SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
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Directed By: Zach Cregger
Studio: 20th Century Studios
Barbarian
Traveling to Detroit for a job interview, a young woman books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to spend the evening, but soon discovers that there’s a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.
Starring: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, and Sara Paxton
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: R (for some strong violence and gore, disturbing material, language throughout and nudity)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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Directed By: Petr Jákl
Studio: The Avenue
Medieval
Inspired by the true story of Jan ika, one of greatest warriors in history. After the death of its reigning emperor, the Holy Roman Empire is plummeting into chaos while feuding brothers King Wenceslas of Czech and King Sigismund of Hungary battle for control of the empty throne. Daring and righteous mercenary leader Jan ika is hired by Lord Boresh to kidnap the powerful Lord Rosenberg’s fiancée, Lady Katherine, to prevent Rosenberg’s rise to power alongside the corrupt King Sigismund. Jan believes that Kings are the right hand of God and should be respected and obeyed, no matter what. As Katherine becomes caught in a dangerous political game between the monarchs, Jan falls in love with her strong spirit and dedication to saving the people. In a brave attempt to liberate her, he fights back with a rebel army to battle the corruption, greed and betrayal rampant amongst those clawing for power. Jan now realizes that the fate of the Empire will be decided by his love for Lady Katherine and that his fate doesn’t lie in the hands of Kings, but in the hands of his own people.
Starring: Ben Foster, Sophie Lowe, Michael Caine, Til Schweiger, and Matthew Goode
Genre: Action | Drama | History | International
Rating: R (for strong and grisly violent content throughout, and some nudity)
Country: Czech Republic (English)
Runtime: 125 minutes
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Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Studio: Disney+
Pinocchio
Academy Award® winner Robert Zemeckis directs this live action and CGI retelling of the beloved tale of a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto, the woodcarver who builds and treats Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) as if he were his real son. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Jiminy Cricket, who serves as Pinocchio’s guide as well as his “conscience”; Academy Award® nominee Cynthia Erivo is the Blue Fairy; Keegan-Michael Key is “Honest” John; Academy Award® nominee Lorraine Bracco is Sofia the Seagull, a new character, and Luke Evans is The Coachman.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Giuseppe Battiston, Luke Evans, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Keegan-Michael Key
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Rating: PG (for peril/scary moments, rude material and some language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 105 minutes
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Directed By: Neil LaBute
Studio: Saban Films
House Of Darkness
Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star in this seductive thriller from director Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man). Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.
Starring: Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin and Lucy Walters
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: R (for some bloody violence/gore, sexual material, and language throughout)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Directed by: Christian Tafdrup
Studio: IFC Midnight
Speak No Evil
On a vacation in Tuscany, two families — one Danish, one Dutch — meet and become fast friends. Months later, the free-spirited Dutch family extends an invitation to the more conservative Danish one for a holiday weekend getaway at their countryside home. However, it doesn’t take long before things gradually get out of hand as the joy of reunion is replaced with misunderstandings. The Dutch hospitality quickly turns unnerving for the Danes, and they find themselves increasingly caught in a web of their own politeness in the face of eccentric… or is it sinister… behavior.
Starring: Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, and Karina Smulders
Genre: Horror | International | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Denmark | Netherlands (English, Dutch, & Danish)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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Directed By: Marius Vaysberg
Studio: United Artists Releasing
About Fate
Margot Hayes (Emma Roberts) and Griffin Reed (Thomas Mann) may well be the perfect couple. The only trouble is they’ve never met and they’re both about to tie the knot with someone else. But all that is about to change when fate places them in each other’s lives and opens their eyes to true love.
Starring: Emma Roberts, Thomas Mann, Britt Robertson, and Cheryl Hines
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Rating: R (for some language and a sexual reference)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed By: Mathieu Amalric
Studio: Kino Lorber
Hold Me Tight
In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. This virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of a woman in crisis alternates between Clarisse’s adventures on the road and scenes of her abandoned husband Marc as he struggles to take care of their children at home. Amalric’s film keeps viewers uncertain as to the reality of what they’re seeing until the final moments of this moving, unpredictable, and richly rewarding family drama.
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, and Sacha Ardilly
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France (French & German)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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Directed By: Castille Landon
Studio: Voltage Pictures
After Ever Happy
The fourth film of the AFTER franchise finds Tessa and Hardin at a crossroads: Does Tessa continue trying to save him and their relationship, or is it time to save herself? While Hardin remains in London after his mother’s wedding and sinks deeper into darkness, Tessa returns to Seattle and endures a tragedy. If they want their love to survive, they’ll need to work on themselves first. But will their paths lead them back to each other?
Starring: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Louise Lombard, and Kiana Madeira
Genre: Drama | Romance
Rating: R (for language throughout, some sexual content and brief drug material)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 119 minutes
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Directed By: Drew Britton
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
They Want Me Gone
Working hard to support her daughter, Monica’s a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and daughter becomes more perilous.
Starring: Emily Decker, Joslyn Jensen, Jennifer Lafleur, and Frank Mosley
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: Juan Pablo González
Studio: The Cinema Guild
Dos Estaciones
Dos Estaciones follows fifty-year-old businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, María knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s primary economy and source of pride.
Starring: Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Teresa Sánchez, and Tatín Vera
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic material and language)
Country: Mexico (Spanish)
Runtime: 99 minutes
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Directed By: Karim Amer & Omar Mullick
Studio: Amazon Studios
Flight/Risk
Flight / Risk follows everyday people who find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five months apart in 2018 and 2019. This powerful documentary is told through the perspective of affected family members, their legal teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times journalist Dominic Gates.
Starring: Dominic Gates, Zipporah Kuria, Justin Green, and Edward Pierson
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG (for thematic content and language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 98 minutes
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Directed By: Robin Givens
Studio: Level 33 Entertainment
Haunted Trail
Some college friends receive the surprise of their lives when they discover there is an actual killer on the scene of a local haunted trail.
Starring: Desi Banks, Marquise C. Brown, Brook Sill, and Raven Magwood
Genre: Horror
Rating: TV-14
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Directed By: Mark Cousins
Studio: Music Box Films
The Story of Film: A New Generation
Mark Cousins offers hope and optimism while he explores different movies and talks about how technology is changing the course of cinema in a new century and how Covid continues the process.
Starring: Mark Cousins
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Japan (English)
Runtime: 160 minutes
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Directed By: Nicholas Celozzi
Studio: Brainstorm Media
The Class
Six high school seniors are offered a last chance to graduate by taking a one-day makeup class on a Saturday. The students find themselves sitting beside classmates they never took the time to get to know during the regular semester.
Starring: Debbie Gibson, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, and Hannah Kepple
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 114 minutes
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Directed By: Tommy Haines
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
Hockeyland
Minnesota is the heartland of US hockey, creating more skaters–on the local rinks and in the NHL–than any other state. Here, the senior boys of rival towns–one an emerging dynasty, the other with a fabled past–face down uncertain futures as they skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore. Where Texas football has Friday Night Lights, Minnesota high school hockey has Hockeyland.
Starring: Blake Biondi, Elliot Van Orsdel, Indio Dowd, and Will Troutwine
Genre: Documentary | Sport
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 108 minutes
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Directed By: Kavery Kaul
Studio: Dada Films
The Bengali
An unlikely quest takes an African-American woman from New Orleans across deep divides of culture to India, in search of her family’s past. Her journey sparks a boldly different encounter between East and West. As she searches for the truth in the tales she grew up with, a surprising story unfolds of the first South Asians in the U.S. who married African-American women. It evokes the richness and wonder of families stretching across time and place, looking for where they come from.
Starring: Nicole Hardin, Fatima Shaik, Parvej Husen Talukder, and Mario Tio
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 72 minutes
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Directed By: Boogievision
Studio: Atlas Distribution
Unfavorable Odds
Brad Wilson is a preoccupied, presumptuous, business man and husband to his neglected wife, Victoria — until he meets with his colleagues and finds his best-friend is a playboy, with everything he wants in life especially any woman that he desires. After Brad plays high-stakes with Victoria as the prize, he finds himself against unfavorable odds.
Starring: Charles Ambrose, Grayson Berry, Nathan Blaze, and Kayla Gilchrist
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for some suggestive material)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Directed By: Clark Richey
Studio: Vision Films
Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis
The mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis is investigated by his friend Alexander Wilson in a tense encounter with the only witness to the American explorer’s final night alive. In 1809, the leader of the Lewis & Clark expedition died of gunshot wounds at a remote inn on the Natchez Trace, an isolated frontier trail. Did the national hero commit suicide as history reports or was his end far more sinister?
Starring: John Schneider, Evan Williams, Sonny Marinelli, and Amye Gousset
Genre: Mystery | Western
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 115 minutes
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