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Stranger Things – Season 3 (2019)

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:30:54 +0000

Summer brings new jobs and budding romance. But the mood shifts when Dustin’s radio picks up a Russian broadcast, and Will senses something is wrong. In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child, which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town, while a few locals begin to understand that there’s more going on than meets the eye.

8.9Rating: 8.9 / 10 from 599,351 usersMetascore: N/A

When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.

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The Wolfman (2010)

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:25:23 +0000

Lawrence Talbot’s (Benicio Del Toro’s) childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother Ben’s (Simon Merrells’) fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father’s estate to learn that his brother’s mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father Sir John Talbot (Sir Anthony Hopkins), Lawrence sets out to find his brother’s killer, and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) comes to investigate.

5.8Rating: 5.8 / 10 from 98,005 usersMetascore: 43

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

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VoxLux (2018)

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:22:29 +0000

Vox Lux follows the rise of Celeste from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop super stardom. The film spans 18 years and traces important cultural moments through her eyes, starting in 1999 and concluding in 2017. In 1999, teenage Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survives a violent tragedy. After singing at a memorial service, Celeste transforms into a burgeoning pop star with the help of her songwriter sister (Stacy Martin) and a talent manager (Jude Law). Celeste’s meteoric rise to fame and concurrent loss of innocence dovetails with a shattering terrorist attack on the nation, elevating the young powerhouse to a new kind of celebrity: American icon, secular deity, global superstar. By 2017, adult Celeste (Natalie Portman) is mounting a comeback after a scandalous incident that derailed her career.

6.0Rating: 6.0 / 10 from 9,451 usersMetascore: 67

An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.

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The Kingdom (2007)

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:14:53 +0000

A secret FBI squad travels to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to investigate a deadly al-Qaida terrorist bombing targeting Americans. After a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

7.0Rating: 7.0 / 10 from 112,720 usersMetascore: 56

A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

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Slasher – Season 3 (2019)

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:29:20 +0000

Rampaging serial killers leave carnage in their wake as their next victims fight to stay alive in this horror anthology series. Slasher is a Canadian-American television drama-anthology series starring Katie McGrath. Slasher is the first own-produced series by U.S. TV channel Chiller and centers around a young woman, Sarah, who is confronted with a series of horrifying copycat murders, that are based on the widely-known killings of her parents years ago.

6.7Rating: 6.7 / 10 from 9,045 usersMetascore: N/A

An anthology series featuring rampaging serial killers leaving carnage in their wake as their next victims fight to stay alive.

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Girlfight (2000)

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:08:32 +0000

At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she’s close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It’s soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him.

6.8Rating: 6.8 / 10 from 8,940 usersMetascore: 70

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

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Midnight Express (1978)

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:56:16 +0000

On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy’s troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason.

7.6Rating: 7.6 / 10 from 65,501 usersMetascore: 59

Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

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