APRIL 16, 2021
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IN THE EARTH
Directed By: Ben Wheatley
Studio: Neon
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Starring: Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth and Mark Monero
Genre: Horror | International
Country: UK (English)
Rating: R (for strong violent content, grisly images, and language)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Vanquish
Created By: George Gallo
Studio: Lionsgate
From the director of Double Take, Middle Men, and The Poison Rose comes this stylish, glossy action-thriller starring Morgan Freeman (Se7en) and Ruby Rose (“Orange Is the New Black”) that shows what desperation can drive a person to do. A mother, Victoria (Rose), is trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon (Freeman) forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts, and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters — or she may never see her child again.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ruby Rose, Patrick Muldoon, Nick Vallelonga, and Julie Lott
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for bloody violence, language, some sexual material and drug use)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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The Rookies
Directed By: Alan Yuen
Studio: Shout Studios!
Extreme sport lover Zhou Feng got involved in an international illegal trade by accident. So he had to follow an international special agent Bruce to Budapest.
Starring: Wang Talu, Sandrine Pinna, Milla Jovovich, Xu Weizhou and Liu Meitong
Genre: Action | International
Country: China | Hungary (English, Hungarian, & Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 113 minutes
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Trigger Point
Directed By: Brad Turner
Studio: Screen Media Films
A disgraced U.S. operative who suffered memory loss at the hands of his captors gets dragged back into the deadly spy world when a colleague goes missing. He needs all of his skills to find her, but to uncover the truth, he must remember the past.
Starring: Barry Pepper, Laura Vandervoort, Colm Feore, Eve Harlow, and Greg Bryk
Genre: Action | International | Thriller
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Night Of The Sicario
Directed By: Joth Riggs
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a Colombian woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful drug cartel in Federal Court, as ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down.
Starring: Natasha Henstridge, Costas Mandylor, Manny Perez, Roberto ‘Sanz’ Sanchez, and Narci Regina
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some violence)
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Monday
Directed By: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Studio: IFC Films
Mickey (Sebastian Stan) and Chloe (Denise Gough), two Americans in their mid-thirties living in Athens, meet in the heat of summer one whirlwind weekend. The chemistry between them is undeniable. When Chloe’s time in Greece is drawing to a close, she decides to give up her high-flying job back home and explore whether one weekend’s passion can blossom into something more. Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ follow up of the festival sensation Suntan is a fun, sensuous romance about how love gets in the way of life, and life gets in the way of love.
Starring: Denise Gough, Sebastian Stan, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, and Michalis Laios
Genre: Drama | Romance
Country: UK | Greece | USA (English & Greek)
Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity/graphic nudity, drug use, and pervasive language)
Runtime: 116 minutes
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Jakob’s Wife
Directed By: Travis Stevens
Studio: RLJE Films
Anne is married to a small-town minister and feels like her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past 30 years. After a chance encounter with “The Master,” she discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. As Anne is increasingly torn between her enticing new existence and her life before, the body count grows and Jakob realizes he will have to fight for the wife he took for granted.
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Nyisha Bell, and Sarah Lind
Genre: Horror
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 98 minutes
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Killer Among Us
Directed By: Charlie Scharfman
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
On the 4th of July, a rookie female cop partners with a veteran detective to save the life of a high-school student from a radicalized serial killer.
Starring: Yasha Jackson, Andrew Richardson, Bruce MacVittie, Imani Lewis, and Scott Aiello
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Directed By: Jeffrey Wolf
Studio: Kino Lorber
An inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of artist Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, Traylor witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
Starring: Russell G. Jones, Jason Samuels Smith, and Sharon Washington
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 75 minutes
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Beast Beast
Directed By: Danny Madden
Studio: Vanishing Angle
Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a Southern, American town. Brimming with energy and style, Beast Beast captures what it means to come of age in an era marked by technology and social media, where violent clashes awaken dormant passions and teenagers are faced with growing up all too quickly.
Starring: Shirley Chen, Will Madden, Jose Angeles, Courtney Dietz, and Daniel Rashid
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Beate
Directed By: Samad Zarmandili
Studio: Corinth Films
In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery and devoted to the Blessed Armida, risk being removed from their beloved convent. To oppose a destiny already marked, workers and nuns join forces and start a ‘business’ outside the rules in the hopes that a miracle will help them keep the convent and the factory.
Starring: Donatella Finocchiaro, Felicitè Mbezelè, Paolo Pierobon, Maria Roveran, and Lucia Sardo
Genre: Comedy | International
Country: Italy (Italian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Strength Wars: The Movie
Directed By: Vlad Yudin
Studio: Abramorama
Strength Wars: The Movie follows the lives of eight athletes preparing for the ultimate strength competition. The prize? To be labeled the strongest man in the world. Putting two different types of athletes against each other, Strength Wars is the ultimate proving ground to test any given athlete’s true strength. Eight athletes. Eight athletic disciplines. One winner. The film highlights eight men from across the globe including Larry Wheels, Terron Beckham, Blaine Sumner, NDO Champ, Big Neechi, Jerry Pritchett, Anabolic Horse, and Leonidas Arkona. Welcome to Strength Wars. May the best man win.
Starring: Terron Beckham, Ndo Champ, Jan Krasinský, Jerry Pritchett, and Neechi Sosa
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 109 minutes
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Hope
Directed By: Maria Sødahl
Studio: Motlys
The relationship between artist-partners Tomas (Stellan Skarsgrd) and Anja (Andrea Brin Hovig) is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis, in this probing and affecting film from Maria Sdahl.
Starring: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Alfred Vatne, and Steinar Klouman Hallert
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: Norway | Sweden | Denmark (Norwegian & Swedish)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 126 minutes
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For The Sake of Vicious
Directed By: Gabriel Carre & Reese Eveneshen
Studio: Cranked Up Films
An overworked nurse returns home to find a maniac hiding out with a bruised and beaten hostage. When an unexpected wave of violent intruders descend upon her home, it becomes a fight for survival.
Starring: Lora Burke, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine, and James Fler
Genre: Action | Horror | International | Mystery
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 minutes
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We Broke Up
Directed By: Jeff Rosenberg
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Lori and Doug have been together for 10 years. But when Lori reacts badly to Doug’s surprise proposal just before her little sister’s wedding, he dumps her. Not wanting to steal the spotlight, Doug and Lori pretend they’re still together. However, raw emotions and tempting flirtations with other wedding guests make pretending a lot harder than they’d anticipated.
Starring: Aya Cash, William Jackson Harper, Sarah Bolger, Tony Cavalero, and Peri Gilpin
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Virus Shark
Directed By: Mark Polonia
Studio: SRS
The world is ravaged by a new virus, SHVID-1, spread by a shark bite. At the bottom of the ocean, a group of scientists are racing against the clock to find a cure.
Starring: Yolie Canales, Steve Diasparra, Natalie Himmelberger, and Titus Himmelberger
Genre: Horror
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 74 minutes
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Reefa
Directed By: Jessica Kavana Dornbusch
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Israel “Reefa” Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist, is spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship. While Israel and his friends skateboard the city streets and spray paint the walls of Wynwood, Miami’s graffiti Mecca, anxieties emerge twofold: Israel and his family nervously await their Green Cards while he desperately seeks recognition for his art. On August 6, 2013, as Israel spray paints one last wall which would command immediate respect from his peers, a fatal encounter with a police officer leaves his family and friends devastated, the Miami community outraged, and the country reeling from another case of police brutality.
Starring: Cinthya Carmona, Ricardo Chavira, José Zúñiga, and George Sear
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 96 minutes
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