Tom Hanks plays the airline pilot who crash landed a plane on the Hudson River in 2009. “ Sully” (September 9): Clint Eastwood returns to the director’s chair after the huge box office success of 2014’s “American Sniper,” this time focusing on another revered American hero, Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger. And of course, all of these titles will be reviewed at during their week of release. Be sure to check in on which films are good or bad, and take note as to how each of these movies have helped keep cinema alive. We’ll be covering many of these titles in the next few weeks as our festival coverage ramps up, so be sure to check back at our festival page for updates.
(Sorry, “The Edge of Seventeen,” “The Handmaiden,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Keeping Up with the Jonses” and many, many others.) These are just 50 titles that indulge my interests and optimism during the upcoming next fourth months, featuring theatrical releases of the mainstream, indie and foreign variety. But even the lesser entries will help keep the experience of film alive by lighting up the silver screen.īelow I’ve assembled a list of films that I’m excited for this season, a task that proved difficult with so many titles that had to be cut. Some will very likely be very bad, if not disastrous. Some of them are preceded by their huge passion to exist, as with Warren Beatty’s “Rules Don’t Apply,” essentially 40 years in the making, or Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating missionary epic “Silence.” Others boast, at the very least, exciting casting choices (“Queen of Katwe”), promising directorial association (Ang Lee with his “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”), or thrilling collaborations (“Moana”). Some films listed below have already been seen by yours truly, some I’ve read about from recent festivals and there’s plenty that only exist for now to the public as a poster, an IMDb page and maybe a trailer. I’m a ruthless optimist, so the next four months of movies big and small seems like the change of menu we need.