As a long-time subscriber to Entertainment Weekly, there are two issues I look forward to and enjoy more than any other. The Summer and Fall Movie Previews. The Fall Preview arrived fantastically just in time to take on my road trip. Not that I read and drive…
Are you ready for 112 new movies this Fall? Like me, probably not, but here’s my quick and handy list of the ones I’ll try to catch over the next four months.
I barely watched any of the movies from the Summer List, but there weren’t that many good ones in the end.
Must see…
- The Informant! (September)
- The Invention of Lying (September)
- Extract (September)
- Where The Wild Things Are (October)
- Shutter Island (October – moved to February?)
- The Road (October)
- Nine (November)
- Invictus (December)
- Broken Embraces (November)
- 2012 (November)
- Avatar (December)
- Sherlock Holmes (December)
- The Lovely Bones (December)
Might see…(if time)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- Amelia
- Whiteout
- A Christmas Carol
- Unmade Beds
Make me see…(if you can)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (really???)
- The Stepfather
- Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself
- The Princess and the Frog
The Invention of Lying looks like this fall’s biggest turkey. Audiences are not going to get into it.
And 2012… really? It’s so silly that it’s hard to believe money was spent to make it…. (and it further proves that John Cusack will just make anything now).
I am willing to give Jason Bateman and Ricky Gervais a chance on anything. As for 2012, I don’t expect the plot and acting to be much good, but as with any decent disaster movie, it’s the sheer spectacle of the world coming to an end that merits attention.