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The expanses of the American West take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt.

Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose longing for connection delivers an unexpected jolt of emotional imm ediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in smalltown Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape's wide-open spaces.

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Okey-dokey, watcha got here is the darkly humourous and utterly riveting third season of Fargo. Ewan McGregor gives one heckuva performance in dual roles as the "Parking Lot King of Minnesota/' Emmit Stussy, and his younger brother, Ray, a potbelliec parole officer vyith a big chip on his shoulder.

The only bright spot in Ray's life is Nikki, a not-so-good woman with brains, beauty and a passion for competitive bridge. When she decides to help Ray I turn his fortunes around, things quickly get out of hand and petty theft leads to mayhem and murder.

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Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.

From the sand of the Middle East through modern-day London, The Mummy balances wonder, thrills, and imagination.

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With his faithful band The Heartbreakers behind him, Tom Petty lit up stages across the world, and became an unlikely early star of MTV with some innovative video work.

Subsequent releases saw him justifiably included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside a stint in super-group The Travelling Wilburys.

Tracklisting:
1. I Won't Back Down (Clip)
2. Interview with Tom Petty
3. Learning to Fly (Clip)
4. Press Conference
5. Learning to Fly (Clip)
6. Swingin' (Clip)
7. Interviews
8. Free Fallin' (Clip)
9. Shadow of a Doubt (Clip)
10. Into the Great Wide Open (Clip)

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Inspired by real events, "Land of Mine" follows the dramatic story of the young German prisoners who, as World War II came to an end in 1945, were forced to defuse and remove two million mines on the Danish Coast.

Presided over by tough veteran Sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Mailer), these teenage POW's were treated with hostility whilst being forced to dig up the mines from the sand with their bare hands with little training. When Rasmussen begins to sympathise and promises their release back to Germany when the task is completed, they soon realise that the war is far from over.

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Set in 1970's Santa Barbara, '20th Century Women' is the story of Dorothea (Annette Bening), a single mother, and her son Jamie, as he comes of age at a time brimming with cultural change and rebellion.

As life challenges both of them in new ways, Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie's upbringing; Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a lodger in their home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour.

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Your favourite "Ice Age" heroes are back and cooler than ever in this all-new animated adventure that's mammoth-sized fun for the whole family! Scrat's epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe, where he accidentally triggers a series of cosmic events that threaten the Ice

Age world. Now the entire herd - including Buck, Manny, Ellie, Sid and Diego - must work together on a hilarious journey, filled with nonstop action and colourful new characters, in order to survive the global Scrat-tastrophe!

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In the final nine episodes of the series, Tony continues to muse about his second chance at life while facing a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, at work and from the law. Carmela, AJ and Meadow each make choices that promise to change the face of the Sopranos' domestic life.

Meanwhile, at work, Tony comes to doubt the allegiances of many of those closest to him. No one - not Paulie, Bobby Bacala, Silvio or even Christopher - is above suspicion.

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Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Emma Thompson) Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way.

Soon their campaign comes to the attention of the Gestapo and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins.

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Based on Liam O'Flaherty's popular novel this gripping thriller is set amongst a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number, Francis (Carl Harbord), kills the chief of police he goes on the run.

But when he returns to say goodbye to his mother and former lover he is cruelly betrayed by his one-time friend, Gypo (Lars Hanson).

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The final adventure begins.

Set sail with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea - notably Jack - in an epic story packed with humour, suspense and amazing special effects!

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It is towards the end of World War II. After invading an island in the Philippines, Japanese servicemen meet fierce counter-offensive from the locals and the allied forces. It's just a matter of time before the few survivors are wiped out.

Tamura (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) is abandoned by both his platoon and the mobile hospital. Traipsing through the jungle past the dead and dying, he reunites with two men from his unit who hunt for what they call "monkey meat". Weakened by hunger, illness and fatigue, Tamura looks ready to be reclassified from human to simian.

In a majestic world of intricate hand-drawn textures, a shipwrecked man is found marooned on a desert island. With his attempted escapes thwarted by the stranger and larger-than-life titular red reptile, the man's existence is forever altered when something extraordinary occurs.

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New challenges abound for Tony Soprano as his life grows increasingly complicated. Now that he and Carmela are back together, they must face the reality that their kids are no longer children, but not yet grown.

And with Johnny Sack in prison, the always-tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained even further.

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In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabiriska (Jessica Chastain) and her husband successfully run the Warsaw Zoo and raise their family in an idyllic existence.

Their world is overturned, however, when the country is invaded by the Nazis and they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed zoologist (Daniel Bruhl). To fight back on their own terms, the Zabiriskis risk everything by covertly working with the Resistance and using the zoo's hidden tunnels and cages to save families from Nazi brutality.