Sunday 31 July 2016

New Releases on Netflix - Sniper: Ghost Shooter


Elite snipers Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller are fighting extremists in the Middle East when their Colonel gives them a new mission: to protect a gas pipeline stretching from the Republic of Georgia to Western Europe from extremists eager to make a political statement. But when skirmishes with the enemy lead to U.S. snipers being killed by a ghost shooter who locks into their exact location, a security breach is suspected. Fingers are pointed and battle lines are drawn, all leading up to an explosive climax.

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New Releases on Netflix - LEGO: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout


Batman faces his greatest challenge yet: VACATION! The caped crusader reluctantly agrees to let Batgirl and Nightwing take him on a long overdue vacation from crime-fighting, while Superman and the Justice League watch over Gotham City. Neither operation goes as planned when Batman's vacation is cut short by dangers from his past and invaders from the center of the earth, and Superman and the other Leaguers quickly realize just how much Batman usually has his hands full with the villains of Gotham.

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New Releases on Netflix - Breaking the Bank


With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?

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New Releases on Netflix - Dough


With his business faltering badly, Jewish baker Nat is under pressure from his son to close his shop down. The arrival of a young Muslim apprentice, however, soon puts an unexpected charge in Nat's sales.

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New Releases on Netflix - Meet the Blacks


Thanks to a million-dollar windfall, Carl Black and his family have the opportunity to leave Detroit and move into an enormous Beverly Hills mansion. But as the Blacks look forward to clear sailing, they're in for a big surprise.

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New Releases on Netflix - Mother's Day


Offering an ensemble tribute to mothers everywhere, this star-studded comedy focuses on an assortment of moms and their intertwining lives as their annual day of recognition approaches.

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New Releases on Netflix - Puerto Ricans in Paris


When the prototype for a new designer handbag is stolen, it's the job of New York City's finest -- specifically Puerto Rican brothers-in-law Eddie and Luis -- to fly to Paris and find the culprits before they flood the market with knockoffs.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Bronze


Cranky and profane, former gymnastics star Hope Ann Greggory remains stuck in the shadow of her Olympic glory from years earlier. When she's given an opportunity to mentor up-and-coming gymnast Maggie Townsend, Hope plots to ruin the girl's chances.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Lobster


Set in a not-so-distant future, this imaginative allegorical tale depicts a world where single people are hunted down and forced to find mates within 45 days to avoid being turned into animals and banished to live in nature.

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New Releases on Netflix - Carter High


In this fact-based drama set in 1988 Dallas, Carter High School's football team will let nothing stand in the way of a state title. But the following summer, several of the players are exposed as the culprits behind a series of robberies.

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New Releases on Netflix - Guernica


1937 Spain: lines are being drawn, sides are being chosen… and the world will never be the same. As the citizens of the village of Guernica live with the day-to-day realities of the Civil War, an American journalist secretly joins forces with a local press-office censor to work against the stringent restrictions that are becoming more common. But everything changes when German forces attack the town, and the freedom of the press becomes a vital weapon. Based on the historical events of the bombing that set the stage for World War II.

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New Releases on Netflix - Last Days in the Desert


In this intense spiritual drama inspired by the Biblical account of Jesus's 40-day desert fast, the prophet Yeshua is challenged by the Devil himself to decide the fate of a troubled family living in barren isolation.

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New Releases on Netflix - Louder Than Bombs


Brought together three years after their mother's death for an exhibit honoring her work as a photographer, brothers Conrad and Jonah share their memories of Mom as their father tries to bridge the emotional divide with his sons.

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New Releases on Netflix - Marguerite


1921, the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner's place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune. In ways quite similar to the Castafiore, Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience, always coming in for a good laugh, acts as if she was the diva she believes she is. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent.

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New Releases on Netflix - Septembers of Shiraz


Set during the turbulent days of the Iranian Revolution, this tense drama chronicles the plight of a wealthy Jewish family whose patriarch is arrested, brutally interrogated and accused of spying for Israel.

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New Releases on Netflix - Songs My Brothers Taught Me


After his father dies, Johnny Winters considers shelving his plans to leave the Pine Ridge Reservation because he's concerned about the welfare of his 13-year-old sister, Jashaun. But he soon finds that she has her own ideas about the future.

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New Releases on Netflix - Holding the Man


Based on the international best-seller, HOLDING THE MAN is the sweeping love story of two high school boys, one the hunky captain of the football team and the other a sensitive drama student. After a sweet courtship, the two fall madly in love and traverse an enduring relationship over 15 years. Featuring Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia, this inspirational true story captures the beauty and heartbreak of the best romances of our time.

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New Releases on Netflix - Summer Camp


When Darren, Michelle, Will and Christy land jobs as counselors at a summer camp in rural Spain, they know they're in for an adventure. But that adventure suddenly turns lethal when one by one they fall prey to a rage-inducing virus.

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New Releases on Netflix - Lazer Team


After Earth receives a message from space warning of approaching intergalactic invaders, four small-town lunkheads find themselves thrust into the unlikely role of humanity's defenders when they accidentally intercept a weaponized alien battle suit.

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New Releases on Netflix - Careful What You Wish For


When an investment banker rents the house next door for the summer, 18-year-old Doug falls for the man's beautiful young wife, Lena. But the teen finds himself in over his head after he beds Lena and her husband suddenly ends up dead.

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Thursday 28 July 2016

Holding back

An attack on the public in France saw a film pulled from cinemas, a situation that TV networks and movie studios have often had to deal with in order to not appear insensitive or distasteful.

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Talking Movies on the female filmmakers of the past

Talking Movies' Tom Brook takes a look back at the female filmmakers who dominated early cinema.

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Sunday 24 July 2016

New Releases on Netflix - Criminal


Resorting to radical measures to combat a terrorist threat, the government implants a dead CIA operative's memories and skills in a condemned prisoner, hoping that he can carry out the original mission.

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New Releases on Netflix - I Am Wrath


When the police fail to apprehend his wife's killers, Stanley Hill turns vigilante to avenge her death -- a quest that leads him to uncover evidence of corruption within the ranks of the law and the halls of power.

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New Releases on Netflix - Deadline U.S.A.


Screen legend Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca) stars as a fictional newspaper editor Ed Hutcheson of "The Day", which will be folding in three days. Even though he and his staff will be out of work within days, he intends to expose the criminal activities of vicious crime boss Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gabel, The Thief). An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by legendary screenwriter/director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) in Deadline -- U.S.A.

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New Releases on Netflix - L'Attesa


As single mother Anna mourns her son's death, Jeanne, a stranger claiming to be his lover arrives for a visit -- unaware of his demise. Withholding the unspeakable truth for as long as possible, Anna begins to grow close to Jeanne.

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New Releases on Netflix - Sing Street


Grappling with a difficult home life, 14-year-old Conor faces more woes when financial problems force his parents to transfer him from a private school to an inner-city public school. Looking for an escape, he forms a band with a group of classmates.

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New Releases on Netflix - Listening


After perfecting a mind-reading technology, three hard-up graduate students believe their financial woes are behind them. But when their handiwork attracts the attention of a covert government agency, they find that their troubles have only begun.

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New Releases on Netflix - River


In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Invitation


When Will's ex-wife, Eden, invites him to a dinner party at the home they once shared, he assumes she wants to put unresolved tensions to rest. But soon, Will senses that Eden and her new spouse have something sinister in mind.

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New Releases on Netflix - Harmontown


Recording the wild cross-country jaunt of TV writer and producer Dan Harmon as he and his crew take his podcast to the people, this candid documentary insightfully illuminates his private and public lives.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Russian Woodpecker


Affected as a boy by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich travels to the Exclusion Zone to pursue his suspicions about the meltdown's link to the Duga, a huge Soviet radio antenna located near the Chernobyl site.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Russian Woodpecker


Affected as a boy by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich travels to the Exclusion Zone to pursue his suspicions about the meltdown's link to the Duga, a huge Soviet radio antenna located near the Chernobyl site.

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New Releases on Netflix - Tricked


A married real estate tycoon's 50th birthday party goes awry when two of his lovers show up, and one of them is pregnant. Meanwhile, his business partners are plotting to blackmail him and sell the company.

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Friday 22 July 2016

Cult fiction

The ageing Tamil cinema superstar Rajinikanth packs a mean punch in his new film Kabali, an action-packed gangster drama, writes Sudha G Tilak.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Perfect Day


Sent to a deadly combat zone to recover a corpse from a well -- where the body is contaminating a village's crucial water supply -- a motley group of aid workers finds the ostensibly simple job turning into a Sisyphean task.

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Sunday 17 July 2016

Idris Elba's film has been pulled from French cinemas

Idris Elba's film, Bastille Day, has been pulled from French cinemas in wake of the terrorist attack in Nice.

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New Releases on Netflix - Kill Zone 2


Undercover cop Kit (Wu Jing) becomes a junkie in order to catch Mr Hung (Louis Koo), the mastermind behind a crime syndicate. When the operation goes sour and Kit blows his cover, his supervisor and uncle Wah (Simon Yam) decides to terminate the operation.

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New Releases on Netflix - Kung Fu Panda 3


After Po is reunited with his long-lost dad, the two set off for a secret panda village, where Po must quickly teach his brethren the art of kung fu when a villainous ancient spirit named Kai threatens all of China.

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New Releases on Netflix - Tom and Jerry Back to Oz


Dorothy and Tom and Jerry get thrust back to the Land of Oz when an evil Gnome King takes over the Emerald City and sends flying monkeys to Kansas to steal Dorothy's magical ruby slippers.

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New Releases on Netflix - Underdogs


In this animated fantasy, young foosball ace Amadeo is joined by a squad of magically incarnated teammates who try to help him save his town and woo back his girlfriend when his archenemy returns to settle an old score.

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New Releases on Netflix - Elvis & Nixon


Among the many strange episodes that took place in Richard Nixon's presidential administration, one of the most bizarre was Elvis Presley's surprise visit to the White House, followed by a secret meeting with the nation's commander-in-chief.

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New Releases on Netflix - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2


In this screwball sequel to the 2002 hit romantic comedy, there's a new wedding on the horizon for the wacky Portokalos clan -- and with it comes a new assortment of family crises and secrets.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Perfect Match


While womanizing Charlie claims to have no interest in a steady relationship, his pals Rick and Victor bet that Charlie can't date one woman for a month without growing attached. But after he meets the gorgeous Eva, Charlie may lose the wager.

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New Releases on Netflix - Meet My Valentine


When Tom learns he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father for his daughter before its too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, but quickly realizes he doesn't know much about her anymore. So, in order to find a perfect match, Tom endeavors to get to know her again, and during that time, remembers why he fell in love with her all those years ago.

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New Releases on Netflix - Miles Ahead


Recounting his emergence from a five-year artistic hiatus, this ambitious biopic chronicles a slice in the life of renowned jazz trumpeter Miles Davis as he tries to recover a recording stolen from his house, aided by a "Rolling Stone" reporter.

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New Releases on Netflix - Rio, I Love You


The visual and cultural contrasts within the city of Rio de Janeiro are on vivid display in these 10 short films on the theme of love -- each fashioned by a different director and each set in a different part of the city.

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New Releases on Netflix - Midnight Special


After discovering that his young son possesses extraordinary powers, a father must try to safeguard the boy not only from the intensive pursuit of government authorities but also a band of religious fanatics.

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New Releases on Netflix - O.J.: Made in America


O.J.: Made in America is an essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another crime 20 years later. His is a story that divided America like few things before or since, and it is perhaps the defining cultural tale of twentieth-century America.

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New Releases on Netflix - Orphan Black: Season 4


Clone sisters Sarah, Alison and Cosima continue their existential struggle with Castor. Meanwhile, they're forced to use radical tactics against another enemy to prevent their true identities from being discovered.

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New Releases on Netflix - Person of Interest: Season 5


Though its nemesis, Samaritan, has located and conquered the Machine, Reese and the team are determined to keep its predictive powers operative. Meanwhile, they decide to let Det. Fusco in on the Machine's existence.

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New Releases on Netflix - Royal Pains: Season 8


Sawbones Hank Lawson returns for one final round of serving the rich and afflicted in the Hamptons while searching for fulfillment in his personal life. This season's guest stars include Cloris Leachman.

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New Releases on Netflix - The 100: Season 3


With the war against Mount Weather finally won, those who remain struggle to put everything behind them and regain a sense of normality. But as further threats emerge, loyalties and limits are pushed to the brink.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Magicians: Season 1


When brainy graduate student Quentin Coldwater enters Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, he and his classmates learn that the mystical fantasy world they read about as kids is very real indeed.

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