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JOKER
Directed By: Todd Phillips
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Synopsis: “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, and Marc Maron
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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LUCY IN THE SKY
Directed By: Noah Hawley
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Official Synopsis: In LUCY IN THE SKY, Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she’s deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy’s world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens, Colman Domingo, and Ellen Burstyn
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
Runtime: 124 minutes
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DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Directed By: Craig Brewer
Studio: Netflix
Official Synopsis: Stung by a string of showbiz failures, floundering comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy) has an epiphany that turns him into a word-of-mouth sensation: step onstage as someone else. Borrowing from the street mythology of 1970s Los Angeles, Moore assumes the persona of Dolemite, a pimp with a cane and an arsenal of obscene fables. However, his ambitions exceed selling bootleg records deemed too racy for mainstream radio stations to play. Moore convinces a social justice-minded dramatist (Keegan-Michael Key) to write his alter ego a film, incorporating kung fu, car chases, and Lady Reed (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), an ex-backup singer who becomes his unexpected comedic foil. Despite clashing with his pretentious director, D’Urville Martin (Wesley Snipes), and countless production hurdles at their studio in the dilapidated Dunbar Hotel, Moore’s Dolemite becomes a runaway box office smash and a defining movie of the Blaxploitation era.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Wesley Snipes, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Rock, Craig Robinson, Snoop Dogg, Mike Epps, T.I., Tituss Burgess, Chelsea Gilson, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language)
Runtime: 118 minutes
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PAIN AND GLORY
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Official Synopsis: Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano and Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre: Drama | International
Country: Spain (Spanish)
Rating: R (for drug use, some graphic nudity and language)
Runtime: 113 minutes
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THE PRETENDERS
Directed By: James Franco
Studio: Cleopatra Entertainment
Official Synopsis: In PRETENDERS, life imitates deadly arts as a French New Wave obsessed film student, Terry, finds his muse in mysterious and beguiling actress, Catherine. Both Terry and his best friend, Phil, fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. But they soon realize that the more time they spend with her, the more enigmatic she becomes. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage, the three end up in a dangerous situation that leaves one of them fighting for his life.
Starring: Jack Kilmer, Jane Levy, Shameik Moore, Juno Temple, Brian Cox, Dennis Quaid and James Franco
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN
Directed By: Alexandre O. Philippe
Studio: Screen Media
Official Synopsis: A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and the collective unconscious, Memory: The Origins of Alien unearths the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s cinematic masterpiece, and reveals a treasure trove of never-before-seen materials from the O’Bannon and Giger archives — including original story notes, rejected designs and storyboards, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, and Dan’s original 29 page script from 1971, titled Memory.
Starring: Bijan Aalam, Tim Boxell, Axelle Carolyn, Veronica Cartwright, Roger Christian, Roger Corman, Mickey Faerch, and Henry Jenkins
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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THE PARTS YOU LOSE
Directed By: Christopher Cantwell
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Official Synopsis: Wesley, a young deaf boy, is frequently bullied at school, and his home life, a sanctuary, consists of his loving mother and younger sister. When his father, a rough, unhappy man, returns home, Wesley withdraws into a shy and uneasy silence. But one day, on his cold walk home from the school, Wesley finds a strange man helpless and bleeding next to the road. He brings the man to an abandoned barn not far from his house. The man slowly recovers, helped by Wesley, who sneaks him food and medical supplies unbeknownst to his parents. He and Wesley develop a paternal bond as the man teaches Wesley how to toughen up and stand up to bullies, both at school and at home. As the police presence begins to grow, Wesley sees the darker side of the man he has helped. After a police officer visits his house, Wesley realizes he may not be able to protect the man from being found and from the violence that will follow. Wesley must choose between his loyalty to a dangerous stranger, and his growing understanding of right and wrong in the world.
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy, Kristen Harris, Jane Wu, Danny Murphy, Logan Creran, and Angela Narth
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 93 minutes
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THE CLIMBERS
Directed By: Daniel Lee
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Based on a true story from award winning director Daniel Lee (Three Kingdoms, 14 Blades), featuring China’s biggest stars Wu Jing (Wandering Earth, Wolf Warrior 2) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Grandmaster), and with a special guest appearance from superstar Jackie Chan. THE CLIMBERS is a cinematic retelling of the first Chinese climbers to summit Mount Everest — the first ever to do so from the North Ridge. Well-known as the most challenging side of the mountain, the perilous journey takes its toll on the mountaineers, physically and mentally, forcing them to make life or death decisions at every turn.
Starring: Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Yi, Jing Boran, and Hu Ge
Genre: Adventure | Drama | International
Country: China (Mandarin & Tibetan)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 125 minutes
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MY SOUL TO KEEP
Directed By: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Official Synopsis: Like many 9-year-olds, Eli Braverman believes something evil lives in his basement. When his older sister Emily leaves him home alone one night, Eli discovers if this evil is real or all in his head. What Eli confronts may end up being far more terrifying than his worst nightmare.
Starring: Parker Smerek, Remington Gielniak, Arielle Olkhovsky, Debra Harrison-Lowe, Brandon Matthew Layne, Melissa O’Brien, and Jake Rotger
Genre: Horror
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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SEMPER FI
Directed By: Henry-Alex Rubin
Studio: Lionsgate
Official Synopsis: Cal (Jai Courtney) is a by-the-book police officer who, along with his close-knit group of childhood friends, makes ends meet as a Marine Corps reservist. When Cal’s reckless younger half-brother, Oyster, is arrested after a bar fight and given an unfair prison sentence, Cal — driven by his loyalty to family and fierce code of honor — fights for Oyster (Nat Wolff) in this gripping tale of brotherhood and sacrifice.
Starring: Finn Wittrock, Leighton Meester, Jai Courtney, Nat Wolff, Beau Knapp, Arturo Castro, Rachel Hendrix, Wayne Pére, and Ashton Leigh
Genre: DAction | Drama
Country: USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for pervasive language, some violence and disturbing images)
Runtime: 99 minutes
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WRINKLES THE CLOWN
Directed By: Michael Beach Nichols
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Official Synopsis: It started with a silent black and white surveillance video uploaded to YouTube that depicted a child sleeping peacefully. Until a disheveled old man disguised as a clown slid out from beneath her bed. Afterward, similar videos started appearing online, showing the clown pushing a cart in a parking lot. Waving alongside a busy highway. Holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The unsettling clips, which immediately went viral, launched Wrinkles The Clown to internet infamy. Soon, cryptic stickers with his eerie visage and a phone number were plastered on telephone poles and in bathrooms all over Florida promising to terrify misbehaving children. Over one million voicemails were left.
Starring: Wrinkles the Clown
Genre: Documentary | Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 75 minutes
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ROGUE WARFARE
Directed By: Daniel Scheinert
Studio: A24
Official Synopsis: A group of skilled military elite join forces to fight an underground terrorist network.
Starring: Will Yun Lee, Jermaine Love, Rory Markham, Bertrand-Xavier Corbi, Katie Keene, Fernando Chien, Chris Mulkey, and Gina DeCesare
Genre: Action
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for strong violence and language throughout)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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GAME DAY
Directed By: John Susman
Studio: Ammo Content
Official Synopsis: A basketball-savvy teen reluctantly agrees to coach a brilliant but self-centered tech whiz who has lost everything when her startup goes bust and personal life is left in ruins. Discovering that success at her new job depends on becoming a team player in the office and on the company’s, up till now, an all-male basketball team, she enlists his help in a desperate attempt to save her job and her future-an experience that ultimately changes both of their lives forever.
Starring: Lisa Zane, Elizabeth Alderfer, Chris Johnson, Romeo Miller, Fyvush Finkel, Jerod Haynes, and Gary Houston
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 101 minutes
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CUCK
Directed By: Rob Lambert
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Official Synopsis: Brooding Ronnie lives with his mother in a run-down section of Van Nuys. Unstable and isolated, he binges on popular Alt-Right vlogs and creates his own video channel on the downfall of “real America.” In a world where opportunities are few, Ronnie rages, fueling his anger with pornography, racism, and delusion: a toxic cocktail waiting to explode. Exploring the themes of twisted patriotism and sexual dysfunction, CUCK sheds light on 2019 Trump America and its roots in our society.
Starring: Zachary Ray Sherman, Sally Kirkland, Timothy V. Murphy, Monique Parent, David Diaan, Hugo Armstrong, Albert Abraham, and Travis Hammer
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 115 minutes
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GREGORY’S GIRL
(1980 RE-RELEASE)
Directed By: Bill Forsyth
Studio: Film Movement
Official Synopsis: In this charming and frequently hilarious comedy, an awkward Scottish schoolboy is hopelessly in love with the independent female goalie who replaced him on the school soccer team. Luckily, he has a 10-year-old sister to whom he can turn for advice on love!
Starring: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D’Arcy, Clare Grogan, Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, and Alan Love
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Country: UK (English)
Rating: PG
Runtime: 91 minutes
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DILILI IN PARIS
(Dilili à Paris)
Directed By: Michel Ocelot
Studio: Wild Bunch
Official Synopsis: Travel to the upper reaches and lower depths of Paris in the Belle Epoque with Dilili, a graceful young girl with eagle-eyed smarts as she investigates the mysterious plot of the Master Men. Together with Orel, a delivery boy who ferries her around the sweeping photo-realistic and jewel-toned landscape as only expert animator Michel Ocelot could conceive, Dilili will stop at nothing until justice is restored. Our super sleuths journey through a turn-of-the-century world so evocative, you just might spot Picasso, Proust, or Marie Curie.
Starring: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay, Bruno Paviot, Jérémy Lopez, Harrison Arevalo, and Nicolas Planchais
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | International | Mystery
Country: France | Belgium | Germany (French)
Rating: PG (for thematic material throughout, some language, peril and brief smoking)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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WALLFLOWER
Directed By: Jagger Gravning
Studio: Passion River Films
Official Synopsis: On the night a disturbed man from a small town plans to commit a mass shooting at a Seattle rave, he is befriended by an eccentric group of ravers who invite him into their home. As the night unfolds, he finds himself conflicted about his intentions as the lines blur between their liberated world and his repressed desires. WALLFLOWER is a clash of civilizations: the old America versus the new.
Starring: David Call, Atsuko Okatsuka, Conner Marx, Hannah Horton, Cequoia Johnson, Hassan Cristos Messiah, Molly Tollefson, and Hope Shanthi
Genre: Crime | Drama | Music
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 84 minutes
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LOW TIDE
Directed By: Kevin McMullin
Studio: A24
Official Synopsis: In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan (Keean Johnson) and his friends Red (Alex Neustaedter) and Smitty (Daniel Zolghadri) break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk and lunches at the burger stand. When Alan and his younger brother Peter (Jaeden Martell) find a bag of gold coins, they try to hide them from the others — but Red, suspicious and violently unpredictable, seems willing to do anything to get the money.
Starring: Jaeden Martell, Keean Johnson, Shea Whigham, Alex Neustaedter, Daniel Zolghadri, Kristine Froseth, and Mike Hodge
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language, some violence and teen drug use)
Runtime: 84 minutes
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THE BATTLE OF JANGSARI
Directed By: Kwak Kyung-taek
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Official Synopsis: At a critical point in the Korean War, a small, inexperienced battalion of student soldiers are tasked with liberating the strategic location of Incheon. With little ammunition, low food supplies and second-hand weapons, the soldiers head for the frontlines of Jangsari beach. Based on the true story of forgotten heroes of the Korean War, can the student soldiers successfully carry out their mission and turn the tide of the war?
Starring: Myung-Min Kim, Megan Fox, Minho Choi, Sung-Cheol Kim, In-kwon Kim, Si-Yang Kwak, George Eads, and David Lee McInnis
Genre: Action | Drama | International | War
Country: South Korea (Korean)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 104 minutes
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EL COYOTE
Directed By: Jeffrey Nicholson
Studio: Cactus Blue Entertainment
Official Synopsis: The Italian mob descends on the Mexico border, to take on the most powerful cartel in America. Spencer ex mobster in witness protection battles the cartel who captured his son. His mob buddies come to Arizona to help him handle the cartel.
Starring: Michael Saquella, Robert Costanzo, John Capodice, Kristin Dattilo, Tom Sizemore, Michael Ochotorena, J.C. Marquez Pulita, and Michaela Dean
Genre: Action
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexual references, brief nudity and drug use)
Runtime: — minutes
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COLLISIONS
Directed By: Richard Levien
Studio: Widdershins Film
Official Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Itan’s promising life in San Francisco is turned upside down when she comes home from school, with her younger brother, to find her apartment ransacked and her mother missing, taken away by immigration police. Suddenly she must rely on her estranged uncle, a big rig truck driver. Itan manipulates him into taking them across the country in his truck, trying to find her mother and stop her deportation.
Starring: Jesse Garcia, Izabella Alvarez, Ana de la Reguera, Jason Garcia Jr., Rika Luna, Cianya Cortes, and Suilma Rodriguez
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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NIGHTHAWKS
Directed By: Joe Begos
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Official Synopsis: Midwest transplant Stan agrees to play wingman to his calculating and privileged roommate as they embark upon an exploration of glittering New York nightlife, whose darkest secrets are held captive by an elite band of millennials known as Nighthawks.
Starring: Janet Montgomery, Chace Crawford, Kevin Zegers, Michele Weaver, Lola Bessis, Blue Kimble, Max Sheldon, Craig Castaldo, and Nicole Balsam
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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CELEBRATION: YVES SAINT LAURENT
Directed By: Olivier Meyrou
Studio: Kimstim
Official Synopsis: Away from view, Yves Saint Laurent draws his latest sketches surrounded by those who have always supported, seamstresses, assistants, models. He is about to leave a world from which he is now detached. Behind the scenes Pierre Bergé orchestrates a succession of celebrations dedicated to turning the icon into a myth. The film of Olivier Meyrou captures these last moments and braids the unpublished portrait of a finishing world.
Starring: Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé, Laetitia Casta, Loulou De La Falaise, and Catherine Deneuve
Genre: Documentary
Country: France (French)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 74 minutes
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ROGER WATERS US + THEM
Directed By: Sean Evans & Roger Waters
Studio: Trafalgar Releasing
Official Synopsis: Roger Waters, co-founder, creative force and songwriter behind Pink Floyd, presents his highly anticipated film, Us + Them, featuring state-of- the-art visual production and breath-taking sound in this unmissable cinema event. Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017-2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features songs from his legendary Pink Floyd albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here) and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want? Waters collaborates once more with Sean Evans, visionary director of the highly acclaimed movie, Roger Waters The Wall, to deliver this creatively pioneering film that inspires with its powerful music and message of human rights, liberty and love.
Starring: Rufat Aliyev, Farshid Azizi, Nikoo Bafti, Azzurra Caccetta, Jon Carin, Anais Dupay-Rahman, and Salem Hanna
Genre: Documentary | International | Music
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 135 minutes
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WAR (2019)
Directed By: Siddharth Anand
Studio: Yash Raj Films
Official Synopsis: The title of the much-anticipated action entertainer that pits two of the biggest action superstars of our generation, Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, in a massive showdown against each other has been aptly titled WAR. The biggest action entertainer of the year will see both these incredible action stars push their bodies to the limit to pull off never-seen-before, death-defying action stunts that will keep you on the edge of your seats. War is set to be a visual spectacle for quintessential action cinema lovers as they would witness Hrithik and Tiger pull off jaw-dropping sequences as they try to beat each other. Director Siddharth Anand says, “When you bring two of the biggest and the best action superstars of India in one film and pit them against each other, you need a title that justifies the promise of a massive showdown. Hrithik and Tiger will be seen going at each other ferociously and mercilessly and audiences will want to see who outwits whom in this incredible fight. WAR is the only title that could have delivered on this big promise and justifies the level of an action spectacle that the film is trying to present to audiences globally.”
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vaani Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana, Anupriya Goenka, Dipannita Sharma, and Soni Razdan
Genre: Action | International | Thriller
Country: India (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Spanish, French, Russian, English, Japanese, Hebrew, & Arabic)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 155 minutes
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MY PEOPLE, MY COUNTRY
Directed By: Guan Hu, Yibai Zhang, Zheng Xu, Xue Xiaolu, Hao Ning, Wen Muye, Kaige Chen, & Huang Jianxin
Studio: CMC Pictures
Official Synopsis: The movie consists of 7 stories, which are based on 7 memorial moments since the foundation of People’s Republic of China. The stories are about what normal people do for the country and why they do that, showing the close relationship between citizens and the country — it seems that the concept of a country is so big while a citizen is too small, but they can’t exist without each other. Produced in 2019, the year of the 70th anniversary of China, the film is a gift to every Chinese person living in the country and overseas.
Starring: Bo Huang, Jing Wu, Yili Ma, Kara Wai, Yalin Gao, You Ge, Beibi Gong, and Haoran Liu
Genre: Drama | History | International
Country: China (Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 150 minutes
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