January

 

1st

Joy (2015)

Jennifer Lawrence is reunited with director David O. Russell in a semi-biographical comedy/drama about Joy Mangano and her journey from struggling New York single mom to entrepreneur, inventor, millionaire business owner and powerful family matriarch.

Directed by David O. Russell and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 1st of January   US Release: 25th of December 2015

 

 

 

The Danish Girl (2015)

Transgender drama about the unconventional love story of married Danish artists in early 20th century Europe, who struggle to cope with the husband’s transition into one of the earliest identified transgender women through sex reassignment surgery, the artist Lily Elbe.

Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 1st of January   US Release: 25th of December 2015

 

 

 

8th

The Hateful Eight (2016)

Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film is a ‘Reservoir Dogs’ style western about a group of 19th century bounty hunters in the cold American frontier, forced together by circumstance where a plot of deceit starts to violently unravel.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Kurt Russell, Tim Roth and Samuel L. Jackson among others.

Genre: Western

UK Release: 8th of January   US Release: 8th of January

 

 

 

15th

The Revenant (2016)

Semi-biographical western drama set in the unforgiving 19th century American frontier, starring  Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper on a survival and revenge mission after being left for dead by his company following a bear attack.

Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Western

UK Release: 15th of January   US Release: 8th of January

 

 

 

Creed (2016)

Boxing drama ‘Rocky’ spin-off following the late “Apollo Creed’s” troubled son as he enlists the help of his dad’s legendary “Italian Stallion” rival and friend to train him, and help create his own legacy and place in the world.

Directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone and Maria Breyman among others.

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

UK Release: 15th of January   US Release: 25th of November 2015

 

 

 

Room (2015)

Indie drama about a mother who raises her 5-yeard-old son in a small room isolated from the world, only for them both break free and discover the majesty and peril of the real world.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay and Sean Bridgers among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 15th of January   US Release: 25th of November 2015

 

 

 

22nd

The Big Short (2015)

Outrageous comedy/drama featuring an all-star cast and based on the real people who benefited from the recent global financial crisis by betting against the major banks, taking advantage of their greed and stupidity and predicting the subsequent bursting of the credit & housing bubble in America.

Directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 22nd of January   US Release: 23rd of December 2015

 

 

 

Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

A veteran American campaign strategist is hired by a South American presidential candidate to rescue his campaign against an opponent who boasts his own rival American strategist, but a crisis of conscience looms as the realities of life in the country conflict with her own ambition in this political come/drama from the producers of ‘Argo‘.

Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mackie among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 22nd of January   US Release: 30th of October 2015

 

 

 

The 5th Wave (2015)

Familiar all-action alien attack sci-fi adventure following the fortunes of a teenage girl and fellow human survivors as they resist the takeover of a world that has been devastated by specific and targeted waves of alien destruction.

Directed by J Blakeson and starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson and Liev Schreiber among others.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi

UK Release: 22nd of January   US Release: 15th of January

 

 

 

29th

Spotlight (2015)

An all-star cast features in director Tom McCarthy’s journalistic drama chronicling the true story of the Boston Globe’s uncovering of a local child abuse church scandal that rocked the Catholic church to its core.

Directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 29th of January   US Release: 6th of November 2015

 

 

 

Youth (2015)

The story of a film director and his retired composer friend in the twilight of their lives where they contemplate what has passed and what may be yet to come, director Paolo Sorrentino’s age, art and life reflective comedy/drama.

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 29th of January   US Release: 4th of December 2015

 

 

 

The 33 (2015)

A multinational all-star cast brings to life the dramatic events of the 2010 Chilean mining accident where a massive mine collapse trapped 33 miners underground for over 2 months.

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 29th of January   US Release: 13th of November 2015

 

 

 

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

The real events of the 2012 extremist attack on a US diplomatic compound in Libya are given the Michael Bay action treatment, focusing on the exploits of a military security team who struggled to protect American citizens from an assault that killed the American ambassador.

Directed by Michael Bay and starring James Badge Dale, John Krasinski and Toby Stephens among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 29th of January   US Release: 15th of January

 

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