Must See Movies On The Horizon Part 1

10 September 2010

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For many the end of the blockbuster summer will come as a relief, but it has to be said that the movie on show over the last few months haven’t really lived up to expectation.

But no sooner has the blockbuster frenzy died down and we are already looking forward to movies on the run up to Christmas as well as in the New Year, not to mention that Oscar whispers are already being to circulate.

So here at FemaleFirst we take a look the movies that are due out over the next few months that have got us all excited.  

- Red -  There have been quite a few good ensemble casts that have been put together this year but nothing has topped the cast that Red has pulled together.

Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich all join forces to bring the comic created by Warren Elis and Cully Hamner to the big screen.

When his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive.

- Due Date - now I don’t know about you but I’m a big fan of Robert Downey Jr so any movie that his in it is fine by me.

He teams up with Zach Galifianakis as filmmaker Todd Philips makes his long awaited follow up to the smash comedy The Hangover.

High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time.

Due Date is released in November.

- 127 Hours - Ever since Danny Boyle won Best Picture and Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009 everyone, including myself, has waited with baited breath for what project that he would take on next.

This time around the filmmaker takes on a real life story as he introduces us to Aron Ralston and his remarkable tale of survival.

James Franco stars in the central role as the mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

127 Hours is released in January.
 
- Black Swan - back in 2009 Darren Aronofsky produced one of the best movies of the year when Mickey Rourke burst onto the big screen as The Wrestler.

Two years on and Aronofsky is back with his new movie Black Swan, which brings together a great cast of Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis.

The movie is already gathering a lot of Oscar interest when it opened the Venice Film Festival earlier in the week.

 Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance.

She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her.

When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.

But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality.

Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan.

As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

Black Swan is released in January.

- Never Let Me Go - directed by Mark Romanek this is another movie that is already attracting a lot of early Oscar attention as the filmmaker brings Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel to life.

The movie sees Keira Knightley make a return to the big screen, this is her first movie since The Duchess, and she is joined by another Oscar nominee in the form of Carey Mulligan and the soon to be Spider Man actor Andrew Garfield. 

As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school.

As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.

Never Let me Go is released in January.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw

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