Now that the weather is turning, it’s time to cash in your bikinis for jackets and your poolside for inside. And with fall rolling in proper, there’s no better time to bundle up with your buddies or beau and go to the movies…especially this fall, with all of its promising features. So what movies are you excited to see over the next few months? Here are our top picks from now through the end of November:
Out 9/14:
Liberal Arts
Coming in hot from Sundance’s rave reviews, Josh Radnor’s second film stars himself as a college admissions officer who falls for a student, played by Elizabeth Olsen.
Finding Nemo: 3D
The question is not why, but why not?
The Master
Director Paul Thomas Anderson is at it again after “There Will Be Blood”…this time with an adaptation closely resembling the story of L. Ron Hubbard and his start of Scientology. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
http://youtu.be/phozNwKGlp4
Out 9/21:
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Based on the high school literary fave by Stephen Chbosky and starring Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Ezra Miller as the trio of awkward teens who come into their own together through music, sex, and drugs.
17 Girls
French film about seventeen young teenagers who decide to all get pregnant together. Wait, qu’est-ce que c’est?!
House At The End Of The Street
Well if you’re going to scare the crap out of yourself this Halloween season, it might as well be with Jennifer Lawrence as lead.
Out 9/28:
Looper
Sci-fi, action packed thriller starring Joseph Gordon Levitt looking like Bruce Willis when he was younger trying to kill his older self. Oh, and Bruce Willis is in it too. Confused much? You gotta see it to put the pieces together.
Won’t Back Down
Prepare to let your faucet leak…Viola Davis is in yet another epic, female-triumphant role. Her and Maggie Gyllenhaal plot to improve and take over the school her daughter attends because of its systematic failure.
http://youtu.be/0J5-w7a78Xg
Starbuck
If you can hack the subtitles for another foreign film, this one might be a hilarious and oddly heartwarming gem about a man who donates sperm early in his life, only to find out later that he has 533 children out there.
http://youtu.be/w2QvuAZWX3U
Out 10/5:
Taken 2
Continue the suspense as Liam Neeson plays the baddest dad on the planet with a very particular set of skills.
Frankenweenie
If you’re a Tim Burton fan, but can’t bring yourself to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas for the twentieth year in a row…this one is for you!
The Paperboy
A star studded film portraying a reporter (Zac Efron) who sets out to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack). Oh, and you get to see Nicole Kidman pee on Zac, just sayin…
Out 10/12:
Nobody Walks
A film ripe with drama…where a beautiful and aspiring film student moves into the home of a Los Angeles couple, inevitably testing their marriage.
Argo
Starring in and directed by Ben Affleck, this story is based on a too good to be true (but is) story of the CIA’s plans to extract 6 men held hostage in Iran through a covert fake film mission.
Out 10/19:
Killing Them Softly
Crime, the mob, and poker seem to go hand in hand every time. In this adaptation of the 1974 novel “Cogan’s Trade” by George V. Higgins, you get all of that plus a gun toting Brad Pitt!
The Loneliest Planet
Because, if you’re going to be waiting in the throws of suspense, why not do it whilst watching Gael Garcia Bernal?
Out 10/26:
Cloud Atlas
With a trailer of such proportion and a cast of such caliber, this film about our ultimate karma transcending time and space had better be good.
Chasing Mavericks
The true story of Jay Moriarty, the Californian soul surfer who was made famous when he and surfing mentor Frosty Hesson set out to master the legendary Mavericks break in Half Moon Bay.
http://youtu.be/6YYc3jRoua8
Fun Size
Hell hath no fury like a teenage girl who has to babysit her little brother the night of her crush’s big Halloween party. This fun high school flick is perfect if you would rather laugh than scream at your Halloween movies.
November Must Sees:
Lincoln
Three names: Daniel Day Lewis. Three words: Best Actor Nomination. Watch DDL as he portrays this country’s 16th president…Honest Abe.
Anna Karenina
Keira Knightley will likely be in the running for best actress for her performance as Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, the Russian aristocrat and socialite who lands herself in a very influential affair with Count Vronsky.
Silver Linings Playbook
Two crazy people make one whole entity, right? At least, that’s what Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence character’s in this David O. Russell film are seeking to find out.
Life Of Pi
Ang Lee re-creates the aesthetically fantastical world of danger, survival ,adventure, and a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker that Yann Martel wrote about in 2001.