December Movie Preview 2018: You know what makes holiday season merrier? These movies!
December is the close of the prestige movie season. This month isn’t as loaded as October, but more loaded than November. The top 4 are about as exciting of movies that will be coming out this year, especially the return of a certain British nanny not played by Emma Thompson…
Documents the rise of one of our modern real world superheroes, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and how she fought for social justice. Feels like it will be a crowd pleasing delight.
Even though it’s not starring Vinny Chase from Entourage, Jason Momoa is gonna be lots of fun as the title character, and James Wan the director will continue to prove why he’s one of the great ones working today.
Movie about star crossed lovers during the Cold War by one of the great Polish filmmakers. This movie won the director a prize at the Cannes film festival, so you know it’s good.
Natalie Portman playing a vapid, self-obsessed pop star managed by Jude Law? Um, yes! This movie should at least be hella fun, and could be a really stellar satire.
Sandra Bullock stars in one of the terrific premises of the year: she has to take her family blindfolded to a sanctuary because if you see the thing that threatens the planet, you commit suicide. Yikes Netflix!
Barry Jenkins follow up to the correct Best Picture Winner of 2016 should be another fascinating character study that also contains some societal critiques sublimely woven into the movie’s tapestry. Also, it’s based on a James Baldwin novel, so…there’s zero chance it’s not stellar.
Adam McKay’s take on Dick Cheney, VP to George W. Bush. McKay might be one of our smartest filmmakers working today (he made the financial crisis understandable), so watching him satirize the Bush administration will be a nasty, but totally clever endeavor.
Any person who says Mary Poppins didn’t leave a mark on them when they were a kid is lying. Emily Blunt assumes the mantle of one of the great movie characters of all time, with Lin Manuel Miranda assuming the Dick Van Dyke role. At worst, you’ll be smiling through this film the whole time. At best? Sky’s the limit.
Alfonso Cuaron has made so many great movies it’s intimidating to think about. This one gets the director back to Mexico, to tell an ode to the women who helped raise him. I’ve been hearing about this movie for months now, and nothing I’ve heard has spoiled my desire to see it. It should be Netflix’s breathtaking achievement of 2018, and maybe the movie world’s as well.
