Counting Down My Most Highly Anticipated (Un)Summer Movies
The position I try to maintain in terms of art and pop culture is that I like what’s good. By that I mean, I try my best to avoid any prejudice related to popularity (or lack thereof) and to quell my natural predispositions about genre. So when summer movie season hits, I psyche myself up for limbs flying, cars accelerating, hulked out superheroes, holes in the space-time continuum, and big, crazy laughs. But I can’t totally erase my inherent preferences, especially with regard to genre. And while I’ll be front and center this weekend to see Tony Stark do his thing, I must admit, summer movies aren’t really my jam, by nature. I’ll take Almost Famous over The Avengers and The Descendants over The Dark Knight.
Now I’m not knocking big summer movies at all. The point of this piece is to say that for those of us who enjoy soul searching, coming of age, and character based stories, summer movies aren’t the only films hitting theaters this summer. As a matter of fact, the lineup for non-summer movie, summer movies looks stellar. What follows is my top five most anticipated non-summer movies coming to theaters this summer. (And their trailers & release dates.)
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” –French Proverb via Snake Plissken
