Awesome Drama

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest drama tells the story of a charismatic religious leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) who ends up as his right-hand man.

(NSFW: Language) Directed by Oscar winner Michel Gondry, The We and The I revolves around a group of high school students as they take their last bus ride home before the summer break.

(NSFW: Language) Chlöe Grace Moretz plays a 13-year-old who runs away from her parents and hitchhikes to Las Vegas. A brutal growing-up story based on a novel by Andrea Portes.

Based on The Wettest County in the World, a novel about the Bondurant brothers, moonshine bootleggers in Depression-era Virginia. Tom Hardy, Shia LeBeouf, Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce star.

(NSFW) Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series The Newsroom goes behind the scenes of a network news operation, with Jeff Daniels starring as a stressed-out anchorman trying to reinvent his program.

A quadriplegic aristocrat hires a poor and unqualified man to be his live-in caregiver in Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s The Intouchables, an award-winning film based on a true story.

(MAJOR SPOILERS) HBO’s 22-minute recap of the first season of Game of Thrones is perfect for those who are new to the series. We watched this just so we could stare at the beautiful Emilia Clarke.

Justin Kurzel’s dark film sounds like an episode of Dexter, but in 1999, barrels of human remains were found in Snowtown, Australia – truly the result of four self-appointed vigilante serial killers.

Based on the best-selling novel by Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin is about a mother trying to cope with “the increasing malevolence” of her son. Starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly.

Adrien Brody plays a teacher who refuses to form bonds with people. He realizes that like his students, he is in need of guidance as well. Directed by Tony Kaye (American History X).

An Oscar hopeful for Best Foreign Language Film, about a battle right before the ceasefire shortly before the end of the Korean War with the threat of betrayal looming on the South Korean side.

In 1915 Norway, a teenager accused of murder is sent to a remote ice-bound island reform school, and plots revenge against the cruel director in Marius Holst’s coldly intense King of Devil’s Island.

Two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) play estranged father and son in this adaptation of Nick Flynn’s memoir. Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy).

A brilliant young boy searches for the lock that fits the key left by his father killed on 9/11. This one has Oscar written all over it – assuming the movie’s as good as the trailer.

A young Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) finds himself at odds with his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), when both men fall in love with one of Jung’s patients (Kiera Knightley).

Johnny Depp plays an itinerant Eisenhower-era journalist who travels to Puerto Rico, where he becomes obsessed with the drink of pirates and a woman in Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary.

Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher is the true story of a former drug-dealing criminal and his extraordinary transformation to become the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children.

A young man must figure out a way to bring down a system where time is money – literally – and is forced to go on the run from a corrupt police force known as time keepers, in Andrew Niccol’s In Time.

(NSFW: Language) We were glued to our sets for season one, so even a minute-long tease for the show’s second outing has us dying to see just who Nucky Thompson plans on ruining this fall.

Cementing our feelings that all clowns are creepy, this Spanish film tells of a circus clown whose tragic life turns him into a violent man – and the epic battle between Happy Clown and Sad Clown.

Based on a true story, this visceral picture takes us inside 1987 Iraq, as Saddam Hussein forces an army lieutenant to assume the role of body double to Saddam’s violent (douchebag) son, Uday.

The same week Sony was hacked by a group with the same name, they’ve taken wraps off of Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, a drama featuring a conspiracy of Shakespearean proportions.

Director Mike Cahill’s allegorical tale follows an MIT astrophysics student, fascinated by the discovery of a second Earth, who crashes her car and kills a family while distracted by the new planet.