NOVEMBER 13, 2020
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FREAKY
Directed By: Christopher Landon
Studio: Universal Pictures
After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, Celeste O’Connor, and Alan Ruck
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for strong bloody horror violence, sexual content, and language throughout)
Runtime: 101 minutes
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MANK
Created By: David Fincher
Studio: Netflix
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.”
Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, and Charles Dance
Genre: Biography | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some language)
Runtime: 131 minutes
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AMMONITE
Directed By: Francis Lee
Studio: Neon
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan. Gemma Jones, James McArdle, Alec Secăreanu, and Fiona Shaw
Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
Country: UK | Australia | USA (English)
Rating: R (for graphic sexuality, some graphic nudity and brief language)
Runtime: 120 minutes
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HILLBILLY ELEGY
Directed By: Ron Howard
Studio: Netflix
A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples with family history, Appalachian values and the American dream.
Starring: Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, and Owen Asztalos
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout, drug content and some violence)
Runtime: 116 minutes
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DREAMLAND
Directed By: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
Starring: Finn Cole, Margot Robbie, Travis Fimmel, Kerry Condon, Darby Camp, and Lola Kirke
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some violence, language and sexuality/nudity)
Runtime: 98 minutes
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CHICK FIGHT
Directed By: Paul Leyden
Studio: Quiver Distribution
When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
Starring: Malin Åkerman, Bella Thorne, Dulcé Sloan, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Nash, Alec Mapa, Dominique Jackson, Fortune Feimster and Alec Baldwin
Genre: Action | Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language and sexual material throughout, some violence and brief drug use)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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FATMAN
Directed By: Ian & Eshom Nelms
Studio: Saban Films
To save his declining business, Chris Cringle, also known as Santa Claus, is forced into a partnership with the U.S. military. Making matters worse, Chris gets locked into a deadly battle of wits against a highly skilled assassin, hired by a precocious 12-year-old, after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Genre: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller
Country: UK | Canada | USA (English)
Rating: R (for bloody violence, and language)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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loco
Directed By: Justin Galindo
Studio: JIG Reel Studios
A troubled man becomes a pawn in a brutal struggle between two crime lords fighting for control of a new street drug.
Starring: Craig Stark, Maestro Harrell, John Charles Meyer, and Anthony Jensen
Genre: Action | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 minutes
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JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS
Directed By: David E. Talbert
Studio: Netflix
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, and Ricky Martin
Genre: Family | Fantasy | Musical
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG (for some thematic elements and peril)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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WOLFWALKERS
Directed By: Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart
Studio: Apple +
A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
Starring: Sean Bean, Simon McBurney, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Honor Kneafsey
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | International
Country: Ireland | Luxembourg | France (English)
Rating: PG (for sequences of violence and peril, scary images, some thematic elements and brief language)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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ECHO BOOMERS
Directed By: Seth Savoy
Studio: Saban Films
Based on a true story, five college graduates decide the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they’ve always wanted is to steal from Chicago’s richest and give to themselves.
Starring: Patrick Schwarzenegger, Alex Pettyfer and Michael Shannon
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for drug use and pervasive language)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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COME AWAY
Directed By: Brenda Chapman
Studio: Relativity Media
When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Anna Chancellor, Clarke Peters, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Caine, David Gyasi, Derek Jacobi, and Angelina Jolie
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Country: UK | USA (English)
Rating: PG (for strong thematic content, some violence, fantasy action, and unsettling images)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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DATING AMBER
Directed By: David Freyne
Studio: Amazon Studios
A closeted gay teen and his lesbian counterpart pretend to be a couple to avoid suspicion.
Starring: Fionn O’Shea, Lola Petticrew, Sharon Horgan, Barry Ward, and Simone Kirby
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Country: Ireland (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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MONSOON
Directed By: Hong Khaou
Studio: BBC Films
Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War.
Starring: Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers, David Tran and Molly Harris
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: UK (English & Vietnamese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 minutes
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LAST THREE DAYS
Directed By: Brian Ulrich
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
After getting mixed up with a dangerous crime syndicate, an undercover cop wakes up to discover he is missing his partner, his wife, and three days of his life.
Starring: Robert Palmer Watkins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Deborah Lee Smith, and Roy Huang
Genre: Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA (English & Japanese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 86 minutes
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BILLIE
Directed By: James Erskine
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer’s short, tumultuous life. However, Linda’s book was never finished and the tapes never heard — until now.
Starring: Billie Holiday
Genre: Documentary | International | Music
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 96 minutes
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SURVIVAL SKILLS
Directed By: Quinn Armstrong
Studio: Cranked Up Films
Survival Skills is a lost training video from the 1980s. In it, Jim, the perfect policeman, gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case outside the law.
Starring: Stacy Keach, Vayu O’Donnell, and Spencer Garrett
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 88 minutes
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BLINDFIRE
Directed By: Michael Nell
Studio: Kandoo Releasing
Lives are left in pieces after a white cop responds to a hostage call and kills the Black suspect, only to learn he may have been set up; facing trial, he must find the person responsible while examining his own accountability.
Starring: Brian Geraghty, Sharon Leal, Bethany Joy Lenz, and Wayne Brady
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 83 minutes
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MAKE UP
Directed By: Claire Oakley
Studio: Curzon
On a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her.
Starring: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini, and Theo Barklem-Biggs
Genre: Drama | International
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 86 minutes
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HABITUAL
Directed By: Johnny Hickey
Studio: Dark Mode
A fistful of drug popping ravers and an insane mental patient take a hell bent trip to an underground rave party “The Habit”, being held at an abandon lunatic asylum in Salem Massachusetts. The groups plan to party all night drastically morph into chaotic hallucinations of the rave being buried deeper and deeper within a mind bending structure of massive abandonment. Decrepit walls and stairwells built to keep insanity captive, separate the group into a spiral of horrifying paradoxes, splicing nightmares into reality. In the end, one persons insanity is the others reality.
Starring: Emilee Fitzpatrick, Jaylee Hickey, Johnny Hickey, and Anthony Hoang
Genre: Horror
Country: USA (English)
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 95 minutes
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DIVINO AMOR
Directed By: Gabriel Mascaro
Studio: Globo Filmes
In a Brazil where the Evangelical church has been integrated into all aspects of daily life, DIVINE LOVE accompanies the journey of a 42 year old woman who uses her position in a notary’s office to advance her mission to save struggling couples from divorce. Whilst waiting for a Sign in recognition of her efforts, she is confronted with a crisis in her own marriage that ultimately brings her closer to God.
Starring: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Antonio Pastich, and Rubens Santos
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil | Uruguay | Denmark | Norway | Chile | Sweden (Portuguese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 101 minutes
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RECON
Directed By: Robert David Port
Studio: Brainstorm Media
Four American soldiers set out on the grueling ascent of an Italian mountainside in the closing days of World War II. Haunted by their evil sergeant’s cold-blooded murder of a young woman and with only an old Italian man of uncertain loyalties as their guide.
Starring: Alexander Ludwig, RJ Fetherstonhaugh, Mitch Ainley, and Chris Brochu
Genre: Biography | Thriller | War
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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IT CUTS DEEP
Directed By: Nicholas Santos
Studio: Dark Sky Films
While on Christmas vacation, a young couple contemplates their future together. Ashley is interested in getting married and having kids which terrifies Sam. When the more attractive and paternal Nolan enters the picture, Sam’s life spirals out of control as Ashley questions their relationship. Chaos reigns as Sam desperately clings to Ashley while fending off the threatening Nolan.
Starring: Charles Gould, Quinn Jackson, John Anderson, and Chloe Roe
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 77 minutes
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THE GIANT
Directed By: David Raboy
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
A teenager’s small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.
Starring: Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, and Madelyn Cline
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA | France (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 99 minutes
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