December

 

2nd

Violent Night (2022)

Christmas at the estate of a wealthy family is turned into a nightmare when brutal mercenaries looking to take everything come a-knockin’, enter a lapsed hard-drinking Santa Claus to save the season and the family, spreading some Christmas cheer and plenty of blood along the way . . . and striking some names off his naughty list.

Directed by Tommy Wirkola David Harbour, Beverly D’Angelo and John Leguizamo among others.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

UK Release: 2nd of December   US Release: 2nd of December

 

 

 

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)

A new look at D. H. Lawrence’s racy 1920s romance novel bringing a modernist female-first perspective to the the character of Connie Reid, a young woman at the turn of the century stuck in a privileged but joyless marriage to an English nobleman paralysed from service in World War I, who begins a passionate affair with the local gamekeeper and gets stuck between two life choices . . . all the time risking them both.

Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and starring Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell and Faye Marsay among others.

Genre: Drama, Romance

UK Release: 2nd of December (Netflix)   US Release: 2nd of December (Netflix)

 

 

 

Tori and Lokita (2022)

Two young African immigrants arrive alone in modern day Belgium but form a close bond over the shared struggles which drove them from their home countries to the promise and sobering reality of escaping to Europe, in this timely human drama tale of belonging and migration from the writer/directors of ‘Two Days, One Night’ and ‘The Unknown Girl’.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne and starring Pablo Schils, Joely Mbundu and Alban Ukaj among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 2nd of December   US Release: N/A

 

 

 

White Noise (2022)

A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a darker road by a local disaster and its effect on the public, as they pull on a thread in their marriage which threatens to unravel everything in this adaptation of the 1985 cult novel by the writer/director of ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Marriage Story’.

Directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Raffey Cassidy among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 2nd of December   US Release: 25th of November

 

 

 

9th

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

A darker and more surreal animated take on the classic 19th century fairy-tale of an Italian woodcarver who creates a puppet to deal with the painful loss of his son, who then embarks on an adventure of discovery and peril so that he can be magically turned into a real boy, rendered in stunning stop-motion animation and told against the backdrop of oppression under Mussolini’s fascist regime of the 1930s.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson and starring Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor and David Bradley among others.

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

UK Release: 9th of December (Netflix)   US Release: 9th of December (Netflix)

 

 

 

The Silent Twins (2022)

Between the late 1960s and 1980s in Britain, a pair of twin sisters and daughters of Caribbean immigrants confound society when they become marginalised by those around them and refuse to speak to anyone but each other, developing their own inscrutable language and an unbreakable bond as they delve into their imaginations to live their lives, only to fall foul of the law and a society unwilling to let them be in this family drama based on a true story.

Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska and starring Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance and Nadine Marshall among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 9th of December   US Release: 16th of September

 

 

 

Nocebo (2022)

Suffering from an unknown ailment which is beginning to take over her private and professional life, a well-to-do family woman and London fashion designer finds salvation with the arrival of a mysterious Filipina carer and her traditional healing methods, only to unleash something darker and reveal uncomfortable truths as she’s plunged into a struggle for her sanity in this psychological thriller from the director of ‘Without Name’ and ‘Vivarium’.

Directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Eva Green, Chai Fonacier and Mark Strong among others.

Genre: Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 9th of December   US Release: 22nd of November

 

 

 

Emancipation (2022)

After being whipped nearly to death and kept as property, a runaway slave outwits his captors and survives a perilous journey North through the endless swamp to join the Union Army and fight against the system which brutalised him, in this dramatisation of the real 19th century story of Gordon or “Whipped Peter”.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, Ben Foster and Steven Ogg among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Action, Thriller

UK Release: 9th of December (Apple TV+)   US Release: 9th of December (Apple TV+)

 

 

 

16th

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Many years after helping the Na’vi drive the human colonisers from Pandora and starting his own ocean family life on the planet, Jake Sully is called upon to prove his loyalty and play his part in the coming war when his race returns with a vengeance, in this first of many sequels to the box-office breaking 2009 blockbuster ‘Avatar’.

Directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver among others.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

UK Release: 16th of December   US Release: 16th of December

 

 

 

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

A Mexican filmmaker/journalist who made his name with acclaimed socially-conscious work has his identity challenged and is plunged into an existential crisis upon his celebratory return home after 20 years away in the US, forcing him to confront a society now alien to him and question his perception of the past life which formed him and his changing nation, in this inventive and transcendental surrealist personal odyssey from the writer/director of ‘Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)’ and ‘The Revenant’.

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani and Ximena Lamadrid among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 16th of December (Netflix)   US Release: 16th of December (Netflix)

 

 

 

23rd

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

In early 19th century USA a jaded veteran detective is tasked with unravelling the mysterious grisly murder of a cadet at the prestigious West Point military academy, but when he faces a stonewalling of silence from the institution and its code, he recruits one of their own promising cadets to help him solve the case—a young man whom literature and history would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling and Gillian Anderson among others.

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

UK Release: 23rd of December   US Release: 23rd of December

 

 

 

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

A mysterious invitation brings renowned detective ‘Benoit Blanc’ and a rag-tag group of “disruptors” to a luxurious coastal getaway and the Greek private island home of a tech billionaire, where a seemingly friendly weekend murder-mystery gathering of disparate characters with co-dependent ties to their host soon turns into a murder scene when one of them turns up dead and everyone is a suspect, with the southern sleuth soon jumping on the case in this whodunnit follow-up from the writer/director of ‘Knives Out’.

Directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton and Janelle Monáe among others.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

UK Release: 23rd of December (Netflix)   US Release: 23rd of December (Netflix)

 

 

 

26th

Corsage (2022)

A semi-fictional look at the later life of Austrian Empress Elisabeth as an eccentric and irreverent period costume drama, revisiting the 19th century from a distinctly female perspective and centring on a monarch approaching a new stage in life, as she struggles with traditions and aesthetic expectations while undergoing physical changes, prompting her to rebel in any way she can.

Directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan and Finnegan Oldfield among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 26th of December   US Release: 23rd of December

 

 

 

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

A supremely talented New Jersey songbird with the voice of an angel rises from her church singing roots to become one of the most influential and bestselling recording artists ever, only to be undone by outside pressures and a troubled personal life, in this dramatised biographical look at the life and times of the late Whitney Houston.

Directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci and Ashton Sanders among others.

Genre: Drama, Music

UK Release: 26th of December   US Release: 23rd of December

 

 

 

30th

White Noise (2022)

A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a darker road by a local disaster and its effect on the public, as they pull on a thread in their marriage which threatens to unravel everything in this adaptation of the 1985 cult novel by the writer/director of ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Marriage Story’.

Directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Raffey Cassidy among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 30th of December (Netflix)   US Release: 30th of December (Netflix)

 

 

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