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Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship? - Director:
- Oliver Parker
- Cast:
- Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Thomas Turgoose
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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)Ant-Man 2
From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes 'Ant-Man and the Wasp'. Still reeling from the aftermath of 'Captain America: Civil War', Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is enlisted by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) for an urgent new mission. He must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside the Wasp as they join forces to uncover secrets from the past. - Director:
- Peyton Reed
- Cast:
- Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña
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Alien Code (2017)The Men
Cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself recruited and sent to a secret lab to decipher an encrypted message. After breaking the code that is housed inside a mysterious satellite, Alex becomes convinced that the message is a disturbing warning... from the future. Once he returns home, a string of unexplainable incidents start happening, creating confusion and setting events into motion. Alex finds himself caught up in an unexpected journey to discover the reality about warnings and himself. - Director:
- Michael G. Cooney
- Cast:
- Neil Arnote, Aaron Behr, Tate Birchmore
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Chinese Puzzle (2013)Casse-tête chinois
Xavier's life is turned upside down when his wife Wendy announces she's moving to New York and taking the kids. A few months later, he's on a transatlantic flight as well. From fathering a child to a lesbian couple, to marrying a Chinese-American to obtain citizenship, to reigniting a flame with his first love who comes to visit, Xavier and his world really do seem like a Chinese Puzzle... - Director:
- Cédric Klapisch
- Cast:
- Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France
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Olaf teams with Sven on a merry mission - with four great new songs in Walt Disney Animation Studio's 'Olaf's Frozen Adventure'. It's the first holiday season since like, forever, and Anna and Elsa host a celebration for all of Arendelle. But, when everyone leaves early to enjoy their own holiday customs, the sisters realise they have no family traditions of their own. So, Olaf sets out to comb the kingdom for the best holiday traditions, to make this first Christmas warm and memorable for his friends. - Director:
- Kevin Deters
- Cast:
- Josh Gad, Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell
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Alpha (2018)The Solutrean
"Alpha" is an epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. While on his first hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone, he must learn to survive and navigate the harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learns to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before the deadly winter arrives. - Director:
- Albert Hughes
- Cast:
- Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk
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When a zombie film is being made in their village, locals Les (Laurence Saunders), Mike (Chris Simmons), and Bob (Ben Manning) see their chance to cash in and get famous. But it soon becomes apparent that the film is cursed, and there is real gore and guts as the mutilated bodies begin to pile up. There's a full moon rising, and the local Detective Inspector and his hapless sergeant (Ste Johnston) investigate the killings, As the race is on to stop the bloodshed. - Director:
- Pablo Raybould
- Cast:
- Chris Simmons, Ben Manning, Laurence Saunders
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In a splashy new twist, 'Overboard' focuses on Leonardo (Eugenio Derbez), a selfish, spoiler, rich playboy from Mexico's richest family, and Kate (Anna Faris), a working-class single mom of three hired to clean Leonardo's luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast - with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital, and to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work - for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new "family" and coworkers. But with Leonardo's billionaire family hot on their trail and the possibility of his memory returning at any moment, will their new family last or will Leonardo finally put the clues together and leave them for good? - Director:
- Rob Greenberg
- Cast:
- Ron Bottitta, Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris
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When a massive creejure attacks a submersible, the crew becomes trapped at the bottom of the Pacific's deepest trench. To save them from the clutches of the Megalodon - a prehistoric 75-foot shark once believed to be extinct - a visionary oceanographer (Winston Chao) recruits expert rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham). Teamed with the oceanographer's daughter, Suyin (Li Bingbing), Taylor must try to outwit the greatest predator alive...a killer he's faced once before. - Director:
- Jon Turteltaub
- Cast:
- Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson
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In the near future, a war and famine-ravaged America has given way to the police of New America. Noah Kross (Nicolas Cage) is an enforcement officer with The Humanity Bureau, a government organisation tasked with searching society for those who qualify for a fresh life in New Eden, a utopian community dedicated to those in the most need. On his latest assignment, Noah makes an unexpected connection with Rachel (Sarah Lind) and her son, leading him to question the New Eden selection process. With Noah now rogue, government enforcer Adam (Hugh Dillon) is soon in pursuit, beginning a chase across the post-apocalyptic land as Noah re-evaluates his duty as he makes critical discoveries about the true intentions of the Humanity Bureau. - Director:
- Rob W. King
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Sarah Lind, Jakob Davies
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Coogan and Rudd are a "big screen match made in heaven" in this poignant, endearing and laugh-out-loud comedy as they play a bickering and flamboyant couple (with an extensive erotic film collection), who's lavish life is thrown in to turmoil with the sudden appearance of their long-lost grandson. Can this unlikely new family unit grow up and leave their eclectic, well-trodden lives in order to devote themselves as parents? 'Ideal Home' is a sweet and sassy celebration of same sex parenting that shows Coogan and Rudd at their comedy best. - Director:
- Andrew Fleming
- Cast:
- Paul Rudd, Kate Walsh, Alison Pill
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In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back. Under the microscope of demise he reviews the flailed attempt to reconcile with his wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and foiled to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. - Director:
- Rupert Everett
- Cast:
- Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson
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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart. - Director:
- Debra Granik
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
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The Bookshop (2017)La Librería
Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), is a free-spirited widow in 1950's England. Moving on from the death of her husband, she puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first in a sleepy seaside town. Facing considerable local opposition, most notably from wannabe doyenne of the arts scene Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), Florence finds a kindred spirit in Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart's will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town. - Director:
- Isabel Coixet
- Cast:
- Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne
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Mission: Impossible: Fallout (2018)Mission: Impossible VI
Same missions are not a choice. On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilisation. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames
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