Part 2 of the 12 month preview of the movies to look out for in 2010 brings us to February. Traditionally a month short on days but high on quality as many of the awards season favourites make their way trans-Atlantic. With the Oscar nominations opening the month expect a lot of hype over certain movies and some older ones return for limited runs.
The last week as seen a spate of new trailers, clips and featurettes appear for forthcoming features. Most of these are for the big Christmas time releases but some are for movies of a more unknown nature. First up is a trailer and TV-spot for the oft-delayed, and much anticipated, John Hillcoat adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal novel The Road. The story sees a father and his son walk alone through a post-apocalyptic America. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. Their only possessions are a pistol to defend themselves, the clothes on their backs, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food, and each other. Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, and Guy Pearce star in what is shaping up to be an incredible movie. The film is out January 8th, 2010.
Warner Bros. have given us our first look at the latest Clint Eastwood movie, Invictus, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation which is the true story of newly elected President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, played here by Morgan Freeman, and his attempts to unite his bitterly divided country through sport. No sport is South Africa highlighted the Apartheid racial divide more than rugby, and so Mandela set about rectifying the situation in the run-up to the South African based 1995 World Cup. Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar the captain of the host nation, desperate to win the Webb Ellis trophy for his team and for his country. The movie will be out on December 11th in the US, just in time for the Oscars and can be seen … There’s more
