‘Southpaw’
Antoine Fuqua at the helm of a movie doesn’t automatically make for a good movie. In fact, he’s made more clunkers than not, but his most recent outing The Equalizer was pretty solid. Luckily his latest movie stars the always great Jake Gyllenhaal as well as Rachel McAdams, Naomie Harris, and Forest Whitaker, so Southpaw should at the very least be interesting.
For Southpaw Gyllenhaal gained 15 pounds of pure muscle, and he looks far different from the slimmed down physique he sported in last year’s Nightcrawler. Will this transformation finally net him his first lead actor Oscar nomination? He certainly deserved one last year, and transformations like this typically only aid in attention from the Academy.
Release date: July 24
‘Paper Towns’
For regular readers of this site, Paper Towns shouldn’t exactly qualify as a lesser-known movie, but I’m guessing that it’s not quite on the top of the radars of those less in tune to the John Green fandom. Paper Towns the novel certainly didn’t have the success of The Fault in Our Stars the novel, and it wouldn’t be surprising if Paper Towns the movie doesn’t quite have the financial success of The Fault in Our Stars the movie.
It does have a lot of things going for it, however. Director Jake Schreier has seen a bit more critical success prior to his John Green adaptation than Josh Boone had, so there’s no reason to believe Paper Towns shouldn’t be at least at the level that The Fault in Our Stars was. Sure, it doesn’t have the very talented Shailene Woodley, but it does have the ready to explode Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. The cast is largely comprised of new faces, so that should be exciting (but not exactly a box office draw either).
Release date: July 24
‘The End of the Tour’
One of the most buzzed movies out of the Sundance Film Festival this year was The End of the Tour. While it might not share some of its counterparts unblemished Rotten Tomatoes ratings, it sits at a very strong 94%.
The film stars Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in the story of journalist David Lipsky’s (Eisenberg) five day interview with author David Foster Wallace (Segel) for Rolling Stone.
Release date: July 31
‘Straight Outta Compton’
Straight Outta Compton follows the rise of N.W.A., one of the most popular hip hop groups of all time. The movie will focus on the background of the members of the group — Arabian Prince, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and MC Ren — and the dynamics of N.W.A. from its inception to their successes to its eventual disbandment.
It will be especially interesting to see how Straight Outta Compton plays out given how culturally relevant its themes of equality are at the current time. The riots we’ve seen a lot in the past year are seen echoed in the trailer below.
Release date: August 14
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