Fall movies and music

With fall here comes new fashion and new releases in movies and music. Here's what to look forward to:

1. Where The Wild Things Are, October 16, starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini. An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book. Spike Jonze, an amazing visual landscape, and Karen O? Nothing could be better.
   
   
2. Paranormal Activity, October 16, starring Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat. This is the much hyped and reportedly scary as hell movie that has finally gotten a nationwide release. Think Blair Witch Project type hype. This low, low, low budget movie got picked up by Paramount Pictures and originally got a limited, after midnight only release, but now after staggering box office numbers and plenty of fans, this movie will finally be in your local theater. This home movie, shaky cam style film is about a couple who is haunted by a demonic spirit and in an effort to catch it in action, they set up cameras around their house. This is also the movie that Steven Spielberg got a screener of, took home to watch, and was so freaked out, he returned it back to Dreamworks in a garbage bag.
   
   
3. New York, I Love You, October 16, starring Natalie Portman, Shia LaBeouf, Hayden Christensen, and MANY more. An anthology film of several stories (directed by several different directors) revolving around love in one of the greatest places on earth, New York City. See this film if you love a whole cornucopia of actors (i.e. He's Just Not That Into You).
   
   
4. Antichrist, October 23, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The controversial film by Lars von Trier that shocked (and mainly disgusted) audiences in Cannes. What's it about? A couple who tries to cope with the loss of their son. Beware of severed genitalia, rough sex, and violence.
   
   
5. Saw VI, October 23, starring Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg. Just in time for Halloween, yet another chapter of the Saw franchise.
   
   
6. Michael Jackson: This Is It, October 28: A mashup of rehearsal footage from MJ's last tour and a goodbye to this musical legend.
   
   
7. Youth in Revolt, October 30, starring Michael Cera. Based on C.D. Payne's novel of the same title. Watch Michael Cera try and get the girl yet again with his offbeat, quirky, and awkward style.
   
   
8. The Box, October 30, starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella. Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) story about a struggling couple who receive a mysterious box with a strange proposal: receive $1 million by pushing a button, but pushing it will also kill one person they don't know.
   
   
9. A Christmas Carol, November 6, starring Jim Carrey. Another remake of a classic. Carrey plays Ebeneezer Scrooge in this animated telling of this classic story. Watch it if you're a fan of Robert Zemeckis-style animation (Beowulf, Monster House) and if you love that warm and tingly feeling Christmas gives you.
   
   
10. 2012, November 13, starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet. An apocolyptic tale of well, the world ending. A creepy Nostradamus feel, and some crazy, scary, and chilling scenarios. Watch the first five minutes here.
    
    
11. New Moon, November 20, starring Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson. The highly anticipated sequel to 2008's Twilight. Find out what happens after girl and boy fall in love, when boy leaves girl. Expect long lines and die hard Twilight fans in t-shirts that say just that. What do I hear? Millions of screams, and the sound of cash registers nationwide.
    
    
12. Nine, November 25, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Fergie, and MANY more. A Rob Marshall (Chicago) story that tells the tale of a man with the nine, yes nine, women in his life. Expect theatrics and plenty of music, which is certain to please just like Chicago.
    
    
13. The Road, November 25, starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. After a postponement of almost a year, this movie is finally getting a release. This is a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) book by the same title about a man and a son struggling to survive in a post-apocolyptic world. If it's anything like McCarthy's novel it will be dark, depressing, and disturbing: the makings of what sounds like a good movie to me.

Some movies that are out now that are definitely worth watching:

1. Zombieland : Zombies, bloody guts, the adorable Jesse Eisenberg, and a special celebrity appearance.
2. The September Issue : A look inside the making of the September issue of Vogue with the great Anna Wintour. Bring your best friend, not your boyfriend.
3. Inglorious Basterds : Another Tarantino great.
4. (500) Days of Summer : Wonderful, amazing, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel... need I say more?
5. Adam : Hugh Dancy plays a man with Aspergers who learns to deal with the loss of his father and learns how to love the lovely Rose Byrne.

Besides movies, I'm looking forward to new music. I can never get enough of that. Fall's here, which means a whole bunch of new album releases! Here's what I'm listening to now and what I'm looking forward to:

1. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - The Break Up, available now : This is Johansson's sophomore effort and let just tell you, it is a million times better. It's surprisingly great and the songs have a catchy, folksy quality to them. Pete Yorn, of course, doesn't disappoint at all.
   
2. Madonna - Celebration, available now : it's a greatest hits album, as if I even needed an excuse to put Madonna on continuous loop. Check out the two new songs: Celebration and Revolver (feat. Lil' Weezy).
   
3. Paramore - Brand New Eyes, available now : I'm warming up to it, but at this point, I still like Riot! better.
   
4. Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, available now : I love Karen O. and this does not disappoint. It's beautiful, and so aesthetically pleasing in every way. Can't wait for the movie release!
   
5. New Moon Soundtrack, October 20. Featuring Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke, Muse, and Lykki Li--now that sounds like a great soundtrack.
   
6. Weezer - Raditude, October 27 : I'll say it now, I'll say it again. I love Weezer always and forever. I can't wait for their new album.
   
7. John Mayer - Battle Studies, November 17 : Looking forward to some Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston inspired love and heartbreak songs.
   
8. Norah Jones - The Fall, November 17 : One of the best and most beautiful jazz voices out there.
   
9. Timbaland - Shock Value 2, November 24 : I hated Shock Value, but I'm hoping for greatness this time around since it includes collaborations with Kings of Leon (who, by the way, I L-O-V-E), The Fray, Paramore, Justin Timberlake, and Lady Gaga. I'm also VERY curious about Brandy rapping, who goes under the new alias "Brand Nu" for her rapping efforts.

So, what will you guys be seeing and what will music will you be buying/illegally downloading?