Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

“No-one Wins Solo”

Directed by David Dobkin (Shanghai Knights)
Starring Will Ferrell (The Producers), Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange), Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast), Melissanthi Mahut, Mikael Persbrandt, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Graham Norton, Demi Lovato and Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again)

Lars Erickssen (Ferrell) has spent his life dreaming of competing in and winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Iceland, with his band mate and best friend Sigrid Ericksdottir (McAdams). When and the deaths of the other Icelandic hopefuls in a tragic party boat explosion offer them the chance, they travel to compete against favourites like Alexander Lemtov (Stevens) and Mita Xenakis (Mahut).

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Your Name (2016)

Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Starring (English dub) Michael Sinterniklaas and Stephanie Sheh

Tokyo schoolboy Taki (Sinterniklass) and country girl Mitsuha (Sheh) are startled to discover that they are periodically switching bodies. Despite a non-interference pact worked out via messages left for each other on phones and other media, each begins to try to improve the other’s life. Taki, more socially adept in general, enhances Mitsuha’s social standing, while she makes a date for Taki with an older girl at his workplace. On the date, however, Taki realises that he has feelings for Mitsuha, but on trying to contact her discovers that their connection has been broken.

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Spies in Disguise (2020)

“Super spy. Super fly.”

Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
Starring Will Smith (Gemini Man), Tom Holland (The Current War), Rashida Jones (The Social Network), Ben Mendelsohn (Captain Marvel), Reba McEntire (Tremors), Rachel Brosnahan (Beautiful Creatures), Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), DJ Khaled (Pitch Perfect 3) and Masi Oka (The Meg)

Lance Sterling (Smith), the world’s greatest spy and determined lone wolf, fails to retrieve a stolen assassin drone being sold by Yakuza boss Kimura (Oka) to Killian (Mendelsohn), a mysterious killer with a mechanical claw for a hand. Despite the protests of his boss, Joyless (McEntire), internal affairs agent Marcie Kappel (Jones) pins the blame on Sterling thanks to footage of him conducting terror attacks using the drone. Sterling goes on the run to prove his innocence, and goes to recently fired gedgeteer Walter Beckett (Holland) for his ‘ultimate stealth technology,’ an experimental formula that transforms Sterling into a pigeon.

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