JANUARY 29, 2021
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THE LITTLE THINGS
Directed By: John Lee Hancock
Studio: Warner Bros.
Deputy Sheriff Joe “Deke” Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who’s terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke’s past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for violent/disturbing images, language and full nudity)
Runtime: 127 minutes
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PALMER
Created By: Fisher Stevens
Studio: Apple TV+
Former high school football star Eddie Palmer (Justin Timberlake) went from hometown hero to convicted felon, earning himself 12 years in a state penitentiary. He returns home to Louisiana, where he moves back in with Vivian (June Squibb), the grandmother who raised him. While trying to keep his head down and rebuild a quiet life for himself, Palmer is haunted by memories of his glory days and the suspicious eyes of his small town community. Things become more complicated when Vivian’s hard-living neighbor Shelly (Juno Temple) disappears on a prolonged bender, leaving her precocious and unique 7-year-old son Sam (Ryder Allen), often the target of bullying, in Palmer’s reluctant care. In time, Palmer is drawn into a more hopeful world as he forges a connection with Sam through their shared experience of being made to feel different by those around them. Life improves for Palmer, and a romance develops between him and Sam’s teacher Maggie (Alisha Wainwright). An inspiring and unexpected journey unfolds for the three of them, but soon Palmer’s past threatens to tear apart this new life.
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Alisha Wainwright, June Squibb, and Juno Temple
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language, some sexual content/nudity and brief violence)
Runtime: 110 minutes
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SUPERNOVA
Directed By: Harry Macqueen
Studio: Bleeker Street
Sam (Academy Award winner Colin Firth) and Tusker (Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci), partners of twenty years, are traveling across England in their old camper van visiting friends, family and places from their past. Following a life-changing diagnosis, their time together has become more important than ever until secret plans test their love like never before.
Starring: Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: UK (English)
Rating: R (for language)
Runtime: 93 minutes
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SAINT MAUD
Directed By: Rose Glass
Studio: A24
The debut film from writer-director Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul — but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
Starring: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, and Lily Frazer
Genre: Drama | Horror | International | Mystery
Country: UK (English & Welsh)
Rating: R (for disturbing and violent content, sexual content and language)
Runtime: 84 minutes
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WRONG TURN (2021)
Directed By: Mike P. Nelson
Studio: Saban Films
Backwoods terror and never-jangling suspense meet when Jen (Charlotte Vega) and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course-and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return- unless Jen’s father (Golden Globe (R) nominee Matthew Modine) can reach them in time.
Starring: Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head, Bill Sage and Matthew Modine
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: Germany | USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, grisly images and pervasive language)
Runtime: 109 minutes
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CAGED
Directed By: Aaron Fjellman
Studio: Lionsgate
An affluent African American psychiatrist (Edi Gathegi), convicted of murdering his wife (Angela Sarafyan), is sentenced to life in federal prison, then sent to solitary confinement. Struggling to file an appeal, he descends into madness, pushed to his breaking point by an abusive female guard (Hardin) hell-bent on her own form of justice and haunted by his dead wife, causing him to question his own innocence and sanity.
Starring: Edi Gathegi, Melora Hardin, and Angel Sarafyan
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Country: USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout)
Runtime: 81 minutes
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APOLLO 11: QUARANTINE
Directed By: Todd Douglas Miller
Studio: Neon
Summer 1969. The astronauts of Apollo 11 successfully land and walk on the moon. The crew will now quarantine for 21 days following contact with lunar material. The clock starts when the hatch is closed on the lunar surface. 3 days later they return to Earth…
Starring: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 24 minutes
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HAYMAKER
Directed By: Nick Sasso
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Haymaker follows a retired Muay Thai fighter (Sasso) working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer (Ruiz) from a nefarious thug, eventually becoming her bodyguard, protector, and confidant. The relationship leads Sasso’s character to make an unexpected return to fighting, risking not only his relationship, but his life. It’s a story about human dignity and love.
Starring: Nomi Ruiz, Nick Sasso, John Ventimiglia, Veronica Falcón, Udo Kier, Zoë Bell, and D.B. Sweeney
Genre: Action | Drama
Country: USA (English, Greek, & Thai)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 83 minutes
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THE MAD HATTER
Directed By: Cate Devaney
Studio: Conglomerate Media
Henry, and three of his classmates, encounter mind-bending ghostly terror when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion.
Starring: Armando Gutierrez, Nick Miller, Samuel Caleb Walker, and Michael Berryman
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some bloody violence, sexual content and nudity)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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THE NIGHT
Directed By: Kourosh Ahari
Studio: IFC Midnight
After a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha Noor) and their baby take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as Babak and Neda soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they’ve kept from one another.
Starring: Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor, Leah Oganyan, and George Maguire
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA | Iran (English & Persian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 105 minutes
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DEAR COMRADES!
Directed By: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Studio: Neon
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. Dear Comrades received critical praise out of the Venice Film Festival, with Variety calling it “scintillating” and “meticulous and majestic, epic in scope and tattoo-needle intimate in effect,” and The Playlist describing it as “a fascinating blend of dark satire and bleak archaeology.”
Starring: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, and Yuliya Burova
Genre: Drama | History | International
Country: Russia (Russian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 116 minutes
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TRUE MOTHERS
Directed By: Naomi Kawase
Studio: Film Movement
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato’s biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family.
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Arata Iura, Aju Makita, and Reo Sato
Genre: Drama | International
Country: Japan (Japanese & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 140 minutes
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THE REUNITED STATES
Directed By: Ben Rekhi
Studio: Dark Star Pictures
At a time when America is ripping apart at the seams, The Reunited States is a powerful and urgent documentary that follows the unsung heroes on the difficult journey of bridging our political and racial divides. Susan Bro, who lost her daughter when a car drove through a crowd in Charlottesville, and David and Erin Leaverton, a Republican couple who travel to all fifty states in an RV to find out what divides us, are just a few of the characters profiled in the film. Each of these bridge-builders have realized that while our divides run deeper than they ever could have imagined, so does the love and hope to bring our country back together. Based on the book of the same name, the film urges us to consider that everyone has a role to play in reuniting the country.
Starring: Susan Bro, Van Jones, David Leaverton, and Erin Leaverton
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 84 minutes
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