New Year, New movies. 2011 gave us some great and not so great movies (didn’t have time to do a list with all the festivities and all), but I’m already over them and I’m now amped for 2012’s offering. For today’s Sunday Feature I’m dropping a list of my top 15 movies coming up this year. Check it out after the cut and lets hear yours.
15. The Iron Lady
Already touted to be an Oscar deserving performance from Meryl Streep (erm does she ever give anything less??), The Iron Lady takes a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, focusing on the price she paid for power.
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Richard E. Grant
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
14. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Now I just want to see what they do with this! Sick premise- President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. The movie is based on a a 2010 mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. I was very much interested in his other novel ‘Pride and Prejudice And Zombies’, but this is being made first, and that’s cool.
Stars:Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
13. Total Recall
The remake of the 1990 classic comes out this year, with Colin Farrell filling Arnie’s huge shoes.
Stars:Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine and Bryan Cranston
Director: Len Wiseman
12. J. Edgar
Based on the life of reviled and revered FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, this film would probably earn Leo an Oscar nom.
Stars:Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts
Director: Clint Eastwood
11. Men In Black III
They say third times a charm. Agents J and K return for more alien policing. This time Agent J travels in time to the agency’s early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
Stars:Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
10. The Hunger Games
When I first heard of The Hunger Games (based on a popular book series) and saw all the hype I dismissed it as the next Twilight. Well it is looking like the next Twilight in terms of impact, but sans the excessive emo stuff and snail pace, and with some tense drama and kickass action. With a climax of teens from 12 districts fighting to death a la Battle Royale, this sounds like fun stuff.
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks
Director: Gary Ross
9. The Bourne Legacy
Not much info on this film but its scheduled to come out this year, and you should expect a solid suspense filled ride. This time we have a new CIA agent on the scene.
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Albert Finney
Director: Tony Gilroy
8. Django Unchained
Tarantino returns with this movie about a slave-turned-bounty hunter who, with the help of his mentor, sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Expect some intense conversation scenes.
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz
Director: Quentin Tarantino
7. World War Z
Brad Pitt stars as a UN representative, who journeys around the World interviewing survivours in the wake of World War Z, writing a report on the great zombie war.
Stars:Brad Pitt, Eric West and Matthew Fox
Director: Marc Forster
6. The Amazing Spider-man
The Spider-man reboot comes to our screens this Summer. We now have a teenage Peter Parker getting into some sticky situations.
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan
Director: Marc Webb
5. Avengers
In 2011 we got two movies setting up the formation of The Avengers. This promises to be an action fest, with Iron Man, Captain America, and the rest of the team battling the forces of evil.
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joss Whedon
4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
We return to middle earth for some more epic adventures. This time we follow a younger Bilbo Baggins and a group of dwarves on a journey to reclaim a treasure. Director Peter Jackson promises to wow us just as he did with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis
Director: Peter Jackson
3. Skyfall
Yay Bond is back! The Daniel Craig era is not going badly is it? In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Stars: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, and Naomie Harris
Director: Sam Mendes
2. Prometheus
I know this will be hot. Dark and probably icky but hot. Just check out the trailer. The movie is still shrouded in darkness but IMDB tells us its about a team of explorers who discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Just the way I like my space sci-fi.
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender
Director: Ridley Scott
1. The Dark Knight Rises
No surprise with my number one right? The epic conclusion to Nolan’s Batman trilogy takes us eight years after the events of The Dark Knight. This time we have the chilling Bane as the main baddie, a terrorist umm terrorizing Gotham City. The posters and trailer hint on this being a hard outing for the bat.
Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Marin Cotillard, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Director: Christopher Nolan
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