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Seduced by dreams of making it big, Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) move to New York to pursue their passion for music. However, when Dave rejects her for the fame and fortune of a big solo contract, Gretta find herself alone and far from home.

Just when she's decided to move back to London, life begins to look up when struggling record producer Dan (Mark Ruffalo) stumbles upon her singing during an open mic night. Captivated by her raw talent and inspiring authenticity Dan persuades Gretta to take a fresh approach to making music and together they transform the streets of New York in to their recording studio, giving their careers one final shot.

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After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college.

But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship.

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Mickey (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) makes ends-meet by partaking in petty crime and gambling, with his friend Arthur (John Turturro), and then spending most of it in the local flea-pit bar before stumbling home to his long-suffering wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks).

When his mentally unstable step-son, Leon, is killed by a co-worker on a construction site - a crime that is quickly covered up and explained away as an 'accident', nobody in the depressed blue collar neighbourhood of God's Pocket is particularly sorry, except of course his own mother. Mickey tries to bury the bad news along with the body, but when Jeanie demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a struggle between a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay .

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A gripping mix of violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary backwoods of the south in this striking adaptation of Larry Brown's gritty and moving novel. Oscar winning actor Nicolas Cage gives a powehouse performance in the title role as the hard-living, hot tempered ex-con Joe Ransom.

He's just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble - until he meets a young kid (Tye Sheridan) who awakens in him a fierce and tenderhearted protector.

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Christine (Nicole Kidman) wakes up next to a man (Colin Firth) she does not recognise. Panic stricken, he slowly explains that he is her husband, and that she suffered a terrible accident that has given her amnesia.

Every morning, Christine wakes up a stranger, and every night her memories fade into nothing. With the help of Dr. Nasch (Mark Strong), Christine is trying to regain her memory. That is, until one day, when new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her, and what really happened to her on the day of her accident...

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Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac; with a boss who humiliates him and a cheating girlfriend. His life is going nowhere. Wes discovers that his estranged father has been brutally murdered and finds himself thrust into a secret society of assassins, called The Fraternity.

During his training, at the hands of a skilled mentor named Fox (Angelina Jolie), this once office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity. However, with his first assignment, Wes finds out that the only thing more difficult than ending the lives of others, is summoning the courage to take control of his own.

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Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), is tricked by her boyfriend into delivering a briefcase where she is grabbed and held hostage by the merciless Mr. Jang (Choi Min-Sik). His thugs surgically implant a package loaded with a powerful synthetic substance in her to smuggle it across the border.

The package leaks and she develops superhuman traits. Lucy enlists the help of professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman), whose decades of research on the brain's potential makes him unparalleled in the field and the only person with the ability to see where this might lead. Relentlessly pursued by her former captors Lucy begins to turn the tables and transform into a warrior evolved beyond human logic.

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The second series of the critically acclaimed and British Comedy Award winning show AI Murray's Happy Hour is packed with rip-roaring celebrity interviews and beautiful British bar banter. Sit tight and enjoy this madcap retrospective of the best bits of Series Two.

Enjoy classic moments as Barbara Windsor reignites her Carry On career with the help of James Blunt, Cerys Matthews and Jungle love-rat Marc Bannerman; Richard Madeley and Phil Vickery dance the Guvs all new British Haka and Spice Girl Mel B gets grilled on such hot topics as, "Do you ever have any technical problems on stage, such as microphones switching on?" Further unforgettable moments include: Piers Morgan murdering 'My Way' and Ricky Hatton revealing that he went to a Spice Girls concert after his Las Vegas fight, even though, as the Guv mused, "you'd already risked serious brain damage once that night!" Not forgetting of course an electrifying live music performance from the best band in the world, Queen.

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When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured in a spectacular police strike a small town cop Michael Martens travels to interrogate him, believing him to be responsible for the brutal murder of a child from his village.

Despite making more headway than the other more experienced detectives, Martens becomes increasingly troubled by his conversations with Engel. Finding his beliefs shaken, Michael soon becomes a dangerous threat to those around him.

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Tales from painted Hawaii is the second instalment from the luxury comedy team (Noel Fielding and Nigel Coan).

Join Noel and the gang, Andy Warhol (Tom Meeten), Dolly (Dolly Wells) and Smooth (Michael Fielding), in a coffee shop on the edge of a volcano in painted Hawaii, for five brand new magical adventures. See them battle a monster called fantasy block in an attempt to save their only viewer Terry from being killed by an asteroid. Welcome back favourites such as Fantasy Man, New York cop and Joey Ramone. Get naked and dance to new music from the "Loose Tapestries" (Sergio Pizzorno, Kasabian) and gasp at the comic stylings of guest stars including Richard Ayoade, Steve Oram, Rich Fulcher and Simon Farnaby. Luxury comedy is back and as wonky as ever!

Episodes Comprise:
1. Paul Panfer
2. Saving Terry
3. Reality Man
4. Cucumbers of Cool
5. Joey and the Whale

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'Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy' is a show unlike anything else on television. A fusion of live action and animation with music by Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian).

Along with animator/director Nigel Coan (Mighty Boosh, Bunny and the Bull), Fielding has created a joyful, charming explosion of a show in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Kenny Everett. A mash-up of sketch comedy and psychedelic sitcom featuring wild characters such as ghost of a flea, dondylion and fantasy man (a modern day tron quixote trapped inside an electronic opera). 'Luxury Comedy', also starring Mike Fielding, Tom Meeten and Dolly Wells, will change the way you feel about television and your own hands forever!

Episodes Comprise:
1. Pelé
2. The Jelly Fox
3. King Tutta
4. Phone Cake
5. Mash Potato Utopia
6. Tiger With Chlamydia
7. BBQ Breakdown

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn't expect much when she moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, until she meets the dark and mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) - a boy who's hiding a dark secret: he's a vampire.

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In 1972, before the internet, before the explosion of the adult film industry, Deep Throat was a phenomenon and introduced the world to an unknown and unlikely star: Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried).

Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). As "Linda Lovelace" she became an international sensation - a charming girl-next-door with some 'impressive skills'. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world - and herself, as the survivor of a far darker story.

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Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian emigre and the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family, lives in a carefully ordered world where duty towards husband and children dominates her life.

But after a chance discovery reveals an unspoken love her world is thrown open to sensuality and she embarks on a journey of unbridled passion that will shake her family's foundations to the core. Hailed by critics and lauded by audiences across the world, 'I Am Love' is a breath-taking tour de force of cinematic beauty. As lush, sumptuous and visually arresting as it is moving, heartbreaking and overwhelmingly powerful, this stunning account of the pain and pleasure of desire will leave you gasping for air.

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Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, 'Amores Perros' imaginatively interweaves the stories of its three victims: Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) a young man who has fallen in love with his violent brother's wife; Valeria (Goya Toledo), a beautiful Mexican model for whom physical

appearances are everything and El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), a former political assassin now exiled from his family. The result is a moving, visceral eulogy to life, loss and dog fighting on Mexico's mean streets.