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FIFTY SHADES DARKER

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After breaking off her romance with Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) takes a job in Seattle at a publishing firm. But Christian can't live without Ana and makes an aggressive attempt to win her back. Standing in his way are her new boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson) and Grey's own past. More sex, dangerous situations and a hint of mystery make this high quality soft-core porn slightly better than

THE SPACE BETWEEN US

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In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that astronaut Sarah Elliot (Janet Montgomery) is pregnant. Shortly after landing, she dies from complications while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet – never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield) – an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the age of 16 having only met 14 people in his very unconventional upbringing. While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he’s never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street smart girl in Colorado named Tulsa (Britt Robertson). When he finally gets a chance to go to Earth, he’s eager to experience all of the wonders he could only read about on Mars – from the most simple to the extraordinary. But once his explorations begin, scientists discover that

LIVE BY NIGHT

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In the 1920s, Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), the son of Boston cop Thomas Coughlin (Brendan Gleeson), chooses a life of crime over law enforcement. His love for a gangster's mistress (Sienna Miller) and a stretch in prison take Joe from Boston to profitable illegal operations in Florida with his longtime partner Dion Bartolo (Chris Messina). Here his life becomes more dangerously complicated with gangsters, a Tampa sheriff (Chris Cooper), the sheriff's daughter (Elle Fanning) and finding a new

FENCES

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ROG'S VIEWPOINT - Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington), a failed baseball player turned garbage man, struggles to raise his family in 1950s Pittsburgh. His wife Rose (Viola Davis) stays by his side through good and bad. As both director and star, Denzel Washington brilliantly translates August Wilson's Pulitzer-Prize-winning play to the big screen. No stranger to this production, he and Viola Davis won

WHY HIM?

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ROG'S VIEWPOINT - When overprotective dad Ned Fleming (Bryan Cranston), wife Barb (Megan Mullally) and son Scotty (Griffin Gluck) visit daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) at Stanford over the holidays, all is not