Fall movie season is upon us, so lots of oscar bait and some authentically good movies due. Fall doesn't officially start until the 22nd, but I'll uh, start this with next weekend and run this through the new year.

Recent festivals have Rush, Gravity, and Prisoners as pretty big winners, while more indie skewing flicks like Can A Song Save Your Life? from the director of Once are selling pretty big.

Tentative release schedule for bigger movies:

September 13th:
The Family: Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer. Directed by Luc Besson. Produced by Martin Scorsese.
Insidious Chapter 2
Jayne Mansfield's Car - 43% (7 reviews) - d: Billy Bob Thornton s: Kevin Bacon, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Ray Stevenson
Blue Caprice - 100% (13 reviews) - Sundance favorite.

September 20th:
Battle of the Year - Dance off movie, co-starring Chris Brown
Prisoners - 93% (15 reviews) - d: Villeneuve, s: Jackman / Gyllenhaal. Getting a lot of early praise.
Rush - 100% (17 reviews) - d: Howard, s: Hemsworth, Bruhl - Getting even more early praise.

September 27th:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Baggage Claim
Don Jon - 90% (10 reviews) - d: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Therese
Metallica: Through the Never

October 4th:
Gravity - 100% (21 reviews) - d: Cuaron
Runner Runner - d: Furman, s: Timberlake, Affleck - Trailer

October 11th:
Captain Phillips - 100% (4 reviews) - d: Greengrass, s: Hanks
Machete Kills
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
The Fifth Estate - 40% - d: Condon, s: Cumberbatch
Romeo and Juliet - d: Carlei, w: Julian Fellowes, s: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth

October 18th:
Carrie
Escape Plan - Stallone, Schwarzenegger
All is Lost - 100% 11 reviews - s: Redford
12 Years a Slave - 100% (10 reviews)
Kill Your Darlings - 100% (12 reviews) - s: Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael C. Hall

October 25th:
The Counselor
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Blue is the Warmest Color - 100% (12 reviews) - NC-17

November 1st -
Ender's Game
Free Birds
Last Vegas -
Dallas Buyers Club - only 3 reviews so far, all positive
Diana - s: Watts - 14% (7 reviews)

November 8th -
Thor
The Armstrong Lie
About Time - 71% 28 reviews - d: Curtis, s: Nighy, McAdams


November 15th -
The Best Man Holiday
the Book Thief
The Wolf of Wall Street
Faust - 73% (11 reviews)

November 22nd -
Her - d: Jonze, s: Phoenix, Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde
Delivery Man - s: Vince Vaugn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Nebraska - 81% (21 reviews) - d: Payne, s: Bruce Dern

November 27th -
Black Nativity
Frozen (Disney)
Homefront
Oldboy
Grace of Monaco

December 6th -
Out of the Furnace - d: Cooper, s: Bale, Casey Affleck, Saldana
Inside Llewyn Davis - 91% (23 reviews) - d: Coen Bros, s: Oscar Isaac, Timberlake, Mulligan
The Last Days on Mars

December 13th -
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
American Hustle
Saving Mr Banks

December 20th -
Anchorman: The Legend Continues
The Monuments Men
Walking with Dinosaurs

December 25th -
47 Ronin
Grudge Match
Jack Ryan
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

OldBoy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Gravity
Thor 2
American Hustle
Wolf of Wall Street
The Counselor

Hobbit
Thor 2
Captain Phillips
Enders Game
Hunger Games
ANchorman 2

Gravity is the only one I need to see theatrically, but I would like to see the Jonze and Coen films if my schedule permits.

Interestingly, the New York Post has a story today on the most anticipated films and stars of the rest of the year, as compiled by a Fandango survey:

http://nypost.com/2013/09/08/hunger-...-film-of-fall/

The print edition includes the full tally; the online edition doesn't. The list includes three films not listed in this poll, but it could be those don't open till the holiday season.

Heck, I'll just type the results in out of the newspaper:

Movies:
1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2. Thor: The Dark World
3. Gravity
4. Ender's Game
5. Carrie

Actresses:
1. Jennifer Lawrence (Catching Fire)
2. Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
3. Natalie Portman (Thor)
4. Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
5. Jennifer Hudson (Black Nativity)

Actors:
1. Chris Hemsworth (Thor)
2. Leonardo DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street)
3. George Clooney (Gravity)
4. Josh Hutcherson (Catching Fire)
5. Liam Hemsworth (Catching Fire)

I never even heard of the Jennifer Hudson movie. And I can't imagine anyone anticipating AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY except diehard Streep fans.

on the list:
Insidious 2
Prisoners
Captain Phillips
Thor 2
Frozen
Gravity
Desolation of Smaug

not on the list:
Saving Mr. Banks

Others :

Claire Denis' Bastards
Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel, 1915
Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.

surprised Ender's game is so high.

I also want to see that sci-fi movie where Scarlett is naked.

Thor 2 and Gravity, and to a lesser extent Don Jon and Hunger Games. Wasn't a big Hobbit/LOTR fan, so I don't care much about the upcoming movie.

Anchorman: The Legend Continues
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Book Thief
Machete Kills
Ender's Game

With a good number of movies not in the poll I am surprised "Other" only has 4 votes.

It's one of the most popular young adult novels of all-time and it has received a huge amount of free publicity--including an EW cover months before its release--from the Card-is-a-homophobe crowd.

Thanks for the list. I haven't been keeping up.

Will try to watch everything!

Very curious to see 47 Ronin and The Counselor.

Lots of choices, but I selected 12 Years a Slave. Looks really powerful and anything to give Ejiofor a shot at leading man status.

I voted Gravity and American Hustle (surprised that isn't getting more votes), everything else tops out at "cautiously optimistic."

Rush will be a must see for me in theaters since I'm a huge F1 fan. Will likely catch Gravity too.

REALLY forward to Escape Plan, Dallas Buyers Club, and Ender's Game and to a lesser extent Insidious 2 and Don Jon, although I'll also be catching Thor/Hunger Games/Hobbit 2 and 12 Years a Slave. There are some movies I'm unfamiliar with on that list.

Night Moves-Kelly Reichardt
Under The Skin-Jonathan Glazer
Gravity-Alfonso Cuaron
Anchorman 2- Adam Mckay
Joe-David Gordon Green

Almost every single one of the movies on that list. Plus I am sure there will be a lot more very limited releases I will try to go to. And then there's NYFF.

The top of the list is shared between Gravity and The Counselor.

There were a lot more, I just ran out of time. Additionally, the polls are limited to 25.