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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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Collateral (2004)
Dir Michael Mann Written by Stuart Beattie Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Irma P Hall. On a random night, Vincent (Cruise), arrives in LA – getting into the cab of Max (Foxx), a 12 year veteran driver with dreams of running his own luxury limo company. When…
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Speed (1994)
Directed by Jan de BontWritten by Graham Yost Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, Beth Grant, Hawthorne James Months after stopping him from blowing up an elevator, LAPD Detective Jack Traven (Reeves), is called back in by bomber Hopper, who has now put a bomb on a bus. When…
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The Nice Guys (2016)
Dir Shane Black Written by Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Yaya DaCosta, Keith David, Beau Knapp, Lois Smith, In 1977, two PI’s (Crowe and Gosling) find themselves paired together to investigate a missing young woman named Amelia (Qualley). When people she has been…
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Dirs: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, Fabien Polack (voice cast) Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Khary Payton, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charles Martinet. In an alternate universe, Koopa King Bowser (Black) has finally found the Super Star, and plans to marry the human like…
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