APOLLO 18
(TriStar) Cast not available. Directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
The Apollo program supposedly ended after Apollo 17 but in spectacular footage discovered in a long-forgotten NASA vault comes the incredible story of a secret mission to the moon – and the truth behind the reason we haven’t been back since. Another found footage horror flick, only this one has been bouncing around the schedule for over a year.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Rating: PG-13 (for some disturbing sequences and language)
The Debt
(Focus) Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Tom Wilkinson. A team of Israeli Mossad operatives who captured a notorious Nazi forty years earlier come to grips with a terrible secret that only the three of them know. That secret now threatens to come out and destroy them and maybe much more than that.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and a featurette here.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R (for some violence and language)
The Future
(Roadside Attractions) Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres. A 30-something couple decides to adopt a cat. A pretty mundane act on the surface of it but one which will literally alter the course of time. Who knew?
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Dramedy
Rating: R (for some sexual content)
Point Blank
(Magnolia) Gilles Lelouche, Roschdy Zem, Gerard Lanvin, Elena Anaya. A hospital worker sees his pregnant wife kidnapped in front of his eyes. He is informed that he must smuggle a crime boss who is under police surveillance out of the hospital he works at or his wife will be killed. He works against the clock, trying to avoid rival mobsters and trigger-happy cops to try to save his wife and unborn child.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Crime Thriller
Rating: R (for strong violence and some language)
Project Nim
(Roadside Attractions) Nim, Professor Herbert Terrace, Laura-Ann Petitto, Stephanie LaFarge. The true story of a scientific experiment that proposes that a chimpanzee can learn to communicate as a human does if raised as a human child. We are introduced to the hubris of the scientific community as we attempt to humanize an animal and along the way find the humanity in ourselves. This was the opening film at the Florida Film Festival this year and although we missed it, Da Queen and I talked to several folks who saw it who described it with words like “touching” and “unsettling.”
See the trailer and clips here.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images)
Seven Days in Utopia
(Utopia) Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll. A golfer who suffers an epic meltdown during a tournament winds up stranded in a small but eccentric town in Texas. Here he will slow down a bit, find his game again and more importantly discover what’s truly important.
See the trailer, clips and a featurette here.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Sports Drama
Rating: G
Shark Night 3D
(Relativity) Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Katharine McPhee, Joel David Moore. A group of vacationing teens see their summer holiday turn to horror when they discover that the freshwater lake they’re staying at is full of massive man-eating sharks. They’re going to have some pretty choice words for the Travelocity gnome.
See the trailer and a clip here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard, 3D
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG-13 (for violence and terror, disturbing images, sexual references, partial nudity, language and thematic material)
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