My Sky + … Movies in December

Six of this year’s Oscar contenders will screen for the first time in HD on Sky next month, including best picture Argo.

Director and star Ben Affleck’s controversial take on the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 will debut on Movies Premiere on December 8, ahead of Flight’s arrival on December 22.

Sister channel Movies Extra will bow Anna Karenina on December 14, Hitchcock a week later and Lincoln on the 28th.

Sky also is premiering Wreck-It Ralph on December 29, for the resurrection of its pop-up school holiday channel, Movies Family.

And three of Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winners start new HD seasons on Movies Greats: the first two Lord of the Rings movies, on December 7 and 14, and King Kong on the 21st.

Screening in order of their appearance are:

Movies Premiere

• The Expendables 2 (December 1)
• The Possession (December 2)
• End of Watch (December 6)
• Argo (December 8)
• Killer Joe (December 13)
• This Is 40 (December 15)
• Chernobyl Diaries (December 16)
• Seven Psychopaths (December 17)
• Flight (December 22)
• House at the End of the Street (December 23)
• Lawless (December 27)
• Broken City (December 29)
• Silent Hill – Revelation (December 30)

Movies Extra

• Hope Springs (December 5)
• Magic Mike (December 7)
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (December 12)
• Anna Karenina (December 14)
• Hitchcock (December 21)
• Save Your Legs (December 26)
• Lincoln (December 28)

Movies Greats

• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (December 5)
• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (December 7)
• Enough (December 10)
• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (December 14)
• Across the Universe (December 15)
• Erin Brokovich (December 17)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (20)
• Fight Club (December 21)
• King Kong (December 25)
• Four Brothers (December 26)
• The Bone Collector (December 28)
• Dumb & Dumber (December 29)

Movies Family 

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (December 27)
• Wreck-It Ralph (December 29)
• The Golden Compass (December 3).