Movies to Look Forward to - March 2018

February is almost to an end, so it's time to look forward to the March movies.

March 1st – Red Sparrow
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson, Bill Camp, Jeremy Irons, Thekla Reuten
Description: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

March 2nd – Battle of the Sexes
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming, Elisabeth Shue, Eric Christian Olsen, Fred Armisen, Sarah Silverman, Andrea Riseborough
Description: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

March 6th – Lady Bird
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges
Description: In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California

March 14th – Stronger
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jake Gyllengaal, Miranda Richardson, Clancy Brown
Description: Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

March 15th – Tomb Raider
Director: Roar Uthaug
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominic West, Nick Frost, Daniel Wu
Description: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.

March 22nd – Gringo
Director: Nash Edgerton
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Thandie Newton, Amanda Seyfried
Description: Gringo, a dark comedy mixed with white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal.

March 29th – Ready Player One
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Tye Sheridan, Mckenna Grace, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance
Description: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.

Movie Trailer Sunday (298)

Here are this week's trailers.

Stronger
Director: David Gordon Green
Description: A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing (Jake Gyllenhaal) in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal
Trailer: Trailer "Stronger"
Comment: Seems a bit sappy, but I love Jake Gyllenhaal.

Seven Sisters
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Description: In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close,
Trailer: Trailer "Seven Sisters"
Comment: I love films set in dystopian futures.

The Greatest Showman
Director: Michael Gracey
Description: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary (Hugh Jackman) who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron
Trailer: Trailer "The Greatest Showman"
Comment: I love this!

Jumanji
Director: Jake Kasdan
Description: In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever, to be played by others without break.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillian, Missi Pyle, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale
Trailer: Trailer "Jumanji"
Comment: I wasn't at first, but I'm actually excited to see this film.

Breathe
Director: Andy Serkis
Description: Based on the true story of Robin (Andrew Garfield), a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Diana Rigg, Hugh Bonnevilli
Trailer: Trailer "Breathe"
Comment: Dramatic much! Looks good.