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Three movies.

Three trailers.

A few minutes closer to the weekend.

We start with what Entertainment Weekly calls a “queer holiday rom-com”, which stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Dan Levy.

Dan is the son of Eugene Levy, with the duo starring in Schitt’s Creek. Apparently, you have to watch three seasons of that show before it starts to be funny, but who has that sort of patience?

Anyway, more on Happiest Season:

[The] story following a young lesbian couple, Abby (Stewart) and Harper (Davis), who travel to the latter’s conservative family home for the holidays. All is well until Harper tells Abby she’s yet to come out to her eccentric parents: Homemaker Tipper (Mary Steenburgen) and her no-nonsense politician husband, Ted (Victor Garber).

Holiday hijinks ensue on top of Abby’s plight, which includes hiding her real identity from the rest of Harper’s probing family (Alison Brie, Mary Holland) while her flamboyant friend John (Dan Levy) keeps tabs on the escalating chaos from afar.

So many hijinks, so little time.

Do you think it will have a happy ending, and everything will be resolved? My gut says yes.

The movie will begin streaming on Hulu from November 25.

Next up is a trailer with a local connection, Black Beauty. The Disney+ remake of the horsey classic was actually shot in South Africa, mostly in the Western Cape, and you may recognise a few of the locations.

Again from Entertainment Weekly:

…author Anna Sewell’s classic novel comes back to life with a more modern retelling, courtesy of writer-director Ashley Avis…

This Black Beauty follows a wild, seemingly untamable horse born in the American West before rounded up and taken from her family to live at Birtwick Stables. There, the animal meets a young girl, Jo Green (Foy), who also lost her family. The two forge an unbreakable bond as new buyers threaten to take Beauty away again. “How can a horse save a person?” Well, little girl in the trailer, this movie will show you.

Yes, that is Kate Winslet voicing the horse.

Keep an eye out for those locations:

Black Beauty will premiere on Disney+ on November 27.

We bow out with Superintelligence, a new comedy about the surveillance state starring Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Cannavale.

IndieWire reports that this is the fourth time she has collaborated with her husband, Ben Falcone. The previous three movies were Tammy, The Boss, and Life of the Party.

If those hit your sweet spot, I assume this might do the same:

Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Carol Peters, so when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone and microwave, she thinks she is being punked or losing her mind.

In fact, the world’s first superintelligence has selected her for observation, taking over her life… with a bigger, more ominous plan to take over everything. Now Carol is humanity’s last chance to prove that people are worth saving.

Save us, Carol.

This one premieres on HBO Max from November 26.

That’s a wrap.

[sources:ew&ew&indiewire]