Looking back over my list of films to look forward to in 2018, it’s interesting to see where I was right to be excited. Some lived up to expectations (‘Widows’, ‘Lean On Pete’, ‘Annihilation’), some exceeded expectations (‘Suspiria’, ‘Love, Simon’, ‘First Man’), some… less so (sorry, ‘Boy Erased’). Well, it’s the time of year to start speculating about what’s ahead, so here’s barely a slither of films to look forward to in the year ahead.
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And that’s far from all – Marvel also have ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ and ‘Avengers 4’, Disney have their not-live-action live-action remake of ‘The Lion King’ and the sequel no-one saw coming, ‘Mary Poppins Returns’, and Pixar have ‘Toy Story 4’. Beloved animation studio Laika return with ‘Missing Link’, and hopefully everything will still be awesome in ‘The Lego Move 2: The Second Part’. There’s also Todd Phillips’ baffling villain origin film ‘Joker’, Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Welcome to Marwen’, the teen hit ‘The Hate U Give’ and the endlessly delayed ‘The New Mutants’.
We also have new films from Terrence Malick (‘Radegund’), Sebastian Schipper (‘Roads’), Martin Scorsese (‘The Irishman’), Dee Rees (‘The Last Thing He Wanted’), Rian Johnson (‘Knives Out’), Bong Joon-Ho (‘Parasite’), Justin Kurzel (‘True History of the Kelly Gang’), David Miçhod (‘The King’), Claire Denis (‘High Life’), Pablo Larrain (‘Ema’), Richard Linklater (‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’), James Crowley (‘The Goldfinch’) and Harmony Korine (‘The Beach Bum’).
And then there’s all the films we haven’t heard about yet - the unexpected gems that’ll appear out of the festival circuit to take the world by storm. We’ll be frantically keeping up with it all here at SWITCH, so be sure to follow us to see how right (and wrong) I was about all these films in the next twelve months.
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