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What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to humanity, he proved to be something far more sinister?

A mysterious black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Achilles is sent to investigate. After the bedraggled six-person crew wake from eight months hibernation, a blinding light shatters the darkness. The Sphere is transmitting a single word in every Earth language ever known: Deus. The stunned and frightened crew face a series of bewildering questions; Will their encounter with b2sGod' edge them closer to the edge of sanity? Will the Achilles'...

Kim and Amy have been best friends since high school but haven't seen each other since Amy moved to the West Coast for grad school. They are reunited on a trip to Jay, Kim's boyfriend's lake house, joined by Jay himself, his stepbrother Alex, and Kim's cousin, Lin. When Amy left for the West Coast, she was in love with Jay, even though she thought it'd never work out because she was fat. Now that things have changed, and they are all here, it's impossible...

A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective Tom Beck totally baffled. And it doesn't help when mysterious FBI agent Lloyed Gallagher tells him that a demonic extraterrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims, and transforming them into inhuman killers with an unearthly fondness for heavy-metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence.

After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only "friends" being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures....

Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.

When his young daughter's beloved companion, an android named Yang, malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

When the isolated U.S. military moonbase is bombarded by a meteor storm, Colonel Gerard Brauchman and his small crew are cut off from Earth with their life support failing. Before long, the crew discovers the meteors harbored alien spores and they're replicating. Now a vicious, shape-shifting, predatory life form is loose inside the crippled facility. Locked in a desperate fight for survival, the terrified remaining astronauts have one final mission:...

Quito, 2023. Ponce, a military dictator, walled the city. A group of young revolutionaries want to gain control and are ready to strike, but one of their leaders is unsure they understand what they are doing.

Kindling follows a group of young men who return to their home town in order to turn their friend's final days into a celebration of life and friendship.