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BV (Ryan Gosling) and Faye (Rooney Mara) are a song-writing couple trying to forge their way in the Austin music scene. However, their relationship grows complicated when they fall into the orbit of a big-shot producer (Michael Fassbender) and his waitress muse (Natalie Portman).

With cameos from music scene stars including Florence Welch, Iggy Pop and Red Hot Chili Peppers and a soundtrack including Bob Dylan and Patti Smith, 'Song to Song' is a vibrant and alluring exploration into music, love and the turbulent Texan rock and roll scene.

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The story unfolds on land, sea and air, as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk with enemy troops closing in. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below.

Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army.

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"Hidden Figures" tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P.

Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) - brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell), a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations.

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Iconic filmmaker David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr.) takes us on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life in this captivating documentary, offering audiences an unprecedented insight into his meticulous creative process and equally singular mindscape.

From an idyllic childhood in small-town America to the set of his debut feature Eraserhead, we follow Lynch as he personally traces the events that shaped his career, all the while gaining a greater understanding of one of cinema's most enigmatic and revered directors. Narrated by Lynch himself, the documentary infuses his art, music and films in striking fashion, shining a light into his unique world.

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When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - led by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate.

As nations struggle to coordinate a response, mankind teeters on the verge of global war, leaving Banks and the team in a race against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity's very existence.

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You've seen her destroy lives. Now, the fear-makers behind 'The Conjuring' dare you to experience the terrifying story of how she was created.

Several years after the tragic death of their young daughter, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and six girls from a shut-down orghanage into their home. What seems like the answer to their prayers becomes a curse as their guests become the targets of the possessed creation: Annabelle.

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Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in oscar nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus, the film shattered audiences and critics around the world, it's been called "gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding" and "Darren Aronofsky eclipses even

his own darkest work", experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown!

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Exiled from their home nations, four strangers from separate corners of the earth agree to undertake a dangerous mission to transport unstable dynamite through the dense jungle of South America in order to earn their passage home.

When the slightest bump in the road could equal instant death, the real question is not whether these men will survive this nerve-shredding ordeal but who will they have become if they return at all?

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After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down Balthazar Bratt, the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis.

But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother - a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin's despicable footsteps - one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad.

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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New England, 1630: William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) lead a devout Christian life with their five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their new-born son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another.

'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a family unrevelling within their own fears and anxieties, leaving them prey to an inescapable evil.

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'Inside Llewyn Davis', the new film from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads.

Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club - on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul - and back again. Brimming with music performed by Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan (as Llewyn's married Village friends), as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis - in the tradition of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' - is infused with the transportive sound of another time and place.

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

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After travelling thousands of miles to China in search of a mystical weapon, mercenaries William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Pedro Pascal) join forces with an elite army of soldiers making a valiant stand against a swarm of ancient creatures.

Upon learning that the Great Wall of China serves as the last barrier keeping the world safe from the mysterious threat from the lands beyond, Garin and Tovar vow to join the battle and help Chinese Commander Lin Mei (Tian Jing) and her forces in their epic fight for survival.

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"The BFG" is the exciting tale of a young girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) and the mysterious Giant - The BFG (Oscat Winner Mark Rylance) - who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country.

Two of the world's greatest storytellers - Roald Dahl and Steven Spielberg - unite to bring Dahl's beloved classic to life