Fall Film Preview: Major Directors Return With Passion Projects

What other than looking to fall’s slate of Oscar-baiting films will get us through the dog days of summer (besides, right now, an air conditioned theater and a cherry coke the size of our head)? Of course it’s far too early for much buzz to build up, but we still know which of the big studio releases, coming out when the weather cools down, are on our personal must-see roster.

Murder on the Orient Express

The Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s most iconic novels is the fourth film iteration of the detective drama,

By  |  August 7, 2017
First Trailer for George Clooney’s Suburbicon, Written by the Coen Brothers

Here’s a great combinatino of talents; a film directed by George Clooney, written by the Coen Brothers, and featuring an outrageous cast that includes Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac. Behold the first trailer for Suburbicon, Clooney’s dark comedy. 

The film is centered on father Gardner Lodge (Damon) whose life is upended when some guys show up at his home and kill his wife. It turns out that the peaceful town of Suburbicon has a seriously dark underbelly,

By  |  July 27, 2017