Thriller starring Antonio Banderas as a Los Angeles private detective handed an unusual assignment. As a private eye, Ned Cruz (Banderas) is used to locating people who don't want to be found. However, when he is approached by a Russian boxer (Robert Maillet) to find his missing girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) and the $30 million worth of diamonds in her possession, it is clear that this will not be an everyday job. Nonetheless, as Ned's search takes him into the eccentric company of Adam Nova (James Van der Beek), a Hollywood star with a secret, Fay Neman (Autumn Reeser), a waitress with a passion for physics, and Simon Kestral (Sam Elliott), a billionaire who is determined to replicate the Big Bang, even his private expectations of the strangeness of the case are surpassed. Can Cruz make sense of the bizarre occurrences and track down the missing girl?

Triple bill of police thrillers. 'Big Bang' (2011) stars Antonio Banderas as a Los Angeles private detective handed an unusual assignment. When Ned Cruz (Banderas) is approached by a Russian boxer (Robert Maillet) to find his missing girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) and the $30 million worth of diamonds in her possession, it is clear that this will not be an everyday job. Can Cruz make sense of the bizarre circumstances and track down the missing girl? 'Bad Cop' (2010) is an action thriller set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Johnny Strong stars as Sean Riley, a beleaguered police detective struggling to cope with the recent death of his young son and the subsequent breakdown of his marriage. After a call goes horribly wrong, Riley looks set to lose his job - unless he can solve a series of brutal murders that have sent the city spiralling into gang warfare. In 'Operation Endgame' (2010) a top-secret facility underneath Washington D.C. finds two competing teams of assassins - code-named according to a deck of Tarot cards - at work. When a new employee known only as The Fool (Joe Anderson) arrives for his first day of work, he is alarmed to find his new boss murdered and the entire building rigged with explosives. The Fool must race against the clock to identify the killer and make his escape. Zach Galifianakis, Brandon T. Jackson and Maggie Q co-star.

Jessica Alba stars in this fourth film in the children's action adventure series. Teenage twins Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) have never got along with their stepmother Marissa (Alba) since she married their father, spy-hunting reporter Wilbur (Joel McHale). Unbeknown to the twins, however, Marissa is in fact a retired super-spy. When Earth comes under threat from the villainous Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven), Marissa is called back into action, and Rebecca and Cecil must put their resentments aside and assist her in protecting the future of the human race.

Jessica Alba stars in this fourth film in the children's action adventure series. Teenage twins Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) have never got along with their stepmother Marissa (Alba) since she married their father, spy-hunting reporter Wilbur (Joel McHale). Unbeknown to the twins, however, Marissa is in fact a retired super-spy. When Earth comes under threat from the villainous Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven), Marissa is called back into action, and Rebecca and Cecil must put their resentments aside and assist her in protecting the future of the human race.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context, CTIC 2019, held in Malaga, Spain, in January 2019. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. Papers deal with theoretical issues but most of them put the attention on the applicability of concepts and algorithms. These were designed to deal with objects and images, but also with the speech signal. The final application must be for instance in the medical domain or in the robotics one.

Collection of six films written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. 'Dark Habits' (1983) stars Cristina S. Pascual as Yolanda, a nightclub singer who witnesses her boyfriend die from an overdose. With the police out to question her, she decides to take refuge with a strange band of nuns in a convent in Madrid. In 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' (1984), embattled housewife Gloria (Carmen Maura) struggles to cope with her dysfunctional family and indifferent husband. 'Law of Desire' (1987) stars Antonio Banderas as Antonio Benítez, the obsessive fan of gay director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) who accidently kills the director's new love interest in a jealous rage. In 'Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' (1988), distraught Pepa (Maura) considers suicide after her long-time lover leaves her without warning. 'Kika' (1993) follows a young make-up artist from Madrid as she starts a relationship with a philandering American writer. Finally, in 'The Flower of My Secret' (1995), a woman who lives a double life finds that being a successful romantic novelist does not necessarily bring happiness. Frustrated with her professional life and her disintegrating relationship with her husband, she is forced to re-evaluate her future after surviving an overdose.