BRIDGE OF SPIES
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Mark Rylance, Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, Domenick Lombardozzi
Release Date: November 27th
Based on a real incident during the Cold War, the film follows the negotiation for the release of the pilot whose U-2 plane was shot down in the Soviet Union, in exchange for a Soviet spy being held in the US.
THE GOOD DINOSAUR
Directed by: Peter Sohn
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Steve Zahn, A.J. Buckley, Anna Paquin, Sam Elliott
Release Date: November 27th
Disney Pixar’s second film of 2015 – after the incredible ‘Inside Out’ – imagines what would have happened if the dinosaurs had never died out. A young dinosaur named Arlo, after being separated from his family, finds comfort from an unlikely friend; a human boy.
BROOKLYN
Directed by: John Crowley
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent
Release Date: November 6th
In the 1950s, Eilis Lacey emigrates from Enniscorthy to Brooklyn. Initially homesick, Eilis struggles to make friends in the big city, until she meets Tony a young Italian man who she quickly falls for. When tragedy strikes and Eilis returns home for a visit, she is forced to choose between the life she left behind and her new one at the other side of the world.
BLACK MASS
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Starring: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon
Release Date: November 27th
Based on a true story, ‘Black Mass’ follows Whitey Bukger, the most famous and violent criminal ever known in South Boston, who turns government informant to take down a Mafia family intent on taking over his territory.
HE NAMED ME MALALA
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
Starring: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai
Release Date: November 6th
In October 2012, 15 year old Malala Yousafzai was shot three times as retaliation for her speaking publicly about her life under the Taliban regime in Pakistan, and her advocating education for girls and women. Malala survived and has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for youth education. For the first time, Malala’s story is told on the big screen in this new documentary.