The following is a list of top films that will be released until the end of the year (according to Rolling Stone magazine). Some TIFF films are repeated here. But with the films from the first half of the year, the Summer blockbusters, the larger TIFF line-up and this, we are getting a better idea (although incomplete) of the film line-up for 2018. There will probably be a few more foreign additions and late arrivals (like Phantom Thread last year). And I'm pretty sure Rolling Stone focuses on Hollywood releases. I'm going to break this up in two parts only because I dislike super long posts.
Part 1
A Star Is Born October 5th - Bradley Cooper makes his directorial debut in the third remake of the venerable showbiz melodrama. Lady Gaga drops her usual flamboyance to play it raw and real as a country singer. “She’s a revelation,” says Cooper, who takes on the role of the has-been singer who loves and mentors her.
Venom October 5th - Nothing like a Marvel epic to liven up the season — and Venom gives us a hell of an anti hero. Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock, a journalist who morphs into a toothy, bizarro version of Spider-Man known as Venom. The actor admits that the webslinger-hating character is all about “biting off heads.”
First Man October 12th - What do you do for a follow-up when your previous movie — the 2016 musical La La Land — made you, at 32, the youngest Best Director winner in Oscar history? If you’re Damien Chazelle, you make a biopic of Neil Armstrong and cast Ryan Gosling as the first man to walk on the moon. At the CinemaCon convention in April, the filmmaker said he just wants to take the audience on “an immersive journey"
Beautiful Boy October 12th - Steve Carell excels as David Shef, a journalist coping with the meth addiction of his teen son Nic (Timothée Chalamet, an almost-certain Oscar contender). The dual perspective of father and son gives the film a shattering intimacy and power. It’s a real-life drama that’ll take a piece out of you.
Bad Times at the El Royale October 12th - Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption - before everything goes to hell.
Halloween October 19th - Technically, it’s the 11th chapter in the Hallo'ween series. But director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride treat it as a sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 original. It’s four decades later, and Jamie Lee Curtis is still being terrorized by Michael Myers; cue lots of slasher-lick mayhem.
22 July October 19th -There’s always more to director Paul Greengrass than Bourne movies. His brilliant talent for docudrama, evidenced by Captain Phillips, United 93 and Bloody Sunday, comes to the fore in this harrowing tale of Anders Behring Breivik, convicted for a 2011 gun and bomb rampage that left 77 Norwegians dead.
Wildlife October 19th -Carey Mulligan is Oscar-worthy as a young housewife in Montana, circa 1960, who starts to unravel when her husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) heads to the mountains to ight wildires and leaves her alone to raise their 14-year-old son (Ed Oxenbould). In a stunning directing debut, actor Paul Dano mines the smallest details in the Richard Ford novel to create a portrait of a woman both afraid of and exhilarated by the stirrings of personal empowerment.
Bohemian Rhapsody November 2nd - Rami Malek, an Emmy winner for Mr. Robot, takes on the role of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen who died at 45 in 1991 of complications from AIDS and left a legacy of roof-raising stagecraft and hits. This biopic has had its share of backstage drama (original director Bryan Singer was ired due to “mysterious absences”). We still think it’s going to rock us.
Suspiria November 2nd - Why remake Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo horror classic? Because master sensualist Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) is behind the camera, with Dakota Johnson as a ballet dancer who uncovers some murderous secrets at a Berlin dance academy. Those who’ve seen the original know what they are. The rest of you will have to discover the scares and oh-so-spooky surprises on your own.
The Front Runner November 7th - Writer-director Jason Reitman takes a satirical look at the rise and fall of Sen. Gary Hart (Hugh Jackson), whose extramarital afair crushed his presidential chances in 1988. Based on political columnist Matt Bai’s book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, this blistering look back shows us how far America has — and hasn’t — come in the past 30 years.
