the-real-film-cricket's - Rented List

John Cusack stars in this inspirational and uplifting journey as a lonely science-fiction writer who adopts a boy who claims to be from Mars. With the help of his quirky friend (Amanda Peet) and his sister (Joan Cusack), this new father discovers that being a parent means anything is possible.

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Something hideous is changing law-abiding citizens into monstrous, hyper-violent psychopaths. A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective, Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) totally baffled.

And it doesn't help when mysterious FBI agent, Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) tells him that a demonic extraterrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims - and transforming them into inhuman killers with an unearthly fondness for heavy-metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence.

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In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm.

Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying-man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

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Fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cut Throat Bill (Juliette Lewis).

To do so, he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire and together they venture into the unforgiving Wild West on a quest for justice.

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Double bill of classic US horror films.

House of Frankenstein (1944)
An evil scientist and his hunchbacked assistant escape from prison and encounter Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange).
House of Dracula (1945)

Count Dracula (John Carradine) and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) seek cures for their afflictions; a hunchbacked woman, a mad scientist and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange / Boris Karloff) have their own troubles.

The story of a legendary, lovable canine that roamed the outback and found his way into the hearts of each and everyone he met along the way. He brought people together, helping some find love and others to find themselves.

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Two travelling companions, George (Ray Lovelock) and Edna Simon (Christine Galbo), come across a small town invested with the living dead that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across.

Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna light for survival and their innocence as they are pursued by a relentless detective who is convinced they are responsible for the ghoulish acts of violence plaguing the countryside.

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As WW1 rages on, the Choral Society in a small English town has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral's committee is determined to press ahead with new recruits. They engage a driven new chorus master, Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) - recently returned from a career in Germany.

As conscription papers start to arrive, the community discovers that the best response to the war is to make music together.

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This poignant dramedy is a must-see from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives) and writer Jeff Pope (Philomena), starring Academy Award Nominees Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce.

Follow an Englishman's personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

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"The Ballad of Wallis Island" follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.

His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Robert Egger's 'Nosferatu' is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.

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Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him.

Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly.

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Yonosuke is a typical Japanese on-screen hero: socially awkward, childish and naive, but always cheerful and charming. We meet him when he moves from Nagasaki to Tokyo in the late eighties at the height of the city's economic boom.

Despite his odd character he manages to make new friends at university, joins a samba class and falls in love with an older woman. Sixteen years later his friends are all reminiscing over their college days, thinking back on how Yonosuke changed their lives. A heart-warming, crowd-pleasing comedy that takes a sudden dramatic turn.

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In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Lt.

Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) falls for Maria and meets up with her during Joseph's famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech as Hamlet. When Stanislav is eventually dispatched for war, he implicates Maria with Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who has a secret plan to destroy the Warsaw resistance. The Polish theater troupe is then forced to use their theatrical skills to ensure their survival. Eventually, they turn to impersonating Nazi officers - and even Hitler himself - in order to outwit the enemy and keep the resistance safe from spies.

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In a radical reworking of the H.G.

Wells classic, 'War of the Worlds: Next Century', tells the story of Iron Idem (celebrated Polish actor Roman Wilhelmi), a television host, who finds himself contending with a Martian invasion, whose takeover involves collaborating with the state and manipulating the populace through a media apparatus made up entirely of fake news...Drawing as much on George Orwell and 1984 as on Wells' novel, Piotr Szulkin's prescient allegory of state and media control is a dark sci-fi that uses classic noir tropes to tell its sinister story.