From sci-fi to crime, supernatural horror to family-friendly—movie geeks have much to look forward to in the coming months.
We are in the thick of the awards season, and things are crescendoing to its most anticipated climax—the Oscars.
But amid the intensifying hullabaloo of who’s-going-to-win and who-will-be-snubbed are some highly anticipated films from sci-fi to crime, supernatural horror to kid-friendly for us movie nerds to enjoy (or hate on). The POST rounds them up in this handy dandy guide.
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“Mickey 17”
Very few filmmakers surprise audiences the way South Korean writer-director Bong Joon-ho does. His formidable filmography, which includes acclaimed films such as Parasite (2019), Snowpiercer (2013), and Memories of a Murder (2003), is proof of this. The three-time Oscar winner has mastered the art of blending genres, while tackling social and class themes.
We can expect no less from his latest film Mickey 17, the highly anticipated follow-up to his history-making masterpiece Parasite. Adapted from a 2022 sci-fi novel by Edward Ashton titled Mickey 7, it follows Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), a space colonist whose high-risk job as an “expendable” causes him to experience his own grisly death, over and over again. After each demise, a fresh copy of his body is 3D-printed, with all his memories intact, until two versions of him unwittingly come face-to-face with each other. Early reviews are in and they have been glowing so far.
Mickey 17 hits theaters starting March 7.
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“Black Bag”
Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and writer David Koepp team up once again after the 2022 cyber-thriller Kimi in yet another heart-pumping flick. This thriller is about married intelligence agents—wife (Cate Blanchett) who is suspected of betraying her country and her husband (Michael Fassbender) who’s tasked to terminate her mission.
Shot in London, the film is also a reunion for Soderbergh and Blanchett, who starred in his 2006 feature The Good German and 2018’s Ocean’s 8. Fassbender, meanwhile, appeared in Soderbergh’s Haywire in 2011.
Black Bag comes to theaters starting March 14.
“Snow White”
Disney continues its string of live-action remakes of classic animated films, despite opening to mostly mixed reviews (expect for a few exceptions like The Jungle Book (2016) and Cinderella (2017))—well, they still make tons of money after all. This time, it’s a remake of 1937’s beloved animated film Snow White, spun into a musical starring Rachel Zegler as the titular character and Gal Gadot as the jealous Evil Queen.
The film has been hounded with controversies for some time, including criticism against Zegler, who is of Colombian descent, being cast as a character with skin “as white as snow,” to the lead actors’ opposing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Gadot supporting motherland Israel, while Zegler is a vocal pro-Palestine supporter. Peter Dinklage also blasted the film, calling it a “f@cking backwards” depiction of dwarfs.
Despite all the noise, Snow White will be hitting theaters starting March 21.
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“The Alto Knights”
We all love a good biographical drama, and this upcoming film about the real-life 1950s rivalry between leaders of New York’s Luciano crime family looks promising—especially with both antagonists played by the legendary Robert de Niro.
By playing Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, De Niro goes back to the crime thriller genre that defined his early career, with movies such as Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (1973), Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 hit The Godfather Part II, then Scorsese again for the 1990 mob movie Goodfellas. His other crime films include Casino, A Bronx Tale, and Heat, where he reunited with Godfather co-star and fellow screen icon Al Pacino.
Another film of reunions, De Niro reunites with director Barry Levinson (The Wizard of Lies) and writer Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas) in this film that chronicles Genovese’s unsuccessful 1957 attempt to put a hit on Costello.
The Alto Knights opens March 21.
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“A Minecraft Movie”
Kids also have something to look forward to in this part live-action, part CGI fantasy adventure inspired by the über-popular world-building video game of the same name. In A Minecraft Movie, four outcasts from the real world (Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Eugene Hansen) find themselves transported to the Overworld, a place that thrives on imagination. The band of misfits have to master the world with guide Steve (Jack Black) so they can go back home to the real world, while saving Overlord from the menacing Enderdragon along the way.
Directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite, this family-friendly film hits theaters April 4.
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“Sinners”
Michael B. Jordan reunites with frequent collaborator Ryan Coogler to play twin brothers (another actor playing dual roles!), in what the director calls a “genre-fluid” supernatural horror thriller about vampires and “more than just that.”
Sinners marks the fifth time the talented duo are working together, with previous projects including Fruitvale Station (2013), Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), and the TV documentary From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues (2015). This is also Coogler’s first movie since 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Sinners is slated for a theatrical release on April 18.
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“Thunderbolts”
Seems like the superhero genre is far from dead with this film following a ragtag team of Marvel superheroes, antiheroes, and reformed supervillains. Admit it or not, the premise makes the superhero movies sound exciting again. Plus, it stars a stellar ensemble including Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes), David Harbour (Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian), Wyatt Russell (John Walker), Hannah John-Kamen (Ava Starr/Ghost), Olga Kurylenko (Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster), and Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova). This motley crew of antiheroes are recruited by an intelligence operative (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to perform missions deemed too dangerous for “normal heroes.”
Thunderbirds is the final chapter in Phase 5 of the seemingly neverending Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is due for release in theaters on May 2.
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“Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning”
This is another franchise that refuses to…erm…die. The latest in the Mission Impossible series picks up where its immediate predecessor Dead Reckoning left off. Main antagonist Gabriel (Esai Morales) has made off with part of the key that unlocks a world-threatening AI device known as the “Entity,” and Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team must stop him.
Aside from Cruise and Morales, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, and Rolf Saxon reprise their roles from the previous films. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is the eighth installment in the blockbuster series—and who knows if its indeed going to be the final one finally.
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning lands in theaters on May 23.
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