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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD
Directed By: David Yates
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Synopsis: At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp
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WIDOWS
Directed By: Steve McQueen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Official Synopsis: Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Starring: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and Liam Neeson
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INSTANT FAMILY
Directed By: Sean Anders
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Official Synopsis: When Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl (Isabela Moner), they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight. Now, Pete and Ellie must hilariously try to learn the ropes of instant parenthood in the hopes of becoming a family.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Margo Martindale, Julie Hagerty, Tig Notaro and Octavia Spencer
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GREEN BOOK
Directed By: Peter Farrelly
Studio: Universal Pictures
Official Synopsis: When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger-as well as unexpected humanity and humor-they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.
87Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, and Don Stark
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AT ETERNITY’S GATE
Directed By: Julian Schnabel
Studio: CBS Films
Official Synopsis: Academy Award (R) Nominee Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based on Vincent van Gogh’s (Academy Award (R) Nominee Willem Dafoe) letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are just plain invented.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and Niels Arestrup
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THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER
Directed By: Duncan Skiles
Studio: IFC Midnight
Official Synopsis: A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy’s world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. Tyler Burnside (Charlie Plummer) is a Boy Scout, a volunteer at his local church, and the dutiful son of an upstanding, community leader dad (Dylan McDermott). Only one thing troubles the quiet Kentucky town he lives in: the unsolved murders–in which ten women were brutally tortured and killed by a psychopath known as Clovehitch–that rocked the community more than a decade ago. When Tyler discovers a cache of disturbing images in his father’s possession, he begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be Clovehitch–and that his deadly rampage may not be over. With unrelenting tension, director Duncan Skiles crafts a picture-perfect vision of the all-American family–and then piece by piece rips it to shreds.
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis, and Madisen Beaty
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JONATHAN
Directed By: Bill Oliver
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Jonathan leaves the office everyday at noon. When he gets home, he goes to sleep. Every morning he wakes up and there is a breakfast prepared for him along with a video telling him about the second part of his day.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse, Patricia Clarkson, Matt Bomer, and Douglas Hodge
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JINN
Directed By: Nijla Mu’min
Studio: Orion Classics
Official Synopsis: Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.
Starring: Simone Missick, Zoe Renee, Avril Z. Speaks, Hisham Tawfiq, Kelly Jenrette, and Dorian Missick
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WELCOME HOME
Directed By: George Ratliff
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Bryan and Cassie spend their weekend at a vacation rental house in the Italian countryside in an attempt to reconcile with each other and repair their relationship. However, the couple becomes the victims of the evil plans of the rental home’s owner.
Starring: Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski, Riccardo Scamarcio, Katy Louise Saunders, Alice Bellagamba, and Francesco Acquaroli
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THE LAST RACE
Directed By: Michael Dweck
Studio: Blunderbust Productions
Official Synopsis: THE LAST RACE is a cinematic portrait of a Long Island stock car race track as its 87 year-old owners struggle to maintain an American racing tradition in the face of a real estate development boom. The film merges image and sound in a unique narrative form to bring the audience into the world of grassroots racing culture and explores a story that subtly grapples with questions of blue collar American identity that have taken on a profound relevance in the current political era.
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SPEED KILLS
Directed By: Jodi Scurfield
Studio: Saban Films
Official Synopsis: Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire, Ben Aronoff, leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
Starring: John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Weston, Jordi Molla, and Amaury Nolasco
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TEAM KHAN
Directed By: Oliver Clark & Blair Macdonald
Studio: Brainstorm Media
Official Synopsis: As an amateur boxer, Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain’s youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of seventeen. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of twenty-two. Since turning pro, Amir has been a two-time world champion, going from lightweight to welterweight and now up to middleweight. TEAM KHAN follows Amir from 2014 – 2016. He has recently returned to the ring, winning his last two fights. He’s confident he can become a world champion once again.
Starring: Amir Khan (II), Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Manny Pacquiao
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SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS
Directed By: Claude Lanzmann
Studio: Cohen Media Group
Official Synopsis: Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. In the last years of the late director’s life, he decided to devote a film to four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself improbably alive after war’s end: Ruth Elias from Ostravia, Czechoslovakia; Paula Biren from Lodz, Poland; Ada Lichtman from further south in Krakow; and Hannah Marton from Cluj, or Kolozsvár, in Transylvania. Survivors of unimaginable Nazi horrors during the Holocaust, they tell their individual stories and become crucial witnesses to the barbarism they experienced. Each possesses a vivid intelligence and a commitment to candor that make their accounts of what they suffered through both searing and unforgettable. Four Sisters now arrives on the screen to remind audiences of the immense courage it took for these witnesses to return to their past as they share their deeply moving personal tragedies. The frankness of their words, their intensely scrutinized faces, and their bravery as they revisit unimaginable experiences will make them lasting presences in the moral universe of younger generations. “What they have in common,” wrote Lanzmann, “apart from the specific horrors each one of them was subjected to, is their intelligence, an incisive, sharp and carnal intelligence that rejects all pretense and false reasons-in a word-idealism.” Lanzmann’s films remarkably stay within the immediate present tense, where the absolute horror of the Shoah is always happening.
Starring: Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton, Paula Biren, and Ruth Elias
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55 STEPS
Directed By: Bille August
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Official Synopsis: When patients’ rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette’s workaholic life.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, and Jeffrey Tambor
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UNDER THE WIRE
Directed By: Chris Martin
Studio: Abramorama
Official Synopsis: On 13 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned. This is their story.
Starring: Ziad Abaza, Janine Birkett, Julian Lewis Jones, Karine Myriam Lapouble, and Nathan Dean Williams
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MOBILE HOMES
Directed By: Vladimir de Fontenay
Studio: Dark Star Pictures & Uncork’d Entertainment
Official Synopsis: A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Starring: Imogen Poots, Callum Turner, Callum Keith Rennie, Frank Oulton, Cyndy Day, and Shane Daly
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CAM
Directed By: Daniel Goldhaber
Studio: Netflix
Official Synopsis: CAM is a technology driven psychological thriller set in the world of webcam porn. It follows Alice, an ambitious camgirl, who one day discovers she’s been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself. As this copy begins to push the boundaries of Alice’s internet identity, the control that Alice has over her life, and the men in it, vanishes. While she struggles to regain what she’s lost, she slowly finds herself drawn back to her show and to the mysterious person who has taken her place.
Starring: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid and Michael Dempsey
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ANCHOR AND HOPE
Directed By: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Studio: Wolfe Releasing
Official Synopsis: Two women, Eva and Kat, and the best friend of one of them, Roger. A boat in the canals of London and a question: Is it possible to live love, family, and life in such different ways and yet remain united?
Starring: Oona Chaplin, Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer, Geraldine Chaplin, Lara Rossi, and Trevor White
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OF FATHERS AND SONS
Directed By: Talal Derki
Studio: Kino Lorber
Official Synopsis: Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera is providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
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HEART, BABY!
Directed By: Angela Shelton
Studio: North Of Two
Official Synopsis: In the 1970s George Lee Martin was sentenced to 40 years in prison for armed robbery. At just barely 18 years old he was sent to one of the toughest, most violent prisons in Tennessee. Inside, George took up boxing as a release and soon proved unbeatable, knocking out up to six guys a day. He became the star of the prison’s Friday Night Fights where the wardens would share their best fighters across Tennessee. Word spread beyond the prison walls to Freeworld coaches who began to bring their champions in to fight George. George knocked them all out, including the former U.S. heavyweight champion of the world, John Tate, in under a minute. In 1984 the U.S. Olympic team offered George the ultimate opportunity, his freedom in exchange for a place on the Olympic team to win gold for his country. George refused to go. Heart, Baby! tells the remarkable true story of George Lee Martin, and why he turned down freedom, fame and glory for something far bigger.
Starring: Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jackson Rathbone, Shawn-Caulin Young, Keir O’Donnell, Justice Leak, and Shaun Brown
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TEXAS COTTON
Directed By: Tyler Russell
Studio: Indie Rights
Official Synopsis: An aging lawman is convinced a mysterious stranger arrested in his small town is innocent. His investigation stirs up a hornet’s nest that will change the town forever.
Starring: George Hardy, Jason Douglas, Tiffany Shepis, Gene Jones, Lew Temple, and Torren Davis
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THE GILLIGAN MANIFESTO
Directed By: Cevin Soling
Studio: Indie Rights
Official Synopsis: At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan’s Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show’s creator and surviving actors reveal that Gilligan’s Island was conceived to celebrate Marxist ideals and lampoon democracy.
Starring: Dawn Wells, Russell Johnson, and Sherwood Schwartz
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FAMILY IN TRANSITION
Directed By: Ofir Trainin
Studio: Abramorama
Official Synopsis: A father of a family from Nahariya suddenly decides to share his secret desire to become a woman. Despite personal difficulties and social stigmas, the family members insist on staying together, believing that love will overcome all difficulties. Family in Transition offers an intimate, candid, and stirring portrait of the family.
Starring: Amit Tsuk and Galit Tsuk
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12 ROUND GUN
Directed By: Sam Upton
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Official Synopsis: A washed up, alcoholic ex-prizefighter, Joe Romano (Writer-Director, Sam Upton), makes a comeback to boxing after the tragic death of his son. With the help of his friend (Mark Boone Junior, “Sons of Anarchy”), Joe faces his darkest moment of truth. With newfound sobriety and hope, Joe finally takes action and challenges his rival to a 12 ROUND GUN rematch.
Starring: Sam Upton, Mark Boone Jr., Jared Abrahamson, Kate Vernon, Cassi Thomson, and Holly Gagnier
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THE FARM
Directed By: Hans Stjernswärd
Studio: Red Hound Films
Official Synopsis: While taking a road trip, a young couple takes a wrong turn on a highway and decides to stop at a diner for a meal. Little do they know that their choice of a simple hamburger will have such horrible consequences. Their journey soon becomes a harrowing story of survival and escape as they are kidnapped by local farmers with nefarious intentions… On their farm, humans are the main dish.
Starring: Nora Yessayan, Alec Gaylord, Ken Volok, Rob Tisdale, and Kelly Mis
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MADNESS, FAREWELL
Directed By: Benjamin Font
Studio: Indie Rights
Official Synopsis: The holidays have arrived in Los Angeles where fledgling comedian Liza Ocampo is determined to commit suicide. Unable to pull the trigger herself, she hires a newly legalized “hit man firm” to do the dirty work for her. But when she arrives for her date with death, she finds the appointment has been double booked.
Starring: Charlene deGuzman, Benjamin Font, Brandon Keener, Noah Applebaum, and Nick Smoke
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MAKE US DREAM
Directed By: Sam Blair
Studio: Lorton Distribution
Official Synopsis: Born on the 30th May 1980 in Whiston, Merseyside, Steven Gerrard joined the Liverpool FC Academy at age 8. He left 26 years later, having won two FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Cup, one FA Community Shield, one UEFA Super Cup and, in what is widely regarded as one of the most thrilling matches of all-time, one UEFA Champions League. He was named in the PFA Team of the Year a record eight times. MAKE US DREAM takes a close-up look at the man behind the legend – taking in the highs of Istanbul, the inner conflict of staying loyal to his boyhood club and the turmoil of coming agonisingly close to the trophy that has always eluded him: The Premier League. A cinematic emotional rollercoaster, MAKE US DREAM brings fresh revelations to one of the most famous personalities in world sport. Driven by an all-consuming desire to deliver for his people that would ultimately take him to the very edge, after experiencing Steven Gerrard’s story through his own eyes you’ll never think about elite football in the same way again.
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