GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Ron VanTimmeren from Celebration Cinema gets us ready for a weekend filled with movies!
Here's a look at what's new in theaters:
Jumanji: The Next Level
- Rated PG-13
- Time: 2 hours and 3minutes
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Released: Dec. 13
Director: Jake Kasdan
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Danny Glover, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Danny DeVito, Alex Wolff, Awkwafina ., Ser'Darius William Blain, Morgan Turner, Madison Iseman, Nick Jonas
In "Jumanji: The Next Level," the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game
Richard Jewell
- Rated R
- Time: 2 hours and 9 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Released: Dec. 13
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Nina Arianda, Paul Walter Hauser
American security guard, Richard Jewell, heroically saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is unjustly vilified by journalists and the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist.
Black Christmas
- Rated PG-13
- Time: 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
- Released: Dec. 13
Director: Sophia Takal
Cast: Imogen Poots, Lily Donoghue, Caleb Eberhardt, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O’Grady
Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Poots) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty, rebel Kris and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate, Riley’s new crush Landon or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson. Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t about to be anybody’s victims.
Opening 12/19:
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- Rated PG-13
- Time: 2 hours and 35 minutes
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Release Date: Dec. 20
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: John Boyega, Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong'o, Billy Dee Williams, Joonas Suotamo, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kelly Marie Tran
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.
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