The holidays are quickly approaching, and that means holiday movies are ramping up, too. Some of our eyes in L.A., Bart Mills, got an early look at Doubt, out in December. Here's his report, and check out the trailer below:

In Doubt, Meryl Streep plays the tough nun to end all tough nuns — the complete antithesis to her carefree turn in Mamma Mia!  Which will she get an Oscar for?  Set in a Catholic parish in the Bronx in 1964, the film sets up a gripping duel between Streep, a grimly traditional though not entirely humorless parochial school principal, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, a smoothly progressive priest who runs the attached church.  Beyond their ideological conflict, there’s something evil about the priest that the nun thinks she knows and pushes relentlessly to expose.  Caught in the middle are Amy Adams as an innocent young sister and Joseph Foster as the school’s only black student.   John Patrick Shanley wrote and directed the film, based on his Broadway play, which won both a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize.  Shanley himself had a checkered career in Catholic schools before going on to win an Oscar for his Moonstruck screenplay.  Oscar talk is growing in Hollywood about Viola Davis’ performance as the boy’s mother.