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In a near-future world, where technology controls everything, technophobe Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) is the victim of a brutal mugging that leaves his wife dead and him paralysed. A reclusive billionaire inventor offers him an experimental cure, an A.I. implant called Stem. Grey accepts and is immediately transformed into an unstoppable killing machine with enhanced strength and agility. Now it's payback time. - Director:
- Leigh Whannell
- Cast:
- Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen
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Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother, a recovering addict, in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his estranged, dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. - Director:
- Kogonada
- Cast:
- John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
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The hunt has evolved - and so has the explosive action - in the next chapter of the 'Predator' series. Now, the most lethal hunters in the universe are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before... and only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biology professor can prevent the end of the human race. - Director:
- Shane Black
- Cast:
- Boyd Holbrook, Juan Pacheco, Trevante Rhodes
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South Dakota rodeo star Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) awakens from a severe head injury after a horse stamped on his skull. The doctors tell him he must give up the sport - one that is his passion but also his lifeline - for fear it may kill him. While his sister Lily is mentally disabled and his father drinks, gambles and womanises, Brady is the crutch that supports the family - but without the rodeo, he's facing a life of misery. - Director:
- Chloé Zhao
- Cast:
- Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau
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Set in the volatile arenas of intelligence and global politics, an elite CIA operative (Mark Wahlberg) is aided by a top-secret tactical command unit as they are tasked with smuggling a mysterious police officer carrying highly classified information out of South East Asia. On this 22 mile mission, the team soon realise they're not just against the clock, but against the city's gangs, police and military too, who are dead set on reclaiming the renegade officer and the information he carries. - Director:
- Peter Berg
- Cast:
- Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais
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From Golden Globe Nominee Director Paul Schrader, 'First Reformed' is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church's lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he's been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Cedric the Entertainer, Amanda Seyfried
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Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world. - Director:
- Susanna Fogel
- Cast:
- Justin Theroux, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Vilma Szécsi
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"Wonder Wheel" tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950's: Ginny (Kate Winslet), a melancholy, emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Poetically photographed by Vittorio Storaro, 'Wonder Wheel' is a powerful dramatic tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950's Coney Island. - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, Robert C. Kirk
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In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a group of journalists working for Knight Ridder and covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are sceptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein was hiding "weapons of mass destruction". Journalists Jonathan Landay (Woody Harrelson) and Warren Strobel (James Marsden) decide to play on very dangerous territory by challenging the White House. 'Shock and Awe' depicts their race against time to unveil the truth and their attempt to change the course of history. - Director:
- Rob Reiner
- Cast:
- Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Rob Reiner
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Starring Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' tells the magical true story of the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim, and The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. As they come to life in his head, Dickens begins to write the masterpiece that inspired the Christmas we know and love today. - Director:
- Bharat Nalluri
- Cast:
- Dan Stevens, Richard Coombs, James Daniel Wilson
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"Killer's Moon" is Britain's answer to 'I Spit on Your Grave'...only nastier! Produced in the late seventies it mixes lurid scenes of rape with dollops of ultra-violence and Clockwork Orange Droog style menace. Its story follows four drugged-up mad-men who have escaped from the local asylum and seek refuge in a remote hotel where a class of stranded school girls are staying. This is a true video nasty and is amazingly co-written by award winning author Fay Weldon. - Director:
- Alan Birkinshaw
- Cast:
- Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean
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The unbelievable but entirely true story of four friends (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner and Jared Abrahamson) living a routine existence in Kentucky, who brazenly attempt one of the most audacious art heists in US history. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world's most valuable books from the special collections room of Transylvania University Library. But not everything is as it seems, and as the thrilling theft unfolds, each of them starts to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream. - Director:
- Bart Layton
- Cast:
- Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk
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It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social changes: Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties. Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howie) are just married and honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset. However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between the young couple surface and cast unexpected shadows over their long anticipated wedding night. 'On Chesil Beach' is a tender story which shows how the entire course of a life can be changed simply by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. - Director:
- Dominic Cooke
- Cast:
- Billy Howle, Saoirse Ronan, Andy Burse
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Allen plays Allen, a fanatical movie buff with an outrageous recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart offering tips on how to make it with the ladies. His married friends Dick (Tony Roberts) and Linda (Diane Keaton) fix him up with several eligible ladies, but his self-confidence is so weak that he's a total failure with then all. Eventually, Allen discovers that there is one woman he's himself with: Linda, his best friend's wife. - Director:
- Herbert Ross
- Cast:
- Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
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Birdman (2014)The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
Determined to prove that he's a true artist, has-been movie superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) risks everything to finance a Broadway show. Now, as he grapples with inner and outer critics, a deranged alter ego, his estranged daughter (Emma Stone) and a temperamental stage star (Edward Norton), Thomson aims to soar above mediocrity. - Director:
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Cast:
- Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
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