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Robert Zemeckis directs and co-writes this biopic about French high-wire artist Philippe Petit. On the morning of 7th August 1974, Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) began a walk 1,350 feet above the ground between the Twin Towers in New York City. Using just a balancing pole to keep him upright, Petit attempted to make a journey that no man had ever made before, with hundreds of onlookers gazing up from below. The cast also includes Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and James Badge Dale.
Tale of colonial life based on the adventures of Karen Blixen. Karen (Meryl Streep) arrives in Africa in 1914 and marries Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Their marriage soon cools into a 'civilised' separation, but Karen finds herself falling in love with the wild, unfamiliar country and its people. Then she meets handsome, fiercely independent hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford), and a hesitant romance ensues.
Ken Russell directs this biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino. The film begins at the 31-year-old actor's funeral in 1926 in New York and, using flashbacks, backtracks to his glory days when the former ballroom dancer used his good looks and charm to mould a successful silent movie career and become one of the first male screen idols in Hollywood.
A new adaptation of one of Jane Austen's most admired novels - the story of a woman who gets a second chance. Anne (Sally Hawkins) fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones) at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick and when he returns from sea having made his fortune and reputation, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart?
When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.
Academy Award Winner
Kevin Whately stars as Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis, ably assisted by Laurence Fox as his partner D.S. James Hathaway. Together they investigate murder mysteries against the historic and glorious backdrop of Oxford and its University campus. With Clare Holman as Dr Laura Hobson and Rebecca Front as Chief Superintendent Innocent. Episodes:
All seven episodes from the second season of the Danish domestic drama series created by Maya Ilsøe. When Veronika Grønnegaard (Kirsten Olesen) leaves the whole of her estate to Signe (Marie Bach Hansen), the daughter she gave up for adoption, when she dies, her four other children are shocked by the decision. As they then attempt to divide the estate up, a number of home truths come out into the open which threaten to change their understanding of their upbringing and themselves.
The complete seven seasons of the original mystery and suspense series hosted by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30-minute episode includes opening and closing monologues by Hitchcock who explains some aspect of the day's story in his inimitably dry, humorous monotone.
The second season of the action drama spin-off from 'Marvel Avengers Assemble' (2012). Clark Gregg reprises his role from the film as Agent Phil Coulsen, who runs an elite team for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. Together these agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. must investigate and hunt down strange occurences posed by new threats and a rising number of supervillains. The episodes are: 'Shadows', 'Heavy Is the Head', 'Making Friends and Influencing People', 'Face My Enemy', 'A Hen in the Wolf House', 'The Writing On the Wall', 'The Things We Bury', '...Ye Who Enter Here', 'What They Become', 'Aftershocks', 'Who You Really Are', 'One of Us', 'Love in the Time of Hydra', 'One Door Closes', 'Afterlife', 'Melinda', 'The Frenemy of My Enemy', 'The Dirty Half Dozen', 'Scars' and 'S.O.S.'.
Inspiring and eccentric English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams) provokes an outbreak of creativity and idealism amongst the stuffy Welton Academy class of 1959. However, both repressed parents and more conformist staff members protest in favour of educating the pupils in a more traditional manner, with tragic results.
George Harris stars in this British crime drama mini-series as Winston Wolcott, a no-nonsense police detective determined to set an example and clean up the streets. Facing hostility in his job and the wider community due to the colour of his skin, Wolcott turns that ill feeling into a force for good when investigating an ongoing gang war.
All eight episodes of the BBC crime drama following an undercover team of law enforcers. After leading a botched drugs bust, HM Revenue and Customs officer Marcus 'Ash' Ashton (O.T. Fagbenle) is chosen to head the new top-secret law enforcement squad known as the UNIT (Undercover Narcotics Intelligence Team) and is tasked with taking down key members of the criminal underworld. While Ash uses his knowledge of the street to fulfill his long-time goal of capturing high-level crime bosses and drug dealers, the team close in on their top target, notorious crook Roach (Trevor Eve).
All 18 episodes from the seventh season of the Canadian drama set on Heartland, a family-run ranch in the Rocky Mountains dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of ailing horses. In this series, the family struggles to adjust to recent changes at the ranch and Amy (Amber Marshall) and Ty (Graham Wardle) discuss buying their own ranch as they grow closer but must then deal with the aftermath of a devastating accident. The episodes are: 'Picking Up the Pieces', 'Living in the Moment', 'Wrecking Ball', 'The Penny Drops', 'Thread the Needle', 'Now Or Never', 'Best Man', 'Hotshot', 'There But for Fortune', 'Darkness and Light', 'Better Days', 'Walking Tall', 'Lost Highway', 'Things We Lost', 'Smoke and Mirrors', 'The Comeback Kid', 'On the Line' and 'Be Careful What You Wish For'.
Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh star in this British drama written and directed by Carol Morley. Lydia and Abbie (Williams and Pugh) are best friends at their all-girls boarding school but they are very different people; Lydia is quiet and introverted while Abbie is ambitious and popular. After Abbie jeopardises her friendship with Lydia by sleeping with her brother, a fainting epidemic breaks out at the school and people are left wondering whether the mysterious Lydia could be the key...
Reese Witherspoon stars in this Academy Award-nominated drama based on the true story of Cheryl Strayed, the woman who embarked on a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in a journey of self-discovery. After the tragic death of her mother and with an impending divorce on the table, Cheryl (Witherspoon) decides to try to find out who she really is and why she insists on abusing her life with men, drugs and bad decisions. Along the way she discovers more about herself than she ever could have imagined. The cast also includes Gaby Hoffmann, Laura Dern and Kevin Rankin.
Kit Monkman directs this experimental British drama following teenager Paul Varderman (Jack McMullen) as he recounts the events leading up to his death. Paul tells how he got mixed up with the wrong crowd while trying to find a place for himself at his new school and how the local bully, Roth (Jamie Shelton), sparked a feud between two rival school gangs which would result in Paul being killed.
Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse. Set in a city where people come to bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability schoolteachers Madison Clark and Travis Manawa have managed to assemble for their family. The pressure of blending their two families is put aside as their necessary survival takes hold, and they must either reinvent themselves or embrace their darker histories.
All 13 episodes from the medical drama series set in a state-of-the-art major trauma unit. Lennie James stars as locum trauma consultant Greg Boyle who races to save the lives of critically ill patients in the most life-threatening hour after they are admitted into his care, with each episode following one such case in real time. With every second counting Greg and his team, which includes his ex Fiona Lomas (Catherine Walker), make life-altering decisions to try and preserve every life they can. Among their critical patients is a cyclist involved in a serious collision, a severley beaten man, a woman with a gunshot wound and a patient who jumped from the hospital building.
David Oyelowo stars in this American drama directed by Ava DuVernay. Based on the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act, the film follows the story of James Bevel (Common), Hosea Williams (Wendell Pierce) and Martin Luther King Jr (Oyelowo) as they campaigned for their right to vote. As Luther King Jr led hundreds of like-minded people along the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery, they were met with violent conflict and brutal opposition and had to fight their way through to simply claim what was rightfully theirs. The cast also includes Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom Wilkinson and Oprah Winfrey. The film won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. |
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