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A Beautiful Mind

Winner of four Academy Awards, A Beautiful Mind is the story of John Nash Ö a man who was living proof of the age old wisdom that there's a fine line between genius and madness. It is a human drama about the struggle of a true genius, inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. and in part based on the biography by Sylvia Nasar. A mathematical genius, Nash (Russell Crowe) made an astonishing discovery in early life and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But his prodigious career was sidetracked by problems that would have broken many men. Nash, however, fought back. He had always been driven by his quest for one truly original idea and never lost sight of that dream. After many years of struggle, he triumphed over tragedy and literally changed the world.

Open Water

15 miles from land. One million square miles of ocean. No one knows they're missing... Accidentally left behind by their dive boat, when Susan and Daniel emerge from the deep with no boat in sight, all they can do is wait and hope. Cold and alone they're miles from land, adrift in shark-infested waters... This intense and terrifying thriller is inspired by the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lanorgan who went missing off the Great Barrier Reef in 1998, having been left behind by their diving boat. What makes this film particularly spine-tingling is that everything is real: no stuntmen, no digital trickery, just two scared actors and 50 real sharks!

Shaun of the Dead

A 'zom-rom-com' from the people who brought us 'Spaced'. As funny as 'American Werewolf in London' and as scary as... 'American Werewolf in London'.

King Arthur

The full-blooded version of Antoine Fuqua's gritty interpretation of the Arthurian legend with 17 minutes of footage not seen at the cinema! Britain, the 6th century: Artorious Castus (Owen), better known among his people as Arthur, is the leader of a select group of Sarmatian knights who, after impressing the occupying Roman forces with their fighting skills and righteous honour, have been incorporated into the elite ranks of the Roman army. However, the occupying forces are withdrawing from Britain to protect Rome from the onslaught of barbarians on the continent and with freedom on the horizon after 15 years of bloody service, Arthhur and his knights must protect the liberty of the country from invading Saxons.

Spiderman 2

Two years have passed, and the mild-mannered Peter Parker faces new challenges as he struggles with 'the gift and the curse', desperately trying to balance his dual identities as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his life as a college student. Tormented by his secrets and facing a deadly new threat in multi-tentacled Doctor Octopus (Molina), Peter finds that his relationships with all those he holds dear are in danger of unraveling. His life-long yearning for M.J. (Kirsten Dunst) becomes even stronger as he fights the impulse to reveal his secret life and declare his love. His friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death and his growing vendetta against Spider-Man. Even Peter's beloved Aunt May (Rosemary Harris), who has fallen on hard times after the death of Uncle Ben, begins to have doubts about her nephew.

Underworld

Vampires and lycans, an ancient form of werewolf, are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs, the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave. Both teams are equipped with big guns, and they are constantly innovating deadlier bullets to gain advantage over each other. On the vampire side, the leather-clad death agent Selene (Kate Beckinsale) delegates teams of vamps to attack the lycans. But when she discovers that the lycans have kidnapped a human medical student, Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman), she knows the worst is on its way. Against the orders of her superior, Kraven (Shane Brolly), who is obsessively in love with Selene, she awakens the most powerful vampire of all time, Viktor (Bill Nighy) and prepares for a massive feud against lycan leader Lucian (Michael Sheen).

School Of Rock

In this box-office smash hit comedy from the creators of 'Dazed and Confused' and 'Orange County' hard rock meets education with straight A comedy results. It's always been Dewy Finn's dream to win the 'battle of the bands' but with his best friend Ned quitting rock to make a living as a professional substitute teacher/hen-pecked-boyfriend and his sell-out band mates dropping him from the line up, things don't look too good. Forming a new band of his own seems the only way to go. When Dewy intercepts a call for Ned about a high paying substitute teaching position at a prestigious private school he gets an idea: all he has to do is tell the school that he's Ned, sit in front of a bunch of bored kids, tell them to shut-up at incidental intervals and ask to be paid in cash at the end of the day. But when he finds out how proficient some of the kids are at music he develops a whole new plan... a plan to finally 'stick it to the man'... a plan that ROCKS!

Minority Report

Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K Dick, Minority Report is an action-detective thriller set in Washington DC in 2054, where police utilise a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.

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