Sexy Fall Movie Preview

BY: Matt Elisofon

The Light Between Oceans
Michael Fassbender and Academy Award–winning Alicia Vikander bring their sizzling hot real-life romance to the screen in The Light Between Oceans. Set in post–World War I Australia, Tom (Fassbender) and Isabel (Vikander) rescue a baby at sea and raise her as their own until the girl’s real mother (Rachel Weisz) threatens to tear their idyllic family apart. Directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine; The Place Beyond the Pines).

 

White Girl
Leah (Homeland’s Morgan Saylor), a college student in New York City, falls in love with a street kid and all the drugs that come along with him in this edgy drama that has been tagged “the most explosive portrait of NYC youth since Kids.”

 

When the Bough Breaks
When expecting parents John (Morris Chestnut) and Laura Taylor (Regina Hall) hire a sexy surrogate mother (Jaz Sinclair) to carry their baby, the young woman develops a dangerous obsession, and husband and wife must fight together to save their family.

 

American Honey
Star (Sasha Lane), a young woman with nothing to lose, links up with Jake (Shia LaBeouf) and other misfits selling magazine subscriptions by day and partying by night. Based on Academy Award–winning director Andrea Arnold’s earlier efforts (Fish Tank; Red Road), we’d bet that American Honey will be a gritty and sexy romp through the American heartland.

 

The Edge of Seventeen
Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) watches as her high school experience goes from bad to worse when her gorgeous best friend (Haley Lu Richardson) starts dating her all-American older brother (Blake Jenner). As she humorously reels from the fallout, her ineffectual mother (Kyra Sedgwick) and exasperated mentor (Woody Harrelson) try to keep her on track.

 

The Girl on the Train
Opening in theaters October 7. When a beautiful young woman (Haley Bennett) goes missing, a troubled divorcée (Emily Blunt)—who has observed and fantasized about the young woman and her husband (Luke Evans of Fast & Furious and Hobbit fame) from a passing train every morning—becomes both an investigator and a suspect in the case. Also heating up the screen are Anniston hubby Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation) as Blunt’s ex and his new wife.

 

Moonlight
Opening in theaters October 21. This probing drama roils around Chiron, a young African-American growing up in a drug-plagued neighborhood of Miami, who struggles with his sexual identity. The film has been chosen to screen at the New York Film Festival, where programmers say “Moonlight features a fantastic ensemble cast, including André Holland, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali, who deliver performances filled with inner conflict and aching desires that cut straight to the heart.”

 

The Love Witch
Opening in theaters October 28. Don’t let the campy ’60s look fool you; The Love Witch, the story of a woman (Samantha Robinson) who uses spells, magic and a killer body to seduce and torment men, is a thoroughly modern send-up of the pulp horror films of that era. If you’re into retro style and ingeniously gratuitous nudity, Love Witch is a must-see. Written and directed by Anna Biller.

 

Nocturnal Animals
Opening in theaters November 18. In designer Tom Ford’s sexy new thriller—his first feature film since A Single Man (2009)—tensions arise when an art-gallery owner (Amy Adams, pictured below) interprets a violent novel, which her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) has written and given to her to read, as an explicit threat to her that’s only masquerading as fiction.

 

Allied
Opening in theaters November 23. On a mission to kill a German official in Casablanca during World War II, an American assassin (Brad Pitt) and a French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) fall in love, and the sparks fly between them as the world goes to hell. The spirit of Rick and Ilsa (“Here’s looking at you, kid”) lives on.