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Christmas is a time for backstabbing and silent judgement, but for the Pope family, the time-honoured tradition of passive aggressive snark is always masked with a smile. But not this year when their family dinner turns into a bloodbath.

The Pope family's Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch, causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion. When the head of the household psychopathically freaks-out, the scene is set for murderous mayhem and splatterific revenge as the deviant relatives reveal their long-buried hatreds and festering loathings.

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To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community.

But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the marginalised, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

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Five years, eight months, 12 days. That's how long Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) has been concocting the greatest heist of her storied career. It will require the best in the field, including her former partner in crime, Lou (Cate Blanchett), and a crew of specialists.

Their target: $150 million in diamonds that will adorn the neck of a world-famous actress (Anne Hathaway) at the event of the year, the Met Gala. The plan appears rock-solid, but it needs to be flawless for them to get in and get away - all in plain sight.

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Hotel Artemis is a secret hospital for criminals run by The Nurse (Jodie Foster) and her orderly Everest (Dave Bautista). After a daring heist, a wounded bank robber (Sterling K.

Brown) checks in while riots rage outside - but finds himself entangled with an arms dealer (Charlie Day), a crime lord (Jeff Goldblum) and a mysterious assassin (Sofia Boutella) whose mission pits all the guests against each other in a deadly game of survival.

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Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) now assesses security for skyscrapers. He's on assignment in China when he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it.

A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building, above the fire line.

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Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage.

Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship?

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In a post-apocalyptic world, where natural resources have long since dried-up, a prince from The Oasis - one of the world's last known safe-havens - must venture out to find a cure for his dying mother (Lucy Liu).

Along the way he must battle with the brutal Warlord (James Franco), his lethal Al robot and the demonic Druglord (Milla Jovovich) which leads to a high-octane, ferocious journey through the desolate wastelands.

Starring Academy Award-winning actresses Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, "Big Little Lies" is a subversive, darkly comedic drama that weaves a tale of murder and mischief as it explores society's myth of perfection and marriage, sex, parenting and friendship.

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Meet Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano), great-granddaughter of gun-slinging legend Wyatt Earp and Demon Protector at large. She's about to raise a little Hell with a Colt.45 pistol customised with a 12-inch barrel which she calls 'Peacemaker'.

You better hope she doesn't point this demon killing gun in your direction because Wynonna never misses her target. The Earp family has a curse on them that means when each new heir turns 27, a group of zombies called 'Revenants' come calling. And Wynonna has just turned 27. Only Wynonna and her dysfunctional posse can kill these zombies and send them back to Hell...

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Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in The Break-Up, which starts where most romantic comedies end - right at the point where they are driving each other crazy! Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke (Aniston) calls it

quits with her boyfriend Gary (Vaughn). What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks - all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes...and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.

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Telling the story of Ismael, a filmmaker preparing his new feature, whose life is turned upside down when his wife (Marion Cotillard), missing and presumed dead for twenty years, mysteriously returns.

His girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attempts to help Ismael retain his sanity as his personal and professional life spins out of control.

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What in Hell is going on at Headstone Manor? In this hilarious spoof of every horror fan's favourite films, a team of mad scientists, led by Dr. Lukas Mandeville (Kenny Everett) and his assistant Dr. Barbara Coyle (Pamela Stephenson) are investigating paranormal phenomenon in the mysterious manor.

Unknown to the scientists, their presence is about to incur the wrath of a local coven of bumbling but determined Satanists led by a 700-year-old disciple of the Devil known only as the Sinister Man (Vincent Price), all of whom are prepared to stop at nothing in purging the house of the unwelcome intruders.

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The third season of 'Outlander' picks up right after Claire (Caitriona Balfe) travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank.

Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie (Sam Heughan) suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to make lives apart from one another, each haunted by the memory of their lost love. Separated by continents and centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their way back to each other. As always, adversity, mystery and adventure await them, and the question remains: When they find each other, will they be the same people who parted:at the standing stones all those years ago?

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New England, 1630: William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) lead a devout Christian life with their five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their new-born son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another.

'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a family unrevelling within their own fears and anxieties, leaving them prey to an inescapable evil.

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Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), a 37-year-old former prom queen, and current writer of young adult novels, who returns home to relive her glory days and win back her now-married high school sweetheart.

When she finds her homecoming more challenging than expected, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate - and both must face the harsh realities of growing up.