Blood Money / Misfortune (2017)
Thriller
Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
Starring: John Cusack, Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, Jacob Artist
Director: Lucky McKee
The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Shunned by everyone for being the son of an evil warlord, a teenager seeks to defeat him with the help of his fellow ninjas.
Starring: Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Jackie Chan, Michael Peña, Olivia Munn, Zach Woods, Abbi Jacobson, Kumail Nanjiani, Fred Armisen
Director: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, Bob Logan
Genocidal Organ / Gyakusatsu kikan (2017)
Animation | Sci-Fi
Set in a time when Sarajevo was obliterated by a homemade nuclear device, the story reflects a world inundated with genocide. An American man by the name of John Paul seems to be responsible for all of this and intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd treks across the wasteland of the world to find him and the eponymous "genocidal organ."
Starring: Yûichi Nakamura, Satoshi Mikami, Yuki Kaji, Kaito Ishikawa, Akio Ôtsuka, Sanae Kobayashi, Takahiro Sakurai
Director: Shûkô Murase
Tuntematon sotilas / The Unknown Soldier (1955)
Drama | War
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.
Starring: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo, Åke Lindman
Director: Edvin Laine
Bullet Head (2017)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in and an even worse threat waiting inside.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas, John Malkovich, Rory Culkin, Alexandra Dinu, Cristina Segovia
Director: Paul Solet
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The Pirates of Somalia / Dabka (2017)
Biography | Drama
In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
Starring: Al Pacino, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi, Aidan Whytock, Edward Gelbinovich
Director: Bryan Buckley
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Quartet / Karutetto (TV Mini-Series 2017)
Drama
Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.
Starring: Rakako Matsu, Hikari Mitsushima, Issei Takahashi, Ryûhei Matsuda, Riho Yoshioka
Director: Yûji Sakamoto
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)
Documentary
A documentary about Ben Bradlee, the iconic editor of The Washington Post.
Starring: Carl Bernstein, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, Sally Quinn, Bob Woodward
Director: John Maggio
Trophy (2017)
Documentary
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
Director: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Christmas Slay / A Christmas Slay (2015)
Horror
The story of 'CHRISTMAS SLAY' begins on a wintry Christmas Eve in the picturesque Kentish countryside, the horrific murder of a loving family, and the capture of a Santa Claus obsessed blood thirsty killer. A Christmas approaches the following year, a group of college girlfriends decide to get away from it all and relax and party over the Christmas holiday, they decide to escape to the idyllic Mistletoe Lodge nestled within the beautiful snowy mountains of the Scottish Highlands, what starts off as the perfect festive getaway of fun in the snow and a glass of eggnog or two, suddenly descends into a gruesome bloodbath of terror and a fight for survival.
Starring: Dani Thompson, Paul Terry, Jessica Ann Brownlie, Frank Jakeman, Steve Davis, Lydia Kay
Director: Steve Davis
Speed Dragon (2013)
Drama | Music
The life of a world famous rock star. The life, the girls, the drugs.
Starring: Bai Ling, Dj Parker
Director: Dan Frank
Pivot Point (2011)
Drama
A psychological drama that follows four high schoolers down a dark ride. As each struggle separately in their own lives they will soon discover that their lives are interconnected in ways they never would have guessed. They also effect each other in unimaginable ways which have devastating consequences. As they all lay bloody on the floor of their high school, only one question can be asked, "What could have been done to prevent this?" Pivot Point follows each of these characters on an unforgettable journey as they each plod down a lonely road. Only time will tell if they can reach out before it is too late.
Starring: Tyler Danyla, Levi Cox, Jordan Cuckler, Alexis Hughes, Tristan Erwin, Phil Russell
Director: Zach Meiners
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion (2016)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
A twelve-year-old girl is transported by a magical black stallion to the mystical world of ALBION, where she discovers that she alone is the key to saving an entire race of people.
Starring: Daniel Sharman, Liam McIntyre, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Dorff, John Cleese
Director: Castille Landon
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A guy, a girl, and a robothead hike across a desert planet in search of a mythical lake.
Starring: Julia Garner, Joseph Cross, C.S. Lee
Director: Pete Ohs, Andrea Sisson
Princess Cyd (2017)
Drama | Romance
Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Starring: Rebecca Spence, Jessie Pinnick, Malic White, James Vincent Meredith, Tyler Ross, Matthew Quattrocki
Director: Stephen Cone
Crystal Inferno (2017)
Action | Adventure | Family
Disaster hits when two teenagers are caught in a fire on the 20th floor of a skyscraper. Their parents are on the 60th. Will they survive the flames?
Starring: Claire Forlani, Jamie Bamber, Riley Jackson, Isaac Rouse, Nigel Barber
Director: Eric Summer
Wolf Warrior 2 / Zhan lang II (2017)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
Starring: Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Nan Yu, Oleg Prudius
Director: Jing Wu
Home Again (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Lake Bell, Michael Sheen, Candice Bergen, Nat Wolff, Reid Scott
Director: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
American Made / Mena (2017)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Sarah Wright, Connor Trinneer, E. Roger Mitchell
Director: Doug Liman
The Party (2017)
Comedy | Drama
Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall
Director: Sally Potter
