New year, tons of new movies coming our way! What 2022 film are you most looking forward to?
Caveats: Most of the films currently scheduled for release and beginning to get some promotion are, of course, big tentpoles: action movies, animated stuff, sci-fi’s, comic-book adventures, and the like. There will be lots more movies not yet on the pop-culture radar to get excited about once they start screening at festivals. And the movies we do already know about could get postponed (in some cases, again) if the pandemic flares up badly again. But here are a few to get you started potentially salivating that we know about at the moment (release dates simultaneous in US and UK for most):
January
Cyrano (ETA: pushed to February)
These are “officially” 2021 movies, but not opening in the UK till this month:
Belfast
Nightmare Alley
Sing 2
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Bendetta
February
Moonfall (pictured above left)
Death on the Nile
March
The Batman
Downtown Abbey: A New Era
Everything Everywhere All at Once
April
The Northman
May
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
June
Jurassic World: Dominion (pictured above top right)
July
Thor: Love and Thunder
Black Adam
September
Mission: Impossible 7
October
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One
November
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
December
Avatar: The Way of Water (pictured above bottom right)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Me, I am looking forward to the guaranteed cheese of Moonfall and the dinosaur spectacle of Jurassic World: Dominion.
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Alamo Drafthouse, as part of it’s year-end customer poll, lists a bunch of films they expect to come out in 2022, some that aren’t on your list. Chief among those for me is the Knives Out Sequel. Other than that, I’m a complete and total sucker for all the Marvel Studios movies.
https://drafthouse.com/northern-virginia/news/the-top-films-of-2021-according-to-alamo-drafthouse
Mine is not a complete list by any stretch of the imagination.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s Michelle Yeoh, and that trailer is mindblowing. (Also, the guy starring opposite her is Ke Huy Quan, who was Short Round in Temple of Doom!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g&ab_channel=A24
Apart from that: I’m a Marvel fan, so naturally I’m anticipating the Marvel stuff in general. But I’m also looking forward to those films for specific reasons: Doctor Strange 2 because I loved WandaVision and want to see the Scarlet Witch continue her journey—and also because I really, really hope the film does justice to America Chavez; Thor: Love and Thunder because Jane Foster wielding the hammer is one of my favorite storylines from the comics and I’m eager to see how it’s adapted; Black Panther 2 because I want to see how Ryan Coogler handles the monumental challenge of crafting a story around Chadwick Boseman’s absence; and Spider-Verse 2 because… well, the first film was pure amazing artistry, and the sneak peak from the new one promises even more of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbXJ3_AQE_o&ab_channel=SonyPicturesEntertainment
I think for the first month or two of this year, I’ll still be watching movies from 2021. Of the films on the list, the only ones that appeal to me are the Marvel movies, but in the days when I could walk into a movie theatre, I tended to see a lot of oddball films I hadn’t heard of until shortly before the came out. A lot of my very limited film viewing over the past few years was films like Extra Ordinary and Blow the Man Down, which I knew about only because they were mentioned on this site, and I hope to have a similar experience in 2022.
I tend not to get excited for films I haven’t seen yet, both because I’d rather get a good surprise than a bad one when I do see it, and because trailers seem to be all about telling me why a film is the same as all the others of its genre when what I want to know is why it’s different. That said, I hope Moonfall is enjoyable rubbish (Geostorm let me down badly there).
I’m looking forward to Eva Husson’s latest, Mothering Sunday. It may have already been released in the UK but not due till February in the USA.
Yes, it was out here in the autumn, and is already on VOD.
I have no idea. I was looking forward to Belfast, but, it is only still in theaters and my “risk exposure” budget is being expended on my job, thank you very much, which at least is something ultimately supposedly benefiting society by keeping trains running and expanding transportation’s reach. [See my ineloquent attempt at explaining this in response to a piece by The Projectionist in Thursday Styles (NYT) last week: https://twitter.com/refunfunyadora/status/1479854316324327428?t=6QmWnS_2ppKvOPpATR4iRA&s=19 ]
I’d like to see Only Lovers Left Alive again for the first time.
I want something beautiful, mournful, unexpected.
Belfast is available on premium VOD. Here’s a link for Apple TV:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/belfast/umc.cmc.2jz7n19smc0g791llqpxa0f3h?itsct=tv_box_link&itscg=30200&at=10lIYk
It’s also on all the other usual non-Amazon streaming services, too.