The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2015 (Part 1)
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By The Playlist Staff | The Playlist
January 5, 2015 at 1:45PM
As we massage away the crick in our neck from all the looking backward we’ve done recently (here’s the complete rundown of all our Best of 2014 features), now we get to look forward to looking forward. And since no doubt most of you are currently suffering some form of the back-to-work horrors, we got ours out of the way early, so we could bring you the soothing balm of our Most Anticipated Films of 2015 and ease you through the official Worst Day of the Year. Avoid chit chat about soon-to-be-broken resolutions! Eschew depressing conversations about how broke you all are! Avoid hearing that joke where some wag counts how many shopping days there are till next Christmas! Instead, immerse yourself in a long, long list of the quality entertainments the movie industry will be serving up to distract you from your miserable lives throughout 2015!
In fact, this is such a monster of a list that we’re breaking it into two parts, with the concluding part to run tomorrow. But don’t fear! There are plenty of goodies to check out in positions 100-51 below, though we have largely tried to avoid Sundance titles and foreign films (except where such omission would be egregious) since both will have their own lists here at the Playlist soon.
So without further ado, slip into something more comfortable: The Playlist’s Most Anticipated Films of 2015. Before you know, it it’ll be quitting time and you’ll have realized, contrary to the impression you had on this cold damp January morning’s commute, 2015 is going to be awesome.
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91. “Our Kind Of Traitor”
Director: Susannah White (“Generation Kill,” “Parade’s End”)
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Mark Gatiss
Synopsis: A British couple are lured into a Russian oligarch’s plan to defect to the West.
What You Need To Know: Between the sublime “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and the very strong “A Most Wanted Man,” it’s been a good few years for adaptations of acclaimed spy novelist John Le Carre onscreen, so fingers crossed that continues with the latest, “Our Kind Of Traitor.” Adapted by “Drive” writer Hossein Amini, it steps away from the Cold War and war-on-terror themes of the last two Le Carre movies to look at contemporary Russia, a subject that’s frankly only got more topical since the film went into production last year. Top-notch TV helmer Susannah White (whose unlikely sole big-screen credit to date is “Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang”) has the helm, with Skarsgard as the oligarch, McGregor and Harris as the central couple, and Lewis, “Sherlock” star/creator Gatiss and Jeremy Northam among the MI5-types.
Release Date: This seems to be hitting European theaters around the fall; once it finds a U.S. distributor, expect it to follow suit there.
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