Natasha Hervatta
In the coming few months, 2015 is going to bring us some quality cinema. Here's a list of 25 movies that we just cannot wait to watch!
Stars : Ellen Page, Julianne Moore, Steve Carell
Director : Peter Sollett
Writer : Ron Nyswaner
New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Stars : Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain
Director : Guillermo del Toro
Writers : Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers. (IMDB)
Stars : Jack Black, Amy Ryan, Halston Sage, Odeya Rush
Director : Rob Letterman
Writers : Darren Lemke, Scott Alexander
A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Greendale, Maryland. (IMDB)
Stars : Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter
Director : Sarah Gavron
Writer : Abi Morgan
The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. (IMDB)
Stars : Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara
Director : Todd Haynes
Writers : Patricia Highsmith (novel), Phyllis Nagy (screenplay)
Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. (IMDB)
Stars : James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Brown, Andrew Scott
Director : Paul McGuigan
Writers : Max Landis
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today. (IMDB)
Stars : Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander
Director : Tom Hooper
Writers : Lucinda Coxon, David Ebershoff (novel)
The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. (IMDB)
Stars : Amy Poehler, Tina Fey
Director : Jason Moore
Writers : Paula Pell
Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. (IMDB)
Stars : Oscar Isaac, Daisy Ridley, Domnhall Gleeson, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill
Director : JJ Abrams
Writers : JJ Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan
A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). (IMDB)
Stars : Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard
Director L Justin Kurzel
Writers : Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie
Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. (IMDB)
Stars : Elle Fanning, Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon
Director : Gaby Dellal
Writers : Nicole Beckwith, Gaby Dellal
After Ray decides to transition from female to male, Ray's mother, Maggie, must come to terms with the decision while tracking down Ray's biological father to get his legal consent. (IMDB)
Stars : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, Drena De Niro
Director : Nancy Meyers
Writer : Nancy Meyers
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. (IMDB)
Stars : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingslet, Charlotte Le Bon
Director : Robert Zemeckis
Writer : Robert Zemeckis, Christoper Browne
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. (IMDB)
Stars : Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Mobin Khan
Director : Davis Guggenheim
A look at the events leading up to the Talibans' attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Stars : Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton
Director : Brian Helgeland
Writer : Brian Helgeland, John Pearson
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s. (IMDB)
Stars : Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Jessica Chastain
Director : Ridley Scott
Writer : Drew Goddars, Andy Weir
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. (IMDB)
Stars : Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Jimmy Vee, Rooney Mara, Cara Delevingne, Amanda Seyfried
Director : Joe Wright
Writers : Jason Fuchs, J.M.Barrie
The story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. (IMDB)
Stars : Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet
Director : Danny Boyle
Writer : Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson (book)
The true story of the life of visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs. (IMDB)
Stars : Molly Ringwald, Juliette Lewis, Ryan Guzman,
Director : Jon M. Chu
Writers : Ryan Landels
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. (IMDB)
Stars : Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Andrew Scott
Director : Sam Mendes
Writers : John Logan, Neal Purvis
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. (IMDB)
Cast : Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Louis CK, Elle Fanning, Diane Lane
Director : Jay Roach
Writer : Bruce Cook (book), John McNamara
The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he is blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist. (IMDB)
Stars : Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Director : Francis Lawrence
Writers : Peter Graid, Danny Strong
After being symbolized as the "Mockingjay", Katniss Everdeen and District 13 engage in an all-out revolution against the autocratic Capitol. (IMDB)
Stars : Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Krumhotlz
Director : Marc Abraham
Writers : Marc Abraham, Colin Escott
A biography of Hank Williams.
Stars : Samuel L. Jackson, Channing Tatum, Kurt Russell
Director : Quentin Tarantino
Writer : Quentin Tarantino
In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. Will they survive? (IMDB)
Stars : Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro
Director : David O. Russell
Writers : David O. Russell, Annie Mumolo
Joy is the story of a family across four generations and the woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. (IMDB)
I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. (The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath)
