‘Amy’
After debuting less than a week ago at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy will see its theatrical release this summer. The movie currently holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Amy will look at Winehouse’s life and career and how her enormous talent was met with equally enormous tragedy.
Release date: July 10
‘Trainwreck’
Perhaps a Judd Apatow comedy wouldn’t normally qualify as “lesser-known,” but given that its lead Amy Schumer has never starred in a movie before, it’s going on the list. Schumer is most known for her TV series Inside Amy Schumer (which is doing groundbreaking work this season) and her stand up.
Schumer wrote the movie and will star with Tilda Swinton, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Barkhad Abdi, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena, Ezra Miller, LeBron James, Method Man, Jim Norton, and Norman Lloyd.
Release date: July 17
‘Irrational Man’
Woody Allen seems to release a good movie every year. Midnight in Paris was great; To Rome with Love wasn’t. Blue Jasmine was great; Magic in the Moonlight wasn’t. If that pattern continues, we could expect Irrational Man to be pretty good. Of course, a pattern like that is far from a science. It premiered a week ago at the Cannes International Film Festival and holds a barely positive 60% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but not only a handful of reviews have been filed so far.
Even if Irrational Man is a lesser Woody Allen movie, it’ll still be worth seeing because it’s a Woody Allen movie. Nobody makes movies the way he does, and given his age of 79, he probably doesn’t have that many left in him. Given its strong cast that includes Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey and more, this is a must see movie this summer.
Release date: July 17
‘Mr. Holmes’
Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes. What more do you need? Sold.
Release date: July 17
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