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What have talking snakes, immaculate conceptions, walking on water, extra- terrestrial travellers, a container load of truckers, Islamic hip-hop and the natural highs of the Cannabis Ministries got to do with spiritual salvation? These are some of the questions director Larry Charles and

comedian, commentator and all round religious sceptic, Bill Maher seek answers to in Religulous. Award winner Maher reflects on his own religious upbringing and travels to Jerusalem, Egypt, London, Amsterdam, The Vatican and across the United States exploring the role of religion in today's society. Along the way he talks to believers, non-believers, religious leaders, self professed messiahs, atheists, extremists, politicians, agnostics, academics and the average man on the street looking to lift the lid on their beliefs.

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This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide.

Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a chaotic study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.

Eight candidates face the interview from hell. Led into a windowless concrete bunker they are given eighty minutes to answer one simple question. A question that will take each candidate to the very edge... and beyond, as they are forced to confront their deepest, darkest, most violent fears.

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Inspector Tequila Yuen (Chow Yun Fat) is determined to rid the city of gangs by beating them at their own violent game. But in a vicious shoot out, his partner and colleagues are massacred, leaving Yuen bitter and hungry for vengeance.

Yuen comes face-to-face with Tony (Tony Leung), a lethal and cunning assassin working for a gun-running gang, in a stake-out where it seems that Yuen will end up in a body bag. But a stunning plot twist cranks up the action another gear when Yuen discovers that Tony has a dangerous secret...

A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out.

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When a madman commits horrific murders inspired by Poe's darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with the writer in a quest to get inside the killer's mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe's brutal stories a blood chilling reality.

A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe's love (Alice Eve) becomes the next target.

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American siblings Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and Linda (Paz de la Huerta) eke out a shared existence in Tokyo - he by dealing drugs, she by working as a stripper. However, tragedy strikes when a deal turns sour and Oscar is shot by the police.

As his lifeless body lies on the floor of a public toilet, his soul floats high above the neon-drenched Tokyo streets, observing the effect of his death on his sister and reliving the events in his life that brought him to this juncture.

Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching a business. After a slick investor deceives them, they hatch a misguided plan to get their company back.

Jack Carter (Michael Caine) has rarely looked cooler as the well dressed heavy, attempting to uncover the facts behind the death of his brother. The film tracks Caine as he becomes embroiled in the sinister underworld of crime and pornography.

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"Southpaw" tells the riveting story of Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an adorable daughter (Oona Laurence) and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Wills (Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future riding on Tick's guidance and tenacity, Billy enters the hardest battle of his life as he struggles with redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.

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Jack Black is more hilarious than ever as Ignacio, a monastery cook who feeds orphan children by day and by night transforms himself into Nacho Libre, a notorious Luchador in stretchy pants.

Spurred on by Esqueleto "The Skeleton", a street peasant turned sidekick, Nacho challenges Mexico's most fearsome wrestlers as he fights to save the children and win the affections of Sister Encarnación, his inspiration and forbidden love.

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When aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using games like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Centipede and Space Invaders as models for their various assaults.

President Will Cooper (Kevin James) has to call on his childhood best friend, '80s video game champion Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler) to lead a team of old-school arcaders (Peter Dinklage and Josh Gad) to defeat the aliens and save the planet.

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Baghdad 1987. Latif (Dominic Cooper) is taken to see his former schoolmate Uday (also played by Cooper), eldest son to Saddam Hussein. Latif is told that a great honour has been bestowed upon him: because of the great likeness between them, he has been chosen to be Uday's body double.

Trapped, tortured and fearful for the safety of his family, Latif has no choice but to comply.He is forced to become part of Uday's hedonistic world of gangsters and pimps where sex, money and power are not enough - an experience which he almost pays with his life on more than one occasion.

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After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9-plus earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter.

But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it's just getting started.

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Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut 'Pi' with this gritty, emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr.

, the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall.