Sunday 26 March 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Doctor Strange


After an auto accident ends his career as a neurosurgeon, Stephen Strange embarks on a quest to heal himself. His path leads him to the Ancient One, a mysterious mentor who trains Strange to defend Earth by becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme.

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New Releases on Netflix - Monster High: Electrified


When Clawdeen dreams of opening a salon made for monsters and normies, Frankie has the perfect place - an abandoned power station outside town. But the idea sparks negative voltage when Moanica plots to ruin the whole thing, and replace the celebration with something a little more...shocking! Luckily the ghouls have a secret weapon on their side - Twyla, the daughter of the Boogey Man, and the perfect ghoul to unearth any mystery. Along with her ghoulfriends, they must thwart Moanica's plan, charge up their outfits, save the normie town from darkness - and open the most voltageous salon ever! So catch every twist, turn, zap and blast...because the Monster High ghouls are about to get ELECTRIC!

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New Releases on Netflix - 20th Century Women


In 1979 Southern California, bohemian single mom Dorothea Fields looks to a pair of women from different generations to help teach her teenage son lessons about love and life. But he gets another perspective after Dorothea takes in a male boarder.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Tale of Love and Darkness


Bringing to life the memoir of celebrated Israeli author Amos Oz, this affecting drama depicts his early years, when his family was swept up in the turbulence and violence of Israel's founding as a nation.

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New Releases on Netflix - Patriots Day


A tragic bombing near the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon sets off a citywide manhunt for the perpetrators. With residents devastated by the events, Sgt. Tommy Saunders and the Boston Police Department zero in on two suspects.

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New Releases on Netflix - Rules Don't Apply


When Southern beauty Marla Mabrey arrives in Hollywood to work for Howard Hughes, his driver, Frank Forbes, meets her at the airport. Sparks fly immediately between the two, but dating among the billionaire's employees is strictly prohibited.

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New Releases on Netflix - Silence


In 17th-century Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate is determined to rid the country of Western influences, starting with the Catholic Church. When two Jesuit priests from Portugal arrive looking for their mentor, they face persecution and violence.

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New Releases on Netflix - Arsenal


In this absorbing crime thriller, a successful businessman is forced to take matters into his own hands when his deadbeat brother is abducted and held for a hefty ransom by a ruthless mobster.

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New Releases on Netflix - Shut In


In the midst of a ferocious winter gale, a child psychologist and her son are snowbound in their isolated New England home when a gang of men break in, seeking much more than shelter from the storm.

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New Releases on Netflix - After Porn Ends 2


After Porn Ends 2 picks up where it's predecessor left off and not only turns back the clock to meet the oldest living stars in adult film's history, but goes in depth with some of Its most current retirees and juxtaposes their experiences in a life after porn. Can one live a normal after having performed in adult movies? Delving deeper into society's ongoing stigmas and the reality of decreasing opportunities for these former cover stars.

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New Releases on Netflix - For Grace


Curtis Duffy, one of the country's most renowned chefs, is building his dream restaurant at the worst time of his personal life. Already the recipient of two coveted stars from the Michelin Guide, Duffy has ambitions for his Chicago restaurant Grace to become the best in the country. But his laser focus at his cooking career cost Duffy his marriage and two young daughters. For Grace is the revealing feature-length documentary by Chicago filmmakers Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski. The film follows the building of Grace from concrete box to its opening night, showing as few films have before the exacting standards required in luxury dining.

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New Releases on Netflix - Archer: Season 7


Master spy Archer continues to stir the pot of unrest within his agency even as he and his colleagues are up to their ears in covert operations, high-stakes reconnaissance work and global espionage.

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Tuesday 21 March 2017

Sunday 19 March 2017

Are big budget TV dramas killing film?

One of the UK's top film producers says cinema is being "squeezed" by big-budget TV dramas like The Crown.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bakery in Brooklyn


Vivien and Chloe have just inherited their Aunt's bakery, a boulangerie that has been a cornerstone of the neighborhood for years. Chloe wants a new image and product, while Vivien wants to make sure nothing changes. Their clash of ideas leads to a peculiar solution, they split the shop in half. But Vivien and Chloe will have to learn to overcome their differences in order to save the bakery and everything that truly matters in their lives.

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New Releases on Netflix - Multiple Maniacs


The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters (Hairspray) is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine (Pink Flamingos).

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New Releases on Netflix - In Dubious Battle


Helmed by actor James Franco, this cinematic adaptation of John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel follows a pair of young activists who pose as California apple pickers to organize the workers and incite a strike over pay cuts.

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New Releases on Netflix - Julieta


As she stands on the threshold of madness, 55-year-old teacher Julieta looks back at her tumultuous life over the past three decades -- which have brought happiness, heartbreak and guilt.

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New Releases on Netflix - Ali & Nino


Living in Azerbaijan, Muslim teen Ali and his Christian sweetheart, Nino, have been in love since they were children. But the outbreak of World War I and their nation's battle for independence put the young couple's love to the test.

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New Releases on Netflix - 10 Days in a Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story


While working for publisher Joseph Pulitzer, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly engineers her admission to an infamous women's mental asylum to expose the facility's nightmarish conditions and abuses by the staff -- which include rape and murder.

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New Releases on Netflix - A Kind of Murder


Fantasizing about murder and committing the deed are two different things. But they become uncomfortably close for architect and mystery writer Walter Stackhouse, whose guilty conscience puts him in a suspicious light when his wife is found dead.

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New Releases on Netflix - Nocturnal Animals


When Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her estranged ex-husband, she finds herself confronting her past while becoming increasingly immersed in the story -- a thriller in which a professor's ordinary life is violently derailed.

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New Releases on Netflix - Tower


A grisly template for mass school shootings in America was forged on Aug. 1, 1966, when lone gunman Charles Whitman killed 14 passers-by and wounded 32 more from a sniper's perch in the clock tower of the University of Texas at Austin.

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New Releases on Netflix - Fire at Sea


An island halfway between Sicily and Libya has become the vortex of Europe's immigration struggles, as observed in this documentary on Lampedusa, where more than 150,000 Africans each year make their first contact with European soil.

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New Releases on Netflix - Insecure: Season 1


Best friends Issa and Molly are intent on carving out happy, successful lives for themselves in Los Angeles, but they have their work cut out as they struggle to find their places in the bustling megalopolis.

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New Releases on Netflix - Master of None: Season 1


Thirty-year-old Dev is pursuing an acting career in New York City and, like most would-be thespians, he has some time on his hands. How he uses it -- and the subjects he chooses to ruminate on -- provide the fodder for this laugh-out-loud sitcom.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 3


Detectives Mike Shepherd and Kristin Sims continue to butt heads this season as they find themselves dealing with a Santa whose throat has been slit, a death by spider bite and a coffin containing the wrong corpse.

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Wednesday 15 March 2017

Steve Carell answers Despicable questions

The minions are back in our cinemas this June, and we've been catching up with Steve Carell, who voices the character of Gru...

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Monday 13 March 2017

Sunday 12 March 2017

New Releases on Netflix - The Edge of Seventeen


Nadine and Krista are the closest of high school chums. But after Nadine finds out that Krista is secretly dating Nadine's detested older brother, the two friends soon turn into the worst of enemies.

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New Releases on Netflix - Being 17


Teenage classmates Thomas Charpoul and Damien Delille are permanently on bad terms. But when Thomas' pregnant mother is hospitalized, Damien's mom offers to take Thomas in -- which doesn't sit well with either boy.

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New Releases on Netflix - Bleed for This


Legendary boxer Vinny Pazienza rocketed to stardom after he unseated then-champion Gilbert Dele, but Pazienza's reign was cut short when he was involved in a near-fatal car crash. This inspiring biopic depicts the pugilist's remarkable comeback.

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New Releases on Netflix - Fences


Working as a trash collector in 1950s Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson struggles to raise his family while trying to transcend the bitter experience of being a talented baseball player denied the opportunity to play in the majors because of his race.

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New Releases on Netflix - Priceless


In desperate need of money, James doesn't ask questions when he's offered hard cash to drive a small truck cross-country to make a delivery. But after learning that his cargo is human, he feels compelled to help his two passengers.

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New Releases on Netflix - Being 17


Teenage classmates Thomas Charpoul and Damien Delille are permanently on bad terms. But when Thomas' pregnant mother is hospitalized, Damien's mom offers to take Thomas in -- which doesn't sit well with either boy.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Love Witch


Gorgeous young witch Elaine is a serial seductress, intent on finding the perfect mate and armed with love potions that will turn any man into her willing, spineless slave -- but that's the exact opposite of what she's looking for.

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New Releases on Netflix - Passengers


During the 120-year journey of the "Starship Avalon" to a distant planetary colony, a computer glitch rouses mechanic Jim Preston from hibernation decades ahead of schedule. Desperate for company, Preston wakes up female journalist Aurora Dunn.

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New Releases on Netflix - Elle


After ruthless businesswoman Michèle becomes the victim of a brutal rape, she begins an obsessive hunt for her assailant. When she tracks him down, the two begin a macabre dialogue that Michèle can't resist, despite the danger.

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New Releases on Netflix - Eloise


Looking for the death certificate he needs to receive a large inheritance, Jacob and his pals venture into a vast, shuttered mental asylum to search for the document. Instead, they find something else that endangers their sanity.

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New Releases on Netflix - Solace


Dr. John Clancy has retired, but his unique psychic abilities compel his friend from the FBI to ask for Clancy's help one last time -- to track down a serial killer with a ghastly technique and prophetic powers of his own.

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New Releases on Netflix - Stray Bullets


For teenagers Ash and Connor, the dreary task of clearing out their dad's old mobile home takes an unexpected turn when they discover that a trio of crooks is using the place to hide out from a hit man.

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New Releases on Netflix - Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things


Less has never meant more than it does to the architects, designers, musicians, businessmen and regular folk profiled here -- all of whom are self-proclaimed minimalists focused on getting the most out of life by living with the least.

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New Releases on Netflix - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 2


Now that Kimmy has caught up with the culture that left her behind when she was held hostage for more than a decade, it's time for her to take a close look at her personal life -- including her relationship with the now-married Dong.

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Tuesday 7 March 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Justice League Dark


When the Justice League comes upon a supernatural force against which even their powers seem useless, Batman assembles a second League of mystic heroes - the likes of Swamp Thing, the Demon, and Constantine - to help defeat this magical, otherworldly threat.

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New Releases on Netflix - Miss Hokusai


As the daughter of master Japanese woodblock print maker Hokusai, O-Ei is herself a skilled painter. The girl's talent may even surpass her father's, as she creates exquisite artwork that she passes off as his, and which provoke powerful responses.

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New Releases on Netflix - Killing Reagan


Centering on John Hinckley Jr.'s March 1981 attempt on the life of President Ronald Reagan, this made-for-TV drama chronicles the events that led to the incident and how it altered Reagan's presidency.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Americans: Season 4


As the season begins, Elizabeth and Philip must grapple with the consequences of everything they've wrought. Meanwhile, Stan may be getting closer to learning the truth about his neighbors.

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Monday 6 March 2017

Sunday 5 March 2017

New Releases on Netflix - Check Point


Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. When the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other towns folk he begins to look into the vagrants' claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals within this small town. After evidence of a beheading is exposed, others begin to fear that the insurgents attack on hometown USA.

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New Releases on Netflix - Scooby Doo! Shaggy's Showdown


Strap on your spurs and join Scooby-Doo and the gang for a frightfully wacky ride in this all-new original movie. You're in a for a heap of wild surprises. But beware...the ghost of the scalawag outlaw Dapper Jack has a hankering to rattle you and the other guests. Can our mystery-loving posse round up this dreadful critter and save the ranch?

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New Releases on Netflix - Trolls


Inspired by the beloved troll dolls that have entertained kids for decades, this animated tale follows the always-happy Princess Poppy and her grouchy survivalist companion Branch as they embark on a journey that takes them into an unfamiliar world.

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New Releases on Netflix - Almost Christmas


In their first Christmas gathering since the family matriarch's death, her widowed husband implores the assembled clan to suspend their incessant bickering. But despite their best efforts, it's not long before the truce goes out the window.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Brand New Testament


Putting a goofy spin on Christian theology, this divine comedy portrays God as an irascible resident of Brussels, whose defiant daughter hacks into His computer, learns each living person's date of death and tips everyone off through text messages.

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New Releases on Netflix - The Matchbreaker


Desperate to earn cash after getting sacked, Ethan Cooper accepts an offer from a girl's mom to break up her daughter's relationship. But when other parents learn of Ethan's success, the one-off job turns into a professional "match-breaking" service.

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New Releases on Netflix - 100 Streets


One square mile, 100 streets: These are the boundaries of this London-set ensemble drama that shows how disparate lives connect in surprising and vital ways -- from an ex-rugby star to a drug dealer, a cab driver and more.

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