Django Unchained

Cast
Jamie Foxx
Christoph Waltz
Kerry Washington
Leonardo DiCaprio
Samuel L. Jackson
Don Johnson
Walton Goggins
Screenwriter
Quentin Tarantino
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Running Time
165 minutes

Django is a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive. (The Weinstein Company)

Fantastic.

Les Miserables

Cast
Hugh Jackman
Russell Crowe
Eddie Redmayne
Anne Hathaway
Helena Bonham Carter
Sacha Baron Cohen
Samantha Barks
Amanda Seyfried
Screenwriter
William Nicholson
Director
Tom Hooper
Running Time
158 minutes

A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel about a recently-released prisoner named Jean Valjean struggling to survive during the French revolution.

The live singing took some getting use to but I did and enjoyed it. It's strange the sound was identical whether they were singing in a chapel, in the street or beside the river. I've said before how film musicals would benefit from casting musical theatre actors and I still hold to that. I wept at the end although more for the mood created than for any of the characters except really Hathaway's.

The Impossible

Cast
Naomi Watts
Ewan McGregor
Tom Holland
Geraldine Chaplin
Samuel Joslin
Oaklee Pendergast
Marta Etura
Sonke Mohring
Screenwriter
Sergio G. Sánchez
Director
Juan Antonio Bayona
Running Time
114 minutes

An account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time.[Metacritic]

An amazing achievement in many ways but it still probably doesn't come close to the magnitude of what happened.