A couple in their winter years in "Somboon"

It follows the efforts of the title character, a remarkable elderly gentleman who devotes his life to the care of his chronically ailing wife of 45 years. The documentary was the debut feature of Krissada Tipchaimeta, a 28-year-old film school graduate, who spent around four years bringing his creation to the big screen.
In Bangkok, it’s at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld and SF Cinema City at The Mall Bang Kapi. It’s also at SF cinemas in Khon Kaen and Chiang Mai as well as the Dej Udom Theatre in Ubon Ratchathani.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Having reclaimed their mountain kingdom and its riches from the Dragon Smaug, Thorin Oakenshield and his company of dwarves come under seige by the armies of men and elves. However, an evil threat arises in the form of a goblin army, forcing the dwarves to take up arms with their enemies. They get help from Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf and various supernatural forces.

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A child-like stranger in the city asks questions that cause people who have been set in their ways for generations to reappraise their world. Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Anushka Sharma star. In Hindi with English and Thai subtitles at Paragon, Embassy and Major Cineplex Sukhumvit, Rama III and Pattaya.

 The Possession of Michael King
When his wife dies after receiving poor advice from a psychic, an atheist documentary filmmaker (Shane Johnson) decides to make his next film about disproving the existence of God and the Devil.

Stonehearst Asylum
A young doctor (Jim Sturgess) arrives at an asylum to start an apprenticeship and is at first intrigued by the superintendent’s unusual methods of treating the insane until a horrifying discovery pushes him to the limits of his conscience.

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A brainy college freshman copes with being assigned to the last faculty of her choice – sports – and being befriended by a slacker classmate who is looking for answers on her next science exam. Chonlasit Upagnit directs. At House.

Serena
The relationship between a North Carolina timber magnate (Bradley Cooper) and his fiercely independent wife (Jennifer Lawrence) deteriorates dramatically following a devastating miscarriage. Rated 18+

I Fine Thank You Love You
Boorish mechanic Yim (Sunny Suwanmethanon) is determined to go to the US to make up with his Japanese ex-girlfriend (Sora Aoi) but needs to learn English before he goes. So he enlists the services of a tutor (Preechaya “Ice” Pongthananikorn). Mez Tharatorn directs. Rated G

Kill the Messenger
A journalist becomes the target of a smear campaign after he reveals the CIA is using profits from drug smuggling to finance the Contras rebel group in Nicaragua. Jeremy Renner stars. Rated 15+

Young Ones
Hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape by to survive. Among them is a father (Michael Shannon) raising his children on the harsh frontier while defending his farm from bandits. He’s threatened by his daughter’s boyfriend, who wants to land for himself. Kodi Smit McPhee, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Houltalso star. Rated 15+

Big Hero 6
Robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada learns to harness his genius with help from his late brother’s creation – an ungainly but kind-hearted health-care robot named Baymax. Together, they form the core of a new superhero team. Rated G

Also showing

“Bjork: Biophilia Live” – Blurring the lines between film, music and art, the latest concert movie by the Icelandic avant-garde singer Bjork will be projected onto the front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre tomorrow night in an open-air screening. Supported by the Goethe-Institut, it’s the closing entry of the Goethe’s annual Science Film Festival. To get another of your senses working in this multimedia experience, Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak will create an edible landscape art installation. The show starts at 8pm, but for those who want to find out more, there’s something going on at 5.30pm in the BACC’s fifth-floor auditorium, with the screening of the behind-the-scenes documentary “When Bjork Met David Attenborough”.

The Friese-Greene Club – It’s Christmas all month at the club, with a selection of movies that might not necessarily be about Christmas. Though some are. Tonight, it’s Whit Stillman’s “Metropolitan” and the slasher “Christmas Evil” tomorrow. Sunday, have a merry you know what with “Meet Me in St Louis”. Next Tuesday, don’t shoot your eye out – it’s the holiday classic “A Christmas Story”, followed on Wednesday’s Christmas Eve with the now-traditional club screening of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Shows are at 8pm. For details, check FGC.in.th.

Alliance Francaise – An animated feature closes out the year’s free French screenings. It’s the French-Belgian-Irish produced “Brendan et le Secret de Kells” (“The Secret of Kells”), which was released in 2009 with an English soundtrack and was nominated for an Academy Award. The adventure tale is a ficitionalised account of the discovery of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the Bible that is considered a national treasure in Ireland. It’s in French with English subtitles at 7pm on Wednesday. Take note, there will be no free film on New Year’s Eve; programmes resume on January 7. For details, check www.AFThailande.org.

Free tickets
The Nation has 15 pairs of tickets to the premiere of “Beauty and the Beast” to give away, courtesy of United Home Entertainment. They’ll go to the first 15 readers e-mail us at [email protected] (subject: “Beauty and the Beast”) by noon on Tuesday. From France, this live-action adaptation of the classic fairy tale stars  La Seydoux as Belle and Vincent Cassel as the Beast. The show is at 8pm on January 8 at the Scala in Siam Square.