Friday Releases: Magic Mike’s Last Dance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Magic Mike’s Last Dance

“Magic” Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite (Salma Hayek Pinault) who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he–and the roster of hot new dancers he’ll have to whip into shape–be able to pull it off?

Starring: Salma Hayek, Channing Tatum, Caitlin Gerard, Kevin Nash, and Adam Rodriguez
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Rating: R (for sexual material and language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 112 minutes

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Directed By: Aline Brosh McKenna

Studio: Netflix

Your Place or Mine

Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) and Peter (Ashton Kutcher) are best friends and total opposites. She craves routine with her son in LA; he thrives on change in NY. When they swap houses and lives for a week they discover what they think they want might not be what they really need.

Starring: Jesse Williams, Zoë Chao, Wesley Kimmel, Tig Notaro and Steve Zahn
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for suggestive material and brief strong language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 109 minutes

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Directed By: Dave Franco

Studio: Prime Video

Somebody I Used to Know

Workaholic TV producer Ally (Alison Brie) faces a major professional setback which sends her running to the comforts of her hometown. She spends a whirlwind evening reminiscing with her first love Sean (Jay Ellis) and starts to question everything about the person she’s become. Things only get more confusing when she discovers Sean is getting married to Cassidy (Kiersey Clemons) whose confidence and creative convictions remind Ally of who she used to be.

Starring: Alison Brie, Jay Ellis, Kiersey Clemons, Danny Pudi, Haley Joel Osment, and Julie Hagerty
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Rating: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout and brief drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 106 minutes

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Directed By: Benjamin Caron

Studio: Apple Original Films

Sharper

Motivations are suspect, and expectations are turned upside down, as a con artist takes on Manhattan billionaires.

Starring: Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton, and John Lithgow
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for language throughout and some sexual references)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 116 minutes

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Directed By: Gracie Otto

Studio: Gravitas Ventures + Lionsgate

Seriously Red

Red (Krew Boylan) lost her job as a real estate agent, but there’s something no one can take away from her: her dream of becoming the world’s greatest Dolly Parton impersonator! After her act attracts the attentions of an amorous Elvis impersonator (Rose Byrne) and a powerful booking agent (Bobby Cannavale), Red is catapulted into the top tier of copycat acts, becoming the onstage and romantic partner of the top Kenny Rogers impersonator. But when Red’s life as an imitator starts to feel false, she discovers true happiness comes when you’re being the best version of yourself.

Starring: Krew Boylan, Daniel Webber, Celeste Barber, Thomas Campbell, Todd Lasance, Jean Kittson, Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International | Music | Musical | Romance
Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity and some language)
Country: Australia (English)
Runtime: 104 minutes

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Directed by: Christopher Smith

Studio: IFC Films

Consecration

In CONSECRATION, after the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.

Starring: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Ian Pirie, Thoren Ferguson, and Eilidh Fisher
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: PG (for action/violence throughout and brief language)
Country: USA | UK (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes

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Directed by: Jonah Feingold

Studio: Paramount Plus

At Midnight

Alejandro (Diego Boneta) is a hotel manager. Sophie (Monica Barbaro) is a movie star. He’s focused on opening his own hotel. She’s trying to focus on shooting her new superhero film. But she catches her co-star and boyfriend (Anders Holm) cheating. Fate strikes when the shoot brings them all to Alejandro’s hotel in Mexico. Despite their radically different lives, Alejandro and Sophie begin to secretly meet At Midnight…

Starring: Monica Barbaro, Anders Holm, Jon Rudnitsky, Whitney Cummings, Catherine Cohen, and Diego Boneta
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Rating: R (for some language)
Country: USA (English & Spanish)
Runtime: 100 minutes

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Directed by: Marvin Samel

Studio: Greenwich Entertainment

iMordecai

A Holocaust survivor, born and raised in a different time, must face the realities of modern world. When confronted with an unfamiliar object, an iPhone, will Mordecai be able to fit into a world that has changed so much around him?

Starring: Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, Sean Astin, Nick Puga, and Azia Dinea Hale
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 102 minutes

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Directed by: Matthew Newton

Studio: Gravitas Ventures

Among the Beasts

When a gangster’s daughter reluctantly teams with a former Marine to find her kidnapped cousin, the combat veteran must overcome his own demons in order to rescue the child.

Starring: Tory Kittles, Libe Barer, Sarunas J. Jackson, Jon Bass, and Jim Norton
Genre: Action | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 93 minutes

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Directed by: Erik Bloomquist

Studio: Mainframe Pictures

She Came from the Woods

In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleash a decades’ old evil on the last night of summer camp. As the situation turns bloody, the group is forced to confront what stories are worth telling and what secrets are worth keeping.

Starring: Cara Buono, Clare Foley, Spencer List and William Sadler
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 101 minutes

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Directed by: Corey Deshon

Studio: Dark Star Pictures

Daughter

A young woman is kidnapped and inducted into a bizarre family as their new surrogate daughter. As she navigates through this twisted dynamic, awful secrets about the past are revealed, leading to even darker implications about the future.

Starring: Casper Van Dien, Elyse Dinh, Vivien Ngô, Ian Alexander, and Megan Le
Genre: Drama | Mystery
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English & Vietnamese)
Runtime: 95 minutes

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Directed by: Toby Genkel & Florian Westermann

Studio: Roku

Meet Me in Paris

Love like in the movies. Three real women follow the script and write their own endings in Meet Me in Paris, a first-of-its-kind reality rom-com and Roku Original Film from Hello Sunshine and Cinestar.

Starring: Danielle Matteo, Mimi Shou, and Jasmine Fleet
Genre: Drama | Reality
Rating: TV-14
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes

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Directed by: Orit Fouks Rotem

Studio: Kino Lorber

Cinema Sabaya

Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.

Starring: Aseel Farhat, Marlene Bajali, Amal Murkus, Joanna Said, and Dana Ivgy
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Israel (Hebrew, Arabic, & English)
Runtime: 103 minutes

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Directed By: Michelle Garza Cervera

Studio: XYZ Films

Huesera: The Bone Woman

Valeria’s joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.

Starring: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández,[1] Sonia Couoh and Aida López
Genre: Drama | Horror | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Mexico (Spanish)
Runtime: 93 minutes

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Directed By: Gaspar Noé

Studio: Altered Innocence

Irreversible: Straight Cut

One night. An unforgivable act. A tale told in reverse. Acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé’s unflinching exploration of human savagery and the uncompromising nature of time, Irreversible was met with a groundswell of acclaim and uproar upon its premiere at the opening night of Cannes in 2002. Stylish, sexually frank, and brutal, the film’s conceit of exploring the events of one terrible night on the streets of Paris in reverse chronological order was celebrated and derided in equal measure, helping to further cement Noé’s legacy as a cinematic enfant terrible. Nearly 20 years later, Noé brought Irreversible back, presenting the “Straight Cut” to the Venice Film Festival. This reconfigured vision allowed audiences to see the events of the film unfold in the order in which they occur, providing new context for pivotal scenes of brutality and the subsequent quest for revenge. Now available are both cuts of the film, providing the viewer the opportunity to see Noé’s potent account of humanity at its worst from multiple angles, and the unshakable understanding that time, indeed, reveals all things. Not for the faint of heart, easily offended, or anyone with photosensitivity, this is Noé’s dark masterpiece.

Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, and Fatima Adoum
Genre: Crime | Drama | International | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France (French, Spanish, Italian, & English)
Runtime: 97 minutes

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Directed By: Robbie Banfitch

Studio: Cinedigm

The Outwaters

Four travelers experience a mind-bending trip through terror while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave desert.

Starring: Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, Michelle May, & Leslie Ann Banfitch
Genre: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes

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Directed By: Maryam Touzani

Studio: Strand Releasing

The Blue Caftan

Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.

Starring: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui, and Mounia Lamkimel
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Morocco | Belgium | Denmark (Arabic)
Runtime: 124 minutes

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Directed By: Dan Franklin & Alex Suarez

Studio: Indican Pictures

Mantra

A young man who is haunted by his murdered brother turns to a psychiatrist whose unorthodox treatment twists his world even further.

Starring: Dan Franklin, Alex Suarez, Drake Rodger, Karen Jean Olds, and Manny Shih
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 120 minutes

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