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  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick, "Paycheck" is about world famous genius Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck), who does specialized projects for high-tech corporations. Once a job is complete, his memory is erased so as not to divulge any company secrets. Highly paid for his work, Jennings expects to earn $4.4 billion for his latest 5-year project, but upon completion of the job, instead of a big paycheck, he is given an envelope full of random objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all payment. With his memory erased per usual, Jennings has no defense, until he discovers that the objects are clues to his past. Now, with the help of Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has worked with and loved for the last three years, Jennings is in a race against time to put the pieces of his past together before the people he once worked for have him killed.

Ben Affleck, Dean Georgaris, John Davis, Aaron Eckhart, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, James Gray, Scott Frank

PG-13
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  • 3.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

A mystery suspense thriller based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel about a team of student archaeologists on a dig at a medieval site in France. When Professor Johnston, their team leader, disappears, they suddenly find themselves in 14th century feudal France on a perilous journey beyond their wildest dreams. Now, to find their missing professor and avoid a potentially catastrophic event, they won't be excavating the past, they'll be living it.

Gerard Butler, Michael Sheen, Lauren Shuler Donner, Richard Donner, Michael Crichton, Jeff Maguire, Paul Walker, Billy Connolly

PG-13
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  • 3 / 5

out of 5 stars

n their first film together, screen legends Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman face off in this electrifying nail-biter about a ruthless jury consultant who'll do anything to win. With lives and millions of dollars at stake, the fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member (John Cusack) and a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who offer to "deliver" the verdict to the highest bidder.

John Cusack, Arnon Milchan, Rachel Weisz, Jeremy Piven, David Levien, John Grisham, Bruce McGill, Nick Searcy

PG-13
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  • 3.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

On August 20th 1973, police were dispatched to the remote farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt, a former head-skinner at a local slaughterhouse in Travis County, Texas. What they found within the confines of his cryptic residence was the butchered remains of 33 victims, a chilling discovery that shocked and horrified a nation in what many still call the most gruesome mass murder case of all time. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh masks of his victims, the killer became forever known as "Leatherface" when sensational headlines were splashed across newspapers throughout the state of Texas: "House of Horrors Stuns Nation - Massacre in Texas." Police and FBI eventually gunned down a man wearing a leathery mask and declared they had their killer and abruptly closed the case. However, in the years that followed, many close to the grisly murder case would come forward to level accusations that police had botched the investigation and knowingly killed the wrong man. Now, for the first time, the only known survivor of the killing spree has broken the silence and come forward to tell the real story of what happened on that deserted rural Texas highway when a group of five young kids inadvertently found themselves besieged by a chainsaw wielding madman who would leave a trail of blood and terror that would forever be known as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Michael Bay, Jessica Biel, Mike Fleiss, Eric Balfour, Andrew Form, Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, Andrew Bryniarski

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  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

Alex Bernier (Heath Ledger) is a member of an arcane order of priests who is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of the head of this order. The body may be of a Sin Eater, a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and therefore a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the church. Alex enlists the aid of his old comrade Father Thomas and of a troubled artist (Shannyn Sossamon) upon whom he once performed an exorcism. He soon finds himself plunged directly into the face of unimaginable evil, murder, and ultimately, a fate worse than death.

Craig Baumgarten, Heath Ledger, Benno Furmann, Adam Merims, Tim Van Rellim, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Peter Weller

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  • 2.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

When Jimmy Markum's daughter is found murdered, his childhood friend Sean Devine--now a detective--is assigned to the case. Sean's personal life starts unraveling, as his investigation takes him back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. It also puts him on a collision course with Jimmy Markum, a man with his own mysterious dark past, who is now eager to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, a man who hides monstrous secrets beneath a bland facade--secrets that his wife, Celeste, is only beginning to suspect. As the race for a killer heats up, all are pulled closer toward an abyss that will force them to face their true selves--and will mark them as irrevocably, as the past itself has tainted their lives.

Robert Lorenz, Clint Eastwood, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Emmy Rossum, Judie Hoyt, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon

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  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

As its 23 horrifying days of flesh-eating come to an end, an ancient creature known as the Creeper embarks on a final voracious feeding frenzy, terrorizing a group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches stranded on a remote highway after their bus breaks down. Fighting their own fears and prejudices while trapped aboard the isolated bus, the terrified group of young athletes are forced to come together and do battle against the winged creature hell-bent on completing its grizzly ritual of feasting on humans.

Gina Philips, Jonathan Breck, Marieh Delfino, Al Santos, Tom Luse, Victor Salva, Ray Wise, Billy Aaron Brown

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  • 5 / 5

out of 5 stars

This is the story of an illegal Honduran immigrant living in the U.S., Pablo Fernandez (Jesus Nebot), working on a tomato farm, who gets in trouble when he accidentally hits a girl with his employer's truck. Deciding to try to escape the law, Pablo goes on the run with his young daughter, Christina (Chelsea Rendon), but as the title says there is "no turning back." As he flees, his experience is recorded in print and on video by a mysterious "guerrilla journalist" (Lindsay Price), who also helps him hide from his pursuers.

Jesus Nebot, Lindsay Price, Chelsea Rendon, Joe Estevez, Kenya Moore, Paul Ganus, Susan Haskell, Robert Vestal

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  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

A virus that locks those infected into a permanent state of killing rage, is accidentally released from a British research facility. Carried by animals and humans, the virus is impossible to contain, and spreads across the entire planet. Twenty-eight days later, a small group of survivors are trapped in London, caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. As they attempt to salvage a future from the apocalypse, they find that their most deadly enemy is not the virus, but other survivors.

Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald, Greg Caplan, Brendan Gleeson, Jukka Hiltunen, Cillian Murphy, Simon Fallon, Noah Huntley

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  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

Polite, mild-mannered Dan Mahowny is an assistant bank manager with a head for numbers, a knack for making decisions, and a devastating appetite for gambling. Dan Mahowny is the unlikely hero who takes on two of the financial institutions everyone loves to hate, the bank and the casino, and, for a brief while, he wins.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Hurt, Richard Kwietniowski, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, Judi Embden, Matthew Ferguson, M.J. Kang

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  • 2.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

A phone call can change your life, but for one man it can also end it. Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, "Phone Booth" follows a slick media consultant (Colin Farrell) who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot dead if he hangs up.

Radha Mitchell, Joel Schumacher, Colin Farrell, Katie Holmes, Ted Kurdyla, Forest Whitaker, Richard T. Jones, Gil Netter

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  • 2.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

Caught in a savage rainstorm, ten travelers are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. They soon realize they've found anything but shelter. There is a killer among them and, one by one, they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living, one thing becomes clear: Each of them was drawn to the motel, not by accident or circumstance, but by forces beyond imagination, forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny.

Ray Liotta, John Cusack, James Mangold, Cathy Konrad, Michael Cooney, Clea DuVall, John Hawkes, Jake Busey

PG-13
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  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

In director Antoine Fuqua's new action-adventure film, Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he's sent into the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. Though a fictionalization, Tears of the Sun deals with the gritty realism of human conflict as Lt. Waters travels to war-torn central Africa to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. citizen who runs a mission in the countryside. But when Lt. Waters arrives Dr. Kendricks refuses to abandon the refugees under her care. She implores Waters to escort them on a dangerous trek through the dense jungle to the nearby border. During the journey the S.E.A.L.s find themselves the unwitting guardians of a man sought by the rebel militia. This further endangers their already hazardous mission, but all the while strengthening Waters' resolve to protect Lena and the refugees, and to deliver them safely across the border.

Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Antoine Fuqua, Johnny Messner, Patrick Cirillo, Alex Lasker, Mike Lobell

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  • 2.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

A DEA agent's (John Travolta) latest assignment is to investigate the bizarre disappearance of an Army drill instructor (Samuel L. Jackson) and several of his cadets during what was to be a routine training exercise.

Andy Garcia, Samuel L. Jackson, Mike Medavoy, Taye Diggs, John Travolta, Michael Tadross, John McTiernan, Arnie Messer

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  • 2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Rising young artist Angelique (Audrey Tautou) lives in a candy-colored fantasy world. From the moment she flashes her smile and persuades a flower shop owner to deliver a surprise single rose to her lover Loic (Samuel Le Bihan), the world has – again – fallen under her spell. In the glorious throes of true love, Angelique is happily planning her future: a career as a painter and a future with Loic… what more could she desire? But things are rarely as they seem and Loic, a married cardiologist, has a slightly more jaded take on their affair…

Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carre, Audrey Tautou, Clement Sibony

PG-13
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  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

David Gale is a man who has tried hard to live by his principles but, in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on Death Row for the rape and murder of fellow activist Constance Harraway. With only three days before his scheduled execution, Gale agrees to give Pulitzer-hungry reporter Bitsey Bloom the exclusive interview she's been chasing. But Bitsey soon realizes that this assignment is more than she bargained for, and that a man's life is in her hands. Putting her own safety in jeopardy, she frantically races to piece together the shocking events surrounding Constance's death before it's too late.

Nicolas Cage, Leon Rippy, Kevin Spacey, Alan Parker, Laura Linney, Kate Winslet, Elizabeth Gast, Gabriel Mann

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  • 2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Spider is a strange and lonely man. After a long period in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights and sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother, a trauma which occurred, he believes, because his plumber father, Bill Cleg, murdered her in order to move a prostitute, Yvonne, into the house in her place.

Ralph Fiennes, David Cronenberg, John Neville, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, Gary Reineke

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

changed release date from TBA 2027 to March 17, 2028

Lifeline

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Invasion

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Jazzy

changed release date from TBA to February 7, 2025

Werwulf

changed release date from TBA to December 25, 2026

Mercy

changed release date from August 15, 2025 to January 23, 2026
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