The best movies to stream these holidays, from Dune to Top Gun: Maverick, Uncharted to Candyman, ...

12th Dec 2022 | Source: Showmax

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Top Gun: Maverick, Dune, Licorice Pizza, House of Gucci, Get Out, Uncharted, Candyman, Respect, Kimi, Moonfall, The Addams Family 2, Together and more on Showmax this holiday season</em></div>

<div><strong>TOP GUN: MAVERICK</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 23 January 2023</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">After thirty years, Maverick (Oscar nominee Tom Cruise) is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The biggest box office hit of 2022 globally, </span><em>Top Gun: Maverick</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is also one of the best reviewed films of the year, with a 96% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and </span><em>Independent</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calling it "as thrilling as blockbusters get"; </span><em>Daily Telegraph</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> hailing it as "unquestionably the best studio action film since 2015's </span><em>Mad Max: Fury Road</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"; and </span><em>Time/Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> saying, "You will want to high five someone on the way out." </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Up for the People's Choice Award for The Movie of 2022, Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Miles Teller (</span><em>The Offer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly (</span><em>A Beautiful Mind</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Requiem for a Dream</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Val Kilmer (</span><em>Heat)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and Emmy winner Jon Hamm (</span><em>Mad Men</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). </span></div>

<div><strong>DUNE</strong><strong><em> </em></strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Winner of six Oscars and five BAFTAs, </span><em>Dune </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">is now streaming on Showmax. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve (</span><em>Arrival</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Blade Runner 2049</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) from Frank Herbert's classic bestseller, </span><em>Dune</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> tells the story of Paul Atreides (Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet). Paul must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people - as conflict grows over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Lady Jessica Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson (</span><em>The Greatest Showman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) won a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actress In Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie. Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Emmy winner Zendaya, Oscar nominees Charlotte Rampling and Josh Brolin, Emmy nominees Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård, and the likes of Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista co-star. </span></div>

<div><em>Dune</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has an 83% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In their five-star review, </span><em>The Guardian</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> praises </span><em>Dune </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as "blockbuster cinema at its dizzying, dazzling best... </span><em>Dune</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be."</span></div>

<div><strong>LICORICE PIZZA</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 9 January 2023</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nominated for three Oscars this year – Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay – </span><em>Licorice Pizza</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> tells the story of Alana Kane, </span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a 25-year-old photography assistant, </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">15-year-old actor </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Gary Valentine as they navigate first love in the 70s.  </span></div>

<div><em>Licorice Pizza</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> won a 2022 BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for 11-time Oscar-nominee, writer, producer and director Paul Thomas Anderson (</span><em>Boogie Nights</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Phantom Thread</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Hard Eight</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). Grammy-nominated singer Alana Haim's debut film role earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress, with her co-star Cooper Hoffman (son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) nominated for Best Young Actor at the Critics Choice Awards, where </span><em>Licorice Pizza</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> won Best Comedy.</span></div>

<div><em>Licorice Pizza </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">has a 91% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and earned widespread critical acclaim for both its director – with </span><em>Empire Magazine </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">calling Anderson "a master at work" – and its fresh-faced leads, who hold their own alongside a supporting cast of heavy-hitters like Oscar winner Sean Penn, nine-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper, and Oscar nominee, Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Waits.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"There are two courtships unfolding in </span><em>Licorice Pizza</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">," says </span><em>Rolling Stone</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, "and only one of them is happening on the screen. The other is between us and the movie. Guess who ends up punch-drunk and smitten?" </span></div>

<div><strong>HOUSE OF GUCCI </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream from 5 January 2023</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire, </span><em>House of Gucci </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, who marries into the Gucci family. But her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The all-star cast is led by Oscar winner Lady Gaga (</span><em>A Star is Born</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver (</span><em>Marriage Story</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). Oscar winners Al Pacino (</span><em>The Godfather</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Jared Leto (</span><em>Dallas Buyers Club)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, and Jeremy Irons (</span><em>Munich: The Edge of War</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star, along with the likes of Oscar nominee Salma Hayek (</span><em>Frida</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Desperado</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Jack Huston (</span><em>The Irishman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>American Hustle</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Boardwalk Empire</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by four-time Oscar nominee Ridley Scott (</span><em>Gladiator</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>House of Gucci </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was nominated for British Film of the Year at the BAFTAs, best female actor (Lady Gaga) at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics Choice Awards, and best makeup and hairstyling at the Oscars this year, among other honours. </span></div>

<div><strong>CANDYMAN</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighbourhood were terrorised by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II from </span><em>Watchmen</em><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Us</em><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris from </span><em>If Beale Street Could Talk </em><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>The Photograph</em><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore the true story behind Candyman in his paintings, unknowingly unleashing a terrifying new wave of violence.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Yahya was named Best Actor in a Horror Movie at the 2022 Critics Choice Super Awards, where </span><em>Candyman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was also up for Best Horror Movie. Yahya also won at the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Nia daCosta was named one of Palm Springs International Film Festivals' Directors to Watch, and the horror was up for BET and Black Reel Awards, among other honours.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A number one box office hit, </span><em>Candyman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was the sixth best-reviewed horror film of 2021 on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with an 84% critics' rating. </span></div>

<div><strong>UNCHARTED</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The 11th-biggest box office hit of 2022 so far, </span><em>Uncharted</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> introduces audiences to street-smart Nathan Drake (People's Choice winner Tom Holland, aka Spider-Man) and showcases his first treasure-hunting adventure with wisecracking partner Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg). </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Inspired by the acclaimed video game series, this action-adventure epic spans the globe and follows Nate and Sully as they embark on the dangerous pursuit of "the greatest treasure never found" while also tracking clues that may lead to Nate's long-lost brother.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#070706; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas and Sophia Ali (Dr Dahlia Qadri in </span><em>Grey's Anatomy</em><span style="color:#070706; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star. </span></div>

<div><strong>RESPECT</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 22 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">South African Liesl Tommy (</span><em>Mrs. Fletcher</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">,</span><em> The Walking Dead</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Jessica Jones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) directs </span><em>Respect</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, a music biopic about the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson plays the lead role - after being recommended by Aretha herself after she saw </span><em>Dreamgirls</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><em>Respect </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was up for Drama Movie of 2021 at the People's Choice Awards, where Hudson was up for Favourite Female Movie Star. The soundtrack was also Grammy nominated. Among many, many other accolades, Tommy was nominated as Breakthrough Creative at the 2022 Image Awards, while fellow South African Avril Beukes (Peabody winner </span><em>David Makes Man, Queen Sugar, Yesterday</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) was up for Best Editor at the 2022 Black Reel Awards. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The cast includes Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (</span><em>Godfather of Harlem</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy winners Audra McDonald (</span><em>The Good Fight</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Gilded Age</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Tate Donovan (</span><em>Argo</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Rocketman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), BET Comedy Award winner Marlon Wayans (</span><em>White Chicks</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Critics Choice nominee Marc Maron (</span><em>GLOW</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and nine-time Grammy winner Mary J Blige.</span></div>

<div><em>Observer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "Jennifer Hudson as Aretha is the whole deal," while </span><em>The</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><em>Hollywood Reporter</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls </span><em>Respect</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, "An intimate gift of love, rich in complexity, spirituality, Black pride and feminist grit."</span></div>

<div><strong>KIMI</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream from 9 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Multi-award winner Zoë Kravitz (</span><em>Big Little Lies</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) was nominated for a 2022 Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress as Angela Childs, an agoraphobic Seattle tech worker who uncovers evidence of a crime.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh (</span><em>Sex, Lies and Videotape</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Kimi</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> was up for Best Streaming Movie at the 2022 Hollywood Critics Associaton Television Awards and has a 92% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In their five-star review, </span><em>Telegraph</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> wrote, "Zoë Kravitz is magnificent in Steven Soderbergh's techno-thriller about the dangers of letting technology's tentacles wrap around our lives... Stylish, gripping and brisk."</span></div>

<div><strong>MOONFALL</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream from 12 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From "the master of disaster" Roland Emmerich (</span><em>Independence Day</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>2012</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Godzilla</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Day After Tomorrow</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) comes </span><em>Moonfall</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, a sci-fi disaster romp that sees the moon hurtling on a collision course toward Earth after a mysterious force knocks it out of orbit.</span></div>

<div><em>Moonfall</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> stars Oscar winner Halle Berry </span><em>(John Wick 3</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Bruised</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Monster's Ball</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy nominee Patrick Wilson (</span><em>The Conjuring</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and John Bradley (</span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Samwell Tarly). The cast also includes the likes of Black Reel Award winner Michael Peña (</span><em>Ant-Man</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Luis), Charlie Plummer (</span><em>Looking for Alaska</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy winner Donald Sutherland (</span><em>The Hunger Games</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' President Snow) and Nigerian-American actor Eme Ikwuakor (</span><em>Counterpart</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Inhumans</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><em>New York Magazine/Vulture</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it "unapologetically absurd and so very fun," while </span><em>Associated Press</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "Emmerich's latest is an absolutely bananas piece of big-budget filmmaking, a sci-fi-, action- and disaster-thriller that gets more crazy by the minute. It makes </span><em>Independence Day</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> look like </span><em>Little Women</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">."</span></div>

<div><strong>THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2</strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream from 2 January 2023</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Everyone's favourite spooky family is back in</span><em> The Addams Family 2</em><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, which finds Morticia (Oscar winner Charlize Theron) and Gomez (Emmy nominee Oscar Isaac) distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and are totally consumed with "scream time." </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To reclaim their bond, they decide to cram Wednesday (Critics Choice nominee Chloë Grace Moretz), Pugsley (Javon Walton from </span><em>Euphoria</em><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Uncle Fester (Emmy nominee Nick Kroll) and the crew into their haunted camper for one last marvellously miserable family road trip. Their adventure across America to see Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon and of course, Death Valley, takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It (Emmy winner Snoop Dogg), as well as many new kooky characters. What could possibly go wrong?</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#030303; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Morticia, Theron was nominated for a Kids' Choice Award for Favourite Voice From An Animated Movie. </span></div>

<div><strong>TOGETHER</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 30 January</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In </span><em>Together,</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> multi-award winners James McAvoy (</span><em>Split</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>X-Men</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Sharon Horgan (</span><em>Catastrophe</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) play a husband and wife whose relationship is tested by the COVID-19 lockdown.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Co-directed by three-time Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry (</span><em>Billy Elliot</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and written by BAFTA winner Dennis Kelly (</span><em>Utopia</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Together</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> won the 2022 BAFTA for Single Drama, with McAvoy taking home a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor - Television. </span></div>

<div><em>The Observer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it "</span><span style="color:#1a1a1a; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">an hour and a half of cinematic fury... at once suspenseful, provocative, funny and heartbreaking."</span></div>

<div><strong>GET OUT </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream from 26 January</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Just named one of the top 100 films of all time in </span><em>Sight & Sound</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s once-a-decade critics' poll, </span><em>Get Out </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">follows a young African-American who visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him reaches a boiling point. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For </span><em>Get Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as the first African American to be nominated for producing, writing and directing in the same year. </span><em>Get Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> went on to win over 150 awards internationally. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As Chris Washington, Daniel Kaluuya was nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for Best Actor, with Lil Rel Howery (</span><em>Judas and the Black Messiah</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) taking home the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance as Rod. Critics Choice nominee Allison Williams (</span><em>Girls</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Oscar nominees Catherine Keener (</span><em>Being John Malkovich</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and LaKeith Stanfeild (</span><em>Judas and the Black Messiah</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (</span><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy nominee Stephen Root (</span><em>Barry</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Critics Choice Super nominee Caleb Landry Jones (</span><em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star. </span></div>

<div><em>Get Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has a 98% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the critics' consensus calls it "??funny, scary and thought-provoking." </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also look out for Peele's similarly acclaimed horror </span><a href="https://t.nylas.com/t1/312/6y2j01j2plnw5zhcwca5ym8gl/10/f26cae021887167789ac63b2823e1b3fce81f5793d80ebc3b8e4c0a180c5bf5a" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank"><em>Us</em></a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, starring Lupita Nyong'o, back on Showmax from 26 January 2023. </span></div>

<div><strong>MOONSHOT</strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><em>Moonshot</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> follows Walt (People's Choice winner Cole Sprouse from </span><em>Riverdale</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Sophie (Teen Choice nominee Lana Condor from </span><em>To All The Boys I've Loved Before</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as they join forces in order to be reunited with their significant others - a journey that winds up taking them both wildly and unexpectedly off course. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A romantic comedy with a twist, </span><em>Moonshot</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> also stars Emmy nominee Zach Braff (</span><em>Scrubs</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Lukas Gage (</span><em>The White Lotus</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Mason Gooding (</span><em>Scream</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). </span></div>

<div><em>The New York Times </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">says: "</span><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Condor is note-perfect, and Winterbauer directs with a light, playful touch, giving the movie an energy that's nimble and vibrantly sexy."</span></div>

<div><strong>THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In</span><em> The Wolf of Snow Hollow, </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The film has an 89% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with nominations for two 2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards - Best Limited Release Film and Best Lead Performance for Sundance and SXSW winner Jim Cummings (who also wrote and directed the film), as well as a Fright Meter Award for the late Oscar-nominated Robert Forster (</span><em>The Descendants</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Jackie Brown</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). The cast also includes Critics Choice nominee Jimmy Tatro (</span><em>American Vandal</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Emmy nominee Riki Lindhome (</span><em>Wednesday</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Knives Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><strong>TOGETHER TOGETHER</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 26 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In </span><em>Together Together</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, a young loner becomes the surrogate for a single man in his 40s, but the two strangers soon realise this unexpected relationship will challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love. Teen Choice winner Ed Helms (</span><em>The Hangover</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Office</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and comedian Patti Harrison (</span><em>Shrill</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-star. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The award-winning </span><em>Together Together</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> has a 91% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. As </span><em>The New York Times</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says, "</span><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sweet, sensitive and surprisingly insightful, Nikole Beckwith's </span><em>Together Together</em><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> fashions the signposts of the romantic comedy - the meet-cute, the misunderstanding, the mutual acceptance - into a wry examination of a very different relationship."</span></div>

<div><strong>QUEEN BEES</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 15 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In </span><em>Queen Bees</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community, where she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying "mean girls."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn (</span><em>Requiem for a Dream</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) leads the cast, alongside the likes of Oscar nominees</span><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ann-Margret </span><em>(Grumpy Old Men) </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and the late James Caan (</span><em>The Godfather</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">)</span><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">as well as Emmy winners Jane Curtin</span><em> (3rd Rock From The Sun</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Loretta Devine (</span><em>Grey's Anatomy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Christopher Lloyd (</span><em>Back To The Future</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Elizabeth Mitchell (</span><em>Lost</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Helmed by Emmy-winning </span><em>Friends</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> director Michael Lembeck, </span><em>Queen Bees </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was nominated for the 2022 AARP Movies for Grownups Best Buddy Picture Award, as well as the 2022 Humanitas Prize. </span></div>

<div><strong>DOWNTON ABBEY: THE MOVIE</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 23 January 2023</span></div>

<div><em>Downton Abbey</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, the movie, continues the story of the beloved, multi-award-winning historical drama series as the Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives: a royal visit from the king and queen of England. But the auspicious occasion soon unleashes scandal, romance and intrigue, leaving the future of Downton hanging in the balance. </span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Written by series creator and Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (</span><em>Gosford Park</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and directed by Emmy nominee Michael Engler (</span><em>The Gilded Age</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), the film sees the return of much of the original cast, including the likes of Emmy nominees Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Jim Carter, Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton and Oscar winner Maggie Smith, with BAFTA nominee Geraldine James and Simon Jones joining the cast as Queen Mary and King George V.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nominated for two Critics Choice Awards, the film has an 84% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>Times (UK)</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calling it "utterly, ineffably, and often fabulously, Downton."</span></div>

<div><strong>CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from 19 December 2022</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Showmax is counting down the days to Christmas, advent calendar style, with a new festive film every day until Santa comes. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Alongside classics like </span><em>How The Grinch Stole Christmas</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Stick Man</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, look out for </span><em>Christmas is Cancelled</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, starring Hayley Orrantia (</span><em>The Goldbergs</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Dermot Mulroney (</span><em>August, Osage County </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>My Best Friend's Wedding</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Janel Parrish (</span><em>Pretty Little Liars</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>To All The Boys I've Loved Before</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).  </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#0f0f0f; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">When 29-year-old Emma finds out that her widowed, 52-year-old dad has been dating her high school nemesis, she freaks out and embarks on a hilarious, no-holds-barred mission to break them up during their annual family Christmas festivities.</span></div>

<div><strong>EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN DECEMBER 2022</strong></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To see everything on Showmax in December 2022, click </span><a href="https://t.nylas.com/t1/312/6y2j01j2plnw5zhcwca5ym8gl/21/ac8e655b5eac50d3e8d51c28e26f3193df9e4930d62353668100b9a6d110dbdb" rel="noreferrer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span></div>