Anticipated Movies This Year

Happy 2013 to you all!  Another exciting year ahead of us and completely new release of movies to look forward to in the next twelve months.  I’ve put together a list of probably most anticipated and looked forward movies of 2013.  Some of these films are a MUST to add to your calendar and marked as TO-DO. 

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McCullin

Directed by David Morris

Released 1 January

Documentary portrait of the photographer Don McCullin is necessarily a distillation of the most harrowing atrocities witnessed since the Second World War.  His startling images, some beautiful, many horrible, attest to his bravery, but also to his quick eye and artistic sense of composition, the picture of a shocked Belfast woman cowering in a doorway as soldiers charge past is a marvel of timing.

The Gangster Squad

Directed by Ruben Fleischer

Released January 2013

A chronicle of the LAPD’s fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s.

Jobs

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern

Released 2013 TBC

The story of Steve Jobs’ ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

A Good Day To Die Hard

Directed by John Moore

Released February 2013

John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.

Flight

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Released 1 February

An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

Twelve Years A Slave

Directed by Steve McQueen

Released Winter 2013

A man living in New York during the mid-1800s is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the deep south. Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch star.

Hitchcock

Directed by Sacha Gervasi

Released February 2013

A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.

Star Strek Into Darkness

Directed by J.J Abrams

Released 14 February

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

Cloud Atlas

Directed by Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer

Released 22 February

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

The Grandmaster

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Released 2013

The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee. Going head-to-head in the post production perfectionism stakes with Terrence Malick.

Upstream Color

Directed by Shane Carruth

Released 2013 TBC

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

No

Directed by Pablo Larraín

Released 8 February

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum.

Evil Dead

Directed by Fede Alvarez

Released 19 April

Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with her brother and a group of friends, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads to danger and horror.

Side Effects

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Released 15 March

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband’s upcoming release from prison.

Neighbouring Sounds

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Released 2013

Life in a middle-class neighborhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear.

Iron Man 3

Directed by Shane Black

Released 2013

Tony Stark uses his ingenuity to fight those who destroyed his private world and soon goes up against his most powerful enemy yet: the Mandarin.