ODEON Magazine December 2016 | Page 25

PHOTO: © 2016 Disney Collateral Beauty TBC Keep a box of tissues handy – you’ll need it! DIRECTOR David Frankel STARRING Will smith, kate winslet,  helen mirren, Keira Knightley Boasting a wonderful cast that includes Kate Winslet, Will Smith and Edward Norton, this moving melodrama sees New York advertising executive Howard Inlet (Smith) struggling to cope after losing his young daughter. As a way of dealing with his grief, he writes letters to ‘Time’, ‘Love’ and ‘Death’. His colleagues do everything they can to help him, but it isn’t until real-life embodiments of his pen-pals turn up that Howard begins to rediscover his love of life. Stirring stuff! 26 DEC WILL SMITH BY NUMBERS 10 UK Top 10 hits 6 Kids’ Choice Awards (a record) $817m Worldwide Seasons of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air box office for Independence Day (1996) Moana Moana Released 2 December TBC Disney’s latest sees a feisty Polynesian princess taking to the seas... DIRECTORs Ron Clements, John Musker VOICES Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk In Disney’s 1989 classic The Little 2 DEC Mermaid, Sebastian the crab sang: “Darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me!” This December, almost three decades later, Little Mermaid directors Ron Clements and John Musker are creating a commotion in the ocean once more – this time with a tale involving a determined Polynesian princess. In order to save her small village, Moana (which means ‘sea’ in Maori) sets sail for a fabled island. Joining her on her epic adventure is Maui – a shapeshifting demigod who’s a little on the vain side. Hilariously played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Maui is just one of countless terrific characters in this sea-sational tale (Jemaine Clement’s villainous 50-foot coconut crab Tamatoa is also a rib-tickling highlight). A magical Disney adventure that’s perfect for the little ones, but stuffed with enough injokes and imagination to keep bigger kids (i.e. adults) happy too. The ocean is calling... Snowden Released 2 December Sully Released 2 December Office Christmas Party Released 6 December Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Released 15 December Ballerina Released 19 December Passengers Released 21 December Collateral Beauty Released 26 December Why Him? Released 26 December odeon.co.uk 25 PHOTO: © 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. PHOTO: © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Watch the trailer Watch the trailer Out this December