by Shannon Lintott
This year has flown by and yet we have been graced with many new movie releases but there are still many more to come. There are so many that it is hard to mention all of the fall/winter releases for 2011 but I have created a small list of movies that either interest me or have a lot of hype building around them. With only four short months left we are in for a treat right at the perfect time when we want to hide from the cold and enjoy one of these (in order by release date):
Drive (Sept 16)
Action/Drama
Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan
Pearl Jam Twenty (Sept 20)
Documentary
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Eddie Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Neil Young
Abduction (Sept 23)
Action/Drama/Mystery
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina
Moneyball (Sept 23)
Biography/Drama
Director: Bennet Miller
Starring: Brad Pitt, Bobin Wright, Jonah Hill
50/50 (Sept 30)
Comedy/Drama
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
The Ides of March (Oct 7)
Drama
Director: George Clooney
Starring: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Three Musketeers (Oct 21)
Action/Adventure
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Orlando Bloom, Christoph Waltz
Puss in Boots (Nov 4)
Animation/Adeventure
Director: Chris Miller
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (Nov 4)
Comedy
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris
Immortals (Nov 11)
Action/Drama/Fantasy
Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Henry Cavill, Mikey Rourke, John Hurt
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Nov 18)
Adventure/Drama/Fantasy
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Happy Feet Two (Nov 18)
Animation/Comedy
Director: George Miller
Starring: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink
The Muppets (Nov 23)
Comedy/Family
Director: James Bobin
Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper
A Dangerous Method (Nov 23)
Drama/Thriller
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Dec 16)
Action/Adventure/Crime
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Dec 21)
Drama/Thriller
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård
Tin Tin (Dec 23)
Adventure/Family
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Crai
What movie are you looking forward to seeing this fall?
Shannon Lintott works in production at a professional theatre company in Toronto. A recent graduate of the Ryerson Performance Production BFA program, she spends her free time exploring the internet, taking photographs, reading or writing on one of her numerous and addictive websites. The majority of her time is spent watching movies and reviewing them on her movie review blog I Like (good) Movies. Follow Shannon on Twitter.