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Leave the World Behind
Dir Sam Esmail Written by Sam Esmail, Rumaan Alam Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke,Myhal’la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, Kevin Bacon. Middle aged married couple Amanda and Clay (Roberts and Hawke) take a spur of the minute holiday to a remote B&B with their teen kids Rose and Archie (Mackenzie and Evans). As they get…
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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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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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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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Banshees of Inisherin
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Pat Short, Gary Lydon, David Pearse, Sheila Flitton. In early 1923, of the coast of Ireland, on the small island of Inisherin, soft natured farmer Pádraic (Farrell), learns his lifelong friend Colm (Gleeson) no longer likes him, and doesn’t want to…
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Bullet Train
Directed by David LeitchWritten by Zak Olkewicz Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree-Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benito A Martinez Ocasio, Zazee Beetz, Logan Lerman, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock. Set on the Bullet Train in Japan, this action yarn sees an assassin – code-named Butterfly (Pitt), taking over for another hit-man…
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The Batman (2022)
Director Matt ReevesWritten by Matt Reeves, Peter Craig. Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Paul Dano, Andy Serkis, Peter Sarsgaard. In one of the most nihilistic versions of Gotham City on film, vigilante Batman (Pattinson) teams with Detective Gordon (Wright) as a serial killer known as The Riddler (Dano) begins to…
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