Prisoners

When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRckdHq–c

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Director: Denis Villeneuve

Writer[s]: Aaron Guzikowski

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano

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Prisoners is a cool combination of cast and crew all with recent interesting performances and creations. Jackman coming off arguably his biggest back to back movies ever, Les Miserables and The Wolverine, and now he returns to a real movie role, nothing iconic; Gyllenhaal returning to the screen as a detective after his most extensively studied role as an LA police officer in End of Watch; cinematographer Roger Deakins‘ first film after Skyfall, which changed my movie watching world in terms of camera work, framing, and general cinematography. All in all, I have been waiting to see this movie for a while, and expectations and critics’ reviews are high.

The Wolverine

When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHG5emr77Ds

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Director: James Mangold

Writer[s]: Mark Bomback, Scott Frank

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Hal Yamanouchi, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Will Yun Lee

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With the total dominance of film the past few summers that is Marvel, it’s hard to imagine one franchise being as big as The Avengers and all of their individual films that has been going on as long. Well, actually, there is one: one character that has been in five films before 2013; one actor that has reprised a comic book role for over ten years, longer than the zombie and vampire fad that swept through television and film, and longer than the entire Harry Potter series. As you clearly know by the review you’re reading, I’m talking about Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. This is his sixth appearance as Wolverine, starting with X-Men in 2000, and ending [?] with 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Jackman has been a staple and an example for all of comic book films in our generation, and he finally has his own standalone film set in the present.

Thor: The Dark World

Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orfMJJEd0wk

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Director: Alan Taylor

Writer[s]: Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Don Payne, Robert Rodat

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Eccleston, Jamie Alexander, Zachary Levi, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Rene Russo, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard

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And so it begins. What has to be the largest, most successful, and broadest franchise in movie history, the Marvel Universe, is entering it’s Avengers 2.0 stage. While technically starting earlier this year with Iron Man 3, the Iron Man franchise was already established before The Avengers was on the scene, and with “Thor 2”, we enter the true second stage, which will also contain Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Avengers: Age of Ultron.