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If you know what’s good for you, you’ll subscribe and get on this month-long movie bender. It will cost you nothing (except approximately 60 hours of your life).
Gone Girl
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Director David Fincher (The Social Network) adapts Gillian Flynn’s bestselling mystery about the disappearance of Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) on her wedding anniversary, and the whodunnit investigation – centering on the woman’s evasive husband Nick (Ben Affleck).
La La Land
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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star in this all-singing, all-dancing musical comedy from the director of 2014’s brilliant Whiplash. Multiple award winner at the 2017 Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTAs.
Saving Private Ryan
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WWII drama following the rescue of one man, that begins with the D-Day invasion. That invasion is one of wars most famous moments, and here in the hands of director Steven Spielber it’s also one of the most intense, spellbinding war sequence in movies.
Shutter Island
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Filmmaking giant Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller is set in 1954 at Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Boston’s Shutter Island.
Parasite
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A poor family’s and a rich family’s lives unexpectedly intersect in this Best Picture Oscar-winning tragicomedy from South Korean auteur, Bong Joon-Ho (Okja).
Bridesmaids
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Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) produced comedy about a group of bridesmaids and their misguided attempt to throw a wedding party for their friend.
Suspiria
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Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) puts his own spin on Dario Argento’s classic 1977 fantasy horror. Stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Let Me In) and Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash stars Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson.
Dunkirk
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Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning World War II thriller, with Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies). Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winner of film editing, sound editing and sound mixing.
Bend It Like Beckham
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A teenage daughter of strict traditional Sikh parents has eyes for soccer stardom in this UK rom-com and surprise box office charmer.
Palm Springs
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Cristin Milioti (TV’s Fargo) and SNL’s Andy Samberg play two strangers who hook up at a wedding only to somehow be stuck reliving the same day in this rom-com that flips the time-loop genre on its head.
Drive
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Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan star in this crime thriller about a movie stuntman who also works as a getaway driver for the mafia. Nominated for the Palme d’Or and winner of Best Director at Cannes 2011. From director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson), adapted from the James Sallis novel.
Snatch
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Director Guy Ritchie returns to London’s mean streets with Vinnie Jones, Benicio Del Toro and Brad Pitt as a gypsy bare-knuckles fighter. Several interlocking plots revolve around a scramble for a stolen 86-karat diamond, an attempt to fix a boxing match and pigs.
Joker
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Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe as DC Comics villain Joker in this fresh take, set in the early 80s, co-written and directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover).
Us
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele follows his debut feature Get Out with another critically acclaimed horror-thriller.
Love Actually
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Rom-com mega-movie, from the director of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary with an all-star cast including Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and Keira Knightley.
Mean Girls
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The now famous Tina Fey-penned satire of teen-on-teen cruelty and high school pecking order. Lindsay Lohan stars as blank slate Cady Heron, a home-schooled bookworm raised in the jungles of Africa by her zoologist parents, entering the American public school system for the first time.
Sicario
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The director of Prisoners helms this Palme d’Or-nominated Cartel crime thriller led by Emily Blunt, co-starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.
Fight Club
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Adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel, with the combined talents of Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and director David Fincher making for a full-throttle exploration of life in the late 1990s.
Heat
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Michael Mann’s gripping LA crime drama following the intense rivalry between an expert thief and a volatile cop. Famed for the pairing of screen acting giants Robert de Niro and Al Pacino, and the first film to feature both actors in a scene.
V for Vendetta
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Graphic novel adaptation, written by the Wachowskis (The Matrix) starring a bald Natalie Portman and masked Hugo Weaving. Set in the future, in a cruel and corrupt, totalitarian Britain, where its citizens are whipped by a bullying nanny state.
Superbad
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Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are two socially-inept losers in their final days of high school, heavily dependent on each other, and anxiously awaiting the day they go their separate ways to different universities.
Django Unchained
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Terry Gilliam’s dystopian nightmare puts a Python-esque spin on George Orwell, featuring a rare lead performer for veteran actor Jonathan Price—who becomes locked in a hellish landscape of bureaucracy. The final shot will certainly leave a chill running down your spine.
Spider-Man
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Sam Raimi’s cinematic take on our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, the first in a trilogy, with Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker.
Man on Fire
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Oscar winner Denzel Washington plays a former CIA operative left to protect a little girl in this 2004 revenge thriller from Emmy-winning director Tony Scott (True Romance).
The Revenant
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Best Film and Actor winner at the 2016 Academyt Awards, this is director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman) and Leonardo DiCaprio’s brutal true survival tale set in 19th century American wilderness.Based on the story of fur trapper Hugh Glass.
The Last Samurai
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Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare in this epic set in the 1870s.
After We Fell
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The third film in the After series, based on Anna Todd’s novels, sees Tessa and Hardin’s relationship in turmoil when revelations about both their families come to light.
Jerry Maguire
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In writer-director Cameron Crowe’s romantic-drama, Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a struggling sports agent, enchanted by a young mother (Renee Zellweger) and overseeing the career comeback of his struggling football player client Ron Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr. in his Oscar-winning role).
The Prestige
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Set in a stylised late-Victorian world of duelling music-hall magicians and diabolically clever inventors, The Prestige has a puzzlelike structure, zipping around in time and scattering clues throughout its busy scenes and frames.
Wonder Woman
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Origin story for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman – first seen in 2016’s Batman vs Superman, from the director of Monster. Co-stars Robin Wright, Chris Pine and Connie Nielsen.
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