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End of Days (1999)
Dir Peter Hymas Writer Andrew W Marlowe Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollack, CCH Pounder, Derrick O’Connor, Miriam Margolyes, Udo Kier, Mark Margolis, Rod Steiger. At the end of 1979, the birth of a girl signalled the possible ‘End of Days’ when she was born with a mark on her arm. Now, twenty…
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Dir Steven Spielberg Written by Michael Crichton, David Koepp Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazello, Samuel L Jackson, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, BD Wong, Wayne Knight A wealthy businessman, John Hammond (Attenborough) has spent the last five years developing an island where his scientific team have brought Dinosaurs back…
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Copycat (1995)
Dir Jon Amiel Written by Ann Biderman, David Madsen Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick Jr, J.E. Freeman, Will Patton, John Rothman. San Francisco is being plagued by potential serial killer. Partnered Investigators, the senior MJ Monahan (Hunter), and the junior Ruben Goetz (Mulroney) are the leads on the case. When…
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Dir Steven Spielberg Written by Jeff Nathanson, Frank Abagnale Jr, Stan Redding Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, James Brolin, Jennifer Garner, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Pompeo, Over a period of six years between 1963-1969 Frank Abagnale became the youngest conman in United States history. This tells the story of…
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Violent Night
Dir Tommy Wirkola Written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, Beverly D’Angelo, Alexis Louder, Leah Brady. On Christmas Eve, the family of uber rich Gertrude Lightstone (D’Angelo) head to her mansion for the yearly Christmas gathering. However tonight, a group of mercenaries led by one with the codename ‘Scrooge’ (Leguizamo),…
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Fatman (2020)
Written and Directed by Ian and Eshom Nelms Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield, Eric Woolfe, Deborah Grover. In a fictionalised version of our world, Santa/Chris Cringle (Gibson) is known to exist and works with the United States government to give out presents to all the good children, and coal to all the…
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Home Alone (1990)
Dir Chris Columbus Written by John Hughes Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Kieran Culkin, John Candy. At Christmas, the McCallister family are preparing for an overseas holiday to Paris. The night before Kevin (Culkin) and his family get into a fight, and he is sent to the attic…
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Scrooged (1988)
Dir Richard Donner Written by Mitch Glazer, Michael O’Donoghue (based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Godthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, John Murray, Alfre Woodard, Nicholas Phillips, Michael J Pollard. Based on the famed Ebenezer Scrooge story, sees CEO of the fictional network…
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Love Actually (2003)
Written by and Directed by Richard Curtis Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Andrew Lincoln, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Bil Nighy, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Martin Freeman, Heike Makatsch, Kris Marshall, Lucia Moniz, Joanna Page, Rodrigo Santoro, Abdul Salis, Nina Sosanya. Five weeks out from Christmas, and…
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The Santa Clause (1994)
Dir John Pasquin Written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Wendy Crewson, Judge Reinhold, David Krumholtz, Peter Boyle, Judith Scott. Toy company executive Scott Calvin (Allen) has his son Charlie (Lloyd) overnight on Christmas Eve, and is desperately trying to keep the belief of Santa Claus alive in him. his mother Laura…
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Dir Neil LaBute Written by John C Richards, James Famberg Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinner, Aaron Eckhart,Tia Texada, Crispin Glover, Pruit Taylor Vince, Allison Janney, Kathleen Wilhoite, Elizabeth Mitchell, Harriet Sansom Harris, Matthew Cowles. Betty Sizemore (Zellweger) leads an ordinary and fulfilling life. She is waitress at a local diner, she is…
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Armageddon (1998)
Dir Michael Bay Written by Jonathan Hensleigh, JJ Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stomare, Keith David, Jason Isaacs, Ken Hudson Campbell. One of the two asteroid movies of 1998; in this NASA…
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I Want You Back (2022)
Dir Jason Orley Written by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Scott Eastwood, Gina Rodriguez, Manny Jacinto, Clark Backo, Luke David Blumm, Jamie Gertz, Mason Gooding. On the same night two 30 “something’s” are dumped by their partners. Emma (Slate) is dumped by Noah (Eastwood), and Peter (Day) is dumped by Anne…
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Deep Impact (1998)
Dir Mimi Leder Written by Bruce Joel Ruben, Michael Tolkin Robert Duval, Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood, Alexander Baluev, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau, Laura Innes, Mary McCormack, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Richard Schiff, Leelee Sobieski, Blair Underwood, James Cromwell, Dougray Scott. One of the two ‘asteroid’ movies of 1998, in which school senior Leo…
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Insomnia (2002)
Dir Christopher Nolan Writers Hillary Seitz, Nikolaj Frobenius, Erik Skjoldjaeg Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donavan, Maura Tierney, Paul Dooley, Nicky Katt. A seasoned LA Detective Will Dormer (Pacino), along with his partner (Donavan) are called to assist a rural Alaskan town of Nightmute, after one of the young teen girls has been…
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