Exit Poll Edition: Bits & Pieces

12th December 2019

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Denise Richards features as “London’s Yoda” in a brand-new clip from January’s REALITY QUEEN! (In theaters, on demand and disc).

The new UK trailer for Sid & Judy has landed; this fascinating and moving documentary from director Stephen Kijak (We Are X), on the passionate and turbulent relationship between Judy Garland and her manager and husband, Sid Luft. The film features the voices of Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Baby Driver) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight,Annihilation) as Sid and Judy respectively. The film will be released on digital on 16 December.

If ghosts can think and remember who they are, then the physical brain is not the only place where we store our inner selves. Helen is asked to train two young women into the art of communicating with the dead. But Helen’s days as a medium are long gone. In fact, she gave up that life 15 years ago when she lost her daughter. Today Helen is a different woman dedicated to her career in brain research. Things start to change when a visit from the other side offers her the design of a device that can do amazing things. But to everything there is a risk.

Munro Films & Lightbulb Film Distribution are excited to announce that following its recent theatrical release, British sci-fi thriller, Invasion Planet Earth, will be coming to Digital Download from 16th December & DVD 30th December.

Heidi and Jane are best friends living in a small town in the desert. When Jane, a Rodeo Queen contestant and military wife goes missing, Heidi, now alone in the world, must begin a search across the desert for her friend. She digs up secrets and encounters the violence of life on the road, crossing paths with a series of unusual men and women in her search for an honest connection in a dishonest world.

Here’s a book called Oscarmetrics, which uses math to answer a variety of questions about the Oscars, such as whether the box office influences the results and which years saw the biggest upsets.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) stars as Tim Jenkin, a real-life ANC activist who was branded a terrorist – and imprisoned – in Africa’s maximum-security Pretoria prison in the late 1970’s during Apartheid. Along with two fellow freedom fighters, played by Daniel Webber (The Punisher, The Dirt) and Mark Leonard Winter (The Dressmaker) Tim made a complex and daring escape 18 months into his incarceration using handcrafted wooden keys. The ingenious escape attempt happened 40 years ago on 11th December 1979.

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