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"Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how a young dreamer named Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) becomes the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate maker.

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Bing Crosby plays Jim Hardy, a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Fred Astaire plays Ted Hanover, Hardy's former partner and rival in love.

And, of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale), an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers.

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Four old school villains, Waldorf (Terry Stone), Prozac (Sam Gittins), Fisherman (Ricky London), and Slips (Michael Head) plan one 'Last Heist' to liberate the key to the stashed fortune of the (recently passed away) head of South London crime family, Mick (Perry Benson).

Unfortunately, in carrying out the heist, the gang encounters significant obstacles, and violence is the inevitable outcome. Is there really honour amongst thieves, and how far will they go to protect each other, especially as the main threat seems to come from within the gang.

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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).

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For high school senior Jake (Cardi Wong), life is already complicated when the hot and openly gay Aleks (Chris Carson) moves in across the street.

Struggling with the pressures of his father's demand that he makes the school basketball team, and his girlfriend's desire to take their relationship to the next level, Jake's confusion deepens with the arrival of his handsome new neighbour, and he is forced to think about what - and who - he really wants. Jason Karman's accomplished, sweet and sexy rites-of-passage drama deftly explores the challenges of juggling familial expectations with the search for identity in the social media age.

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In 2032 arch-criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Unable to deal with Phoenix's brutal 1990s style, officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashion crime. They revive Sgt.

John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix.

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Recently retired, Harold Fry is well into his 60s and content to fade quietly into the background of life.

Harold's life with his wife Maureen is uneventful and their marriage frozen, due to an unspeakable conflict relating to the absence of their son, until one day, Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. He sets off to the post office to send her a letter and decides to keep walking: all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.

The year is 1462. Transylvania enjoys peace under the rule of Vlad III (Luke Evans) and his beloved wife, Mirena (Sarah Gadon). But, a war with the Turks and a pact with a demon are about to change Vlad's life forever.

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Claude Rains delivers a remarkable performance in his screen debut as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, Rains arrives at a small English village and attempts to hide his amazing discovery.

But the same drug which renders him invisible slowly drives him to commit acts of unspeakable terror.

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A dive at one of the world's most remote spots becomes a fight to the death for sisters Drew (Sophie Lowe) and May (Louisa Krause), when a landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea, trapping May in the depths.

As their oxygen runs low, Drew must make life-and-death decisions with no outside help in sight.

Amidst a future war between humans and AI, an ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) grieving the disappearance of his wife Maya (Gemma Chan) is recruited to kill an Al architect who has developed a mysterious weapon that could end humankind...

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Walt Disney Pictures presents an all-new comedy adventure brimming with holiday cheer, chuckles and all the other Christmas stuff - Santa, the North Pole, elves, reindeer, toys and presents. Tim Allen returns as everybody's favourite modern day Santa in 'The Santa Clause 2'.

Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has been Santa Clause for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best one ever. But Santa's world is turned upside down when his son Charlie lands on this year's "naughty" list, and Scott discovers that if he doesn't marry by Christmas Eve - just a month away - he'll stop being Santa forever. Embracing Christmas with all its heart, warmth, fun and adventure, 'The Santa Clause 2' is the perfect holiday classic for the entire family.

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Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After Angela and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior.

Victor's best hope is to find the only person who has seen anything like this before: Chris MacNeil, whose haunting experience with her daughter Regan may be the key to combating ultimate evil.

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After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent (Jim Caviezel) learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her.

With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death. 'Sound of Freedom' is gripping and suspenseful call to action shines a light on even the darkest of places.

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In this prequel to 'The Hunger Games', a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12.

But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favour. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time to survive and reveals if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.