OCTOBER 9, 2020
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THE WAR WITH GRANDPA
Directed By: Tim Hill
Studio: 101 Studios
Peter and his grandpa used to be very close, but when Grandpa Jack moves in with the family, Peter is forced to give up his most prized possession: his bedroom. Peter will stop at nothing to get his room back, scheming with friends to devise a series of pranks to drive him out. However, grandpa doesn’t give up easily, and it turns into an all-out war between the two.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Cheech Marin, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Walken
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG (for rude humor, language, and some thematic elements)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR
Created By: Mike Flanagan
Studio: Netflix
From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR, the next highly anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve) and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.
Starring: Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Henry Thomas, Victoria Pedretti, T’Nia Miller, and Rahul Kohli
Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: — minutes
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HUBIE HALLOWEEN
Directed By: Steven Brill
Studio: Netflix
It’s October 31st in Salem, Massachusetts, and a town’s eccentric, devoted community volunteer and the good-natured object of his fellow citizen’s derision and meanest pranks, finds himself in the midst of a real investigation, for a real murderer.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Maya Rudolph, and Ray Liotta
Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for crude and suggestive content, language and brief teen partying)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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AN IMPERFECT MURDER
Directed By: James Toback
Studio: Quiver Distribution
An actress’s nightmare about killing her abusive ex-boyfriend manifests itself in reality.
Starring: Sienna Miller, Alec Baldwin, Charles Grodin, and Colleen Camp
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some language and brief drug use)
Runtime: 71 minutes
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THE DOORMAN
Directed By: Ryûhei Kitamura
Studio: Lionsgate
A woman returns from combat and befriends a family in NYC. A gang of thieves plot to take the family’s valuables, and she is all that stands between them and their lives.
Starring: Ruby Rose, Jean Reno, Aksel Hennie, and Rupert Evans
Genre: Action | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for violence throughout, language and brief teen drug use)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
Directed By: Jim Cummings
Studio: Orion Classics
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there’s no such thing as werewolves.
Starring: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, and Chloe East
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for violence, bloody images, language throughout and some drug use)
Runtime: 83 minutes
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THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Directed By: Radha Blank
Studio: Netflix
Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.
Starring: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin and Reed Birney
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for pervasive language, sexual content, some drug use and brief nudity)
Runtime: 129 minutes
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CAGEFIGHTER
Directed By: Jesse Quinones
Studio: Screen Media Films
Reiss Gibbons is on the cusp of cementing himself as the greatest to ever step inside the Legends cage. With five title defenses under his belt, and the support of coach and mentor Marcus, Reiss has it all. But when savvy promoter Max Black pits him against pro wrestling superstar Randy Stone in the company’s first ever cross-promotional event, Reiss finds himself in the toughest fight of his life.
Starring: Gina Gershon, Jonathan Good, Brenna Coates, and Chuck Liddell
Genre: Action | International | Sport
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 98 minutes
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FROM THE VINE
Directed By: Sean Cisterna
Studio: Indiecan Entertainment
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Paula Brancati, Marco Leonardi, and Wendy Crewson
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy | Canada (English & Italian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 97 minutes
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HENCHMEN
Directed By: Adam Wood
Studio: Entertainment One
With dreams of being a supervillain, a wide-eyed comic book fanboy joins the Union of Evil and becomes a hardened henchman’s apprentice.
Starring: Rosario Dawson, James Marsden, Nathan Fillion, Jane Krakowski, Alfred Molina, Rob Riggle, Thomas Middleditch, Bobcat Goldthwait, Craig Robinson, and Will Sasso
Genre: Animation | Comedy | International
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 101 minutes
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INTO THE LABYRINTH
Directed By: Donato Carrisi
Studio: Medusa Distribuzione
Samantha, a young kidnapped girl, resurfaces in shock after being imprisoned and hospitalized. Next to her is Dr. Green, a profiler who investigates victims’ minds to find clues. Genko, a private investigator, is also on the kidnapper’s trail.
Starring: Toni Servillo, Valentina Bellè, Vinicio Marchioni, and Dustin Hoffman
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Country: Italy (Italian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 130 minutes
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50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
Directed By: Jethro Patalinghug
Studio: Kinorob
Struggling to maintain it relevance in a fast-changing city, a 50-year-old LGBT charity organization in the US, the Imperial Council of San Francisco, elects its next Emperor and Empress.
Starring: —
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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AGGIE
Directed By: Catherine Gund
Studio: Strand Releasing
An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein’s painting “Masterpiece” in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.
Starring: Agnes Gund, Thelma Golden, John Waters, and Ava DuVernay
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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FAITH BASED
Directed By: Vincent Masciale
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
FAITH BASED focuses on two slacker friends who come to the realization that every low budget Christian movie starring 90’s TV actors makes millions of dollars. They soon set out on a mission to make “A Prayer in Space”, the story of the first prayer ever to be prayed… in space.
Starring: Luke Barnett, Tanner Thomason, Lance Reddick, Jason Alexander, Margaret Cho, and David Koechner
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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FLY LIKE A GIRL
Directed By: Katie Wiatt
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Follows women who dared to aim higher from Lego-loving young girls who includes female pilots in her toy airplanes, to a courageous women who helped lead shuttle missions to space.
Starring: Taylor Richardson, Tammy Duckworth, Nicole Stott, and Abby Harrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 84 minutes
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I AM LISA
Directed By: Patrick Rea
Studio: Feed the Queen
A sadistic, small-town sheriff and her underlings brutalize Lisa and leave her for dead in the woods. Bitten by a werewolf and bestowed with supernatural abilities, can Lisa retain her humanity as she exacts revenge?
Starring: Kristen Vaganos, Jennifer Seward, Manon Halliburton, Carmen Anello, and Chris Bylsma
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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MAJOR ARCANA
Directed By: Josh Melrod
Studio: Tal Vez Entertainment
A carpenter (Ujon Tokarski) struggles to move beyond his troubled past when he returns to his hometown to mend relationships and finds solace in building a log cabin by hand. His plans are complicated when he reunites with Sierra (Tara Summers), a woman with whom he shares a difficult past, and he is forced to reconcile his old life with his new one.
Starring: Lane Bradbury, Rachel Donahue, Collen Doyle, and Tara Summers
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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MIGHTY IRA
Directed By: Chris Maltby, Nico Perrino, & Aaron Reese
Studio: Northeast Films
Ira is one of America’s unsung champions of civil rights and liberties. As his generation retires from the barricades, Ira reminisces on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans.
Starring: Bryan Stevenson, Ira Glasser, Trude Glasser, and Charlene Stern
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 99 minutes
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NAUGHTY BOOKS
Directed By: Austen Rachlis
Studio: 1091 Pictures
Filmmaker Austen Rachlis profiles women authors who became famous after self-publishing their erotic romance novels.
Starring: Alexandra Alter, Gail Dines, Jane Dystel, and Rebecca Friedman
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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PRAY: THE STORY OF PATRICK PEYTON
Directed By: Jonathan Cipiti
Studio: Windrider Productions
The inspiring true story of a poor Irish immigrant who sets sail for America in 1928 with dreams of becoming a millionaire but, with the help of the most iconic celebrities of Hollywood, ends up spending his life championing the message, “The family that prays together stays together.”
Starring: Patrick Peyton, David L. Guffey, Shara Sweeney, and Jack Sweeney
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG (for some thematic elements)
Runtime: 71 minutes
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THE PLANTERS
Directed By: Alexandra Kotcheff & Hannah Leder
Studio: 1091 Pictures
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant lives a lonely existence burying treasure and eating split pea soup. When she takes in a vagrant with multiple personalities, she discovers having three friends in one may be more than she can handle.
Starring: Alexandra Kotcheff, Hannah Leder, Phil Parolisi, and Pepe Serna
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 78 minutes
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YELLOW ROSE
Directed By: Diane Paragas
Studio: Sony Pictures
A Filipina teen from a small Texas town fights to pursue her dreams as a country music performer while having to decide between staying with her family or leaving the only home she has known.
Starring: Eva Noblezada, Dale Watson, Princess Punzalan, and Lea Salonga
Genre: Drama | Music
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, and teen drinking)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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TIME
Directed By: Garrett Bradley
Studio: Amazon Prime Video
Entrepreneur Fox Rich spends the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 1990s in a moment of desperation.
Starring: Paolo Ikonomi, Rob Rich II, Fox Rich, and Freedom Rich
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language)
Runtime: 81 minutes
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MY PEOPLE, MY HOMELAND
Directed By: Sicheng Chen
Studio: China Lion
In different parts of rural China, various people explore what makes their communities unique.
Starring: Bo Huang, You Ge, Wei Fan, and Chao Deng
Genre: Drama | International
Country: China (Chinese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 153 minutes
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TRUMP CARD
Directed By: Dinesh D’Souza & Bruce Schooley
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza examines the ideas of socialism and the state of politics in America.
Starring: Stephen Brodie, Dinesh D’Souza, John Di Domenico, Kathryn Palmer, and Donald Trump
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong sexual material and drug references, thematic elements, some violence and brief language)
Runtime: 106 minutes
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