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THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART
Directed By: Mike Mitchell
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Synopsis: The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part,” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all-new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are now facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than it can be rebuilt. The battle to defeat the invaders and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet (Chris Pratt), Lucy (Elizabeth Banks), Batman (Will Arnett) and their friends to far away, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Charlie Day, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Will Ferrell, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Maya Rudolph
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WHAT MEN WANT
Directed By: Adam Shankman
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Official Synopsis: Inspired by the Nancy Meyers hit romantic comedy WHAT WOMEN WANT, this film follows the story of a female sports agent (Henson) who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When she gains the power to hear mens thought, she is able to shift the paradigm to her advantage as she races to sign the NBA’s next superstar.
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tracy Morgan, Josh Brener, Kellan Lutz, and Max Greenfield,
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COLD PURSUIT
Directed By: Hans Petter Moland
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Official Synopsis: COLD PURSUIT, an action thriller infused with irreverent humor, stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels’ search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one of Viking’s associates “disappear,” Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing — and no one — get in his way.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, William Forsythe, and Tom Bateman
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THE PRODIGY
Directed By: Nicholas McCarthy
Studio: Orion Pictures
Official Synopsis: In her much-anticipated foray into the horror-thriller genre, Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Taylor Schilling stars in THE PRODIGY as Sarah, a mother whose young son Miles’ disturbing behavior signals that an evil, possibly supernatural force has overtaken him. Fearing for her family’s safety, Sarah must choose between her maternal instinct to love and protect Miles and a desperate need to investigate what — or who — is causing his dark turn. She is forced to look for answers in the past, taking the audience on a wild ride; one where the line between perception and reality becomes frighteningly blurry.
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore, and Brittany Allen
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THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT
Directed By: Robert D. Krzykowski
Studio: RLJ Entertainment
Official Synopsis: THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT follows the epic adventures of an American legend that no one has ever heard of. Since WWII, Calvin Barr (Elliott) has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and is carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed during the war, Calvin must set out to save the free world yet again.
Starring: Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Ron Livingston, Larry Miller, Ellar Coltrane, and Caitlin FitzGerald
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LORDS OF CHAOS
Directed By: Jonas Åkerlund
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Official Synopsis: A teenager’s quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome. Lords of Chaos tells the true story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners – a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning and murder: MAYHEM.
Starring: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer, and Valter Skarsgård
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EVERYBODY KNOWS
(Todos lo saben)
Directed By: Asghar Farhadi
Studio: Focus Features
Official Synopsis: The film follows Laura (Cruz) on her travels from Argentina to her small home town in Spain for her sister’s wedding, bringing her two children along for the occasion. Amid the joyful reunion and festivities, the eldest daughter is abducted. In the tense days that follow, various family and community tensions surface and deeply hidden secrets are revealed.
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández, Bárbara Lennie, and Inma Cuesta
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TO DUST
Directed By: Shawn Snyder
Studio: Good Deed Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Shawn Snyder’s TO DUST premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, followed by screenings at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival. This feature film debut from Snyder is tells the tale of Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, who is distraught by the untimely death of his wife, Rivkah. As he struggles to find solace in his religion, which proffers a stringent timeline for grief, Shmuel grows increasingly haunted by visions of Rivkah’s decomposing corpse. Convinced that her soul will suffer until her body returns to dust, Shmuel decides that to stop his feverish spiral he must seek an understanding of the physical processes of her decay – despite the blasphemy inherent in any scientific inquiry. Risking discovery and expulsion, Shmuel tip-toes outside his enclave, where his search leads to Albert, a bumbling biology professor at the local community college. Soon, Albert is unwittingly seduced into an odd world of homespun forensic research and begins to guide Shmuel through outrageous experiments that aim to approximate a timeline for Rivkah’s dissolution – starting with the theft, suffocation and burial of a pig. As amateur scientists practicing imperfect science and incompetent criminals on progressively absurd outings, the two find themselves neck-deep in genres in which neither of them belongs. With their macabre moonlit misadventures growing ever more perilous, the odd couple will stop at nothing to satiate their curiosity and ultimately find Shmuel the comfort he desperately seeks.
_35Starring: Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, Sarah Jes Austell, and Bern Cohen
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UNTOGETHER
Directed By: Emma Forrest
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media
Official Synopsis: UNTOGETHER is the story of Nick (Jamie Dornan) and Andrea (Jemima Kirke) whose one night stand evolves into something more, though the exact parameters are blurry and undefined. He is a doctor and author whose heroics in the Middle East gained him international fame. She is a writing prodigy fully consumed with destructive vices, navigating Los Angeles without a driver’s license or credit card and sharing a home with her sister Tara. Meanwhile, Tara (Lola Kirke) is dealing with relationship issues of her own as she slowly slips away from her boyfriend Martin (Ben Mendelsohn), who gave up his Australian fame as a rock ‘n’ roll god to be with her. Her way of acting out is to lose herself in religion and seek solace in a charismatic Rabbi (Billy Crystal). This is who they’ve all been so far but do they have the courage to find out who they really are?
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Jemima Kirke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lola Kirke, Billy Crystal, and Alice Eve
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THE ISLE
Directed By: Matthew Butler-Hart
Studio: Brainstorm Media
Official Synopsis: Based loosely on Scottish ghostly folklore with inspiration from Greek sirens, the tale is set in 1846 on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, where three survivors from a mysterious sinking of their merchant ship find themselves stranded on a small misty isle. The isle’s four sole secretive residents, an old harbor man, a farmer, his niece and a young mad woman, are anything but welcoming and reluctant to aid the sailors back to the mainland. The promise of a boat never materializes leading one of the sailors to question why people had abandoned the island. Through his investigation he discovers that every year around the same date a tragedy at sea would occur and young men from the island would perish. When his two shipmates meet with fatal accidents, the myth of a ghostly siren haunting the island leads him to try and uncover the truth.
Starring: Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Tori Butler-Hart, Fisayo Akinade, and Alix Wilton Regan
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ST. AGATHA
Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Studio: Uncork’d Entertainment
Official Synopsis: It’s the 1950’s in small town Georgia, a pregnant con woman on the run seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark layer where silence is forced, ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the Odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
Starring: Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson, Lindsay Seim, Seth Michaels, and Hannah Fierman
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BERLIN, I LOVE YOU
Directed By: Dianna Agron, Peter Chelsom, Claus Clausen, Fernando Eimbcke, Justin Franklin, Dennis Gansel, Dani Levy, Daniel Lwowski, Stephanie Martin, Josef Rusnak, Til Schweiger, Massy Tadjedin
Studio: Saban Films
Official Synopsis: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jim Sturgess, and Diego Luna head an all-star cast in this sparkling film from the producers of Paris, Je T’Aime. Set against the vivid backdrop of Berlin, Berlin, I Love You weaves ten stories of compassion, redemption, and acceptance into a rich tapestry of life–and love.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Luke Wilson, Mickey Rourke, Jenna Dewan, Diego Luna, Jim Sturgess, Hayden Panettiere, and Dianna Agron
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THE DIVORCE PARTY
Directed By: Hughes William Thompson
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Official Synopsis: The Divorce Party is a dramatic comedy that tells the story of Nate (Thomas Cocquerel) and Susan Brown (Claire Holt, “The Originals”), a married couple in their twenties. When Susan suddenly realizes she’s miserable and wants a divorce, Nate packs his bags and heads for the nearest hotel. He soon discovers that he has been abandoned by his “friends” as he enters lonely single life. But when his former wedding planner, Katie (Matilda Lutz), offers to help Nate organize a glitzy “divorce party” to celebrate his new status, Nate starts to warm up to his new life, and finds that a new love may be waiting at the end of his ordeal.
Starring: Thomas Cocquerel, Claire Holt, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Katrina Bowden, Todd Lasance, and Lane Garrison
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THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA
Directed By: Donal Mosher & Michael Palmieri
Studio: Kino Lorber
Official Synopsis: Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes. The film takes a personal, and often comical look at negotiating differences between religion and belief through performance, political action, and partnership. Gospel drag shows and passion plays set the stage for one hell of a show.
Starring: Mx Justin Vivian Bond
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THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS
Directed By: Daniel Farrands
Studio: Skyline Entertainment
Official Synopsis: On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. took a high-powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that “voices” in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
Starring: John Robinson, Chelsea Ricketts, Diane Franklin, and Paul Ben-Victor
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AMONG WOLVES
Directed By: Shawn Convey
Studio: MVD Entertainment Group
Official Synopsis: In the mountains where they once fought, a motorcycle club led by Bosnian war veterans defends a herd of wild horses and discovers a new kind of freedom for themselves.
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THE IDEA OF MANHOOD
Directed By: Serge Kushnier
Studio: Indie Rights
Official Synopsis: Two old friends unexpectedly spend one day together and end up debating each other’s shortcomings. The conversation and day go places neither of them predicted.
Starring: Jeremy Kushnier, Karl Bury, Elizabeth Masucci, Meg McCrossen, and Thomas E. Sullivan
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PEPPA CELEBRATES THE CHINESE NEW YEAR
Directed By: Dapeng Zhang, Mark Baker, Neville Astley, Joris van Hulzen, and Sarah Roper
Studio: STXfilms
Official Synopsis: Tang Yuan and Jiao Zi live happily with their mom and dad. On the morning of Chinese New Year’s Eve, the kids were excited to go to their grandpa and grandma’s home (dad’s side) but were surprised to see their parents were busy cleaning the house. Their parents forgot to tell them that their grandpa and grandma (mom’s side) would be coming over from the south to spend the Chinese New Year with them. To cheer up the kids, Dad told them a story about Peppa at a kid’s festival. Missing their grandkids so much, grandpa and grandma (dad’s side) cut short their vacation in Sanya and came back to the north. Their arrival added a lot of CNY festival mood to the family. Grandma told the kids about the unexpected happening during Peppa’s adventure on the 2nd day of the kid’s festival.. Together the family celebrated many Chinese traditional customs like hanging up the Chinese knot, paper cutting, sticking the spring festival scrolls and sending red packet etc. Like Peppa and George, they love family, life and each other more after each experience. Featuring brand new Peppa Pig episodes, as well as some fan favorites, Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy the Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories along the way. Please note: Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year is in the Mandarin language with English subtitles.
Starring: Yawen Zhu, Yun Liu, Ah-Leh Gua, Lantian Chang, Qingzhuo Fang, and Daguang Li
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UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER
Directed By: Archie Borders
Studio: The Orchard
Official Synopsis: Stuart (Matt Walsh) is having a mid-life crisis. After losing his job, tagging along on his best friends’ family vacation to Paris, and humiliating himself by proposing to their 24-year-old daughter, he teams up with Liam (Reid Scott), a self-proclaimed ladies’ man. The two head off to the French countryside where they soon cross paths with Louise (Judith Godrèche), a beautiful vineyard-owner. Love is on the horizon, but Stuart’s going to have to get past a few hurdles — and out of his own way — in order to find it in this romantic coming-of-middle-age comedy.
Starring: Matt Walsh, Judith Godrèche, Reid Scott, Michaela Watkins, David Wain, and Dylan Gelula
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DARKNESS VISIBLE
Directed By: Neil Biswas
Studio: Blue Fox Entertainment
Official Synopsis: London-raised Ronnie embarks on a journey to India after his mother goes missing and mysteriously ends up there in a Kolkata hospital. Before Ronnie can unravel the mystery of what brought his mother back to her homeland, she dies in what appears to be a ritual killing. As he uncovers a series of similar murders from the past, Ronnie’s own inner-darkness comes to light as all roads lead to the feared witch of Kolkata’s insane asylum.
Starring: Jaz Deol, Sayani Gupta, Neil Bhoopalam, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, and Seema Biswas
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BENEATH THE LEAVES
Directed By: Adam Marino
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Among countless others, four small-town boys are kidnapped by James Whitley, a deranged, warm-eyed psychopath. His grotesque pursuit to reunite orphaned children with their deceased birth parents is gridlocked when the boys escape and he is arrested. Twenty years later, Whitley flees during a prison fire and decides to see his mission through. Detective Larson, one of Whitley’s prior victims — and now a cop — is removed from the case due to impartiality leaving his partner and lover, Detective Shotwell to solve the case. Fueled by rage and a chance of redemption, Detective Larson chases the steadfast psychopath on his own, only to fall back into the same trap he once escaped as a child.
Starring: Doug Jones, Mira Sorvino, and Paul Sorvino
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A VIOLENT MAN
Directed By: Matthew Berkowitz
Studio: GVN Releasing
Official Synopsis: The contemporary noir film with a classic murder mystery spin is about an unknown MMA fighter (Jones), who beats the undefeated champion at a local gym. Overnight he becomes the underdog champion of the world with a title fight on the horizon, but when the female reporter covering the story is found dead, he becomes the murder suspect.
Starring: Thomas Q. Jones, Isaach De Bankolé, Bruce Davison, Chuck Liddell, Denise Richards, and Khalilah Joi
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CHOKEHOLD
Directed By: Brian Skiba
Studio: filmpool
Official Synopsis: A young woman’s story of redemption revenge and reconciliation in the gritty world of underground No Holds Barred MMA Fighting. After her Father’s (Casper Van Dien Starship Troopers) murder Zoey abandons her training in Las Vegas with Uncle Ray (Kip Pardue Ray Donovan) to return home. However, her homecoming is far from joyful. She finds herself salvaging the family gym while searching for the killer all while trying to repair a relationship with her deceased father. The underground fighting world seems to be the only lead and the path she must take to fight for justice for her father. The film also stars Lochlyn Munro (Riverdale) and introducing Melissa Croden as Zoey.
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Melissa Croden, Lochlyn Munro, Kip Pardue, and Chris Austman
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