AUGUST 20, 2021
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REMINISCENCE
Directed By: Lisa Joy
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae’s disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, Marina de Tavira, Daniel Wu, Mojean Aria, Brett Cullen, Natalie Martinez, Angela Sarafyan, and Nico Parker
Genre: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for strong violence, drug material throughout, sexual content and some strong language)
Runtime: 116 minutes
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PAW PATROL: THE MOvie
Directed By: Cal Brunker
Studio: Paramount Pictures
The PAW Patrol is on a roll! When their biggest rival, Humdinger, becomes Mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking havoc, Ryder and everyone’s favorite heroic pups kick into high gear to face the challenge head on. While one pup must face his past in Adventure City, the team finds help from a new ally, the savvy dachshund Liberty. Together, armed with exciting new gadgets and gear, the PAW Patrol fights to save the citizens of Adventure City!
Starring: Kingsley Marshall, Keegan Hedley, Shayle Simons, Lilly Bartlam, Ron Pardo, Iain Armitage, Marsai Martin, Yara Shahidi, Kim Kardashian, Randall Park, Dax Shepard, Tyler Perry, Jimmy Kimmel, and Will Brisbin
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: G (all audiences)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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The Protégé
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Studio: Lionsgate
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and trained in the family business, Anna (Maggie Q) is the world’s most skilled contract killer. But when Moody — the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival — is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer (Michael Keaton) whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, David Rintoul, Ori Pfeffer, Ray Fearon, Caroline Loncq, and Robert Patrick
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for strong and bloody violence, language, some sexual references and brief nudity)
Runtime: 109 minutes
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The Night House
Directed By: David Bruckner
Studio: Searchlight Pictures
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together — but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband’s belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing — a mystery she’s determined to unravel.
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin and Vondie Curtis-Hall
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for some violence/disturbing images, and language including some sexual references)
Runtime: 108 minutes
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Flag Day
Directed By: Sean Penn
Studio: MGM Studios
Jennifer Vogel’s father John was larger than life. As a child, Jennifer marveled at his magnetizing energy and ability to make life feel like a grand adventure. He taught her so much about love and joy, but he also happened to be the most notorious counterfeiter in US history. Based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn, Flag Day stars Penn and his real-life daughter Dylan Penn in an intimate family portrait about a young woman who struggles to rise above the wreckage of her past while reconciling the inescapable bond between a daughter and her father.
Starring: Sean Penn, Dylan Penn, Katheryn Winnick, Regina King, Josh Brolin, Dale Dickey, and Eddie Marsan
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language, some drug use and violent content)
Runtime: 107 minutes
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Sweet Girl
Directed By: Brian Andrew Mendoza
Studio: Netflix
Devoted family man Ray Cooper, vows justice against the pharmaceutical company responsible for pulling a potentially life saving drug from the market just before his wife (Adria Arjona) dies from cancer. But when his search for the truth leads to a deadly encounter that puts Ray and his daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) in harm’s way, Ray’s mission turns into a quest for vengeance in order to protect the only family he has left.
Starring: Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Raza Jaffrey, Lex Scott Davis, Michael Raymond-James and Amy Brenneman
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some strong violence, and language)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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HABIT
Directed By: Janell Shirtcliff
Studio: Lionsgate
Reminiscent of early Tarantino, this edgy, outrageous thriller is one “habit” you’ll want to acquire! The action begins as L.A. party girl Mads (Bella Thorne, The DUFF) gets a gig running drugs for Eric, a washed-up Hollywood star. When their cash gets stolen and Eric is slain by a rival drug lord, Mads and her two sexy BFFs hide out by dressing up as nuns. But in spite of their costumes, these bad girls are no angels. Also stars Paris Jackson, Hana Mae Lee (Pitch Perfect), and Gavin Rossdale (Constantine).
Starring: Bella Thorne, Gavin Rossdale, Libby Mintz, Andreja Pejić, Ione Skye, Jamie Hince, Alison Mosshart, Paris Jackson and Josie Ho
Genre: Action | Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for strong drug content, pervasive language, sexual content, some bloody violence, and brief nudity)
Runtime: 81 minutes
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Demonic
Directed By: Neill Blomkamp
Studio: IFC Films
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are revealed.
Starring: Andrea Agur, Nathalie Boltt, Terry Chen, and Chris William Martin
Genre: Horror | International
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: R (for language, some violence and bloody images)
Runtime: 104 minutes
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Rare Beasts
Directed By: Billie Piper
Studio: Brainstorm Media
Mandy, a nihilistic young writer and mother who, while navigating her dysfunctional family and misogynistic workplace, falls for Pete, a traditionalist searching for restored male identity.
Starring: Billie Piper, Lily James, David Thewlis, Leo Bill, Kerry Fox and Toby Woolf
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 87 minutes
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CRYPTOZOO
Directed By: Dash Shaw
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw’s vibrant, fantastical animated feature follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown. Featuring the voice talents of Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Michael Cera, Louisa Krause, Peter Stormare, Thomas Jay Ryan, Grace Zabriskie and Angeliki Papoulia, CRYPTOZOO is written and directed by Shaw, with Jane Samborski directing the stunning animation.
Starring: Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause and Thomas Jay Ryan
Genre: Animation
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Ma Belle, My Beauty
Directed By: Marion Hill
Studio: Good Deed Entertainment
Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that worked… until it didn’t, and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are living at Fred’s family home in the countryside of southern France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie’s seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother, and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic, hoping that her return might lighten Bertie’s mood — but Bertie isn’t having it. It seems time hasn’t healed all wounds… so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noa, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reigniting dormant jealousies.
Starring: Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper, Lucien Guignard, and Sivan Noam Shimon
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: France | USA (French & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 93 minutes
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Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac
Directed By: Nick Broomfield
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
This hard-hitting documentary tells the story of Suge Knight, the former CEO of legendary rap music label Death Row Records, who was recently sentenced to 28 years imprisonment for manslaughter and other violent crimes not typically associated with a highly successful record executive. The film takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt LA police officers who were also gang affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would claim the lives of the world’s two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Starring: Suge Knight
Genre: Documentary | International
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 105 minutes
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MR. soul!
Directed By: Melissa Haizlip & Samuel D. Pollard
Studio: HBO Max
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with “SOUL!,” America’s first “Black Tonight Show.” From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics-voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants’ recollections and illuminating archival clips, Mr. SOUL. captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever, to restore the SOUL of a nation.
Starring: Ellis Haizlip, Sidney Poitier, Anna Maria Horsford, Blair Underwood, and Arsenio Hall
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 104 minutes
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RISEN
Directed By: Eddie Arya
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. Exobiologist Lauren Stone is called to find answers to the unearthly event. As she begins to uncover the truth, imminent danger awakens and it becomes a race against time to save mankind.
Starring: Terri Purchase, Natalie Rose, Buffy Anne Littaua, and Kenneth Trujillo
Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: Australia | USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 110 minutes
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The Girl Who Got Away
Directed By: Michael Morrissey
Studio: Quiver Distribution
Massena, New York. It’s 1998, and a decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a serial killer who abducted and murdered the young girls she pretended were her own. All but one. Christina Bowden lives a lonely and unassuming existence until Caulfield escapes from prison. Under new investigation, the stories of Christina’s past begin to unravel. There’s good and evil in everyone, but as the lies are unearthed, Christina needs to choose a side before the darkness of her secrets swallows her whole.
Starring: Kaye Tuckerman, Lexi Johnson, Chukwudi Iwuji, and Anni Krueger
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 116 minutes
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On Broadway
Directed By: Oren Jacoby
Studio: Kino Lorber
For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences prepare for the return of live theater after an unprecedented absence of 18 months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway came back from the brink. On Broadway shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Interviews with legends of the stage and screen take us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Archival clips of iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin punctuate this hurly-burly ride through the main street of American show business. Now that New York City is facing an uncertain path forward in its recovery from a devastating pandemic, this documentary from Academy Award®-nominated director Oren Jacoby and the producers of RBG shows how Broadway led the way in the city’s last great rebirth and provides a model of how it can come back again.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, and Ian McKellen
Genre: Documentary | History
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power
Directed By: Abby Ginzberg
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
An intimate, inspiring, and timely portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a true pioneer of American civil rights who was the lone voice in opposition to the authorization of military force after the September 11th attacks. A unique selection of political commentators, activists, politicians, and family members add depth to the story of the highest-ranking Black woman in the US Congress. Uncompromising and conscientious to the core, she is its most steadfast voice for peace, and for economic and racial justice.
Starring: Barbara Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Danny Glover, and Kamala Harris
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Confetti
Directed By: Ann Hu
Studio: Dada Films
How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (ZHU ZHU), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (HARMONIE HE) from their small town in China to New York City. Inflicted with a learning disability, Meimei is considered a strange and dumb girl, an outcast in her school and community. What no one recognizes, however, is that she possesses a gift waiting to be unlocked. The world seen through her eyes is unique and filled with magic. When her mother learns that Meimei suffers from dyslexia, as do 1 in 10 people worldwide, she will stop at nothing to help her, including leaving her life in China behind and venturing alone with Meimei to New York City, braving a place she knows nothing about and speaking not a word of English. Their pursuit of the impossible is a rollercoaster, impacted by the numerous people who come into their lives and affect their journey along the way, including Helen (AMY IRVING), a wheelchair-bound, outspoken writer who reluctantly takes them in. Navigating schools for a recent immigrant with special needs presents unique challenges, and ultimately Lan’s low-wage factory job and visiting immigrant status endanger Meimei’s acceptance at a special school. What Lan and Meimei discover, is that in a world where people are judged and often not seen, their courage to believe in themselves against all odds will eventually lead them to people who do see them for who they truly are.
Starring: Zhu Zhu, Amy Irving, Yanan Li, and Harmonie He
Genre: Drama | Family
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Collusions
Directed By: Anthony Vietro
Studio: Boomerang Productions Media
After a police officer goes missing, five high-profile individuals intertwined in the crime world of Los Angeles become suspects in a harrowing case.
Starring: Tom Everett Scott, Steven Culp, Jamison Jones, and Tembi Locke
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 minutes
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The Magnificent Meyersons
Directed By: Evan Oppenheimer
Studio: Argot Pictures
It’s a day in New York City just like any other, as the Meyersons deal with the ordinary concerns and petty annoyances that preoccupy all families. Matriarch Terri (Kate Mulgrew) is an oncologist, whose husband (Richard Kind) abandoned the family years earlier, leaving her to raise overachiever Roland (Ian Kahn); Daphne (Jackie Burns), who struggles with her own marriage; Daniel (Daniel Eric Gold), now a reluctant rabbinical student; and Susie (Shoshannah Stern), an ambitious young real estate agent in a lesbian relationship with Tammy (Lauren Ridloff). But the Meyersons’ lives are suddenly upended by dramatic revelations both personal and universal. Conversations about faith, fate and the meaning of it all that come to a head at a family dinner with an unexpected guest. As memories of their complicated past collide with a new and uncertain future, the Meyersons must navigate lingering heartbreak and shifting alliances as they are forced to reevaluate everything that they thought was true.
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Richard Kind, Ian Kahn, Jackie Burns, and Lauren Ridloff
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 88 minutes
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
Directed By: Kwang-Il Han
Studio: Netflix
The world of The Witcher expands in this anime origin story: Before Geralt, there was his mentor Vesemir — a swashbuckling young witcher who escaped a life of poverty to slay monsters for coin. But when a strange new monster begins terrorizing a politically-fraught kingdom, Vesemir finds himself on a frightening adventure that forces him to confront the demons of his past.
Starring: Graham McTavish, Theo James, Lara Pulver, and Mary McDonnell
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Country: USA | South Korea (English)
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 81 minutes
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
Directed By: Daniel Farrands
Studio: Voltage Pictures
A specter roams the highways of a gritty and decadent 1970s America, hunting for his next prey–his name is Ted Bundy (Chad Michael Murray). Tracking him down are the intrepid female detective Kathleen McChesney (Holland Roden), working out of the Seattle Police bureau, and rookie FBI profiler Robert Ressler (Jake Hays), the government agent who coined the term “serial killer.” This is the true story behind the manhunt that brought America’s most fearsome boogeyman to justice.
Starring: Chad Michael Murray, Holland Roden, Lin Shaye, and Jake Hays
Genre: Crime
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 110 minutes
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Missing in Brooks County
Directed By: Lisa Molomot & Jeff Bemiss
Studio: Journeyman Pictures
Two families travel to Brooks County, Texas, to look for loved ones who went missing after crossing into the United States from Mexico. During their search, they meet vigilante ranchers, human smugglers, activists and Border Patrol agents.
Starring: Nora Lopez, Eduardo Canales, Craig Johnson, and Maria Elena Román
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English & Spanish)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 81 minutes
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Wildland
Directed By: Jeanette Nordahl
Studio: Film Movement
Following a car accident, which kills her mother, 17-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. When an unforeseen murder pressures the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate. Ida is faced with the same question her mother faced before her: What are you willing to sacrifice for your family?
Starring: Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Joachim Fjelstrup, and Elliott Crosset Hove
Genre: Crime | Drama | International | Thriller
Country: Denmark (Danish)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Moments Like This Never Last
Directed By: Cheryl Dunn
Studio: Utopia
MOMENTS LIKE THIS NEVER LAST is a filmic exploration of the life and legacy of the late artist Dash Snow. Born Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow, Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley, Dan Colen and Kunle Martins before his death by heroin overdose in an East Village hotel room at the age of 27. Downtown was an abandoned wasteland that became ripe for artists to have their way, drawing the attention of the art world ready to cash in on it, High stakes, drugs, and the pressure to keep producing took its toll becoming a cautionary tale and forever changing the course of art history.
Starring: Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow, Jeffrey Deitch, Leo Fitzpatrick, and Blair Hanson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Blood Conscious
Directed By: Timothy Covell
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Kevin, his older sister, Brittney, and her fiancé, Tony, set off to their parents’ lakeside cottage expecting a leisurely weekend getaway, but little did they expect the horror that awaits them. Their holiday turns into a trip from hell as they enter a scene of mass murder, where their parents and neighbors this side of the lake all lie dead. Terror strikes when the armed murderer confronts them, alleging to be fighting demonic forces that had possessed them all. They pin him down and lock him up in the cellar, but soon he claims to not to be alone down there. As unexpected and traumatic events keep unfolding, they will have to find a way to survive the night without turning on each other, or becoming possessed.
Starring: Oghenero Gbaje, DeShawn White, Lenny Thomas, and Lori Hammel
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 81 minutes
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