Title: The Birth of a
Nation
Genre: Drama/Biopic
Rating: R
Director(s): Nate
Parker
Writer(s): Jean
McGianni (story) & Nate Parker (story/screenplay)
Cast: Nate Parker,
Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Junior, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Penelope
Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Colman Domingo, Aja Naomi King, Roger
Guenveur Smith, Esther Scott.
Producer(s): Nate
Parker, Jason Michael Berman, Aaron L. Gilbert, Preston L. Holmes, Kevin Turen.
Synopsis: Set against
the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a
literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner
(Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly
slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow
slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to
freedom.
Title: The Girl on
the Train
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Rating: R
Director(s): Tate
Taylor
Writer(s): Paula
Hawkins (book) & Erin Cressida Wilson (adaptation)
Cast: Emily Blunt,
Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux, Laura Prepon,
Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez, Lisa Kudrow.
Producer(s): Marc
Platt, Jared LeBoff.
Synopsis: In the
thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her
daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a
house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something
shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
Title: Blue Jay
Genre: Drama
Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Alexandre Lehmann
Writer(s): Mark
Duplass
Cast: Mark Duplass,
Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager.
Producer(s): Xan
Aranda, Mel Eslyn.
Synopsis: Former high
school sweethearts Jim (Mark Duplass) and Amanda (Sarah Paulson) have been out
of touch for more than 20 years — but by sheer coincidence, they run into each
other at a grocery store back in their alpine hometown of Crestline,
California. Jim’s mother has died and he’s here to put her house on the market.
Amanda is visiting her pregnant sister. They get to talking, first over coffee,
then over beer and jellybeans. Before they know it they’re at Jim’s mother’s
house, where everything sends them spiraling back into the past. Jim and
Amanda’s lives have taken different directions, yet here they are, reconnecting
like nothing has changed.
Title: Voyage of
Time: The IMAX Experience
Genre: Documentary
Rating: G
Director(s): Terrence
Malick
Writer(s): Terrence
Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt
Producer(s): Sophokles
Tasioulis, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad, Nicolas Gonda, Grant Hill, Sarah Green, Dede
Gardner.
Synopsis: Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience is
a one-of-a-kind celebration of life and the grand
history of the cosmos, transporting audiences into a vast yet
up-close and personal journey that spans the eons from the Big Bang to the
dinosaur age to our present human world… and beyond. A labor of love
from one of American cinema’s most acclaimed and visually exciting
filmmakers, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life), Voyage of
Time has been nearly four decades in the making and represents the
filmmaker’s first foray into documentary storytelling. The film’s
panorama of awe-inspiring images will take you into the
heart of monumental events never witnessed — from the
birth of the stars and galaxies to the explosion of diverse
life-forms on planet earth, including humankind — in immersive new
ways that only IMAX can deliver. This is a cosmic experience — a hymn to the
glories of nature, life and scientific discovery — in which all the
elements come together to form Malick’s most original film to date.
Title: The Accountant
Genre:
Crime/Drama/Thriller
Rating: R
Director(s): Gavin
O'Connor
Writer(s): Bill
Dubuque
Cast: Ben Affleck,
Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal, John Lithgow, J.K. Simmons, Jeffrey Tambor, Cynthia
Addai-Robinson, Alison Wright.
Producer(s): Mark
Williams
Synopsis: Christian Wolff
(Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind
the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for
some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury
Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (Simmons),
starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a
state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Kendrick) has
discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian
uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that
starts to rise.
Title: Desierto
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Rating: R
Director(s): Jonás Cuarón
Writer(s): Jonás Cuarón, Mateo Garcia
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra
Hidalgo, Diego Cataño, Marco Pérez, Oscar Flores, David Lorenzo.
Producer(s): Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón,
Alex Garcia, Charles Gillibert.
Synopsis: What begins
as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight
for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed
men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh,
unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they
continuously discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless
killer.
Title: Miss Hokusai
Genre: Drama/Biography
Rating: PG-13
Director(s): Keiichi
Hara
Writer(s): Hinake
Sugiura (manga), Miho Maruo (screenplay)
Cast: Yutaka
Matsushige (Katsushika Hokusai), Anne Watanabe (O-Ei), Kumiko Asô (Sayogoromo),
Gaku Hamada (Ikeda Zenjirô), Jun Miho (Koto), Kengo Kôra (Utagawa Kuninao),
Shion Shimizu (O-Nao), Danshun Tatekawa (Manjidô), Michitaka Tsutsui (Iwakubo
Hatsugorô).
Producer(s): Keiko
Matsushita, Asako Nishikawa.
Synopsis: The life
and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen
from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.
Title: Jack Reacher:
Never Go Back
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Director(s): Edward
Zwick
Writer(s): Lee Child
(novel), Richard Wenk, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Tom Cruise,
Cobie Smulders, Robert Knepper, Aldis Hodge, Sue-Lynn Ansari, Danika Yarosh,
Producer(s): Tom
Cruise, Don Granger, Christopher McQuarrie.
Synopsis: Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South
Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the
headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the
closest thing to a home he ever had. Reacher is there to meet — in person — the
new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing
voice on the phone. But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. And Reacher is
hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences,
and one too personal even to think about.
Title: American
Pastoral
Genre: Crime/Drama
Rating: R
Director(s): Ewan
McGregor
Writer(s): Philip
Roth (novel), John Romano (screenplay)
Cast: Ewan McGregor,
Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Rupert Evans, Valorie Curry, Molly Parker,
David Strathairn, Uzu Aduba, Peter Riegert.
Producer(s): Andre
Lamal, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg.
Synopsis: Set in postwar
America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's
new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Title: The Handmaiden
Genre:
Drama/Romance/Thriller
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Director(s): Chan-woo
Park
Writer(s): Sarah
Waters (novel), Chan-wook Park (adaptation), Seo-Kyung Chung (adaptation)
Cast: Min-hee Kim,
Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, Hae-suk Kim, So-ri Moon.
Producer(s): Chan-wook
Park, Syd Lim
Synopsis: From Chan-wook Park,
the celebrated director of Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and Stoker, comes a ravishing
new crime drama. PARK presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women - a
young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is
hired to serve as her new handmaiden, but is secretly plotting with a conman to
defraud her of a large inheritance. Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by
British author Sarah Waters, The Handmaiden borrows the most dynamic elements
of its source material and combines it with Chan-wook Park’s singular vision to
create an unforgettable viewing experience.
Title: Inferno
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Director(s): Ron
Howard
Writer(s): Dan Brown
(novel), David Koepp (screenplay)
Cast: Tom Hanks,
Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen.
Producer(s): Michael
De Luca, Andrea Giannetti, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard.
Synopsis: Inferno finds
the famous symbologist (Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante
himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up
with Sienna Brooks (Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his
memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a
madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s
population.
Title: The Eagle
Huntress
Genre: Documentary
Rating: G
Director(s): Otto
Bell
Cast: Daisy Ridley,
Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Dalaikhan, Nurgaiv Rys, Almagul Kuksyegyen,
Producer(s): Otto Bell,
Sharon Chang, Stacey Reiss.
Synopsis: The Eagle Huntress
follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female
in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises
to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for
centuries.
Set against the
breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, The Eagle Huntress features some
of the most awe-inspiring cinematography ever captured in a documentary, giving
this intimate tale of a young girl’s quest the dramatic force of an epic
narrative film.
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