Purge: Election Year, The (2016)

Title: The Purge: Election Year
Rating: R
Directed by: James DeMonaco
Written by: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell and Mykelti Williamson
Release Date: 7/1/2016
Running Time: 105 minutes

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It’s been two years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn…or both be sacrificed for their sins against the state.

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Legend of Tarzan, The (2016)

Title: The Legend of Tarzan
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: David Yates
Written by: Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Rory J. Saper, Christian Stevens, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Margot Robbie
Based on the novels by: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Release Date: 7/1/2016
Running Time: 109 minutes

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It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

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Dedication: For Jerry

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Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Title: Our Kind of Traitor
Rating: R
Directed by: Susanna White
Written by: Hossein Amini
Based on the novel by: John le Carré
Starring: Carlos Acosta, Radivoje Bukvic, Stellan Skarsgård, Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris
Release Date: 7/1/2016
Running Time: 107 minutes

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While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry and Gail, befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima, who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money launderer for the Russian mafia.

When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry and Gail get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics.

The couple is propelled on a perilous journey through Paris and Bern, a safe house in the French Alps, to the murky corners of the City of London and an alliance with the British Government via a ruthless and determined MI6 agent.

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Memoriam: In grateful memory of Simon Channing Williams

Innocents, The (2016)

Title: The Innocents (aka. Les innocentes)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Anne Fontaine
Written by: Pascal Bonitzer, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine, Sabrina B. Karine and Alice Vial
Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek and Agata Kulesza
Release Date: 2/10/2016
Running Time: 115 minutes

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In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

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Dedication: This film is based on the life of Madeleine Pauliac (1912-1946) and is dedicated to her.

Life, Animated (2016)

Title: Life, Animated
Rating: PG
Directed by: Roger Ross Williams
Based on the book by: Ron Suskind
Starring: Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried and Owen Suskind
Release Date: 12/9/2016
Running Time: 89 minutes

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LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films. This emotional coming-of-age story follows Owen as he graduates to adulthood and takes his first steps toward independence. The subject of his father Ron Suskind’s New York Times bestseller, Owen was a thriving three year old who suddenly and inexplicably went silent – and for years after remained unable to connect with other people or to convey his thoughts, feelings or desires.

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Satanic (2016)?

Title: Satanic
Rating: R
Directed by: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Written by: Anthony Jaswinski
Starring: Sarah Hyland, Steven Krueger and Justin Chon
Release Date: 7/1/2016
Running Time: 85 minutes

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SATANIC follows a van full of young, college-aged coeds who are visiting old Satanic Panic-era sites in Los Angeles. They end up following the creepy owner of an occult store home, only to find themselves saving a suspicious girl from an apparent human sacrifice. Only this “victim” turns out to be much more dangerous than the cult from which she escaped.

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Proof of Innocence (2016)

Title: Proof of Innocence (aka. Teukbyeolsusa: Sahyeongsuui pyeonji)
Rating: NR
Directed by: Jong-kwan Kwon
Starring: Hyang-gi Kim, Myung-min Kim and Sang-ho Kim
Release Date: 6/16/2016
Running Time: 120 minutes

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A criminal investigation movie about a broker named Pil-jae who is untouchable by the police and prosecutors, tracking down the truth to a murder case after he gets a mysterious letter from a prisoner.

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Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Title: Independence Day: Resurgence
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written by: Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich and James Vanderbilt
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vivica A. Fox, Bill Pullman and Brent Spiner
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 120 minutes

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We always knew they were coming back. After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

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Memoriam: In Memoriam Robert Loggia

Special thanks to Rick K. for this submission

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Shallows, The (2016)

Title: The Shallows
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
Written by: Anthony Jaswinski
Starring: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada and Brett Cullen
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 87 minutes

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In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Millions of years of evolution have led the shark to do one thing: survive. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, getting there proves the ultimate test of wills.

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Free State of Jones (2016)

Title: Free State of Jones
Rating: R
Directed by: Gary Ross
Written by: Leonard Hartman and Gary Ross
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali and Keri Russell
Release Date: 6/24/2016
Running Time: 139 minutes

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Free State of Jones is an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.

Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones.

Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.

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Chris

Purge: Election Year, The (2016)

Legend of Tarzan, The (2016)

Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Innocents, The (2016)

Life, Animated (2016)

Satanic (2016)?

Proof of Innocence (2016)

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Shallows, The (2016)

Free State of Jones (2016)

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