Coming Soon 2012 - Movie Review Round-Up from West Coast Midnight Run

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Volume 2012

200

Moonrise Kingdom is a Focus Features release this year that garnered lots of attention from critics and audiences. If you want something for the family but didn’t buy into the Timothy Green premise, this film may be for you. It’s really Romeo and Juliet, with a hint of the Blue Lagoon, and from the studio press release it looks as if Walt Disney’s style has seeped into this production.

The Imposter is a documentary film that treads familiar territory and has received extremely high marks from critics. With shades of Missing and Without a Trace, this film may strike a chord with those that were riveted by the Jaycee Dugard real life drama. However this film takes an interesting twist and plays into familiar territory,

Dateline Summer 2013 - Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire will be interpreting Fitzgerald’s classic and one of the most interesting depictions ever committed to paper of grand American missteps.

A traditional holidays favorite on Broadway, Focus Features will reveal to audiences Keira Knightley of The Pirates fame in the lead for the latest adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic. With Jude Law back from Sherlock Holmes’ success and this year’s flop in 360, this movie’s early previews extol the production design and the beautiful cinematography. How the film fares with audiences will be known in December of this year. We can’t wait.

The highly anticipated closing chapter of the Chris Nolan trilogy is in theaters from Warner Brothers. The Dark Knight Rises is hailed by critics as a top notch milestone in filmmaking that fails to live up to its predecessors in the series.

Nevertheless, the entire crew is back and with Bale, Caine, Oldman and Freeman, plus Anne Hathway as Catwoman.

With Bart Layton in the director seat, you may wonder if the film itself is not an imposter. Ever has heard of The Blair Witch Project? What about Paranormal Activity? The Imposter may be this year’s take on the Blair Witch tradition of low budget docu-style films that hit it big.