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Joel is a high school student of seemingly sober conduct. However, when his parents go away he trashes the house, loses the Porsche in the lake and, through his association with a local prostitute, turns his parents' home into a house of ill repute.
Documentary examining the debilitating addictions of the American working class. Irish film-maker Tony Monaghan, who himself came from a poor family and had little education, examines the addiction issues of American construction workers in St. Louis, Missouri, where he runs his own building business. Through interviews with some of the hard workers of the American Midwest, Tony tries to gain an insight into their lives, why they turned to drink and drugs, and how they manage to remain functional in everyday life.
Dennis Hopper directs and stars in this American cult classic. Bikers Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt (Peter Fonda), having just smuggled a huge amount of cocaine across the border from Mexico to LA, sell their haul to the mysterious Connection (Phil Spector) and take off on their bikes in the hope of reaching New Orleans in time for the Mardi Gras festival. After being arrested in Texas for joining a street parade without having the required permit, they meet civil rights lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) who decides to join them on their journey.
Drama starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Holly Kennedy (Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there; nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. And it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and 'celebrate herself'. In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way: 'P.S. I Love You'. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future.
Michael J. Fox stars in this comedy drama. Brantley Foster (Fox) comes to the big city from Kansas to work in the post room of his uncle's multi-million dollar corporation. He uses his ingenuity to propel himself up the corporate ladder and pick up on a number of corporate secrets. On his dramatic climb through the ranks he falls in love with a fellow executive (Helen Slater) who is having an affair with the boss. Meanwhile, the boss's wife has taken a bit of a shine to young Brantley...
Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz and Jason Petric star in this futuristic sci-fi drama. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where most of Earth's water has disappeared and the planet is ruled by the Eco Protectorate corporation, the story follows a group of teen skateboarders who are held captive in an orphanage on the desert planet. After the group's leader Grock (Jordan) discovers a magical orb, the teenagers rebel against their megalomaniac ruler and, with the help of a group of outlaws known as the Eco Warriors, try to restore water to the Earth.
Jocelyn Moorhouse directs this Australian revenge comedy starring Kate Winslet as Myrtle Dunnage, a woman who returns to her hometown to take care of her ailing mother Molly (Judy Davis). Myrtle's return sparks much debate between the residents of the town as she was accused of murdering someone many years ago. Now an expert dressmaker, Myrtle goes about transforming the local fashion while exacting her revenge upon those who have wronged her in the past... The supporting cast includes Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.
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.
Action adventure from film-maker Anthony Woodley. In England, where an antibiotic-resistant pandemic is devastating the country, the only hope of surviving is to flee the land on a battered airplane. A group of survivors fight it out to stake their claim for a seat, but as tensions rise it becomes obvious that they are in as much danger from each other as the rapidly spreading disease. The cast includes Karen Bryson, Jack Gordon, Edmund Kingsley and Josie Taylor.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an undercover cop in this action feature. Renegade cop Louis Burke (Van Damme) poses as a prison inmate in order to investigate a series of suspicious murders in the maximum-security Harrison Penitentiary in California. Burke must use his full arsenal of martial arts skills when he uncovers the truth about the killings and is forced to attempt a daring escape after his true identity is revealed to his fellow prisoners.
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart star in this American comedy action thriller directed by Nima Nourizadeh. The film follows Mike Howell (Eisenberg), a permanently stoned young man who is content with his small-town life and spending time experimenting with recreational drugs with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart). However, it soon becomes apparent that Mike has been included in a top secret government operation of which he has no memory of and is actually a highly trained lethal assassin. When Mike is deemed a liability and marked for extermination by top government officials, it's time to put his training to good use...
Jerry Rothwell writes and directs this documentary about the history of Greenpeace. The film chronicles the rise and birth of the environmental organisation which began as the Don't Make a Wave Committee in the early 1970s when a group of friends protested against American nuclear testing on the Alaskan island of Amchitka. Featuring archive footage and interviews with the eco-minded group's founding members, the feature documents some of their early endeavours and most notable campaigns including their efforts to end whale poaching and to save the native seals of Newfoundland.
Comedy written and directed by Todd Solondz which follows a loveable Dachshund as it travels around the country, changing the lives of a number of very different owners along the way. After setting off on a road trip with veterinary assistant Dawn Wiener (Greta Gerwig), the dog then encounters young cancer survivor Remi (Keaton Nigel Cooke), failing film professor Dave Schmerz (Danny DeVito) and troubled grandmother Nana (Ellen Burstyn).
For years Lewis and Clark were the funniest comedy team around, despite the fact that their off-stage relationship was less than harmonious. Then Lewis (Woody Allen) had enough, and broke up the act. Now, eight years later, Willy Clark (Peter Falk) is bitter and unemployed; the only paying work his agent niece (Sarah Jessica Parker) can get for him is a cameo in a film... with his old partner, who he has not spoken to since the break-up. A remake of the 1975 film, which starred Walter Matthau and the late George Burns.
Double bill of supernatural horrors. In 'Sinister' (2012) Ellison (Ethan Hawke) is a true crime author, in search of a new story, who moves with his unsuspecting wife, Tracy (Juliet Rylance), and two young children into a house in which a horrifying quadruple murder recently took place. However, when Ellison opens a box of Super-8 film reels he finds in the attic, even the inquisitive author gets more than he had bargained for. In the sequel 'Sinister 2' (2015) Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon) moves with her nine-year-old twin sons (Robert Daniel and Dartanian Sloan) to a remote house full of unknown evils after fleeing from her abusive husband. As the family are terrorised by the soul-seeking Pagan spirit Bughuul, Deputy So and So (James Ransone) continues his investigation into the area's historical killings and tries to warn the family of his findings before it's too late...
Gory horror written and directed by Eli Roth. When a group of American student activists travel deep into the Amazon rainforest, the campaigners discover they are not entirely alone in their new surroundings. With the aim of making a viral campaign against people destroying the unique environment, the students stumble upon a tribe of natives living in the rainforest after their plane crashes in the jungle. But things take a turn for the worse when they are captured by the dwindling native tribe, who later reveal themselves to be cannibals. Captured by the very people they sought to protect, the students find there's a high price to pay for the attention they craved, even if it was in the name of a good cause.
Daniel Craig returns as 007 in the 24th instalment of the James Bond franchise. After the devastating attack on MI6, a cryptic message leads Bond on a rogue mission to Rome where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), the widow of a notorious crimelord. On ilfiltrating a top secret meeting, Bond discovers the existance of the global crime organisation SPECTRE and sets about trying to expose them and ultimately bring them down. The cast also includes Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz and Ben Whishaw.
F.W. Murnau's silent vampire classic. Count Orlok (Max Schreck) decides to move from his ruined castle to the city of Wisborg and hires real estate agent Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to make the arrangements for him. But Orlok is also the vampire Nosferatu and when he takes a shine to Hutter's young wife Ellen (Greta Schröder), it seems that the worst is indeed possible.
Leigh Whannell writes and directs this supernatural suspense horror prequel starring Dermot Mulroney and Stefanie Scott. Prior to the haunting of the Lambert family, 15-year-old Quinn Brenner (Scott) seeks out noted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) to help her connect with the spirit of her dead mother Lillith (Ele Keats), who she believes has been trying to contact her. But with Elise's help, Quinn discovers it wasn't her mother trying to contact her but a malevolent supernatural entity seeking to possess her and in her attempts at contact it may not be the only spirit she has awakened...
Melanie Griffith stars in this cult sci-fi feature. In 2017, in post-apocalyptic America, wealthy businessman Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) hires renegade tracker Edith E. Johnson (Griffith) to help him find an exact duplicate of his short-circuited android wife Cherry 2000. But on their way to the dangerous Zone 7 the pair have to get past its overseer Lester (Tim Thomerson) and his gang of thugs.
Stacy Keach and Faye Dunaway star in this western depicting the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Doc Holliday (Keach) travels with Kate Elder (Dunaway), whose services he won in a poker game, to the town of Tombstone in Cochise County to visit his old friend Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin). Upon arrival, they find the election campaign in full swing with Sheriff Wyatt standing as a candidate. But the powerful gang of cowboys in the Clanton family strongly object to his bid and the two warring factions decide to meet at the O.K. Corral to settle their differences in a shoot-out to the death. |
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