MAY 5, 2023
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Directed By: James Gunn
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures + Marvel Studios
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
In Marvel Studios “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, Elizabeth Debicki, Maria Bakalova, and Sylvester Stallone
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, strong language, suggestive/drug references and thematic elements)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 150 minutes
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Directed By: James C. Strouse
Studio: Sony Pictures
Love Again
What if a random text message led to the love of your life? In this romantic comedy, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, Mira Ray sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns’ new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he’s assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion (playing herself in her first film role), he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person… and win her heart.
Starring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, and Celine Dion
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual material and some strong language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 104 minutes
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Directed By: Shekhar Kapur
Studio: Shout! Studios
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend’s journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family’s Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.
Starring: Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Aly, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Genre: Comedy | International | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for strong language including a sexual reference, some suggestive material and brief drug material)
Country: UK (English)
Runtime: 108 minutes
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Directed By: Jesse V. Johnson
Studio: Lionsgate
One Ranger
British Intelligence meets Texas Justice in this white-knuckle action-thriller. A gunslinging Texas ranger (Thomas Jane) tracks a bank robber (Dean Jagger) across the desert — only to discover he’s an international terrorist set on detonating a bomb in the heart of London. When the lawman’s partner is killed, he is drawn into partnership with a British intelligence agent (Dominique Tipper) and her boss (John Malkovich) to bring the outlaw to justice — dead or alive.
Starring: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Dominique Tipper, and Dean Jagger
Genre: Action | Thriller
Rating: R (for bloody violence, language throughout and brief sexual content)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Directed By: Tom DeNucci
Studio: Screen Media Films
Johnny & Clyde
Johnny and Clyde are two serial killers who are madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They have their sights set on robbing a prosperous casino – owned by crime boss Alana and guarded by a demonic slayer that she commands.
Starring: Avan Jogia, Ajani Russell, Megan Fox, Tyson Ritter, Bai Ling, Vanessa Angel, and Robert LaSardo
Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed by: Manuela Martelli
Studio: Kino Lorber
Chile ’76
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Starring: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina, and Alejandro Goic
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Chile | Argentina | Qatar (Spanish)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Directed by: Martin Wood
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Double Life
A grieving widow learns from her late husband’s mistress that his death was no accident. The two women will form an unlikely alliance to uncover the truth behind his murder and unmask the man they both loved.
Starring: Javicia Leslie, Pascale Hutton, Vincent Gale, Niall Matter, Aaron Douglas, and Carmen Moore
Genre: Crime | International | Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for violence, language and some sexual content)
Country: Canada (English)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Directed by: Sarah Watts & Mark Slutsky
Studio: Good Deed Entertainment
You Can Live Forever
In the early ’90s, gay teen Jaime is sent to live with her devout Jehovah’s Witness relatives after the death of her father. Jaime makes an unexpected connection with Marike, daughter of a prominent Witness Elder. The two are instantly drawn to each other, and begin a secret, unspoken romance. But when their attraction becomes too obvious to hide, the community moves to separate the two, forcing them each to make a terrible choice between faith and love.
Starring: Alessandro Borghi, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti, Surakshya Panta, and Elisabetta Mazzullo
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed by: Jay Burleson
Studio: Dark Sky Films
The Third Saturday in October
When a psycho goes on a murderous rampage after surviving a botched execution, only two survivors of his initial attack can stop him.
Starring: Darius Willis, K.J. Baker, Allison Shrum, Lew Temple, and Antonio Woodruff
Genre: Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed by: Nardeep Khurmi
Studio: HBO Max
Land of Gold
When truck driver Kiran hears pounding from inside his shipping container and finds Elena, a young Mexican-American girl, his already tumultuous life takes a drastic turn as he seeks to reunite her with her family.
Starring: Nardeep Khurmi, Caroline Valencia, Pallavi Sastry, Iqbal Theba, Riti Sachdeva, and Karen David
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English, Spanish, & Punjabi)
Runtime: 105 minutes
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Directed by: Bernard-Henri Lévy & Marc Roussel
Studio: Cohen Media Group
Slava Ukraini
One year after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy takes us to the heart of the combat through this war diary made during the second half of 2022. From Kharkiv and Bakhmut to Kherson, in the aftermath of the city’s liberation, this documentary bears witness to the ravages of war through the testimonies of soldiers, chronicles of the front and portraits of civilians, and shares with us the struggle of the Ukrainian people.
Starring: Gilles Hertzog and Bernard-Henri Lévy
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Ukraine (English, French, & Ukranian)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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Directed by: Harold Crooks& Judd Tully
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
THE MELT GOES ON FOREVER chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice — rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world — is in the words of one art critic “an invitation to confront the fissures between races.”
Starring: David Hammons
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 101 minutes
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Directed by: Alexandre O. Philippe
Studio: Dekanalog
The Taking
A radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising, THE TAKING scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West.”
Starring: Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Liza Black, Sir Christopher Frayling, Robert M. Bednar, and John Bucher
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English & Italian)
Runtime: 76 minutes
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Directed By: Manolo Cardona
Studio: Paramount+
Death’s Roulette
Death’s Roulette centers around seven strangers who wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they’ll discover they are all connected by a dark past. As each character begins to justify their life over everybody else’s to save themselves, we sink deeper into a world of intrigue and mistrust and get to know them in an intimate and vulnerable way.
Starring: Maribel Verdú, Manolo Cardona, Fernando Becerril, Adriana Paz, and Carla Adell
Genre: Drama | International | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Mexico (Spanish)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: Theodore Schaefer
Studio: Cinedigm
Giving Birth to a Butterfly
After having her identity stolen online, Diana Dent leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son’s pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions form an unexpected bond as they concede to the hardships of their own lives, and their hunt for answers becomes a surreal journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
Starring: Annie Parisse, Gus Birney, Constance Shulman, and Paul Sparks
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 77 minutes
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Directed By: Cyril Schäublin
Studio: KimStim
Unrest
Unrest is the story of young watchmaker, Josephine, in 1877 Switzerland, who gets involved with the rising anarchist movement as new technologies begin to transform money, time and labor in a small town.
Starring: Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, and Monika Stalder
Genre: Drama | History | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Switzerland (Swiss German, Russian, French, & English)
Runtime: 93 minutes
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Directed By: Ashley McKenzie
Studio: Factory 25
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
A suicidal teen develops a rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in the hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages, and possessions expands the boundaries of the relationship and alters inner chemistry.
Starring: Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Wendy Wishart, and Jana Reddick
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada (English, Mandarin, & Russian)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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Directed By: Andrés Garrigó
Studio: Fathom Events
A Father’s Heart
Noteworthy author Lupe Valdés embarks on an intimate, sweeping quest in search of inspiration to support her creative endeavors with her forthcoming novel.
Starring: Maria Gil and Paco Pérez-Reus
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Spain (Spanish)
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Directed By: Laura Morton & Vanessa Roth
Studio: Area 23a
Anxious Nation
After an unforeseen threat arises mid-air, a talented young air force test pilot is forced to test not only the capabilities of his top-secret Anxious Nation explores and captures the many faces and facets of anxiety. This feature-length documentary takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its impact on kids (ages 10-26) and families.
Starring: Jonah Burns, Meredith Burns, Nicole Cochrane, and GC Coris
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 101 minutes
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