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Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams - literally. But, there's one catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)...he has to meet and defeat her seven evil exes!

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From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making.

Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, 'Apollo 11' takes us straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission - the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future.

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On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble.

Soon his lies, deceits and strange behaviour have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

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When Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), an ordinary teenager, sets about trying to become the no-power vigilante Kick-Ass, he soon discovers he's not alone.

But he's out of his depth - a fearless and highly trained father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz), have declared war on New-York mafioso, Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong). As Kick-Ass and his new found friend, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), get drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets and blood, the stage is set for a final showdown - in which the DIY hero will have to live up to his name...or die trying.

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Visionary director Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots.

With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

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Profound personal tragedy drove English professor Charlie (Brendan Fraser) into seclusion - and binge-eating-to the point where now, as a 600-pound recluse, he maintains career through teleconferencing.

His desire to reach out to the embittered teenage daughter (Sadie Sink) he hasn't seen in years will come with fateful consequences. Darren Aronofsky's stunning effort, driven by Fraser's remarkable central performance, also stars Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton.

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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.

Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).