It’s easy to forecast the movies coming up in the fall. They’ll be intermittently bomby with a chance of pain and partly rowdy guys.
By all indications, we can look forward to a cooler-than-usual season populated by vampires, zombies, homicidal stepfathers, wild things, demons, aliens, astro boys and youths in revolt.
There will also be a front of animated features, with 2-D titles (“The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Planet 51,” “Astro Boy”), 3-D titles (“Disney’s A Christmas Carol” and “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”) and the precipitous release of a Pixar double-bill, new 3-D versions of “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.” Both have good Buzz.
Although one of the most anticipated movies of the fall, Martin Scorsese’s thriller “Shutter Island,” has been dropped from the forecast (it’ll reappear on our radar next year), the upcoming season has its share of high-pressure situations (“Saw VI,” “The Box” and “Jennifer’s Body”) along with unusual amounts of show (“Amelia” with Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, “Young Victoria” with Emily Blunt as the Queen, “Bright Star” with Ben Wishaw as the poet Keats). (Read more…)