Ripping Good Yarns: Fall Movie Preview

Here are some of the movies I'm most looking forward too this fall:


Looper

Premiers Sep. 28.  Features Joseph Gordon-Levitt with prosthetics designed to make him look like a young Bruce Willis.  It is about assassins who loop through time to kill targets.  Time travel fun done by a good up and coming director.

Hotel Transylvania

Premieres Sep 28. Fun animated movie featuring the voice talents of Adam Sandler and his buddies.  An all supernatural hotel accidentally gets a human guest, and Dracula's daughter starts to fall for him.  Just be careful going necking there, pal!

Cloud Atlas

Premiers Oct 26.  This is a new movie form the Wachowski's who did the Matrix Trilogy.  This is a wide ranging tale that crosses time, the world and fictional genres, and stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant.

Frankenweenie

Premieres Oct 5.  Tim Burton's animated goof on the Frankenstein story, centering on a boy bringing back his dog Sparky.  Clever and creatively animated in stop-motion style and in black and white.

Django Unchained

Premieres Dec 25.  Great alternative history western with anti-slavery themes, done by the incredible director/writer Quentin Tarantino.  Stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey

Premieres Dec 14.  Peter Jackson directs.  From J.R.R. Tolkien classic.  Tom Strait watches.  Nuff' said!

Les Miserables

Premieres Dec 14.  I've never seen this in any version, nor have I read it.  But with Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, I might give this one a shot!

Lincoln

Premieres Nov 9.  Stars Daniel Day-Lewis and one of my favorites, Sally Field.  It is directed by the great Steven Spielberg, and centers on Lincoln's last days.

Anna Karenina

Premieres Nov 16.  From great Leo Tolstoy novel, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law, this Russian classic gets the British Masterpiece treatment.

Skyfall

Premieres Nov. 9.  James Bond's 23rd outing.  And like The Hobbit, Tom Strait will be there!


And there you have it!  A quick rundown of the ten films I am most interested in.  And if history is any guide, I should make it to at most two or three of them.  If any of them catch your fancy, find out more and give 'em a try!

Until next time, Rippers!

T.M. Strait