Already Sick Of The Christmas Flicks? Here’s What To Watch Instead

Are you Christmased out?

We mean, there’s only so many times that you can watch The Grinch.

Thankfully, there are plenty of things to binge on streaming this festive period!

Here’s what to watch.

Maestro

Bradley Cooper and Carrie Mulligan have been receiving a lot of award buzz for this biopic!

Maestro is a fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Netflix, December 20th

May December

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school.

When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze. Having never processed what happened in his youth, Joe starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at thirty-six.

As Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in picturesque and comfortable Camden, Maine, May December is an exploration of truth, storytelling, and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.

Sky Cinema, Out Now

Saltburn

Nabbing Barry Keoghan his Golden Globe nomination and now you can watch it at home!

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

Prime Video, December 22nd

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indie is back!

Yes, Harrison Ford is breaking out the hat and the whip for last ride as Indiana Jones. Oh, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is joining him!

Expect all the classic Indie tropes from fighting Nazis to searching for lost artefacts to Harrison Ford being grumpy yet charming.

Disney+, December 15th

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire

After crashlanding on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a stranger with a mysterious past, begins a new life among a peaceful settlement of farmers.

But she soon becomes their only hope for survival when the tyrannical Regent Balisarius (Fra Fee) and his cruel emissary, Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein), discover the farmers have unwittingly sold their crops to the Bloodaxes (Cleopatra Coleman and Ray Fisher) — leaders of a fierce group of insurgents hunted by the Motherworld.

Tasked with finding fighters who would risk their lives to defend the people of Veldt, Kora and Gunnar (Michiel Huisman), a tenderhearted farmer naive in the realities of war, journey to different worlds in search of the Bloodaxes, and assemble a small band of warriors who share a common need for redemption along the way.

Netflix, December 22nd

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHb7au6Gmls&ab_channel=DisneyPlus

Fans of the beloved young adult book series will be delighted to see that Percy Jackson will be getting the small screen treatment.

When a 12-year-old boy learns that he is a demi-god, his life is turned upside down.

This eight-part series has already all the hype around it and we’re excited.

Disney+, December 20th

The Buccaneers

We don’t have a new season of Bridgerton but why not try this new eight-part series?

The Buccaneers are the daughters of America’s new rich. They are on their way to London to snare themselves an aristocrat, low in funds but high in class, to make a perfect match.

We’re already obsessed!

Apple TV+, Out Now

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