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Changing Lanes (2002)
Director Roger Mitchell Written by Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Amanda Peet, Sydney Pollack, Dylan Baker, Matt Molloy, Tina Sloan, Bruce Altman, Joe Grifasi. Gavin (Affleck) is an eager young lawyer whose firm is in the last steps of taking over a charity organisation…
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BlackKklansman (2018)
Directed by Spike LeeWritten by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike LeeBased on the novel by Ron Stallworth John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Corey Hawkins, Ryan Eggold Jasper Paakkonen, Fredrick Weller, Paul Walter Hauser, Ashlie Atkinson, Michael Buscemi, Ken Garito, Robert John Burke, Nicholas Turturro, Alec Baldwin, Harry Belafonte. In…
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Nightmare Alley (2021)
Directed by Guillermo Del ToroWritten by Guillermo Del Toro and Kim Morgan Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collett, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenbergen, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Peter MacNeil. In 1939, a mysterious drifter, Stanton Carlise (Cooper), finds his way to a carnival, and begins working for them under the…
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Three Billboards, outside Ebbing Missouri
Directed and Written by Martin McDonagh Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Peter Dinklage, Zeljko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving, Kerry Condon, Sandy Martin, Kathryn Newton. Almost a year after her daughter was raped and murdered, and still with no arrest, Mildred (McDormand) hires three billboards…
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Directed by Martin Scorsese Written by Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Joanna Lumley, Cristin Miliot, PJ Byrne, Kenneth Choi, Brian Sacca, Henry Zebrrowski, Ethan Suplee. JC MacKenzie. The story of Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) who over a decade in…
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Arlington Road
Directed by Mark PellingtonWritten by Ehren Kruger Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis, Robert Gossett, Mason Gamble, Spenser Treat Clark, Stanley Anderson. In this pre 9/11 psychological thriller, Bridges plays Michael Faraday – a professor of terrorism at George Washington University. He is a widower, whose wife was an FBI agent, killed in…
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Directed by Quentin TarantinoWritten for the screen by Quentin TarantinoBased on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard Pam Grier, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert DeNiro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton. Forty-four year old flight attendant Jackie Brown (Grier), is stuck between a rock and hard place when she…
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Derailed (2005)
Directed by Mikael HåfströmWritten by Stuart Beattie, James Siegel (novel) Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassell, Melissa George, RZA, Giancarlo Esposito, Xzibit, David Morrissey, Dennis O’Hare, Tom Conti, Addison Timlin. Two separately married people Charles (Owen) and Lucinda (Aniston) meet by happenstance on a train, they soon form a friendship – as they both appear…
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The Prestige
Directed by Christopher NolanWritten by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher NolanNovel by Christopher Priest Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Joansson, Piper Perabo, David Bowie, Andy Serkis, Daniel Davis, Roger Rees, Samantha Mahurin. In the 1890’s two up and coming magicians, find themselves intertwined in a years long battle to outdo each other and…
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Independence Day Resurgence
Directed by Roland EmmerichWritten by Nicolas Wright, James A Woods, Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, James Vanderbilt, Carter Blanchard. Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Brett Spiner, Maika Monroe, Jessie T Usher, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sela Ward, Angelababy, DeObia Oparei, Nicolas Wright, Joey King, Vivica A Fox, Robert Loggia. Twenty years…
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Directed by Joel Coen (Ethan Coen uncredited)Written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney, Jim True, Bill Cobbs, Bruce Campbell, Harry Bugin. At the end of 1958, the CEO of Hudsucker Industries, decides to commit suicide. Realising that the company will soon have to…
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Lethal Weapon 2
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Jeffrey Boam, Shane Black, Warren Murphy Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O’Connor, Patsy Kensit, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Steve Kahan, Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein, Dean Norris, Grand L Bush. In the sequel to 1987’s buddy cop action romp, sees Riggs and Murtaugh (Gibson and Glover) on…
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Stowaway
Directed by Joe PennaWritten by Joe Penna and Ryan Morrison Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson. Not long into a two year mission to Mars, three astronauts (Kendrick, Collette and Kim) discover that one of mission control’s crew members (Anderson) accidentally trapped himself in the ship before take off. Unable to turn…
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The Quick and the Dead
Director Sam RaimiWritten by Simon Moore Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gary Sinise, Tobin Bell, Roberts Blossom, Kevin Conway, Keith David, Lance Henriksen, Pat Hingle, Mark Boone Junior. In the Wild West, Ellen (Stone) comes to the small town of Redemption right as a quick draw competition starts. Finding herself in the…
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Mikey Madison, Timothy Olyphant, Jula Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino, Damon Herriman, Lena Dunham, Spencer Garrett. In early 1969 LA, ageing and fading television star…
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