martin-shepherd's - Rented List
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I Got Life! (2017)Aurore
Cesar award-winner Agnes Jaoui gives an intelligent and affecting performance as Aurore; fifty, flirty and not-so-thriving, her world is turned upside down when a past flame returns, reigniting her lust for life and love. A witty and wonderful ode to embracing age whilst staying young, 'I Got Life!' is a timely and uplifting film celebrating womanhood. - Director:
- Blandine Lenoir
- Cast:
- Agnès Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot
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Survive the Night (2020)The Long Night
Screen legend Bruce Willis (Die Hard franchise) drives the action in this gripping home-invasion thriller. After his brothers Mathias (Tyler Jon Olson) is mortally wounded in a robbery gone bad, Jamie (Shea Buckner) stalks trauma doctor Rich (Chad Michael Murray) from the hospital to his home. While holding Rich's wife and daughter hostage, the unhinged murderer forces Rich to operate on Mathias. But in order for him and his family to survive the night, Rich must team up with his estranged tough-as-nails father, retired sherriff Frank (Willis), in order to gain the upper hand and turn the tables on the criminals. - Director:
- Matt Eskandari
- Cast:
- Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray, Lydia Hull
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Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)Tremors 6
Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) find themselves up to their ears in Graboids and Ass-Blasters when they head to Canada to investigate a series of deadly giant worm attacks. Arriving at a remote research facility in the Arctic tundra, Burt begins to suspect that Graboids are secretly being weaponised, but before he can prove his theory, he is sidelined by Graboid venom. With just 48 hours to live, the only hope is to create an antidote from fresh venom - but to do that, someone will have to figure out how to milk a Graboid! - Director:
- Don Michael Paul
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- Jamie Kennedy, Tanya van Graan, Jamie-Lee Money
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Martin Baxter (Scott Adkins) a disgraced MI6 agent is forced back into the spy game, as a young journalist seeks out his help to expose the shocking truth about operations conducted by the Russian Secret Service. With his daughter pulled into the fray, will Martin choose family over queen and country in this explosive, action packed thriller? - Director:
- Adrian Bol
- Cast:
- Scott Adkins, Honor Kneafsey, Andrea Vasiliou
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Tremors 2 (1996)Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Earl Bassett (Fred Ward)'s celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil. With the help of a scientist (Helen Shaver) and a new sidekick (Christopher Gartin) - not to mention the return of his gun-toting survivalist pal Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) - Earl is about to learn the Graboids have evolved and are deadlier than ever! - Director:
- S.S. Wilson
- Cast:
- Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver
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From the 1870s to the modem era, Radioactive is a journey through Marie Curie's enduring legacies - her passionate relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed for her and for the world. After meeting fellow scientist Pierre Curie, the pair marry and change the face o science forever by their discovery of two new elements. The ensuing Nobel Prize propels the couple into the international limelight, but after a tragic accident Marie continues to advance her work, resulting in revolutionary discoveries that have dramatic consequences. - Director:
- Marjane Satrapi
- Cast:
- Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum
Having learned of the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele), Francis Barnard (John Kerr) sets out to the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), to uncover the cause of her untimely demise. A distraught, grief-stricken Nicholas can offer only the vaguest explanations as to Elizabeth's death - at first citing "something in her blood", but later asserting that she quite literally "died of fright". What sort of unspeakable horrors are buried within the walls of this castle that could cause one's heart to stop so? With Francis determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the terrible truth will not stay buried for long. - Director:
- Roger Corman
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- Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
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Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation in a remote home in the Welsh countryside. What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a terrifying nightmare when reality begins to unravel, dark episodes from the past resurface, and a sinister force in the house refuses to let them leave. - Director:
- David Koepp
- Cast:
- Amanda Seyfried, Kevin Bacon, Colin Blumenau
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After an art heist goes wrong, professional thief, Jack Reese (Adam Copeland), is $40 million in debt to notorious criminal Darius 'The Rumble' Grouch (Kelsey Grammer). The Rumble offers to forgive the debt if Jack and his team can pull off a seemingly impossible heist. The target is the 'Money Plane' an exclusive airborne casino, carrying over a billion dollars in cryptocurrency, millions in cash, and the world's most dangerous criminals. With no choice but to take the job on, can Reese beat the odds, pull off the heist, and turn the tables on the Rumble? - Director:
- Andrew Lawrence
- Cast:
- Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)La tiendita del horror
Business blooms at Mushnik's Flower Shop when an exotic potted plant called Audrey II arrives. It turns out to be a carnivorous "mean, green mother from outer space," filling that little shop with lotsa horrors. "Little Shop of Horrors" first flowered in a low-budget 1960 Roger Corman movie, resprouted as a smash 1980 off-Broadway musical and now comes full circle in this 1986 movie musical adaptation of the stage hit with a score by multiple Academy Award winners Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. - Director:
- Frank Oz
- Cast:
- Rick Moranis, Levi Stubbs, Ellen Greene
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Bulletproof (2019)Crown Vic
An intense, gritty and riveting crime thriller, following two LAPD officers as they hunt down two on the loose cop killers, in a city about to boil over. 'Training Day' meets 'End of Watch', 'Bulletproof' is a brutal look at the extreme danger and unthinkable sacrifices police officers face when they commit to serve and protect the public. - Director:
- Joel Souza
- Cast:
- Thomas Jane, Bridget Moynahan, David Krumholtz
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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)Zombieland 2
A decade after 'Zombieland' became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited for 'Zombieland: Double Tap'. In the sequel where the comic mayhem stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family. - Director:
- Ruben Fleischer
- Cast:
- Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone
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Jesse Eisenberg stars in the true story of Jewish Boy Scouts joining the French Resistance to save over 10,000 orphans from the Nazis in World War Two. Eisenberg plays famous mime artist Marcel Marceau who, together with a group of activists, fights to rescue Jewish orphans from ruthless Nazis and take them safely across the Swiss border. - Director:
- Jonathan Jakubowicz
- Cast:
- Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer
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Sabina Wilson (Kristen Stewart), Elena Houghlin (Naomi Scott), and Jane Kano (Ella Balinska) are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend (voice of Robert Clotworthy), whose investigative agency has expanded internationally. The new Angels are among the world's smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe. Under the guidance of Bosley (Elizabeth Banks), the Angels have to protect a revolutionary technology from becoming weaponized. They will have to rely on each other as their assignment becomes increasingly treacherous and even those closest to them can no longer be trusted. - Director:
- Elizabeth Banks
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- Kristen Stewart, Robert Clotworthy, Naomi Scott
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In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear). At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head. - Director:
- Philippa Lowthorpe
- Cast:
- Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley
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