With the 2016 summer movie season coming to an end, let’s take a look at the upcoming movies for Fall 2016. The list is absent of the big budget movies many of you probably already know about. As much of a Star Wars, Marvel, or any franchise movie series fan as I am, all movies deserve love and I am here to let you know about the movies that may be off your radar. Here are just a few of the many upcoming movies. Hope you enjoy the list, and please feel free to comment or add any movies that you think I missed.
Kicks (September 9) [Limited Release]
Directed by: Justin Tipping
Music Composed by: Brian Reitzell
Starring: Jahking Guillory, Christopher Jordan Wallace (Biggie's son, for those of you who didn't know), Christopher Meyer, Kofi Siriboe, Mahershala Ali
Brandon is a 15 year old kid who lives in a poor neighborhood and doesn't look like he has much going for him. One day he earns and buys a pair of new Jordan sneakers hoping that it would help him escape his own reality. However, instead of becoming a beacon, he becomes a target and his ultimately robbed of his hard earn shoes. Brandon makes it is mission to retrieve what he worked so hard for.
Transpecos (September 9) [Limited Release]
Directed by: Greg Kwedar
Music Composed by: Bryce Dessner & AAron Dessner
Starring: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
Three U.S. Border Patrol agents come across a car filled with illegal narcotics. You would think these agents would simply turn the car over and find jail time for the man who drove, but a dark and twisted truth is revealed when the agents realize there is an insidious scheme within their ranks.
Storks (September 23)
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller & Doug Sweetland
Music Composed by: Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna
Starring: Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Katie Crown
Storks used to be the sole deliverers of babies, but in the 21st century, they now are the sole means of delivering goods for Cornerstore.com. The company's top delivery stork, Junior, screws up by creating a baby in the long forgotten baby factory. Now he and Tulip, the only human in the stork run company, must race to deliver the baby in time before Hunter, the stork boss, finds out.
I added this movie to this list over Disney's anticipated "Moana" because the content of this story seemed more clever to me. As a child growing up, the story has been told to me a million times about how storks used to be the ones who delivered babies. To see that story evolve with the times to depict that even storks change with the times by delivering goods that people want more.
American Honey (September 30) [Limited Release]
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Cinematography: Robbie Ryan
Starring: Sasha Lane, Shia LeBeouf, Riley Keough
A young girl finds herself travelling with a group of magazines sales people, but gets caught up in the lifestyles of the people she follows. She and the band of misfit sales people travel throughout the mid west to make money and have fun, but their lifestyle is what brings trouble in the first place.
I'm a sucker for these "coming of age" type of movies that show the disoriented youth striving to act in their own accord. This is a movie I am anticipating the most on this list, and I hope my anticipated is met to the high standards I am holding this movie right now.
The Birth of a Nation (October 7)
Directed by: Nate Parker
Music Composed by: Henry Jackman
Cinematography: Elliot Davis
Starring: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Gabrielle Union
This is the compelling story of Nat Turner, one of our nation's first anti slavery leaders. This movies explores the view of slavery from the perspective of Nat Turner and how he came to be the leader that we all know and recognize.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (October 21)
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Music Composed by: Henry Jackman
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders
Jack Reacher returns to his old military unit where he learns that he is the leading suspect in a murder that occurred over a decade ago. He investigates and begins to unravel something much deeper than expected.
Arrival (November 11)
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Music composed by: Johann Johannsson
Cinematography by: Bradford Young
Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
After a mysterious spacecraft lands on Earth, a small team is assembled in order to explore and find answers to why the spacecraft landed on Earth. Through all this, they must put their lives on the line to find answers and be prepared for a war that they are not prepared for.
Passengers (December 21)
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Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Music composed by: Thomas Newman
Cinematography by: Rodrigo Prieto
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt
Starship Avalon is a spaceship on a 120 year long voyage to a new Earth like planet to explore and live on. However, along the way, a malfunction causes two hibernation pods to open 90 years too early. Now, the only two people awake on the spaceship must survive with each other.
