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MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Release: October 4, 2019
Director: Joachim Rønning
Producer: Joe Roth, Angelina Jolie, and Duncan Henderson
Following the events of the first movie, Maleficent remains peacefully in the Moors. Everything begins to fall apart when Prince Phillip proposes to Aurora, and she accepts. Phillip’s mother declares that Aurora now belongs to her, and Maleficent once again turns against the kingdom in hopes of taking down the queen.
AD ASTRA
SCIENCE-FICTION
Release: August 29, 2019
Director: James Gray
Producer: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Rodrigo Teixeira and Arnon Milchan
Brad Pitt stars as Roy McBride, an Astronaut who goes to the edge of our solar system in search of his father and begins to uncover a mystery threatening the existence of humanity. His expedition exposes mysteries challenging human nature and our place in the universe.
JOKER
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Release: October 4, 2019
Director: Todd Phillips
Producer: Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Gotham City, 1981. An unsuccessful impromptu comedian turns criminal and chaotic while he slowly rises to become a terrifying myth. Or is it just a myth?
THE GOLDFINCH
DRAMA
Release: September 5, 2019
Director: John Crowley
Producer: Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson
Ansel Elgort stars as Theo (Theodore Decker). His mother died in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts when he was thirteen. This misfortune changes his life and leads him onto an emotional journey of sorrow and guilt, reinvention and recovery - even love. Throughout everything, he keeps a physical piece of hope, an image of a small bird bound to a perch.
JUDY
BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA
Release: September 27, 2019
Director: Rupert Goold
Producer: David Livingston, Cameron McCracken, Andrea Scarso, Lee Dean, and Jim Spencer
This film follows the life of famed American singer and actress, Judy Garland, during her five-week tour and sold-out performances in the British capital, London, set in 1969.
GEMINI MAN
SCIENCE-FICTION ACTION
Release: October 11, 2019
Director: Ang Lee
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger
Henry Brogan, an elderly government assassin wants to end his career but finds himself fighting his younger clone, Junior, who can foresee his every move. Henry has no choice but to expose Junior's identity and save him from following the same path, while still going against the shady organization run by his previous employer, Clay Varris.
SERIES
TOP BOY (SEASON 3)
CRIME DRAMA
Release: Autumn 2019
Episodes: 8
Starring: Ashley Walters, Kane Robinson, Malcolm Kamulete, Shone Romulus, Sharon Ducan Brewster, Giacomo Mancini, and Xavien Russell
The Netflix reboot of Channel 4’s Top Boy Summerhouse, stars Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, and new members such as Simbi Ajikawo, Micheal Ward and David Omoregie.
MINDHUNTER (SEASON 2)
CRIME THRILLER
Release: August 26, 2019
Episodes: 9
Starring: Jonathan Groff, Joe Penhall, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Dennis Rader, and Cameron Britton
FBI agents Bill Tench (Holt McCallanay) and Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is back in this 1970’s set crime thriller series. Ford and Trench continue profiling serial killers to try and understand what
DISENCHANTMENT (SEASON 2)
FANTASY
Release: September 20, 2019
Episodes: 10
Starring: A cast list has yet to be released
This satirical fantasy sitcom, created by Matt Groenig, is set in the kingdom of Dreamland and follows Bean, an alcoholic princess with a rebellious streak.
THE WITCHER
FANTASY DRAMA
Release: Late 2019
Episodes: 8
Starring: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Jodhi May, Björn Hllynur Haraldsson, Adam Levy, MyAnna Burning, Mimi Ndiweni, Therica Wilson-Read, and Emma Appleton
Following the lone monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, we see him struggling to find how he fits into a world where people are frequently proven to be more terrifying than beasts. Fate then lunges him to a prevailing enchantress and a young princess with a perilous secret, they have to cross the gradually unstable land, together.
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