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Taylor Lautner stars as a daring New York City bike messenger in this action-packed crime drama. In desperate need of cash to clear his mounting debts to the Chinese mafia, Cam (Lautner) has a fateful encounter when he crashes his bike into parkour enthusiast Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos). After teaching himself the art of the sport, Nikki invites the athletic Cam to join her crew that uses their free running skills to pull off heists set up by their boss Miller (Adam Rayner). In search of bigger pay-offs, the team continues to raise the stakes and take on increasingly risky ventures that attract the unwanted attention of violent criminal gangs and their dangerous enforcers.
Documentary focusing on the creation of the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine, which weighed a mighty five pounds and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. The film looks at the life of celebrated Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and follows her team of fashion-obsessed editors as they get to grips with the mammoth task ahead of them.
A collection of six award-winning British short films.
Double bill of sci-fi action films based on the first two novels of Suzanne Collins' trilogy. In 'The Hunger Games' (2012) Jennifer Lawrence stars as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the totalitarian post-apocalyptic country of Panem, formerly the United States. Every year, the all-powerful ruling agency known as the Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each of Panem's 12 impoverished rival districts to fight to the death on live national television in a contest known as 'The Hunger Games', in which the winner is given food to feed their entire district for a year. When her younger sister Primrose (Willow Shields) is selected as a contestant, Katniss steps up to take her place. Under the tutelage of inebriated former champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Katniss goes into training for the fight of her life. In 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' (2013), fresh from her triumph in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss, along with fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), returns home to District 12 for some much-needed rest. But soon after, while on a 'Victory Tour' of the other districts, she becomes aware of growing dissent to the Capitol's rule, and realises that rebellion is in the air. As Panem prepares itself for the third 'Quarter Quell' (75th Hunger Games), autocratic ruler President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), still smarting from the Capitol's humiliation in the last games, stacks the deck to ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe out any resistance from the districts once and for all.
Barry Levinson directs this satirical portrayal of two weeks in the life of middle-aged Hollywood producer, Ben (Robert De Niro), who must juggle the demands of his personal life with a series of ever more ridiculous setbacks as he struggles to get his new film completed. Industry insider Art Linson wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from his memoirs 'What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line'.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum reprise their roles as an unlikely pairing of undercover cops in this action comedy sequel based on the 1980s TV series. Following their success infiltrating a local high school, fresh-faced police officers Morton Schmidt (Hill) and Greg Jenko (Tatum) are despatched to college to try and crack a crime ring. However, the different lifestyles available in college threaten to reawaken old divisions, as Schmidt is drawn into a liberal artistic circle and Jenko finds a home in the testosterone-fuelled domain of the football team. Will the pair be able to put aside their differences and remain focussed on their objective amidst the many opportunities and excesses offered by college life?
Children's adventure drama following the unusual relationship between a military search and rescue robot and an unpopular schoolkid. When Henry (Bobby Coleman) finds an abandoned robot called Cody (voice of Jae Head) in a dumpster, he decides to take it home and fix it. As Cody then becomes conscious, Henry soon realises that he is much more than a toy when it becomes apparent that the military lab that created Cody would very much like to get him back.
Mark L. Lester directs and produces this action sci-fi starring Sandra Darnell and James Nitti. After the brutal death of King Arthur of Camelot (William Huw), the King's sorceress sister Morgan (Darnell) assumes the throne. With the use of three fierce dragons Morgan sets off in search of the surviving Knights of the Round Table. As the Knights get word of Morgan's impending arrival, they vow to stick together and fight her off in honour of their noble King.
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful Twilight series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of - only to find herself in greater peril than ever before.
Sci-fi thriller from director Richard Clabaugh, set in a future-world where mobile security cameras, commissioned to protect citizens, become a grave threat. New legislation has been passed in the USA called the 'Freedom of Observation Act', allowing government surveillance cameras to film people's every move. The cameras, or eyeborgs, seem to be doing their jobs, until police agent, R.J. 'Gunner' Reynolds (Adrian Paul) and punk-rock rebel Jarett start to notice people are disappearing and the robots are involved. The pair must find a way to go to Jarett's uncle, the President, and put an end to the silent tyranny of the robots.
Australian Western-style thriller. Ryan Kwanten stars as Shane Cooper, a young city cop who has moved with his pregnant wife to the small outback town of Red Hill in search of a quiet country life. But on his first day in the job, an escaped murderer (Tommy Lewis) breaks out of prison and goes on the rampage in the town, tearing open old wounds and intent on bloody revenge.
Action thriller sequel to 'Taken' (2008) and 'Taken 2' (2012) starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen. When former CIA agent Brian Mills (Neeson) discovers his wife Lenny (Janssen)'s dead body in their bedroom, he quickly realises that he is being framed for her murder and goes on the run. As he works to clear his name and battles against relentless police inspector Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) he must fight to protect the one last thing he has left in the world: his daughter. The cast also includes Dougray Scott, Maggie Grace and Jon Gries.
Horror film based on the 1978 'video nasty' shocker of the same name. Sarah Butler stars as Jennifer, a writer who retreats to a cabin in the woods to begin work on her new book. While there, she is brutally raped by a group of local men whom she encountered en route to the cabin. The attack escalates and Jennifer only narrowly escapes with her life - but survive she does, and returns to the locale to carry out the most gruesome revenge on her attackers that she can possibly devise.
After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren’t. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can’t do on their own—take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?
Vincent Cassel stars in this Australian thriller directed and co-written by Ariel Kleiman. Told from the perspective of 11-year-old Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel), the story follows the lives of a group of young children who have been raised in a closed community led by self-elected patriarch Gregori (Cassel). As he trains the children to become assassins, Gregori finds himself increasingly power-hungry sending the children out to kill people on his list. As Alexander's training progresses, he begins to doubt Gregori's rule and decides to challenge his authority the only way he knows how...
Joseph J. Lawson directs this action movie in which a technology firm brings dinosaurs back to life only for them to run riot in Los Angeles. Paraplegic Justin (Ronny Cox) is the CEO of the company responsible for the outbreak. Having developed technology that can regenerate flesh, thereby allowing Justin to walk again, the firm utilise the same breakthrough to reanimate dinosaurs - only for the prehistoric creatures to break free from captivity. As fireman Gabe Jacobs (Treat Williams) endeavours to rescue his daughter Jade (Jillian Rose Reed) from the ensuing carnage, he becomes caught up in the struggle to contain the outbreak before it reaches disastrous proportions.
Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this fast-paced, low-budget car chase action comedy. After testifying against some bad people he was associated with in Los Angeles, former getaway driver Charlie Bronson (Shepard) is placed under the Witness Protection Plan to keep him safe. However, when his girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell) - who is unaware of his troubled past - is offered an interview for her dream job in LA, Charlie manfully puts his safety to one side and agrees to drive her there. Unfortunately, he hasn't allowed for the jealously of Annie's ex, Gil (Michael Rosenbaum), who discovers Charlie's former identity and passes the details to the relevant people. Soon Charlie and Annie find themselves involved in a high speed pursuit, with vengeful gangsters, federal agents and their loyal Witness Protection Agent, Randy (Tom Arnold), on their tail...
Youth in Revolt is the story of Nick Twisp – a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini – who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, free-spirited Sheeni Saunders while on a family vacation. But family, geography and jealous ex-lovers conspire to keep these two apart. With Sheeni’s encouragement, Nick abandons his dull, predictable life and develops a rebellious alter ego: Francois. With his ascot, his moustache and his cigarette, Francois will stop at nothing to be with Sheeni, and leads Nick Twisp on a path of destruction with unpredictable and uproarious consequences.
Irish drama following two children, Kylie (Kelly O'Neill) and Dylan (Shane Curry), who run away from their troubled family homes on the outskirts of Dublin at Christmas time. The pair head for the centre of the city, where they glimpse human life in all its colourful diversity - but as darkness falls and the night wears on, an uglier side of the city emerges and the two must rely on their wits and their friendship to survive.
Low-budget US prison drama. Andrew Perryman (Garette Ratliff Henson) is a young man who has been sent to Mannsfield State Penitentiary on an eighteen month sentence. His high-powered father secretly pays the prison warden to put young Perryman in East Wing, the most high-security unit in the prison, to teach his son a lesson. Events soon spiral out of control for both the warden and his inmates.
1980s US comedy about the unlikely friendship between a man and his computer. When architect Miles (Lenny von Dohlen) spills wine all over his brand new state-of-the-art computer, the last thing he expects is for the computer to start expressing thoughts and feelings. But Edgar (voice of Bud Cort), as the computer now calls itself, is eager to learn all about real life. However, the friendship between man and machine is soon challenged when a pretty cello player (Virginia Madsen) moves in next door and Miles and Edgar find themselves competing for her affections. The film's title song 'Together in Electric Dreams' became a massive hit for composer Giorgio Moroder and singer Phil Oakey.
Live action adaptation of the story by Rudyard Kipling. Mowgli (Jamie Williams), a young boy living in the jungles of India, is having fun playing chase with a group of monkeys when he is spotted by Harrison (Bill Campbell), a talent scout for a circus who sees potential in the young boy and his vine-swinging skills. As Harrison closes in on his potential new client, Mowgli's jungle pals team up to save their human friend. |
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