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A Simple Favour (2018)A Simple Favor
"A Simple Favor", directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie is joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. - Director:
- Paul Feig
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- Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding
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Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
- Director:
- Ethan Coen
- Cast:
- Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich
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"The Nice Guys" takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. - Director:
- Shane Black
- Cast:
- Russell Crowe, Frank Mottek, Ryan Gosling
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Screen legends Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw team up with Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo to deliver a sure-fire entertainment that's gripping and exciting from beginning to end and is guaranteed to give you the ride of your life. A gang of armed professionals hijack a New York subway train somewhere outside the Pelham station threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met. Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue is made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Matthau) must shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains (Shaw) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or tragically. - Director:
- Joseph Sargent
- Cast:
- Martin Balsam, Dolph Sweet, Hector Elizondo
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Tehran Taboo (2017)Teheran Tabu
Pari is a single mother selling herself for sex in order to care for her young son Elias, who often accompanies her on tricks. By chance she becomes a judge's kept woman and is given an apartment in a middle-class neighbourhood where she befriends Sara, whose perfect family life is a facade hiding secrets of her own. The lives of the two women become intertwined with Babak an aspiring musician frantically trying to raise money for an illegal operation to "restore" the virginity of the youthful Donya after their one night stand in an underground club. As the stories of sex, drugs and corruption unravel, the unlikely allies push against the restrictions of the society they live in, and discover their lives are more alike than they think. Through rotoscoping animation, 'Tehran Taboo' provides an unsparing glimpse into the margins of modern day Iran. - Director:
- Ali Soozandeh
- Cast:
- Farhad Abadinejad, Jasmina Ali, Rozita Assadollahy
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Elizabeth I (2017)Elizabeth and Her Enemies
From her first breath, 'Elizabeth I' had enemies. She fought hard for her crown and even harder to keep it, as Catholics, Protestants, foreign powers and scheming nobles sought to topple her. She spent much of her life looking over her shoulder for the next assault on her throne. Starring Lily Cole (Snow White and the Huntsman /The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) she plays Elizabeth in the key clashes that shaped one our greatest queens. In 'Episode One' we tell the story of Elizabeth from her turbulent childhood to the beginning of her dramatic reign. Princess Elizabeth's life was a brutal struggle, starting at the age of just three when her mother - Anne Boleyn - was beheaded by her father Henry VIII. In 'Episode Two' we see Elizabeth I crowned and battling to keep her crown and country together through 25 turbulent years. Although Elizabeth I would become one of Britain's most remarkable monarchs, her reign was never secure. From the moment she was anointed queen her enemies at home and abroad began to move against her. The final episode of Elizabeth I begins with the greatest threat to national security of Elizabeth's reign. A year after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth faced a Spanish invasion fleet far better equipped and larger than the puny English navy. Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones lead us through this heady tale of jealousy, treachery, ambition and tragedy. - Director:
- Chris Holt
- Cast:
- Lily Cole, Vincent Kerschbaum, Suzannah Lipscomb
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Nathalie (Karin Viard), a middle-aged divorced university professor, changes from an affectionate woman to being irrepressibly jealous of everyone close to her. Her best friend, her new colleague, her ex-husband…everyone finds themselves at the mercy of her eccentric behaviour, even her beautiful 18-year old daughter Mathilde (Dara Tombroff)! Entangled by her sarcastic nature and conflicted emotions, Nathalie navigates through this unexpected mid-life crisis in a funny, touching...and politically incorrect way. - Director:
- David Foenkinos
- Cast:
- Karin Viard, Anne Dorval, Dara Tombroff
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Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) is an eminent judge in the Family Division of the High Court, making daily decisions about complex family issues. But her workload is heavy, and her marriage to American professor Jack (Stanley Tucci) is at breaking point. In this moment of personal crisis, Fiona is asked to rule on the case of Adam (Fionn Whitehead), a brilliant and beautiful teenager who is refusing on religious grounds the blood transfusion which will save his life. Wanting to hear from Adam before making her decision, Fiona goes to his hospital bedside. Their extraordinary meeting releases strong emotions, with momentous consequences for both of them as Fiona decides whether Adam should live or die. - Director:
- Richard Eyre
- Cast:
- Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead
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Under the Tree (2017)Undir trénu
This dark suburban satire tells the story of a man who is accused of adultery by his ex-fiancée and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a bitter dispute between his parents and their neighbours regarding an old and beautiful tree that casts a shadow on the neighbours deck. As the dispute intensifies property is damaged, pets mysteriously go missing, security cameras are being installed and there is a rumour that the neighbour was seen with a chainsaw. - Director:
- Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Cast:
- Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
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Based on Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel, "Crazy Rich Asians" follows New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore and meets Nick's family for the first time. It soon becomes clear that the only thing crazier than love is family. - Director:
- Jon M. Chu
- Cast:
- Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
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After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year in evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate (Ryan Guzman) and a ward doctor to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. MacDonald must now elude a local detective (Sylvester Stallone), a toughened FBI agent (Christopher McDonald) and the drug s dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money all while confronting his past. - Director:
- Brian A. Miller
- Cast:
- Ryan Guzman, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine
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During the long hot summer of 1947 Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. Hundreds Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, but it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own. - Director:
- Lenny Abrahamson
- Cast:
- Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Ruth Wilson
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It's Die Hard in a football stadium when an ex-soldier (Dave Bautista) has to use all his lethal fighting skills to save 35,000 fans and prevent mass destruction when deadly Russian terrorists take Upton Park under siege. Believing his traitorous brother Dimitri (Pierce Brosnan) is somewhere in the stadium, Arkady (Ray Stevenson), the former leader of a revolution in the Russian state of Sukovia, locks down the Boleyn Ground during the European semi-final between West Ham United and Dynamo FCC. In the crowd with his niece, Danni (Lara Peake), is US- veteran Mike Knox (Dave Bautista), who stumbles upon the plot and goes about taking out Arkady s heavily armed team. Can he get to Arkady before Arkady gets to Dimitri? The fate of 35,000 people inside the stadium and many more in Russia - depends on it. - Director:
- Scott Mann
- Cast:
- Pierce Brosnan, Ray Stevenson, Dave Bautista
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This Irish prison drama tells the story of Michael McCrea (Dafhyd Flynn), who while living with his grandfather (Lalor Roddy) in a Dublin housing estate, is caught holding a bag of drugs for his friend's older brother. Sentenced to three months in prison, Michael is taken under the wing of an unhinged older inmate (Moe Dunford). Researched with former prisoners, 'Michael Inside' takes a realistic look at the circumstances that lead to Michael's conviction, his time inside and how prison affects his thinking and behaviour. - Director:
- Frank Berry
- Cast:
- Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, Moe Dunford
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D (Aml Ameen), is growing up in 70's Kingston when his older brother, Jerry Dread, is murdered before his eyes. Distraught, D is taken under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer: King Fox. When Fox dispatches him to Hackney, D finds himself in direct conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham, This Is England) and is forced to choose between "the righteous path" and retribution for his brother's death. - Director:
- Idris Elba
- Cast:
- Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen
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