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Now on Home Video: Garry Marshall’s ‘Mother’s Day,’ Key & Peele in ‘Keanu’
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Timothy Olyphant, Britt Robertson, Héctor Elizondo and Jack Whitehall
Director: Garry Marshall
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Motion Picture Rating: PG-13
Synopsis from Open Road Films: Bringing together Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts along with Jason Sudeikis, it’s a celebration of mothers everywhere. This big-hearted comedy invites us all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
The Lobster
The Lobster
Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Jessica Barden
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Picturehouse Entertainment: A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Meet the Blacks
Meet the Blacks
Stars: Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao, Lil Duval, Bresha Webb, George Lopez and Mike Tyson
Director: Deon Taylor
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from AOne Entertainment: The Black family is getting out of Chicago in hopes of a better life. After Carl Black (Mike Epps) recently came into some unexpected fund$. Carl takes his family and leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his wife Lorena (Zulay Henao), son Carl Jr., daughter Allie Black (Bresha Webb) and cousin Cronut (Lil Duval) pack up and move to Beverly Hills.
Turns out, Carl couldn’t have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual purge, when all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Keanu
Keanu
Stars: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Method Man, Nia Long and Will Forte
Director: Peter Atencio
Genre: Action, Comedy
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Warner Bros.: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, a.k.a. the hugely popular comedy duo Key & Peele, star in New Line Cinema’s action comedy Keanu. The two play Clarence and Rell, cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell’s beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
High-Rise
High-Rise
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Elisabeth Moss
Director: Ben Wheatley
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Magnolia Pictures: Tom Hiddleston stars as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst society’s upper class. Laing quickly settles in and meets the other tenants: Charlotte (Sienna Miller), a bohemian single mother; Wilder (Luke Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Elisabeth Moss); and Mr. Royal (Jeremy Irons), the building’s enigmatic architect. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But, as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, mainly on the lower floors, social strata begins to crumble and the building descends into a class war.
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The Trust
The Trust
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira, Jerry Lewis, Kevin Weisman and Steven Williams
Director: Alex Brewer and Ben Brewer
Genre: Crimer, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Lionsgate: Waters and Stone are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of such a large amount of cash. Through diligent police work they follow a trail that leads directly to a custom bank-style vault built into the back room freezer of a small grocery store. They put a plan into motion to rob the vault and split whatever they find inside. But by the time they figure out what the vault contains, it’s already too late to turn back.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Manhattan Night
Manhattan Night
Stars: Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Jennifer Beals, Campbell Scott, Linda Lavin and Steven Berkoff
Director: Brian DeCubellis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Lionsgate: Based on the New York Times Notable noir thriller, this pulse-pounding mystery begins as reporter Porter Wren (Adrien Brody, The Grand Budapest Hotel) meets attractive widow Caroline (Yvonne Strahovski, “Dexter”). When she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband (Campbell Scott, The Amazing Spiderman 1 & 2), Wren is unable to refuse—or resist—her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, David Strathairn, and Amy Ryan
Director: Joachim Trier
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Motlys: Two years after her sudden death, the family of famed photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) is still trying to cope with their loss. Gene (Gabriel Byrne) struggles as a single parent. Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), the elder son, has just had a baby of his own and finds the transition from child to parent daunting. The younger son, Conrad (newcomer Devin Druid), is a typical teenager, wearing his alienation as a badge of honor and resisting his father’s attempts to connect. On the occasion of a major retrospective of Isabelle’s work, Jonah returns home to help his father. All three men are flooded with memories, and secrets are unearthed—most notably the truth behind the mysterious circumstances of Isabelle’s death. Shifting between past and present, LOUDER THAN BOMBS is an intimate portrait of parents and children and the many things that tear them apart and bring them together.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
