At the Princess Dec 23 - 29 (& a new contest!)

FILMS SHOWING Friday Dec 23 to Thursday Dec 29

Merry Christmas, Princess friends! The Twin will be open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. In fact, on Dec. 24th you can catch a sneak preview of FENCES, which we officially open on Christmas Day. Some critics are saying "just give Viola Davis her Oscar already!" because her performance (which she has reprised from her stage role) is so powerful. Denzel Washington knocks it out of the park, too, directing and acting in this adaptation of the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning play. This film is sure to win many more prizes in the coming weeks. Speaking of prizes... we have another contest for you! Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter to see how you can win a pair of passes to see FENCES.

Before we sign off, we just wanted to alert you to the arrival of ARRIVAL at the Twin. Directed "with searching mind and heart" by Denis Villeneuve, it's a beautifully human drama about first-contact with aliens, and certainly one of the only movies I can think of featuring a linguistics professor!

Fences

"Watching it is like getting a front-row seat to the beautifully mounted revival of a classic work of American drama." - Slate

Nominated for 4 Oscars, including BEST PICTURE, BEST ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS. Denzel Washington's FENCES tells the story of Troy, a retired pro baseball player turned waste collector struggling to navigate the racial tension of 1950s Pittsburgh, a troubled home life, and a strained relationship with his son, who wants nothing more than to play coll

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Arrival

"Amy Adams is a miracle worker -- she makes us believe in this mesmerizing mindbender about alien communication, directed with searching mind and heart by Denis Villeneuve." - Rolling Stone

"One day, a dozen giant spaceships – each about 450 metres tall, and looking as if they were designed by surrealist H.R. Giger in a sunnier mood – land (or more accurately, hover) across the Earth. Naturally, the world’s armed forces believe them to be a threat and the planet verges on chaos.

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Moonlight

14A

"A film of rare grace - a tender, compassionate, restrained look at a life lived in the shadows." - Detroit News

Winner of 3 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor & Best Adapted Screenplay. "If you think art should challenge us, then you will embrace writer-director Barry Jenkins' exquisitely crafted drama Moonlight.

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A Man Called Ove

"'It's a Wonderful Life' to the tenth power." - Boston Herald

Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse --who spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and visiting his wife’s grave-- Ove has given up on life.

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Loving

"There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly — and with as much idealism — as Jeff Nichols’s Loving." New York Times

Oscar-Nominated: Best Actress. "Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) aren’t much different from other married couples struggling to get by in rural Virginia in the 1950s. About the only unusual thing about their relationship, considering the time and place, is that Mildred is black and Richard is white.

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Nocturnal Animals

14A

"Tom Ford's first film since 'A Single Man' is another winner, an ambitious high-wire noir thriller with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in an explosive tale of love, violence, and revenge." -Owen Gleiberman, Variety

The latest from fashion icon and 'A Single Man' director Tom Ford tells a story-within-a-story: on one level, you've got a gallery owner (Amy Adams) who receives a violent, disturbing novel in the mail written by her troubled ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal).

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Hacksaw Ridge

18A

"Gibson's forceful comeback is a violent drama about pacifism that succeeds in combining horror with grace." - Hollywood Reporter

Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. "The horrors of the World War II battlefront are seen through the eyes of a devout, pacifist soldier in the stunning military drama Hacksaw Ridge.

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