WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
Dec. 20 More advanced than the animation in Land Before Time but just as heartwarming, Walking with Dinosaurs, set in the Late Cretaceous period more than 70 million years ago, follows three dinos — Patchi, Scowler, and Juniper — as they transition out of childhood into adulthood and lead their herd in migrating. Based on the BBC series of the same name, the film is produced by BBC Earth, responsible for the wildly successful Planet Earth. Directors Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook feature more than 10 different types of computer-animated dinosaurs in liveaction settings similar to the conditions the creatures were exposed to during the period, giving viewers an accurate sense of what the world would have looked like during the time of dinosaurs. Filmed throughout Alaska and on an island off of New Zealand, the movie, set to be released in 3D right before Christmas, is incredibly visually appealing and spectacularly produced. (Kara Stermer) Unrated
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of his eyeballs, and running into a pair of creepy, chanting sisters convinces his friends as well as Jesse that the bite is a mark, and he’s been invaded by dark forces. Written and directed by Christopher Landon, this horror film is shown in traditional Paranormal fashion, as Jesse’s descent is portrayed with shaky camera movements and crappy lighting. (ER) Not yet rated
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Dec. 25 It’s a world where Leonardo DiCaprio’s skin is dyed bright orange (but still looks outrageously sexy), Jonah Hill’s veneers overtake his mouth, Matthew McConaughey beats his chest monkey-style to emphasize his conversations, midgets are flung at bull’s-eyes for sport and ladies get wads of Benjamins taped to their bodies, just because. Welcome to the realm of The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie based on the illustrious career of stock trader Jordan Belfort, who, before going to jail for 22 months in the ’90s for illegal brokerage practices, partied harder than Lindsay Lohan could dream of. Directed by Martin Scorsese, teaming here with DiCaprio for the fifth time, this over-the-top material could turn severely annoying in the hands of a lesser talent, but with Scorsese will be one of this year’s highlights. The Wolf of Wall Street is exactly the pretentious film about pretentious assholes that we need at Christmastime. (LJ) Rated R
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES
Jan. 3 Hinted at in Paranormal Activity Four, this spin-off stars Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), who during a party checks out the mysterious apartment downstairs and discovers what seems to be evidence of black magic. When he wakes up with a bite on his arm, at first he writes it off as nothing but a wild night. Losing time, pulling black, goopy things out
HER
Jan. 10 This is a story of boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl falls in love with boy. The twist? Girl is a self-aware computer operating system that yearns, wonders and emotes like a human being. Imagine a Siri that laughs at your jokes, goes on dinner dates, and finally starts getting your voice-to-text messages right. Spike Jonze’s films stars Joaquin Phoenix as disheveled, sensitive writer Theodore Twombly and Scarlett Johansson’s raspy, seductive contralto as Samantha, Twombly’s sentient digital personal assistant, living in an L.A. in the not-quite-so-distant future. But Her isn’t a satirical take on our increasingly close and dependent relationships with technology. Raise your hand if you sleep with your smartphone! As Jonze told The New York Times, the film “really was about the way we relate to each other and long to connect: our inabilities to connect, fears of intimacy, all the stuff you bring up with any other human being.” (DP) Rated R
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