Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
It’s hard to believe that Christmas is only a few weeks away and with the holiday period comes a whole host of great movies.
And 2010 is no different as there is something for everyone from sci-fi to comedy, epic drama to the big budget blockbuster - December at the cinema is going to be one hell of a ride!
So here at FemaleFirst we take a look at some of the movies that you should be watching this holiday season.
- Monsters - you don’t have an alien invasion movie all year then three come a long at once, we have already had Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles is on the way in the new year.
But Monsters is already being labelled as a mix of District 9 and Cloverfield and looks to be one of the most intriguing movies of the month.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, who is making his big screen debut. Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Monsters is released 3rd December.
- Megamind - 2010 has been a huge year for animation with the likes of Toy Story and How To Train Your Dragon being big business at the box office.
The movie brings together an impressive voice cast together of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Tina Fey.
- Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known - and the least successful.
Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way - each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as "Metro Man," until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans.
Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world's biggest "mind" actually be the one to save the day?
Megamind is released 3rd December.
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - The third movie in the Narnia series is going to be the blockbuster movie of the Christmas period.
Michael Apted is in the director’s chair this time around, taking over from Andrew Adamson; Ben Barnes is back as Prince Caspian while Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley return as Edmund and Lucy.
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader.
Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is released 10th December.
- The Tourist - Johnny Depp has already had one big box office success, in the form of Alice In Wonderland, earlier this year, and is back with the Tourist as he joins forces with Angelina Jolie.
Frank is an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.
The Tourist is released 10th December
- Tron: Legacy - it’s been twenty eight years since Tron hit the big screen back in 1982 but this Christmas Jeff Bridges is back as Kevin Flynn.
The Oscar winner heads an all star cast of Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen with Joseph Kosinski in the director’s chair.
Sam Flynn, a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn, a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer.
When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade -- a signal that could only come from his father -- he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years.
With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe -- a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.
Tron: Legacy is released 17th December
- The Way Back - Peter Weir is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors who are currently working in Hollywood - however he has not directed a movie since Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World back in 2003.
But this December Weir is back with his new movie The Way Back - which stars Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.
The movie chronicles the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
The Way Back is released 26th December.
- Love and Other Drugs - the romantic comedy rounds off the year as Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway reunite in an Ed Zwick directed movie.
The film is based on the book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman written by Jamie Reidy and follows Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down.
But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales.
Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Love and Other Drugs is released 29th December
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw