DECEMBER 16, 2022
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Directed By: James Cameron
Studio: 20th Century Studios
Avatar: The Way of Water
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Brendan Cowell
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of strong violence and intense action, partial nudity and some strong language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 192 minutes
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Directed By: Mauro Borrelli
Studio: Lionsgate
Mindcage
In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jake Doyle (Martin Lawrence) and Mary Kelly (Melissa Roxburgh) seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist (John Malkovich) when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist’s brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Melissa Roxburgh, John Malkovich, Robert Knepper, Jacob Grodnik and Aiden Turner
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R (for sexual material and some violent content)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed By: Celyn Jones & Tom Stern
Studio: IFC Films
The Almond and the Seahorse
What happens when you’re ambushed by time? An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Meera Syal, Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: UK (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed By: Zach Golden
Studio: Saban Films
High Heat
Starring Don Johnson (Knives Out) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace). An ex-KGB operative turned chef, Ana (Kurylenko) is targeted by the local mafia in a hit on her new restaurant to collect on her husband’s (Johnson) debt. Now, Ana must rely upon her lethal skills as she goes on a deadly rampage to take out the entire crime syndicate one-by-one to save her restaurant and survive the night in this action-packed crime thriller.
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, Don Johnson, Chris Diamantopoulos, Kaitlin Doubleday, and Dallas Page
Genre: Action | Comedy
Rating: R (for violence and language throughout)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 84 minutes
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Directed By: Dean Craig
Studio: Lionsgate
The Honeymoon
Adam and his bride, Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice. But when the trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s best friend, Ed, it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster.
Starring: Maria Bakalova, Pico Alexander, Asim Chaudhry and Lucas Bravo
Genre: Comedy | Internatinal
Rating: R (for pervasive language, crude sexual content and drug content)
Country: UK | Italy (English)
Runtime: 98 minutes
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Directed by: Mary McCartney
Studio: Disney+
If These Walls Could Sing
‘If These Walls Could Sing’ will explore the legendary recording studio’s history in conjunction with Abbey Road’s 90th anniversary this November.
Starring: John Williams, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Liam Gallagher, and Noel Gallagher
Genre: Documentary | Biography
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | UK (English)
Runtime: 86 minutes
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Directed By: Scott Leberecht
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Jurassic Punk
Steve Williams is considered a pioneer in computer animation. This intimate account examines his life story and events surrounding the historical moment when digital dinosaurs walked onto the silver screen in Jurassic Park. Steve and a chorus of expert witnesses recount a dramatic tale of rebellion and revolution at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic in the early 1990s–a time when creating realistic creatures with a computer was considered impossible. Decades later, Steve struggles to reckon with his chaotic past.
Starring: Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams, Phil Tippett, Robert Patrick, and Jamie Hyneman
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 81 minutes
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Directed By: Alison Locke
Studio: RLJE Films + Shudder
The Apology
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, recovering alcoholic Darlene Hagen is preparing to host her family’s Christmas celebration with her best friend Gretchen. Late Christmas Eve, Darlene’s estranged ex-brother-in-law, Jack, arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret. Soon, Darlene finds herself caught between reason and ruthless instinct. Trapped together by a dangerous storm, a battle of wits escalates to a violent game of revenge.
Starring: Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo, and Holland Bailey
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Directed By: R. Ellis Frazier
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
As Good As Dead
Bryant befriends a troubled teen and introduces him to martial arts. As Bryant’s mysterious and dangerous past catches up to him, he is forced into a life and death struggle to clear his name, save the boy and get back all he left behind.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Michael Jai White, Louis Mandylor, and Michael Copon
Genre: Action| International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Mexico (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed By: Jennifer Brea & Celia Aniskovich
Studio: HBO Max
Call Me Miss Cleo
Known for her larger-than-life persona and memorable accent, Miss Cleo, born Youree Dell Harris, garnered a nationwide cult following on the Psychic Readers Network, a popular telephone hotline that later came under fire for its alleged deceptive practices. Featuring interviews with celebrities and those closest to the self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, the film explores the many layers behind a complicated and charismatic figure. Revisiting an era of corded phones and 1-900-numbers, CALL ME MISS CLEO ultimately reveals the truth behind the ever-enigmatic woman who took TV by storm, only to abruptly disappear from public consciousness.
Starring: Raven-Symoné and Debra Wilson
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: Colm Bairead
Studio: Super LTD
The Quiet Girl
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Starring: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, and Michael Patric
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Ireland (Irish Gaelic & English)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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Directed By: John R. Leonetti
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Lullaby
A new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
Starring: Oona Chaplin, Ramón Rodríguez, Liane Balaban, and Kira Guloien
Genre: Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Directed By: Gareth Carr
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Saving Grace
When Sarah becomes a remote carer to escape her violent city past, she discovers her demons follow, turning tranquility into a nightmare.
Starring: Kirsty McKenzie, Gary Boulter, Emily Wiseman, and Dawn Hogan
Genre: Horror | International | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Australia (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: David Ernaux-Briot & Annie Ernaux
Studio: Kino Lorber
The Super 8 Years
Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
Starring: Annie Ernaux, Philippe Ernaux, and David Ernaux-Briot
Genre: Documentary | Biography | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France (French)
Runtime: 60 minutes
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Directed By: Diem Ha Le
Studio: Film Movement
Children of the Mist
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in Vietnam. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping.” On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, Di has disappeared.
Starring: Ma Thi Di
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Vietnam (Hmong & Vietnamese)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: Magnus Gertten
Studio: Wolfe Releasing
Nelly & Nadine
Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.
Starring: Anne Bianchi, Sylvie Bianchi, Nadine Hwang, and Nelly Mousset Vos
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Sweden | Belgium | Norway (French, English, Swedish, & Spanish)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Directed By: Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre
Studio: Buffalo 8
Little Nicholas
Young Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.
Starring: Alain Chabat, Laurent Lafitte, Simon Faliu, and Marc Arnaud
Genre: Animation | Family | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Luxembourg (French)
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Directed By: Hideo Gosha
Studio: Film Movement
Violent Streets
1974 RE-RELEASE
After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, SAMURAI WOLF) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza, and the violent streets they control. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss, now nightclub owner, who gets pulled back into the life when his old comrades demand control of his club. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes erupts into open violence in response to a high-profile kidnapping, lending unimaginably high stakes to Egawa’s reemergence onto the yakuza scene. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and death that leaves no one safe – and a masterpiece of 1970’s yakuza cinema.
Starring: Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi, Isao Natsuyagi, and Bunta Sugawara
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Japan (Spanish & Japanese)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed By: Jonathon James Williams
Studio: God Willing Productions
I Want to Thank the Academy
Richard Wilkens is an Australian cattle farmer who moves to Hollywood to chase his unlikely dream of becoming an actor. Along this impossible journey we enter into the heart of Hollywood like never before as Richard helplessly pursues his dreams and moonlights with an unusual job.
Starring: Jonathon James Williams, Stephen Krahel, Noel Gibson, Bruce Katzman, and Selena Davis
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | Australia (English)
Runtime: 99 minutes
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