David Farnor | On 20, Nov 2017

Sky Cinema is bracing itself for the festive season with its dedicated Sky Cinema Christmas channel, showcasing its line-up of seasonal films old and new, all available on-demand. But while Santa’s coming down the chimney, some festive favourites are sneaking out the back door, as movies like The Nightmare before Christmas quietly bid farewell.

Not a Sky customer? You can get access to the whole Sky Cinema catalogue for £9.99 a month. Whichever you subscribe to, this is your last chance to stream the following:

Steve Jobs – 20th November

Danny Boyle’s biopic of the computing genius offers a gripping, moving insight into the man behind Apple’s success.

The Survivalist – 21st November

An engaging, suspenseful and visually striking thriller.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 22nd November

“Chewie… we’re home.”

The Revenant – 22nd November

Proof that Leonardo DiCaprio will go to any extreme for an award, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s intense survival epic set on the fur-trading frontier of the 1820s sees DiCaprio’s trapper chased through the woods, battered by blizzards and mauled by a bear. Thank goodness they gave him an Oscar for his performance, or who knows what he might have done next?

The Mummy (1999) – 30th November

Balancing adventure, horror, action and laughs, 1999’s rollicking reboot of The Mummy is that rare thing: a real successor to Indiana Jones.

The Nightmare Before Christmas – 30th November

Tim Burton’s stop-motion flick takes the festive charm of Christmas and twists it with the warped horror of Halloween – a combination that director Henry Selick whips up with visually breathtaking glee. Combined with Danny Elfman’s superb soundtrack (Elfman sings the part of Pumpkin Jack), this is one musical guaranteed to freak out the whole family. Best of all, you can watch it again next October.

Deadpool – 3rd December

Nothing says Christmas like a self-aware superhero swearing, having sex and popping pop-culture references directly to camera.

Black Mass – 8th December

Who doesn’t love a heavy-hitting drama? Scott Cooper clearly does, switching from Crazy Heart to this Boston tale of corruption, with Johnny Depp and Joel Edgerton delivering weighty performances as notorious gangster Jimmy “Whitey” Bolger and the cop trying to bring him down.

 

Other movies leaving Sky Cinema and NOW in November / December 2017:

25th November
Fathers & Daughters

27th November
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

28th November
Dark Places

29th November
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

30th November
A Warrior’s Tail
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane!
Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape
Backtrack
Bound By Blood
Careful What You Wish For
Colt 45
Continuum
Cub
Don’t Blink
Elmore Leonard’s Gold Coast
Emelie
Every Secret Thing
Frog Games
God’s Pocket
Julia (2014)
Last Shift
Martyrs (2015)
National Lampoon’s Dad’s Week Off
National Lampoon’s The Don’s Analyst
Pandemic
Pitch Black
Pod
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Some Kind of Hate
Stakeout
Starsky & Hutch
The Forgotten Kingdom
The King and I
The Lesson (2015)
The Physician
The Rainmaker (1956)
The Scorpion King
Time Traveller
True Lies
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Welcome To New York

1st December
Daddy’s Home
The Joker

5th December
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Blade Runner 2049: Special

7th December
The Italian Job (2003)

8th December
National Treasure
Pay The Ghost

13th December
The Pursuit of Happyness

15th December
Out of Sight
The 5th Wave

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