strovey's - Rented List

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.

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To (Chapman To), a long-time film producer, has yet to produce anything resembling a hit. Beset by financial troubles, he has become desperate for money - so much so that he is unable to pay the alimony to his ex-wife (Kristal Tin).

Despite his former spouse's bitterness, their daughter still clings onto her faith in him - and wishes to see him on TV once his new movie premieres. To is soon introduced to a potential Mainland Chinese investor, Tyrannosaurus (Ronald Cheng), by his buddy Lui Wing-shing (Simon Loui Yu-yeung), but Tyrannosaurus is not only the head of a Guangxi triad gang, he turns out to have very particular tastes in food and sex. Regardless, To is determined to woo this investor, even if it means giving into his every demands...

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Set in the beautiful Kang Won province, the year is 1963 and an uncomplicated time in post-war Korea. Newly qualified teacher Kang Soo-ha (Lee Byeong-heon) takes his very first class in the small village school and approaches his new job with verve and sincerity.

Yun Hong-yeon (Jeon Do-yeon) is in the 6th grade but at 17, she is much older than her fellow classmates. Kang's effervescent teaching methods soon inspire Hong-yeon to learn however, she also develops a heart wrenching crush on her new teacher. All the while, sophisticated teacher Miss Yang (Lee Mi-yeon) unwittingly steals the heart of Kang who is in turn, oblivious to the attentions of his student. Impressive and award winning performances in this touching tale of innocent love.

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A salaryman wins tickets to the latest stage sensation, the hypnosis show Viva Friends.

In the middle of the act an assassin shows up and kills the hypnotist leaving the salaryman stranded and convinced he is a bird! A gang of burglars roams the suburbs while simultaneously dealing with their budding lust for one another! Meanwhile, a man kills and buries his wife, only to have her claw her way out of her grave and go after him with missile arms and fire breath, over and over again.

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Odd Horten (Baard Owe) has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service.

His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters.

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Collin (Daveed Diggs), a parolee facing his final three days of probation, needs to stay clear of trouble. Miles (Rafael Casal), Collin's hot-tempered best friend, can't stay out of it.

When Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men's friendship is tested, sending Collin and Miles on a collision course with each other in this bold and thought-provoking film that bursts with energy, style and humour.

A hardened bounty hunter, a gang of outlaws in his trust and a preacher are forced to work together and battle their way across the old west of the 1870s when the zombie apocalypse begins.

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An advertising executive dies and goes to hell...except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase.

But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbara...

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When wayward teen, Kylie is sentenced to home detention, she finds herself confronted by a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about her return. Along with the security guard charged with monitoring her ankle bracelet, Kylie begins to unravel the secrets that lie within the walls.

As the mystery unfolds, she is drawn into a tangle of terror that forces her to face her darkest fears.

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When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure.

In the days and years ahead, Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) does all he can to keep his wannabe girlfriend at arm's length - and the smart, independent-minded Juli (Madeline Carroll) continues to give him the benefit of the doubt. This tender coming-of-age romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner takes the pair from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.

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In the past five years, buttons of honeybees have simply, vanished for reasons still unknown. If the bees keep dying, it will have drastic effects for humankind; more than one third of our food production depends on. pollination by honeybees and their life and dead are linked to ours.

Life without the bee is unthinkable. But, between pesticides, antibiotics and mono-culture, the queens and their workers are losing their power.
'More Than Honey', is a new documentary, by the Swiss filmmaker Marcus Imhoof, looking into the fascinating, world of bees, showing, small family beekeepers (including the beekeeper of ERSTE Foundation beehive, Heidrun Singer) and industrialized honey farms. 'More Than Honey' explores the relationship between mankind and honeybees, about nature and about our future. Honeybees show as that stability is just as unhealthy, as unlimited growth, that crises and disasters are triggering evolution and that salvation sometimes comes from a completely unexpected direction.

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A dramatic anti-war romantic comedy set on the northern border between Russia and Finland during World War II a few weeks before the Finnish surrender in 1944, 'The Cuckoo' tells the compelling story of two runaways - a Russian captain (Victor Bychkov) and a Finnish sniper (Ville Haapasalo) - who

find refuge with a young Lapp widower (Anni-Kristiina Juuso). Naturally, there arc cultural and linguistic barriers between them, not to mention war rivalries. Yet they slowly get to know each other and their very separate worlds come together in both comic and tragic ways.

Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school-the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year-before she begins high school.

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"The Brand New Testament" is a magically hilarious comedy in which God is real...and lives in Brussels. On Earth, he is a coward, with dubious morals and an odious antipathy towards his family. His daughter, Ea, decides to revolt against her dad's sadistic ways.

Hacking his computer and leaking to the dates of every person's death to the entire world, she causes a global pandemic of anarchy and debauchery. As God loses control, he can only watch as the chaos unfolds.

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Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind.

Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. 'Mad God' is a labour of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.