Christmas is finally here. So if you’re gearing up for a good old fashioned streaming binge over the long festive weekend, we know just the thing to keep you entertained.
With Now – the streaming subscription service from Sky – there is plenty of new content on offer this week. Whether you fancy a modern twist on a Charles Dickens classic, or jumping in to a high-stakes battle for the wizarding world, Now has you covered.
Here are the new films and shows available to stream on Now this weekend:
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Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
David Walliams returns for Christmas with another installment of his fairytale-twisting anthology series After Ever After. This year’s movie is based on Little Red Riding Hood, and stars Britain’s Got Talent comedian Jack Carroll.
Fifty years after the events of the classic fairytale, a grown-up Red Riding Hood has established a fearsome reputation within the village of Wolferton as a deadly Wolf Buster, hunting down wolves with her Wolf Blaster and ridding them from the forest forever.
Little Red Riding Hood: After Ever After is streaming on Sky Max with Now from December 23 at 8pm.
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Christmas Carole
In a modern twist on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas Carol, Suranne Jones plays Carole Mackay – an unashamedly outspoken entrepreneur who imports cheap tat that she sells at a huge mark-up. Despite her wealth, success hasn’t made Carole a better human being.
In fact, it’s made her worse – Carole is a monumentally mean person, and just like Ebeneezer Scrooge, she doesn’t love Christmas at all. On Christmas Eve, Carole reveals to her over-worked assistant Bobbie Cratchitt-Singh that she’s selling off the company – possibly costing the jobs of everyone who works for her.
At home Carole continues to snub her family, as she does every Christmas, but a visit from a Christmas spirit makes this Christmas Eve unlike any she has had before, as she gets visits from three ghosts who attempt to show her the error of her ways.
Christmas Carole is streaming on Sky Max with Now from December 24.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
The third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise follows Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), who knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle on a dangerous mission, where they encounter beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s legion of followers.
But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from December 25.
Boxing Day
Inspired by writer, director, and star Aml Ameen’s life, Boxing Day follows Melvin (Ameen), a British author living in America, who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa (Aja Naomi King) to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
Boxing Day is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from December 26.
The Bad Guys
In this animated comedy based on the hit book series of the same name, a ragtag crew of animal outlaws attempt their most challenging con yet – to leave their life of crime. But after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, the gang is finally caught, leading Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) to broker a deal – that he isn’t going to honour – to save them all from prison: The Bad Guys will go straight.
The Bad Guys is streaming on Sky Cinema with Now from December 26.
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