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Classic comedy from director Howard Hawks. Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is devastated when his star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) reveals she is leaving journalism behind to marry her new beau Bruce (Ralph Bellamy). As Hildy, who also happens to be Walter's ex-wife, prepares herself for her new life as a kept woman, Walter does everything he can to get her to change her mind, including offering her the chance to write the story of a lifetime. The cast also includes Gene Lockhart, Ernest Truex and Clarence Kolb.
Abel Gance writes, directs and stars in this epic silent French drama about Napoleon Bonaparte's early career. The film follows the young Napoleon (Albert Dieudonné/Vladimir Roudenko) as he attends the elite military school Brienne College, joins the French Army, witnesses the French Revolution in 1792 and takes part in the First Italian Campaign, during which time he becomes increasingly influential in French politics and meets his future wife Joséphine (Gina Manès).
Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned "partner" (Reggie Nalder). The solid supporting cast of vampire victims and fighters includes Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Elisha Cook, Ed Flanders, George Dzundza, Lance Kerwin, Geoffrey Lewis and Marie Windsor. It's hard to keep the undead down. And so easy to be scared in Salem's Lot.
Tim Burton directs this biographical drama starring Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams. The film follows the story of American artist Margaret Keane (Adams), who, in the 1960s, allowed her husband Walter (Waltz) to claim credit for her artwork, believing that a female artist could not find success through painting. The Keanes acquired huge amounts of wealth through Margaret's work and the paintings were in high demand throughout their time living together as husband and wife. However, when they later became separated, Margaret announced to the world that she was in fact the true author of the paintings, sparking a long-drawn-out legal battle between her and her estranged husband... Adams won a Golden Globe Award for her performance.
After a rough break-up, Elizabeth sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and a soulful new friend a cafe owner, all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop and his estranged wife and a down-on-her luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.
Drama based on the teenage years of writer and director Lori Petty. Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence) is the oldest of three daughters who finds herself caring for her younger siblings when her single mother (Selma Blair) turns to prostitution, drugs and alcohol after meeting a pimp named Duval (Bokeem Woodbine), who seems to have a fondness for Agnes. With their house overrun by gamblers, criminals and other seedy characters the girls struggle to lead a normal life. Cammie (Chloë Grace Moretz) escapes the chaos of the house only to sit in bars and Bee (Sophi Bairley) wants nothing more than to run away and be adopted, while Agnes tries to earn enough money to support her family and manage the expectations of being a star basketball player.
Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel direct this family adventure based on the Super Mario Bros. characters. When Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo), plumbers from New York, are called in to help out with a flood at a dinosaur excavation site by the beautiful Daisy (Samantha Mathis), they become embroiled in a struggle with a parallel reptilian universe, ruled by Koopa (Dennis Hopper), a leader who wants to merge it with Earth.
Rock Hudson stars in this suspenseful drama directed by John Frankenheimer. Having lost his purpose in life, middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton (Hudson) is given the opportunity to take on a completely new life after receiving a phone call from his friend Charlie (Murray Hamilton), who he believed to be dead. After being approached by an organisation known only as 'The Company', Arthur is afforded the chance to fake his own death, change his appearance and create a new life. Grasping the opportunity, he adopts the identity of an artist named Tony Wilson, who owns a home in Malibu and has his own servant. But he comes to realise that his new transformation comes with unforeseen costs...
Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler star in this comedy drama written, directed and co-produced by Matthew Weiner, creator of 'Mad Men'. Immature Ben Baker (Galifianakis) has no purpose in life. When his father dies he and his best friend, weatherman Steve Dallas (Wilson), journey to his family home. At the will reading Ben discovers he has been left his father's entire estate, much to his successful sister Terry (Poehler)'s chagrin. This newfound wealth and sense of responsibility give meaning to Ben's existence. Meanwhile, those around him search for purpose in their own lives.
Fantasy thriller starring Tobias Jelinek as Atum Vine, a demon living secretly amongst humans. Having lived anonymously with mortals for many years, Vine's loyalty comes into question when he has to make the choice between his brethren and a human girl with whom he has falling in love. The cast also includes Danielle Chuchran, Keely Alone and Eric Edwards.
Camille Delamarre directs this reboot of the action franchise starring Ed Skrein as ex-special forces mercenary Frank Martin. Now gainfully employed to transport classified packages for private clients, Frank believes he's landed on his feet and can stay comfortably out of harm's way. However, when he is blackmailed by a group of would-be thieves into helping them bring down a Russian human trafficking operation, it seems Frank has his work cut out for him... The supporting cast includes Loan Chabanol and Ray Stevenson.
Real-estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is given the task of shifting Gracey Manor, a delapidated old house in New Orleans, and decides to visit it with his family. When they arrive, however, they come face-to-face with 999 grim, grinning ghosts who are not too keen on sharing their space with mortals. With the help of supernatural psychic Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly), the family must battle to break the mansion's curse before the clock strikes 13.
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-nominated black comedy starring Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden. When lunatic General Jack D. Ripper (Hayden) launches a nuclear attack on Russia, President Merkin Muffley of the United States (Sellers) consults his advisors, among them the wheelchair-bound, ex-Nazi scientist Dr Strangelove (also Sellers). Meanwhile, British officer Captain Mandrake (Sellers again) attempts to cancel the unplanned attack. George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones and Slim Pickens all co-star.
War drama set during the final stages of the Second World War in Germany where a group of American troops must try to overcome racial barriers in order to defeat the Nazi's. Despite their reluctance, the predominantly white American crew are forced to turn to the expericenced African American SGT Jesse Owens (K. Danor Gerald). However, their faith is put to the test when war escalates and tension rises, with hundreds of lives at stake.
Mike Brett and Steve Jamison direct this feature documentary following the fortunes of the American Samoa soccer team, officially the worst international football side in the world. The nadir of American Samoa's soccer career arrived when they lost 31-0 to Australia in 2001, the heaviest loss ever recorded in a FIFA match. The result was in line with Samoa's status as the lowest ranked team in the FIFA listings, but the islanders were determined to improve their fortunes. They duly employed hardened Dutch coach Thomas Rongen to whip them into shape. How would a man who played alongside George Best and Johann Cruyff deal with footballers of a very different level as the qualifying campaign for the 2014 World Cup approached?
Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning, epic, World War 2 drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have all been killed in action. As the soldiers forge deeper into enemy territory, they begin to question the sense of risking life and limb for the sake of one man.
An American re-make of the 1978 film French film 'La Cage aux Folles'. Armand (Robin Williams) runs the Birdcage nightclub in Miami South Beach where his partner Albert (Nathan Lane) is the star drag act. When Armand's son announces his intention to marry the daughter of a right wing senator (Gene Hackman), and the in-laws arrive expecting to meet Armand and his wife, a grand farce ensues.
Flamboyant rock musical marking the film debut for maverick pop singer Prince. Prince stars as The Kid, an ambitious and talented young musician from a harsh, poverty-stricken background struggling to win love and musical recognition in Minneapolis. When he meets fellow aspiring singer Appollonia (Appollonia Kitero), he is completely smitten - but when he replicates the abusive behaviour of his father (Clarence Williams III), he looks set to lose her forever. Can he win her back from his arch enemy, lead singer of rival group 'The Time' Morris Day? Essentially a vehicle for the tracks from his album of the same name, the film is loosely based on events in Prince's early career.
Documentary profiling the award-winning comic '2000AD'. In 1977, the first edition of '2000AD' was published and changed the world of science-fiction forever. With boundary-pushing stories and extreme violent imagery, the comic went on to inspire countless films and television shows including 'RoboCop' and 'Alien', yet few people today have ever heard of it. This documentary features interviews with the comic's creator Pat Mills and writers Neil Gaiman and Dave Gibbons as they explain how and why '2000AD' changed the world for the better.
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star in this action comedy inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairytale. The film is set 15 years after the young Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest and taken prisoner in a gingerbread house by a child-eating witch. The siblings managed to escape, and in the intervening years have taken advantage of their subsequent immunity to bad spells and curses to set themselves up as expert bounty hunters, becoming world-famous for their skill in tracking down and killing evil-doers around the globe. The film follows the brother and sister on their latest assignment - a campaign against evil sorceress Muriel (Famke Janssen) - which they begin to realise may be their golden opportunity for revenge of a more personal nature.
Third instalment in the Chronicles of Riddick film series directed by David Twohy and starring Vin Diesel as the titular anti-hero. After being betrayed and left for dead by those he once led, Riddick must fight for his life against alien predators on a barren and dangerous planet. In order to continue his quest of returning to his home planet of Furya and saving his people from destruction he activates an emergency beacon which alerts two ships to his presence, but when the ship's crews appear they soon realise they have become pawns in Riddick's plot for revenge...
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron star in this fourth instalment of the post-apocalyptic action series from film-maker George Miller. Set in a desolate desert wasteland, the story follows Max (Hardy), who, following the murder of his wife and child, has been captured by a gang, led by the tyrannical Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). In order to escape Max teams up with Imperator Furiosa (Theron), a woman who wants to travel across the desert and find her way back home. But, after liberating five female captives from Joe's clutches, she too must escape from the crazy gang leader and his henchmen. Can they make it across the desert in one piece? The film also stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Steven Soderbergh directs an all-star cast in this psychological thriller following the effects of one woman's mental breakdown on those closest to her. In the hopes of treating the depression she is suffering in anticipation of her husband Martin (Channing Tatum) returning home from prison, Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara) is prescribed the new and untested drug Ablixa by her psychiatrist Dr Banks (Jude Law) after seeking the guidance of Dr Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Soon afterwards, things start looking up for the Taylors but it isn't long before Emily begins experiencing some disturbing side effects which appear to blur the line between fantasy and reality.
Vampire comedy written by and starring Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi. As three vampires, Viago (Waititi), Vladislav (Clement) and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), who share a house together, try to get along with everyday tasks like cleaning, paying rent and trying to get into nightclubs, they meet Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer), a modern vampire with a passion for partying. When Nick takes his three new friends to a club to let off some steam, it quickly becomes clear that the others are not used to the modern world and he must train them in the art of social etiquette amongst humans. |
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