Fernando Meirelles the director behind City Of God and The Constant Gardner brings us a very different movie in which the residents of a City awake one day blind, without explanation why; why some have been spared its very much a case of follow my leader in order to survive. This is one of the movies I am really looking forward to. The movie stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Danny Glover.
The big movie this Christmas will be David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a story that follows a man on his journey from the end of his life to the beginning. This might not sound anything unusual but this is not told in flashback, Benjamin Button actually grows younger as the movie progresses. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett the movie looks magnificent from clipsseen so far, and could be a real epic.
Slapstick comedy gets a makeover several times as the autumn closes in first up My Best Friends Girl in which loser Dustin (Jason Biggs) hires the most offensive man he can find, Tank (Dane Cook) to help win over the heart of his girlfriend Alexis (Kate Hudson). This might sound like familiar territory but I'm informed there is something very different about this comedy offering.
Always a pleasure to see Anna Farris stars in The House Bunny, in which an ex playboy bunny heads off to university to act as house mother in a fraternity house filled with nerdy young women. The movie pokes fun at all the things that annoy those over 30 about the younger generation.
Man of the moment Shia LeBeouf appears in yet another massive budget blockbuster movie, in Eagle Eye his character Jerry finds himself a target of terrorists, or so it seems, not to become a victim but to become the perpetrator of a terrorist incident. Told for much of the movie in real time Eagle Eye is said to be the best thriller of its type for years and looks absolutely stunning.
City Of Ember looks like an interesting movie, after the fall of humanity the survivors move underground to start a new civilization. But after several centuries allowing the population to increase everything in the underground city is falling apart and the generators are failing, it's a rush for survival to make it from the city to the surface before everything is destroyed, but maybe the biggest danger yet is what is above the surface. Looking like a combination of City Of Lost Children, Beetlejuice, and The Poseidon Adventure; City Of Ember looks like a fantastic fantasy movie. With a great cast including Bill Murry, Tim Robbins, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, and Heathcote Williams.
Taking a step back and returning to the roots that made Will Ferrell successful his next movie finds him starring alongside John C. Reilly as two men joined by the marriage of their parents. Stepbrothers finds two men connected by fate trouble being both are still incredibly immature, and hate each other with a passion.
Based on the bestselling novel Twilight tells the story of Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart) a young girl who falls madly in love with a vampire.
Not for me I have to say but The Mummy series spits out yet another offering in Tomb Of The Emporor Dragon, most of the cast return with the exception of Rachael Weiz. This time our explorers find themselves battling creatures an army of martial arts trained soldiers.
Horror is on its way too first up is Midnight Meat Train in which a homicidal maniac played by Vinnie Jones stalks people on the underground tube system, Alias' Bradley Cooper is all that stands in his way, in this movie penned by the master of horror Clive Barker.
Tropic Thunder is a movie about a movie, and how a bunch of actors filming a war movie themselves walk into a real life war. Expect to hear a lot of good and bad things about Robert Downey Jr, who blacks up to play an African American actor. Jack Black and Adam Sandler also star.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona isa movie that has been shrouded in controversy but director Woody Allen is no stranger to controversy and this movie set in Spain is destined to be his most controversial movie yet. There is allegedly explicit sex between Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall and Oscar winning Javier Bardem, in this story about two friends who become besotted with the same man.
Henry Poole Is Here pokes fun at religion as Luke Wilson who plays Henry Poole discovers a strange stain on the side of his house, while all he wants to do is treat it others believe it to be the image of the Virgin Mary. But as people claim to be cured by the image is it just a stain or something else?
Nicholas Cage finds himself a hit man in a strange land in Bangkok Dangerous, a remake of a Pang Brothers movie, our hitman here finds that he must wrestle with his conscious after his target turns out to be someone he never expected it to be.
The Coen Brothers return to their comedy roots with Burn After Reading , astory about two men who find a disc that just happens to contain the diary of a CIA agent and all of his work, the Coen brothers poke fun at the lapses of security across the world as we hear weekly of similar stories. The movie stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Frances McDormand.
Quite familiar territory nowadays but Whiteout follows 30 Days Of Night and Insomnia in a story set in a snow ridden location where they battle the elements as well as the light. Kate Beckinsale stars as a woman hunting a vicious killer. More exciting however is the return of Tom Skerritt to big budget movie making.
Taking a nod and a wink from Arlington Road, Lakeview Terrace finds a mixed race couple played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington as they move to their dream home. Sadly their neighbour is a man with strict moral values who does not like mixed race couples or the public showing of affections. As he launches a hate campaign against them the couple have little choice but to call in the police, tragically however one of the leading local police is the same neighbour carrying out the campaign of mental and physical violence against them also stars Samuel L. Jackson as the neighbour from hell.
Earlier this year the Spanish movie Rec. Obliterated George Romero's Diary Of The Dead at the box office focusing on a deadly virus in a city apartment block. Quarantine is the US remake starring Jennifer Carpenter.
One of the last movies of the year is Frank Miller's The Spirit, following a similar passage to Sin City. A young cop killed in action returns from the dead to fight the forces of evil that hide in the shadows of Central City. Battling against a master villain known as The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) this movie is reported to be the best superhero style movie of the year. Also stars Scarlett Johansson and Gabriel Macht.
So that's it my brief look at some of the movies for the rest of 2008, i'm sure you'll agree the best is yet to come.
