[Playlist of the Week] 10 Blockbuster Hits of the Summer
With summer right around the corner, film buffs everywhere are gearing up for the soundtrack releases. While most people aren’t interested in scores, we’ve found the small light with familiar songs being featured on each film's respective OST. In no particular order, here are 10 songs featured on blockbuster soundtracks of movies being released this summer.
Trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua's Boxing Film, Southpaw
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Coming off of his award-winning performance in Nightcrawler (which included a plethora of Best Actor nominations from various film critics and the Golden Globes) comes Jake Gyllenhaal's next film with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, Southpaw. Gyllenhaal stars as Billy Hope, a boxer at the height of his career whose world suddenly falls apart following an incident at his retirement announcement party.
Gyllenhaal's been on a run of amazing performances from End of Watch to Prisoners to Nightcrawler, so it's easy to assume he'll knock this one out - pun intended. While the plot is a pretty run of the mill redemption story (at first glance), Gyllenhaal has proven himself to not only deliver outstanding performances time and time again, but also doing so with a pickiness towards the films he signs on to do. The combination of Gyllenhaal with a director like Fuqua almost guarantees a film worth watching.
We'll all get our chance when Southpaw hits theaters on July 24th.