Monday 31 March 2014

Heaven Is for Real

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with...



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Transcendence

Sci-Fi Thriller. Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human...



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A Haunted House 2

Crossing new lines and breaking old barriers, A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 is the sequel to the hilarious box-office hit starring Marlon Wayans as Malcolm who, after exorcising the demons of his ex, is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two...



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Bears

In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature's new True Life Adventure "Bears" showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop...



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70% Fading Gigolo

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money. (C)...



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Sunday 30 March 2014

New Releases on Netflix - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues



The '70s are over, and the anachronistic Channel 4 news team -- including newsman Ron Burgundy and his co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone -- tries to stay classy as they reassemble to join New York's first 24-hour news channel.



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New Releases on Netflix - Knights of Badassdom



Venturing deep into the woods to act out a medieval fantasy scenario, three friends forsake their imaginary roles when they face a real-life struggle for survival after inadvertently conjuring an evil succubus.



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New Releases on Netflix - 12 Years a Slave



The autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted from New York state and sold into slavery in the mid-1800s, serves as the basis for this historical drama. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Northup, and Brad Pitt plays an abolitionist.



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New Releases on Netflix - At Middleton



When uptight surgeon George and free-spirited retailer Edith accompany their teenagers on a tour of Middleton University, their initial dislike of each other turns into a possible romance as they split from the group on their own adventures.



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Friday 28 March 2014

Facing Eviction He Cant Resist a Dare





By Neil Genzlinger



Cheap Thrills (NR)



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A Boyhood Summer of Darkness





By Stephen Holden



Hide Your Smiling Faces ()



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A Rock Star and a Roadie Brothers After All





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Mistaken for Strangers ()



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Tuesday 25 March 2014

Hotel gets good reception at cinemas

Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel rises to the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart on its third weekend on release.



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Monday 24 March 2014

Rio 2

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids in RIO 2, after they're hurtled from that magical city to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary...



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100% Oculus

Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and...



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73% The Railway Man

Based on the remarkable bestselling autobiography, THE RAILWAY MAN tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II....



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Draft Day

On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines...



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St. Vincent

A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door. (C) Weinstein



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84% Only Lovers Left Alive

Worth watching for Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton's performances alone, Only Lovers Left Alive finds writer-director Jim Jarmusch adding a typically offbeat entry to the vampire genre.



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53% Cuban Fury

In 1987 a thirteen-year-old natural born dancer with fire in his heels and snakes in his hips is working himself up to explode all over the UK Junior Salsa Championships. But then: a freakish bullying incident on the mean streets of London robs him...



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80% Joe

A gripping mix of friendship, violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary South in this adaptation of Larry Brown's novel, celebrated at once for its grit and its deeply moving core. Directed by David Gordon Green, JOE film brings Academy...



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Sunday 23 March 2014

New Releases on Netflix - Chinese Zodiac



In this Jackie Chan romp featuring plenty of eccentric characters, relic hunter Asian Hawk sets out on a mission to reclaim the priceless Chinese Zodiac sculptures that were stolen from the country in 1860.



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New Releases on Netflix - Girl on a Bicycle



Just when he's on the brink of proposing to his beautiful girlfriend, tour bus driver Paolo becomes mesmerized by a woman he sees on a bicycle. Driven to track down the object of his obsession, Paolo ends up knocking her down with his bus.



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New Releases on Netflix - HairBrained



When 14-year old genius outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College, where he meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly, a gambler whose world has imploded.



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New Releases on Netflix - Welcome to the Jungle



When workplace colleagues are sent to a team-building exercise in the wilderness, their corporate adventure goes awry as they find themselves stranded. With the hierarchical order falling apart, the office bully takes charge.



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New Releases on Netflix - Camille Claudel 1915



When gifted sculptor Camille Claudel, once the lover of Auguste Rodin, falls prey to mental illness, her family commits her to a psychiatric clinic. This subdued drama follows Camille's thoughts and moods as she waits for redemption to arrive.



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New Releases on Netflix - Free Ride



Growing up with full exposure to her mom's drug-smuggling activities, 7-year-old Shell willingly helps out with business despite the obvious perils. Once the operation attracts the attention of the law, though, Shell begins worrying about her future.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Great Beauty



As charming 65-year-old journalist Jep Gambardella writes about Rome's culture and social life, he reflects with bitterness on the passions of his lost youth, even as he paints a complex portrait of the lovely and ancient city..



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New Releases on Netflix - The Past



When Iranian Ahmad returns to France after a four-year separation from his French wife, Marie, he discovers that she now has a boyfriend -- and that behind her difficult relationship with their daughter lies a secret from the past.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Wolf of Wall Street



Martin Scorcese's high-rolling Wall Street drama is based on the memoirs of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose giddy career -- involving audacious scams and confrontations with the FBI and other agencies -- ended in federal prison.



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New Releases on Netflix - Viola



Viola, a bike courier in Buenos Aires, unexpectedly joins an all-female Shakespeare troupe that's rehearsing for a production of "Twelfth Night." As she grows comfortable with her fellow actresses, the line between life and art begins to blur.



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New Releases on Netflix - Geography Club



Looking for a haven from the social hell of high school, the teens in this dramedy form a social club they know no one else will join. Here, it doesn't matter that Min and Terese are more than just friends, or that the quarterback is seeing a guy.



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New Releases on Netflix - Beast of the Bering Sea



While prospecting in the gold-rich Bering Sea, a pair of siblings finds themselves battling bloodthirsty amphibious predators after inadvertently disturbing the creatures' habitat in an underwater cave.



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New Releases on Netflix - Gravity



As a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission embarks on a space walk with a seasoned astronaut, debris strikes their craft and destroys it -- leaving the two floating through space tethered together, with no connection to Earth.



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New Releases on Netflix - Odd Thomas



In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces. Anton Yelchin stars as the titular character in this adaptation of Dean Koontz's best-selling thriller.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Conspiracy



When filmmakers Aaron and Jim decide to make a documentary about conspiracy theorists, they turn their lens on Terrance, a crazed street preacher. After Terrance inexplicably disappears, Aaron becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth.



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New Releases on Netflix - Let the Fire Burn



Shedding light on the fiery 1985 standoff between the extremist group MOVE and Philadelphia authorities, this thoughtful documentary dissects the tragedy from all angles, using interviews, archival footage and home movies to get to the truth.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Punk Singer



Through interviews and performance clips spanning the career of punk rocker Kathleen Hanna, filmmaker Sini Anderson chronicles the life of the outspoken feminist firebrand, who suddenly and mysteriously retired from the music scene in 2005.



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Friday 21 March 2014

Pursuing Sex With a Bad Boy





By Jeannette Catsoulis



It Felt Like Love ()



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Alone Then Supported Today





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Anita ()



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Strangers but Their Eyes Meet on a Train to Paris





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Just a Sigh ()



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If Only Orson Welles Had Starred





By Jeannette Catsoulis



Jodorowsky's Dune (PG-13)



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Wednesday 19 March 2014

75% Night Moves

NIGHT MOVES, the fifth feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam-the very source and...



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Goodbye World

Living off the grid, James and Lily raise their young daughter in a safe haven of comfort and sustainability. After a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack crosses the country, their home transitions from peaceful refuge to a fortress for the old...



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Poignant in Tooth and Claw





By Manohla Dargis



Ernest & Celestine (PG)



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Returning in His Own Way to the Killing Fields





By Manohla Dargis



The Missing Picture (NR)



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Monday 17 March 2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Steve Rogers continues his journey as the super-powered American soldier who's grasping to find his place in a modern world after being frozen in ice since WWII with this Marvel Studios sequel. Chris Evans returns to star, with Community...



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100% Afflicted

This terrifying horror thriller follows two best friends who set out on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Their journey, documented every step of the way, soon takes a dark and unexpected turn after an encounter with a beautiful woman in Paris...



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86% Alan Partridge

What it lacks in gut-busting laughs, Alan Partridge more than makes up in incisive wit, serving as a fine opener for newcomers as well as a gift for longtime fans.



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89% Under the Skin

An alien in human form is on a journey through Scotland.



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59% Dom Hemingway

Jude Law plays DOM HEMINGWAY, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he's owed for...



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74% Nymphomaniac: Volume II

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II picks up with the story of Joe's adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications. (c) Magnolia



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Jinn

In the beginning, three were created. Man made of clay. Angels made of light. And a third made of fire. For centuries, stories of angels and men have captured the imagination and been etched into history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion...



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Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar

Academy Award (R) winner Morgan Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby," "Dolphin Tale") narrates the IMAX 3D (R) documentary "Island of Lemurs: Madagascar," the incredible true story of nature's greatest explorers-lemurs. The film reunites Freeman with Drew...



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75% The Unknown Known

Morris' film THE UNKNOWN KNOWN is a gripping exploration of the career and philosophy of former U.S Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Using declassified memos, Morris guides Rumsfeld through a discussion of his controversial career as a...



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Sunday 16 March 2014

Rob the Mob

New York City, 1991. Small-time crooks TOMMY (Pitt) and ROSIE (Arianda) have two things in common: a crazy-passionate love for one another and-after they're caught robbing a florist on Valentine's Day-prison records. Trying to go straight, Rosie...



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New Releases on Netflix - American Hustle



This fictionalization of the "Abscam" scandal of the early 1980s follows con man Irving Rosenfeld and his lover, Sydney Prosser, as they help an eccentric FBI agent expose corruption among several members of Congress in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.



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New Releases on Netflix - Kill Your Darlings



In 1944, budding poet Allen Ginsberg falls under the spell of Columbia classmate Lucien Carr, who introduces him to the nascent Beat movement, as well as fellow libertines Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.



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New Releases on Netflix - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom



Golden Globe-winner Idris Elba stars as Nelson Mandela in this in-depth biopic that portrays the groundbreaking South African leader from his rural childhood through his long imprisonment to his election as the country's first black president.



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New Releases on Netflix - Contracted



On the outs with her girlfriend and overwhelmed by daily stress, a young woman has a one-night-stand with a strange man at a party and soon becomes alarmingly ill. But what she thinks is a sexually transmitted disease turns out to be far worse.



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New Releases on Netflix - Here Comes the Devil



Grieving parents rejoice when their missing son and daughter return after disappearing on a family trip to Tijuana. But they're not the same children they once knew, even though everything looks normal on the outside.



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New Releases on Netflix - Reasonable Doubt



After fleeing the site of a fatal hit-and-run, DA Mitch Brockden finds himself prosecuting the man put on trial for committing Brockden's own crime. Brockden artfully sabotages the case but then begins to suspect justice hasn't been served after all.



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New Releases on Netflix - Swerve



This Australian outback thriller brings together the classic film noir ingredients when a man's cross-country drive is diverted by car trouble. Soon after, he witnesses a spectacular car crash that includes one survivor and a money-stuffed suitcase.



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New Releases on Netflix - A Brief History of Time



This engrossing film focuses on the life and work of world-famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who possesses a brilliant mind despite suffering near total paralysis from ALS. Based on his best-selling book, the film focuses partly on his theories and partly on his daily life and interviews with friends and family.



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New Releases on Netflix - Swerve



This Australian outback thriller brings together the classic film noir ingredients when a man's cross-country drive is diverted by car trouble. Soon after, he witnesses a spectacular car crash that includes one survivor and a money-stuffed suitcase.



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Friday 14 March 2014

Preserving Culture in the Amazon





By Daniel M. Gold



Xingu ()



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Murder Mentoring and Masochism in Japan





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Guilty of Romance ()



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In Japan Two Teenagers Bond in a Chaotic Violent World





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Himizu ()



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A Getaway Unravels the Ties That Bind





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Le Week-End (R)



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Oil Money and Where It Flows





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Big Men ()



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Wednesday 12 March 2014

New Releases on Netflix - Easy Money: Hard to Kill



While serving time, business student-turned-coke smuggler JW plans to go straight when he gets out, but his past refuses to go away. With a onetime associate now in the same prison, JW may not live long enough to put his plans in motion.



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Monday 10 March 2014

300 film sequel slays competition

300: Rise of an Empire, the sequel to 2006 hit 300, slayed the competition at cinemas this weekend, earning $45.1m (£27m) in the US and Canada and an additional $87.8m (£52.6m) worldwide.



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Noah

Academy Award (R) winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world. (c) Paramount



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Sabotage

In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the...



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94% The Raid 2

He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a...



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73% Breathe In

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever. (C) Cohen



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Cesar Chavez

Directed by Diego Luna, Chávez chronicles the birth of a modern American movement led by famed civil rights leaderand labor organizer, Cesar Chavez. Torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to bringing dignity and justice to...



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100% Mistaken for Strangers

Hailed by Michael Moore as "one of the best documentaries about a band that I've ever seen" and by Pitchfork as "the funniest, most meta music movie since SPINAL TAP," MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS is a truly hilarious and touching film about two brothers,...



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Sunday 9 March 2014

New Releases on Netflix - Beyond Outrage



This sequel to the yakuza thriller Outrage depicts a brutal war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, both now more powerful than ever. With the gangs branching into legitimate trade, a police detective tries to turn them on one another.



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New Releases on Netflix - Enemies Closer



When a drug cartel forces him to locate a package lost in the wilderness, a forest ranger coincidentally encounters an old enemy. But the two must set aside their differences if they're to survive the elements and fulfill the cartel's mission.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Best Man Holiday



Set 13 years after the events of The Best Man, this comedy sequel picks up as the story's original characters -- whose lives have taken some odd turns since -- gather for a mirthful reunion.



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New Releases on Netflix - The Hungover Games



After a raging bachelor party, three guys wake up in a strange world and realize they're on a train headed for the deadly Hungover Games, where they'll fight to the death against various pop culture districts.



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New Releases on Netflix - Inside Llewyn Davis



The Coen Brothers helm this chronicle of struggling musician Llewyn Davis, set during the height of the folk era in the early 1960s. The drama follows Davis through a week of creative highs and lows amid a bleak New York winter.



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