JUNE 30, 2023
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Directed By: James Mangold
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Starring: Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Action | Adventure
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action, language and smoking)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 154 minutes
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Directed By: Kirk DeMicco
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
A shy adolescent learns that she comes from a fabled royal family of legendary sea krakens and that her destiny lies in the depths of the waters, which is bigger than she could have ever imagined.
Starring: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, Jane Fonda, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Jaboukie Young-White, Blue Chapman, Ramona Young, and Eduardo Franco
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Rating: PG (for some action, rude humor and thematic elements)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Directed By: Daina Reid
Studio: Netflix
Run Rabbit Run
As a fertility doctor, Sarah has a firm understanding of the cycle of life. However, when she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Starring: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman and Greta Scacchi
Genre: Horror | International | Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Country: Australia (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed By: Michael Oblowitz
Studio: Lionsgate
Confidential Informant
This gritty crime thriller starring Mel Gibson tells the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent, leading to an explosive finale….
Starring: Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, Dominic Purcell, Arielle Raycene, Nick Stahl, Erik Valdez, and Jon Lindstrom
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R (for language throughout, drug use, some violence & graphic nudity)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Directed By: Tyler Spindel
Studio: Netflix
The Out-Laws
A straight-laced bank manager about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
Starring: Adam DeVine, Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin, Nina Dobrev, Michael Rooker, Poorna Jagannathan, Julie Hagerty, Richard Kind, Lil Rel Howery, and Blake Anderson
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Romance
Rating: R (for language throughout, violence, sexual material & brief drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Directed by: Julie Cohen
Studio: Focus Features
Every Body
Focuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods. Choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
Starring: Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, and River Gallo
Genre: Documentary
Rating: R (for some language and graphic nude images)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Studio: Vertical
Prisoner’s Daughter
After 12-years in prison, Max is diagnosed with terminal cancer and granted a compassionate release with the condition he reside with his daughter, Maxine. With no love lost toward Max but financially strapped and working multiple jobs to raise her only son, Ezra, she begrudgingly agrees to the conditions. As Max seeks one last chance to redeem himself in her eyes, they must contend with his violent past as it comes back to haunt them all.
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Brian Cox, Christopher Convery, Jon Huertas, Ernie Hudson, and Tyson Ritter
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for language and some violence)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed by: William Kaufman & Johnny Strong
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Warhorse One
WARHORSE ONE follows a desperate civilian rescue attempt set in motion shortly after the 2021 withdrawal of the United States military from Afghanistan. After a SEAL team helicopter is downed en route to the rendezvous point, the lone surviving operator must evade hostile insurgents and navigate treacherous terrain while guiding his one remaining charge–a traumatized young girl–to safety.
Starring: Johnny Strong, Athena Durner, Raj Kala, James Sherrill, and Siya Rostami
Genre: Action | Drama | War
Rating: R (for violence and some language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 120 minutes
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Directed by: Vincent Shade
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
The Unseen
A law student finds himself losing his mind in a twisted web of murder and deceit brought on by a dark force from his past.
Starring: RJ Mitte, Christian Stolte, William Mark McCullough, Jennifer A. Goodman, Rebekah Kennedy, and Candice Rose
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed by: James Lapine
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
In the Company of Rose
Rose Styron, the widow of the great American novelist William Styron, shares the fascinating story of her complex life as a poet, journalist, human rights activist, and life partner to William.
Starring: Rose Styron and James Lapine
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Directed by: Michelle Savill
Studio: Film Movement
Millie Lies Low
Anxiety-ridden Millie is on her way from Wellington to New York for an internship at a prestigious architecture firm when a moment of panic causes her to miss her flight.
Starring: Ana Scotney, Jillian Nguyen, Chris Alosio, Sam Cotton, Karen O’Leary, and Cohen Holloway
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: New Zealand (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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Directed by: Mikhael Hers
Studio: KimStim
The Passengers of the Night
Left by her husband, Elisabeth finds herself alone, responsible for the day-to-day care of her two children. She picks up a job on a night-time radio show, where she meets Talulah, a youngster she decides to take under her wing.
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Megan Northam, Thibault Vinçon, and Emmanuelle Béart
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France (French & English)
Runtime: 111 minutes
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Directed by: Daniel Fetherston & Danny Szlauderbach
Studio: Factory 25
We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment
Surrounded by wheat fields, cowboys, and cars, four bespectacled misfits in Kansas — Bill Goffrier, Brent Giessmann, John Nichols, and Ron Klaus — grabbed instruments and blasted out “a ravenous strain of rock ‘n’ roll” as tuneful, brainy, and enthralling as anything coming from the coasts.
Starring: Bill Goffrier, Brent Giessmann, John Nichols, Ron Klaus, Evan Dando, and Freedy Johnston
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Directed By: Davide Ferrario
Studio: The Cinema Guild
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Umberto Eco’s private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. The director had worked with Eco one year before the writer’s death on a video project for the Venice Art Biennale in 2015, gaining access to the library. With the help of Eco’s family he has now produced a documentary that describes a one-of-a-kind place, but also tries to catch and represent the universal idea of a library as “memory of the world”, as Eco himself liked to describe it.
Starring: Giuseppe Cederna, Carlotta Eco, Emanuele Eco, Pietro Eco, Stefano Eco, and Umberto Eco
Genre: Documentary | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Italy (Italian)
Runtime: 80 minutes
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Directed By: J. Jesses Smith
Studio: Entertainment Squad
The In-Law Gang
After tolerating five years of disrespect, Cassie decides it’s time to make hell for her in-laws and her cheating husband.
Starring: Clifton Powell, Drue Horne, Alfred E. Rutherford, Kim Rosen, Nashawn Kearse, Dwayne Boyd, Crystal T. Williams, and Jessie Jalee
Genre: Action | Comedy | Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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Directed By: M.J. Anderson & T. Huff
Studio: Vertical
A Southern Haunting
After receiving 40 acres, a former slave family battles man and myth to uncover the truth that lurks behind their land.
Starring: Laya DeLeon Hayes, Graham Patrick Martin, Imani Hakim, Mia Barron, Christine Weatherup, and Tarik Lowe
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for some violent content and language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 94 minutes
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