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"A Simple Favor", directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town.

Stephanie is joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge.

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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter.

Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past.

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When videographer Aaron (Patrick Brice) responds to a cryptic one-day job offer, he's unnerved to discover that nothing about his client, and the personal project he's creating, is as it first seems.

Arriving at a secluded mountain cabin, Aaron believes he'll be helping terminally ill Josef (Mark Duplass) to create a heartfelt documentary for his unborn child. However, whilst Josef intentions are seemingly sincere, as the day progresses Aaron is forced to question the events he's being paid to capture as the facade of normalcy slips away. Faced with Josef's increasingly disturbing behaviour and terrifying video confessionals, Aaron realises that the film is about to take a much more sinister turn.

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Nobby (Sacha Baron Cohen), a sweet but dimwitted English football hooligan, has everything a man from the poor fishing town of Grimsby could want, including 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in the northeast of England (Rebel Wilson).

There's only one thing missing: his little brother, Sebastian (Mark Strong), who Nobby has spent 28 years searching for after they were separated as kids. Nobby sets off to reunite with Sebastian, unaware that not only is his brother MI6's deadliest assassin, but he's just uncovered plans for an imminent global terrorist attack. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot.

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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A decade after 'Zombieland' became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited for 'Zombieland: Double Tap'.

In the sequel where the comic mayhem stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.

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Alter over twenty years of marriage, Wendy and Al are struggling to keep hold of the happiness they enjoyed in the early days, with growing tensions leading to their separation and moving out of their family home.

When their grown-up children, twins Kate and Melanie, learn about their parents' decision, they decide to take drastic action to bring them back together and save their family from drifting apart. With Christmas just around the corner, Kate sets out to reunite the entire family for the most magical day of the year, and, she has the perfect spot... their old family home. The only problem is there's someone else living there now.

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"Gold" is the story of Kenny Wells (Academy Award winner, Matthew McConaughey), a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, desperate for a lucky break.

Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia, and when they make the largest gold find in the history of time, they realise this dream is only the beginning of the adventure.

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A heart-warming romantic comedy in which Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) rediscovers what the festive season is supposed to be all about. As a working single mum she is always uptight and simply doesn't have time to worry about her own feelings.

That is until her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) arrives one Christmas with a stranded passenger he met on a plane. Morgan Derby (Warren Christie) and Jennifer immediately hit it off, and she realises that this chance encounter could be the best gift ever. In an unforgettable finale she turns down a marriage proposal from her long-term suitor, Richard, and rushes to the airport after the man she loves.

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Living in Bangkok, where he fights bare-knuckle in the local gyms, heroin addict Billy Moore (Joe Cole) is arrested and sent to Klong Prem jail for selling drugs.

There, unable to speak the language, it's a matter of daily survival, as he is forced to live in unimaginable, unsanitary conditions, forever fearful of beatings from guards and other prisoners. It's only when Billy takes up Muay Thai boxing that he is able to see a way out of this hellish environment.

Detective Jack Radcliff (David Oyelowo) gets a shocking phone call from his recently murdered niece Ashley (Storm Reid). Working together across time, they race to solve her murder before it can happen.

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Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we've all experienced - road rage - to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion.

Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

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1892, New Mexico - legendary Army captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) undertakes one final mission before retirement: escort Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) - a dying Cheyenne war chief - and his family back to sacred tribal lands.

After 20 years of violent struggle, this gesture of peace is as unthinkable as it is harrowing. Together they battle against a punishing landscape and the brutality of men alike, coming to the rescue of a young widow (Rosamund Pike) amidst the carnage of her murdered family. Two great warriors, once rivals across the battlefield, must learn to trust each other and find peace in an unforgiving land. A heroic odyssey of survival, 'Hostiles' becomes a story not about the miles travelled nor the battles fought, but the journey towards respect, reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Jason Patric stars as Nick Tellis, a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess, a rookie cop killed m under mysterious circumstances.

Tellis is teamed with Calvess's partner, Henry Oak (Ray Liotta), a hot-tempered renegade who'll stop at nothing to avenge his friends death. As Tellis and Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld, the lines start to blur - between right and wrong, good and evil, and justice and revenge.

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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart.

But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.