Fri 23-Feb Snowden (2016)

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Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller film about Edward Snowden.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, the film, based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena, stars an ensemble cast that includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title character, Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage also starring. Filming began on February 16, 2015 in Munich, Germany.

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Sat 17-Feb The Beatles : Yellow Submarine (1968)

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Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 British animated musical fantasy comedy film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate.

Initial press reports stated that the Beatles themselves would provide their own character voices; however, aside from composing and performing the songs, the real Beatles participated only in the closing scene of the film, while their cartoon counterparts were voiced by other actors.

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Fri 16-Feb The Piano (1993)

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The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand.
It revolves around the musician's passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold.
The Piano was written and directed by Jane Campion and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role.
The film's score by Michael Nyman became a best-selling soundtrack album, and Hunter played her own piano pieces for the film.
She also served as sign language teacher for Paquin, earning three screen credits.

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Fri 09-Feb Whisky Galore (2016)

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Whisky Galore! is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name.
It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff and Naomi Battrick.
The film premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival and went on general release in Scotland from 5 May 2017 and the rest of the UK, Ireland and the US from 19 May 2017.

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Sat 03-Feb Agatha Christie's Poirot - Appointment With Death (2008)

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The novel was adapted for the eleventh season of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Poirot.
The screenplay was written by Guy Andrews and it was filmed in Casablanca (with Mahkama du Pacha acting as Hotel Constantine in the adaptation and Kasbah Boulaouane as the excavation site) and El Jadida, Morocco in May 2008.
It was directed by Ashley Pearce, who also directed Mrs McGinty's Dead and Three Act Tragedy.
The cast included Christina Cole, Tim Curry, John Hannah and Elizabeth McGovern.

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Fri 02-Feb The Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

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(Extended edition on BluRay 164 mins)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy action adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro.

It is the third and final installment in Peter Jackson's three-part film adaptation based on the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, following An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

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