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Now on Home Video: Episode VII of ‘Star Wars’ and More
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Gwendoline Christie, and Max von Sydow
Director: J.J. Abrams
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Motion Picture Rating: PG-13
Synopsis from Disney: Visionary director J.J. Abrams brings to life the motion picture event of a generation. As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It’s up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
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Tumbledown (2015)
Tumbledown (2015)
Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Rebecca Hall, Dianna Agron, and Joe Manganiello
Director: Sean Mewshaw
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Anchor Bay Entertainment: Pop culture scholar Andrew (Jason Sudeikis) comes to Maine to interview Hannah (Rebecca Hall), the protective widow of an acclaimed singer. When the unlikely pair strike a deal to co-write a biography, Andrew finds himself clashing with a cast of locals, including Hannah’s hunky suitor (Joe Manganiello), and her loving but defensive parents (Blythe Danner, Richard Masur). When Hannah and Andrew’s stormy partnership blossoms into an unexpected connection, they face the possibility that the next chapter in their lives may involve each other. Dianna Aragon and Griffin Dunne costar in this startlingly funny and sweetly romantic tale of moving on and finding love in the unlikeliest of places.
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#Horror (2015)
#Horror (2015)
Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, and Balthazar Getty
Director: Tara Subkoff
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Motion Picture Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis from Shout! Factory: You’ve got followers… cyberbullying goes offline. #Horror follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real.
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Mojave (2015)
Mojave (2015)
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Mark Wahlberg, Louise Bourgoin, and Walton Goggins
Director: William Monahan
Genre: Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from A24: Mojave is a classical, cerebral thriller about a brilliant, near-suicidal artist, Thomas (Garrett Hedlund), who attempts to escape his privileged existence into the desert only to encounter a homicidal, chameleon-like drifter—Jack (Oscar Isaac). Their first encounter at a campfire sets up a nonstop, violent duel of physical and intellectual equals. The game intensifies when Jack, while in murderous pursuit of Thomas, witnesses Thomas’ accidental killing of an innocent man he has mistaken for Jack. The chase moves from the spectacular vistas of the American desert to a noir Los Angeles, where Jack discovers Thomas’ notoriety as an artist and continues to remake his own identity in relentless pursuit of his victim, culminating in a vortex of criminality and brutality as Thomas emerges as an equally dangerous opponent.
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The Masked Saint (2016)
The Masked Saint (2016)
Stars: Brett Granstaff, Lara Jean Chorostecki, T.J. McGibbon, Diahann Carroll, Roddy Piper, and James Preston Rogers
Director: Warren P. Sonoda
Genre: Biography, Action, Crime
Motion Picture Rating: PG-13
Synopsis from Freestyle Releasing: The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing a crisis at home and at the church, the pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling to be a pastor.
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The von Trapp Family – A Life Of Music (2015)
The von Trapp Family – A Life Of Music (2015)
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Eliza Bennett, Yvonne Catterfeld, and Cornelius Obonya
Director: Ben Verbong
Genre: Drama, Music
Motion Picture Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis from Concorde Entertainment: Agathe von Trapp (ELIZA BENNETT) grows up with her six siblings in the shelter of her family at “Erlhof,” her family’s property in the State of Salzburg. When her beloved mother passes away, her world falls apart. The girl with the golden voice resolves never to sing again. Instead, she selflessly looks after the household, her siblings, and her father Georg von Trapp (MATTHEW MACFADYEN). He has mixed feelings about that and encourages her to start living her own life. The family moves to Salzburg, and her father finds a new love and substitute mother for his children, the nanny Maria Gustl (YVONNE CATTERFELD). Agathe sees Maria as her competitor and reacts with rejection. But the encounter with an artist, the (re-)discovery of her voice and the power of the music that bonds her family bring the two women together in the end. They know the signs on the eve of the annexation of Austria by Hitler’s Germany forebode imminent change and demand courageous decisions. Decisions that will change the family’s life forever…
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Stealing Cars (2015)
Stealing Cars (2015)
Stars: Emory Cohen, Heather Lind, Al Calderon, John Leguizamo, William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Mike Epps, and Paul Sparks
Director: Bradley J. Kaplan
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Sony Pictures: Billy Wyatt (Emory Cohen) is a young man with tremendous promise, but a troubled past leads him to the Bernville Camp for Boys. Billy must navigate his way through dangerous inmates and a cruel and punishing staff, but during it all, he learns to inspire others and find out the truth about himself in the process.
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The Hoarder (2015)
The Hoarder (2015)
Stars: Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper,Valene Kane, Charlotte Salt, and Andrew Buckley
Director: Matt Winn
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis from RLJ Entertainment: Ella (Mischa Barton, “The O.C.”) sneaks off one night to snoop through her fiancé’s storage unit on the seedy outskirts of town. But deep in the lower levels of the warehouse, Ella and a half dozen storage unit customers discover there’s more than old furniture and memorabilia being locked away here. A relentless psychopath has started his own “collection,” and unless Ella and the others can survive the blood-soaked rampage of the Hoarder, and find a way out of the maze-like building, they’ll never see the light of another day.
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