Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)

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Title: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Rating: PG
Directed by: Steve Carr
Written by: Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Kara Holden
Based on the books by: James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts
Starring: Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle, Thomas Barbusca, Andy Daly, Adam Pally, Retta, Isabela Moner, Efren Ramirez, Alexa Nisenson, Jacob Hopkins, Luke Christopher Hardeman and Jessi Goei
Release Date: 10/7/2016
Running Time: 92 minutes

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MIDDLE SCHOOL: The Worst Years of My Life chronicles the trials and triumphs of Rafe Khatchadorian, as he uses his wits to battle bullies, hormones and the tyrannical, test-obsessed Principal Dwight.

Rafe has an epic imagination…and a slight problem with authority. Both collide when he transfers to an oppressive, rule-crazy middle school. Drowning in do’s and don’ts, Rafe and his scheming best friend Leo hatch a plan to break every rule in the school’s Code of Conduct. It’s Ferris Bueller meets Home Alone as their battle with Principal Dwight explodes into chaos both real and imagined. But Dwight displays his own fiendish creativity, striking back at the rulebreakers. Meanwhile, Rafe struggles to hide his misbehavior from Jeanne, the straight-A, overachieving girl of his dreams, and at home, his mother’s boyfriend — a moochy, jack-of-no-trades named Bear — threatens to become his stepfather.

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Greasy Strangler, The (2016)

Title: The Greasy Strangler
Rating: NR
Directed by: Jim Hosking
Written by: Toby Harvard and Jim Hosking
Starring: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo
Release Date: 10/7/2016
Running Time: 93 minutes

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The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed ‘The Greasy Strangler.’

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Blue Jay (2016)?

Title: Blue Jay
Rating: NR
Directed by: Alexandre Lehmann
Written by: Mark Duplass
Starring: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson and Clu Gulager
Release Date: 10/11/2016
Running Time: 80 minutes

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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 spiralling back into the past. Jim and Amanda’s lives have taken different directions, yet here they are, reconnecting like nothing has changed.

Alex Lehmann’s feature debut is a tender, wise chamber drama about finding yourself adrift in mid-life, longing for something essential that you fear has been lost. The tension in this film, a stateside cousin to Before Sunset, is generated through the uncertainty surrounding the renewed chemistry between Jim and Amanda. It’s hard to know whether what they’re feeling is pertinent to their present lives or a matter of pure nostalgia.

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Maximum Ride (2016)

Title: Maximum Ride
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jay Martin
Written by: Angelique Hanus and Jesse Spears
Based on the novel by: James Patterson
Starring: Allie Marie Evans, Patrick Johnson, Lyliana Wray, Luke Gregory Crosby, Gavin Lewis, Tetona Jackson, Zayne Emory, Carrie Wampler and Peter O’Brien
Release Date: 8/30/2016
Running Time: 88 minutes

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Maximum Ride is the extraordinary journey of six DNA-enhanced young orphans with the ability to fly — on a mission to rescue the youngest of their flock while discovering the diabolical, scientific secrets of how they came to exist. Their leader is Max, wise beyond her years, who must summon all her courage and acumen to outmaneuver the brutal half-human/half-wolf creations known as “Erasers”, confront her own inner demons and ultimately face a stunning betrayal.

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Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Harry & Snowman (2015)*

Title: Harry & Snowman
Rating: NR
Directed by: Ron Davis
Written by: Ron Davis
Starring: Harry DeLeyer, Harriet DeLeyer and Andre DeLeyer
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 84 minutes

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Dutch immigrant, Harry deLeyer, journeyed to the United States after World War II and developed a transformative relationship with a broken down Amish plow horse he rescued off a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. Harry paid eighty dollars for the horse and named him Snowman. In less than two years, Harry & Snowman went on to win the triple crown of show jumping, beating the nations blue bloods. They were famous for their day and traveled around the world together. Their chance meeting at a Pennsylvania horse auction saved them both and crafted a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Eighty-six year old Harry tells their Cinderella love story firsthand, as he continues to train on today’s show jumping circuit.

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Memoriam: In memory of Joan deLeyer, Willy deLeyer and Johanna deLeyer

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Milton’s Secret (2016)

Title: Milton’s Secret
Rating: PG
Directed by: Barnet Bain
Written by: Barnet Bain, Sara B. Cooper and Donald Martin
Based on the novel by: Eckhart Tolle
Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Donald Sutherland and Mia Kirshner
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 88 minutes

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Milton Adams is stressed. Itʼs no picnic being 11 years old in a world that is growing more uncertain every day. Miltonʼs mom and dad argue every night as their careers and financial security unravels around them. Miltonʼs whole community feels in crisis, and to top it off, he is tormented by the neighborhood bully.

When Grandpa Howard comes to visit, Milton discovers that rehashing bad experiences, and worrying about the future only makes things worse.

With a little practice Milton learns his Grandpaʼs secret for coping with a world in crisis: most things have a surprising way of working out when you flow with the power of Now.

In an age that seems to be growing more chaotic by the day, we sometimes wish we could go back to simpler times. We need new answers. Miltonʼs Secret is a thought provoking family film based on the story by acclaimed spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, author of worldwide bestsellers The Power of Now and A New Earth.

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Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

missperegrineshomeforpeculiarchildrenfeat — DF-02825modified - Seated on the floor: the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell), Fiona (Georgia Pemberton) and Hugh (Milo Parker), Left to right: Emma (Ella Purnell), Jake (Asa Butterfield), Horace (Hayden Keeler-Stone), Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), Enoch (Finlay Macmillan), Claire (Raffiella Chapman), Bronwyn (Pixie Davies) and Olive (Lauren McCrostie) - are the very special residents of MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. Photo Credit: Leah Gallo.

Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Tim Burton
Written by: Jane Goldman
Based on the novel by: Ransom Riggs
Starring: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Allison Janney, Chris O’Dowd and Terence Stamp
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 127 minutes

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From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience. When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

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Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Title: Deepwater Horizon
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Peter Berg
Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand
Based upon a The New York Times article by: David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 107 minutes

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On April 20th, 2010, one of the world’s largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Our film follows a vital story that many have not seen: the story of the 126 crew members working aboard the Deepwater Horizon that day, caught in the most harrowing circumstances imaginable. They were skilled working men and women putting in a grueling shift in the hopes of getting back soon to families and lives ashore. In an instant, they were faced with their darkest hour, pushed to summon the courage to battle an unstoppable inferno blaze in the middle of the ocean, and when all seemed lost, to save one another.

The ultra deep-water drilling rig off the Louisiana coast – the Deepwater Horizon – riveted the world as it experienced a devastating blowout, fire and nearly unstoppable ocean floor oil leak. For 87 days millions watched, hearts in mouths, as more than 50,000 barrels of oil a day gushed from the sea floor into the Gulf of Mexico. It would become the largest accidental ocean oil spill in human history. The impact to marine life and the questions of what went wrong and why are ongoing.

DEEPWATER HORIZON brings that story to the screen with a gripping glimpse into the unseen world behind the global disaster that took the lives of 11 workers.

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Masterminds (2016)

Title: Masterminds
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jared Hess
Written by: Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 94 minutes

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Based on a true story, Masterminds follows the riotous misadventures of unlikely anti-hero David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) as he pulls off one of the largest robberies in U.S. history. The trouble begins when David, a trusted armored-truck driver for Loomis Fargo, falls for beautiful guard Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig). After she quits her job, Kelly, egged on by local petty thief Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson), persuades David to clean out the company’s vault in Charlotte, North Carolina.

After stuffing a van with more than $17 million of stolen cash, David delivers the money to Chambers’ gang and flees to Mexico to lie low while the FBI searches for the culprits. Steve and his wife Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) buy a mansion with their ill-gotten wealth and dispatch overzealous hit man Mike McKinney (Jason Sudeikis) to Mexico to kill David. Once David discovers the betrayal, he returns to North Carolina on a mission to rescue his true love and expose Steve as the heist’s real “mastermind.”

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American Honey (2016)

Title: American Honey
Rating: R
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Written by: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough
Release Date: 9/30/2016
Running Time: 163 minutes

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Star (Sasha Lane) is a free-spirited teenager on the brink of adulthood who leaves her troubled home in the American Midwest and hits the road with a “mag crew,” itinerant laborers who peddle publications door-to-door for long hours during the day and party hard at night, never certain where the job will lead next. Led by hard-driving manager Krystal (Riley Keough) and her seductive enforcer Jake (Shia LaBeouf), the 15-strong 071 Crew becomes a surrogate family to Star, offering hope, possibility, love — and the freedom that comes from being on the road. For her first feature set and filmed in the U.S., writer-director Andrea Arnold (FISH TANK, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Academy Award-winning short “Wasp”) offers an electrifying depiction of American youth living on the margins and yearning to belong in an unforgiving landscape of strip malls, chain hotels and suburban sprawl. An epic odyssey into American economic life as seen through the eyes of its outcasts, underdogs and strivers— many of whom were cast directly from the nation’s streets—AMERICAN HONEY features a star-making performance by newcomer Lane, an astonishing turn by LaBeouf, and an unforgettable soundtrack melding country, Southern hip-hop “trap” music and American radio classics. Arnold’s visionary and propulsive fourth feature is a generation-defining cinematic experience that locates unexpected beauty between the cracks of a fractured—yet defiantly hopeful and resilient— nation where a new day can bring anything….

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Chris

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)

Greasy Strangler, The (2016)

Blue Jay (2016)?

Maximum Ride (2016)

Harry & Snowman (2015)*

Milton’s Secret (2016)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Masterminds (2016)

American Honey (2016)

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