Top 20 New to Streaming Films

Limitless (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Neil Burger
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish

Shabby, struggling Cooper gulps down a top-secret pill and gets super-charged in every department, from stock-market-busting smarts to charismatic wit and jet-propelled libido, while sinister De Niro lurks in the wings.

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Star Wars – The Clone Wars

Directed by: Dave Filoni
Starring: (voices of) Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels

Messrs McGregor, Christensen and Oz are missing, but Sam Jackson, Christopher Lee and the ever-present Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO) lend their voices to this feature-length animated adventure pitched between the Prequel Episodes II and III.

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Bitch Slap

Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Starring: Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo

A sex-bomb, a psycho-slut, and a stripper (hmm, why is this film popular?!) attempt to extort a powerful underworld kingpin in a fairly shameless echo of 70s/early 80s exploitation movies. Jacobson is a veteran Baywatch and Xena director.

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Sucker Punch (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish

Wild action, stunning visuals and feisty girls (in tight outfits) scream out of Watchmen director Snyder's fantasy actioner, as Browning retreats into an alternative reality after being institutionalised by her wicked stepfather.

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Knuckle (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Ian Palmer
Starring: Ian Palmer

If you thought the Brad Pitt scenes in Snatch were brutal, try the real thing: film-maker Palmer spent 12 years delving into the brutal, secretive world of Irish Traveller bare-knuckle fighting; feuds, clans and all. This is the result.

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Deja Vu

Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer

FBI Agent Denzel Washington is after terrorists who blew up a New Orleans ferry, and he’s using experimental spacefolding ‘technology’ to do some far-fetched but enjoyable time-travel detecting, peering four days into the past.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Directed by: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def

Between The Office and The Shire, Martin Freeman tripped the galactic fantastic in this big screen version of Douglas Adams’ classic. He’s a British everyman on an enforced space safari after the Earth is destroyed to make way for a bypass.

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The Round Up (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Rose Bosch
Starring: Jean Reno, Melanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh

Powerful French drama retelling the terrible events of mid-summer 1942 in occupied Paris – as the Nazi net tightens in what becomes known as the ‘Vélodrome D'Hiver round-up’, a 13,000 strong Jewish community faces a desperately uncertain future.

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The Island

Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou

Survivors of global contamination live in a sterile, self-contained world, hoping for the lottery win that will send then to The Island, the only remaining untainted land in the world. But Scarlett and Ewan smell a rat, and start asking the wrong questions.

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The Rock

Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

More gung-ho Michael Bay action, as grumpy general Ed Harris takes tourists hostage on Alcatraz, points rockets at San Francisco, and only bookish weapons expert Nicolas Cage and former Alcatrazian Sean Connery can save the day.

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Con Air

Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack

And now more Nic Cage, as a former US Ranger who’s just finished an eight year sentence but winds up on a plane packed with uber-convicts, hijacked by criminal genius John Malkovich. Huge, gleeful, ridiculously destructive fun.

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Collateral Damage (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Andrew Davis
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizamo, Francesca Neri

After LA fireman Arnie’s family are killed by a bomb, he heads to Central America to exact vengeance on the Colombian guerilla leader responsible, and gets caught in the crossfire of the terrorists and a cadre of ruthless CIA operatives.

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Disaster Movie

Directed by: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Carmen Electra, Vanessa Minnillo, Nicole Parker

Slapstick, blunderbuss spoof from the makers of Meet the Spartans and Date Movie, this lampoons the disaster movie genre and, well, a load of other stuff, as a bunch of twenty-somethings are hit with a series of catastrophic ‘natural’ events.

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The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Directed by: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Georgie Henley

Shrek/Shrek 2 director Andrew Adamson brings C.S. Lewis's timeless tale to big budget life, as the Pevensie kids flee WWII and - on a country estate - discover a spare room, and a wardrobe, and a world where it’s always winter, never Christmas.

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National Treasure

Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean

Not had enough Nicolas Cage to stream? OK, here’s some more, as our treasure hunting hero searches for 18 pages missing from John Wilkes Booth's diary, which may uncover the truth behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Face/Off

Directed by: John Woo
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen

Would you believe it? Yet more Nic Cage! Except that, in this case, he sometimes looks like FBI Agent John Travolta. Who sometimes looks like maniac terrorist Nic Cage. John Woo directs this ludicrously enjoyable action-fest with serious panache.

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Wild Hogs

Directed by: Walt Becker
Starring: John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence

On a road trip to the Pacific (and away from their stagnant lives), four middle-aged men (Travolta, Allen, Lawrence and William H. Macy) – Mild Hogs, if you will – run afoul of the fearsome ‘Del Fuegos’ biker gang in a New Mexico bar.

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The Last Boy Scout

Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Halle Berry

Déjà Vu director Tony Scott’s rather sadistic actioner from the early 90s sees rock-bottom private eye Bruce Willis drawn into a murky conspiracy of gambling, hitmen, sports and politics. Written by Lethal Weapon screenwriter Shane Black.

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The Specialist (premium pay-per-view)

Directed by: Luis Llosa
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods

When Shazza’s family is ‘erased’ by a nefarious crime lord, she hires ex-CIA explosives expert Sly to gain revenge. And help her to shower and stuff. But it all gets a bit more tricky when the target hires Sly’s equally skilled ex-partner.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe

Seeking vengeance on the giant shark that (he swears) killed his partner, oceano-grapher Bill Murray rallies a crew that includes estranged wife Anjelica Huston, journalist Cate Blanchett, and Owen Wilson, who may or may not be his son.

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