Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams star in Ruben Fleischer's dark sci-fi anti-hero adventure from the Marvel stable (but separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in case you were wondering). A reporter finds himself inhabited by a ferocious extraterrestrial, known as a symbiote, which looks something like H. R. Giger's Alien in a gimp suit. A probe crashes to Earth. Inside the probe is an alien life form called a symbiote, which can inhabit other life forms' bodies and make those life forms do stuff. Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) is a rich bloke who believes that this is the future of human evolution. Unfortunately, humans don't seem to be able to survive the presence of a symbiote inside them. That is until Eddie Brock (Hardy), an investigative reporter, gets wind of all this from his girlfriend Anne Weying (Williams). He turns up at the lab where it's all happening and vows to expose Drake's human experiments to the world. A symbiote gets into him. And both Eddie and the symbiote survive. Cue Brock arguing with himself, accidentally poleaxing bad guys with his now extendable limbs, and sporting a fantastic-looking head that sort of grows over his own. But the battle is as much within as without. Can Eddie control the symbiote enough to make him a force for good? And if not, can he at least persuade it to kill only bad guys in really terrible ways? Endearingly, the symbiote introduces himself as Venom. Ah, cute. Good job he's got a cool name and not 'sloppy tongue' or 'drooly'... or something. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Ruben Fleischer Tom Hardy Michelle Williams Riz Ahmed Scott Haze Reid Scott Jenny Slate Melora Walters Woody Harrelson Peggy Lu Sope Aluko Jeff Pinkner Scott Rosenberg Kelly Marcel Jeff Pinkner Scott Rosenberg 2018 Movie 112 https://www.omdb.org/movie/117574 US 15 Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Otto Preminger's western stars Robert Mitchum as Matt Calder, a farmer recently released from prison after serving a sentence for killing a man. He picks up his son Mark (Tommy Rettig) from saloon singer Kay (Marilyn Monroe), and father and son return to the farm. But, later, he sees Kay and her fiancée Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun) in peril on a collapsing raft. Calder saves them, but his only thanks is to be slugged senseless and have his horse stolen by Weston, who then races to stake a gold claim. Marooned in dangerous Indian territory, Matt, Mark and Kay's only chance is to take to the river and head for the nearest town. As they travel, Mark learns the truth about his father's crime, while Kay falls for Matt. But all three know that they must still face Weston. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Otto Preminger Robert Mitchum Marilyn Monroe Rory Calhoun Tommy Rettig Murvyn Vye Douglas Spencer Frank Fenton Louis Lantz 1954 Movie 87 https://www.omdb.org/movie/1936 CA, US PG Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe star in director Theodore Melfi's Oscar-nominated fact-based drama about three extraordinary women, whose genius in mathematics and engineering made a significant contribution to the space race. It's the early 1960s and Katharine Johnson (Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Monáe) are working as computers - human number-crunchers - for NASA. It's a difficult period for everyone at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia: NASA seems to be stalling, while Russia is achieving first after first - from launching Sputnik to putting Yuri Gagarin into space. At this rate, America will lose the race to the moon. NASA's problems include the need for someone who can handle the equations that determine launch and landing trajectories; constant mechanical setbacks with their rockets and capsules; and teething problems with their brand-new IBM mainframe. Katharine, Mary and Dorothy each help to solve these headaches for NASA. But to do so, they must battle the profound racism and sexism of the era every step of the way. With Kevin Costner and Kirsten Dunst. Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Theodore Melfi Taraji P. Henson Octavia Spencer Janelle Monáe Kevin Costner Kirsten Dunst Jim Parsons Mahershalalhashbaz Ali Aldis Hodge Glen Powell Jr. Kimberly Quinn Theodore Melfi Allison Schroeder 2016 Movie 127 https://www.omdb.org/movie/103888 US PG In David Lean's seven Oscar-winning Second World War classic, Alec Guinness stars as Colonel Nicholson, the commanding officer of British PoWs in Burma. The prisoners are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay progress, until Nicholson orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion. But are his actions tantamount to collaborating with the enemy? With Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden and Jack Hawkins. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com David Lean William Holden Jack Hawkins Alec Guinness Sessue Hayakawa James Donald Geoffrey Horne André Morell Peter Williams Carl Foreman Michael Wilson 1957 Movie 157 https://www.omdb.org/movie/826 GB, LK PG Tom Cruise and Andrea Riseborough star in Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi action-mystery set on a war-ravaged Earth. In 2077, 60 years have passed since an alien invasion devastated our planet. Mankind was triumphant, but it was a pyrrhic victory: civilisation was so badly wrecked that humanity decided to relocate to Saturn's moon Titan. Jack (Cruise) and Victoria (Riseborough) are among the very few humans left on the planet to tend the drones that fend off attacks from remaining alien scavengers. While performing their duties, the colleagues - whose memories have been wiped to prevent them from potentially aiding the alien stragglers - have become lovers. But then Jack investigates a crashed pre-invasion spacecraft. It not only contains a woman he has been dreaming about (Olga Kurylenko), but it will also reveal a host of unsettling secrets... Also starring Morgan Freeman and Melissa Leo. Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Joseph Kosinski Tom Cruise Andrea Riseborough Olga Kurylenko Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Morgan Freeman Melissa Leo Zoe Bell John L. Armijo Efraiem Hanna Jaylen Moore Karl Gajdusek Michael Arndt 2013 Movie 124 https://www.omdb.org/movie/34810 US 12 It's blockbuster time as Tom Cruise returns to the cockpit after 36 years. And this time Maverick turns teacher. Pete Mitchell (Cruise) has only made it to captain, when his potential should have seen him virtually running the Navy by now. But he's (a) Maverick. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky (Val Kilmer touchingly reprises his original role) - who's now an admiral - will pop up later to say as much. As the film opens, our hero is testing the speed of spy planes and the programme's being cancelled. But it's OK because Top Gun needs someone to complete a near-impossible mission... Along the way he'll wind up Rear Admiral Chester 'Hammer' Cain (Ed Harris) and Admiral Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson (Jon Hamm). He'll flirt with Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly). And try to lay some demons to rest with Lieutenant Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw (Miles Teller), who triggers Mav by having the same hair, 'tache and love of Great Balls of Fire as his father, Goose. But the higher-ups want Maverick to teach and not do. And something has to be done about that 'cos he still has a need for speed. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Joseph Kosinski Tom Cruise Val Kilmer Miles Teller Jennifer Connelly Bashir Salahuddin Jon Hamm Charles Parnell Monica Barbaro Lewis Pullman Jay Ellis Christopher McQuarrie Eric Singer Ehren Kruger Peter Craig Justin Marks 2022 Movie 130 https://www.omdb.org/movie/41663 US 12 Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in James Mangold's remake of Delmer Daves' classic 1957 western. Injured in the Civil War, Dan Evans (Bale) went west to start a new life ranching with his wife Alice (Gretchen Mol) and their sons. However, it hasn't worked: he's now in debt and his creditor has begun using destructive tactics to force him off his land. Having lost his family's respect, Evans signs up to earn cash as part of the posse taking the captured gang leader Ben Wade (Crowe) to the train that will transport him to Yuma prison. But Wade is as intellectually sharp as he is brutally violent, which makes keeping him captive a challenge. And if that wasn't enough, Wade's loyal gang, temporarily fronted by the psychopathic Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), are closing in, determined to free their leader... Also starring Logan Lerman as Evans' eldest son, who is fascinated by Wade. With Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw and Alan Tudyk. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com James Mangold Russell Crowe Christian Bale Logan Lerman Dallas Roberts Peter Fonda Gretchen Mol Ben Foster Alan Tudyk Vinessa Shaw Lennie Loftin Michael Brandt Derek Haas 2007 Movie 115 https://www.omdb.org/movie/5176 US 15