At The Flix: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, Cats & Home Alone 2 - #BringItBack  

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker 

Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill

Director: J.J. Abrams

Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Release Date: Thurs 19 December (Midnight screenings on Wed 18 December)

Forty-two years since Luke Skywalker was introduced to our world, the ninth and final episode of the Skywalker saga is finally among us. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker takes place a year after the events of The Last Jedi (2017). The remnants of the Resistance face the First Order once again – while reckoning with the past and their own inner turmoil. Meanwhile, the ancient conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its climax, altogether bringing the Skywalker saga to a definitive end.

Director J.J. Abrams is set to finish what he started in 2015, with Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill and the rest of the cast returning once and for all.

Cats 

Starring: Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen

Director: Tom Hooper

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical

Release Date: Fri 20 Dec

Cats is a most-unexpected film adaption of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved smash musical.  A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. One of the longest-running in history, Cats boasts a fantastic cast, starring Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.

Home Alone 2 - #BringItBack

Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

Director: Chris Columbus

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Release Date: Fri 20 December

Omniplex is wrapping up the #BringItBack Christmas Season with Home Alone 2! In this sequel to the highly successful Home Alone, child-star Macaulay Culkin returns, in the role that made him famous, as Kevin McCallister, a precocious Chicago boy who mistakenly boards a plane to New York while the rest of his large family wings to Florida. In Manhattan, he takes up residency at the Plaza Hotel, but his posh holiday is disrupted by the re-appearance of crooks Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern). See Home Alone 2 at Omniplex Cinemas from the 20th to 24th of December!

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