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The 1. 00 Most Anticipated Films Of 2. There’s now less than a month until Christmas, and after a start last week with our look at the Best Posters and Best Trailers of the year, this week commences in earnest our annual smorgasbord of movie love that is our annual Playlist year- end features marathon. We’ll be looking at the best and worst of films, performances, sequences, cinematography, soundtracks and more across the next few weeks, which will serve as a reminder that 2. But before we get to that, we’ve decided to look forward, with a peek at the movies that we’re most excited about in 2. Below you’ll find the films we’re most keenly anticipating in the year to come, and the good news is that it looks like we’re in for a belter — even at a hundred, it’s all killer, no filler, and we could have gone much longer too. They range from the biggest blockbusters to tiny micro- budget indies, from first- time filmmakers to veteran directors with five decades in the business under their belts, and with moviemakers from virtually every corner of the globe involved. Take a look at the full list below, and start marking your 2. A Cure For Wellness (2017) Theater Movie.

Click here for our complete 2. Craig Zahler (“Bone Tomahawk”)Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Marc Blucas. Synopsis: A former boxer becomes a drug runner, only to end up in prison and forced to fight for his life.

What You Need To Know: We went into 2. Bone Tomahawk” with fairly low expectations and came out overjoyed — it was a pulpy, poetic, darkly funny horror/Western that could be strangely beautiful and moving for a movie where someone gets bisected through the asshole by a mountain man who looks like a Predator. As such, it bought our undying loyalty to writer/director S.

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Craig Zahler, and we’ll be very much there for his next one, which has now wrapped. A more contemporary story of brutality, it seems to involve crime and prison boxing in some way, and while some might shirk from it, given that Vince Vaughn’s in the lead role, we’d remind them politely that Zahler is the man who got an interesting performance out of Matthew Fox in his last film.

Fox. Release Date: Nothing yet, and no distributor either, but we imagine this could be a TIFF Midnight Madness contender. Slate, newcomer Abby Quinn and Edie Falco have the leads in this family drama, and while the logline suggests that it could lean too heavily on the like- how- did- people- even- function- without- cellphones nostalgia, we have faith that Robespierre could bring us something special. Release Date: Premiering in competition at Sundance, where it’ll likely be one of the hotter tickets. For his next trick, he appears to be deliberately trolling Film Twitter by literally making a biopic of Jean- Luc Godard, focused on his romance with actress Anna Wiazemsky (who also reportedly had an affair with Bresson too, something we definitely hope makes it in). We’d expect something formally playful in its homage to Godard’s work, and potentially a tin- eared disaster, but we’re undoubtedly fascinated to check it out. Watch Bad Moms (2016) Online.

Jaime in the Water. Brett H.: I see people talking everywhere about how Jaime could possibly be alive, but how?! He’s way at the bottom Synopsis, cast and crew, and user comments.

When Game of Thrones returns this Sunday, Cersei Lannister will be ruling Westeros from her ill-gotten place on the Iron Throne. But with well-armed enemies closing. Directed by Abel Ferrara. With Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Graham. The Virgin Mary delivers a message to an 11-year-old girl. Easy, by him pulling a totally moronic move like making a mexican movie in mexican language.

Release Date: If “The Search” didn’t burn bridges with Cannes, this could well turn up there. Chad Stahelski has helmed the upcoming sequel on his own, in part because partner David Leitch (who also recently landed the “Deadpool 2” job) was busy on this project. Based on a graphic novel, it’s a retro spy thriller with a very promising cast, including Charlize Theron’s first big post “Mad Max” action role, and if Leitch can bring half the style and panache to this as he did to his Keanu vehicle, we should be in for a treat.

Release Date: Focus recently moved it up to July 2. But filming finally got underway last year, with Howard producing and Danish helmer Nikolaj Arcel writing and directing. It’ll pit Idris Elba against Matthew Mc. Conaughey, and Arcel’s taken an interesting approach, treating the story as much as a sequel as an adaptation (this makes sense for spoiler- y reasons), which should let them have some latitude to change things and keep things fresh for fans. It’s the kind of movie that could turn out to be a swing and a miss, but a delay to a prime summer release suggests that the studio is happy with what they’re seeing.

Release Date: July 2. We won’t spoil it here, but Donald Crowhurst’s story is one of darkness and madness, and a screenplay by the great Scott Z. Burns (“Contagion”) suggests it isn’t going to be glossing over any of that.

Firth goes from strength to strength too, and this should be a great role for him as well. Could it take him back to the Oscars? Release Date: Filmed back in the summer of 2.

Berlin. 9. 4. But with this year’s coming- of- age comedy “Tschick” seemingly serving as something of a palate cleanser, he’s ready for the big stage again, and this provocative- sounding drama sounds like it could be a return to form. Akin has described it as akin to “Taxi Driver,” but dealing with issues of immigration and racism as well, which certainly seems topical.

And he’s got a big name on board as well, with Diane Kruger starring in the film — interestingly, it’s the first German- language movie for the actress, who’s mostly worked in French and American film up to now. Release Date: Venice seems like the likeliest bet. In fact, he’s only getting busier — while many thought his Amazon series might cause a break in his movie- a- year schedule, it hasn’t been the case, as he’s recently filmed his 4. As usual, everything from the title down is still secret, but we do know that it’s a drama (a period one, judging from set pictures), and that it stars Kate Winslet in her first collaboration with the director. We also know that someone, somewhere will probably describe it as a “return to form,” and they’ll probably be wrong. Release Date: A later shoot might mean that a Cannes bow will be out, but expect it in the late summer or early fall. Like the work of Sebastian Lelio, whose 2.

Gloria” became a Playlist favorite, and won Best Actress for Paulina Garcia (more recently seen in Ira Sachs’ “Little Men”) at Berlin. Four years later, he’s ready to go with his follow- up, another drama centered on women, albeit a younger one this time, and it should help make his name known internationally even further.

In part because Larrain is producing, just at the moment where his name will start to mean more to people. Release Date: A return to Berlin seems likely. And yet here we are, five years on from “Prometheus,” hoping that Ridley Scott’s latest “Alien” prequel is the follow- up we deserve. A strong marketing campaign meant that “Prometheus” was feverishly anticipated, which only made its mediocrity (and that’s being generous) stand out all the more when it arrived.

But Scott’s coming off his best movie since “Gladiator” in “The Martian,” and this looks to move closer to his 1. Ripley- ish heroine in Katherine Waterston. But can the script justify the existence of the franchise?

As you can probably guess, last week’s episode of Game of Thrones—and its increasing dominance over the pop culture landscape—has filled the ol’ postman’s stolen mailbag to the brim. There are a few spoilers for last week’s episode, but more importantly, an answer to a question we should have been asking ourselves since the first episode: Should we want Daenerys and Jon Snow to fuck? Aunt, Man. Aaron W.: So I’ve been struggling with this question a lot: Is it ok to . So the aunt/nephew dynamic is an absolute deal breaker to modern audiences, but maybe wouldn’t be the worst thing in Westeros?

Lots of reasons it would be good, but one BIG reason it is unacceptable. Thoughts? Shipping is.

I’ve seen worse than aunt and nephew. And the show is definitely presenting them as future romantic partners/fuckbuddies, which makes it as legitimate as these things get. Their familial relationship may freak you out, but that’s sort of the point. GRRM wants to show a medieval, feudal- type era with all the awfulness most fantasies skip over. The relentless sexism, the rape and torture, the horror that regular people could and did experience constantly as the result of what the nobility chose to do—you can absolutely complain about how omnipresent it is in his stories and/or how it’s portrayed, but it’s not inaccurate to the source material of that reality. And one part of that reality is medieval (and certainly ancient) nobility’s tendency toward incest, especially between uncles and nieces—to the point where its got its own name, avunculate marriage.

As you said, the books/show have already shown that Targaryens have been more than willing to marry within the family in order to keep their bloodline pure, so there’s a precedent for Jon and Dany starting a relationship. And since we’re talking about an aunt and nephew here (since Jon is the son of Dany’s deceased brother Rhaegar) and not uncle/niece, a Jon/Dany hook- up would. I am far more skeptical that Jon would be cool with sleeping with his aunt, given the rest of Westeros isn’t nearly as cool with incest (hence Cersei and Jaime’s hiding of their sexual relationship—well, until Cersei took the throne and decided that yes, in fact, as queen she gets to have sex with anyone she wants, and everyone else has to deal with it.

Or be tortured and killed). But Jon’s problem is easily solved by keeping his parentage from him until after Ice and Fire have fucked each other. In fact, I suspect Bran is keeping/will keep the truth of Jon’s parentage from everyone until after Daenerys gets pregnant for that very reason. The Three- Eyed Raven knows this has to happen, so mum’s the word for now Or GRRM—or the show, for that matter, since we know it’s diverging from GRRM’s plan in major ways—could just throw a curveball and have Dany marry Gendry, the closest thing King Robert had to a legitimate heir, combining the Targaryen and Baratheon lines to create a progeny whose claim to the throne is unassailable throughout Westeros. Actually, that’s a pretty good idea!

He’s way at the bottom . No way Bronn can hold his breath long enough to get down there, cut all the straps to all the pieces of the armor, pull them off, and then also pull him to safety before they both drown.

I’m not going to say it’s unrealistic, since Jaime was pushed into the water to avoid a dragon, but the point of Game of Thrones is that it has fantasy elements but it’s still realistic in the basic laws of physics. So isn’t Jaime getting rescued impossible? You bring up a good point about fantasy, in that the best fantasy has a set of rules, even if the audience doesn’t know them, and doesn’t break them. Someone suddenly having a “hoist person out of lake” spell to save Jaime would be dumb. Tyrion running down the hell and begging Dany to have Drogon fish the dude who was about to kill her out of the lake is more realistic for Go.

T, but implausible in terms of Dany’s character and the time it would take for Tyrion to get down to Dany and ask for her to save his brother. So that leaves Bronn. Here’s one thing we all need to make our peace with first, right now: Game of Thrones the TV show has begun playing fast and loose with strict reality in favor of presenting the most exciting story possible. This is how armies and fleets are moving gargantuan distances in- between and sometimes even during episodes. It’s why Tyrion can pick out Jaime from half a mile away amid a battlefield full of smoke and destruction. It’s why Cersei and her allies can suddenly kick ass or all of Highgarden’s gold can get into King’s Landing with a mutter and a handwave.

There are only nine episodes left, total, as of the time this mailbag hits the nerdernet. The show doesn’t have any time to waste. Yes, part of the reason the books are so good is because they were sprawling and complicated in the way life is, and yes, the show is 1. I also, as I mentioned in my recap this week, think it doesn’t make any narrative sense for Bronn to push Jaime out of the way of a giant cone of dragon breath into a lake, only to have him immediately drown—if Weiss and Benioff are going to kill the character, having Jaime get turned into cinders by Drogon is a much, much cooler death. So I think the show will forgo realism (I mean, how was that lake at the side of that road a full 3. Bronn will cut Jaime out of his armor and drag him to the surface (because Jaime is the one who’s going to give him a castle, after all), and the Lannister will probably live to fight another day.

And I also think he’ll be the one to perform those (book spoilers) valonqar duties, and obviously, he can’t do that if he’s dead. Last time I looked, I didn’t see any friendly priests of R’hllor nearby. Where to even begin? Ser Barristan would have been the most solid member of Daenerys’ Queensguard due to military and combat experience, but his relationship to Rhaegar is most interesting. When Dany tells Jon that everyone loves doing what they’re best at, Jon disagrees. Ser Barristan once told Dany a similar story about her brother Rhaegar preferring singing in the street to killing.

I also imagine Ser Barristan recognizing the late prince’s resemblance in Jon’s face, posture, or personality. Although Jon is very much Ned Stark in code and hair color, there would be a few opportunities for the show to make that connection. Are there any dead characters that would’ve enhanced the current story we have without breaking the series? Barristan had to die because he had too many answers. He knew Rhaegar well, and he likely knew what Rhaegar was doing when he kidnapped Lyanna, or at the very least he knew whether Lyanna was kidnapped or went with him willingly. Even though we know the result of their union was Jon Snow, the reason why Rhaegar kidnapped her, thus starting a chain of events that killed most of his family and ended their dynasty, is such an integral mystery that it’s going to need to be saved until the very end of the series. Barristan may well have had those answers.

The show could get away with not acknowledging this for a bit, while he hadn’t been in Daenerys’ service for long and wasn’t completely trusted. When Dany realized that Barristan knew her family pretty intimately, and was beginning to ask questions about them—well, that’s when he had to go. Barristan literally died in the same episode he began to tell stories Rhaegar (“Sons of the Harpy,” episode five). So yes, Barristan would added a great deal to the proceedings, but would have added too much, too soon. My pick would be either Oberyn or Doran Martell, if only so one of them could make the Dorne storyline worth a damn. It would be cool so see Dorne have a major role to play in the great war other than serving as Cersei fodder. If a good Dorne storyline is off the table, I have to go Stannis, actually.

Seeing him somehow bend the knee to Jon Snow and becoming part of the fight against the White Walkers would be really satisfying on a lot of levels, I think. But those are just mine—add and explain yours in the comments.