When it was announced that the Star Wars franchise was returning to the big screen, fans were told that not only would they be getting another trilogy, which began last December with The Force Awakens, but there would also be stand-alone anthology films and the first of these is released on Thursday.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, or simply Rogue One, is set before the original trilogy but after Revenge of the Sith when tensions were high and conflict reigned through the galaxy. The strength of the Empire is growing and the Death Star is near completion but a Rebel Alliance has formed to stop this; to steal the plans for the Death Star. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), a rebellion soldier, has been set the important mission to retrieve these plans with the help of other rebels but Jyn doesn't realise she is in for something bigger
than she thinks.
Before returning to save the galaxy next year, Chris Pratt joins Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers as James Preston and Aurora Lane, two interstellar travellers on a routine journey to a new home planet. Like their fellow travellers, Jim and Aurora begin their 120 year trip in suspended animation but just 30 years in, the pair are woken from their hibernation and discover that waking up early is not all bad, but as romance grows between them, they are forced to solve the mystery of why they were awoken early and how to save the 5,000 passengers onboard.
The second Christmas comedy released this month is Why Him? When Ned (Bryan Cranston) and family visit his daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) at Stanford, he meets her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley boyfriend Laird (James Franco) and asks that very question. Laird has no filter between his brain and mouth so Ned does not agree with his daughter's choice of boyfriend, and when he discovers Laird's plan to propose, his panic level goes through the roof.
Released online in a few days is Army of One, a comedy based on the true story of Gary Faulkner (Nicolas Cage), an unemployed handyman and ex-con from Colorado USA who receives a vision from God (Russell), telling him to travel to Pakistan and capture Osama Bin Laden. Faulkner begins his unusual quest armed only with a sword bought from a television shopping channel, and whilst on his journey he make new friends in Pakistan but makes an enemy out of the CIA and the US military, who are confused by his mission.
When successful New York ad executive Howard (Will Smith) suffers the loss of his daughter in Collateral Beauty, he is left in deep despair, he is unable to reach to his friends Whit (Edward Norton), Simon (Michael Pena) and Claire (Kate Winslet) so instead searches for answers from the Universe by writing letters addressed to love, time and death. Amazingly, his is visited by the human embodiments of the three concepts (Keira Knightley, Jacob Latimore and Helen Mirren) and discovers that loss can reveal moments of real meaning and beauty.
UK Release Dates
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 15 December 2016
Army of One 19 December 2016
Passengers 21 December 2016
Collateral Beauty 26 December 2016
Why Him? 26 December 2016
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