josh-davie's - Rented List

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Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) is a successful New York litigator and a suburban family man. Married for fifteen years and feeling trapped in a relationship full of resentment, he decides to take a perverse detour from family life. He vanishes without a trace.

Hidden in the attic of his garage he secretly watches his wife (Jennifer Garner, Dallas Buyers Club) and kids dealing with his unexplained disappearance whilst just a few steps away. As days turn into months, Howard becomes adept to his new surrounding. Surviving by foraging at night whilst reliving quarrels anti petty jealousies over and over in his head, he eventually comes to realise he didn't really leave his wife and children - he left himself. But has his moment of clarity come too late? Will he risk everything to find his way home?

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For the last forty years acclaimed photographer Sebastiao Salgado has travelled the world, capturing moments that have defined humanity. He has witnessed and documented wars, famine, the mass exodus of people and even genocide.

But now he is embarking on a new journey: to discover the grandiose landscapes and epic beauty of nature and encapsulate it in one sweeping photographic tribute to our planet's magnificence. Salgado's inspirational life and incredible body of work is revealed to us in this Oscar nominated by his son, Juliano, and world renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders. Powerful, affecting and truly profound, it is not just a portrait of a great artist but one of life itself.

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"Wendy and Lucy" is the story of Wendy (Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams), who is driving to Alaska in hope of a summer of lucrative work and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy.

When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart and she finds herself desperately searching for her only true friend. Starring Kelly Reichardt's own beloved dog as Lucy.

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Based on David Harrower's celebrated play Blackbird, 'Una' stars the Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara and Golden Globe-nominated Ben Mendelsohn, following a young woman's journey to reclaim her past.

Fifteen years earlier, teenage Una (Mara) ran away with an older man, Ray (Mendelsohn), a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes across a photo of him in the present, Una tracks him down to his workplace, and her abrupt arrival threatens to destroy Ray's new life - all the while derailing her precarious stability. Unspoken secrets and buried memories surface as Una and Ray sift through the wreckage of the past, confronting unanswered questions and unresolved longings, ultimately shaking them both to the core. 'Una' gazes into the heart of devastation and asks if redemption is possible.

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Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work party girl who finds herself in relationship trouble with .

her sensible boyfriend, Tim (Dan Stevens), and is forced to move back to her tiny hometown to get her life back on track She reconnects with childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), a good-natured bar owner with a coterie of drinking buddies (Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell), and resumes her drinking lifestyle. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a larger-than-life creature begins attacking Seoul, South Korea on a nightly'basis, captivating spectators around the world. One night Gloria is horrified to discover a connection between these catastrophic events and her own fractured psyche.

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Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment, the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland) and aide-de-camp (Robert Pattinson) - returns to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

An epic tale of courage and passion, 'The Lost City of Z' is a stirring tribute to the exploratory spirit and a conflicted adventurer driven to the verge of obsession.

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Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land), 'City of Ghosts' is a singularly powerful cinematic experience that is sure to shake audiences to their core as it elevates the canon of one of the most talented documentary

filmmakers working today. Captivating in its immediacy, 'City of Ghosts' follows the journey of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently" - a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

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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?

"Life" is an intense sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns into one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life-form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

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It's summer in Sweden...A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they'll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking male bonding to a new level.

And as day turns to night, a coach driver decides enough is enough and won't drive his passengers any further.

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There are only three rules. Stick together. Keep the red door locked. And never, ever go out at night...In the aftermath of an unseen disaster, 17 year-old Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.

) and his parents (Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo) live on in their woodland home, surrounded by dangers, known and unknown. When a desperate couple (Christopher Abbott) are given refuge, the seeds of paranoia are sown, and Travis is plunged into a spiralling nightmare that may cost his family their sanity, their safety, and perhaps their souls.

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George and Harold (voices of Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch) are fourth-grade BFF's who love dreaming up funny pranks. One day, they accidentally hypnotise their principal into believing he's dimwitted hero named Captain Underpants.

But when the new school teacher turns out to be a disgraced scientist bent on ridding the world of laughter, George, Harold and Captain Underpants must band together to stop his evil agenda!

Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy) and a gang led by Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and Ord (Armie Hammer) who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired in the handover, a heart stopping game of survival ensues.

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Mitsuha and Taki have never met, but when the frustrated country girl wishes of a life in the big city, they will forge a connection both unexplainable and unforgettable. In their dreams, the two swap lives, cultures and genders as they learn more about, and grow closer to, each other.

What was once a shock becomes a joy-filled double life, but what will happen when they discover the red string of fate tying them together?

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Chris (Tom Meeten) is a homicide detective called to London to investigate a strange double murder. Both victims appear to have continued moving towards their assailant despite multiple gunshots to the face and chest.

On a hunch, and with the help of an old colleague - and former girlfriend - Chris decides to go undercover as a patient to investigate the suspect's psychotherapist, the mysterious Alexander Morland (Geoffrey McGivern), who has a taste for the occult...