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From Oscar-Nominated producer Ridley Scott and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast including Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie.

Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists is working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment's subject - a genetically designed "human" (Anya Taylor-Joy) - triggers a terrifying event, those involved must decide if the promise of infinite potential outweighs the incalculable danger.

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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea.

Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

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Internationally acclaimed director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) brings his ultimate passion project, one of his oldest scripts and the film tie has wanted to bring to the big screen for over 20 years.

Filmed on location Fukushima, home of the nuclear power planf meltdown and starring many of the city's residents, 'Whispering Star' takes place in a post-apocalyptic future in which humans are now outnumbered by machines, particularly Al robots, following 'devastating' human mistakes. Humanoid delivery woman Yoko Suzuki (Megumi Kagurazaka) makes her rounds through space, landing on isolated planets and meeting near-extinct human beings along the way. Whispering to Yoko is the child-like voice of her spaceship's operating machine. Neither understands why humans have the need to send each other seemingly insignificant objects that take years to be delivered. Sono's beautifully crafted sci-fi setting is reminiscent of the films of Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky.

The Whispering Star (2015)
An interstellar delivery robot-woman (Megumi Kagurazaka) travels the galaxy distributing packages to various human beings, and muses on the meaning of life in this haunting sci-fi drama from Japanese auteur Sion Sono (Love Exposure).
The Sion Sono (2016)
Arata Oshima (son of the famous director Nagisa Oshima) documents the making of Whispering Star as well as the life of cult director Sion Sono in this feature-length documentary.

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Mickey Rourke leads an all-star cast in this brilliantly realistic and savage Western set in the turbulent years immediately after the bloody Civil War. Back to his mean 'n' moody best, Rourke plays Col.

Graff, the fearsome and brutal leader of a band of renegade Confederate soldiers who are robbing and murdering their way across the country. Lost in his own private war, Graff's iron will is driving the gun-happy outlaws straight into the jaws of Hell, unless they can break free from his obsessive hatred. .

An audacious, genre-defying mix of horror and folklore, 'Lamb' is the debut feature from Icelandic writer-director Valdimar Johannsson. A couple on a remote sheep farm find a mysterious newborn and decide to raise it as their own, but soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature.

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The Kegans are an American dynasty. They own oil, banks, beautiful women, even Presidents. They have the power to make fortunes and destroy careers. One man will inherit it all. If he lives.

19 years after the assassination of his half brother President Tim Kegan, Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges) is serving on a Naval Vessel when a dying man is brought to him, and confesses he was the second gunman involved in the assassination. Back home and by order of his domineering father (John Huston), Nick begins to investigate the man's claims and he soon finds himself deeper into the many conspiracy theories that surface, and the twists and turns become inextricably bound he finds it harder to decipher between his friends and enemies.

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Vinegaroon law goes like this. Penalty for stealing whisky: hanging. Penalty for not cutting the judge in on a bank heist: hanging. Penalty for speaking ill of New York actress Lillie Langtry: shooting. Then hanging.

Paul Newman joins director John Huston, screenwriter John Milius and a cast of superb sidewinders to turn the real-life Wild West into a tall tale of a Wilder West. Newman tackles with gusto the title role, a self-made man who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos, writes admiring letters to Langtry (Ava Gardner) and rides into gun-blazing glory whooping "For Texas and Miss Langtry!"

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On Christmas Eve in a tranquil seaside town, chaos erupts as Santa Claus undergoes a startling transformation into a fearsome werewolf. Meanwhile, Lucy (Katherine Rodden), struggling with her unpopular YouTube series 'Monster Hunter's,' captures this bizarre event on camera.

With only a rusty ice skate and her limited knowledge of werewolves amassed from horror comics, Lucy and her family embark on a Christmas Eve adventure to save Christmas.

A militant alien race launches an attack on Earth using gigantic creatures and geological disasters all based on those found on The Asylum's Movie Channel signal which reached their planet.

Get ready for the ultimate adrenaline rush as Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) and Jiuming Zhang (Wu Jing) lead a daring research team in a high-stakes battle for survival against massive Megs and ruthless environmental plunderers in the deepest depths of the ocean.

The Flash uses his superpowers to travel back in time, inadvertently altering the future - but will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

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Unambitious yacht salesman and gigolo Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) skates on his good looks and avoids all responsibility.

His best friend Alex Cutter (John Heard) returned from Vietnam with his body ruined, but his mind sharpened and attuned to the injustices and politics that led to his predicament. After Bone witnesses a shadowy figure dump a young woman's body in the trash, he fingers local oil magnate J.J. Cord (Stephen Elliotth) as the killer. As Bone backs away from this accusation, Cutter charges forward on a crusade to make Cord pay not only for this murder, but for all the other crimes fat cats like him have routinely gotten away with. Cutter's long-suffering wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn), struggles to keep her own head above the surface, while steering the two men toward saner waters.

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A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch's 'Let My People Go!' follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in Comparative

Sauna Cultures) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and back to his zany family including Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) as his ditzy mum, and Truffaut regular Jean-Francois Stevenin as his lothario father.

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A colourful, fun and breezy take on sex and religion, Vinko Bresan's The Priest's Children is a comedy charmer. Though sex is at its heart, there is nothing too explicit about the going-on, and the picturesque Dalmatian island backdrop looks postcard perfect.

Young Catholic priest Fabian (Kresimir Mikic) is sent to the tiny island to take over from elderly priest Jakov (Zdenko Botic) but the old man is so popular that locals lobby to have him stay on the island and take mass occasionally. Fabian is bemused by the lack of births on the island, until he discovers there is a roaring trade in under-the-counter condoms. Local tobacconist Petar (Niksa Butijer) admits to Fabian in confession that he is supplying the condoms, and Fabian convinces him that it would be God's will to start puncturing each condom packet. They are joined by local pharmacist Marin (Drazen Kuhn), who secretly replaces birth control pills with vitamins. Before long the birthrate - and marriage rate - on the island start increasing, with foreign TV crews even showing an interest in this island of love.

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken (Ryan Gosling).