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Wolf Hour, The (2019)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:12 +0000

June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It’s the notorious Summer of Sam and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife’s edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.

Alistair Banks Griffin

4.9

IMDb

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World Is Not Enough, The (1999)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:11 +0000

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is back. An oil tycoon is murdered in MI6, and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard (Robert Carlyle), who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous Agent, is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond gains a hand from research scientist Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), who witnesses the action which happens when Bond meets up with Renard, but Bond becomes suspicious about Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), especially when Bond’s boss, M (Dame Judi Dench) goes missing. Bond must work quickly to prevent Renard from destroying Europe.

As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.

Michael Apted

6.4

IMDb

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Snowden (2016)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:09 +0000

SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.

Soldier Traitor Spy Hero Hacker Patriot

Oliver Stone

7.3

IMDb

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Never Let Me Go (2010)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:07 +0000

As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.

Based on the best-selling novel.

Mark Romanek

7.1

IMDb

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Hunter Killer (2018)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:07 +0000

A U.S. submarine, the USS Tampa Bay, vanishes while shadowing a Russian Akula-class submarine in the Arctic. Rear Admiral John Fisk sends a Virginia-class submarine, the USS Arkansas, under the command of newly-promoted and unorthodox Commander Joe Glass to investigate. At the same time, a Navy SEAL team under the command of Lieutenant Bill Beaman is sent in to discreetly observe a Russian naval base. When they arrive at the naval base, they witness defense minister Dmitri Durov conducting a coup d’etat and taking Russian President Zakarin prisoner, and swiftly realize that Durov intends to trigger a war..

Courage Runs Deep

Donovan Marsh

6.6

IMDb

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Gentlemen, The (2019)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:05 +0000

A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.

Criminal. Class.

Guy Ritchie

7.8

IMDb

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Dunkirk (2017)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:23 +0000

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are hole up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the British soldiers and ships without much opposition. The situation looks dire and, in desperation, Britain sends civilian boats in addition to its hard-pressed Navy to try to evacuate the beleaguered forces. This is that story, seen through the eyes of a soldier amongst those trapped forces, two Royal Air Force fighter pilots, and a group of civilians on their boat, part of the evacuation fleet.

We Shall Never Surrender.

Christopher Nolan

7.9

IMDb

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I, Tonya (2017)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:23 +0000

From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to the incident: the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya’s story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented…

There’s no need to have class when you have talent.

Craig Gillespie

7.5

IMDb

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:22 +0000

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

An Epic Story of the Vietnam War [Australia Theatrical]

Stanley Kubrick

8.3

IMDb

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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:21 +0000

Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper’s executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all …

The hot-line suspense comedy.

Stanley Kubrick

8.4

IMDb

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