The holiday season is upon us and with it comes a brand new wave of theatrical and streaming releases. Whether you're looking for some festive comedy, to dive deep into a murder mystery, or celebrate the festive period with a bucket load of gnarly gore and bloodshed, there is certainly something for everyone.
Silent Night, Deadly Night (In Cinemas)
This re-imagining of the 1984 cult horror classic follows a young boys descension into a killer after witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of a man dressed as Santa. Years later, haunted by trauma and a twisted sense of justice, he dons the red suit and turns the advent calendar into a series of nights of terror. As Christmas Eve approaches, a small town becomes his latest hunting ground, where the naughty and bad pay the ultimate price.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Daniel Craig returns as eccentric private detective Benoit Blanc for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson's murder mystery opus. This time around, Blanc is tasked with identifying the killer of a local church monsignor—with a church full of suspects, can the world's greatest detective crack a devil of a mystery?
Fackham Hall (In Cinemas)
A British Comedy from comedian-turned-screenwriter Jimmy Carr; mistaken identities, forbidden love, and one very inconvenient corpse turn the grand English manor of Fackham Hall into total bedlam in this comedy of class, romance, manners, and mischief.
Ella McCay (In Cinemas)
An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.
Preparation for the Next Life (In Cinemas)
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu's first crack at a fictional feature is in adapting Atticus Lish's novel of the same name. It follows the story of an Uyghur immigrant trained by her military father, who meets a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. Together, a connection forms, and they attempt to create better lives for themselves.
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