What better way to celebrate the festive season than by watching gigantic animals remind you how flimsy human life can be? A couple of weeks before we get to see DiCaprio's head being eaten by a giant angry bear, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and new Spider-Man Tom Holland will take on the real life Moby Dick under Ron Howard's guidance. They will lose, being stranded at sea for 90 days and having to eat each other, which all sounds terribly festive. The hand-wringing and moral conundrums associated with turning to cannibalism is likely to be haunting and compelling, but it's the wildly exciting whale ramming that looks the most exciting in traditional terms. Even if a little too much of it was shown in the trailer. Less Exciting: The tidal wave of accusations of animal gore porn that will inevitably follow on Twitter.
