Energetic crime-thriller from prolific Japanese film-maker Takashi Miike. After receiving some bad news from a doctor, promising young boxer Leo (Masataka Kubota) takes Monica (Sakurako Konishi), a drug user who's been forced into sex work, under his wing. But Leo gets more than he bargained for when they're caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme involving corrupt police, Chinese gangsters, and members of the yakuza (essentially the Japanese Mafia) who Monica is escaping from. With seemingly nothing to lose, Leo spends a chaotic night in Tokyo fighting to get Monica and himself out of the violent crossfire in one piece. In Japanese, with English subtitles. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Takashi Miike Masataka Kubota Nao Omori Shôta Sometani Sakurako Konishi Becky Takahiro Miura Mami Fujioka 2019 Movie 108 https://www.omdb.org/movie/171929 JP, GB 15 Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Everyone's favourite young explorer gets the live-action treatment in this feature-length family adventure from director James Bobin (The Muppets, Alice Through the Looking Glass). After a childhood spent exploring the Peruvian jungle, a 16-year-old Dora Márquez (Isabela Moner) is sent to high school in the United States to join her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg), while her mum (Eva Longoria) and dad (Michael Peña) head off on a dangerous expedition to find Parapata, an ancient Incan city of gold. After Dora adapts to life in the US of A in her own unique way - and embarrassing Diego a whole lot in the process - a mysterious group of mercenaries kidnap her, Diego and their classmates and fly them to Peru. There, they find out that Dora's parents have gone missing during their expedition. If only we had a seasoned jungle explorer and a ragtag bunch of sidekicks to head out on an adventure to find them... Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com James Bobin Isabela Moner Jeff Wahlberg Madeleine Madden Nicholas Coombe Benicio Del Toro Dee Bradley Baker Eva Longoria Michael Peña Joey Vieira Pia Miller Nicholas Stoller Matthew Robinson Tom Wheeler Nicholas Stoller 2019 Movie 102 https://www.omdb.org/movie/131542 US PG Irwin Allen directs this fantasy adventure, adapted from a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Claude Rains plays Professor Challenger, a scientist-adventurer who is convinced that dinosaurs still roam small corners of the earth. So he puts together an expedition to venture into the depths of the Amazon, where they are beset by all manner of giant animals, cannibals and geological phenomena that leave the increasingly disparate group fighting for their lives as they seek to find a way home. With Michael Rennie and Jill St John. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Irwin Allen Michael Rennie Jill St. John David Hedison Claude Rains Fernando Lamas Richard Haydn Ray Stricklyn Jay Novello Vitina Marcus Ian Wolfe Arthur Conan Doyle Irwin Allen Charles Bennett 1960 Movie 92 https://www.omdb.org/movie/2982 US PG Swashbuckling Middle Ages adventure. Set after the demise of Nottingham's heroic outlaw, responsibility for the welfare of the poor and the security of the kingdom has shifted to the remnants of Robin Hood's band of followers. But their efforts are undermined when they elect a well-meaning imposter as their new chief. The merry men therefore send for their late leader's son, Deering Hood, who - much to everyone's surprise - turns out to be a woman (June Laverick). However, despite their expectations of her gender, she proves to be a worthy successor to her father. And that's just as well, as the Crown is under serious threat. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com George Sherman David Hedison June Laverick David Farrar Marius Goring 1958 Movie 77 https://www.omdb.org/movie/327039 US, GB U Mark Robson's Second World War adventure stars Frank Sinatra as the leader of Allied prisoners of war attempting to slip the clutches of their captors. In occupied Italy, a group of mainly English POWs are about to attempt to escape from their camp when a tough American Colonel, Joseph Ryan (Sinatra), is incarcerated with them. When he hears the details of their plot, he thinks it amounts to suicide, and blows their plans by telling the Italian guards. His action earns their hatred, and the moniker 'von Ryan'. But Ryan is eventually able to make it up to his comrades when he spies the opportunity to hijack a train to get them all to safety in Switzerland. But they've still got a lot of Italian countryside to cover, with the Nazis and Fascists determined to stop them, plus more trouble than they were expecting from their fellow Allied forces. Also starring Trevor Howard. Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Mark Robson Frank Sinatra Trevor Howard Edward Mulhare Raffaella Carrà Brad Dexter Wendell Mayes 1965 Movie 117 https://www.omdb.org/movie/90074 US PG Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams star in the Golden Globe-winning, toe-tapping, smash-hit musical about the life and times of P.T. Barnum: showman, promoter, self-promoter, entrepreneur and creator of the circus. P.T. Barnum (Jackman) is on a mission. We join him as a child slighted by both his father and the father of the girl he will one day marry. As a result of this, and future poverty, he becomes driven by the desire to rise above his station and show the poshos what he's made of. For him, this means money. Loads of money. Despite poverty, Charity (Williams) marries him anyway, and she's happy with their little family's situation. But Barnum's entrepreneurial spirit is by then too strong. One day, as he creates a light show for his kids, the idea of the Big Top strikes him and the rest is, as they say, history. He gets playwright Phillip Carlyle (Efron) to back him in a natty song and dance routine and then, philanthropically, gathers together a disparate band of outsiders under the pretence of showing their beauty and uniqueness to the world. But does his apparent support for his performers tally with his desire to be rich and accepted by the upper classes? Edited for content. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Michael Gracey Hugh Jackman Michelle Williams Zac Efron Rebecca Ferguson Zendaya Keala Settle Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Natasha Liu Bordizzo Paul Sparks Sam Humphrey Jenny Bicks 2017 Movie 90 https://www.omdb.org/movie/57820 US PG Jason Statham stars in director Simon West's action retread of Michael Winner's 1972 revenge thriller (which featured Charles Bronson in the lead role). Arthur Bishop (Statham) earns his living as a 'mechanic', a euphemism for hitman, which alludes to the precision and emotional detachment with which he goes about his business. And that even applies when he's contracted to kill his wheelchair-using mentor Harry McKenna (Donald Sutherland), though he does at least demand to know why he should send his friend to an early grave. Things then get awkward for Bishop, when McKenna's son Steve (Ben Foster) asks if he'll tutor him. Their nascent partnership develops in fits and starts (and several deaths), but Bishop's boss Dean Sanderson (Tony Goldwyn) makes it clear he's not happy with the pair's latest assassination. So, with all the main players inherently suspicious, trained killers, and various motives for murder in the air, it won't take much to spark bloodshed - and that catalyst comes with an unexpected sighting at an airport. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Simon West Jason Statham Ben Foster Tony Goldwyn Donald Sutherland Jeff Chase Mini Anden James Logan Eddie J. Fernandez John McConnell Christa Campbell Lewis John Carlino Richard Wenk Lewis John Carlino 2011 Movie 93 https://www.omdb.org/movie/29807 US 15 Olivier Megaton directs the third instalment in the high-octane action thriller franchise. Jason Statham returns to his role as Frank Martin, the crook's courier of choice for legally dubious goods. In this outing, a group of environmental terrorists employ him to drive across Europe with Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government minister. To make their journey more 'interesting', the pair are fitted with devices that will explode if either strays too far from their car. They are, of course, also pursued by numerous brawny types intent on bringing Martin's continental jaunt to a violently abrupt conclusion. In English, and French, Ukranian, Russian and Hungarian with English subtitles. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Olivier Megaton Jason Statham Natalya Rudakova François Berléand Robert Knepper Jeroen Krabbé Alex Kobold David Atrakchi Yann Sundberg Eriq Ebouaney David Kammenos Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen 2008 Movie 96 https://www.omdb.org/movie/14829 FR, US 15 Writers and directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat's film-world satire stars Penélope Cruz as a maverick movie director, with Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez as her leading men. As super-rich pharma magnate Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gómez) turns 80 he begins to worry about his legacy. To boost his popularity, he decides to finance a movie. Who better to direct than Palme d'Or-winning, of-the-moment auteur-director Lola Cuevas (Cruz)? So long as you're willing to do it her way, of course. And what is her way? To start with, she wants to cast actors from different worlds. Enter superstar diva Félix Rivero (Banderas) and master-of-the-craft, theatre-lovey Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez). The two men hate each other immediately. But this is good, since they'll be playing brothers who despise each other. And Cuevas has some unusual tricks up her sleeve to make it work, like forcing them to rehearse under a massive rock suspended from a crane and getting them to watch as she bungs their gongs into an industrial meatgrinder. So will the resulting movie be the kind of legacy Suárez envisages? Andrés Duprat also co-writes. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Please donate to keep this service alive! https://epg-plus.com Gastón Duprat Mariano Cohn Penélope Cruz Antonio Banderas Oscar Martinez José Luis Gómez Manolo Solo Nagore Aranburu Gastón Duprat Mariano Cohn 2021 Movie 115 https://www.omdb.org/movie/164570 ES, AR 15