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Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, makes the journey into filmmaking as writer and director of this mind-bending fantasy, also starring Christian Slater. Pushing the boundaries between fiction and fantasy, "Slipstream" is the implosion of a man’s mind.

Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins)is an actor and screenwriter with a habit of getting lost in his own head. While working on a murder-mystery screenplay, Felix’s characters start appearing in his life: and his life starts slipping into his characters. Unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is thrown into a vortex where his dreams, time, and reality collide. As Felix enters an increasingly whirling slipstream, he soon discovers that life is random and fortune is sightless. Also starring Christian Slater and John Torturro.

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Few things in life can be relied upon, butthe drama, humour and wildly disparate personalities of Doc Martin and Portwenn are always guaranteed to bring joy to viewers everywhere.

As we join the Doctor in this eighth series, we find his relationship with his wife Louisa back on a more even keel, although juggling their jobs with baby care is proving more challenging daily. Meanwhile Bert and Al Large face challenges of their own, with brewing whisky and running a B&B not quite turning out as they had hoped; MrsTishell suffers a terrible and unexpected setback in her life; and Penhale, already facing romantic challenges, faces a mini crime spree and decides to host a Police Open Day. Newcomers to the village include a new curate as well as Morwenna's parents, Jack and Tara who worked as missionaries in Kenya; and the village sees the return of Beth, the American tourist and veterinarian Angela Sim. And swimming through the maelstrom of it all is Doctor Ellingham, suffering humanity's foibles with little tolerance and suffering literally with a newly adopted dog, against his better judgment, underfoot.

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

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The epic and dramatic tale of power, politics and passion.

Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren) develops an extraordinary and fiery relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day Russia.

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Long before the 'gross-out' comedies 'Something About Mary", "Dumb And Dumber", "American Pie", etc Bruce Beresford's film of Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland's Private Eye comic strip The Adventures Of Barry Mckenzie (the world's first gross-out comedy) shocked it's financier's the Australia

Government with it's portrayal of Australian's as drinking, shagging, vomiting, urinating vulgarians. The British press were equally horrified with the English portrayed as upper class perverts, poofters, lezza's swindlers and idiots. Barry McKenzie a loud-mouthed sex crazed innocent travels to London to get a cultural education. His Aunt Edna Everidge accompanies him to keep out of harms way. Barry's adventures take him from the Australian colony of Earl's Court to Rickmansworth and the strange perversions of England's upper classes, along the hippie trail meeting the thieves of the British music industry before landing him back in London this time among the sexual deviants of Notting Hill.

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"The Great" returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite).

Catherine (Elle Fanning) finally takes the Russian throne for her own - but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia.

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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!

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A new Lantern will rise! Meet Earth's latest Green Lantern (voice of Aldis Hodge) in this thrilling new DC Universe Movie. When a Power Ring (voice of Sunil Malhotra) is bestowed upon former Marine John Stewart (also voice of Aldis Hodge), it leads him on a life-changing mission.

With Justice League member Green Arrow (voice of Jimmi Simpson) and Thanagarian Hawkgirl (voice of Jamie Gray Hyder) by his side, Stewart is thrown into a complicated galactic war with shocking origins and catastrophic consequences. It's a trial by fire for the inexperienced Lantern as he battles deadly enemies like Sinestro (voice of Rick D. Wasserman) - but a much darker secret will be the true test of this Green Lantern's strength!

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Two worlds collide as the epic saga that began with 'Jurassic Park' comes full circle in 'Jurassic World Dominion'. Four years after Isla Nublar's destruction, dinosaurs roam the Earth again.

Facing the cataclysmic consequences of a planet once again dominated by prehistoric predators, two generations of Jurassic heroes unite as doctors Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and Alan Grant (Sam Neill) return to join Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) for an incredible adventure that will determine the destiny of humans and dinosaurs once and for all.

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"The Great" is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning).

From creator and Academy Award Nominated writer Tony McNamara, comes a fictionalised, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl who honours an arranged marriage to the mercurial Russian Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). Instead of love and sunshine, she finds a dangerous, depraved and backward world. Catherine becomes driven to change Russia and fulfill her destiny as the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court on her side.

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Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems.

First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

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'World famous in Poland', actor Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) is on stage in Hamlet....while backstage his wife is getting to grips with more than Shakespeare, courtesy of a dashing young aviator.

But theatrical joys are short-lived, when Bronski and his band of bold thespians find themselves enlisted in a plot to outwit the nasty Nazis who are currently starting their European tour with an impromptu invasion of Poland!

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The exciting adventure of the day we make contact with life beyond Earth comes to the screen with a profound sense of wonder and a dazzling visual sweep that extends to the outer reaches of space and the imagination. Jodie Foster is astronomer Ellie Arroway, a woman of science.

Matthew McConaughey is religious scholar Palmer Joss, a man of faith. They're opposite ends of a spectrum - and sudden players on the world stage as the countdown to humanity's greatest journey begins.

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Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown children who are concerned he can no longer live alone. Against the old man's wishes his son buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health.

Slowly, and with a fair bit of reluctance, Frank begins to accept his new digital companion, seeing an opportunity to use Robot's unique skills to try their luck as a heist team.

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Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon. Alone with only the base's vigilant computer Gerty as his sole companion, Bell's extended isolation has taken its toll.

His only link with outside world comes via satellite messages from his wife and young daughter. He longs to return home, but a terrible accident on lunar surfaces leads to disturbing discovery that contributes to his growing sense of paranoia and dislocation so many miles away from home.