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List: New Movies & TV - December 2024
The 4:30 movie
A group of teens in the 1980s spend the day theater-hopping.
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Afraid
Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing--and no one--gets in her family's way.
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All happy families
A charming dramedy, Graham, an actor in a slump while his successful brother Will has his own show. The family finds itself under the same roof again, where every corner reveals secrets and long-held resentments.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
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Between the temples
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection in this unorthodox comedy from Nathan Silver.
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Blink twice
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She'll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.
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Christmas Island
When a snowstorm diverts Kate's first private flight en route to Switzerland to Christmas Island, she must team up with an air traffic controller to secure her dream job as the family's pilot.
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Christmas on Cherry Lane
"Three families celebrate Christmas at turning point in their lives" --Container.
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Criminal minds. The seventeenth season. Evolution.
The BAU team has successfully captured the prolific killer, Elias Voit. However, they are now dealing with the trauma and aftermath of his abduction and attempted murder of team leader David Rossi and his fatal shooting of FBI Deputy Director Bailey. The emergence of a new UNSUB focuses the team's efforts, leading them to controversially start using Voit to help catch this serial killer, aka Gold Star.
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The Crow
Bill Skarsgård takes on the iconic role of the Crow in this modern reimagining of the original graphic novel by James O'Barr. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
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Evil. The final season.
In the final season, Kristen, David, and Ben continue to assess cases that involve wayward technology, possessed pigs, demonic oppression and infestation, a dance muse conjured by alleged witches, and an evil relic. Throughout, Leland attempts to lure Kristen into raising a baby antichrist who was conceived with her ovum. David is recruited by the Vatican's secret service to "remote view" a paranormal ability to see the unseen to detect evil.
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Godzilla minus one
[JAPANESE] A disgraced kamikaze pilot returns to his obliterated house after witnessing an unbelievable attack on Odo Island. Rebuilding his home and life out of the detritus of the city, he takes in a displaced baby and the woman who found her, creating a family that gives him the courage to bring his neighbors together to fight when the monster returns to Japan while the citizens are already at their lowest point.
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Haul out the holly. Lit up
One year after the events of the original movie, we are back on the Evergreen Lane cul-de-sac with Emily and Jared now a happy couple excited to begin another year of Christmas decoration. The 'Jolly' Johnsons are the new neighbors that move into and are the famous winners of a popular reality decorating show. The Johnsons really want to change things up and what starts as a friendly competition rapidly deteriorates into a frantic game of one-upmanship for the best Christmas decor. Ultimately, Emily remembers the true meaning of Christmas and refocuses everyone's energy on coming together as one neighborhood just in time for a magical Christmas proposal from Jared.
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House of the dragon. The complete second season
"Following King Aegon II's coronation and the death of Queen Rhaenyra's son, House Targaryen is divided in two. In King's Landing, Aegon II rules from the Iron Throne, supported by Alicent and the Green Council, under the protection of the largest dragon in Westeros. From exile on Dragonstone, Queen Rhaenyra and her Black Council consider their next move. Civil war looms as both sides seek support from the great houses of Westeros, ultimately amassing armies--and dragons"--Container.
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I like movies
Lawrence, a socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
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It ends with us
Tells the story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents' relationship. When Lily's first love, Atlas Corrigan, suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with Ryle is upended, and Lily realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
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The killer's game
When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands by taking a hit on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life before it's too late.
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The Marlow Murder Club. Season one
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts's peaceful evening in Marlow is shattered when she witnesses a brutal murder. With the local police, led by newly promoted DS Tanika Malik, reluctant to believe her story, Judith teams up with local dog-walker Suzie and unfulfilled vicar's wife Becks to investigate.
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Mayor of Kingstown. Season three.
A series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor's attempts to keep the peace among all factions.
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Moonflower murders
Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) is seeking quiet retirement in Crete when she is approached by a missing woman's parents, who are sure that their daughter's disappearance is tied to an actual murder that inspired one of Alan Conway's Atticus Pünd whodunits. The tale of her perilous investigation unspools parallel to the circumstances facing Pünd (Tim McMullan), in this take on Anthony Horowitz's novel.
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Murdoch mysteries. Season 17
In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.
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Reagan
Dennis Quaid delivers a tour-de-force performance as 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan in this cinematic journey that encapsulates the spirit of the American dream. From his small-town roots to the glitter of Hollywood where he meets actress Jane Wyman and Warner Brothers' studio president Jack Warner, Reagan's incredible story culminates in obtaining the presidency with the support of his loving wife Nancy. Told through the voice of a former KGB agent (Oscarʼ winner* Jon Voight), Reagan offers a unique perspective as it is captivating.
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Skincare
"Legendary facialist-to-the-stars Hope Goldman is preparing to enter the next phase of her career by launching her own retail line of skincare products. However, she begins to sense that someone is trying to sabotage her business and destroy her life, after she becomes entangled in a series of menacing situations. Consumed with paranoia, Hope goes on an investigation across Hollywood to find out who is responsible and save her business--by any means necessary"--Container.
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Someone like you
Heartbroken after the death of his best friend, London, architect Dawson is compelled to launch an impossible search for London's long lost twin sister. But Dawson never planned to fall in love along the way.
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South Park : (not suitable for children)
After it's discovered that a teacher at South Park Elementary has an OnlyFans page, Randy is compelled to take a closer look at the seedy underbelly of the world of online influencers.
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Strange darling
"Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree"--Container.
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Trap
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
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Twilight of the warriors : walled in
[Cantonese] Many years after the bloody turf war that ushered in an uneasy era of peace in Hong Kong's underworld, the notorious Kowloon Walled City serves as a fortified, lawless safe haven for gangs and refugees alike. But when a skilled underground fighter runs afoul of the most feared Triad boss in Hong Kong, a bounty is placed on his head despite his connections to the leader of the infamous enclave. As his pursuers violate the tenuous territorial truce to exact their vengeance, the fallout reignites old grudges, bringing decades of building tension to a brutal, bloody boiling point.
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