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Movie: Freaks Out
[TRAILER] Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allies. [more inside]
Movie: Sisu
[TRAILER] In the waning days of WWII, an aging gold miner (Jorma Tommila) in Finnish Lapland finds a rich vein and heads home to cash in. A Nazi patrol decides they should kill him and take his gold. This is an extremely bad decision. [more inside]
Movie: Perfect Number
An isolated math teacher helps his neighbor escape suspicion when her abusive husband is murdered. [more inside]
Movie: Bartleby
A manager (David Paymer) hires a strange employee (Crispin Glover) who, at first, is exceptionally efficient but then begins to reply to any request with "I would prefer not to." An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office. [more inside]
Movie: Becky
Surly teen Becky (Lulu Wilson) turns hostile in a hurry when her widowed dad (Joel McHale) brings along his new girlfriend and her son unannounced to the family lakehouse. But when Neo-Nazi convicts on the run invade the home, led by the merciless Dominick (Kevin James), they discover there are no limits to how angry and dangerous one pissed-off teenage girl can be. [more inside]
Blue Lights: Blue Lights Season One (full) Season 1, Ep 0
Blue Lights follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers. The city, nominally "post-conflict" still has sectarian divides, paramilitaries running drug operations and conditions which make police work difficult. The Guardian "Don’t sleep on this fantastically tense Belfast cop show". The Spectator "The BBC’s Blue Lights is a near-perfect cop drama"
First shown by the BBC March 2023 and currently available on iPlayer.
Movie: Lemonade
Mara, a Romanian nurse, has married one of her patients. She is waiting for US citizenship and is being blackmailed for an alleged sham marriage. She is on her own. Her husband does not help her. Warning: this movie will make you pray for an apocalypse. [more inside]
Movie: Tyrannosaur
TRAILER Joseph (Peter Mullan), a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah (Olivia Colman), a Christian charity shop worker. [more inside]
Movie: Polite Society
The feature film debut from writer-director Nida Manzoor (We Are Lady Parts) is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action. Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, Bridgerton) practices martial arts in order to become a stuntwoman. But when her sister Lena (Ritu Arya, The Umbrella Academy) drops out of art school and suddenly gets engaged, Ria decides she and her friends must pull off a wedding-heist. [more inside]
The Last Thing He Told Me: Complete Miniseries Season 1, Ep 0
Hannah (Jennifer Garner) must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice) in order to find the truth about why her husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has mysteriously disappeared. [more inside]
Movie: I'm Not Gay A Musical
[TRAILER] Misha (Hamilton's Sydney James Harcourt), always wanted to be a dancer, but childhood trauma pushed him the other direction, as he instead became the star of an underground MMA fighting club. Because of [plot reasons], he finds his dream home on Fire Island but will have to convince the neighbors he's gay for the owner to sell it to him. But is he actually gay? What is he repressing? And yes: it's a musical. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode 23 Season 4, Ep 2
Finn isn't quite as innocent as he looks when a dark secret he's been hiding at home is revealed. Can Seth be persuaded to come out of retirement and take a power before someone gets forced into submission? Elsewhere, Rudy and Curtis go into battle over a beautiful blind girl, while Jess meets new super-sexy barman Alex. [more inside]
Movie: Hunger
A woman running her family's noodle restaurant receives an invitation to join the fine-dining industry under the tutelage of an infamous chef. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode 22 (Series 4 Premiere) Season 4, Ep 1
Some lost, some moved on, the remaining members of the gang continue their community service. Two new offenders join the community service team: Jess and Finn. The new offenders quickly realize something is not right as the others have been infected with some sort of virus after a badly hurt man, with a briefcase handcuffed to him, stumbles into the community center and collapses at their feet. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Twenty-One (Series 3 Finale) Season 3, Ep 8
Jonas, the newest superpowered person to turn up at the community center is a medium who can conjure the dead... bad news when you consider how many people the gang has bumped off over the years. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Twenty Season 3, Ep 7
Seth gives Curtis the power to reanimate the dead, having him bring his dead & buried girlfriend back to life. That goes great. And hey, there's a new probation worker. Wonder how long she is going to... oh. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Nineteen Season 3, Ep 6
After a drunken one-night-stand with a mysterious girl, Rudy discovers that he has a strange superpower-caused STD. With only 24 hours to undo the curse, Rudy enlists Simon to help him find the girl. Meanwhile something weird is happening with Curtis' gender-swap power, and Seth finally finds the superpower that he's been searching for. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Eighteen Season 3, Ep 5
Kelly is accidentally body-swapped with a coma patient. Rudy gets anger management therapy. [more inside]
Movie: Empire of Light
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
Misfits: Episode Seventeen Season 3, Ep 4
Elderly Jew Friedrich Hirsch, having purchased Curtis's rewind power from power broker Seth, travels back to 1930s Berlin to kill Hitler. He fails, in doing so, dropping his cell phone, giving the Nazis technology which alters history so Germany wins the war. In the altered present, Britain is under Nazi control, and none of the misfits know each other. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Sixteen Season 3, Ep 3
Simon stops the mugging of a comic book fan named Peter. The two become fast friends until Alisha discovers Peter might be influencing Simon with powers of his own. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Fifteen Season 3, Ep 2
Curtis uses his new power to bypass his ban on competitive athletics. Along the way, he meets Emma, a fellow athlete on whom he starts to develop a crush. Back at the community center, the gang confronts new girl Melissa as Kelly thinks she and Simon are having a secret affair. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode 14 Season 3, Ep 1
Each member of the gang has acquired new powers. They meet Rudy, who has the power of having a double (who seems to be his more sensitive side). Meanwhile, the gang is confronted by an unstable girl who has the ability to freeze everyone around her. [more inside]
Misfits: Vegas Baby! (One-Off Special Short) Season 3, Ep 10000
Nathan and Marnie dash off to Las Vegas to make a fortune with Nathan's new power: the gift of being able to slightly alter reality. Back home, there's a new guy doing community service at the community center: Rudy (Joseph Gilgun). [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Thirteen (2010 Christmas Special) Season 2, Ep 7
The week before Christmas, and the gang see some graffiti that offers "Money for Powers." At the address advertised they meet Seth, a drug dealer who was also struck in the storm and now has the ability to deal powers. Also a man who can walk on water and claims to be Jesus attracts a following. [more inside]
Movie: The Silent Twins
Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate with anyone but each other. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Twelve Season 2, Ep 6
After the existence of super-powers are exposed to the world at large, the gang become celebrity super-heroes, known as the "ASBO Five." There is serious money to be made, as long as the gang can manage to handle their fame, but as they settle in at a luxury hotel, they find their renown has made them the target of... The Milk Guy? [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Eleven Season 2, Ep 5
Not for the first time, Nathan is violently murdered. Jessica (Zawe Ashton), a charity worker who's all sweetness and light, is his prime suspect. The others are convinced that Simon is next on her list. While Kelly seems to have found her perfect man in Bruno (Richard Riddell), he's on the run from the police. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Ten Season 2, Ep 4
New boy Ollie turns up to start his community payback and it turns out he has a power too, could the gang be getting a new member? When they are all out picking up rubbish on the street, they bump into Tim, who has a few anger issues, and he's soon ready to take it out on them. Meanwhile, Nikki has a heart-transplant which causes some interesting side-effects. [more inside]
Movie: The Park
After a virus kills all of the Earth's adults, rival children battle for control of an abandoned theme park. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Nine Season 2, Ep 3
Superhoodie saves Alisha from a mugging on the estate. It appears he is able to touch Alisha without being affected by her powers and she is intrigued. Alisha is determined to find out more about him, but soon discovers she's out of her depth. Meanwhile, Nathan, Kelly and Simon go to a tattoo parlour, where Nathan manages to offend Vince, the tattooist and, soon after, Nathan begins to act strangely. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Eight Season 2, Ep 2
A stranger turns up and claims to be Nathan's half brother, Jamie, who might've made a misstep in his quest to patch things up with their father. Meanwhile, the group continue to try to find out more about Superhoodie, though where he leads them might not be where they expect. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode 7 Season 2, Ep 1
With Sally presumed missing, a new probation worker named Shaun takes over her duties. Superhoodie returns with an important message. An art therapy class for the mentally ill is taking place in the community centre and one of the patients, Lucy, appears to be obsessed with Simon. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode 6 Season 1, Ep 6
The gang notice that local youths have strangely stopped getting drunk, taking drugs, or having sex. Behind it is a cult-like organization called "Virtue," run by Rachel (guest star Jessica Brown-Findlay), a mysterious girl with a commanding storm-based power of suggestion. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Five Season 1, Ep 5
The newest person to turn up at the rec center with powers is Finn, a 9 month-old baby who mesmerizes Nathan into wanting to be his daddy. Sally continues to manipulate Simon, in search of answers for what happened to Tony. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Four Season 1, Ep 4
Curtis is confronted by his ex-girlfriend, who went to prison for the same drug incident that got him banned from the Olympics. Trying to make things right for her, and himself, Curtis finds that changing the past had unintended ripple effects. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Three Season 1, Ep 3
Alisha finds her power always works, but that just makes connecting with the person she really wants that much more difficult. Simon's online flirtation with shygirl18 seems to be a catfish from someone close by with nefarious intent. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode Two Season 1, Ep 2
Nathan falls for a beautiful young woman at the home for the elderly where the team is doing community service. Is she a volunteer... or a resident? Curtis and Alisha keep flirting. Simon chats up someone calling themselves "shygirl18" online. Ominous notes threatening the gang imply that someone else knows what happened with the probation officer. [more inside]
Misfits: Episode One Season 1, Ep 1
[SERIES TRAILER] When a group of young adults on court-ordered community service gets caught in a freak storm on the first day, some of them discover they have superpowers. It's like X-Men, if instead of struggling with the responsibilities of their powers, they all just sort of went on with their crappy lives. [more inside]
Movie: Triple Frontier (2019)
Loyalties are tested when five friends and former special forces operatives reunite to take down a South American drug lord, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences. [more inside]
Movie: Taps
Lessons are learned when cadets at a military school stand up for their values and traditions. [more inside]
Movie: 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
[TRAILER] Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell. [more inside]
Movie: 47 Meters Down
[TRAILER] Two sisters (Mandi Moore, Claire Holt) on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface. [more inside]
Movie: Daybreakers
[TRAILER] Ten years after a plague turns most of the world's population into vampires, a critical blood shortage causes panic and gruesome mutations among the reanimated. Edward (Ethan Hawke), a vampire hematologist, tries to develop a blood substitute when he meets Lionel (Willem Dafoe) and Audrey (Claudia Karvan), two fugitive humans who claim to have a possible cure. Edward casts his lot with them in the hope of perfecting the cure before it's too late. [more inside]
Movie: War Horse
[TRAILER] On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home. [more inside]
Movie: The Fall
[TRAILER] In a hospital on the outskirts of silent film era Los Angeles, bedridden injured stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) passes the time by telling his fellow patient Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), a little Romanian girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. [more inside]
Movie: Magic Mike's Last Dance
[TRAILER] "Magic" Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) who lures him with an offer he can't refuse... and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he--and the roster of hot new dancers he'll have to whip into shape--be able to pull it off? [more inside]
Movie: Proof (2005)
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, comes to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. [more inside]
Movie: The Color Purple
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker. [more inside]
Movie: The Sugarland Express
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) and Clovis Poplin (William Atherton) lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman. [more inside]