I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontrunner Precious, but when the cover gives me a picture of Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in a Nancy Meyers flick, I am happy. It’s Complicated opens on December 25 and I for one cannot wait to see it. It’s looks to be Something’s Gotta Give but even better.
I am also psyched for Sandra Bullock’s new film (she has been busy this year) The Blind Side based on the Michael Lewis book. It’s about a white couple from Memphis who take in a homeless very large African-American teenager and makes him a part of their family. Here’s the description: “A cross-pollination of heart warming family film and rousing sports movie, with a little Erin Brockovich social consciousness thrown in…” My kind of movie. Sounds like this film can get the guys and the girls.
The whispers are starting about Bullock’s performance (haven’t seen it yet) as Oscar material but she shuns that kind of conversation.
“People who do what I do don’t do award winning films…which is kind of a relief…I’d rather roll home, put on the jeans, go outside, pick up dog poop, or go for a run or something.”
Another reason why I love her. She’d rather pick up dog poop than wear a fancy dress.
Then of course there is juggernaut of Twilight- New Moon which opens opposite The Blind Side and this movie will be HUGE. (working on a separate post about this.) I think it will beat Twilight’s 68 million opening weekend numbers.
I’m about to see The Private Lives of Pippa Lee written and directed by Rebecca Miller based on her own novel starring Robin Wright. Wright who has shed soon to be ex Sean’s last name feels like she has finally gotten a juicy role and she is psyched:
Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and the Kates have all gotten great roles, and were so good in them, and now I got one…I finally got one.
Here’s a little shout out to the adorable Anna Kendrick who at 24 really holds her own opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air. Here’s what she said that got me loving her:
My character is so rare. She doesn’t have sex with anybody. She doesn’t revolve around the boy. She’s smart and complicated and really messed up.
She knows the it may be a while because she gets another character like this, which incidentally writer/director Jason Reitman wrote with her in mind.
I’m going to have to deal with a lot of characters that revolve around a guy or just aren’t that well-rounded.
Isn’t it sad that a 24 year old knows that she may have already have gotten the best part of her career already? Hopefully, that’s not true since based on her performance and the Oscar buzz, she’s going to be around a long, long time.
Other movies (including some that star guys) I am looking forward to over these next couple of months include: Avatar; A Single Man; The Lovely Bones; Nine; Invictus; Brothers; The Last Station; Serious Moonlight; Did You Hear About the Morgans?; The Young Victoria and The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond.
What movies are you looking forward to?
I am most looking forward to PRECIOUS. I wish it would come out already in my area…!
Something about “The Blind Side” really skeeves me out. I got a real “White woman takes on black teenager as a ‘project’ because she is bored and rich” vibe out of the trailer, which really turned me off. I know it’s based on a true story so that makes me hate it less, but something about it feels really off to me.
I’m pretty excited about Nine, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones, Invictus… actually, most of the ones you’ve listed at the end of this. :)
Great post. When is the Robin Wright movie, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee coming out? I love Rebecca Miller AND Robin Wright.
I thought the trailer for It’s Complicated was effective. It looks good, like it’s a real solid, messy, central role for a woman in mid-life. Now of course, it’s Meryl, and she’s in her own category, but it bodes well for everyone (not only every woman).
Elizabeth, I came into the comments section to say the exact same thing. While “The Blind Side” looks heartwarming and life-affirming and all, it reads way too close to “Nice White lady fixes the troubled Black boy!” for me to feel comfortable with it. I’ll wait to see what this site and Jezebel.com readers say before I decide to see it or not.
On the other hand, still waiting anxiously for “Precious” to come to my area.
Please let us know how you liked Pippa Lee. Was it a press screening you attended? I’m looking forward to seeing it but will likely have to wait for DVD since I don’t live in NYC or LA.
i am looking forward to seeing the lovely bones and the film
with emily blunt about the queen. by the way, we are having
another hells kitchen writers event this coming monday nite
at 8pm at 400 west 43rd st in the ellington room ,second floor.
their will be afew writers reading short excerpts from their
work and a poet also to top off the evening. mostly women
writers, we serve refreshments also, hope to see you there,
carol hollenbeck
I did like Pippa Lee. Thought it was a very interested coming of age story for a middle aged woman. It was like she got another chance at adolescence and took it. Don’t know how wide it is opening on the 26th but I will find out and let you know.
This has to be the stupidest review I’ve read in a long while…what an ignoramus.
http://www.movieline.com/2009/12/is-its-complicated-simply-twilight-for-older-women.php