From Spider-Man: No Way Home to Money Heist, What to Watch in December

December 2021 is full of films and TV collection to look at. Spider-Man: No Way Home is driving on mighty anticipation, because it guarantees three eras of the Spider-Man universe coming collectively. The new Spider-Man film is due in cinemas December 16 in India. Meanwhile, on December 3, the Madrid heist involves an finish on Netflix with the ultimate 5 episodes that make up Money Heist season 5 “Volume 2”. Cobra Kai and Henry Cavill-led The Witcher may even ship new seasons on Netflix. Cobra Kai season 4 is slated for New Year’s Eve, whereas The Witcher season 2 is due December 17. Franchises are increasing elsewhere. The Matrix Resurrections takes us again into the Matrix on December 22, and The Book of Boba Fett takes us again to Star Wars’ famed Tatooine, starting December 29 on Disney+ Hotstar.

From India, December 2021 brings the second season of Sushmita Sen-led crime thriller Aarya, obtainable December 10 on Disney+ Hotstar. Also on December 10, Raveena Tandon struggles to resolve the case of her life in Aranyak, over on Netflix. Amazon Prime Video provides us the third season of soapy cricket drama Inside Edge on December 3. Also on December 3, Abhishek Bachchan is Bob Biswas within the Kahaani spin-off on Zee5. December 3 additionally has Netflix’s LGBTQ drama Cobalt Blue. Tovino Thomas turns into a superhero within the Malayalam-language Minnal Murali, flashing in Christmas Eve on Netflix. Madhavan-led Decoupled storms in December 17 on Netflix.

If it is extra stars you might be after then December 2021 has Benedict Cumberbatch within the Western drama The Power of the Dog, releasing begin of the month on Netflix. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are a part of a really giant ensemble in Don’t Look Up — Christmas Eve on Netflix — wherein everybody ignores a really giant comet headed for Earth. You can uncover extra about all these titles under, however there’s much more coming in December that we’ve not detailed under. That consists of Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos (December 21 on Prime Video), Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Awkwafina in Swan Song (December 17 on Apple TV+), and Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson in The Lost Daughter (December 31 on Netflix).

There’s much more TV in December 2021. Amazon’s sci-fi drama The Expanse and Netflix’s sci-fi drama Lost in Space will each ship their last seasons. The Expanse season 6 begins December 10 on Prime Video, whereas Lost in Space season 3 drops December 1 on Netflix. Lily Collins will take you again to the French capital as Emily in Paris season 2 arrives December 22 on Netflix.

Also maintain an eye fixed out for the critically-acclaimed Argentinian drama Azor (coming December 3 to Mubi), and The Hand of God (out December 15 on Netflix) from Italy’s award-winning Paolo Sorrentino.

With that, here is our December 2021 information to Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Zee5, HBO Max, and the cinemas.

The Power of the Dog

When: December 1
Where: Netflix

Benedict Cumberbatch performs a domineering rancher within the 1920 American West who psychologically tortures his fellow rancher brother (Jesse Plemons) and his spouse (Kirsten Dunst). The Piano director Jane Campion adapts Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the identical title, in what’s her first feature-length film in 12 years.

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, Frances Conroy, Peter Carroll, and Adam Beach additionally star. The Power of the Dog has gotten super critiques since its world premiere on the 2021 Venice Film Festival — and is presently thought to be among the best movies to launch in 2021.

Bob Biswas

When: December 3
Where: Zee5

In this sequel spin-off to writer-director Sujoy Ghosh’s National Award-winning thriller Kahaani, Abhishek Bachchan steps into the titular middle-aged hitman position that was initially meant for him, as Ghosh has claimed. Having woken from a years-long coma, Bob Biswas (Bachchan) discovers he has forgotten a lot of his previous: his career and his household, spouse (Chitrangada Singh) and two youngsters. When he is pushed into the previous job, Biswas finds himself at an ethical crossroads.

Ghosh’s daughter Diya Annapurna Ghosh takes over director on Bob Biswas, with Ghosh nonetheless supplying the script. Bachchan takes over from Saswata Chatterjee who performed Biswas in Kahaani.

Cobalt Blue

When: December 3
Where: Netflix

Over three years after it was first introduced, Sachin Kundalkar’s adaptation of his personal best-selling LGTBQ novel lastly involves life. Set within the early Nineties, a brother (Neelay Mehendale) and sister (Anjali Sivaraman) fall in love with the identical man (Prateik Babbar) who’s staying with their conventional Marathi household — which naturally blows every part aside. As Netflix mentioned then, Cobalt Blue is concerning the “pain and the beauty of forbidden love.”

Anant V. Joshi, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Shishir Sharma, and Neil Bhoopalam additionally star.

Inside Edge

When: December 3
Where: Amazon Prime Video

The third season of Amazon’s soapy cricket drama shits focus from the IPL (I imply, Power Play League) to worldwide rivalry. As an India vs Pakistan Test collection will get underway — an actual one hasn’t occurred since 2007–08 as a consequence of poor relations between the respective governments — the murky politics threatens to get in the best way.

All eyes are skilled on cricket board president and PPL founder Yashvardhan “Bhaisahab” Patil (Aamir Bashir). The sports activities administration agency proprietor Vikrant Dhawan (Vivek Oberoi) is gunning for revenge, and Mumbai Mavericks co-owner Zarina Malik (Richa Chadha) is gunning for Bhaisahab’s chair.

Meanwhile, the hothead Vayu (Tanuj Virwani) eggs his girlfriend and Patil’s daughter Mantra (Sapna Pabbi) to legalise betting in India, the Indian cricket workforce’s captain (Akshay Oberoi, new to season 3) tries to cover his homosexuality from public, and Vayu’s sister Rohini (Sayani Gupta) begins digging into their household historical past.

Kanishk Varma (Sanak) takes over as director, with Karan Anshuman remaining as creator. All Inside Edge season 3 epsiodes can be obtainable directly.

Money Heist

When: December 3
Where: Netflix

The finish is nigh. The last 5 episodes of the hit Spanish collection — often called La Casa de Papel to Spanish audio system — that make up Money Heist season 5 “Volume 2” are set to be unfurled in a single go. And they’re promising to be dramatic if nothing else. Spoilers forward for “Volume 1”. Following Tokyo’s (Úrsula Corberó) loss of life, The Professor (Álvaro Morte) is haunted by how his actions have led to the loss of life of lots of his comrades. And he is now insistent that nobody else ought to die for him.

That’s a sensible method to wrap up the present, because the heist’s mastermind begins to query the price and that means of what he is put into movement. But the authorities are hanging round for The Professor’s inner questioning — as they put together to barge in and put an finish to the heist as soon as and for all. For Money Heist followers, Friday additionally brings the second episode of the making-of docuseries Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin.

Watch the Trailer for Money Heist Season 5 ‘Volume 2′

Aarya

When: December 10
Where: Disney+ Hotstar

Sushmita Sen’s mafia queen Aarya Sareen is again for extra within the second season of Ram Madhvani’s (Neerja) crime thriller — and he or she has no scarcity of issues. She must ship Rs. 300 crore in 5 days to a international gangster. Her brother Sangram (Ankur Bhatia) is probably gunning for her. And Akash Khurana’s new essential character — he’s billed second after Sen — needs to avenge his son’s loss of life and vows that Aarya can pay together with her life.

Jayant Kripalani, Sikandar Kher, Vikas Kumar, Sugandha Garg, Dilnaz Irani, Maya Sarao, Sohaila Kapur, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Charu Shankar, Tariq Vasudeva, Virti Vaghani, Shataf Figar, Viren Vazirani, Shweta Pasricha, and Pratyaksh Panwar additionally star. Madhvani is considered one of three administrators on Aarya season 2 alongside Vinod Rawat and Kapil Sharma. Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh and Anu Singh Choudhary kind the writing workforce.

All Aarya season 2 episodes can be obtainable on launch date, December 10.

Aranyak

When: December 10
Where: Netflix

Raveena Tandon performs Kasturi Dogra, the station chief of a misty fictional Himalayan city referred to as Sironah on this crime thriller who has sacrificed her total life for that “one big case”. But after that case — the daughter of a international vacationer has gone lacking — turns up simply as she’s about to retire, Kasturi should reluctantly work together with her city-bred substitute Angad Malik (Parambrata Chatterjee).

If that feels like India’s Mare of Easttown to you, you are not far off. There’s a bunch of private agendas concerned right here, along with politicians who’re getting in the best way of the police investigation. Aranyak additionally hints at supernatural happenings, with the synopsis speaking a few “bloodthirsty, serial killing entity in the forest.” Will this be literal or metaphorical? We’ll see.

All Aranyak episodes will premiere directly, as is Netflix customized.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

When: December 16
Where: Cinemas

This yr’s most-awaited superhero film is ready to wrap up the yr in mind-boggling, multiverse trend. With Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) id revealed to the general public within the Spider-Man: Far From Home post-credits scene, everybody will get too pleasant with our pleasant neighbourhood superhero. Peter believes the one answer is to make everybody neglect it ever occurred — and so he does the one logical factor he can consider: ask Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to solid a spell.

And Strange agrees, because the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailers have proven. Wait, what now? I’m having a tough time believing that Doctor Strange, a Master of the Mystic Arts endowed with huge accountability because the service of the Time Stone, would conform to such a proposal. (Maybe that is Strange from one other universe?) Just ask the child to get on along with his life, he isn’t the primary superhero whose id is public. Anyway, this silly plan seems to be very silly.

How silly, you ask? Well, it in some way opens a portal that results in the Marvel Cinematic Universe getting guests from different dimensions — within the type of Spidey villains now we have seen in Spider-Man films with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. I’m speaking all of them, from Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina), The Sandman, The Lizard, and Electro (Jamie Foxx). Most of them died so it is curious how they’re again.

There’s even speak of Maguire and Garfield returning as respective Peter Parkers within the third act of Spider-Man: No Way Home to assist out Holland, however everybody concerned has repeatedly and vehemently denied such a factor. Guess we are going to simply have to attend to catch the Spider-Man film for ourselves to debate the reality as soon as and for all.

Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, J.B. Smoove, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Angourie Rice, Hannibal Buress, and J.Okay. Simmons additionally star. Jon Watts — of Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Far From Home — is again as director, working off a screenplay by returning co-writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. Available in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu in India.

Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Is Not Quite What You Were Waiting For

Decoupled

When: December 17
Where: Netflix

R. Madhavan and Sacred Games’ Surveen Chawla play a separated couple — one’s a misanthropic author and the opposite’s a start-up founder — who’ve determined to remain collectively for the sake of their tween daughter on this comedy-drama that comes from A Serious Men creator Manu Joseph. They are seeing different folks on the facet, although not all is misplaced between them because the Decoupled trailer suggests.

After all, they know what makes one another tick, and there is a gone right here. It’s simply that they’re divided on how lengthy these good occasions lasted. Awkward.

National Award-winning Hardik Mehta (Kaamyaab) directs. Vikramaditya Motwane is among the many government producers alongside Joseph and Mehta. All Decoupled episodes can be obtainable collectively.

The Witcher

When: December 17
Where: Netflix

Toss a coin, The Witcher is again. In the second season of the Henry Cavill-led fantasy collection, the mayhem has elevated. The Continent’s North and South are at struggle. Monsters are at full pressure, out attacking when they need to be hibernating. And everybody’s favorite bard (Joey Batey) has made some mouse pals. Okay, a type of shouldn’t be just like the others.

Believing the sorceress Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) to be useless, the monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) brings Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to his childhood house Kaer Morhen, the most secure place he is aware of. Ciri takes up coaching in The Witcher season 2, noting that is it her house and her struggle. Yennefer remains to be alive, advising the Nilfgaardian sorceress pawn Fringilla (Mimi Ndiweni).

All episodes of The Witcher season 2 will launch directly on launch date. The Witcher has already been renewed for season 3.

The Matrix Resurrections

When: December 22
Where: Cinemas + HBO Max

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are again as Neo and Trinity, although their characters do not appear to recognise one another on this fourth Matrix film — the primary for the reason that unique trilogy wrapped 18 years in the past. Though The Matrix Resurrections trailer exhibits them surviving collectively. In one other behind-the-scenes first, Lana Wachowski, one half of The Wachowskis, goes solo as director.

We do not know a lot about The Matrix Resurrections, save for the truth that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is taking part in a youthful Morpheus in some way, taking up from Laurence Fishburne. Jonathan Groff, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris, Eréndira Ibarra, and Christina Ricci are new to the Matrix. Jada Pinkett Smith, Lambert Wilson, and Daniel Bernhardt are among the many returnees.

Available in Indian cinemas in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Also streaming for the primary month on HBO Max within the US.

The Matrix Resurrections Trailer Takes Us Back to Where It All Started

Don’t Look Up

When: December 24
Where: Netflix

Netflix forked over $55 million (about Rs. X crore) to pair up Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence within the lead for this satirical black comedy about two minor astronomers (DiCaprio and Lawrence) who uncover {that a} “very large” comet is headed in direction of Earth. But seems nobody is de facto bothered — together with Meryl Streep’s US President and her annoying chief of employees son (Jonah Hill) — not until they will make trillions of {dollars} off of it.

Rob Morgan performs a scientist aide to DiCaprio and Lawrence’s characters, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry play TV anchors, and Ariana Grande is mainly herself however dumber. Don’t Look Up additionally has roles for Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Ron Perlman, Kid Cudi, Himesh Patel, Matthew Perry, and Chris Evans. Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) directs and writes.

Minnal Murali

When: December 24
Where: Netflix

After he is struck by lightning, an odd man (Tovino Thomas) from the Nineties is bestowed with superpowers not loss of life. That consists of super-strength, super-speed, and even professional trick-shot calculations, because the Minnal Murali trailer exhibits. He turns into the vigilante/ superhero Minnal Murali. Naturally, this does not sit effectively with the native police who plead with the general public to assist them catch him.

Guru Somasundaram, Harisree Ashokan, and Aju Varghese additionally star. Basil Joseph (Godha) directs off a screenplay written by Arun Anirudhan (Padayottam) and newcomer Justin Mathew. Sameer Thahir is the director of images, Livingston Mathew the editor, with Shaan Rahman and Sushin Shyam offering the background rating.

The Book of Boba Fett

When: December 29
Where: Disney+ Hotstar

Waiting for The Mandalorian to return? Here’s one thing to tide you by. Boba Fett (Temeura Morrison) and his mercenary in-service Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), who partnered up in The Mandalorian season 2 earlier than going their very own manner, lead this new live-action Star Wars collection that is been internally known as The Mandalorian season 2.5.

The Book of Boba Fett finds them managing the Tatooine underworld — it would additionally discover Fett’s life between Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back and The Mandalorian season 2. Robert Rodriguez, who directed The Mandalorian episode that introduced Morrison again, is directing a number of The Book of Boba Fett episodes.

The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau, Star Wars veteran Dave Filoni, and The Mandalorian director Bryce Dallas Howard are additionally concerned behind the scenes on The Book of Boba Fett. New episodes will air weekly on Wednesdays.

The Book of Boba Fett Trailer Immerses Us within the Star Wars Underworld

Cobra Kai

When: December 31
Where: Netflix

Going by that previous proverb, the enemy of my enemy is my buddy, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) workforce up within the fourth season of this over-the-top dojo drama to take down Cobra Kai, now within the arms of John Kreese (Martin Kove). And by take down, I imply compete on the under-18 karate match. Though as Cobra Kai has proven beforehand, it is keen to get somewhat too loopy at occasions. Like settle down, it is simply youngsters studying karate.

Also, if Cobra Kai does come down on the finish of season 4, is Cobra Kai nonetheless Cobra Kai? insert pondering emoji For what it is price, Netflix has already renewed the collection for a fifth season — filming on which is almost full.

All Cobra Kai season 4 episodes can be obtainable on launch date.