What to Watch: Holiday Edition

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JOY – A housewife learns some harsh lessons about business after inventing the miracle mop. Even though the product cleans up on QVC, she still ends up massively in debt. That lesson? Don’t let your family get involved in your business if they don’t know what they are doing. Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro star.

THE REVENANT – A 19th Century frontiersman whose job is to guide beaver trappers into hostile terrain has a bad day at work when he is attacked by warriors and then mauled by a grizzly bear. When he is left for dead by members of his tour group, he patches himself up and set outs for payback. Leonardo Di Caprio stars.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT – Two bounty hunters looking for a big pay day take shelter from a blizzard with six other ruthless gunslingers and learn over the course of this three-hour Quentin Tarantino Western that in the kill-or-be-killed business, trust is not an easy thing to find.

CONCUSSION – Will Smith stars as an African pathologist working in football-crazy Pittsburgh who discovers during autopsies on former NFL players that the head-on collisions they suffered in the sport are to blame for their neurological deterioration. But when powerful voices dispute his findings, it’s not just his credibility that’s on the line but his medical license and immigration status too.

POINT BREAK – A billionaire finances a team of extreme sports athletes to pull off outrageous high-profile crimes in a bid to devastate the world’s financial system. A remake of the 1991 original starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

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