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Director: Danny Boyle
Titel: Yesterday
Genre: Comedy, muziek
Duur: 1h 56 min
Release datum: 27 juni 2019
Acteurs: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ed Sheeran
Gezien: Juli 2019
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A struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.
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Director: Dome Karukoski
Titel: Tolkien
Genre: Biografie, drama, oorlog
Duur: 1h 52 min
Release datum: 6 juni 2019
Acteurs: Nicholas Hoult, Lilly Collins, Colm Meaney e.a.
Gezien: Juni 2019
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Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.
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Director: Sean Anders
Titel: Instant family
Genre: Drama, comedy
Duur: 1h 58 min
Release datum: 31 januari 2019
Acteurs: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabella Moner
Gezien: 15 februari 2019
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Married couple Pete and Ellie Wagner, feeling a void in the marriage, visit a foster care center. Two social workers, Karen and Sharon, guide the hopeful parents on the steps to getting into becoming adoptive parents. The couples are brought to a fair where they have the chance to go up to kids that they are interested in adopting. Pete and Ellie walk by the teenagers, although Ellie shows hesitance over raising a teen, but one of the teens, Lizzie, informs Ellie that they all know no one wants to adopt the teens. Pete and Ellie talk to Karen and Sharon over potentially taking in Lizzie. The social workers inform the couple that Lizzie’s mother is a drug addict who is currently in jail, and she set their home on fire because she left the crack pipe lit. It also turns out that Lizzie has two younger siblings, Juan and Lita. Although this seems like more of a challenge for Pete and Ellie, they agree to meet the siblings. Pete and Ellie have Thanksgiving dinner with Ellie’s family, where they all make comments about never having confidence in the Wagners adopting kids. Ellie has enough and decides that they will go through with the foster care to prove that they can be good parents…
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Director: Tyler Perry
Titel: Nobody’s fool
Genre: Drama, comedy, romance
Duur: Te lang 1h 50 min
Release datum: 17 januari 2019
Acteurs: Tifany Haddish, Tika Sumpter en Whoopi Goldberg
Gezien: 17 januari 2019
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A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he seems.
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Director: Bradley Cooper
Titel: A Star is Born
Genre: Muziek, drama, romance
Duur: 2h 16 min
Release datum: 4 oktober 2018
Acteurs: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper
Gezien: 9 december 2018
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Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally (Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
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Director: Bryan Singer
Titel: Bohemian Rhapsody
Genre: Muziek, biografie
Duur: 2h 14 min
Release datum: 1 november 2018
Acteurs: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzalo
Gezien: 22 november 2018
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Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.
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Director: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Titel: The Nutcracker and the four realms
Genre: Jeugd, fantasie, sprookje, avontuur
Duur: 1h 39 min
Release datum: 1 november 2018
Acteurs: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Morgan Freiman, Misty Copeland & Helen Mirren
Gezien: 2 november 2018
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All Clara wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key-which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip, a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers, and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.
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Producer: Eli Roth
Titel: The house with a clock in it’s walls
Genre: Familie, fantasy, komedie, jeugd
Duur: 1h 45 min
Release datum: 27 september 2018
Acteurs: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett en Owen Vaccaro
Gezien: 26 oktober 2018
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De nieuwe magische film van Amblin studio’s, vertelt het verhaal over Lewis, die wanneer zijn ouders overlijden naar zijn oom Jonathan wordt gestuurd in een krakend oud huis met een mysterieuze tikkende klok.
Er gebeuren de meest vreemde en onverwachte dingen waardoor Lewis er al snel achter komt dat er iets bijzonders aan de hand is met zijn oom, de vriendelijke buurvrouw Zimmerman en het huis, iets magisch! Lewis wordt door hen meegenomen in de wereld van magie en bezweringen, probeert hiermee indruk te maken op zijn nieuwe schoolvriend, maar ervaart dat er duistere krachten meespelen.
Samen met zijn oom en buurvrouw neemt Lewis het op tegen deze duistere krachten en zijn zij vastberaden de magische klok in het huis te stoppen voordat deze de wereld verwoest.
Producer: Paul Feig
Titel: A simple favor
Genre: Comedy, crime, drama
Duur: 1h 57 min
Release datum: 27 september 2018
Acteurs: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding
Gezien: 6 oktober 2018
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Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
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Producer: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Titel: Darkest Minds
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller
Duur: 1h 44 min
Release datum: 2 augustus 2018
Acteurs: Bradley Whitford, Mandy Moore, Amandla Stenberg
Gezien: 10 Augustus 2018
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Imprisoned by an adult world that now fears everyone under 18, a group of teens form a resistance group to fight back and reclaim control of their future.
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Down the rabbit hole 