Films to Look Forward to this Summer
June Films
The Watchers June 7th
Inside Out 2 June 14th
Black Barbie June 19th
The Bike Riders June 21st
Kinds of Kindness June 21st
Firebrand June 21st
Fancy Dance June 21st
Horizon Ch.1 June 28th
Quiet Place Day 1 June 28th
Inside Out 2
The movie on this list that is for certain going to make me cry, I’m invested in what we get to see happen to Riley, her family, and most importantly hockey. With a star studded voice cast expanding to people such as, Ayo Edeberi and Maya Hawke, this sequel is all set to be in contention of one of Pixar’s best sequels.
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos has been directing some of the best and weirdest films of the past decade. Following up the critical acclaim of Poor Things as well as best actress win by Emma Stone, it’s uncertain what oddities Lanthimos will visually display for us again, but with an expanded cast of Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer and Jessie Plemons, I know I’ll be sat in a theater as soon as possible to see this.
Horizon: An American Saga Ch. 1
Will Kevin Costner bring back the Western? Probably not, but will I be seated to find out? Yes, absolutely. Promising to be the sprawling epic of the summer, Horizon: An American Saga is attempting to succeed where the Fear Street trilogy did not, and where The Strangers Chapters two and three most certainly will not either, in the theater. Two films split within a couple months of each other, will Costner bring back the Western, or at least an epic moment of cinema? Only time will tell.
July Films
Kill July 4th
MaXXXine July 5th
Mouther, Couch July 5th
Fly Me to the Moon Jul 12th
Longlegs July 12th
Sing Sing July 12th
Twisters July 19th
Skywalkers: A Love Story July 19th
Deadpool and Wolverine July 26th
Didi July 26th
Kill
Promising to be one of the best action films of the century, and the most brutal film from India, Kill is set entirely on an express train to New Delhi. The trailer boasts of elaborate choreography and gore, lots of it. Picked for the Tribeca Film Festival, the action and set pieces seem promising, while the visuals might make you squirm a little.
Mouther, Couch
When your mother decides to sit on a display couch in the middle of a furniture store, there’s only one thing to do, get you and your siblings together and attempt to coax her out of her mental breakdown. Having premiered at the Tribeca film festival last year to mixed reviews, this odd comedy and family drama stars Ewan McGregor, which is enough for me to be interested in what is to come next.
Longlegs
Neon has been teasing this horror film cryptically since the beginning of the year. Not much is known other than the fact it’s going to (hopefully) be very scary. Anything that seems cryptic and odd that puts Nicholas Cage on its casting list seems to promise something special. His films of the last several years have ranged from exceptional to odd, but his performance is always captivating. Add to that, Maika Monroe who took horror fans by storm with her captivating performance in It Follows, if Longlegs sticks the landing it could become a quick cult classic and staple of the horror genre from this modern era.
August Films
Cuckoo August 2nd
Kneecap August 2nd
My Old Ass August 2nd
Trap August 9th
Borderlands August 9th
Alien Romulus August 16th
Horizon: An American Saga Ch. 2 August 16th
Blink Twice August 23rd
Between the Temples August 23rd
Cuckoo
Neon is attempting to corner the market of “Horror Films we Know very little about but like the cast of” this summer with Cuckoo less than a month after Longlegs. It’s good to see that Hunter Schafer is going to be on the big screen not just once but twice this season, considering the time between Euphoria season two and three keeps getting longer. With Dan Stevens portraying some kind of villainous figure, the trailer for this film reveals little except the fact that it’s creepy, thrilling, and at some points potentially funny. How scary the film will be is up in the air, but it does promise to at least be entertaining as we see these two actors face off on our big screen.
My Old Ass
A coming of age film that received rave reviews from Sundance, My Old Ass might be one of the best films of the year. While on a mushroom trip lead Maisy Stella meets an older woman played by Aubrey Plaza who says she’s “her old ass.” Sundance has always been one of my favorite film festivals, and with the glowing reviews of this film I don’t need to hear much more to know that I’ll be excited to see it as soon as I can.
Kneecap
After films and books such as Trainspotting I’ve been hooked on media that tries to capture the alternative and antiestablishment demographic of Ireland. Starring Michael Fassbender, who seems to always give performances out of this world even in bad films (see his portrayal of Magneto in the X-Men films), the film has been raved about being a blended comedy and drama. If for nothing but Fassbender, I’ll be interested to see how this film stacks up against something such as Trainspotting.