Quick Hits – Oscar Hopefuls:
Other People
Release Date: September 9th (limited)
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, June Squibb, Bradley Whitford
Director: Chris Kelly
Quick Analysis: Young man goes home to take care of his ill mother. Getting rave reviews.
Sully
Release Date: September 9th
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
Director: Clint Eastwood (American Sniper, Million Dollar Baby)
Quick Analysis: Looks like a better version of Flight. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks. Anymore questions?
Passengers
Release Date: December 21st
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
Quick Analysis: Sci-Fi drama. Another Jennifer Lawrence Oscar nod awaits. Get over it.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Release Date: November 11th
Cast: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Garrett Hedlund, Steve Martin, Chris Tucker
Director: Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain)
Quick Analysis: War movie told from a unique perspective. It’s Ang Lee, so we have to take notice. Aside from Steve Martin, the cast leaves a lot to be desired. Yikes.
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Loving
Release Date: November 4th (limited)
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon, Nick Kroll
Director: Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special, Mud)
Quick Analysis: An interracial couple face prison for getting married in 1958 Virginia. Stacked cast. Director is on a hot streak.
Miss Sloane
Release Date: December 9th
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alison Pill, John Lithgow
Director: John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Shakespeare in Love)
Quick Analysis: A lobbyist tries to pass gun control laws. Gee, I wonder if this will resonate with anyone?
Rules Don’t Apply
Release Date: November 23rd
Cast: Warren Beatty, Lilly Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Annette Bening, Oliver Platt, Steve Coogan, Candice Bergen
Director: Warren Beatty (Bulworth, Dick Tracy, Reds)
Quick Analysis: Not your average love story with Howard Hughes thrown in the mix. The trailer looks like a second rate Woody Allen movie, but holy everything bagels, look at that cast?!? Are you serious? It looks like next year’s Golden State Warriors line-up.
The Worst Movie of the Fall Will Be: Masterminds
Release Date: October 7th
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones
Director: Jered Hess (Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite)
There were no other options. This was in my Summer Preview 2015 article as a potential stink bomb. Yeah. It’s been a long time coming for this movie. Let’s talk about the director – Jered Hess. Yes, he directed Napoleon Dynamite, which is one of my “Rage Button” movies. Ugh. He also directed a film called Gentlemen Broncos in 2009, which to be fair, I have not seen. It’s supposed to be utterly atrocious. Speaking of atrocious, just watch the trailer. It will explain everything you need to know about why I picked this to be my Worst Movie of the Fall. And just as an added bonus, it reunites three of the four Ghostbusters from earlier this summer: Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. Yup. Another awful comedy where they can be wasted. Yay.
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Daniel Cohen is the Film Editor for Pop-Break. Aside from reviews, Daniel does a weekly box office predictions column, and also contributes monthly Top Tens and Op-Ed’s on all things film. Daniel is a graduate of Bates College with a degree in English, and also studied Screenwriting at UCLA. He can also be read on www.movieshenanigans.com. His movie crush is Jessica Rabbit. Follow him on Twitter @dcohenwriter.
Wow! You sound like someone who’s so educated on Fantastic Beasts!
If you were a Harry Potter fan you at least do your fucking research and find out that the beasts are not the focus of the film! I know you’d hoping for an underwhelming box office, but it’s fandangos most anticipated fall film! Stop trying to force your douchey negativity on all of us.
This films is about life in Wizarding America, no about beasts. You don’t care about it because you’re a lazy ignorant asshole who takes everything at face value. You seriously think JK Rowling would give us a story just about creatures? It’s a trilogy, you fuckin’ idiot. And it’s had massively amazing test screening reviews. Please stop writing.