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Janis Joplin is one of the most revered and iconic rock and roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who thrilled millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1971 at age 27.

With "Janis: Little Girl Blue", Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg examines Joplin's story in depth for the first time on film, presenting an intimate and insightful portrait of a complicated, driven, often beleaguered artist.

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In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.

A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns from the US. The hall stands abandoned but as Jimmy sees the poverty and growing oppression in the village, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He decides to reopen the hall, and so takes on the established authorities of the church and the government.

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From acclaimed director Ken Loach comes this astonishing story of triumph and adversity in modern day Britain. Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) has worked as a joiner for most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State.

He crosses paths with single mother Katie (Hayley Squires) who is battling to keep her two young children fed. Daniel and Katie find themselves in a no-man's land, striving to pull themselves out of the welfare bureaucracy of modern day Britain.

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Clint Eastwood brings a lifelong love of jazz to this gripping story of pioneering jazzman Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker, winning a Best Director Golden Globe Award. Like a spellbinding jazz riff, past and future overlap as the movie explores Bird's soaring skill and destructive excesses.

In his Cannes Film Festival Best Actor performance, Forest Whitaker in the title role is a candle ablaze at both ends. Diane Venora shares that glorious light, the New York Film Critics Best Supporting Actress choice as steadfast wife Chan Parker. Skillfully blending Parker solo recordings with modern musicians, Bird comes alive most mightily on its soundtrack, honoured with a Best Sound Academy Award. In Eastwood's hands, Bird truly, stunningly lives.

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From Lucasfilm comes an epic adventure - 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'.

In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.

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The collected legendary cult TV series starring Patrick McGoohan. 'The Prisoner' centres on a British Intelligence agent (Patrick McGoohan) who is kidnapped from his London home and taken to a strange island village, where he's subjected to a brainwashing programme by an unseen foe.

His new identity as 'Number Six' is confusing at first, giving way to anger and frustration along with a great desire to get away. Various agents of the mysterious regime that run this island, invariably called 'Number Two' seem intent on finding out why he resigned his covert post in the intelligence service. Number Six gamely attempts to resist the brainwashing of the omnipresent yet unseen 'Number One' whose voice booms at him from every corner of the village and whose eye appears to see all. Number Six's futile attempts at escape only intensify the sensory barrage (including hypnosis, hallucinogenic drug experiences, identity theft, mind control and dream manipulation) of Number One. The series was filmed on location in the rather spooky grounds of Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate Hotel Portmeirion in North Wales.

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This second series of thirteen episodes follows the continuing struggles of the courageous men and women who make up the Brussels-based Lifeline evasion network.

They include: Albert Foiret the proud owner of the new Restaurant Candide; his mistress Monique Duchamps who he is now free to marry; and young Natalie Chantrens. Devious forger Max Brocard is a new addition to the team. Lifeline are once again opposed by the forces of the Third Reich, who include the head of the Belgian Luftwaffe Polizei - Major Brandt and the infamous Sturmbannfuhrer Kessler. Forming a surprising romantic attachment with Kessler is the enigmatic Madeleine Duclos.

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Los Angeles, city of angels. Amnesiac and wounded, a mysterious femme fatale wanders on the sinuous road of Mulholland Drive. She finds a shelter at Betty's house (Naomi Watts). an aspiring actress just arrived from her hometown and in search of stardom in Hollywood.

First of all intrigued by the stranger who calls herself Rita (Laura Elena Harring), Betty discovers that her handbag is dull of dollar bundles. The two women get to know each other better and decide to investigate in order to discover Rita's true identity....

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This is John Pilger's 60th documentary film. The recipient of multiple awards, including Britain's highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a frontline war reporter.

An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger's humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go. John Pilger's new film is his most urgent work to date and reveals what the news does not. The United States and China may well be on the road to war - and with a noose of US bases now encircling the world's newest superpower, nuclear war is not only imaginable but a nightmarish prospect. 'The Coming War on China' is both a warning and an inspiring story of people's resistance to war and the occupation of their countries. Filmed over two years across four potential flashpoints, 'The Coming War' returns Pilger to Asia, where his most renowned work has been set; like his landmark Cambodia Year Zero, this film breaks a silence. With eyewitness interviews and rare archive footage, it tells the secret history of an entire nation declared 'experimental' in the nuclear age.

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Hold onto your chimichangas, folks. From the studio that brought you all 3 taken films comes "Deadpool", the block-busting, fourth-wall-breaking masterpiece about Marvel Comics' sexiest anti-hero: Me! Go deep inside (I love that) my origin story...typical stuff...

rogue experiment, accelerated healing powers, horrible disfigurement, Red Spandex, imminent revenge.

In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

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Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, "I Am Not Your Negro" touches on the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.

, and Medgar Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the image and reality of Blacks in America today is fabricated and enforced.

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"I Am the Gorgon" tells the larger than life tale of legendary record producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee, charting his rise from car mechanic and record plugger to reggae's most successful producer in the 1970s.

His journey involves politics, arguments, gangs and guns, as Jamaican music moves from ska to rock-steady, from dub to dance-hall, from the backstreets of Kingston to the concert halls of the world. Directed by musician and filmmaker Diggory Kenrick and narrated by legendary deejay Dennis Alcapone, this acclaimed documentary features an amazing roll call of Jamaican artists, including "Singers": John Holt, Horace Andy, Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Ken Boothe, Linval Thompson, Derrick Morgan, Max Romeo, Errol Dunkley, Stranger Cole, BB Seaton, Roy Shirley, Jimmy Riley, Winston Francis, The Blackstones, The Twinkle Brothers. "Deejays": Tappa Zukie, U Roy, Dennis Alcapone, Dillinger, Trinity, Dr Alimantado, Jah Stitch, Prince Jazzbo. "Musicians": Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, Earl 'Chinna' Smith, Carlton 'Santa' Davis. "Producers": Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Jammy, Scientist, Niney The Observer, and many more.

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'Thank You Skinhead Girl' is a documentary which explores the filmmakers experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during the late 70's early 80's. It gives insight into a sub-youth culture that has been one of the most misunderstood, of all the youth groups.

The film shows the historical rise of the skinhead movement, the fashion, music and the gang structure in Oxfordshire UK at the time. Through the voice of the filmmaker we are taken into the personal reflections of that time, which shows a working class girl finding refuge within the skinhead movement. A place where she grew, survived, thrived and eventually learnt a very hard, uncomfortable lesson through violence. The film features music from Reggae legends the 'Symarip', Oxford Ska band The Inflatables and Welsh Oil band The Oppressed.

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During a manned mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead and left behind by his crew.

But Watney is still alive, and he must now find a way to contact Earth - and survive on a barren planet with meagre supplies - in the hope that an international team of scientists can devise a near-impossible rescue plan to bring him home!