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Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin team up as lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, who decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money. - Director:
- Zach Braff
- Cast:
- Joey King, Morgan Freeman, Peter Serafinowicz
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel to 'The Hunger Games', a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favour. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time to survive and reveals if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake. - Director:
- Francis Lawrence
- Cast:
- Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis
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In this long-awaited film adaptation of Judy Blume's classic, groundbreaking novel, eleven-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York City to the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates). A timeless coming-of-age story, 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' sparkles with insightful humour while candidly exploring life's biggest questions. - Director:
- Kelly Fremon Craig
- Cast:
- Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
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Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth. - Director:
- Alex Garland
- Cast:
- Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson
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Tora! Tora! Tora! is the Japanese signal to attack - and this movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore its possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it - but never reach F.D.R.'s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives - in the most spectacular, gut-wrenching cavalcade of action-packed footage ever. It's the most dazzling recreation of America's darkest day - and some of her finest hours. - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast:
- Martin Balsam, Jamie Farr, Sô Yamamura
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Woody Harrelson stars in the hilarious and heartwarming story of a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realises that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined. - Director:
- Bobby Farrelly
- Cast:
- Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Matt Cook
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Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, 'Oppenheimer' thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish / Puss in Boots 2
Everyone's favourite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline, 'Puss in Boots', returns in a new adventure from the 'Shrek' universe as the daring outlaw discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss (voice of Antonio Banderas) has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star on his grandest quest yet. With only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner and nemesis: Kitty Softpaws (voice of Salma Hayek). They are joined in their journey by a chatty and cheerful mutt named Perro (voice of Harvey Guillén). Together, our trio of heroes will need to stay one step ahead of the fairy tale realm's craftiest crooks including Goldilocks (voice of Florence Pugh) and the Three Bears. - Director:
- Joel Crawford
- Cast:
- Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillen
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Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine. Feature is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust survivor, adapted from William Styron's best-selling novel. Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the 'choice' she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp. Now in the United States, she has found a reason to live in Nathan (Kevin Kline), a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol) a young writer just arrived in New York City who bears witness as the happiness of Sophie and Nathan becomes endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. - Director:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Cast:
- Meryl Streep, Josef Sommer, Kevin Kline
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A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick). This gripping envelope-pusher, the most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex - but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast - with a young George C. Scott as a fiery prosecutor and the legendary attorney Joseph N. Welch as the judge - and an influential score by Duke Ellington... - Director:
- Otto Preminger
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- James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
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Freddy Heflin (Sylvester Stallone) is a simple, small-town Sheriff who had big dreams of becoming a New York City cop before a heroic deed left him deaf in one ear. Though he saved the life of the woman he loves (Annabella Sciorra), she went on to marry someone else. But everything in Freddy's life is about to change! After he uncovers evidence of a murder, fakes suicide and police tampering, Freddy must choose between the men he idolises, the woman he adores and the law he's sworn to defend. - Director:
- James Mangold
- Cast:
- Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)Bad Cupcake
The producers of 'M3gan' and 'The Black Phone' bring the terrifying horror game phenomenon to life as a blood-chilling film. Recently fired and desperate for work so that he can keep custody of his little sister (Piper Rubio), Mike (Josh Hutcherson) agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But Mike soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems. Mike's nights at Freddy's will lead him into unexplainable encounters with the supernatural and drag him into the black heart of an unspeakable nightmare. - Director:
- Emma Tammi
- Cast:
- Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail
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Scream 2 (1997)Scream Again / Scream Louder / Scream: The Sequel
Wes Craven once again teams up with Kevin Williamson in this hip, fun and relentlessly scary follow-up to the hit thriller Scream! Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) thought she had put the shocking Woodsboro murders behind her until a crazed copycat killer begins acting out a chilling, real-life horror sequel on her college campus! As the bodies begin to pile up, ambitious reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and other Woodsboro survivors find themselves trapped in an all-new nightmare where no one is safe-or above suspicion. - Director:
- Wes Craven
- Cast:
- Neve Campbell, Roger Jackson, Selma Blair
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Midnight Special (2016)Untitled Jeff Nichols/Sci-Fi Project
After rescuing his son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) from a fundamentalist religious sect who are convinced his powerful supernatural abilities are the key to their salvation, Roy (Michael Shannon), Alton and their bodyguard Lucas (Joel Edgerton) are on the run for their lives. What starts as a desperate escape from a fearsome cult soon attracts the attention of the FBI who believe the boy to be a threat to mankind's very existence. With the trio's fate hanging in the balance, Roy will stop at nothing to keep his son from harm and uncover the truth behind his unbelievable powers, a discovery which could change the world forever. - Director:
- Jeff Nichols
- Cast:
- Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst
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A team of mercenaries breaks into a mansion on Christmas Eve, but they are not ready for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (David Harbour)
- Director:
- Tommy Wirkola
- Cast:
- David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Beverly D'Angelo
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