Movie of the Week

• Avatar: Fire and Ash

Cinemas

• The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
• The Super Elfkins
• The Six Billion Dollar Man: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth

Streaming/On-Demand

• The Great Flood

CAST: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, Kate Winslet, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans Jr, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, David Thewlis

CREW: James Cameron (director, writer, producer, editor), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (writers), Jon Landau (producer), Simon Franglen (composer), Russell Carpenter (cinematographer), David Brenner, Nicolas De Toth, Jason Gaudio, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin (editors)

PLOT: On the planet of Pandora, Jake Sully (Worthington) and his Na’vi partner Neytiri (Saldaña) are still grieving a deeply personal loss whilst also preparing for a new assault against their clan by the vengeful Colonel Miles Quaritch (Lang), who has joined forces with a volcano-dwelling Na’vi clan led by the fierce Varang (Chaplin) to change the planet’s landscape forever…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The third chapter in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi saga is not just the darkest yet but also the most consequential, with shifts that are set to change the course of the story going forward
• Cameron once again utilises some phenomenal CGI and motion-capture technology to further expand the photo-realistic world of Pandora and its many beauties
• This film tests the Sully family like never before, as a collection of new discoveries and betrayals bring about a truly operatic balance of character and emotion that you may find yourself uncontrollable over
• For the first time in the series, we also see native Na’vi villains whose reasons for turning against the natural order of the world are deeply understandable as well as truly unforgiving in some respects
• With the remaining two sequels still in active development, this will likely be the last we’ll see of Pandora and its blue inhabitants for a number of years, so absorb as much of it as you can now!

Avatar: Fire and Ash is showing in cinemas from Friday 19 December 2025

CAST: Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, George Lopez, Ice Spice, Arturo Castro, Sherry Cola, Regina Hall, Mark Hamill

CREW: Derek Drymon (director), Pam Brady (writer, producer), Matt Lieberman (writer), Aaron Dem and Lisa Stewart (producers), John Debney (composer), Peter Lyons Collister (cinematographer), Wyatt Jones (editor)

PLOT: In a bid to prove his bravery, SpongeBob SquarePants (Kenny) travels with his best friend Patrick Star (Fagerbakke) to the deepest depths of the ocean to face the ghost of the Flying Dutchman (Hamill)…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• The fourth theatrical spin-off of the Nickelodeon phenomenon SpongeBob SquarePants takes the audience, as well as the eternally optimistic sea sponge, to adventurous new depths
• SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom pals are given a glossy CGI makeover for a new story that contains all the silliness and wit you’d expect to see out of the cartoon
• It also marks the first movie appearance of the series’ recurring Flying Dutchman character, with none other than Mark Hamill voicing him this time round
• Keep an eye and ear out for other notable celebrity voices, including George Lopez, Regina Hall, and breakout rapper Ice Spice who also contributes an original single to the film’s soundtrack
• SpongeBob’s eternal appeal will no doubt drive families to seek this film out, but beyond the fandom this is a fun, funny and adventurous movie that anyone can easily enjoy

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is showing in cinemas from Saturday 20 December 2025

CAST: Cindy Eliz, Jackson Poole, Tim Powers, Leigh Serling, Madelin Marchant, David Cherry, Rosana Smith, Roly Gutiérrez, Greg Romero Wilson, Francesca Kiglies, J.D. Kaye, Wolf Williams, Nicole Quintana, Debbie Murillo, Franco Kiglies, Yenni Ann, Aesha Zephyr, Doug Turkel, Ozzie Quintana, Cecilia de Moraes, Camila Zapata, Zania Sala, René Granado

CREW: Ute von Münchow-Pohl (director, editor), Jan Strathmann (writer), Dirk Beinhold and Valentin Greulich (producers), Alex Komlew (composer), Francesco Paglia (cinematographer), René Weinber (editor)

PLOT: Elfie (Eliz), a mischievous young Elfkin, discovers and soon befriends a more high-tech and adventurous group that’s been separated from her more traditional gnome clan for hundreds of years, and must team with them when policewoman Lansky (Serling) sets out to capture all the Elkins…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Young children looking for something wholesome and fun-filled to watch at the cinema just before Christmas will find this delightful animated adventure to be a real treat
• The German-produced film is actually a sequel to the hit animated movie The Elfkins, which was released theatrically in the UK during the height of the 2020 pandemic
• This follow-up introduces audiences to a new clan of legendary gnomes who use more advanced technology and super-spy skills to help unsuspecting humans in their endeavours
• There’s plenty of bouncy action and fully energised slapstick comedy to keep the little ones thoroughly amused while you presumably go off to see Avatar: Fire and Ash in the meantime
• With its natural charm and good-natured plotting, this is a family-friendly outing that – while not explicitly Christmas related – will put anyone in the right cheery mood for the incoming holidays

The Super Elfkins is showing in cinemas from Friday 19 December 2025

CAST: Julian Assange, Stella Assange, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Robinson, Edward Snowden, Naomi Klein, Daniel Ellsberg, Chris Hedges, Jeremy Scahill, President Rafael Correa, Bjartmar Alexandersson

CREW: Eugene Jarecki (director, writer, producer), Joe Fletcher (writer, cinematographer), Zora Schiffer (writer, editor), Noel Sheehan (writer), Kathleen Fournier (producer), Harold Charon Cisneros, Robert Miller, Niklas Paschburg and Akin Sevgör (composers), Derek Hallquist, Jack Harrison, David McDowall and Juan Luis Passarelli (cinematographers), David Fairhead and Martin Reimers (editors)

PLOT: The saga of Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks whose high-profile publishing of leaked classified documents ignited an international debate about press freedoms…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that the story of Julian Assange is a fascinating one, as this years-in-the-making documentary sets out to prove
• Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki frames the nail-biting story as a political thriller, focusing on Assange’s persecution by the authorities he exposed as well as the attempted extradition to the US where he would have likely faced a harsh conviction
• The film is filled with so many shocking twists and turns that Jarecki was forced to withdraw it from this year’s Sundance lineup due to “significant and unexpected developments” that had to be added to the final film
• It eventually debuted at Cannes (with Assange in attendance), where it won the L’Œil D’Or Grand Prize for documentary filmmaking
• For anyone wanting a definitive account of Assange’s divisive role in modern-day society, this film offers that and plenty more, from arguments about journalistic rights to how they are more important now than ever

The Six Billion Dollar Man: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth is showing in cinemas from Friday 19 December 2025

CAST: Kim Da-mi, Park Hae-soo, Kim Kyu-na, Kim Byung-nam, Lee Dong-chan, Kim Su-kyung

CREW: Kim Byung-woo (director, writer), Chun Roy-kyoung (producer), Kim Tae-soo (cinematographer), TBA (editor)

PLOT: After a massive flood engulfs the planet, some of the survivors find themselves struggling to stay alive in their slowly-submerging apartment building…

FIVE REASONS TO BE EXCITED:

• This intense South Korean disaster film will literally leave you breathless as it imagines a water-fuelled apocalypse of Biblical proportions
• It’s the latest film event from prolific filmmaker Kim Byung-woo, who previously won acclaim among audiences for newsroom thriller The Terror Live and disturbing horror Written
• Some of the highly sophisticated visual effects rival and at times even surpass the much bigger budgeted disaster flicks of Roland Emmerich
• There’s a deep resonance among the main characters as they try and make it to safety in such a short amount of time, enough to where you feel just as helpless and stressed out as they are
• It’s a well-crafted piece of genre filmmaking that will leave you more than worried the next time that it starts to rain heavily

The Great Flood is streaming exclusively on Netflix from Friday 19 December 2025