Ruben Fleischer returns with something a little more serious than Zombieland and 30 Minutes Or Less, and it looks like he’s finally at home. As you might have guessed, it’s a gangster movie, set in Los Angeles, 1949, as mob boss Mickey Cohen comes up against a secret gang of LAPD outsiders trying to tear his world apart. Out in the fall.
“Based on true events”, Argo feels a little like Ben Affleck making an Oceans film. Starring Affleck himself plus Bryan Cranston, Kyle Chandler and John Goodman, the film “ca CIA ‘exfiltration’ specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.” Argo is out October 12th.
The final trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, though it struggles to hit the highs of trailer 2, the epic is still looking so very good. Joseph Gorden-Levitt gets screen time at last, while you can catch more of Bane and Selina Kyle too as Batman fights back from apparent defeat under a dreadful reign of terror on Gotham City.
Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) is back, this time exploring… what it means to be a man. Featuring some of the funniest names in Hollywood including Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Judd Apatow, Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis, Arnett and Bateman produce as they explore out what it takes to be “mansome”.
From Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, directors of Little Miss Sunshine, and written by Zoe Kazan, Ruby Sparks follows Calvin (Paul Dano), a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Ruby Sparks is out July 25th, release TBC in the UK.
Set in a future when time travel has been invented but is illegal and only available on the black market, a mob hitman’s job is to kill those who drop on his doorstep from some 30 years in the future, only his life gets all the more complicated when he finds himself sent back, as his bosses are attempting to “close the loop”. Looper sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt back under the instruction writer/director Rian Johnson and hits theatres September 28th.
Still playing on the successes of (500) Days Of Summer, Lola Versus is next up from the Fox Searchlight rom-com machine. Starring Greta Gerwig as 29-year-old Lola, dumped by her longterm boyfriend Luke (Joel Kinnaman, The Killing) just three weeks before their wedding, it’s up to close friends Henry, played by Hamish Linklater, forever ruined by The Future, and Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones) to get her life back on track. Lola Versus is out June 8.
The story of 12 homeless men as they prepare for the 2009 Street Soccer USA Cup, Street Soccer: New York “shows how sports can change people’s lives and it highlights the effectiveness of the Street Soccer USA organization, which helps the homeless get off the streets, find jobs and reconnect with family members.” Street Soccer: New York is an on-going Kickstarter project, help them fund the finished film here. Help worth giving.
Oliver Stone returns to the silver screen with Savages, a story about “Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best marijuana ever developed.” Savages is out July 6th.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane debut on the big screen, Ted “tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish… and has refused to leave his side ever since.” In theatres July 13th in the States, and August 3rd in the UK.
