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The Huntsman: Winter's War

The fantastical world of 2012's global hit Snow White and the Huntsman expands to reveal how the fates of two characters, The Huntsman Eric and Ravenna, intersected before they met Snow White. Chris Hemsworth and Oscar(R) winner Charlize Theron return to their roles in a new epic action-adventure, THE HUNTSMAN.

Release due 7 ^th
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Rams aka Hrútar (2015)

WINNER 2015 Cannes International Film Festival, Prix Un Certain Regard, and 11 EDDA Awards (Iceland's Academy Awards) including Best Picture, Director, Lead and Supporting Actors. Majestically shot in a spectacular, weather-swept valley, this wryly observed fable about two brothers who are more obstinate than the sheep they breed begins as a droll comedy about rural life and grows into a graceful and mythic tale about family, community and legacy.

Release due 07 ^th
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Russian Ark (2015)

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Release due 07 ^th
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The Jungle Book (2016)

After a threat from the tiger, Sheer Khan, forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named, Mowgli, embarks on a journey of self discovery with the aid of the panther, Bagheera, and the free spirited bear, Baloo.

Release due 9 ^th
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National Theatre Live Les Liasions Dangereuses (2016)

National Theatre Live brings the Donmar Warehouse's highly anticipated new production of LES LIASIONS DANGEREUSES to cinemas. Directed by Josie Rourke (Coriolanus), the cast includes Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Janet McTeer (The White Queen) and Dominic West (The Wire). In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos' novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton's irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. Josie Rourke's revival now marks the play's thirty year anniversary

Release due 14 ^th
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The Boss (aka Michelle Darnell)

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Tammy) headlines MICHELLE DARNELL as a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

Melissa McCarthy as Michelle Darnell in The Boss.

Release due 14 ^th
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Remembering the Man (2016)

At a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne in the seventies, Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love...

Release due 14 ^th
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Allegiant (2016)

The Divergent Series: Allegiant is part one of the final instalment of the Divergent series which started life as a bestselling young adult sci-fi series written by Veronica Roth. After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them

Release due 14 ^th
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Wide Open Sky (2015)

Wide Open Sky follows the heart-warming story of an outback Australian children's choir. Chronicling their journey from auditions to end-of-year concert, the trials of trying to run a children's choir in a remote and disadvantaged region are revealed. Here, sport is king and music education is non-existent. Despite this, choir mistress Michelle has high expectations. She wants to teach the children contemporary, original, demanding music. It becomes clear for the children to believe in themselves, they all need someone who believes in them. Set against a landscape of devastating beauty, Wide Open Sky is a moving portrait of the fragile world of possibility that is childhood and reminds us why no child, anywhere, should grow up without music.

Release due 16 ^th
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Renoir: Revered and Reviled (2016)

He was an artist that was instrumental in creating the Impressionist movement and then totally rejected it and went in a completely new direction -- with extraordinary results. From the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.

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Mr Right

Anna Kendrick is unlucky-in-love Martha. When she meets Francis (Sam Rockwell) he seems like the perfect guy -- and if you don't count that he's a hitman on the run from crime cartels, he may just turn out to be MR RIGHT.

Now releasing 12 ^th May
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan by journalist Kim Barker.

Release due 21 ^st
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Eddie the Eagle (2015)

The inspiring exploits of Michael Edwards, better known as "Eddie the Eagle," the most famous ski jumper in Britis hhistory.

Release due 21 ^st
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Marguerite (2015)

Loosely inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. Marguerite sings. wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, She decides to train for her first recital in front of a crowd of complete strangers

Catherine Frot as Marguerite in "Marguerite" © Larry Horrick

Release due 21 ^st
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Midnight Special (2016)

A provocative, genre-defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human, it follows a father, Roy (Michael Shannon), who goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a boy with mysterious powers that even Roy himself cannot comprehend.

What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Risking everything, Roy is committed to helping Alton reach his ultimate purpose, whatever that might be and whatever it costs, in a story that takes audiences on a perilous journey from Texas to the Florida coast, while exploring the bonds of love and trust, and the nature of faith.

Jaeden Leiberher in Midnight Special (c) Warner Bros

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Blood Father

Mel Gibson returns to the big screen in the edge-of-your-seat action thriller. BLOOD FATHER is based on the novel by Peter Craig (scriptwriter of The Town) and stars Gibson as John Link - an ex-con who is estranged from his teenage daughter, Lydia. When she is caught up in a drug deal gone wrong, Lydia is forced to reach out to Link. Only he can protect her from the drug dealers who want her dead.

Release due 21 ^st
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Keanu (2016)

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, a.k.a. the hugely popular comedy duo Key & Peele, star as Clarence and Rell, two cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell's beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands.

Release due 21 ^st
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The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

As a war between rival queen sisters Ravenna and Freya escalates, Eric and fellow warrior Sara, members of the Huntsmen army raised to protect Freya, try to conceal their forbidden love as they combat Ravenna's wicked intentions

Release due 26 ^th
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Alien & Aliens (Special Edition) Double Feature (1979)

Double feature at The Astor Theatre Melbourne. Classic science fiction / horror film and it's first sequel.

Release due 28 ^th
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Mother's Day (2016)

Following the success of NEW YEAR'S EVE and VALENTINE'S DAY director Garry Marshall promises to again deliver big things for MOTHER'S DAY with his winning storytelling style and an all-star cast. This film follows the very different relationships between mothers and their children.

Release due 28 ^th
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An (2015)

Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is a middle-aged man who spends his days making and selling dorayaki. This is a sandwich of small pancakes filled with red bean paste (jam), served hot or cold. He has a small shop on a Japanese city street under the cherry trees. When 76 year-old Tokue (Kirin Kiki) applies for a job assisting him, Sentaro refuses, but he gives her a dorayaki to take with her. (release date was March 17)

Release due 28 ^th
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The Silences (2015)

From Australian filmmaker Margot Nash comes an intimate story of the unspoken silences that stricken many families: the unwillingness to acknowledge and treat mental illness. THE SILENCES is a deeply personal account of dealing with these unspoken family secrets, built through a wealth of photographs, letters, documentary footage, oral histories and extracts from Nash's previous cinematic works. Exclusive to Cinema Nova

Release due 28 ^th
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Captain America Civil War (2016)

Political interference in the Avengers' activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man

Marvel's Captain America: Civil War..L to R: Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), and Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan)..Photo Credit: Film Frame..© Marvel 2016

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Little Dead Rotting Hood (2016)

LITTLE DEAD ROTTING HOOD is released on DVD in Australia in April.

LITTLE DEAD ROTTING HOOD is a sinister take on the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale. Something sinister is lurking in the woods, and the residents of the small town nearby are falling victim to its bloodlust. When the town sheriff (Balfour) discovers that the wolves inhabiting the nearby forest are getting more aggressive and even deadly, he soon uncovers a danger beyond his imagination.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a continuation of the saga created by George Lucas set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on April 1, and coming home on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on April 5. Bonus documentary, deleted scenes, interviews.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens..L to R: Rey (Daisy Ridley) & BB-8..
Ph: David James..© 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Right Reserved.

Release due 6 ^th
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Cuffs Season 1 (2015)

British television crime series about police based in Brighton, England. Their lives, their work.