SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
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CRY MACHO
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
From Warner Bros. Pictures comes director/producer Clint Eastwood’s uplifting and poignant drama “Cry Macho.” The film stars Eastwood as Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1979, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home from Mexico. Forced to take the backroads on their way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman finds unexpected connections and his own sense of redemption.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Daniel V. Graulau, Amber Lynn Ashley, and Brytnee Ratledge
Genre: Drama | Thriller | Western
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for language and thematic elements)
Runtime: 104 minutes
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Studio: Searchlight Pictures
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn’t long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, and Vincent D’Onofrio
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content and drug abuse)
Runtime: 126 minutes
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Blue Bayou
Directed By: Justin Chon
Studio: Focus Features
From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Starring: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Emory Cohen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout and some violence)
Runtime: 119 minutes
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Prisoners of the Ghostland
Directed By: Sion Sono
Studio: RLJE Films
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn’t find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman — and his own path to redemption.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, and Nick Cassavetes
Genre: Action | Horror | Thriller
Country: USA | Japan (English, Japanese, & Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 103 minutes
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Best Sellers
Directed By: Anthony Grieco
Studio: Screen Media Films
Lucy Standbridge (Aubrey Plaza) has inherited her father’s publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing titles. She discovers she is owed a book by Harris Shaw (Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier. In a last-ditch effort to save the company, Lucy and Harris release his new book and embark on a book tour from hell that changes them both in ways they didn’t expect.
Starring: Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Speedman, Ellen Wong, Veronica Ferres and Cary Elwes
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Copshop
Directed By: Joe Carnahan
Studio: Open Road Films
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, and Alexis Louder
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for strong/bloody violence, and pervasive language)
Runtime: 107 minutes
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Nightbooks
Directed By: David Yarovesky
Studio: Netflix
Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a creative boy with a strong passion for writing scary stories. But when he’s labeled weird and rejected for what he likes, he swears he’ll never write again. That’s when an evil witch (Krysten Ritter), captures him in her magical apartment in New York City and demands that he tell her a new tale every night if he wants to stay alive. Trapped inside with Lenore, the witch’s spiteful cat watching his every move, Alex meets Yasmin (Lidya Jewett), another young prisoner who has learned how to survive the witch’s wicked whims. With Yasmin’s help, Alex must learn to embrace what makes him unique — his love for scary stories — and rewrite his own destiny to break them free.
Starring: Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett, and Krysten Ritter
Genre: Family | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Country: USA (English)
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 116 minutes
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The Starling
Directed By: Theodore Melfi
Studio: Netflix
A woman adjusting to life after loss contends with a feisty bird that’s taken over her garden — and a husband who’s struggling to find a way forward.
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs, Skyler Gisondo, Laura Harrier, Rosalind Chao, Loretta Devine, and Kevin Kline
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material, some strong language, and suggestive material)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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Lady of the Manor
Directed By: Justin Long & Christian Long
Studio: Lionsgate
Past and present collide in this supernaturally funny buddy comedy when stoner-slacker Hannah (Melanie Lynskey) is hired to portray Lady Wadsworth (Judy Greer), a Southern belle who died in 1875, in a tour at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah, a hot mess, figures she can fake it — until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears! Lady Wadsworth tells Hannah it’s time to change her wild ways — and she’ll haunt her until she does — in this hilarious movie costarring Justin Long and Ryan Phillippe.
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long, Ryan Phillippe, Luis Guzmán, and Patrick Duffy
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout, sexual material and drug use)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Little Girl
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
Studio: Music Box Films
LITTLE GIRL is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy, Sébastien Lifshitz’s documentary poetically explores the emotional challenges, everyday feats, and small moments in Sasha’s life.
Starring: Sasha
Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark | France (French)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Zero Contact
Directed By: Rick Dugdale
Studio: Enderby Entertainment
Five people must work together to shut down a tech titan’s most secret invention — a machine that is either the solution to mankind’s problems or the end of life on Earth.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Tuva Novotny, Aleks Paunovic, Veronica Ferres, and Adrian Holmes
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: — minutes
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Live at Mister Kelly’s
Directed By: Ted Bogosian
Studio: Virgil Films
The iconic Mister Kelly’s, once called a “supernova in the local and national night life firmament,” illuminated legendary Chicago’s Rush Street, and the entire country, by launching talent like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Bette Midler and Steve Martin. Its visionary owners George and Oscar Marienthal smashed color and gender barriers to put unknown, controversial voices on stage and transform entertainment, as America knew it in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Now, with the club long gone, and its star talent reaching its golden years, George’s son David and director/screenwriter, Theodore Bogosian, go on a quest to collect the memories of the clubs before they are lost. Celebrity interviews now include Bob Newhart, the Smothers Brothers, Dick Gregory, Lainie Kazan, Herbie Hancock, Dick Cavett, Tim Reid, Fred Willard and Ramsey Lewis. The film portrays through interviews, live footage, photos, music, and song, the most beloved and famous talent of our time at the decisive moments when they showed up, dug deep, and broke in. How do you change the world with a laugh and a song? Find out in a film that documents the rise and fall of one of American entertainment’s great proving grounds.
Starring: Joe Alterman, Warren Beatty, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Johnny Carson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 83 minutes
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23 Walks
Directed By: Paul Morrison
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
23 Walks is a complex, tender and heart-warming comedy drama about finding love later in life. Dave (Dave Johns) and Fern (Alison Steadman), two older strangers, have been bruised by their individual circumstance. They meet walking their dogs in a North London park, and over the course of twenty-three walks together the romance begins to blossom. But Dave and Fern haven’t been completely honest with one another and their future together may be threatened by the secrets they have withheld.
Starring: Alison Steadman, Dave Johns and Graham Cole
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Country: UK (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language and brief drug content)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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Collection
Directed By: Marianna Palka
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
In the world of high-stakes debt collection, every decision has a price. A grieving father (Alex Pettyfer) grapples with his choices in the unforgiving, manipulative world of collectors and mobs when his new girlfriend turns out to be his firm’s next mark. He must decide what is more valuable: true love and happiness, or his biggest hit yet.
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Shakira Barrera, Mike Vogel, Jacques Colimon, and Ashton Lubart
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 87 minutes
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The Nowhere Inn
Directed By: Bill Benz
Studio: IFC Films
From real-life friends Annie Clark (a.k.a. GRAMMY award-winning recording and touring artist St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney) comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent’s music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo’s creative lives.
Starring: Annie Clark, Brownstein, and Dakota Johnson
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Music | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Last Night in Rozzie
Directed By: Sean Gannet
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
A tale of self-reflection and the importance of facing trauma, LAST NIGHT IN ROZZIE is a testament to the importance of confronting your past. Ronnie Russo, a successful lawyer in New York, is summoned back to his old Boston neighborhood, Roslindale, by his childhood best friend Joey Donovan. Now on his deathbed, Joey has only one request for Ronnie–help him reunite with his 10-year-old son. Sympathetic to Joey’s situation, Ronnie works to get closer to Joey’s estranged ex-wife Pattie to fulfill his friend’s dying wish. However, the more he learns about the man that Joey has become, the more he questions his mission. Returning to his hometown after 25 years, Ronnie is forced to reconcile his traumatic past rooted in the last night he and Joey spent together as kids, and the repercussions that followed.
Starring: Neil Brown Jr., Nicky Whelan, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Chapman, and Paris Scott Allen
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 minutes
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In Balanchine’s Classroom
Directed By: Connie Hochman
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM takes us back to the glory years of Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius. Opening the door to his studio, Balanchine’s private laboratory, they reveal new facets of the groundbreaking choreographer: taskmaster, mad scientist, and spiritual teacher. Today, as his former dancers teach a new generation, questions arise: what was the secret of his teaching? Can it be replicated? Filled with never before seen archival footage of Balanchine at work during rehearsals, classes, and in preparation for his most seminal works, along with interviews with many of his adored and adoring dancers and those who try to carry on his legacy today, this is Balanchine as you have never seen him, and a film for anyone who loves ballet and the creative process.
Starring: Jacques d’Amboise, George Balanchine, and Edward Villella
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 89 minutes
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The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Directed By: David Midell
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain tells the true story of the final hours of the life of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African-American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were sent to his home to check on him, when his medical alert device was mistakenly activated. Despite Chamberlain informing the officers there was a mistake and he did not have an emergency, they were recorded taunting him, ridiculing his military service, howling racial epithets at him, and finally, the officers broke his door down and shot him to death.
Starring: Frankie Faison, Steve O’Connell, Enrico Natale, Ben Marten, and Angela Peel
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 83 minutes
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Wife of a Spy
Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Studio: Kino Lorber
The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, and Masahiro Higashide
Genre: Drama | History | International | War
Country: Japan (Japanese & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 115 minutes
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Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Directed By: Rachel Boynton
Studio: Peacock
Urgent and complex, CIVIL WAR (OR, WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE) travels across the United States, exploring how Americans tell the story of their Civil War. Filmed from President Obama’s final year in office through the present, it interweaves insightful scenes and touching interviews filmed North and South, painting a uniquely crafted, multi-faceted portrait of the American psyche and the deep roots of its turbulent times. With delicacy and strength, subtlety and determination, CIVIL WAR lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.
Starring: Rachel Boynton, Cate Arnold, Robert Epperson, and Herbert DeLoach Jr.
Genre: Documentary | Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 100 minutes
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I Love Us
Directed By: Danny A. Abeckaser
Studio: Vision Films
When a man born into a crime syndicate falls madly in love with a single mother, the existence he’s never questioned collides with his hope to become a loving husband and father. After a life-altering event, it becomes evident that his life of corruption must come to an end, but there’s only one way out–a job that will free him from the syndicate and offer his new family the life they deserve.
Starring: Katie Cassidy, David James Elliott, Robert Davi, Jackie Cruz, James Madio, and Elya Baskin
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Aalto
Directed By: Virpi Suutari
Studio: Madman Films
This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe’s greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the center of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector’s private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
Starring: Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Elissa Aalto, David N. Fixler, and Juhani Pallasmaa
Genre: Documentary | Biography | History
Country: Finland (German, Italian, Russian, French, Swedish, Finnish, & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 103 minutes
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I Am Not Alone
Directed By: Garin Hovannisian
Studio: Avalanche Entertainment
On Easter 2018, a man put on a backpack and went live on Facebook to announce that he was beginning a walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution — and topple the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in his post-soviet nation. With total access to all key players, I AM NOT ALONE tells the miraculous true story of what happens in the next 40 days.
Starring: Nikol Pashinyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Valeriy Osipyan, Anna Hakobyan, and Raffi Hovannisian
Genre: Documentary | International
Country: Armenia | USA (English & Armenian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
Directed By: Betsy West & Julie Cohen
Studio: Amazon Studios
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation–and consciousness–around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South–who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity–Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.
Starring: Patricia Bell-Scott, Pauli Murray, Dolores Chandler, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing/violent images and thematic elements)
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Saint-Narcisse
Directed By: Bruce La Bruce
Studio: Film Movement
Canada, 1972. Dominic, 22 years old, has a fetish… for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his reflection, with much of his time spent taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth and he has a twin brother, Daniel, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest. The power of destiny brings back together the two beautiful, identical brothers, who, after being reunited with their mother Beatrice, are soon embroiled in a strange web of sex, revenge and redemption.
Starring: Félix-Antoine Duval, Alexandra Petrachuk, Andreas Apergis, and Jillian Harris
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Romance
Country: Canada (English & French)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 101 minutes
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Ever Since We Love
Directed By: Yu Li
Studio: Cheng Cheng Films
To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world feels a little erotic. Studying at China’s top medical college, he can break down men’s carnal impulses with solid human anatomy knowledge but can’t grasp the inner desire that draws him to three disparate romantic interests-the fairy-like hometown first love, the marriageable college girlfriend, and the sensuous working woman. It’s the 1990s when China just opened up to exciting opportunities and risks. Unprecedented social fluidity provokes individuals’ materialist and romantic appetites. This cruel new world eventually crushes Qiu Shui’s burning passion and takes each of his lovers away. As he looks back at his chaotic youth as a grownup years later, he’s rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live and love. Adapting the best-selling novel “Everything Grows”, China’s prominent woman director Li Yu reunites with idol Fan Bingbing to bring female gaze to a male protagonist’s story for the first time.
Starring: Geng Han, Bingbing Fan, Xi Qi, and Yi Sha
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Country: China (Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 106 minutes
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Eating Our Way To Extinction
Directed By: Otto Brockway & Ludovic Brockway
Studio: Bro*Star
EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION takes audiences on a cinematic journey around the world, from the depths of the Amazon rainforests to the Taiwanese Mountains, the Mongolian desert, the US Dust Bowl, the Norwegian Fjords and the Scottish coastlines, telling the story of our planet through shocking testimonials, poignant accounts from indigenous people most affected by our ever-changing planet, globally renowned figures and leading scientists. This powerful documentary sends a simple but impactful message by uncovering hard truths and addressing, on the big screen, the most pressing issue of our generation — ecological collapse. Confronting and entertaining, this documentary allows audiences to question their everyday choices, industry leaders and governments. Featuring a wealth of world-renowned contributors, including Sir Richard Branson and Tony Robbins, it has a message of hope that will empower audiences.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson, Sylvia Earle, and Jeremy Rifkin
Genre: Documentary | International
Country: UK (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 81 minutes
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