josh-davie's - Rented List
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Based on the Marvel comics and featuring a powerful, all-star cast - including Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart and Rachel Keller - "Legion" follows the story of David Haller (Stevens), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of mental hospitals for years. But after a startling encounter with a new patient (Keller), he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. With the help of a psychiatric therapist (Smart) and her unconventional methods, David embarks on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery that leads to a new world of possibilities...and a new level of unexpected danger. - Director:
- Noah Hawley
- Cast:
- Dan Stevens, Jemaine Clement, Rachel Keller
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Julieta (2016)Silencio
12 years ago Julieta's daughter, Antia (Blanca Parés / Priscilla Delgado), abandoned her without warning and hasn't spoken to Julieta since. When a chance encounter brings news of her daughter, Julieta (Emma Suárez) returns to her former home to revive her search for Antia, whilst also examining the events leading to her daughter's estrangement. - Director:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast:
- Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao
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Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman", will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all… - Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kiclman) and their two exemplary children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has covertly taken under his wing. As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever-more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Barry G. Bernson, Herb Caillouet, Bill Camp
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Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is from a blue-collar family from the hills of West Virginia, whose clan has been famous for its bad luck for nearly 90 years. After being fired from his job, and with his ex-wife (Katie Holmes) threatening to move out of State taking their daughter with her, Jimmy decides he has to do something to get his family's life back on track. With a little help from his brother Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), his sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and an incarcerated explosive expert, the aptly named Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), he plans to steal $14 million from the Charlotte Motor Speedway on the busiest race day of the year. - Director:
- Steven Soderbergh
- Cast:
- Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig
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In the battle for Ninjago City, Lloyd (Dave Franco), high school student by day and Green Ninja by night, gets thrown into the ultimate adventure with his secret ninja warrior friends! Led by the wise and wisecracking Master Wu (Jackie Chan), they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon (Justin Theroux), The Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd's dad. On their courageous journey, they learn to band together to unleash their inner power in an epic showdown to save the city. - Director:
- Charlie Bean
- Cast:
- Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Fred Armisen
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Thelma (2017)Telma
Thelma (Eili Harboe) has just left her religious family to study at a university in Oslo. A sudden bout of violent seizures coincides with her growing affections for fellow student Anja (Kaya Wilkins), who reciprocates Thelma's attraction. As it becomes clear that the seizures are symptoms of mysterious and dangerous psychological abilities, Thelma is confronted with secrets from her past and the terrifying implications of her newfound powers. - Director:
- Joachim Trier
- Cast:
- Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen
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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort. From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity. - Director:
- Sean Baker
- Cast:
- Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe
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Stephen King's horror masterpiece comes to life for a new generation. In Derry, Maine, seven young friends unite against a terrifying supernatural creature that has been haunting their small town for centuries. Calling itself Pennywise the Dancing Clown, IT is a monster of unspeakable power that takes the form of everyone's most horrific fears. Threatened by their worst nightmares, the only way these kids can survive IT is together. - Director:
- Andrés Muschietti
- Cast:
- Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard
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Old college friends Luke (Rafe Spall), Hutch (Robert James-Collier), Phil (Arsher Ali) and Dom (Sam Troughton) - decide to take a hiking trip deep in the Swedish wilderness in order to bond and reminisce about old times. However, they soon find themselves hopelessly lost in the dense woods and, as night closes in they become increasingly desperate to escape the woods. But they are not alone. Someone, or something, malevolent is watching them, intent on making them face their deepest fears and ensuring they never leave. - Director:
- David Brückner
- Cast:
- Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier
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Dear Zachery (2008)Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
On November 5, 2001, Dr..Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John's, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he'd never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the U.S., the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, David and Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their son. - Director:
- Kurt Kuenne
- Cast:
- Kurt Kuenne, Dr. Andrew Bagby, David Bagby
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In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie (Lois Smith) - a jumble of disparate, fading memories - has a handsome new companion (Jon Hamm) that looks exactly like her deceased husband Walter. This is a Prime a holographic simulation programmed by Marjorie's daughter (Geena Davis) and her husband Jon (Tim Robbins) to feed the story of her life back to her. But as their interactions develop it becomes clear that each of them has a very complex relationship with their shared histories, with each other, and with this new technology they've invited into their home. - Director:
- Michael Almereyda
- Cast:
- Stephanie Andujar, Hana Colley, Geena Davis
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When former boxer Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) loses his job and is faced with the breakdown of his marriage, he decides to take a job as a drug courier to turn his fortunes around and provide a comfortable life for his wife Lauren (Jennifer Carpenter). Just as his situation begins to improve, a savage gunfight lands Bradley in jail where he has to make a series of impossible, chilling decisions to protect those he holds dear. Backed into a corner, Bradley now finds himself forced to commit ever more ferocious acts of violence across a vicious prison battleground on the path to the most dangerous confinement of all - Cell Block 99 . - Director:
- S. Craig Zahler
- Cast:
- Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson
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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust
Anthropologist Harold Munroe (Robert Kerman) is hellhound as he travels into the green inferno of South America's rain-forest in an attempt to find a documentary crew lost months before. Instead of survivors he discovers a world of cannibalistic excess beyond his wildest imaginings but when he returns home and screens the footage left behind by the eviscerated filmmakers, chaos erupts as the screen is filled with some of most disturbing images ever committed to celluloid. - Director:
- Ruggero Deodato
- Cast:
- Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen
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Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family, 'The Glass Castle' is a remarkable story of unconditional love. Oscar winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls's best-selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. - Director:
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast:
- Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts
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