While the fall movie season brings promise for hardcore fans of “The Matrix” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogies, there are a few other films students should be anticipating.
This fall offers little variety, but thank God there are no more sequels.
Suspense-thrillers are taking over the fall movie lineup this year. Evidently moviemakers want the audience to spend the season on the edge of its seats.
“Runaway Jury” has caused a lot of buzz recently, and the star-filled cast is enough to get anyone excited.
Gene Hackman plays the jury “consultant” trying to convince a jurist to vote against a gun manufacturer. Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz finish off the star-studded cast.
With hard-hitting stars such as Hoffman and Hackman, this movie looks promising.
In the thriller “Cold Creek Manor,” Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and wife Leah (Sharon Stone) are city folk who purchase a country mansion.
Unsurprisingly enough, the family that once lived there now haunts the manor. With the help of oddballs Juliette Lewis and Stephen Dorff, the movie might prove thrilling despite its overdone plot.
And although Stone is famous for showing skin, she keeps her clothes on this time.
The new religious thriller “The Order,” in theaters Sept. 5, features Heath Ledger as a priest on a mission. He tries to crack a case involving the church, murders and the supernatural.
“The Order” shows potential with dark lighting, scarily cloaked priests and Ledger’s horrific facial hair. However, it may turn out to be cheesy like “Stigmata” rather than disturbing like “The Exorcist.”
Comedy is the only alternative to stress-provoking suspense this season.
“The Haunted Mansion” is based on the ride of the same name at Walt Disney World. It is the ride where a plastic cart takes passengers through the mansion with animated ghosts and fake skeletons.
In the film, a New Orleans mansion is handed over to realtor Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy). He and his family must battle ghosts for ownership of the house.
Murphy proved he could carry Disney films such as “The Nutty Professor,” but his chances of carrying this film without the fart jokes are slim.
A great date movie due out Sept. 19 is “Anything Else.”
This Woody Allen film boasts a great cast. Stars include Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Fallon and Danny DeVito.
Biggs is typecast in the role of Jerry Faulk. Yet again, he plays a bumbling guy trying to score with his crazy girlfriend (Ricci).
A Woody Allen film is expected to have sophisticated humor. “Anything Else” could be hilarious as long as there is no pie or glue.
The fall movie lineup offers the yin and yang of entertainment and possibly some release from a sequel-filled summer.