09 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019

THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON (PG-13)(ADVENTURE KNIVES OUT (PG-15)(CRIME/COMEDY/THRILLER) A SCORE TO SETTLE (15+)(ACTION/DRAMA) SEEF (II):10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM SEEF (II): 7.30 + 9.45 + 12.00 MN SHIA LABEOUF, DAKOTA JOHNSON , ZACK GOTTSAGEN DANIEL CRAIG, CHRIS EVANS, ANA DE ARMAS NICOLAS CAGE, NOAH LE GROS, KAROLINA WYDRA JUDY (PG-13)(DRAMA/MUSICAL/BIOGRAPHY) UNBREAKABLE (PG-15)(FILIPINO/DRAMA) CITY CENTRE:2.00 + 6.45 + 11.30 PM SEEF (II) : 10.30 AM + 3.30 +8.45 PM SEEF (II):12.00 + 2.30 + 5.00 + 7.30 + 10.00 PM ANGELICA PANGANIBAN, BEA ALONZO, RICHARD GUTIERREZ WADI AL SAIL:11.15 AM + 4.00 + 8.45 PM RENÉE ZELLWEGER, JESSIE BUCKLEY, RUFUS SEWELL KETYOLANU ENTE MALAKHA (PG-15)(MALAYALAM) OASIS JUFFAIR : 11.15 AM + 4.00 + 8.45 PM THE BODY (PG-15)(HINDI/THRILLER) SEEF (II) : 12.45 + 6.00 + 11.15 PM OASIS JUFFAIR : 2.30 + 7.00 + 11.30 PM ASIF ALI, VEENA NANDAKUMAR SEEF (I): 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 + 12.00 MN EMRAAN HASHMI, RISHI KAPOOR, SOBHITA DHULIPALA MAMANGAM (PG-13)(MALAYALAM) From Thursday at 7.30 pm onwards BERNIE THE DOLPHIN 2 (G)(ADVENTURE/FAMILY/COMEDY) OASIS JUFFAIR :11.15 AM + 2.15 + 5.15 + 8.15 + 11.15 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.45 AM + 4.30 + 9.15 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM SEEF (II): 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 PM SEEF (I): 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM PATRICK MULDOON, KEVIN SORBO, TOMMI ROSE SEEF (II): (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) WADI AL SAIL: 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM FROZEN 2 (PG)(ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) AL HAMRA:12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 + (12.00 MN THURS./FRI) OASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 + 7.45 + 10.00 MAMMOOTTY, UNNI MUKUNDAN, NEERAJ MADHAV, PRACHI TEHIAN PM CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM SEEF (I):11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PM WADI AL SAIL: 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PM KRISTEN BELL, IDINA MENZEL, JOSH GAD JUMANJI THE NEXT LEVEL (PG-15)(ADVENTURE/ACTION 21 BRIDGES (PG-15)(CRIME/ACTION/THRILLER) OASIS JUFFAIR: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 + 12.00 MN + OASIS JUFFAIR (VIP): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM (12.45 MN THURS/FRI) CODE 8 (PG-15)(ACTION/THRILLER/DRAMA/SCI-FICTION) OASIS JUFFAIR :(3D) 11.30 AM + 2.15 + 5.00 + 7.45 + 10.30 PM SEEF (II):12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.15 AM + 2.00 + 4.45 + 7.30 + 10.15 PM + (1.00 AM THURS/ SEEF (II):10.45 AM + 4.00 + 9.15 PM CHADWICK BOSEMAN, SIENNA MILLER, STEPHAN JAMES FRI) STEPHEN AMELL, ROBBIE AMELL, KARI MATCHETT CITY CENTRE (ATMOS):10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + 12.00 MN LE MANS ‘66 (PG-13)(DRAMA/SPORT/BIOGRAPHY) CITY CENTRE (IMAX 2D) :12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM MIRACLE IN CELL NO . 7 (PG-15)(TURKISH/DRAMA) CITY CENTRE (3D) :12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE:3.00 + 8.30 PM CITY CENTRE:10.30 AM + 3.30 + 8.45 PM CITY CENTRE (VIP I) :11.45 AM + 2.30 + 5.15 + 8.00 + 10.45 PM SEEF (II):1.00 + 6.15 + 11.30 PM ARAS BULUT İYNEMLİ, NİSA SOFİYA AKSONGUR, İLKER AKSUM CITY CENTRE (VIP II) : 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM MATT DAMON, CHRISTIAN BALE, JON BERNTHAL SEEF (I) :10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + 12.00 MN SEEF (II)12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM + (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) MALEFICENT 2: MISTRESS OF EVIL (PG)(ADVENTURE JOKER (15+)(THRILLER/CRIME/DRAMA) SEEF (II): (3D) :12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45+ 8.30 + 11.15 PM CITY CENTRE:12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 8.00 + 10.30 PM WADI AL SAIL: 11.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.30 + 3.30 + 5.15 + 6.15 + 8.00 + 9.00 + 10.45 PM + 11.45 PM SEEF (II):2.15 + 6.45 + 11.15 PM JOAQUIN PHOENIX, ZAZIE BEETZ, ROBERT DE NIRO DWAYNE JOHNSON, JACK BLACK, KEVIN HART ANGELINA JOLIE, TERESA MAHONEY, MICHELLE PFEIFFER PLAYING WITH FIRE (PG)(ADVENTURE/COMEDY/FAMILY) BLACK CHRISTMAS (15+)(HORROR/THRILLER) PATI PATNI AUR WOH (PG-15)(HINDI/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) CITY CENTRE:11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 10.30 PM OASIS JUFFAIR :2.00 + 6.45 + 11.30 PM OASIS JUFFAIR :12.00 + 4.30 + 9.00 PM JOHN CENA, KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY, JOHN LEGUIZAMO CITY CENTRE:12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 + 12.00 MN + (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) KARTIK AARYAN, BHUMI PEDNEKAR, ANANYA PANDAY CHARLIE’S ANGELS (PG-15)(ACTION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) SEEF (II):11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + 5.45 + 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM CITY CENTRE:1.00 + 6.15 + 11.30 PMN WADI AL SAIL:12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 + 12.00 MN KRISTEN STEWART, NAOMI SCOTT, ELLA BALINSKA MOGEN POOTS, ALEYSE SHANNON, LILY DONOGHUE AMMA RAJYMLO KADAPA BIDDALU (PG-15)(TELUGU) GEMINI MAN (PG-15)(ACTION/THRILLER/DRAMA) From Thursday at 7.30 pm onwards MARDAANI 2 (PG-15)(HINDI/CRIME/THRILLER DRAMA) CITY CENTRE: 12.30 + 6.00 + 11.30 PM SEEF (I): 10.30 AM + 3.00 + 7.30 + 12.00 MN From Thursday at 7.00 pm onwards RAJSEKHAR ANINGI, AASHIKKA MEKA, DHEERAJ KV OASIS JUFFAIR :11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PM WILL SMITH, MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD, CLIVE OWEN CITY CENTRE:12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 ARCTIC DOGS (PG)(ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) JIMMY EE VEEDINTE AISWARYAM (PG-13)(MALAYALAM) SEEF (I):12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM WADI AL SAIL:1.45 + 6.30 + 11.15 PM SEEF (II): 12.15 + 4.45 + 9.15 PM SEEF (I): 12.45 + 5.15 + 9.45 PM MITHUN RAMESH, DIVYA PILLAI, SURAJ VENJARAMOODU RANI MUKERJI, SHRUTI BAPNA, RAJESH SHARMA JEREMY RENNER, HEIDI KLUM, JAMES FRANCO

MOVIE REVIEW ‘Black Christmas’ beleaguers its timely message to the point of exhaustion

gin to fall victim to a cloaked The movie attempts killer who despatches with them • in fittingly Christmas-themed to be more than just a ways. While each girl’s disap- straight-forward slasher pearance is initially dismissed, DON’T MISS IT given most of the college has journeyed home for the holidays, ay back in 1974, an Riley’s phone is soon lighting up unassuming Canadi- Joining the lineup of with mysterious, threatening Wan horror film essen- disposable Christmas Instagram DMs from someone tially defined an entirely new viewing comes a campy claiming to be the long-dead subsection of the genre and went Professor Hawthorne. And on to inspire horror filmmakers feminist slasher that’s “he” is not happy with her tar- for the next few decades, notably bolstered by a sensitive nishing the school’s hallowed John Carpenter and his opus performance from Imo- image. Halloween. While it’s far from gen Poots If you’ve seen the trailer, you the greatest horror film of all know precisely what transpires time, Bob Clark’s Black Christ- from here, in one of the year’s mas is one of the earliest exam- there to add to the potential worst examples of marketing ples of the slasher film, making body count. entirely ruining a film’s poten- it a landmark moment for horror When Riley learns her rapist tial surprises. But the film’s ul- cinema and rightly earned the A scene from the movie (who was found not guilty, of timate reveal and explanation film cult status amongst cinema course) will be returning to the for the killings falls flat on its fans. #MeToo/Time’s Up movement. by dreadful pacing, a lacklustre to have conservative Professor campus to attend the upcoming face, as we journey into a mess A remake came and went back With the subtlety of a sledge- screenplay, and a twist that’s Gelson (Cary Elwes) fired over Christmas talent show, she seiz- of nonsensical and absurd gob- in 2006, ramping up the gore hammer, Black Christmas belea- ridiculously absurd. his misogynistic literary classes, es the opportunity as her mo- blygook (namely involving black (torture porn was all the rage guers its timely message to the After the obligatory opening drawing the ire of the school’s ment to face her aggressor and goo) that’s impossible to discuss back then) to create a misguid- point of exhaustion, as it tackles sequence where a poor sorority fratboys. Riley (Imogen Poots) call him out in front of her fellow without throwing more spoil- ed and disastrous reimagining toxic masculinity head-on and girl meets her maker while walk- is still facing backlash over her students. Banding together with ers your way. Suffice to say, the few people saw and even fewer challenges its viewer to do the ing home alone, Black Christmas accusations one of those frat- her sisters, they perform a Mean finale deviates into an entirely can remember. Adding to the same. While it’s an admirable introduces us to a group of so- boys sexually assaulted her one Girls-esque Christmas song with different genre of horror that ru- exhausting list of 2019 remakes, effort to offer something more rority girls of Hawthorne Col- year earlier. And fellow sorority biting lyrics about the state of ins the realistic elements which co-writer/director Sophia Takal than just blood and death, as all lege who mostly break the tired sisters Jess (Brittany O’Grady), rape culture on campus. precede it, especially given how offers a genuine reimagining the best horror movies do, the typical ditzy college girl stere- Marty (Lily Donoghue), Helena Naturally, this does not go seriously this film takes itself of the tale with a decidedly messy end result feels like a ter- otype. Kris (Aleyse Shannon) (Madeleine Adams), and Fran down well with the dudebros, before throwing it all out the feminist twist to fit the current ribly wasted opportunity, beset is currently leading a crusade (Nathalie Morris) are really just and, soon enough, the girls be- window.