Movie Releases - December 25 2011

I know what you're thinking, it's been way too long since Steven Spielberg released a movie. Well, if you didn't get your Spielberg fill with The Adventures of Tintin which was released on December 21st, then you'll be glad War Horse is being released on Christmas Day.

Steven Spielberg is the master of turning small stories and every day characters into bigger than life events. The Adventures of Tintin brought us an animated tale about a young man and his dog in search of adventure, War Horse follows a young man who enlists in the army when his horse is sold to the calvary. The adventure mainly follows the horse named Joey through Europe as World War I rages on and focuses on the lives that Joey touches throughout its search to find his master once again.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is trending decently on Rotten Tomatoes with critics but has very favorable feedback amongst early audience screenings. It is also on many critics top choice lists for the year and is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture.

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes you inside the mind and adventures of a nine-year-old boy who lost his father in the September 11th attacks and tries to hold on to the past by searching for a lock that fits the key he found that belonged to his dad. The father often challenged his son by giving him clues that lead him on a mini-adventure and so he sees this opportunity to go on one last mission for answers.

Starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Max Von Sydow this dramedy from the director of The Reader and Billy Elliot is sure to make you laugh, cry and become engrossed in the complicated mind of a grieving nine-year-old boy.

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What do you get when you spend $44 million and get Emile Hirsch to star in your movie? Well, you get The Darkest Hour - a sci-fi film about five young adults in Moscow who decide to lead the charge against an alien attack. The aliens want our power supply and they might just away with it if it weren't for these rotten kids.

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The Balkans - In Turkish Bal means Honey and Kan means Blood. So, there's your title for a film that takes place in the Balkans.

Angelina Jolie wrote and directed this film about a Bosnian woman held captive and the relationship she has with one of her Serbian captors at a camp. They were in love before the Bosnian war in the 1990s but now find each other in uncertain circumstances where the darkness and dangerous motives seem to grow between the two.

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Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, The Flowers of War takes place during the Japanese invasion of China at the beginning of World War II. A westerner, played by Christian Bale, seeks refuge with a group of women in a Catholic Church and pretends to be a priest. He finds it his duty to help bring the young women to safety during the time that would be known as The Rape of Nanking.

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