THE GREAT GATSBY
(Warner Brothers) Leonardo di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Amitabh Bachchan, Jack Thompson. Directed by Baz Luhrmann
A would-be writer comes to New York City from the Midwest in the Roaring ’20s to become neighbors with the notorious party boy from high society, Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s cousin Daisy and her brutal husband Tom. As the writer is drawn into the world of the upper crust with all their deadly illusions and secrets he writes a story that reflects the world he has come to inhabit.
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Release formats: Standard, 3D
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for some violent images, sexual content, smoking, partying and brief language)
From Up on Poppy Hill
(GKIDS) Starring the voices of Anton Yelchin, Gillian Anderson, Beau Bridges, Sarah Bolger. As Japan prepares to host the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and show the world that they have returned to being a major power and fully recovered from the war, two young people join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from being torn down. While a budding romance develops between the two of them, they are forced to confront the changing times and attitudes that are warring with traditional values in Japan.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Anime
Rating: PG (for mild thematic elements, and some incidental smoking images)
Go Goa Gone
(Eros International) Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Puja Gupta. A group of guys, tired of being smacked around by life, decide to take a vacation on a beautiful island off the coast of Goa. Unfortunately their revelry is cut short by an invasion of zombies.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Bollywood/Horror Comedy
Rating: R (for disturbing violent and sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some drug use)
No One Lives
(Anchor Bay) Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Lee Tergesen, Laura Ramsey. When a ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage, things get bad. When they kill the girl, things get worse. There is a killer amongst them, one determined to make sure that nobody survives the night.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, disturbing images, pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity)
Peeples
(Lionsgate) Craig Robinson, Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, S. Epatha Merkerson. A working class guy who has fallen in love and been in a longstanding relationship with a girl from an upper class background decides to crash her family reunion so that he can ask her father for his daughter’s hand in marriage. As you can guess, things don’t go exactly as planned.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Urban Comedy
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, drug material and language)
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