Let these exciting movies make your holiday season even merrier! Share this with your friends and plan for a movie marathon! Prepare the popcorns and French fries and happy viewing!
December 1
Sword Master
Type: Action
Directed by Derek Yee, Sword Master is a Chinese 3D martial arts film about a powerful swordsman who is haunted by the destructive impact his deadly talents have on others. He disappeared from the society but his violent past refuses to let him go.
December 2
Moana
Type: Cartoon / Adventure
A new Disney movie to watch! Moana is an American 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It’s a story of the young princess of the tribe in a mystic island in Polynesia who sails out on a dangerous mission to save her people. During her journey, she teams up with her hero and legendary demigod, Maui.
December 3
Underworld: Bloodwars
Type: Action
A new Underworld installment where Selene (Kate Beckinsale) tries to stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, though it may cost her life.
December 4
Incarnate
Type: Thriller
A supernatural horror film that follows “an unconventional exorcist who can tap into the subconscious of the possessed”, who helped an 11-year old boy who is possessed by a demon from his past.
December 5
Lulu The Movie
Type: Comedy
A comedy film starring Michelle Chong which plays the role of Lulu, a determined woman from Shanghai who came to Singapore to meet her online date “Brad Pit”, played by the actor Chen Tianwen. See how things turned out after the heroine met her date which lead her to becoming an international fashion icon and mogul.
December 8
1. Death Note Light up the New World
Type: Thriller
The Death note is a supernatural notebook which the user can use to kill people by writing the name on its pages. There are new Death Note murders after a 10-year hiatus. Mass murders caused by the Death Note takes place on wall in U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. Tsukuru Mishima leads the Death Note Task Force to secure all six death notes. Arma, a white shinigami, visits the human world. A computer virus named Kira spreads in the world. Its message says turn in 6 Death Notes. The confrontation begins over the 6 notes starts between Tsukuru, Ryūzaki and Yūki.
2. Midnight University
Type: Thriller
Midnight University incorporates comedy with the horror, so you can still watch it even if you are faint-hearted. The film is about Star, a school celebrity who has minions following her everywhere. Due to her failed subject, she will not graduate. In able to convince the dean to let her graduate, he permits her to retake the test by going to night classes at an education center that is said to be haunted.
3. Your Name
Type: Cartoon / Love
A Japanese anime fantasy film about a high school girl living in the town of Itomori who wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next real life. Then, a highschool boy named Taki wakes up and realizes that he is Mitsuha, and Mitsuha ended up in Taki’s body. Hmm… Sounds interesting.
4. Disappointments Room
Type: Thriller
Couple Dana and David, with their 5-year-old son Lucas, move to a new house. Unexplainable events lead Dana to discover the long lost key to a room in the attic. A town historian tells Dana that the houses had a “disappointments room” where children with special needs or deformed would be isolated so as not to embarrass the family. Dana uncovers the shocking story of a judge whose daughter was kept in such a room in her house and the spirit of the deformed girl and the monstrous judge still linger.
5. Office Christmas Party
Type: Comedy
An upcoming American Christmas comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Carol Vanstone, Zenotek CEO, tries to close the branch of her hard-partying brother Clay by rallying their co-workers and hosting an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
6. Sing
Type: Cartoon / Comedy
The story is about a koala named Buster Moon who works to keep his theater from closing down. Buster and his sheep friend Eddie Noodleman hold a singing contest to raise money, and the entire town auditions for a part in the show.
December 15
1. Collateral Beauty
Type: Drama
Starring Will Smith, Collateral Beauty is a story of a man who lost all his hopes right after losing his daughter. In order to cope with depression, he starts writing to Love, Time and Death until one day, they start to show up one by one to help him bravely face life after all the heartbreaks and bitterness he has been through.
2. Haunted School
Type: Thriller
School has a lot of hidden stories that will terrify the most out of you! The movie, Haunted School portrays a story of a group of students who exchange different horror stories until the role of the terrifying story becomes true!
This movie will surely one of the hair raising movie of the year!
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Type: Action / Science Fiction / Adventure
As the title implies, Rogue One is a part of the Star Wars franchise, though this is a standalone film and the first of the Anthology films. This American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards tells the story of a group of unlikely heroes bonded together in one mission.
Catch the movie and see how the characters choose to do extraordinary things and become part of something greater than themselves!
4. Suddenly Seventeen
Type: Love / Comedy / Fantasy
Suddenly Seventeen is a Chinese romantic comedy movie of a couple who has been together for half a decade. Nini (heroine) dreams of having a perfect wedding and is preparing for almost every details of the event. On the other hand Wallace Huo (groom) is a workaholic man who cares nothing about wedding preparations.
Kinda intriguing, right? See how these two will survive their relationship.
December 22
1. Railroad Tigers
Type: Action
Another Chinese movie to watch for this December, Railroad Tigers, an action comedy film directed by Ding Sheng and starring the ever famous Chinese actor, Jackie Chan. This is a story of railroad worker in China who leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.
2. Assassin’s Creed
Type: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
A movie every video gamers surely know for Assassin’s Creed is an action adventure film based on a video game with the same name. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel and is starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Michael K. Williams.
3. See You Tomorrow
Type: Comedy / Love
A Chinese-Hong Kong romantic-comedy movie which is written and directed by Zhang Jiajia. This tells a story of a young woman who falls in love with a married painter, whose wife is unfaithful to him.
Sounds interesting and intriguing, right? Watch out and find out who will end up together.
December 29
1. Passengers
Type: Adventure / Science Fiction
An American film directed by Morten Tyldum starring Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen. Passengers tells about a spacecraft traveling to a distant planet and transporting thousands of people who has a malfunction in sleep chamber where 2 passengers are awakened 90 years early.
This is a perfect movie for those who love watching science-related films! This one is absolutely a good catch.
2. Why Him?
Type: Comedy
Another upcoming American movie of the month, Why Him? is a movie about a dad who forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter’s young rich boyfriend. The film is directed by John Hamburg and starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullaly, Griffin Gluck and Keegan-Michael Key.
3. Space Between Us
Type: Adventure / Science Fiction
An American teen romantic sci-fi adventure film to watch for this month – Space Between Us! This film is directed by Peter Chelsom and stars Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman and Carla Gugino. The movie portrays a story of a boy born on Mars and falls in love with a girl who’s from Earth.
Find out where love will take the two of them!
4. The Great Wall
Type: Drama / Action / Fantasy / Adventure
If you’re a big fan of Matt Damon, here’s another movie which he stars, The Great Wall. As the movie title says, The Great Wall is an American-Chinese epic historical fiction packed with action and adventure which tells a story about a mystery centered around the construction of China’s Great Wall.
