Even though its Oscar season, there’s still plenty of great purely entertainment based movies out there while snobs like me are watching the latest foreign film or mid century period piece.
Below are 10 examples of movies that should excite every movie goer to use those gift certificates (or free trial period) from a relative who doesn’t know you that well.
There needs to be at least one Christmas movie families will go see right? Well throw in a little Game of Thrones casting, a little Crazy Rich Asians casting, and Emma Thompson, and you’ve probably got something cute and maybe a tad too saccharine, or, a perfect Christmas movie recipe!
A hot air ballon adventure re pairing Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. I imagine this movie’s gonna look really awesome in a theatre, like Oz the Great and Powerful meets Gravity. Plus some British period piece stuff for your grandparents…
What I thought was one of the worst reboot ideas turned out to be one of the bigger delightful surprises of 2017. With everyone back, this should at least be a fun time. At least the Rock/Kevin Hart dynamic is always enjoyable.
They’ve moved the opening date of this movie a lot. I know, because it appeared on multipleversions of these blog posts for me. But that doesn’t make it less exciting: Manhattan on lock down so a cop can try to stop cop killers from escaping in a short time window and Chadwick Boseman, who usually picks interesting projects. Wakanda forever! At worst this should be hella fun.
Sure, there are warning signs here: sequel to a near perfect film, weird Stephen King mythology. But it’s this high on the list because of Mike Flanagan, on the short list for best horror directors. Don’t believe me? He made a movie about a killer MIRROR scary as hell. I trust talent.
The last Star Wars movie and Avengers have stolen some magic from the original mega franchise. But everyone still is going to turn up to see how JJ Abrams chooses to end the Skywalker story and Star Wars as we know it changes…
Upping Michael Bay’s magnet ante is Roland Emmerich. Lest you forget, this is the guy who gave us the awesome dumb fun of Independence Day. And now you give him an aerial naval battle during WWII? Hell yeah! Sign me up!
I’m more excited for this sequel to a Disney Megahit, where everyone is back. We’ll see if they can recapture the magic of the special first, but my hopes are pretty high for this one.
It’s important to remember that The Last Jedi was a bad Star Wars movie, but a good film. Rian Johnson, the director, also did the stellar Looper. And now you give him an intimidatingly good cast and an Agatha Christie like whodunit? I’m SO in.
