Top December Film Releases Part 2

Your December diet will be… popcorn! With the incredible line up of films coming to theatres we won’t want to see the daylight. This month new releases include indy films, Hollywood blockbusters and documentaries with huge Oscar potential. Ethan and Joel Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), August: Osage County (Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts), Saving Mr Banks (Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson), The Wolf of Wall Street (Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill) and long awaited documentary Justin Bieber’s Believe.

Our top picks Fri Dec 20th – Wed 25th:

Inside Llewyn Davis

Saving Mr Banks

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D

47 Ronin

August: Osage County

Justin Bieber’s Believe

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

The Secret life of Walter Mitty

The Wolf of Wall Street

Inside Llewyn Davis

Fri Dec 20th

Genre: Drama

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Studio: Mongrel Media

Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham, Max Casella

Synopsis: Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul and back again.

Full review here.

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Saving Mr Banks

Fri Dec 20th

Genre: Drama

Director: John Lee Hancock

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Rachel Griffiths, Bradley Whitford, B.J. Novak, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: When Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) tries to obtain the rights for “Mary Poppins,” he comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers (Emma Thompson) reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

Full review here.

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