![]() ![]() Spike Lee directed this one, with Josh Brolin as the antihero. Oldboy It’s not an original idea, but we can’t resist the idea of this makeover of an ultra-violent 2003 Korean movie about a man mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years who seeks revenge on his captors. Jake Gyllenhaal stars while red-blooded Canadians such as Sarah Gadon fill out the cast alongside Isabella Rossellini. 4)Īn Enemy Since we’re on the subject of crossover hits from Quebec, who isn’t curious to see what Incendies director Denis Villeneuve will do with his big-budget adaptation of Jose Saramago’s novel about a man who sees his doppelgänger in a movie theatre. With Vince Vaughn as the oblivious patriarch and Scott returning to direct this Steven Spielberg-produced remake, this could mark the beginning of a whole new English-French friendship. This one is a remake of Starbuck, the mega-grossing blockbuster from director Ken Scott starring Patrick Huard as a sperm donor who meets his many, many, many children. But we’ve never actually seen a French-Canadian movie made by Hollywood. The Delivery Man We’ve seen lots of French movies remade in English. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Tobey Maguire shouldering the heavy load, this one might work so well, it’ll make you take a holiday. ![]() When it turns out he’s an escaped convict, things get a little darker than our depressive mom could have imagined. Labor Day Based on Joyce Maynard’s novel, this new film from Jason Reitman tells the story of a downtrodden single mom who makes the mistake of offering a stranger a ride. Fiasco or blockbuster of the living dead? (June 21) Paramount Pictures Filming started in 2011, and has been delayed several times, once when Hungarian officials seized firearms used in the film because they were real and not props, and most recently when the ending was rewritten. Brad Pitt, who also produced, stars as a researcher seeking the reason for a worldwide zombie infestation, a mystery that could take three movies, but only if this one - at US$180-million and rising, the most expensive zombie film in history - ever gets done. World War Z The bestselling zombie book by Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks, by the way) is having a slow lurch to the movie theatres. A movie that should shimmy and shake under Baz Luhrmann’s direction, this one seems worth taking out the Stutz Bearcat. Scott Fitzgerald’s undisputed classic remain as timely as ever. Either way, this movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan as Jay and Daisy is bound to make a dent in the public psyche. Gatsby Or The Great Gatsby, if you’re a traditionalist. With Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz as co-stars, it’s hard to imagine this one going the way of The Hobbit. It’s been many generations since anyone had the guts to plunder the legacy of a classic that still holds the screen, but there’s something about this Sam Raimi movie that tweaks the imagination because it gives us the back story of the Wizard, and the man behind the curtain. Oz: The Great and Powerful You’ve probably seen the trailers already, with James Franco staring almost vacantly into a funnel cloud and landing smack dab in the middle of Oz. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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