mfb's - Rented List

Starring Academy Award-winning actresses Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, "Big Little Lies" is a subversive, darkly comedic drama that weaves a tale of murder and mischief as it explores society's myth of perfection and marriage, sex, parenting and friendship.

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Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Michael' is a fascinating fin-de-siecle study of a "decadent" elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protege and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak).

With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Haring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or "intimate theatre", foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent final film Gertrud, by forty years with its "Now I may die content, for I have seen great love" epigraph.

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The Iron Horse was John Ford's 50th film and remains his most celebrated of the silent era. Its theme of enterprise and achievement, its open-air locations and setting in a vigorous and pioneering past proved just the subject to stimulate the young director's talent.

The sheer scale of the film surpassed all other Westerns of the silent era, and established Ford as one of the leading directors in the industry. The film combines a conventional tale of double-dealing, vengeance and romance with a poetic sense of history, and an epic theme - uniting a nation by building a transcontinental railroad, and a great man's dream realised by the courage, skill and labour of ordinary folk.

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Stephen (David Mitchell) is finally taking over his father's pub, and he has a tough act to follow. His dad, Laurie (Matthew Holness), is a local hero. At least he was, until he died. There's only one problem: Stephen is a loser.

And when the charismatic Andrew (Robert Webb) turns up at Laurie's funeral, Stephen's anxiety strikes. Andrew claims the short time he spent fostered by Stephen's family was the happiest of his life. But to Stephen, Andrew is just one of 30-odd foster kids he resented during childhood. A slick sociopath who's trying to replace him. As Stephen teeters on the brink of paranoid mania, he investigates Andrew's past - but his most surprising discoveries will be about himself.

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Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him.

He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy.

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Led by Starfire, the Teen Titans - Beast Boy, Baven, Blue Beetle, Bobin and the just-returned Nightwing - are a cohesive team, but their newest teammate, Terra, may change that dynamic, When ancient evil, Brother Blood, awakens, and familiar foe, Deathstroke, appears, the Teen Titans must overcome

their internal doubts to battle the malicious forces around them.

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Double bill of Japanese Sci-Fi fantasy action adventures.

The Tree of Might (1990)

The Earth's destruction lies dormant within a single, solitary seed. Brought forth from the darkest reaches of space, the Tree of Might has been sown with the vilest of intentions. Once it takes root, nothing else can survive. A plant designed to drain the energy of a planet, it steals the very essence of life only to blossom in death and desolation. Unable to fell this mighty threat, Goku and the Z Warriors must instead confront the harbinger of the evil, a Saiyan bearing an uncanny resemblance to our hero: Turles. This new enemy kidnaps Gohan and sets the son against the father, a tragedy which only delays the inevitable fight. As Goku finally faces ofFagainst his deplorable double. Turles turns to the thieving tree... This is the story of hope untapped.
Lord Slug (1991)
Once again called upon to save their planet from disaster, Goku and Krillin race to head off a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The threat deflected, their home is saved...Or is it? A greater menace looms in the shadows: a being so evil that he was banished from his old world and now seeks to create a new one of his own. Lord Slug, prepared to dominate by freezing all opposition, seeks out the seven Dragon Balls.

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Buster Keaton (1895-1966) is one of the greatest artists in cinema history. After a very early start in vaudeville with his parents (as The Human Mop), Keaton was as old as the cinema when he began his career in film at the age of twenty-one with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Burlesque yet sensitive, Keaton inspired European surrealists and created the funniest and most astonishing character of the silent era. His short films were whirlwinds of precisely choreographed humour and nonsense, and have been rarely screened in recent years. A new generation are now able to rediscover the timeless appeal of Keaton's comic marvels with this complete collection of short films from 1917-1923.

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One of Valentino's best films, in Blood and Sand he plays a bullfighter in a small town in Spain where he becomes one of the most idolised matadors in his Country. The swaggering but sincere Valentino marries good Catholic girl Lola Lee.

A coy innocent with bow-tie lips, but is seduced by voracious vamp Nita Naldi, a high-society man-eater who decides to add a bullfighter to her list of conquests.

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"Robin Hood" recreates "the chilvalry of England in all its glory" as it unveils the conflicts and betrayals that threaten to destroy the Kingdom of Richard the lion-hear. Fairbanks epitomizes the valiant, loyal knight immortalised in Arthurian legend, gently wooing the virtuous Lady Marian.

When King Richard, and a band of warriors embark on a crusade to Palestine, Richard's conniving brother assumes the throne and turns the once-idyllic empire into a Dante-esque sty of corruption. In the darkest hour, however, The Earl of Huntingdon shirks off his noble demeanor and is transfigured into Robin Hood, a hyper-animated avenger who, just a few leaps ahead of his merry men, breathlessly storms the battlements in pursuit of Prince John, the High Sheriff of Nottingham and all who standin the way of justice.

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From a story by animation legend Bruce Timm comes an all-new DC Universe animated movie. When a break-in at S.T.A.R. Labs leads to a secret dossier being stolen by the gruesome duo of Poison Ivy and Floronic Man, aka Jason Woodrue, it's a green light for crime and mayhem.

The Dark Knight and Nightwing are on the case, but they look to a certain wild card for help: Harley Quinn! Recently released from Arkham Asylum and trying to acclimate to life out of the super villain spotlight, Harley finds herself suiting up and mouthing off once again. So pucker up, puddin' - Kevin Conroy, Melissa Rauch and Loren Lester highlight a stellar cast in this action-packed adventure filled with high-speed chases and brawlin' bad guys. Who knows, maybe even Batman will have a good time!

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When it comes to raising their kids, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) and Brad (Will Ferrell) finally have this co-parenting thing down. That is, until Dusty's macho dad (Mel Gibson) and Brad's sweet-natured father (John Lithgow) come to town, throwing the whole family into complete chaos.

As old rivalries create new problems, Dusty and Brad's partnership is put to the ultimate test in this comedy that gives new meaning to the term 'blended family.'

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A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen).

Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begins three exotic scenarios of ill-fated love, in which the woman must somehow reverse the course of destiny: Persia, Quattrocento Venice, and a fancifully rendered ancient China.

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Join the Mystery Inc. gang for wet 'n' wild good times in this all-new Lego story. The annual Blowout Beach Bash promises 3 fun-filled days.

But the gang quickly learns that nothing spoils a vacation quicker than ghost pirates! Scooby-Doo and the gang team up with newfound friends to foil these spooky swashbucklers and save the beach bash.

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Heads or Tails, Batman? Holy coin-flipping conundrums, Batman! When a device meant to remove evil from the criminal mind goes haywire, Gotham City's D.A.

, Harvey Dent, is transformed into the sinister split personality Two-Face! Add in the crime-creating chaos of The Joker, The Penguin and The Riddler, and the Dynamic Duo may be overwhelmed and outmatched. Can a helping claw from the coy Catwoman unravel this confounded case and foil Two-Face's maniacal endgame?