Virgin Australia Voyeur — December 2017

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Experience

What Happened

to Monday

DECEMBER 2017 VIRGIN AUSTRALIA

Fearsome futures, female rappers, kooky criminals

and a terrifying killer clown. We hit every spot on the

cinematic map with this month’s on-board entertainment.

Wo rd s ERIN FREE/FILMINK.COM.AU Compiled by SAMANTHA WINKLER

NEW RELEASES

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very genre is covered in this

month’s on-board entertainment.

What Happened to Monday takes

a strange and daring trip into a future

(populated by the likes of Noomi Rapace

and Willem Dafoe) where families are

limited to having one child, which spells

trouble for a set of identical septuplets.

It’s exciting and unsettling, and if you’re

in the mood for more, the adaptation

of Stephen King’s horror novel It will

have you gripping your armrests,

while a collection of action thrillers

— Atomic Blonde (with Charlize Theron

as a formidable anti-heroine), Security

(starring Antonio Banderas as a security

guard protecting an innocent child), Shot

Caller (toplined by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

as a crime boss) and Birth of the Dragon

(inspired by the early days of Bruce Lee)

— will have you on the edge of your seat.

More tempered drama, meanwhile,

comes with family tale The Glass Castle

(Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson and

Naomi Watts), historical romance Tulip

Fever (Alicia Vikander and Dane DeHaan)

and That Good Night, which stars John

Hurt in one of his final roles. Lighter,

but no less entertaining, is Home Again,

which sees Reese Witherspoon take

in three young male boarders, while

Danielle Macdonald tries to make it as

a rapper in Patti Cake$, Harvey Keitel

and Toni Collette play a bored married

couple who head to France in Madame,

and Channing Tatum and Adam Driver

pull a very unlikely heist in Logan Lucky.

Kids are catered for with a couple

of classics in Home Alone and Harry Potter

and the Goblet Of Fire, more recent faves

such as The Lego Movie and Paddington,

and animated gem The Oddsockeaters.

Their older siblings, meanwhile, can

sing along to Pitch Perfect. Throw in a

doco about Buddhist monks (Walk with

Me) and a romantic comedy from China

(Mr. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice), and you have

a richly diverse collection of films.

LADIES AND

GENTLEMEN...

HUGH JACKMAN!

Come 26 December, Hugh

Jackman will sing and dance his

way onto the big screen as the

legendary PT Barnum — founder

of the mammoth Barnum &

Bailey Circus — in musical biopic,

The Greatest Showman. To get

you in the mood, we’re showing

three of his best films. Jackman

dons the claws and sideburns as

Marvel’s most complex super-

anti-hero in The Wolverine,

makes magic happen opposite

Christian Bale in Christopher

Nolan’s The Prestige, and

romances Nicole Kidman in

Baz Luhrmann’s epic, Australia.

TITANIC TURNS 20

“I made Titanic because I wanted to dive to a shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie,”

James Cameron once said. The writer, director, producer and oceanography enthusiast might have made 1997’s

Titanic to indulge his underwater obsessions, but his epic about history’s most famous ocean disaster is one of the

most successful films of all time. Relive the drama, romance, excitement and tragedy with an on-board viewing.

Flyer Faves:

Top Two Movies:

John Wick: Chapter 2

Chips

Top Two TV shows:

Modern Family

The Big Bang Theory

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