Guardians Of The Galaxy

In truth, Guardians Of The Galaxy may not turn out to be the best Marvel movie of 2014. But on paper, it's comfortably the biggest gamble. Not for the first time, Marvel is taking a property that the mass audience isn't particularly familiar with, and giving it to a director who isn't the most obvious choice. So, we get a space-based adventure, from the man who directed Slither and Super (films we like, we should point out), that includes a talking tree, Bradley Cooper voicing a raccoon, Karen Gillan with no hair, and a cast of characters that don't easily lend themselves to the shelves of Toys R Us.

Bluntly, we can't wait. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Benicio del Toro and Michael Rooker are amongst the rest of the cast, and it seems clear that if you were looking for a comic book movie that's happy to resist the usual template, Guardians Of The Galaxy is looking like your best bet. How will it gel together with the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe? We're already getting clues and teases for that through mid-credits sequences. But we look forward to finding out more on August 1st

Interstellar

Christopher Nolan's a notoriously secretive filmmaker, and like Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, specific details surrounding Interstellar are difficult to come by. According to some sources, the story's about scientists trying to use wormholes in space to find arable land for a starving planet. Officially, though, all that's been confirmed is that it's about the discovery of a wormhole, and a team of scientists' voyage through it. The cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck and John Lithgow, and filming has been underway since August in locations including Canada and Iceland. The screenplay, rewritten by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, is based on the work of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, so we should be in for something approaching the more cerebral science fiction of, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey. If Inception's anything to go by, the synopsis and marketing will only give us a vague idea of the final film's true nature.

 Lone Survivor
 

In Movie Theaters:    Friday, January 10, 2014   Nationwide  
Coming Soon (11 days) Watch Trailer
Director:    Peter Berg
Cast:
more cast    Taylor Kitsch . . . Mike Murphy
Mark Wahlberg . . . Marcus Luttrell
Ben Foster . . . Matt Axelson
Emile Hirsch . . . Danny Dietz
Eric Bana . . . Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen
Alexander Ludwig . . . Shane Patton

Storyline

Tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.

Transformers 4: Age of Extinction
 

In Movie Theaters:    Friday, June 27, 2014 
 
Director:    Michael Bay
 
Cast: 
Mark Wahlberg
Nicola Peltz
Brenton Thwaites
Jack Reynor
Stanley Tucci
Kelsey Grammer . . . [Villain]

Storyline

As humanity picks up the pieces, following the conclusion of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all but vanished from the face of the planet. However, a group of powerful, ingenious businessman and scientists attempt to learn from past Transformer incursions and push the boundaries of technology beyond what they can control – all while an ancient, powerful Transformer menace sets Earth in his crosshairs. The epic adventure and battle between good and evil, freedom and enslavement ensues.