Sam (Karen Gillan), a professional assassin, is sent by Nathan (Paul Giamatti) to kill David (Samuel Anderson), who has stolen from the organization they both work for. Only after she shoots him does Sam discover that the money was so that David could pay the ransom of his daughter Emily (Chloe Coleman). Uh oh. Sam decides to rescue the kid, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong, naturally.
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Between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) is on the run and by herself. Not for long, though, as a run-in with the supervillain Taskmaster (?) and a mysterious MacGuffin has her reuniting with familiar faces from her past. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Alexie Shostakov (David Harbour), and Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz), who once posed as a family in an undercover mission from the Red Room. The same organization that they need to take down in the present.
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Following the President of the United States coming under fire for acting inappropriately against a “Firefly Girl,” Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is brought in to do damage control. To that end, Brean enlists Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to manufacture a fake war with Albania to get the American public talking about something else. And they do so with all the snappy dialogue that co-writer David Mamet specializes in.
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Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) is a legal guardian who gets her elderly wards assigned to assisted living facilities to sell off their house and belongings while also stealing their life savings. That is so appalling yet legal, you know there is a 100% chance of it happening in real life. One day, Marla bites off a bit more than she can chew with Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), who ends up being the mother of Russian gangster Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage).
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Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is a high school senior who, for a price, writes her classmates papers as part of what seems to be an open secret. One day, Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) approaches her with a request that’s a little different. He wants her to write a love letter to the girl he has a crush on, Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire). Ellie agrees because she needs the money, but complications occur because Ellie also likes Aster.
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Tyler Burnside (Charlie Plummer) is the teenage son of boy scout leader and pillar of the community Don Burnside (Dylan McDermott). After borrowing his dad’s truck, Tyler discovers a piece of bondage porn. His curiosity piqued, he keeps digging and uncovers evidence that Don might be the Clovehitch Killer, a serial killer who just disappeared years ago. To figure out the truth, he teams up with Kassi (Madisen Beaty), a girl his age who has a deep interest in the Clovehitch case.
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The Stepfather (1987) is about an unnamed serial killer (Terry O’Quinn) who’d marry single mothers, only to kill his new family when they inevitably fail to live up to his Leave it to Beaver aspirations. He is currently married to Susan Main (Shelley Hack) and her daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), whose father died a year before the movie’s events. Oh Stephanie, they served the leftover food from your father’s funeral at your mother’s wedding. Prince Hamlet feels your pain.
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Strange Days is the 1995 cult classic that put director Kathryn Bigelow’s career on life support until she rebounded with The Hurt Locker. In the then-future, two days prior to Y2K, Strange Days is the tale of civil unrest, militant police forces, racial tension, and a high crime rate. You know, kind of like what’s happening right now, Except for how we don’t have the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device or SQUID for short. A device that lets you relive the memories of yourself or others.
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Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) is a cop who plays by his own rules and who doesn’t work with no partner because the rest of the precinct thinks he’s a rat. Yes, he is the coppiest cop in all of fictionland. Zeke must solve the case of a Jigsaw copycat killer who wants to play a game with the departments’ corrupt officers. To do so, he must work with his new partner William Schenk (Max Minghella). Meanwhile, Samuel L. Jackson is wasted playing Zeke’s former police captain father, Marcus.
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Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) must assemble a team to perform a daring casino heist. First, they must sneak into a quarantine Las Vegas, avoiding the numerous undead, switch on the casino generators, break into the uncrackable vault, make their way to the casino roof with the abandoned helicopter, and fly away before the whole city gets nuked. Yes, that is their entire plan, and only one person points out how utterly crazy the whole thing is.
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