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After his previous shows tackled those well-known staples of light entertainment that are the British obsession with home ownership and the self-serving nature of most fundraising efforts, this time Henning's having an unbiased look at immigration. He also wonders, if, generally speaking, people are competent. Luckily in his case this doesn't matter as either he's funny or he lives up to a national stereotype. It's a win-win situation. - Director:
- Ian Mark Wilson
- Cast:
- Henning When
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The poet John Clare's escape from Epping Forest; an epic march through hunger and madness, is an English journey to set beside "A Pilgrim's Progress". Toby Jones, lain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr. Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore, their progress narrated by Toby's father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films. Captured in lustrous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road; whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always 'By Our Selves'. - Director:
- Andrew Kötting
- Cast:
- Toby Jones, Freddie Jones, Alan Moore
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017)Pirates of the Caribbean 5 / Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales / P.O.T.C. 5
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! - Director:
- Joachim Rønning
- Cast:
- Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem
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Stephen King's horror masterpiece comes to life for a new generation. In Derry, Maine, seven young friends unite against a terrifying supernatural creature that has been haunting their small town for centuries. Calling itself Pennywise the Dancing Clown, IT is a monster of unspeakable power that takes the form of everyone's most horrific fears. Threatened by their worst nightmares, the only way these kids can survive IT is together. - Director:
- Andrés Muschietti
- Cast:
- Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard
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Humankind's Greatest Journey. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager 1 finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. The Voyager mission revolutionised our understanding of our Solar System's outer planets - two spacecraft visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on their incredible journeys and in all likelihood they will outlive humanity. 'The Farthest' celebrates these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped. - Director:
- Emer Reynolds
- Cast:
- Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani
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A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss. Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Scbald (1944 - 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn. Grierson award winning filmmaker Grant Gee (Joy Division) directs the first film about Sebald internationally, marking ten years since the writer's untimely death, with contributions from major writers, artists and film-makers including Tacita Dean, Robert Macfarlane, Sir Andrew Motion, Rick Moody, Iain Sinclair and Marina Warner as well as the first feature film soundtrack by acclaimed composer and sound artist The Caretaker. - Director:
- Grant Gee
- Cast:
- Jonathan Pryce
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'The Apple' is the haunting first feature by Samira Makhmalbaf, the daughter of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, when she was just seventeen. Based on a true incident and featuring the family involved, the film tells a bizarre but engaging story. In Tehran, twin sisters live as virtual prisoners of their poor father and blind mother, locked behind bars for all of their twelve years. Their father argues that his daughters 'are like flowers. They mustn't be exposed to the sun or they will soon fade...'. A social worker attempts to persuade him to give them freedom to explore the world beyond the gates of their home. - Director:
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Cast:
- Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi
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Meet the United States' secret and most beautiful weapon in the fight against tyranny: Wonder Woman! Season One of 'Wonder Woman' (the Pilot Movie and 13 regular episodes) retains the World War II era of the super heroine's early comic book adventures. Also captured is the exuberant tone of a comic book come to screen life as the warrior princess, empowered by her sense of a woman's worth and by the mysterious substance Feminum that's found only on her remote native isle, battles a succession of Nazi baddies. Former Miss USA Lynda Carter stars as the heroine who hides her identity behind the oversized glasses of a War Department functionary. But when duty and danger call, she transforms. And the wonders never cease. - Director:
- Leonard Horn
- Cast:
- Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, John Randolph
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Shin Godzilla (2016)Shin Gojira
From the mind behind 'Evangelion' comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes. - Director:
- Hideaki Anno
- Cast:
- Christopher Bevins, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi
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Endless Poetry (2016)Poesía sin fin
The exalted cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, El Topo) returns with a follow up to 'The Dance of Reality' as he continues to reimagine his youth spent as an aspiring poet with gloriously surreal strokes of imagination. In 1940s Santiago de Chile, 20-year-old "Alejandrito" Jodorowsky vows to become a poet against the will of his disciplinarian father. Leaving home, he is introduced to the inner circle of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of the time who will become the masters of Latin America's modern literature. Immersed in a world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely and madly. - Director:
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Cast:
- Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub
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Heartstone (2016)Hjartasteinn
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Christian (Blær Hinriksson) experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood. - Director:
- Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
- Cast:
- Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir
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Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, 'Human Flow' follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. This film is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind. 'Human Flow' comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion and trust are needed more than ever. Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity? - Director:
- Weiwei Ai
- Cast:
- Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos
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Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who – after being separated by loss – discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll. - Director:
- David Lowery
- Cast:
- Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, McColm Cephas Jr.
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Victorian London is gripped with fear as a serial killer - dubbed The Limehouse Golem - is on the loose and leaving cryptic messages written in his victims' blood. With few leads and increasing public pressure, Scotland Yard assigns the case to Inspector Kildare (Bill Nighy) - a seasoned detective with a troubled past and a sneaking suspicion he's being set up to fail. Faced with a list of suspects, including music hall star Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), Kildare must discover which one is the killer before the Golem strikes again. - Director:
- Juan Carlos Medina
- Cast:
- Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid
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Future Shock! (2014)Future Shock!: The Story of 2000AD
First published in 1977 at the height of the punk era, UK sci-fi comic 2000AD was violent, antiauthoritarian, darkly funny and distinctly British. With such iconic characters as Strontium Dog, Nemesis and Judge Dredd, it became the anarchic underdog that forever changed the face of the international comics industry. Offering a comprehensive overview of the comic's history, Future Shock! takes a funny, moving and passionate look at the various highs and lows of how a band of talented eccentrics came together to create a visionary and extraordinary publication that still remains a game-changer more than 40 years later. - Director:
- Paul Goodwin
- Cast:
- Dan Abnett, Geoff Barrow, Emma Beeby
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