Films to look forward to…
Here’s a collection of films that I am looking forward to seeing in 2009:
Drag Me to Hell – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127180/
Director : Sam Raimi
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long
Release Date: 29 May 2009 (UK)
Genre: Horror | Thriller
A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
The Box – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/
Director: Richard Kelly
Writers Richard Kelly (screenplay) Richard Matheson (short story “Button, Button”)
Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden
Release Date: 4 December 2009 (UK)
Genre: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don’t know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
Up – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (co-director)
Writer: Bob Peterson (screenplay)
Release Date: 16 October 2009 (UK) more
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family more
By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
This Side Of The Truth – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson (co-director)
Writers : Ricky Gervais (written by) & Matthew Robinson (written by)
Release Date: 25 September 2009 (USA) more
Genre: Comedy
Ricky Gervais directs alongside Matthew Robinson in a comedy based on the script created by the two aforementioned.
This Side of the Truth is a comedy in which everyone in the world does not know the concept of lying, creating a world where honesty is prevalent.
Ricky plays Mark, a down on his luck script writer for a film company who stumbles upon the ability to lie and begins to use it to his advantage. Due to people not knowing what a lie is, if Mark mentions something which is a lie they take it for the absolute truth, because in their heads they do not understand the concept of a lie, therefore if he is saying it, it can’t be one.
I’ve read the script for this movie and I found it quite clever in places. It’s quite a statement against God I must add, which is probably the effect Ricky was hoping for being an Atheist himself. You can find it here: This Side of the Truth Script(PDF)
Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, and Louis C.K. co-star in what is an excellent ensemble cast.
Shutter Island - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay) Dennis Lehane (novel)
Release Date: 9 October 2009 (UK) more
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller more
Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio team up as a pair of U.S. Marshals who travel to a secluded island off the coast of Massachusetts to search for an escaped mental patient, uncovering a web of deception along the way as they battle the forces of nature and a prison riot in this Martin Scorsese-helmed period picture.
Laeta Kalogridis adapts Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, with Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures splitting production and distribution duties. Ben Kingsley co-stars as the head of the institution where the patient resided, while Michelle Williams portrays Leonardo DiCaprio’s deceased wife, whose memory haunts him during the investigation. (Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide)
The Road – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
Director: John Hillcoat
Writers: Cormac McCarthy (novel) Joe Penhall (adaptation)
Release Date: 2009 (USA) more
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
“The Road” – Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winner bestseller from acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy (“No Country For Old Men”), “The Road” is a post-apocalyptic dramatic thriller about a father and his son walking alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food–and each other.
Second Skin – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183696/
Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza
Writer: Victor Pineiro-Escoriaza (writer)
Release Date: 7 March 2008 (USA) more
Genre: Documentary more
Second Skin introduces viewers to the real people who populate online virtual worlds in games like World of Warcraft and Second Life.
Couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players whose lives have been given new purpose, those struggling with addiction, Chinese gold farming sweatshop workers, wealthy entrepreneurs and legendary guild leaders – all living within a world that doesn’t quite exist.
Popularity: 64% [?]