Upcoming movies 2019: best films to watch this year
The year's landscape in the film industry is shaping up. Here are 10 movies to change the game in 2019
Pain and Glory
Famed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar directs Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in Pain and Glory, a tender and nostalgic look back at a creative life.
The film gives Antonio Banderas the tender role of a lifetime, as a fraying film director revisiting the fragments of emotion that have flavoured his life. If it sounds like familiar territory, Almodóvar admits this film left him 'emotionally naked' – there’s charming metatextuality from a sensitive auteur with stories still to tell.
Read more ...The Souvenir
After rave reviews at both Sundance at the Berlinale, Joanna Hogg's personal portrait of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood is set to be one of the most exciting releases of the year.
Tilda Swinton's daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, makes her big screen debut opposite Tom Burke. The film is a quiet masterpiece, an elegant glimpse at the past that savours the dangers of those in-between years.
Read more ...Ad Astra
Brad Pitt's new sci-fi film sees the actor play a lonely engineer searching for his dad, Tommy Lee Jones, in space – while also saving the world in the process.
The Lost City of Z director James Gray returns to send Pitt to new heights, revisiting a familiar genre with a hopefully stellar execution.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt's worldwide bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner is coming to the big screen, as The Goldfinch casts its stars and sets its sights on awards season.
Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson and Luke Wilson complete the cast of the drama following a young boy reckoning with a world of art and crime in the absence of his mother.
Read more ...Judy
Renée Zellweger captures the last months of Hollywood starlet Judy Garland, in all her troubles and triumphs, celebrating her love, talent and voice.
The film revisits Garland's career during her time in London, juggling fame at its peak and the intimate balance of raising and supporting a family.
Knives Out
Star Wars stalwart Rian Johnson is giving the murder mystery genre a fresh spin thanks to an all-star cast. Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans and more star in Knives Out.
Think Cluedo and add deeper slicing wit, and the game becomes clear in a whodunit that flirts with convention and impresses without fail.
Read more ...Joker
Batman's arch-nemesis is getting his own standalone film, revealing the untold story of the Joker. Joaquin Phoenix plays the eponymous villain, and Robert De Niro co-stars.
Joker, curiously helmed by The Hangover director Todd Phillips, posits itself as a simultaneously more humble and epic offering within the superhero canon – there's no big ensemble or fight between Good and Evil, and yet the stakes feel so much higher, with a heavily theatrical portrait of a man on the brink of insanity.
Frozen 2
They just couldn't let it go. Disney will be returning cinemagoers to the snowy kingdom of Arendelle this November, although it won’t be quite as we have seen it before.
With songwriters Robert Lopez and Kirsten Anderson-Lopez returning with seven new songs for the movie. Under the guidance of co-director and writer Jennifer Lee, and co-director Chris Buck, the core cast of Frozen will be joined by Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) and Sterlin K. Brown (This Is Us) in unconfirmed roles.