In January 2025, there's a wide variety of big-screen releases at Cineworld to sink your teeth into. From Gothic horror remakes to searing dramas, we've got all bases covered. Scroll down to find out what's on and when.
1. Nosferatu (released January 1st including IMAX and Superscreen)
Horror master Robert Eggers has left genre fans enthralled with his deliciously Gothic films The Witch (2016), The Lighthouse (2020), not to mention his brutal Viking epic The Northman (2022). Eggers now tackles the granddaddy of all Gothic vampire texts: Nosferatu. The director presents his remake of the 1922 German Expressionist silent cinema classic, itself a loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's seminal horror novel Dracula (1897).
IT star Bill Skarsgard undergoes another terrifying transformation to play the dreadful, bloodsucking Count Orlok alias 'Nosferatu', who leaves a trail of devastation in his wake as he lusts after Lily Rose-Depp's imperilled Ellen Hutter. Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Simon McBurney, and Ralph Ineson round out the superb cast.
2. We Live in Time (released January 1st)
Is there a hotter on-screen couple than Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh right now? The two British stars are hot properties across the blockbuster and indie drama circuits. Now, their electric chemistry takes centre stage in a non-linear story of chemistry, first love, marriage, parenthood and tragedy. In other words, a summation of life itself. Prepare the hankies for the latest film from noted Brooklyn director John Crowley.
3. A Real Pain (released January 8th)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Kieran Culkin (Succession) form January's best double-act in this quirky comedy-drama. Eisenberg doubles up as director and star in this story of mismatched cousins David and Benji who reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother.
4. Maria (released January 10th)
Angelina Jolie is courting Oscar buzz for her transformative performance as opera icon Maria Callas. The late operatic diva generated as much attention for her complex private life as she did for her famously mellifluous vocal range, and only an actor of Jolie's caliber would be up to such a formidable task. Jolie's singing chops are melded with that of Callas's as director Pablo Larrain completes his trio of films focusing on female celebrities in the unforgiving spotlight (2016's Jackie and 2022's Spencer precede this one).
5. Babygirl (released January 10th)
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson cook up some seriously steamy chemistry in this provocative look at sexual identity, role play and corporate power. Kidman plays a high-ranking CEO whose impulsive fling with Dickinson's intern character leads to recriminations. Kidman has been acclaimed as has director Halina Rejin (helmer of the satirical 2022 horror-comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies).
6. A Complete Unknown (released January 17th)
Dune and Wonka star Timothée Chalamet further cements his super-star status with his portrayal of the music icon Bob Dylan. Chalamet portrays the mercurial Dylan during his all-important and divisive shift from folk music to electric, a performance that is already generating talk of Oscars. Director James Mangold, working from Elijah Wald's 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!, is an expert in this field, having helmed the acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line in 2005.
7. Wolf Man (released January 17th)
In 2020, writer-director Leigh Whannell reinvented the classic Universal Studios horror property The Invisible Man to critical and commercial success. Whereas that film recontexualised the ghoulish story as a tale of domestic violence, his upcoming take on Wolf Man (the definite article has been dropped) reconfigures the lycanthropic story as one of invasive, skin-crawling body horror. Christopher Abbot and Julia Garner star.
8. The Brutalist (released January 24th)
In 2016, actor Brady Corbert arrested the attention with his portentous historical thriller The Birth of a Leader. It was a film resplendent in a lavish, baroque atmosphere and his follow-up feature, The Brutalist, is said to be even better, having brought the house down at the 2024 Venice Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion. An awards-buzzed Adrien Brody plays a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant who gets a front-row seat to the expansion of the American Dream in the early-to-mid 20th century. Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy and Stacey Martin co-star.
9. Flight Risk (released January 24th)
Mark Wahlberg chews the scenery and creates emotional turbulence in this white-knuckle thriller, the latest from Mel Gibson whose previous film was the acclaimed, Oscar-winning World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Wahlberg plays an apparently benign pilot who is transporting a government witness to trial over tricky mountainous terrain. However, he then shows his true colours, starting with the fact he's not a pilot at all but a ruthless hitman out to eliminate his target at all costs.
10. Saturday Night (released January 31st)
The remarkable true story behind American TV institution Saturday Night Live comes to the screen in its complex, multifaceted glory. The show is revered as the pop culture institution that spawned the careers of umpteen Hollywood creatives including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore (seriously, look it up). Now, Juno and Up in the Air director Jason Reitman brings us the behind-the-scenes story of the fraught creation of the show's premiere episode in 1975. The ensemble cast includes Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Willem Dafoe, Dylan O'Brien and Gabriel LaBelle.
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