Minions & Monsters

Directed by: Pierre Coffin
Studio: Illumination | Universal Pictures

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

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Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, George Lucas Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, Phil LaMarr
Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Sci-Fi
PG (for violence/action, language and rude/macabre humor)
USA (English)
90 minutes

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Enola Holmes 3

Directed by: Philip Barantini
Studio: Netflix

Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide on a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.

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Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, Himesh Patel, Helena Bonham Carter, Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery
PG-13 (for some violence)
USA (English)
105 minutes

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Young Washington

Directed by: Jon Erwin
Studio: Angel Studios

Before he was the Father of a Nation, he was a soldier fighting to survive. A single misstep thrusts young George Washington into the center of a global conflict, testing his honor, loyalty, and courage. As alliances crumble and the frontier erupts into war, he must confront not only his enemies but the man he’s becoming.

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William Franklyn-Miller, Ben Kingsley, Andy Serkis, Kelsey Grammer, Mary-Louise Parker, Joel Smallbone
Action | Adventure | Biography | War
PG-13 (for sequences of strong war violence and some bloody images)
USA (English)
125 minutes

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Lockbox

Directed by: Daniel Stamm
Studio: Aura Entertainment

Seeking peace after her mother’s death, Ellen retreats to a rural town and takes in her severely traumatized cousin Winthrop. Their fragile domestic balance shatters when an erratic neighbor warns that Winthrop is dangerous. As strange phenomena escalate, Ellen must put everything on the line to defend Winthrop from a dangerous otherworldly entity determined to track him down.

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Carla Gugino, Lou Taylor Pucci, Katharine Isabelle
Horror
R (for some bloody violent content, brief drug material, language and grisly image)
USA | UK (English)
105 minutes

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Citizen Kane (85th Anniversary)

Directed by: Orson Welles
Studio: Fathom Entertainment

When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane’s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland, and his mistress, Susan Alexander, shed fragments of light on Kane’s life, the reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man’s final word, “Rosebud.”

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Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead
Drama | Mystery
PG
USA (English, Italian)
119 minutes

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Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story

Directed by: Jyllian Gunther & Stephanie Schwam
Studio: HBO Max

What began as a cult sex-positive NYC cable access show turned into a national voice for AIDS awareness and free speech. Robin Byrd’s unapologetic show championed sexual freedom, queer visibility, and safe sex from the late 1970-90s, serving as both a community lifeline and a target of a national censorship battle that took her to the Supreme Court and cemented her as a First Amendment fighter. Now approaching 70–and still the longest-running host on cable TV–Robin confronts her place in the history she created, while caring for the husband her viewers never knew existed.

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Robin Byrd, Shelly Byrd, Annie Sprinkle, Sandra Bernhard, Cheri Oteri, Heather Hunter
Documentary | Biography
TV-MA
USA (English)
79 minutes

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Gangland

Directed by: Vincent Grashaw
Studio: Saban Films

A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest secrets and could ignite a violent gang war.

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Lou Diamond Phillips, Nick Stahl, Dana Namerode, Elisha Pratt, Irene Bedard, Kimberly Guerrero
Action | Crime | Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
104 minutes

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Summer’s Last Resort

Directed by: Melanie Scrofano
Studio: Tubi

A high-strung teen’s vacation takes a turn when she’s trapped with her free-spirited mom’s try-hard boyfriend Glenn, who also happens to be her vice principal. Determined to end the romance, she hatches a secret breakup plan that spirals into a week of sunburns, sabotage and unexpected feelings.

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Violet McGraw, Jerry O’Connell, Sophia Bush, Tim Rozon
Comedy
Not Rated
USA (English)
97 minutes

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Sherman’s March (40th Anniversary)

Directed by: Ross McElwee
Studio: Music Box Films

After his girlfriend breaks up with him, a young filmmaker retracing Sherman’s March to the Sea shifts his focus to document his encounters with the Southern women he meets along the way in a landmark of first-person filmmaking.

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Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Patricia Rendleman, Charleen Swansea
Documentary | Biography | Comedy | History | Romance
Not Rated
USA (English)
157 minutes

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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Directed by: Sasha Waters
Studio: Kino Lorber

Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself — and her readers — to the known and unknowable world.

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Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Maria Shriver, Oprah Winfrey, John Waters
Documentary
Not Rated
USA (English)
91 minutes

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Man Of War

Directed by: William Kaufman
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment

When an aid worker vanishes in the first hours of war in Ukraine, a former Navy SEAL and CIA operative crosses into the shattered country to bring her home, facing mercenaries, shifting battle lines, and ghosts he thought he’d left behind.

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LaMonica Garrett, Jason Patric, Andrew Howard, Daniel Bernhardt, Linds Edwards, Rosmary Yaneva
Action
R (for strong violence/bloody images, and language throughout)
USA (English, Ukrainian, Russian)
111 minutes

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Swallowtail & Dragonfly

Directed by: Julia Jay Pierrepont III
Studio: Indican Pictures

Based on the true story of one courageous woman’s journey from stardom as a gifted artist in glamorous 1930s Shanghai, through war and revolution and back again, sustained by her gift for beautiful paintings and an epic love story that would not die.

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Vanessa Yao, Vivian Dawson, Russell Wong, Naomi Matsuda, Candace Kita
Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
107 minutes

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The Nation

Directed by: Aaron James
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media

Chief Chucky Ribbonleg causes a headache for his administration staff — particularly his no-nonsense sister, Monica — when he decides, on behalf of the people of Deep Lake First Nation, to pursue sovereignty from Canada. A film crew documents it all.

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Conway Kootenay, Kelly Orr, Brett Mooswa, Aaron James, Mia Dixon, Kristen Minoose
Comedy | International
Not Rated
Canada (English)
88 minutes

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Abductee

Directed by: William Hopp
Studio: KDMG

Andrew Freeman has endured sleep paralysis his whole life, but when he suspects alien abductions, his obsession takes over. Pulling his sister Laurie into his search for the truth, she must decide to cut ties with Andrew to survive, or follow him into a nightmare that may be real.

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Dusty Sorg, Virginia Newcomb, Tiffany Thomas, Greg Audino
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Not Rated
USA (English)
102 minutes

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I Know Who You Are

Directed by: Feng Xiaogang
Studio: China Lion Film Distribution

When a military officer suspects a local teacher is a spy, he begins an obsessive, four-decade pursuit of the truth. Based on Zhang Ce’s acclaimed novel “No Regrets Tracking.”

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Lei Jiayin, Hu Ge, Liang Jie, Yu Hewei, Jiang Wu, Zhang Yao
Drama | Comedy | Mystery & Thriller
Not Rated
China (Mandarin)
141 minutes

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Battle of Oslo

Directed by: Daniel Fahre
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

“Battle of Oslo” tells the true story of Colonel Birger Eriksen, who, on April 9, 1940, sank a German warship approaching Oslo. His decision delayed the Nazi invasion and saved the king and government — yet he was later treated unfairly by a military commission.

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Bjørn Sundquist, Andrea Berntzen, Eldar Skar, Elias Holmen Sørensen, Terje Strømdahl, Jon Øigarden
Action | Drama | International | War
Not Rated
Norway (Norwegian)
94 minutes

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Christmas Under Construction

Directed by: Robin Dunne
Studio: Hallmark Channel

While doing a Christmas renovation for a cozy New Hampshire cabin, Chelsea, the star of a hit reality show, “Renovation Romance,” finds an unexpected connection with the cabin’s owner, Cooper.

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Jessica Lowndes, Daniel Lissing, Adam Hurtig, Samantha Kendrick
International | Romance
Not Rated
Canada (English)
88 minutes

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Roid

Directed by: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon
Studio: Film Movement

In a remote corner of rural Bangladesh, a poor tenant farmer named Shadhu lives with his wife, a woman the village considers mad. Impulsive, untamable, and fiercely herself, she is known only as Sadhur Bou, her husband’s wife. Shadhu, kind-hearted but overwhelmed, begins secretly taking her far from home, abandoning her in unfamiliar places. Each time, a fruit falls from the palmyra palm beside their shelter, and she returns.

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Mostafizur Noor Imran, Nazifa Tushi, Ahsabul Yamin Riad, Gazi Rakayet, Tutul Fakir
Drama | International
Not Rated
Bangladesh (Bengali)
127 minutes

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