Monday, February 17th, 2014
Every now and then a trailer for a movie I know nothing about rockets a film up my must-see list for the year. With that in mind, I’ll just leave this here:
Locke premiered at last year’s Venice International Film Festival, but it hits US theaters on April 25. It was written and directed by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Redemption).
Monday, January 27th, 2014
A Long Way Down by is the latest film adaptation of one of Nick Hornby’s books. This time, it’s adapted for the screen by Jack Thorne and directed by Pascal Chaumeil, a French director probably best known in the States for Heart Breaker with Patrick Dempsey.
The film centers around four people who meet by chance, when they all wind up on the roof of a skyscraper on New Year’s Eve intending to kill themselves, and deeply meaningful hilarity presumably ensues. Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots star as the four strangers, with Rosamund Pike (who also appeared in the Hornby-scripted An Education) and Sam Neill as Poots’s father.
It all looks a little cutesy here in the trailer, but presumably there are some darker moments waiting, unadvertised, within.
The film opens in the UK in March; there is no US release date yet.
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
This is my most anticipated, must-see movie of 2011’s Oscarbait season:
If you haven’t been keeping track of this movie, be sure to watch the earlier international and (domestic) teaser trailers I’ve posed before.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based on the John LeCarré novel. Adapted for the screen by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, and directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), this $30 million film version boasts an incredible cast, including Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, and John Hurt.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy hits theaters (in the US) on December 9th. It opens in the UK next weekend, on September 16th.
