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Knight and Day
(M)
2010
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz star in the action-comedy Knight & day. During their glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure, nothing and no one - even the now fugitive couple - are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs trust. Knight & day is now shooting in Massachusetts, and will also film on other locations around the world including, Spain, Austria, and the tropics.

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2010
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every subject except the Latin that her father is convinced will land her the place she dreams of at Oxford University. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30-ish David (Peter Sarsgaard). Very quickly, David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and...

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An Education
(M)
2009
It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every subject except the Latin that her father is convinced will land her the place she dreams of at Oxford University. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30-ish David (Peter Sarsgaard). Very quickly, David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and...

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In The Electric Mist
(MA15+)
2009
In the steamy bayous of Louisiana, a hooker's body is found. Reformed alcoholic cop Dave Robichaux takes on the case, but he finds a drunken Hollywood star and his glamorous girlfriend - in town to shoot a civil war epic - and the local mafia kingpin, not to mention visions from the past, complicating his investigation. Is this the work of a serial killer? And what of the shackled skeleton that has floated up from the swamps?

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In the steamy bayous of Louisiana, a hooker's body is found. Reformed alcoholic cop Dave Robichaux takes on the case, but he finds a drunken Hollywood star and his glamorous girlfriend - in town to shoot a civil war epic - and the local mafia kingpin, not to mention visions from the past, complicating his investigation. Is this the work of a serial killer? And what of the shackled skeleton that has floated up from the swamps?

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Orphan (Blu-ray)
(MA15+)
2009
Young married couple Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) are devastated at the tragic loss of their unborn child, a loss that has taken a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche. When the couple decides to adopt another child they find themselves drawn to Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a young girl at the local orphanage. Almost as soon as they welcome the little girl into their home an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be. Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther's sweet façade....

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Orphan
(MA15+)
2009
Young married couple Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) are devastated at the tragic loss of their unborn child, a loss that has taken a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche. When the couple decides to adopt another child they find themselves drawn to Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a young girl at the local orphanage. Almost as soon as they welcome the little girl into their home an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be. Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther's sweet façade....

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2009
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Rendition (Blu-ray)
(MA15+)
2008
Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, with Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep head an all-star ensemble cast in "Rendition", a compelling thriller from Academy Award-winning director Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi"). Witherspoon plays Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the American wife of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) who disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. Isabella desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst (Gyllenhaal) at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the man's unorthodox interrogation.

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Jarhead (Blu-ray)
(MA15+)
2005
Adapted from Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and ex-Marine pilot William Broyles, Jr. (Apollo 13, Cast Away), Jarhead is a highly relevant, and confronting tale that brings the gut-wrenching and frightening emotional experiences of war to the forefront. The film follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a naave young recruit and his platoon mates from the intensity and camaraderie of boot camp to being shipped to a lonely outpost in a surreal desert setting.

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Rendition
(MA15+)
2008
Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, with Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep head an all-star ensemble cast in "Rendition", a compelling thriller from Academy Award-winning director Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi"). Witherspoon plays Isabella El-Ibrahimi, the American wife of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) who disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington. Isabella desperately tries to track her husband down, while a CIA analyst (Gyllenhaal) at a secret detention facility outside the U.S. is forced to question his assignment as he becomes party to the man's unorthodox interrogation.

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Year of The Dog
(M)
2007
Peggy is a happy-go-lucky secretary--a great friend, employee, and sister who lives alone with her beloved dog. But when Pencil unexpectedly dies, Peggy must embark on a journey of personal transformation.

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Caroline (Hudson), a live-in nurse, is hired to care for an elderly woman's ailing husband in their home - a foreboding and decrepit Gothic mansion in the marshy backwoods just outside of New Orleans. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple and the dark and mysterious surroundings, Caroline begins to explore the old mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret. Caroline soon discovers that the mansion is haunted by a pair of century old spirits. The spirits are evil and are manipulating the living to fit their desires, and Caroline herself is at the centre of one of their sinister schemes.

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Filled with heart-pounding suspense, this Hitchcock-like psychological thriller stars two-time Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster (The Silence Of The Lambs, Best Actress, 1991) and features an outstanding supporting cast. Flying at 37,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft, Kyle Pratt’s (Foster) six-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone and fighting for her sanity, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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Jarhead (HD DVD)
(MA15+)
2005
Adapted from Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and ex-Marine pilot William Broyles, Jr. (Apollo 13, Cast Away), Jarhead is a highly relevant, and confronting tale that brings the gut-wrenching and frightening emotional experiences of war to the forefront. The film follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a naave young recruit and his platoon mates from the intensity and camaraderie of boot camp to being shipped to a lonely outpost in a surreal desert setting.

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Jarhead
(MA15+)
2005
Adapted from Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and ex-Marine pilot William Broyles, Jr. (Apollo 13, Cast Away), Jarhead is a highly relevant, and confronting tale that brings the gut-wrenching and frightening emotional experiences of war to the forefront. The film follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a naave young recruit and his platoon mates from the intensity and camaraderie of boot camp to being shipped to a lonely outpost in a surreal desert setting.

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2005
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The Dying Gaul
(MA15+)
2005
A fledging screenwriters life changes when he is offered a million dollars for his latest and most personal work - The Dying Gaul - the raw autobiographical story of the death of his lover. But there's a catch the studio thinks the project will be much more commercially viable if he will only change the dead lover to a woman. Making the offer is a smooth ruthless and sexually avaricious studio excutive who seduces the writer with the intoxicating Hollywood cocktail of power money and sex. The studio executives wife a screenwriter herself discovers that her husband is having an affair with the young writer and the shock of that revelation and the unexpected way in which she responds sets off...

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Flightplan
(M)
2005
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

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Skeleton Key
(M)
2005
Caroline (Hudson), a live-in nurse, is hired to care for an elderly woman's ailing husband in their home - a foreboding and decrepit Gothic mansion in the marshy backwoods just outside of New Orleans. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple and the dark and mysterious surroundings, Caroline begins to explore the old mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret. Caroline soon discovers that the mansion is haunted by a pair of century old spirits. The spirits are evil and are manipulating the living to fit their desires, and Caroline herself is at the centre of one of their sinister schemes.

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Housebound
(MA15+)
2000
A young woman who is a traumatic agoraphobic as the result of rape the previous year lives her life as a virtual shut-in within the only place she feels safe - her home.  Her work is delivered by courier, she shops via catalogue and watches the world from her windows.  She has ended the fragile relationship with her boyfriend, who cannot understand her confusion and paranoia or the way she shrinks from him when they are together.  Her only human contacts are with a female colleague from work, her sister and the known couriers who deliver her supplies. She rents a room in her two-storey home to a cook on an oil rig - he has days and weeks working at sea and time on land. ...
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Kinsey
(MA15+)
2004
Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her compelling performance as Kinsey's free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.

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2004

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