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14 years after Captain Jean-Luc Picard retired from StarFleet, Patrick Stewart is back to reprise his iconic role. After the destruction of the Planet Romulus, we follow Picard as he tracks down a series of mysteries about his past. From co-creators Alex Kurtzman, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, and renowned 'Star Trek' novelist Kirsten Beyer, 'Star Trek: Picard' sets out on a new adventure against a legion of dangerous Foes, with the help from a few returning characters - Data, Riker, and Seven of Nine - and a whole new crew. - Director:
- Hanelle M. Culpepper
- Cast:
- Patrick Stewart, Kay Bess, Alison Pill
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a 'Little Women' that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women each determined to live life on their own terms - is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothee Chalamet as their neighbour Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. - Director:
- Greta Gerwig
- Cast:
- Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
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When a German U-Boat torpedoes a British supply ship, the survivors manage to swim to the surfacing German vessel. Among the survivors are Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) a young allied soldier and a young biologist Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon). They dock the vessel at a strange island inhabited by deadly beasts, dinosaurs and a savage indigenous tribe. When Lisa is kidnapped by one of the tribesmen, Bowen must set out to save her and get back to the Submarine before the island is engulfed in lava from an erupting volcano. - Director:
- Kevin Connor
- Cast:
- Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon
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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
- Cast:
- 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
- Cast:
- 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 (voice of Levi Stubbs) 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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