Most Anticipated Films of 2008

2007 was a great year for movies, let's hope 2008 keeps it going. Below are my most anticipated movies for the new year:

• “The Argentine”/“Guerilla” - A companion set of films about Che Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Benicio Del Toro. The Argentine will focus on the Cuban revolution, from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. Guerrilla will focus on the years following the Cuban revolution. It will begin with Che's trip to the UN headquarters in New York in 1964, until his death in the Bolivian mountains in 1967 (Variety).

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• “Australia” - The highly anticipated film directed by Baz Luhrmann centres on an English aristocrat in the 1930s, played by Nicole Kidman, who comes to northern Australia to sell a cattle property the size of Belgium. After an epic journey across the country with a rough-hewn drover, Hugh Jackman, they are caught in the bombing of Darwin during World War II. Filming began late April 2007 and principal photography finished 19th December 2007. The movie is aimed for a November 2008 release. Website.

• “Body of Lies” - Director Ridley Scott directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in a William Monahan (The Departed) screenplay. A former journalist injured in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan. Based on the novel "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius.

• “The Changeling” - A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers. Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Angelina Jolie, Amy Ryan and John Malkovich.
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” - Director David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story by the same name in which a 50-year-old man (Brad Pitt) begins aging backwards, causing complications when he falls in love with a 30 year old woman.

• “Defiance” - Revolves around Jewish brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) living in Nazi-occupied Poland who escape into the Belarussian forest where they join Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war, they build a village inside the forest and save the lives of more than 1,200 Jews. Director Ed Zwick's screenplay is based on Nechama Tec's book "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans."

• “Frost/Nixon” - A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. Based on the successful Broadway play. Directed by Ron Howard, screenplay by Peter Morgan (The Queen). Starring Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell and Frank Langella.

• “The Reader” - In postwar Germany, a young man’s decades-long obsession with an older woman runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth. Starring Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes.

• “Revolutionary Road” - Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates, directed by Sam Mendes. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

• “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” - Harrison Ford and Shia LeBouf.






• The Dark Knight - Director Chris Nolan is back with the new Batman film with Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Two-Face, Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker.