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Ella McCay

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  • Title: Ella McCay
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In a world where everyone is neurotic, but only in the cutest possible ways, Emma Mackey stars as Lt. Governor Ella McCay who gets promoted to become Governor when her boss (Albert Brooks) gets tapped for a Federal position. Hardworking and dedicated but lacking the people skills to smooth over her rougher edges, Ella is also dealing with the return of her estranged father (Woody Harrelson), the demands of her idiot of a husband (Jack Lowden), concerns over her sort of agoraphobic younger brother (Spike Fearn), and the tamest sex scandal ever seen in politics.

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Marty Supreme

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  • Title: Marty Supreme
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I’m never rooting for Marty Mauser, and, for me, that limits how far Marty Supreme can reach (despite the talented filmmaking involved) as I have no stake in its destination. Inspired by the life of Marty Reisman, Timothée Chalamet stars as two-bit con-artist and aspiring ping-pong champion Marty Mauser. One of the best players in a sport largely ignored in the United States, our part-time shoe salesman cons and schemes on ways to improve his “Marty Supreme” brand while struggling to find the financing to make it to the World Table Tennis Championships in Japan.

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Dhurandhar

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  • Title: Dhurandhar
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Dhurandhar is loosely adapted from real events involving Indian agents sent undercover to infiltrate gangs in Pakistan to prevent further terrorist attacks such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks (both shown on film). Sent into to Pakistan by way of Afghanistan, Hamza Ali Mazari (Ranveer Singh) inserts himself into the rivalry of two gangs seeking control of the Lyari region quickly rising up the ranks to become a trusted member of the organization led by Rehman Dakait (Akshaye Khanna).

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Eternity

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  • Title: Eternity
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As with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey released earlier this year, Eternity puts a supernatural twist on your basic romcom. After a full life Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) wakes up in a sort of train station for the afterlife one week after her husband Larry (Miles Teller) died. Returned to their ideal ages of themselves, each gets a week to choose a different perfect world in which to spend eternity, although those who can’t decide can choose to stick around the station which is where Joan’s dilemma arrives as her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, has been doing that for 67 years waiting for the love of his life in order for them to wade into eternity together.

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Sentimental Value

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  • Title: Sentimental Value
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The death of Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes’ (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) mother brings their estranged father (Stellan Skarsgård) back into their lives. A celebrated auteur filmmaker who chose his career over his family years before, Gustav brings with him a script for his first project in 15 years which is inspired by his family’s history. After his hopes to get his eldest daughter to star in the film fall through, Nora being a local stage and television actress, Gustav casts a young Hollywood actress (Elle Fanning) seeking her first serious role.

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