The end of year clamour to be the top box office hit seems set to scale new heights in 2019 with a multitude of family movies released in time to make the most of the holiday season. From animated heroines to pop-culture icons, we take a look at three that are sure to be on the family bucket list.
Frozen 2
22 November 2019
Amazingly it’s been almost six years since our last trip to the kingdom of Arendelle. In the meantime, the movie has become an established Broadway musical with a string of hits and is a go-to karaoke favourite. In Frozen 2, follow Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven as they leave Arendelle and travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest in an enchanted land where they try to discover the origin of Elsa’s powers and help save their magical kingdom.
Jumanji: The Next Level
13 December 2019
The unlikely group of teenage school friends thrown together in the first instalment are forced to break their vows and return to the magical and fearsome video game Jumanji to rescue one of their own. With new levels from arid deserts to daunting snowy mountains, the all-star cast headed up by Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Jack Black, supported by Danny Glover and Danny DeVito, discover that nothing in Jumanji is as they expected.
Starwars: The Rise of Starwalker
20 December 2019
In the upcoming and highly anticipated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the past and present collide as Rey’s Jedi journey continues and the surviving remnants of the Resistance face the First Order once more for the final chapter of the Skywalker story. Directed by J.J. Abrams and featuring Domhnall Gleeson, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong’o and Adam Driver, along with archive footage of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, no one’s ever really gone…
Asian Dreams November 2019 – January 2020