Autumn is here, and so are the first major film releases for this weekend. You can read descriptions and view trailers of upcoming films at Movies I’m Looking Forward To.
One of the most anticipated is The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love). A charismatic writer spawns a new religion (like L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, perhaps?). The Master stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams and got good but not great reviews at Toronto.
Stephen Chbosky directs the screen version of his novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. A shy high school freshman is adopted by two unapologetically misfit seniors, played by Harry Potter’s Emma Watson and Ezra Miller (very different here than in We Need to Talk About Kevin).
In Trouble with the Curve, Clint Eastwood stars as an aged baseball scout who takes his daughter (Amy Adams) along on one last scouting trip. The cast also includes Justin Timberlake and John Goodman.
I don’t go to many shockers, but House at the End of the Street, with Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Shue, could be good.
Here’s the trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.