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Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is an orphan in a parallel world where the human “soul” - or dæmon - is accompanying people in the form of an animal, the Magisterium which won’t bear any truth except their own truth rules and where dirigibles and witches rule the skies. Lyra is a disobedient, wild […]

Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is a junior FBI employee who wants to be promoted to agent. Agent Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) offers him a chance - he is assigned to work for Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) but in fact shall observe Hanssen and find evidence for sexually deviant behavior. But this is just a […]

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Beowulf (Ray Winstone) is a real medieval hero, loudmouth and womanizer, warrior and slayer of beasts, and he comes to King Hrothgar’s (Anthony Hopkins) halls to kill the monster Grendel that is terrorizing the kingdom. After killing Grendel, he is awarded the King’s golden drinking horn.
But the terror hasn’t ended […]

Jasper Irving, a hotshot Republican senator (Tom Cruise) tries to sweettalk seasoned reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) into selling his newest strategy in Afghanistan to the public (even if it’s in fact a strategy that already failed in Vietnam), surprisingly admitting that mistakes have been made - and then reminding the reporter that the […]

After a terrorist attack on Americans in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) with more than 100 victims, a FBI investigation team led by Special Agent Fleury (Jamie Foxx) goes to Saudi Arabia to investigate, against official orders. Initially, both the Saudi officials and US diplomats keep them on a short leash, but when Fleury and his team […]