With the summer winding down, here are some of the below-radar films you can look forward to...
This looks like a really interesting and touching British film about a young bookish girl, Beth (Felicity Jones), who befriends a rebellious, aspiring novelist, Emilia (Jessica Brown Findlay). The two are polar opposites but strike up a friendship when Emilia moves into Beth’s town. The friendship is threatened when Emilia begins an affair with her friend’s father, which is set to devastate everyone around them. The film stars Julia Ormond and Sebastian Koch and is director Niall McCormick’s first feature film.
In Time
This might just be the sleeper of the autumn season.
In Time is set in a future, where the rich can pretty much live forever, while the poor have to earn every minute of their life, once they get past the age of 25. Plus, more damningly, a cup of coffee costs you four hours of your life. Literally.
It has a pretty fantastic cast too. Justin Timberlake, currently proving himself as a fine actor, takes the lead opposite Cillian Murphy, who, as we saw in
Batman Begins, plays evil roles pretty well. The support cast includes Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde and Alex Pettyfer. The film is written and directed by Andrew Niccol, a talent known for
Gattaca,
The Truman Show and
Lord Of War. All of this makes it a promising science-fiction film.
In Time is set for a UK release on November 11
th.
Wanderlust
Wanderlust is probably only really known at the moment as the reason
Jennifer Aniston has a new man in her life. She did indeed meet Justin Theroux on the set of this movie, but that aside it could be a film to look out for later this year. The story surrounds Anniston and her on-screen
