As befits the end of the year, the December range of films is absolutely spectacular. Bursting with special effects, romance, we'll be bursting with laughter, and some space is also reserved for tears. These are the movies you shouldn't miss in December.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
15/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
Action fantasy spectacle
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: Gareth Edwards. Cast: Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna.
It is not the eighth sequel to the world's most popular space film saga, but the first in a series of standalone Star Wars films. Directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla), the film is set before the original trilogy of this popular space franchise, which George Lucas launched with IV. episode in 1977. It tells the story of rebels who want to steal the plans for the most powerful weapon in the galaxy - the Death Star. In it, we will meet many new faces who will join the battles in the "galaxy far, far away".
La La Land
15/12/2016 / Coliseum
A romantic musical drama
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: Damien Chazelle. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, JK Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez, Rosemarie DeWitt, Meagen Fay, John Legend.
La La Land is a film for hopeless romantics and one of the most anticipated films of 2016. The romantic musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone is about a jazz musician and an actress who fall madly in love. Director Damien Chazelle's film is a modern tribute to the golden age of Hollywood musicals. Ryan Gosling is a jazz pianist who plays in dark bars, while Stonova, an aspiring actress waiting for her big break, earns her living as a waitress.
Planetarium
22/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
Mystery fantasy drama
(France, Belgium, 2016)
Directed by: Rebecca Zlotowski. Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Louis Garrel, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, Rosa Bursztein.
The Franco-Belgian drama is set in pre-war France and stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp (Johnny Depp's daughter) as sisters who believe they can talk to the dead. Two spiritualists in Paris in the 1930s are just finishing a tour when they attract the attention of film producer André Korben (Emmanuel Salinger). He hires them for his film project, which mixes art and the occult. Intriguing and very très chic the film was directed by French director Rebecca Zlotowski.
Why him? (Why Him?)
22/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
Comedy
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: John Hamburg. Cast: Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Adam DeVine, Megan Mullally, Keegan Michael Key, Casey Rose Wilson, Andrew Rannells, Griffin Gluck, Zack Pearlman, Lucy Angelo, Isabel Dresden, Robert J. Stephenson, Jee Young Han.
Why him? (Why Him?) is an offbeat comedy about an overprotective father (Bryan Cranston) who disapproves of his daughter's boyfriend (Zoey Deutch and James Franco), which is every father's nightmare. When a daughter grows up, every father thinks that no boy will be good enough for her. But while any father would be happy in principle to see his daughter marry a tech millionaire, Ned is convinced that the laid-back Laird is anything but good marriage material and that his daughter deserves a better match.
Assassin's Creed
29/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
Action fantasy adventure
(USA, UK, France, Hong Kong, 2016)
Directed by: Justin Kurzel. Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Rikkin, Michael K. Williams, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Matias Varela, Ariane Labed.
Assassin's Creed is a film adaptation of the globally popular third-person video game of the same name by Ubisoft, which was inspired by the Slovenian novel Alamut. The film's outstanding cast is led by Michael Fassbender, who plays Callum Lynch. With the help of the latest genetic technology, he gets the memories of his ancestor Aguilar. When he discovers that he is descended from a secret society of hired assassins, he sets out to destroy the sinister Templar organization that threatens the world today. The filmmakers are confident of the film's success, as they are already preparing a sequel.
Passengers
29/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
A romantic sci-fi adventure thriller
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: Morten Tyldum. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fisburne, Andy Garcia, Aurora Perrineau.
Hollywood has gotten into the habit of sending a movie with space content (Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian) to the big screen at the end of the year. They continue the trend with the movie Passengers, in which one of the busiest movie stars at the moment - Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt - appear. In the film, the latter transforms into a passenger on the spaceship Avalon, which, together with thousands of others, takes them to a new planet, towards a new life. But their journey becomes deadly when the sleep chambers awaken them from hibernation 90 years too early.
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Collateral Beauty
29/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Coliseum
Drama
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: David Frankel. Cast: Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Kylie Rogers, Enrique Murciano.
Director David Frankl's drama will move us to tears. If Will Smith presented himself as an anti-hero in his last film The Derelict Squad, this time we will get to know his gentle side again, similar to how he did in the movie Pursuit of Happiness (2006). A film about love, time and death shows us why it is not worth giving up, no matter how difficult and hopeless life is. It tells the story of a downtrodden successful marketing expert who is dealing with a great personal tragedy that completely changes his life.
The Great Wall
5/1/2017 / Cineplexx, Colosseum
Fantasy action adventure
(China, USA, 2016)
Directed by: Zhang Yimou. Cast: Matt Damon, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Millem Dafoe, Lu Han, Jing Tian, Zhang Hanyu, Eddie Peng, Lin Gengxin, Ryan Cheng, Chen Xuedong.
Matt Damon has swapped the melee weapon he wielded as Jason Bourne for a bow in this big-budget film as he plays a soldier in ancient China. It is not a historically accurate film, because the nearly nine thousand meter long Great Wall of China does not protect people from invasions by Mongol and Hun tribes, but rather from evil omens. The giant of Chinese cinema, Zhang Yimou, waved the director's baton over the film. With a budget of around 140 million US dollars, the American-Chinese co-production will be the most expensive Chinese film of all time.
Herd (Herd)
1/12/2016 / Cineplexx
Comedy
(Serbia, 2016)
Director: Nikola Koja. Starring: Nikola Koja, Zoran Cvijanović, Vesna Trivalić, Nataša Ninković, Nikola Đuričko, Goran Šušljik, Vojin Ćetković, Marko Gvero, Bane Trifunović, Srđan Timarov, Hristina Popović, Goran Radaković, Dragan Petrović Pele, Miran Banjac, Petar Strugar.
Čreda is the directorial debut of one of the most recognizable film faces in the Balkans, Nikola Koja. The main characters of the film are Kolja and Cveja, who are collecting funds to film the pilot episode of the TV series. But the road to success is thorny, and in order to realize the plan, they have to accept many compromises with gritted teeth. The creators promise a superb comedy that will not only loosen our stomach muscles, but also encourage us to think about too many aspects of life that we are exposed to on a daily basis in one way or another.
Underworld: Blood Wars (Underworld: Blood Wars)
1/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Colosseum
Action fantasy horror
(USA, 2016)
Directed by: Anna Foerster. Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies, Trent Garrett, Lara Pulver, Clementine Nicholson.
Bradley James, Charles Dance, Daisy Head, James Faulkner, Peter Andersson.
It is the fifth film in this vampire-werewolf saga, coming five years after the last film (Underworld: Awakening), and the first to be directed by a woman. Kate Beckinsale returns as Selena, who finds herself at a crossroads as she must decide whether to fight for old allies or new ones. The film was mostly shot in Prague. The Underworld movie franchise began in 2003 and has grossed Screen Gems over half a billion dollars so far.
come with me
1/12/2016 / Cineplexx, Colosseum
Youth adventure thriller
(Slovenia, 2016)
Director: Igor Šterk. Cast: Ivan Vastl, Mak Tepšić, Ronja Matijevec Jerman, Matija Brodnik, Dare Valič, Ivanka Mežan, Lotos Vincenc Šparovec.
Igor Šterko's multi-award-winning youth adventure thriller is a warm, but occasionally very tense and creepy film that exposes the vulnerability and unpreparedness of today's youth when technology fails. Go with me is the story of four teenagers who, in search of the best photo for a school competition, replace the 'domesticated' urban environment with 'untamed' nature. The journey takes them to remote hills, where seemingly simple photography of nature's beauty turns into a struggle for bare survival. The film received a prize for special achievements at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož.
