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"Madame Web" tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel UK publishing's most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities.

Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

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Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese teams with Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in this quintessential film about the New York jazz scene.

Introducing the world-famous title song to popular culture - New York, New York is a sophisticated and stunning homage to the city that never sleeps. Jimmy is a smooth-talking, joint-jumpin' saxophonist aiming for Big Band stardom. Francine is a timid lounge singer who dreams of the spotlight. When they meet, sparks fly and temperatures rise - and when he plays and she sings, they set New York on fire! It's the beginning of a stormy relationship that will test their ability to balance their passion for jazz with their love for each other.

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One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll.

The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an all-male cast, as it would have been in Shakespeare's day, with Mark Rylance playing Olivia and Roger Lloyd Pack as the hapless Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The production also marks Stephen Fry's triumphant return to the stage as the pompous Malvolio, ridiculous in his yellow stockings.

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The most haunting of comedies, 'Twelfth Night' tells the story of identical twins, Viola and Sebastian, shipwrecked off the coast of the mysterious Illyria, both believing the other is dead. Viola dresses in her brother's clothes for protection in a strange land.

Sebastian, now identical in appearance is soon mistaken for his sister, and so the misunderstandings begin...

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As his fiftieth birthday approaches, life holds no fears for Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), a respected Conservative Member of Parliament and Junior Minister marked by the Prime Minister for high ministerial office.

Secure in his enduring marriage to Ingrid (Miranda Richardson), he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he meets Anna (Juliette Binoche) at an embassy cocktail party. Although she is already involved in a relationship with his journalist son, Martyn (Rupert Graves), she acknowledges the immediate physical bond between them and they are quickly enmeshed in a passionate affair. Stephen is unwilling to break free from his obsession with Anna and continues to maintain the facade of normality. The relationship intensifies despite the announcement of Martyn and Anna's engagement. When tragedy finally and inevitably strikes, Anna is a survivor and it is Stephen and his family who must pay the price.

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Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) has it all, a prosperous career, a devoted secretary (Michelle Williams) and a beautiful bride to be (Elizabeth Banks).

However when Bradley (Justin Theroux), his fiance's high-school sweetheart shows up, Elliot must fight against becoming "The Baxter", a sad loser left at the wedding-alter. Before long Elliot is struggling to compete with the charismatically smarmy Bradley and must think up more hilariously absurd plans to keep his girl...

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Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Sir Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem.

The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers their robbery. But the pensioner is not as harmless as she seems! A rare colour film from Ealing in the '50s, it was premiered in 1955 at the end of the Ealing Green period.

A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson). The balance of power is constantly shifting in seductive and darkly comic romance with thrillingly taut personal and professional stakes.

Tom Hanks and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen team up for the crime of the century in the quirky, laugh-out-loud, smash hit 'The Ladykillers'. Featuring a hilarious supporting cast and packed with non-stop laughs and outrageous high jinks, 'The Ladykillers' is nothing less than drop-dead funny.

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Relentless edge-of-your-seat suspense, jaw-dropping, high-octane action and a powerful love story combine in what has been hailed by many critics as the best film of the year. 'Tell No One' follows one man's frantic race against time when his tragic past is suddenly and unexpectedly unearthed. Dr.

Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is left unconscious after his wife, and childhood sweetheart, Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) is brutally murdered. 8 years on and still unaware of the truth, Alex receives an anonymous e-mail. Clicking on the link he sees a woman's face in a crowd - Margot's face...But before this can sink in, Alex is thrown headlong into a deadly chase - running from both the Police and a team of killers who will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

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Anne (Sally Hawkins) fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones) at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and persuaded her to break off the engagement.

Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick and when he returns from sea having made his fortune and reputation, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart?

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Horrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognises his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost....

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Simon Pegg stars as Sidney Young, a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it.

When he accepts an offer from renowned editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to write for an ultra-chic magazine in Manhattan, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities but always manages to rub them the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox). But when Sophie's publicist (Gillian Anderson) makes him a tempting offer, Sidney is finally poised to conquer the Big Apple or suffer the biggest humiliation of his life.

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Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine. Feature is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust survivor, adapted from William Styron's best-selling novel.

Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the 'choice' she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp. Now in the United States, she has found a reason to live in Nathan (Kevin Kline), a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol) a young writer just arrived in New York City who bears witness as the happiness of Sophie and Nathan becomes endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

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Mousse (Isabelle Carre) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful and in love, but when drugs invade their lives tragedy rips them apart.

When Mousse then learns that she is pregnant, she attempts to put her life back on track and flees to a house far from Paris where, several months later, she is joined by Louis' brother Paul (Louis-Ronan Choisy). United in their grief, Mousse and Paul begin to develop an unusual and deeply moving bond, in Frangois Ozon's tender and moving exploration Of the nature of family and blood ties.