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Chronical: 2067 (2020)2067 / Subject 14
With air so polluted that the only way to breathe is through manufactured air canisters, the human race is on its knees until a message from the future gives one of the biggest corporations on Earth hope. A reclusive young man named Ethan (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is to be the saviour of the human race but what he discovers in his journey through time is an unthinkable conspiracy that could lead him to change the course of his timeline forever. Would you save humanity if you knew humanity may not be worth saving after all? - Director:
- Seth Larney
- Cast:
- Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, Leeanna Walsman
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Inspired by true events, 'Persian Lessons' is a powerful and harrowing story of survival, anchored by exceptional performances. Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside fellow Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger). As the unusual relationship between the two men begins to incite jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes acutely aware that one false move could expose his swindle. - Director:
- Vadim Perelman
- Cast:
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
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When a deadly outbreak hits the small Alaskan town of Nome in 1925, it falls to champion musher Leonhard (Brian Presley) to travel the 700 miles, across treacherous ice, to deliver the anti-toxin to the hospital. With his son's life on the line he will battle seemingly impossible conditions, with only his sled dogs, led by Togo and Balto, for company. 'The Great Alaskan Race' is an exciting family adventure, based on a true story, that shows the incredible bond between a man and his dogs. - Director:
- Brian Presley
- Cast:
- Brian Presley, Treat Williams, Brad Leland
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Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with at time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers a terrifying new world, where mankind has divided into the hunter...and the hunted. - Director:
- Simon Wells
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy
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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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In this punishing action thriller starring Ruby Rose, a former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader (Jean Reno) while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown. - Director:
- Ryûhei Kitamura
- Cast:
- Ruby Rose, Jean Reno, Aksel Hennie
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Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020)Bill & Ted Face the Music
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter), and Theodore "Ted" Logan (Keanu Reeves). Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends! - Director:
- Dean Parisot
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal
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When video-game enthusiast, Sarah (Isabelle Allen), is transported into her favourite game, she finds herself in an intergalactic prison, home to the most dangerous villains in the galaxy. The only way to escape the game is to complete it. Teaming up with space hero, Max Cloud (Scott Adkins), Sarah battles the terrifying planet while her best friend, Cowboy (Franz Drameh), controls the game from her bedroom in Brooklyn. - Director:
- Martin Owen
- Cast:
- Scott Adkins, John Hannah, Lashana Lynch
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The hugely successful supernatural sitcom returns for more comedy chaos! As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling into a strange kind of daily routine. But cash-strapped Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike's (Kiell Smith-Bynoe)'s plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream. Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly housemates bring in the funds they need - or are they setting themselves up for even more chaos? - Director:
- Tom Kingsley
- Cast:
- Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Cornelius Booth
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In Clark Duke's directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they've never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog's proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in, while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog's crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon's best-selling novel of the same name, 'Arkansas' weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends. - Director:
- Clark Duke
- Cast:
- Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, Clark Duke
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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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A former special forces agent's son is kidnapped and must now wipe out three dangerous crime syndicates, if he wants to see his son alive again.
- Director:
- Isaac Florentine
- Cast:
- Scott Adkins, Mario Van Peebles, Steven Elder
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"Ghosts" is a multi-character sitcom created by the lead cast of writer-performers from the award-winning Horrible Histories, Yonderland and the feature film Bill. The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries - each ghost very much a product of their time, resigned to squabble with each other for eternity over the most inane of daily gripes. But their lives - or, rather, afterlives - are thrown into turmoil when a young urban couple - Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) - surprisingly inherit the peaceful derelict house and make plans to turn it into a bustling family hotel. As the ghosts attempt to oust the newcomers from their home, and Mike and Alison discover the true scale of the project they've taken on, fate conspires to trap both sides in an impossible house share, where even- day is, literally, a matter of life and death. - Director:
- Tom Kingsley
- Cast:
- Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby
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Infestation (2020)Waves
Annie (Steffie Neubauer) is the resident skeptic on a radio program devoted to UFO sightings, alien theories and unexplained phenomena of suspected extraterrestrial origin. She doesn't believe a word. But when strange sounds begin coming from the sky around the world and Annie's boss and coworkers start acting strange, she suddenly blacks out. When she wakes up she has no recollection of the time she's been out for. The behavior of the people around her has changed and she suspects something terrible is happening. Annie must fight to discover the answers but what she discovers might be more terrifying than she'd ever imagined. - Director:
- Tomas Galang
- Cast:
- Laura Altman, Bi Anca, Ellease Aponte
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Spunky, rebellious 13-year-old Becky (Lulu Wilson) is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff (Joel McHale) in an effort to try to reconnect after her mother's death. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick (Kevin James), suddenly invade the lake house. Becky, not daddy's little girl anymore, decides to take matters into her own hands. - Director:
- Jonathan Milott
- Cast:
- Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale
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