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Investigative documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, best known for 2008's Oscar winning 'Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' and at least a dozen others, turns his sights on the 1994 Loughinisland massacre, a cold case that remains an open wound in the Irish peace process. The families of the victims, who were murdered while watching the World Cup in their local pub, were promised justice but 20 years later they still didn't know who killed their loved ones. Gibney uncovers a web of secrecy, lies and corruption that so often results when the powerful insist they are acting for the greater good. - Director:
- Alex Gibney
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Futuristic power company Alterplex intend to solve the world's energy crisis, with a revolutionary device intended to generate unlimited energy. All is going to plan until strange happenings, vehicles falling from the sky and people seemingly disappearing, are reported from all over the globe. As concern about the stability of the device grows, former NASA pilot and physicist Will Porter (Dan Stevens) is tasked with investigating the problem. After discovering that the device is destroying a parallel universe that has a similar energy crisis, Will is sent to the other side on a dangerous mission to try and restore the balance of power. But in delving deeper, he learns that in saving his own world he will completely annihilate the other... - Director:
- Tim Smit
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- Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt
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A U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince a Northern Alliance General to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the team - accustomed to state-of-the-art warfare - must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghani horse soldiers, combining ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. - Director:
- Nicolai Fuglsig
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- Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña
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"Molly's Game" is based on the incredible true story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a former Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested by armed FBI agents. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba), who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe. - Director:
- Aaron Sorkin
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- Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner
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Retired crime boss and widowed father Paul (Jason Patric) is forced back into the life he left behind when his daughter Beth (Gia Mantegna) suddenly disappears. If he has any chance of finding her and keeping her safe he must confront his former rival, Omar (Bruce Willis), the most f powerful man in New Orleans, coming face to face with him in an explosive final standoff. - Director:
- Brian A. Miller
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- Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack
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Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern, Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on Directing duties, receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release, Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society, and even for those too young to remember its original release, it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now, after 30 years, Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality. - Director:
- Dennis Hopper
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- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
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This holiday season Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) vows his clan will enjoy 'the most fun-filled family Christmas ever'. Before you can sing 'Fa-la-la-la-lah', he decks the halls with howls of folly in there perennial favourite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Seeing is believing. There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking siege outside. A festive supporting cast (including Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Juliette Lewis, William Hickey and more). And a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it! - Director:
- Jeremiah S. Chechik
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- Chevy Chase, Doug Llewelyn, Beverly D'Angelo
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While in Florida on another case, FBI agents Helter (Bruce Willis) and Lombardo (Megan Fox) cross paths with state cop Crawford (Emile Hirsch), who's investigating a string of female murders that appear to be related. Lombardo and Crawford team up for an undercover sting, but it goes horribly wrong, plunging Lombardo into grave danger and pitting Crawford against a serial killer in a twisted game of cat and mouse. - Director:
- Randall Emmett
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- Emile Hirsch, Megan Fox, Bruce Willis
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Tom, (Timothy Spall) an elderly widower, uses his trusty free bus pass to take a series of local buses on a deeply nostalgic trip across the length of the U.K., from John O' Groats to Lands End. His mission is to fulfil a promise he made to his late wife, to take her back to the place where they first met and lived happily together. Unbeknownst to Tom, his journey, and his unlikely antics on it, begin to capture the imagination of the local people that he comes across and, ultimately, Tom and his trip become a nationwide news story. - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
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- Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Grace Calder
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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
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- Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
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A dazzling, high-tech thriller based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name depicts an American future devoid of truth, where celebrity "firemen" engage in televised search-and-destroy missions to burn books and abolish art, culture and history. In this paranoid world, a zealous fireman (Michael B. Jordan), in the process of being groomed to succeed his longtime captain (Michael Shannon), meets a young informant (Sofia Boutella) and agrees to assist an underground group with bold plans to preserve thousands of classic works, if they can only outwit the all-seeing forces intent on destroying them. - Director:
- Ramin Bahrani
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- Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)Hitman's Bodyguard 2
The world's most lethal odd couple - bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) - are back. Still unlicensed, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek). As Bryce is driven over the edge by volatlile spouses, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman (Antonio Banderas). Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman as...well, you'll have to see. - Director:
- Patrick Hughes
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- Ryan Reynolds, Mariana Hill, Samuel L. Jackson
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American Traitor (2021)Axis Sally / American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
A chilling biopic following the plight of American entertainer-turned-Nazi weapon, Mildred Gillars (Meadow Williams), who became the notorious broadcaster known as 'Axis Sally'. When she is captured and charged with treason, her lawyer must defy the odds to redeem her reputation and maintain his own. Plunging the viewer straight into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Al Pacino stars in this fascinating true World War 2 story, with co-stars including Thomas Kretschmann, Lala Kent and Carsten Norgaard. - Director:
- Michael Polish
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- Meadow Spadafino, Al Pacino, Carsten Norgaard
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When a phone call from out of the blue brings Leo (Joey Millin) back into contact with his sister, Virginia (Madison West), long estranged from her family due to years of drug abuse, he arrives to find her alone in a bare apartment in the midst of an apparent overdose. After the convulsions and nausea subside, Virginia insists to Leo that she has been clean for eight months due to the help of a mysterious group. She confides to her cynical brother that her edginess and paranoia actually stem from a sinister ritual conducted by the group that took her in at her lowest and eventually revealed themselves to be a cult. This curse bound her emotions and physical sensations to a man she has never met before. With his marriage on the rocks, Leo has his own demons to face. Nonetheless, he is reluctantly persuaded by Virginia to embark on a cross-country road trip to track down this shadowy stranger under the caveat that if he's nowhere to be found and it's all in her head, she'll go to rehab. However, as their date with destiny draws nearer, Leo begins to suspect his sister's tall tale might have some substance. - Director:
- Powell Robinson
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- Joey Millin, Nadine Sondej-Robinson, Daniel Abraham Stevens
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The Griswolds are going on vacation. In the driver's seat is Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase), an everyman eager to share the open road and the wonders of family togetherness with his long-suffering wife (Beverly D'Angelo) and their two frustrated teens. After myriad mishaps; 2,460 miles; and a run-in with a hapless security guard (John Candy), it's a wonder the Griswolds are still together. There's never been a family vacation like it. - Director:
- Harold Ramis
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- Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca
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