After a dry spell, we’re starting to get promising movies by the handful. This weekend will bring a promising Hollywood romantic comedy, The Five-Year Engagement, the animated Pirates! Band of Misfits and the indie thriller The Hunter.
The Five-Year Engagement features Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s writer-star Jason Segal and the director Nicholas Stoller, plus Emily Blunt.
Pirates! Band of Misfits comes from Aardman Studios, the folks that created Wallace and Gromit.
The weekend after will bring The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a story of aged Brits seeking a low-budget retirement in India that looks like fluff, but fun fluff. Great cast: Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey).
You can read descriptions and watch the trailers on my Movies I’m Looking Forward To page.
In The Hunter, Willem Dafoe stars as a hunter sent to find the Tasmanian Tiger, thought extinct. He looks for the beast, finds a thriller. Here’s the trailer.