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Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper reeling from the loss of three young lives she failed to save from a fire. When she comes across a bloodied and traumatized 12-year-old boy, they set out together to cross the miles of thick forest.

Braving deadly lightning storms that threaten even Hannah's well-honed survival skills, they're unaware of the true dangers they face as they're hunted by two killers while a massive fiery blaze heads straight for them.

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A bittersweet modern love story starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as Sam and Tusker, long-term partners who are revisiting their past and coming to terms with Tusker's illness on a road trip across England.

'Supernova' is a deeply moving portrait of a couple navigating difficult circumstances with wry humour and affection.

A search for their missing father turns deadly when sibling adventurers find themselves viciously attacked by jungle animals. But as they fight back against the relentless onslaught they start to realize something much more sinister may be behind the attacks.

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Intelligent machines are winning in a war against mankind. The last survivor of a resistance group, Lilja (Siri Nase), meets wounded deserter Tomasz (Stefan Ebel) in the vast emptiness of northern Scandinavia.

Lilja is determined to defeat the superior machines, a strategy that unavoidably collides with Tomasz's plan to hide and survive. But these enemies are not just shooting on sight; their perfect sensors are programmed to detect human voice patterns. If you speak, even whisper, you die.

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Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence.

Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realise that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

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Ryan Reynolds stars in this action-packed comedy as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and soon decides to become the hero of his own story...one he rewrites himself.

Also starring Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery and Taiki Waititi, and directed by Shawn Lew, 'Free Guy' is ranid-fire fun.

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"Inglourious Basterds" begins in German-occupied France, Shoshanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand the Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).

Shoshanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds", Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shoshanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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In Elia Suleiman's first film for a decade, his alter-ego ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him.

The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. A comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?

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"Rogue Hostage" is a tense thriller in which an unwilling military veteran must face a violent terrorist threat once more. Tyrese Gibson plays Kyle Snowden, a single father and former Marine struggling with PTSD while caring for his daughter.

During the re-opening of a store owned by his stepfather, Sam Nelson (John Malkovich), Kyle and a group of innocent bystanders, including his daughter, are held hostage by Eagan Raize (Christopher Backus), the leader of a deadly gang, Eagan Raize. When Kyle learns of the gang's motivation, he is forced to face his demons and, with the help of Sam's bodyguard, Sparks (Michael Jai White), take the fight to the terrorists.

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As the co-owner of a popular mods nightclub and with a successful scooter shop business on the side, life couldn't be better for young entrepreneur Danny(Sam Gittins).

That is until he's introduced to the club's secret financier, Mad Mike (Scott Peden), an unhinged gangster who coerces Danny into completing an illegal drugs run to The Isle of Wight in return for his shares in the club. Seeing their friend at an all-time low Danny's mates step in with an ingenious plan - they will all go to the island's annual mod festival and use the thousands of scooter enthusiasts as a cover to get out with the illicit stash. A thrilling tale of mods, music and organised crime, featuring a soundtrack by UK indie-rockers The K's and reuniting the original cast of the iconic cult classic Quadrophenia, 'To Be Someone' is a riotous and roaringly funny celebration of British scooter culture!

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A small town find themselves trapped in a snowstorm and under threat as a mysterious beast begins to pick them off one by one. As the bodies begin to pile up, it soon becomes clear that the killer is closer than first thought.

As the blame begins to shift from person to person, tensions rise and this trigger-happy community will do anything to ensure they are the last ones standing. This whodunnit horror with black comedy at heart is based on the UBISOFT video game of the same name.

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After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northener, Janet (Katy Clayton), is ready for a holiday romance.

Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana (Lucy Pinder) - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in order to find love - doesn't quite lead to the happily ever after that Janet was hoping for.

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Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan), a suspended special forces operator, is taking Dr Sophie Hart [Hannah John-Kamen] from London to Paris to propose.

When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, heavily armed mercenaries, led by Grace Lewis (Ruby Rose), seize control of it and hold everyone hostage. Grace threatens to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its fair share of secrets to keep. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Tom is the only k hope that Sophie and the other passengers have to make it out alive. To save them he must embrace the unique psychology that makes Grace such a formidable adversary.

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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis.

The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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Jane (Tori Butler-Hart) wakes up in a strange attic, bound and tied to a chair, she has no idea where she is or who she is. As panic sets in, she sees a violent bright light flash in front of her eyes and once again she wakes up; same situation as before, an exact repeat.

Voices bleed in from another time and place, giving Jane clues to what might be happening to her. She escapes and embarks on a journey through an empty parallel world leading her to a Quantum science research laboratory in the middle of nowhere. There she discovers tapes from Dr. Charles Marland-White (Ian McKellen) and Professor Aaron Ostergaard (Conleth Hill) and their experiment involving human test subjects.