Top 10 Movie Picks for Fall
Top 10 Movie Picks for Fall
With “Spider-Man,” “Odyssey” and “Coyote vs Acme” still strong at the box office … here comes the fall season.
“Practical Magic” opened last Friday, September 11.
We’ve been waiting ten years for this sequel, reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. This time they’re joined by Joey King as Bullock’s daughter who begins developing her own magical powers as an old family secret surfaces. Based on Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic, it reunites most of the original cast, including Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest.
“The Heart of the Beast” opens on September 25.
In a tense survival story, Brad Pitt plays a Special Forces officer who must make his way through the Alaskan wilderness with his retired combat dog Odin after a plane crash.
“Verity” opens on October 2.
Colleen Hoover’s thriller introduces Dakota Johnson as a struggling novelist who accepts a job from Josh Hartnett, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) to be her ghostwriter and complete the remaining books in a successful series that his Verity is unable to finish after a mysterious accident.
“Digger” opens on October 2.
Directed by Alejandro Inarritu, it’s touted as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions.” Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, a bloated, delusional oil tycoon who causes an apocalyptic disaster and then is summoned by the President (John Goodman) to fix it.
“The Social Reckoning” on October 9.
16 years after “The Social Network,” writer-director Aaron Sorkin focuses on an older Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong). Mikey Madison (“Anora”) plays a Facebook whistleblower who teams up with Jeremy Allen White as a Wall Street Journal reporter.
“Whalefall” on October 16.
Austin Abrams stars in an adaptation of Daniel Kraus’ book about a scuba diver trapped in a whale’s stomach while searching for the remains of his father (Josh Brolin).
“Fatherland” on October 23.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski created this tight 82-minute, black-and-white film about the relationship of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a 1949 road trip across Germany at the height of the Cold War. Returning home after 16 years of exile in the United States, Mann faces a divided fatherland and a deep fracture within his own family.
“Godzilla Minus Zero” on November 6.
Since “Godzilla Minus One” won an Oscar in 2023 for its visual effects and became a global hit — rare for a foreign-language kaiju film — director Takashi Yamazaki revisits the Shikishima family in the first Japanese production ever filmed for IMAX.
“Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol Movie” on November 13.
Johnny Depp stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, along with Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley and Rupert Grint as Bob Crachit.
“The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” on November 20.
Based on Suzanne Collins’ best-sellers, this prequel has every district in Panem sending double the usual tributes for the 50th Hunger Games. Ralph Fiennes joins the franchise as President Snow with Elle Fanning, Maya Hawke, Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close and Jesse Plemons.
Susan Granger is a product of Hollywood. Her natural father, S. Sylvan Simon, was a director and producer at M.G.M. and Columbia Pictures. Her adoptive father, Armand Deutsch, produced movies at M.G.M.
As a child, Susan appeared in movies with Abbott & Costello, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Margaret O’Brien, and Lassie. She attended Mills College in California, studying journalism with Pierre Salinger, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with highest honors in journalism.