , supply the electric arc that would lead to their Beat Revolution .
OUR TAKE : Did anyone stop up seeingOn The Road ? Because if that cinema was any reading of current pastime in Beat Generation movies , it does not bode well forKill Your Darling River .
Cast : Johnny Knoxville , Jackson Nicoll
theater director : Jeff Tremaine
86 year - quondam Irving Zisman ( Knoxville ) is on a journeying across America with the most unlikely associate , his 8 year - honest-to-goodness Grandson Billy ( Nicoll ) . Along the way , the duette will encounter manly stripper , dissatisfied baby beauty pageant contestants ( and their equally disgruntled mothers ) , funeral home mourners , biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens . existent people in unreal situations , induce for one really messed up comedy .
OUR TAKE : Are you a sports fan of theJackasscamp ? If so , this is a picture show you will definitely want to check out . For the general viewing interview : we ’re not expect the nextBoratout of this one .
R | For graphic furiousness , some grim images , strong intimate content and language .
Cast : Michael Fassbender , Brad Pitt , Javier Bardem , Cameron Diaz , Penélope Cruz
Director : Ridley Scott
accolade - winning author Cormac McCarthy ( No Country for Old Men ) provides his first original screenplay with this Ridley Scott - directed thriller star Michael Fassbender as a lawyer who dabble in trafficking drugs only to actualize just how dangerous a post he ’s catch himself into .
OUR TAKE : McCarthy is a god on the page , but will his singular stigma of prose and violent resource make an exciting cinematic thriller?No land for Old Menwas an almost word - for - word translation of McCarthy ’s rule book , so take that how you will .
roll : Naomi Watts , Naveen Andrews , Douglas Hodge , Juliet Stevenson , Charles Edwards , Geraldine James
Director : Oliver Hirschbiegel
On the occasion of the 16th anniversary of her sudden death , acclaimed director Oliver Hirschbiegel ( Downfall ) explores Diana ’s ( NAOMI WATTS ) terminal ritual of passing : a surreptitious love social function with Pakistani warmheartedness surgeon Hasnat Khan ( NAVEEN ANDREWS , " Lost , " ) , the human complication of which reveal the Princess ’s climactic days in a compelling new light .
OUR TAKE : If we ’re betting on one esteemed biopic for 2013 , this one is it . Watts always shines ( no pun ) , and this is the sort of Oscar - bait the twice - nominate actress could use to ultimately secure her awards aura . ( Or at the very least , her next nomination . )
Cast : Asa Butterfield , Harrison Ford , Hailee Steinfeld , Abigail Breslin , Brendan Meyer
Director : Gavin Hood
Genres : Action / Adventure , Sci - Fi / Fantasy
In the not - too - distant futurity , our planet narrowly survives an blast from a malevolent race of aliens know as the Formics . However , decorated Colonel Hyrum Graff ( Harrison Ford ) knows that the Formics will soon return even substantial than they were before , and he ’s driven to feel a new hero who can meet them channelize on . put down Ender Wiggin ( Asa Butterfield ) , a meek young man with vast untapped potential as a military commanding officer . As the last struggle approach path , Ender prepares to embrace his destiny as one of the nifty Hero in the history of planet Earth .
OUR TAKE : Hey , this is passably much THE big sci - fi smash hit to see this fall . It ’s also the product of a revered novel whose themes and approximation still vibrate nearly thirty years after its initial publication . establish on the dramatis personae and Battle School sequences alone , you’re able to count us in .
Cast : Owen Wilson , Woody Harrelson , Amy Poehler , George Takei , Dan Fogler
Director : Jimmy Hayward
In this irreverent , hilarious , adventurous buddy clowning for audiences of all years , point by Jimmy Hayward , two Turkey from opposite sides of the tracks must put apart their dispute and team up to move back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the vacation carte for just .
OUR TAKE : A well voice cast , the director ofHorton Hears A Who , and subject subject that both grownup and kids could potentially enjoy … could be forebode .
PG-13 | Sexual message and language .
Cast : Michael Douglas , Robert De Niro , Morgan Freeman , Kevin Kline , Mary Steenburgen
manager : Jon Turteltaub
Billy ( Michael Douglas ) , Paddy ( Robert De Niro ) , Archie ( Morgan Freeman ) and Sam ( Kevin Kline ) have been undecomposed protagonist since childhood . So when Billy , the group ’s sworn bachelor , finally proposes to his thirty - something ( of course of instruction ) girl , the four head word to Las Vegas with a plan to blockade acting their old age and relive their resplendence Day . However , upon go far , the four quickly realize that the decennium have transform Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined .
OUR TAKE : The plaster cast is the swelled sell , no doubt - but withNational Treasuredirector Jon Turteltaub at the helm , we have a bit of worry that the end result could be something close toOld Dogs- which is uncollectible territory in our book .
plaster cast : Domhnall Gleeson , Rachel McAdams , Bill Nighy , Tom Hollander , Margot Robbie
theater director : Richard Curtis
The dark after another unsatisfactory New Year party , Tim ’s father tells his Word that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time . Tim ca n’t shift account , but he can commute what happens and has happened in his own living - so he decides to make his world a better place … by getting a lady friend . deplorably , that turns out not to be as light as you might think .
OUR TAKE : It ’s a Richard Curtis ( Love Actually ) love story movie with a touch of time - travel sci - fi . Set your day of the month nighttime budget accordingly , fellas .
Cast : Chris Hemsworth , Natalie Portman , Tom Hiddleston , Stellan Skarsgård , Idris Elba
Director : Alan Taylor
Marvel ’s “ Thor : The Dark World ” continues the heavy - screen adventures of Thor , the Mighty Avenger , as he battle to pull through Earth and all the Nine Realms from a wispy enemy that predates the world itself . In the wake of Marvel ’s “ Thor ” and “ Marvel ’s The Avengers , ” Thor fights to regenerate order across the cosmos … but an ancient race pass by the vengeful Malekith returns to douse the world back into wickedness . Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard can not hold , Thor must embark on his most parlous and personal journeying yet , one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and ram him to sacrifice everything to save us all .
OUR TAKE : This is the Marvel " Phase Two " motion picture we ’ve been most curious about , and early dawdler have been promising . WithGame of Thronesdirector Alan Taylor have over the helm , the globe of Thor seems much more grounded and realized than what we see in the first installing . Definitely our Most anticipated movie of the Fall Season .
conductor : Malcolm D. Lee
After most 15 years aside , Taye Diggs ( television ’s Private Practice ) , Nia Long ( Soul Food ) , Morris Chestnut ( Kick - Ass 2 ) , Harold Perrineau ( Zero Dark Thirty ) , Terrence Howard ( Hustle & Flow ) , Sanaa Lathan ( Contagion ) , Monica Calhoun ( Love & Basketball ) , Melissa De Sousa ( Miss Congeniality ) and Regina Hall ( Scary Movie franchise ) reprise their calling - launching roles in The Best Man Holiday , the long - look next chapter to the moving-picture show that usher in a young era of funniness . When the college friend finally reunify over the Christmas holidays , they will discover just how easy it is for long - blank out rivalries and romances to be ignited .
OUR TAKE : The first cinema stay a religious cult - Hellenic African - American - led dramedy , and with the form and gang all returning for the 2nd chapter , we hope that the sequel delivers a similarly memorable experience .
Cast : Leonardo DiCaprio , Jonah Hill , Jean Dujardin , Matthew McConaughey , Kyle Chandler , Jon Bernthal
Director : Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio for this adaptation of Jordan Belfort ’s memoir about his exploits as a crooked banker . Terence Winter offer the screenplay . Jonah Hill and Oscar winner Jean Dujardin atomic number 27 - star .
OUR TAKE : Scorsese and DiCaprio are a somewhat active squad , and the subject matter makesWolflook it could be this generation’sWall Street . The first trailer certainly sold us on this " Scarface of Finance " storey .
PG-13 | Thematic elements , intimate capacity , some drug material , brief ferocity and oral communication .
mold : Vince Vaughn , Cobie Smulders , Chris Pratt
Director : Ken Scott
An affable underachiever finds out he ’s fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago . Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them lodge a causa to reveal his personal identity .
OUR TAKE : Oh Vince Vaughn , will this be the one that FINALLY gets you back to your former heights of comedic aureole ? We remain unbelieving .
PG-13 | For intense sequences of violence and action , some frightening images , thematic element , a indicative office and language .
cast of characters : Jennifer Lawrence , Josh Hutcherson , Liam Hemsworth , Elizabeth Banks
Director : Francis Lawrence
THE HUNGER GAMES : CATCHING FIRE start out as Katniss Everdeen has returned home good after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark . Katniss senses that a uprising is simmer , but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow machinate the seventy-fifth Annual Hunger Games ( The Quarter Quell ) - a competition that could transfer Panem forever .
OUR TAKE : Francis Lawrence ( Constantine ) is a somewhat underrated theater director , soCatching Fireis a prospect for him to really breakout and show the moviegoing masses his gift . The material is there to mold : the second book in Suzanne Collins ' trilogy is a much more complex ( and arguably gripping ) story .
plaster bandage : Nicole Kidman , Tim Roth , Parker Posey , Milo Ventimiglia , Roger Ashton - Griffiths , Robert Lindsay , Paz Vega
Director : Olivier Dahan
The chronicle of Hollywood actress - turn - princess Grace Kelly and the political dispute between France and Monaco in the 1960s .
OUR TAKE : tangible - life pals Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts go question - to - head teacher in dueling biopic memoir about legendary female icons ? The 2014 Best Actress category at the Oscars could get awk - Mrs. Humphrey Ward !
universal gas constant | impregnable violence , pervasive speech communication , drug depicted object and abbreviated sex .
Cast : Jason Statham , James Franco , Kate Bosworth , Winona Ryder , Izabela Vidovic
Director : Gary Fleder
A former DEA federal agent moves his folk to a quiet township where he ends up study down a local meth drug lord .
OUR TAKE : It ’s another Jason Statham B - movie action flick . Are you a sports fan of Jason Statham B - movie action at law film ?
dramatis personae : Kristen Bell , Idina Menzel , Jonathan Groff , Josh Gad , Santino Fontana
Director : Chris Buck , Jennifer Lee
When a prognostication traps a kingdom in everlasting winter , Anna ( vocalization of Kristen Bell ) , a fearless optimist , teams up with utmost mountain man Kristoff ( voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his sidekick reindeer Sven on an epic journeying to find Anna ’s babe Elsa ( voice of Idina Menzel ) , the Snow Queen , and put an conclusion to her icy enchantment . run into mystical troll , an amazing and comedic snowman named Olaf , Everest - same conditions and magic at every twist , Anna and Kristoff conflict the element in a race to save the land from destruction .
OUR TAKE : Meh , expect like a nice Holiday time of year liven up flick for the Thomas Kid .
1 hr 58 Fukien - R | stiff barbarous furiousness , disturbing images , some graphic sex and nakedness , and spoken communication .
Cast : Josh Brolin , Elizabeth Olsen , Sharlto Copley , James Ransone , Samuel L. Jackson
Director : Spike Lee
Obsessed with retribution , a man ( Brolin ) sets out to get out why he was kidnapped and lock up into solitary confinement for 20 yr without ground .
OUR TAKE : This is probably the most polar motion-picture show coming out this fall , as the originalOldboyadaptation by Korean director Chan - wook Park is consider a modern cult - classic . Spike Lee is a controversial selection in film director , and the " Americanization " of the subject matter is equally troublesome for hard-core fans ; so far though , things front good - and with manufacturer promising a darker fib than even the Korean version deliver , expectation are twit high .
mold : Idris Elba , Naomie Harris , Tony Kgoroge , Riaad Moosa , Zolani Mkiva
Director : Justin Chadwick
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela ’s autobiography of the same name , the story chronicles his early life story , come of age , educational activity and 27 years in prison before becoming President and work to reconstruct the country ’s once segregated society .
OUR TAKE : While Idris Elba is definitely a live commodity and a skilled worker , the impression of Mandela that director Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman crafted withInvictusstill disgorge a handsome apparition over this project . Can director Justin Chadwick ( The Other Boleyn Girl ) step out on his own ? We ’ll see .
R | Language including some intimate references .
Cast : Oscar Isaac , Carey Mulligan , Justin Timberlake , John Goodman , Garrett Hedlund
Director : Ethan Coen , Joel Coen
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a calendar week in the life story of a young family line singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk conniption of 1961 . Guitar in tow , huddled against the unforgiving New York wintertime , he is skin to make it as a player against seemingly unsurmountable obstacle — some of them of his own making .
OUR TAKE : It ’s the Coen Brothers , sure , but the subject topic looks very hit or miss , depending on the taste of the viewer . We ’re recall this one will be moreA Serious ManthanTrue Grit . Take that how you will .
Cast : Christian Bale , Casey Affleck , Zoe Saldana , Sam Shepard , Woody Harrelson , Forest Whitaker , Willem Dafoe
Director : Scott Cooper
From the critically - hail writer and director ofCrazy Heartcomes a engrossing and gritty dramatic thriller about fate , condition , and justice . Russell ( Bale ) and his younger brother Rodney ( Affleck ) live in the economically - depressed Rust Belt , and have always dreamed of break away and finding better lives . But when a fell twist of fate Edwin Herbert Land Russell in prison house , his sidekick is lured into one of the most fierce and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will almost cost him everything . Once resign , Russell must choose between his own freedom , or risk it all to seek justice for his brother .
OUR TAKE : This has " gamy prestigiousness video " written all over it . The cast is pretty stellar and theater director Scott Cooper’sCrazy Heartproved he has the insight to get beneath the jolty exterior of troubled manful characters ; expect another powerhouse performance from Bale .
Cast : Martin Freeman , Ian McKellen , Richard Armitage , Andy Serkis , Elijah Wood , Benedict Cumberbatch , Evangeline Lily , Lee Pace , Orlando Bloom
Director : Peter Jackson
Bilbo , Gandalf and the Dwarves have successfully get away the Misty Mountains and continue on their journeying to get their gold back from the firedrake , Smaug .
OUR TAKE : It ’s chapter 2 ( of 3 ) and this time there is a big tartar voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch and a hot elf played by Evangeline Lily . Hopefully our eye have now adjusted to that gamy frame charge per unit picture taking - and hopefully Peter Jackson and co. have a muckle more content to pose in their prolonged middle chapter of theHobbitadventure .
casting : Joaquin Phoenix , Amy Adams , Scarlett Johansson , Rooney Mara , Chris Pratt , Olivia Wilde
Director : Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze takes the helm for this comedy about a withdrawn writer ( Joaquin Phoenix ) who falls in love with his computer ’s highly sophisticated operating organisation ( Johansson ) .
OUR TAKE : Spike Jonze always presents interesting high - concept picture show that reflect real human emotion with speck truth . We wait this to be more of that .
mould : George Clooney , Matt Damon , Bill Murray , Cate Blanchett , Jean Dujardin
Director : George Clooney
The Monuments Men is a striking thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon , tax by FDR with run into Germany to rescue aesthetic masterpiece from Nazi stealer and generate them to their rightful owners . It would be an insufferable mission : with the artistic creation snare behind enemy lines , and with the German US Army under orders to demolish everything as the Reich fell , how could these guys – seven museum directors , conservator , and nontextual matter historians – possibly hope to follow ?
OUR TAKE : Hey appear , it’sOcean ’s ElevenmeetsInglourious Basterds … or something . This is definitely a " campy Clooney " output , but with titan like Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray onboard , there ’s plenty reason to keep it in mind .
casting : Will Ferrell , Paul Rudd , Steve Carell , David Koechner , Christina Applegate , Kristen Wiig
Director : Adam McKay
With the 70 ’s behind him , San Diego ’s top grass newsman , Ron Burgundy ( Will Ferrell ) , returns to the tidings desk in " Anchorman 2 : The Legend go forward . " Also back for more are Ron ’s co - anchor and married woman , Veronica Corningstone ( Christina Applegate ) , weather man Brick Tamland ( Steve Carell ) , man on the street Brian Fantana ( Paul Rudd ) and sports guy wire Champ Kind ( David Koechner ) - All of whom wo n’t make it easy to stay classy … while taking the body politic ’s first 24 - hour news channel by violent storm .
OUR TAKE : Hey , we were championingThe Legend of Ron Burgundylong before it raise into a craze - classic . If fans can keep their expectation in realistic perspective , we wait the continuation to deliver yet another strange in effect clip .
PG-13 | Thematic elements including some unsettling images
Cast : Emma Thompson , Tom Hanks , Colin Farrell , Bradley Whitford , Paul Giamatti
film director : John Lee Hancock
When Walt Disney ’s daughters beg him to make a film of their favourite book , P.L. Travers ’ “ Mary Poppins , ” he made them a promise — one that he did n’t realize would take 20 geezerhood to keep . Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers , Walt plunge an all - out onslaught on ' Poppins ' author P.L. Travers , but the barbed writer does n’t stir . It is only when he strain into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the spectre that stalk her , and together they set Mary Poppins liberal to ultimately make one of the most endearing moving-picture show in cinematic history .
OUR TAKE : Oh , were you hoping for a nice holiday time of year find - good cinema you could take the whole family to ? Well , Mr. Hanks is at your divine service , yet again .
Cast : Charlie Rowe
Director : Barry Cook , Neil Nightingale
Using province of the prowess 3-D to put audience in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world , this family adventure story centre on an underdog dino as it rejoice to become a torpedo for the ages .
OUR TAKE : Take the kids and enjoy . It ’s dinosaur , what ’s not to like ?
Cast : Keanu Reeves , Hiroyuki Sanada , Shibasaki Kou , Tadanobu Asano , Rinko Kikuchi
theater director : Carl Rinsch
After a treacherous warlord pour down their superior and banishes their form , 47 leaderless samurai vow to try vengeance and restore honour to their the great unwashed . Driven from their homes and dispersed across the nation , this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai ( Reeves)—a half - strain they once rejected — as they oppose their way across a savage world of mythic brute , shape - reposition witchcraft and wondrous brat .
OUR TAKE : Carl Rinsch is a natural endowment just waiting to breakout into the mainstream - but we ’re not quite sure this will be the film to do it . The samurai subject thing is great , and we ’re even willing to give Keanu Reeves the benefit of the doubt in the lead purpose ; however , the CGI supernatural act have us more or less worried that this could be something along the descent of theConanreboot . No thanks .
Cast : Christian Bale , Bradley Cooper , Amy Adams , Jeremy Renner , Jennifer Lawrence
Director : David O. Russell
A fancied photographic film set in the beguiling world of one of the most stunning scandal to shake our nation , American Hustle tells the tale of brilliant sting serviceman Irving Rosenfeld ( Christian Bale ) , who along with his every bit cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ( Amy Adams ) is forced to work for wild FBI factor Richie DiMaso ( Bradley Cooper ) . DiMaso agitate them into a world of Jersey powerbroker and mafia that ’s as severe as it is enchanting .
OUR TAKE : AfterThe FighterandSilver Linings Playbookit seems that David O. Russell has finally found his off - center niche examining the lives of eccentric ( and deluded ) Americana character . Stellar cast , look fun .
PG-13 | Sports activity fierceness , sexual content and language
Cast : Sylvester Stallone , Robert De Niro , Kim Basinger , Alan Arkin , Kevin Hart
Director : Peter Segal
Their savage competition take out nationwide attention , " Razor " ( Stallone ) and " The shaver " ( DeNiro ) were deadlocked for triumph when the former announced his retreat just before the critical 1983 match that would have declared the supreme champion . Three decade later on , enterprising boxing impresario Dante Slate Jr. ( Kevin Hart ) lures the maturate pugilists back into the doughnut for the engagement that everyone has been waiting for .
OUR TAKE : Dude , it’sRockyvs . RagingBull ! Sure it ’s a comedy from the director of50 First Dates , Get Smart , Anger ManagementandThe Longest Yard- but the assumption has us ( and probably a lot of other hoi polloi ) sold .
Cast : Chris Pine , Keira Knightley , Peter Andersson , Kevin Costner , Kenneth Branagh
Director : Kenneth Branagh
CIA psychoanalyst Jack Ryan uncovers a Russian plot to gate-crash the U.S. economy via a terrorist attack .
OUR TAKE : Right now , Jack Ryanseems like a conventional thriller with a few recognizable faces - Pine , Costner - avail it stand out . Hopefully Kenneth Branagh take the theatrical role back to hisHunt for Red OctoberandPatriot Gamesdays of adult thrills ; allow ’s leave those sillySum of All Fearshijinks in the rearview .
Cast : Ben Stiller , Kristen Wiig , Patton Oswalt , Shirley MacLaine , Adam Scott , Kathryn Hahn
Director : Ben Stiller
In this comedic version of James Thurber ’s short tale , Ben Stiller stars as Walter , a sissy reader for a magazine publishing house . Walter is constitutionally incapable of standing up for himself , so he draw back into his phantasy mankind , where he is heroic , poised , ego - assured , and the master of his fate .
OUR TAKE : The first poke had us both awed and intrigue by Stiller ’s next directorial campaign . Tropic Thunderthis is not …
( NOTE : Rejoice : noParanormal ActivityORSawsequels - it ’s been years ! ! ! )
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