APRIL 22, 2022
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Directed By: Robert Eggers
Studio: Focus Features
The Northman
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy’s mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who’s on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe
Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Thriller
Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, some sexual content and nudity)
Country: USA (English & Old Norse)
Runtime: 136 minutes
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Directed By: Tom Gormican
Studio: Lionsgate
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nicolas Cage stars as… Nick Cage in the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nick Cage.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tiffany Haddish
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Rating: R (for language throughout, some sexual references, drug use and violence)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 107 minutes
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Directed By: Pierre Perifel
Studio: Universal Pictures
The Bad Guys
Several reformed yet misunderstood criminal animals attempt to become good, with some disastrous results along the way.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Anthony Ramos, Craig Robinson, Awkwafina, Richard Ayoade, Zazie Beetz, Lilly Singh, and Alex Borstein
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family
Rating: PG (for action and rude humor)
Country: USA (English & Russian)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed By: Gigi Gaston
Studio: Screen Media Films
9 Bullets
A former burlesque dancer turned author (Lena Headey) discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss (Sam Worthington), who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
Starring: Lena Headey, Sam Worthington, Cam Gigandet, and Barbara Hershey
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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Directed by: Céline Sciamma
Studio: Neon
Petite Maman
Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.
Starring: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Stéphane Varupenne, Nina Meurisse and Margo Abascal
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | International
Rating: PG (for some thematic elements and brief smoking)
Country: France (French)
Runtime: 72 minutes
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Directed By: Kate Tsang
Studio: FilmRise
Marvelous and the Black Hole
A teenage delinquent (Miya Cech) befriends a surly magician (Rhea Perlman) who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A coming of age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief, and finding hope in the darkest moments.
Starring: Miya Cech, Rhea Perlman, Leonardo Nam, Kannon, and Paulina Lule
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 81 minutes
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Directed By: Tahir Rana & Éric Warin
Studio: Good Deed Entertainment
CHARLOTTE
An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon living in the south of France between 1941 and 1943.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Sophie Okonedo and Mark Strong
Genre: Animation | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada | France | Belgium (French & English)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Directed By: Roger Michell
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
The Duke
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: R (for language and brief sexuality)
Country: UK (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed By: Debra Neil-Fisher
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Unplugging
Think a rustic getaway with no cell service, internet or social media is a romantic way to revive your marriage and revitalize your sex life? Think again. When Jeanine (Eva Longoria) and Dan (Matt Walsh) realize the only spark in the bedroom is from the wall socket, Dan proposes a quiet, relaxing weekend in a remote mountain town as the solution to rekindle and recharge. No kids, no phones, no social media–only clean fresh air and lots of romance. But what starts as the perfect weekend getaway quickly spirals out of control with unearthly encounters, strong edibles, cranky locals, and a pesky one-eyed dog. Without GPS to guide them or social media to save them, Dan and Jeanine are forced to rediscover what truly matters–each other.
Starring: Matt Walsh, Eva Longoria, Lea Thompson, Keith David, Nicole Byer, and Al Madrigal
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Rating: R (for language, some sexual content and brief drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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Directed By: Josh & Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
The Revolution Generation
It shows how young people can deploy their strengths to revolutionize the system as they confront both the US political crisis and the global environmental crisis.
Starring: Corbin Bleu, Michelle Rodriguez, and Shailene Woodley
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Directed By: Brian Presley
Studio: Saban Films
Hostile Territory
Inspired by a true story, Hostile Territory is a rousing western action-adventure. Former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack finds out his wife has died and his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train crossing old enemy lines. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave, as they race to intercept the orphan train before all hope is lost.
Starring: Matt McCoy, Brea Bee, Brad Leland, Lew Temple, and Brian Presley
Genre: Drama | History | Western
Rating: R (for violence)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 153 minutes
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Directed By: Timothy Armstrong
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
A Cowgirl’s Song
An aspiring teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier.
Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Savannah Lee May, Darryl Cox, and Darci Lynne Farmer
Genre: Drama | Music
Rating: PG (for thematic elements)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 93 minutes
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Directed By: Martin Shore
Studio: 360 Distribution
Take Me to the River: New Orleans
“Take Me to the River New Orleans” celebrates the rich musical history, the heritage, legacy, culture, and influence of New Orleans and Louisiana. A true collaboration and melting pot of influences from around the World.
Starring: Snoop Dogg, G-Eazy, Aaron Neville, and Ledisi
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 115 minutes
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Directed By: Ariel Winograd
Studio: Pantelion Films
¿Y CÓMO ES EL?
(Backseat Driver)
A mild-mannered man, Tomás, goes to Puerto Vallarta to confront the cab driver having an affair with his wife, only to end up driving back to Mexico City with him. Over the course of an eventful long-distance drive, a strange bond develops between the pair.
Starring: Zuria Vega, Mauricio Ochmann and Omar Chaparro
Genre: Comedy | International
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual material throughout, language and some violence)
Country: Mexico (Spanish)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Directed By: Ye Lou
Studio: Strand Releasing
Saturday Fiction
Since the Japanese occupation, China has become a wartime intelligence battlefield for the Allies and the Axis Powers. Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play “Saturday Fiction” directed by her former lover. But what is her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the Allied Forces? To work for her adoptive father? Or to escape from war with her lover? As she embarks on her mission, with friends ever more difficult to distinguish from undercover agents, as everything spirals out of control, Jean Yu starts to question whether to reveal what she has learned about in the imminent Pearl Harbor attack.
Starring: Gong Li, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, and Xiangli Huang
Genre: Drama | History | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: China (Mandarin, English, Japanese, & French)
Runtime: 126 minutes
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Directed By: Panah Panahi
Studio: Kino Lorber
Hit the Road
Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
Starring: Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Majuni, Rayan Sarlak, and Amin Simiar
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Iran (Persian & English)
Runtime: 93 minutes
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Directed By: Carl Jackson
Studio: Carl Jackson Motion Pictures
Immortal Soul
Ethan and Maria are happily married, but time and distance test their relationship in ways they don’t understand. One day, the couple’s problems become clear after a brush with destiny.
Starring: Carl Jackson, Alyssa Jones, Ryan Koo, and Camille Marquez
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: — minutes
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Directed By: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Stanleyville
A dissatisfied woman abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV.
Starring: Susanne Wuest, Cara Ricketts, Christian Serritiello, and George Tchortov
Genre: Comedy | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada (English)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Directed By: Igor Drljaca
Studio: Game Theory Films
The White Fortress (TABIJA)
In the rundown Sarajevo suburb of Alipasino Polje, Faruk is an orphan who lives with his ill grandmother and spends his days foraging for scrap metal and dabbling in petty crime. One day he meets Mona, a timid teen from a politically powerful and affluent family. As Mona dreams of escaping the overbearing toxicity of her home life, she seeks refuge and opens herself up to Faruk, a boy from a world entirely different than her own.
Starring: Pavle Cemerikic, Sumeja Dardagan, Jasmin Geljo, and Kerim Cutuna
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada | Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian & English)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Directed By: Michael O. Sajbel
Studio: Fathom Events
The Mulligan
Paul McAllister seems to have it all, but his life starts to fall apart. Guided by the wisdom and advice of an old golf pro, Paul learns about playing a good game both on and off the course.
Starring: Eric Close, Pat Boone, Debra Stipe, and Nancy Stafford
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 125 minutes
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Directed By: Oh Yoon-dong
Studio: Trafalgar Releasing
Seventeen Power of Love: The Movie
Features powerful performances, in-depth interviews with the 13 members, and commentaries on their past, present, and future they will create with CARATs.
Starring: Jeonghan Yoon, Joshua Hong, Junhui Wen, and Soonyoung Kwon
Genre: Documentary | International | Music
Rating: Not Rated
Country: South Korea (Korean & English)
Runtime: 115 minutes
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