New Releases – 26th December

By Newguy

Exodus: Gods and Kings  The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

My Guess for Rating – 70%
My Anticipation Rating – 70%
Will It Be Number One In UK? – No

Annie  Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they’d be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything’s about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) – advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he’s her guardian angel, but Annie’s self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it’s the other way around.

My Guess for Rating – 60%
My Anticipation Rating – 20%
Will It Be Number One In UK? – No

Unbroken  A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

My Guess for Rating – 85%
My Anticipation Rating – 80%
Will It Be Number One In UK? – No

Big Eyes  A drama cantered on the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

My Guess for Rating – 90%
My Anticipation Rating – 70%
Will It Be Number One In UK? – No

Movie Reviews 101 Pick of the Week – Unbroken