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This older-skewing children’s adventure is a long-range sequel to the 1995 family film Jumanji, in which an African menagerie, plus Robin Williams, came stampeding out of a magical, jungle-themed board game. Watch Winchester Online Free

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But that was then. “Who plays board games?” grimaces a teenager in the film’s winking prologue – a comment which prompts the enchanted box to shape-shift into a video game cartridge, which is later unearthed by four teens on detention in the present. Watch Hostiles Online Free

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Is ultimately not much meatier than the one from a 1990s videogame that the characters end up inhabiting after getting sentenced to a “Breakfast Club”-type detention at school. Watch Fifty Shades Freed Online

In the original film, the titular diversion is an old-fashioned board game, just like in the source material, Chris van Allsburg’s popular children’s book. Watch Maze Runner The Death Cure Online