These films all sound good except one. Fifty Shades of Grey seems really out of place on this list.
I can't believe they made a movie out of that god-awful book. LOL
Oh, I can believe they made a movie out of a god-awful book that sells eight gazillion copies.
-Ian McKellen plays Sherlock as a bee-keeping retiree in his 90s looking back over his career in Mr Holmes. Bill ‘God and Monsters’ Condon directs. -Having made his name with the low-budget Weekend, British director Andrew Haigh scales up with 45 Years, a study of a long-married couple with explosive secrets. Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling star -Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in Woman in Gold, a based-on-truth study of a Holocaust survivor and her lawyer who are fighting to reclaim a Klimt painting after it was stolen by the Nazis. Simon Curtis directs -Werner Herzog has rounded up a strong cast – James Franco, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis – for Queen of the Desert, a biopic of traveller/diplomat Gertrude Bell, who was instrumental in the creation of Iraq in the 1920s[/i]
"...and some obscure, little-known film about a student journalist who interviews a rich businessman"
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Thanks, Gil. Looks like another good film year coming up. BTW, I saw U-Carmen eKhayelitsha on a plane; it featured the fiercest Carmen I've ever seen! And, Queen of the Desert is a fascinating biography, and should make a good film.
You bet! It's gonna make a shit-load of money.I wish I owned a piece of it! Or, at least, somebody expects it's gonna make a shit-load of money.
But it stars the adorable Jamie Dornan who is so good as the serial killer in The Fall.You have to watch him on the Graham Norton Show as he explains how he learned how to walk, it's hilarious: