Published: 07:45 PM, Wed Sep 01, 2010
Brian Dukes: Film season's must-see flicks
This issue contains our annual fall movie preview, which is exciting for a number of reasons.
First, it means that the blistering flames of summer will soon dwindle to little more than embers, allowing for a kinder, cooler fall season to begin. You can almost smell and feel it in the air now.
Can't you?
And second, the vast majority of next year's Oscar-winning movies will begin to crop up this fall and winter. So, really, fall is the starter gun for cinematic excellence.
While I won't waste your time trying to prognosticate which films will take home Oscar gold next year, I will share with you my list of fall films I'm really looking forward to.
Here's my list in chronological order:
"Never Let Me Go" stars Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan as clones grown for organ transplants. The film is set in a dystopian England and looks to be the thinking man's version of "The Island."
"Catfish" is the film I'm looking forward to the most this season. It's been compared to the best of Hitchcock, and judging from the trailer, the comparisons are dead on.
"Monsters" has brought about some "District 9" comparisons; the film involves a post-alien invasion world, where two people must make their way through alien territory.
"Skyline" will follow a group of friends who try to survive an alien attack in Los Angeles, where people are literally vacuumed into the sky by alien ships. Eric Balfour, Donald Faison and David Zayas star.
"Faster" returns Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to serious action flicks. Yay! Tom Berenger and Billy Bob Thornton also star.
Staff writer Brian Dukes can be reached at dukesb@fayobserver.com or 486-3523.