TV
Transparent – season two
December 11
Amazon’s Emmy Award-winning hit continues with a second season, as we see more of the Pfefferman family and their reaction to their middle-aged dad coming out as a transgender woman called Maura. The first episode is available to watch now, with the rest coming on December 10. Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, Judith Light and Amy Landecker will be joined by guest stars including Anjelica Huston, Cherry Jones, Kathryn Hahn, Rob Huebel, Carrie Brownstein, Alexandra Billings, Tig Notaro and Bradley Whitford.
Teen Titans Go! – season two
1 December
More teenage superhero action with Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy.
Tumble Leaf – season two
11 December
A preschool show set in a “whimsical land where a small blue fox named Fig plays each day and discovers adventure, friendship and love around every bend in the path”.
Mozart in the Jungle – season two
30 December
10 more episodes of the classical music series starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Saffron Burrows, with guest stars including Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire), Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), and Esai Morales (The Brink).
Film
4 December
“Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston are the titular beastly executives in a comedy with a few good moments among the cruder stuff.”
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
10th December
Chevy Chase and the rest of the Griswold clan get festive.
10th December
“Oz is glorious in this proto-psychedelic gem from 1939.”
15 December
“Ricardo Darin features in this Pedro Almodóvar-produced collection of fine, fractious stories showing a nation at the end of its tether and a people poised to implode.”
Christmas Day
“There’s lots to love in Muppets’ 1992 take on Dickens, not least Gonzo’s narrative skills.”
30 December
“Julia Roberts’s Queen is neither funny nor villainous enough in Tarsem Singh’s feeble retelling of the Snow White story.”
31 December
“Steve Carell is unrecognisable – and wonderful – as the strange, sports-obsessed millionaire who lost the battle against his demons with disastrous results.”
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
31 December
“This commercially driven sequel to 2012’s hit Hammer chiller doesn’t have the charge of the original, but there’s still a compelling creepiness to it all.”
