Without delaying also with an intro a post that I should've written 3 weeks ago, let's just start this preview round with "The Shape of Water". Already having an early December limited release, the movie is the most recent by Guillermo del Toro. Based on the first reviews it seems to get a bit more close to "Pan's Labyrinth"/"Pacific Rim"/"Hellboy", otherwise said the better times, at least compared to the last movie he wrote and directed - "Crimson Peak", which I'd rather avoid remembering.
Obviously, the title poster for this month is "Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi". But more about this one in a future entry.
"Downsizing" is the most recent movie written and directed by Alexander Payne ("Sideways", "Descendants", "Nebraska"). At a first sight it seems to be a turn of the director towards something else more close to a light SciFi, compared with the previous line-up. Although if we think a bit, and we consider that in all the previous the location had a major role...
We begin January 2018 with "Proud Mary". What seems to be the female alternative to "John Wick". Hopefully it won't be as messy as the last attempt = "Atomic Blonde"...
Even though Aardman had some other cinema releases, the last animation directed by Nick Park - "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" - was in 2005 (5 years after "Chicken Run"). He's finally back: "Early Man". The only thing I'm afraid of is that I might expect too much after all these years, although the trailer doesn't look bad.
"Day of the Dead: Bloodline" is the second remake we see for one of the George Romero's classic zombie-horrors. The first was "Dawn of the Dead" in Zack Snyder's version from 2004, and that wasn't bad at all. Here, however, I have some doubts, the guy in charge - Hector Vicens - not having much experience with directing (not that Snyder had any CV in 2004...).
I noticed lately a drastically decrease in my appetite for horrors. However, I'll close the winter preview with something that caught my eye and is still in this area. In February we'll have the release for "Winchester". There's a house somewhere in the U.S. that was continuously constructed for several tens of years and finally left unfinished, currently reaching the status of a tourist attraction as one of the weirdest buildings in the world. The owner was the widow of the well-known rifle manufacturer with the same name. So, the background story of the movie is real, but probably heavily romanticized. In any case, seems to have something different in it...
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