DECEMBER 11, 2020
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THE MIDNIGHT SKY
Directed By: George Clooney
Studio: Netflix
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Starring: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, and Caoilinn Springall
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some bloody images and brief strong language)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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THE PROM
Created By: Ryan Murphy
Studio: Netflix
A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.
Starring: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key, Andrew Rannells, Ariana DeBose, Kerry Washington, and Jo Ellen Pellman
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, some suggestive/sexual references and language)
Runtime: 130 minutes
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SONGBIRD
Directed By: Adam Mason
Studio: STXfilms
In 2024 a pandemic ravages the world and its cities. Centering on a handful of people as they navigate the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, martial law, quarantine, and vigilantes.
Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser, and Demi Moore
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for violence including some bloody images, sexual material, partial nudity and some strong language)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
Directed By: John Patrick Shanley
Studio: Bleeker Street
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly’s love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father’s plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, Dearbhla Molloy and Christopher Walken
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: Ireland | UK (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic elements and suggestive comments)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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SAFETY
Directed By: Reginald Hudlin
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.
Starring: Jay Reeves, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Corinne Foxx, Matthew Glave, and James Badge Dale
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Country: Canada | USA (English)
Rating: PG (for thematic content involving drug addiction, and some language)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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THE STAND IN
Directed By: Jamie Babbit
Studio: Saban Films
THE STAND-IN is the story of a disaffected comedy actress and her ambitious stand-in trading places.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Michael Zegen, T.J. Miller, and Holland Taylor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout including sexual references, and for drug use)
Runtime: 101 minutes
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WANDER DARKLY
Directed By: Tara Miele
Studio: Lionsgate
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
Starring: Sienna Miller, Diego Luna, Beth Grant, Aimee Carrero, Tory Kittles and Vanessa Bayer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language and some sexual content/nudity)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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IP MAN: KUNG FU MASTER
Directed By: Liming Li
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
IP MAN: KUNG FU MASTER harks back to Ip’s early days before the Communist Revolution in 1949. Ip, portrayed by Dennis To for the third time as the martial artist who famously tutored Bruce Lee, was then a police captain who was framed for the murder of a ruthless but honorable mobster, and targeted for vengeance by his dangerous daughter. Forced to quit the force, Ip soon also has to contend with the arrival of the Japanese army in Guangzhou.
Starring: Yu-Hang To, Michael Wong, Wanliruo Xin, and Dongfeng Yue
Genre: Action | International
Country: China (Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 84 minutes
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ARCHENEMY
Directed By: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Studio: RLJ Entertainment
Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster.
Starring: Joe Manganiello, Skylan Brooks, Paul Scheer, Glenn Howerton, Zolee Griggs and Amy Seimetz
Genre: Action | Adventure
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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GUNDA
Directed By: Victor Kossakovsky
Studio: NEON
Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
Starring: Gunda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Norway | USA (English)
Rating: G
Runtime: 93 minutes
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THE VERY EXCELLENT MR. DUNDEE
Directed By: Dean Murphy
Studio: Transmission Films
Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
Starring: Paul Hogan, Chevy Chase, John Cleese, Olivia Newton-John and Kerry Armstrong
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some language and suggestive references)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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KNUCKLEDUST
Directed By: James Kermack
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Police discover an elite fight club where they find seven underground levels, filled with the dead bodies of fighters from around the world. Only one man is found left alive. The task force has to work out if he’s a mass murderer or the lone survivor?
Starring: Olivier Richters, Kate Dickie, Phil Davis, Amy Bailey, and Moe Dunford
Genre: Action | Thriller
Country: UK | France (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 105 minutes
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WETWARE
Directed By: Jay Craven
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Wetware is set in a world where people get genetic alterations to take on hard jobs. Programmer Briggs improvises his work on high-end prototypes, especially Kay, to whom he becomes attached. Then Kay escapes and everything changes.
Starring: Jerry O’Connell, Cameron Scoggins, Bret Lada, Aurélia Thiérrée, and Kimberly Arthurs
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 105 minutes
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PARALLEL
Directed By: Isaac Ezban
Studio: Vertical Entertaiment
A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a “multiverse”, but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
Starring: Carmel Amit, Kathleen Quinlan, Alyssa Diaz, and Martin Wallström
Genre: Drama | International | Thriller
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 104 minutes
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ASSASSINS
Directed By: Ryan White
Studio: Madman Films
The audacious murder of the brother of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jon Un in a crowded Malaysian airport sparked a worldwide media frenzy. At the center of the investigation are two young women who are either cold-blooded killers or unwitting pawns in a political assassination. ASSASSINS goes beyond the headlines to question every angle of this case, from human trafficking to geo-political espionage to the secretive dynamics of the North Korean dynasty.
Starring: Siti Aisyah, Hadi Azmi, Anna Fifield, and Doan Thi Huong
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, English, & Malay)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 104 minutes
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YALDA: A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS
Directed By: Massoud Bakhshi
Studio: Film Movement
Maryam is a young woman who is accused of murdering her husband and is sentenced to death. In the Yalda night they bring her to a live TV show so that Mona who is the only daughter of the victim see her and forgive her from her crime. But some happenings in the show make the two women to do different choices.
Starring: Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi, and Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran | France | Germany | Switzerland | Luxembourg | Lebanon (Persian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 89 minutes
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BREAKING SURFACE
Directed By: Joachim Hedén
Studio: Mongrel Media
During a winter dive on a remote part of the coast in Northern Norway, two sisters’ lives fall into danger; when a rockfall traps one of the sisters on the ocean floor, a battle against time begins in the middle of the wilderness.
Starring: Moa Gammel, Madeleine Martin, Trine Wiggen, and Jitse Jonathan Buitnik
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Country: Sweden | Norway | Belgium (Swedish & Norwegian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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FAREWELL AMOR
Directed By: Ekwa Msangi
Studio: IFC Films
Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.
Starring: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, and Joie Lee
Genre: Drama | Music | Romance
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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A DOG CALLED MONEY
Directed By: Seamus Murphy
Studio: Mubi
Accompany PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy on a journey through the creative process behind PJ Harvey’s new album, conceived by their travels around the globe.
Starring: PJ Harvey
Genre: Documentary
Country: Ireland | UK | USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 94 minutes
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QUEER JAPAN
Directed By: Graham Kolbeins
Studio: Altered Innocence
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between. Dazzling, iconoclastic drag queen Vivienne Sato peels back the layers of language and identity. Maverick manga artist Gengoroh Tagame tours the world with his unapologetically erotic gay comics. Councilwoman Aya Kamikawa recounts her rocky path to becoming the first transgender elected official in Japan. At legendary kink-positive hentai party Department H, non-binary performance artist Saeborg uses rubber to create a second skin. Culled from 100+ interviews conducted over 3 years in locations across Japan, Queer Japan features dozens of individuals sharing their experiences in their own words.
Starring: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tomato Hatakeno, Leslie Kee, and Atsushi Matsuda
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Japan (Japanese & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 99 minutes
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THE NEVER LIST
Directed By: Michelle Mower
Studio: Burning Bra Productions
After the sudden death of her best friend, a straight-A, obedient teen sets out to fulfill their secret list of outrageous acts they said they’d never do.
Starring: Fivel Stewart, Keiko Agena, Andrew Kai, and Brenna D’Amico
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for drug content, sexual material and some language – all involving teens)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND
Directed By: Kenji Iwaisawa
Studio: Nikkatsu
Three young misfits decide to form a band to impress girls.
Starring: Shintarô Sakamoto, Ren Komai, Tomoya Maeno, and Tateto Serizawa
Genre: Animation | Drama | International | Musical
Country: Japan (Japanese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 71 minutes
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DON’T CLICK
Directed By: G-Hey Kim
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
After accessing a pornographic website, two men wake up to find themselves trapped in a dungeon with a supernatural entity.
Starring: Valter Skarsgård, Mark Koufos, and Catherine Howard
Genre: Horror | International
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 77 minutes
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THE WEASELS’ TALE
Directed By: Juan José Campanella
Studio: Outsider Pictures
A group of four old friends conformed by a film director, a film writer, an actress and her husband share a big house in the country. Their coexistence is menaced by a young couple who resourcefully and deceitfully seek to get them to sell the house to develop a real estate project of their own.
Starring: Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni, and Marcos Mundstock
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Country: Argentina | Spain (Spanishh)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 129 minutes
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Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate’s Cove
Directed By: Rick Spalla
Studio: Fathom Events
While searching for lost treasure, time traveling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes: a group of kids with the latest in techy gadgetry.
Starring: Denise Richards, Malcolm McDowell, Eric Balfour, and Patrick Muldoon
Genre: Adventure | Family
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 105 minutes
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