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Eugenio Mira directs this thriller starring Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Kerry Bishé. Tom Selznick (Wood) is the most talented concert pianist of his generation. However, lately Tom's career has stalled due to crippling bouts of stage fright, which interfere with his ability to perform at the highest level. After seeking help for his issues, Tom returns to the stage for a sold out comeback performance, supported by his wife Emma (Bishé). All is going well until Tom turns the page on his sheet music and finds a threatening message scrawled there. Soon, via an earpiece, Tom is put in touch with his tormenter, Clem (Cusack). Clem assures him that he has a high-powered rifle trained on him and will open fire if Tom hits one wrong note. How will the virtuoso cope under a very different kind of performance pressure?
Academy Award-nominated documentary detailing the horrors of the Cambodian genocide which occurred under the Pol Pot dictatorship of the late-1970s. Using clay animation as a way of illustrating the undocumented experience of the common people, film-maker Rithy Panh tells the story of how he and his family were taken from their home in the city and forced to work in rural labour camps as part of the Khmer Rouge's social engineering policies. Not only did Panh witness first-hand a number of atrocities, including routine executions and widespread malnutrition, as a result, his own father starved himself to death as a way of protesting against the regime. The movie received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Drama about the final battle of the Polish-Soviet War. When the Russian forces approached Warsaw in August 1920, the Polish fought back, with Jozef Pilsudski, here played by Daniel Olbrychski, commanding the counterattack. Poland's unexpected victory at the Battle of Warsaw marked the overall outcome of the war. The film follows the battle through the experiences of two individuals, dancer Ola (Natasza Urbanska) and soldier Jan (Borys Szyc).
Ed Quinn and Pascale Hutton star in this sci-fi action drama directed by W.D. Hogan. In the small town of Ascension, construction worker Thomas Walsh (Quinn) is based at the foot of Mount Lincoln. When tremors start to shake the earth around them Walsh decides to investigate the history of the mountain to see if anything similar has been recorded there before. As he crosses paths with geologist Emily Allington (Hutton) who is also researching the mountain, they discover that it is not the mountain that is causing the tremors, but what lives inside it.
Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson star in this romantic comedy drama following a group of friends who reconnect while attending their high school reunion. Jake (Tatum) takes his girlfriend Jess (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) along to the reunion but while there encounters old flame Mary (Dawson). Meanwhile, successful music artist Reeves (Oscar Isaac) becomes reacquainted with former crush Elise (Kate Mara) and reveals a truth about his career. Their other friends include Marty (Justin Long), AJ (Max Minghella), Scott (Scott Porter) and married couple Cully (Chris Pratt) and Sam (Ari Graynor). Over the course of the night, the members of the group try to face up to their high school regrets.
Robert Minkoff directs this animated adventure feature in which an ingenious talking dog and his human sidekick attempt to avert disaster. Mr. Peabody (voice of Ty Burrell) has the achievements to support claims that he is the smartest being on Earth. An influential and highly successful scientist, inventor, businessman and all round polymath, he also happens to be a dog who, in a somewhat unusual turn of events, has adopted a human boy, Sherman (Max Charles), to look after. However, when the curious Sherman creates havoc with Mr. Peabody's latest invention, the WABAC time-travelling machine, the boy and dog team must embark on an adventure through history to try and put things right, meeting figures including Leonardo Da Vinci (Stanley Tucci) and Sigmund Freud (Mel Brooks) along the way. Lake Bell, Leslie Mann and Allison Janney also lend their voices to the film.
Twenty-five years after this merry movie charmed audiences with a colourful mix of song, humour and life lessons, the Candy Man still wields magic, expecially now in a vibrant new print with a soundtrack in true stereo. From the classic Roald Dahl story comes a lip-smacking delight with jolly tunes, among them The Candy Man and Pure Imagination. With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonka (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie, his Grandpa Joe and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession than a sweet tooth. Don't let the tour leave without you!
Malaysian historical action adventure based loosely on real events. Set against the backdrop of ancient Malay, Roman and Chinese civilisations in the 2nd century, the film chronicles the hazardous journey of Merong Mahawangsa (Stephen Rahman Hughes) as he escorts a young Roman prince to his wedding to a beautiful Chinese princess.
John Stockwell directs this tense action drama documenting the covert mission undertaken by a US Navy Seal team to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. After receiving intelligence that their quarry is hiding out in a compound in Pakistan, the CIA mobilise crack US Navy Seal Team 6 to train for a daring night-time raid. After arriving at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, and being put through punishingly intensive training for their mission, the team learn that their target is Osama Bin Laden, codename: Geronimo. As they set out on the deadliest mission of their lives, the unit must come together in one final, all or nothing attempt to take down America's most wanted terrorist.
Expat American comedian Rich Hall performs live at London's Hammersmith Apollo, along with his alter-ego, the much-convicted country music singer, Otis Lee Crenshaw.
British thriller. Would-be writer Zakes (William Ash) is driving home along the rain-drenched M1 motorway with his girlfriend Beth (Christine Bottomley) asleep in the passenger seat beside him. When a near-accident causes him to catch a fleeting glimpse into the back of a white lorry just in front of him, he sees to his horror that it contains a woman tied up and covered in blood. The couple stop at the next service station, where Zakes, tired and shaken, carries out his job of posting flyers in the toilets. When he comes out he is horrified to discover that Beth has gone missing. Could she be the next victim of the owner of the white lorry?
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenage daughter is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian literature in which he's an expert, Lawrence seems to be sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay just as he accidentally encounters a former student, Janet, the circumstances stir him from his deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Feature-length BBC drama depicting the relationships between former British prime minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and American president Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). Set in the pre-9/11 years from 1994 to 2001, the film focuses on the international presence of Blair in relation to his American ally. While Clinton is almost toppled from power by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Blair continues to strengthen his position, moving seamlessly from being Clinton's acolyte to his equal, and eventually his moral superior in the aftermath of Kosovo.
Superhero action film based on the DC comic strip. The Green Lantern Corps is an intergalactic brotherhood of warriors with otherworldly powers whose job it is to uphold peace and justice throughout the universe. With the advent of a deadly and powerful new enemy called Parallax, it is up to Green Lantern's newest recruit Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), an army pilot and the Corps's first ever human recruit, to restore peace and save the universe. Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard co-star.
M. Night Shyamalan directs this sci-fi thriller starring Will Smith and his son Jaden as a father and son who crash land on Earth over 1,000 years after humans abandoned the planet. General Cypher Raige (Smith) is an important figure in the new civilisation humans have built on Nova Prime following the mass departure from Earth centuries before. After a lengthy tour of duty, Cypher is looking forward to spending some time with his 13-year-old son Kitai (Jaden Smith). However, when Cypher and Kitai's spacecraft is damaged in an asteroid storm, forcing them to crash land on the abandoned Earth, the necessity of father-son bonding is accelerated. With Cypher critically injured from the crash, Kitai must find a way to signal for help on a planet reclaimed by nature, ruled by hyper-evolved animals and containing the alien creature who has escaped from the wreckage of their craft.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Temple Of Doom
The Last Crusade
The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Damian Lee directs this Canadian action thriller starring Brendan Fraser, Dominic Purcell and Ethan Suplee. When a pair of crooks, Tommy (Purcell) and Kenny (Suplee), believe that a couple of kids on a camping trip have witnessed them committing murder they waste no time in setting about tracking the youngsters, a brother and sister, with the intention of eliminating them. However, Tommy and Kenny haven't counted on the presence of the kids' father, Jack Damson (Fraser), who orchestrates a prison break in order to protect his offspring. Who will make it out of the resulting game of cat and mouse alive?
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson reunite for this seventh instalment in the 'Fast and Furious' action thriller franchise, directed by James Wan. Having received full pardons for their work in taking down terrorist Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) in the last outing, the group, led by Dominic Torreto (Diesel), are now being targeted by Shaw's ex-special forces brother Deckard (Jason Statham). Left with no choice but to defend themselves, it isn't long before Torreto, Hobbs (Johnson), O'Conner (Walker) and the rest of the gang become embroiled in a feud between international terrorists and the US government. The supporting cast also includes Kurt Russell, Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson with Australian female rapper Iggy Azalea making a cameo appearance.
Sci-fi action adventure sequel. Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as Tony Stark, the billionaire industrialist also known as armoured superhero Iron Man. With the world now aware of his dual identity, Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony fights to protect his suit by forging new alliances - and confronting powerful new enemies. Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke co-star.
Bret Easton Ellis' disturbing novel is brought to the screen by Mary Harron. In 1987, twentysomething Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) seems to have it all: he is handsome, successful and engaged to the beautiful Evelyn (Reese Witherspoon). However, Patrick is also engaged in an affair with Courtney Rawlinson (Samantha Mathis) - his colleague's fiancée - and at night indulges in a confused orgy of drugs, pornography, prostitution and murder fantasies. When Patrick is outshone by a rival at a board meeting, he takes out his frustration by knifing a man sleeping rough in the street. This sparks off a descent into violence and madness, with Patrick embarking on a bloody and random killing spree.
Tomer Sisley stars in this French crime thriller directed by Frédéric Jardin. The film follows Vincent (Sisley), a police detective with ties to the criminal underworld. When Vincent and his partner steal a batch of cocaine from local drug dealer and nightclub owner Jose Marciano (Serge Riaboukine), they set off a series of events which puts themselves and their loved ones in danger. Can Vincent extricate himself from the difficult situation?
Patrick Stewart narrates this semi-dramatised Disney wildlife documentary following the lives of two cat families living on opposite sides of a river in the Kenyan savannah. On one side a mother lioness is protecting her cub from a pride of lions from the north. On the other side, a single mother of five cheetah cubs is teaching her cubs how to survive in the wild, while protecting them from the dangers presented by hyenas and other wild animals. The US version is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
Divergent is set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late. Based on the best-selling book series by Veronica Roth.
Cuba Gooding Jr and Emmanuelle Vaugier star in this action thriller directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. When Rebecca Scott (Vaugier) gets a visit from FBI agent John Nelson (Gooding Jr) informing her that her husband has been murdered, her first reaction is one of shock when she reveals that he died two years ago in a car accident. While John and Rebecca pool resources to find out why and how her husband would have faked his own death two years previously, the pair unintentionally become the target of an angry billionaire and his well-equipped army.
Action adventure sequel which sees Chris Hemsworth reprise his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Thor, based on the mythical Norse God of Thunder. Earth and the Nine Realms come under attack from the powerful Malekith and his age-old army that have existed since even before the creation of the universe. With the enemy proving near impossible to defeat, Thor approaches his adoptive brother Loki for help, despite his villainous past. Meanwhile, the hero becomes reacquainted with the woman he loves, astrophysicist Jane Foster, and takes her to Asgard in an attempt to protect her from harm. |
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