Gallery: The Movies and Shows We're Really Looking Forward to in 2015
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__*Avengers: Age of Ultron*__ Two years after helming the super-team flick that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe into utter box office (and fanboy heart) dominance, Joss Whedon is bringing together Iron Man, Thor, et al for yet another epic battle. (Expand the gallery for the full write-throughs.)
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__*Mad Max: Fury Road*__ Better movies will surely come out in 2015, movies that will win Oscars and be officially selected at festivals the world over. But *none* of them will get you as jacked as *Mad Max: Fury Road*. This is what IMAX-sized movie theaters and Dolby Atmos were invented for.
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__The Rise of Sansa Stark__ After 38 tormented episodes of *Game of Thrones*, Sansa finally looks ready to play the game, and we suspect she’ll be the most proficient contender yet from the Stark bloodline. Nobody is putting this ginger back in the corner.
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__*Star Wars: The Force Awakens*__ Look, there are all sorts of ways this movie could suck. But we're optimists.
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__*Ant-Man*__ Despite some personnel shake-ups, Marvel hasn't let us down yet, so consider us still stoked for Paul Rudd in this comedy-heist take on the troubled superhero.
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__*San Andreas*__ We may love a good superhero movie, but our true action-flick catnip is anything from the Roland Emmerich School of Unmitigated Disaster. And a Los Angeles-decimating superquake certainly qualifies.
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__The *Mad Men* Finale__ After seven years, Don Draper's mystery has slowly been stripped away, revealing a human being who’s slowly getting closer to the sort of honesty he once kept hidden beneath pseudonyms and suits. Will we still love him just as much without the lies?
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__The Return of *Broad City *and* Inside Amy Schumer*__ There’s no dressing it up: We just flat-out love Amy Schumer, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. That’s it. And their respective shows produced television highlights every time they came on the air in 2014.
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__*The Hateful Eight*__ Any year with a Tarantino feature on the horizon is one to be eagerly anticipated. He doesn’t make them very often, which is why they’re precious, and every production with his name across the could serve as both a seminar in filmmaking and a pop culture artifact.
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__*The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt*__ NBC's latest comedy gaffe—letting go of Tina Fey's newest project, about a young woman who leaves a cult to move to NYC—is Netflix's huge gain.
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__*Inside Out*__ Pixar's upcoming story about a young woman's innermost feelings isn't a sequel and has no superheroes—it’s just a bold, clever, original story. We're getting emotional just thinking about it.
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__*Togetherness*__ By now, mumblecore’s self-absorbed twentysomethings are circling in on 40, with marriage and parenting ennui that eclipses the post-college doldrums, and *Togetherness* looks to plumb those depths for HBO susbcribers, with the Duplass Brothers' signature candor.
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__*Jupiter Ascending*__ The Wachowskis may strike out a lot, but it’s because they swing for the fences every single time. No one goes bigger and harder and crazier with an original idea than these two, and that’s a trademark we can respect. Considering it’s been 16 years since they had a bona fide hit, the law of averages says this duo is on schedule for a grand slam.
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__*Pitch Perfect 2*__ The Barden Bellas are back and Hailee Steinfeld has joined the cast and Elizabeth Banks is directing and for some reason David Cross is here hosting a cappella riff-offs, and … oh, who are we kidding? We'd see this movie even if it was just Anna Kendrick making fart noises.
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__*The Last Five Years*__ Musicals aren’t for everyone. But if you’ve ever experienced a relationship crumbling before your very eyes against the drunk-in-love background of New York City, then this adaptation is for you.
