The Oscar fever has finally arrived in India. January has always been an interesting month for movie-goers in India, since all the December releases (read Oscar baits), are released. This time around we have some good movies coming our way. So brace yourselves for some of the upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in the month of January 2016.
1) Daddy’s Home – 1st January
Daddy’s Home as the name suggests is a comedy drama that portrays the efforts put in by the stepfather Brad Whitaker to develop a soft corner in his stepchildren’s hearts but his efforts go in vain when the biological father, Dusty Mayron returns. Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and Linda Cardellini. the movie hit the screens on 1st January 2016.
Run Time – 96 minutes
2) Our Brand Is Crisis – 8th January
Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan Our Brand Is Crisis is inspired by Rachel Boynton’s documentary (Our Brand Is Crisis) that was out in 2005. Starring Sandra Bullock as the lead along with Billy Bob Thornton the movie revolves around a rather experienced American political consultant, Calamity who is hired by a Bolivian politician to help re-elect a debatable president in Bolivia. This satirical comedy drama looks promising and is set release on 8th January in India.
Run Time – 107 minutes
3) The Hateful Eight – 15th January
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight is a perfect accord of action, humour and exaggerated violence taking us back to the time of the American Civil War. It takes us through the journey of eight strangers moving around in a stagecoach during bitter winter seeking refuge from snowstorms and sojourn for a while after the Civil War. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern the movie is set to hit the screens on 15th January 2016.
Run Time – 187 minutes
4) The 33 – 15th January
The 33 is a survival drama based on true events of 2010’s mining disaster that depicts the struggle of 33 men that were left stranded inside the San José Mine in Chile for over two months. It stars Antonio Banderas as Mario Sepúlveda, who sends videos to the rescuers making them aware about the miners’ condition.
Run Time – 127 minutes
5) The Boy – 29th January
The Boy is a horror film directed by William Brent Bell starring Lauren Cohan as the lead. The movie revolves around a nanny Greta (Lauren Cohan), who takes up a job in an isolated English village. Upon her arrival, she realises that she was actually hired to look after a life-size doll that the parents treated as their 8 year old son who had kicked the bucket 20 years back.
Run Time – 105 minutes
6) The 5th Wave – 22nd January
The 5th Wave is a sci-fi thriller inspired by Rick Yancey’s novel starring Chloë Grace Moretz as the lead in the movie. The movie is about Aliens that invade the Earth and are called The Others. Others look just like humans and strategically destroy the Earth in five waves (stages) causing utter chaos and devastation. The first wave brings the humans at close quarters to darkness, the second wave witnesses infinite number of deaths, the third wave comes as curse to the ones that are alive. By the time the fourth wave hits the planet only one thumb rule applies: trust no one as the occurrence of waves are inevitable. Chloë Grace Moretz is playing the role of a teenager who goes through leaps and bounds in an attempt to save her younger brother from the fifth wave.
Run Time – 112 minutes
7) Joy – 22nd January
Joy is inspired by the story of Joy Mangano and is a semi-biographical comedy drama depicting Joy Mangano’s Italian-American family across four generations. David O Russell teams up with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro once again to give us a beautiful insight into the life of Joy Mangano and her business dynasty that she created by devising the self-wringing Miracle Mop that in turn came as an impetus to her becoming the president of Ingenious Designs.
Run Time – 124 minutes
