As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)?

Title: As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM
Rating: NR
Directed by: Kevin Kerslake
Written by: Kevin Kerslake
Starring: DJ AM, A-Trak and Niko Achtipes
Release Date: 4/2015
Running Time: 109 minutes

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Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, was a man with deep passions and aggressive demons. As I AM is an insider’s look into the life of the late, great mash-up pioneer: his professional success that made him the first million-dollar DJ in the United States and his incredibly complex personal life that was lived under the specter of drug addiction.

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Last Days in the Desert (2015)?

Title: Last Days in the Desert
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Rodrigo García
Written by: Rodrigo García
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ciarán Hinds and Tye Sheridan
Release Date: 1/25/2015
Running Time: 98 minutes

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Last Days in the Desert follows Jesus (Ewan McGregor) in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil, also played by McGregor, over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts.

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Union Bound (2016)*

Title: Union Bound
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Harvey Lowry
Written by: John Errington
Starring: Drew Seeley, Randy Wayne and Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
Release Date: 4/22/2016
Running Time: 103 minutes

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Union Bound is the amazing true story of Joseph Hoover a Union Soldier who witnessed many incredible moments during the terrible carnage of the CIVIL WAR. He wrote two diaries which survive today. In 1864 he was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and was taken to the notorious camp “Andersonville”. After four months he was transferred to Florence, SC to a new camp. Together with a friend he escaped. They were aided by slaves and what is now known as the “underground railroad” to get to freedom. Joseph was later wounded in the war but survived. After the war he went back to his farm in upstate New York and worked as a cabinet maker. He went on to live to be 84.

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Elvis & Nixon (2016)

Title: Elvis & Nixon
Rating: R
Directed by: Liza Johnson
Written by: Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal and Cary Elwes
Starring: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville and Colin Hanks
Release Date: 4/22/2016
Running Time: 86 minutes

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In 1970, Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) flies to Washington D.C. with the goal of convincing President Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey) to deputize him as a federal agent-at-large. Showing up unannounced at the Northwest Gate of the White House with his buddy Jerry Schilling (Alex Pettyfer), Presley persuades awe-struck guards to hand deliver a letter to Nixon requesting a secret meeting. White House staffers Egil “Bud” Krogh (Colin Hanks) and Dwight Chapin (Evan Peters) tell the president that a sit-down with Elvis during an election year could generate good PR, but Nixon is in no mood to humor the legendary rocker.

Undeterred, Jerry and Elvis’ sidekick Sonny (Johnny Knoxville) re-group with Krogh and Chapin to hatch a deal: Elvis will sign an autograph for Nixon’s daughter Julie in exchange for face time with the president. Prior to making his grand entrance, Presley is instructed in a litany of White House protocols, which he quickly disregards. To Nixon’s surprise and the astonishment of his nervous aides, the pair bond over their shared contempt of counterculture.

Based on an actual encounter that took place on December 21, 1970, Elvis & Nixon hilariously re-imagines the unlikely meeting between rocker and politician as dramatized by two of America’s finest actors.

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Colonia (2015)

Title: Colonia
Rating: NR
Directed by: Florian Gallenberger
Written by: Torsten Wenzel and Florian Gallenberger
Starring: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl and Michael Nyqvist
Release Date: 4/15/2016
Running Time: 110 minutes

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A young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult from which no one has ever escaped.

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Memoriam: In memory of the victims of Colonia Dignidad

Last Man on the Moon, The (2014)?

<br /> Title: The Last Man on the Moon
Rating: NR
Directed by: Mark Craig
Written by: Mark Craig
Starring: Eugene Cernan, Alan Bean and Charles Duke
Release Date: 2/26/2016
Running Time: 95 minutes

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When Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped off the moon in 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now, forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story.

Cernan’s burning ambition carried him to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and to the moon. But there was a heavy price to pay for the fame and privilege that followed. As his wife famously remarked, ‘If you think going to the moon is hard, try staying at home.’

‘The Last Man on the Moon’ combines rare archive material, compelling visual effects and unprecedented access to present an iconic historical character on the big screen.

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Finest Hours, The (2016)*

Title: The Finest Hours (aka. The Finest Hours 3D)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Written by: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
Based on the novel by: Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias
Starring: Chris Pine, Graham McTavish, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster and Eric Bana
Release Date: 1/29/2016

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A heroic action-thriller, “The Finest Hours” is the remarkable true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history. Presented in Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D, the film will transport audiences to the heart of the action, creating a fully-immersive cinematic experience on an epic scale. On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) soon realizes it is up to him to take charge of the frightened crew and inspire the men to set aside their differences and work together to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast. Meanwhile, as word of the disaster reaches the U.S. Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts, Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff (Eric Bana) orders a daring operation to rescue the stranded men. Despite overwhelming odds, four men, led by Coast Guard Captain Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), set out in a wooden lifeboat with an ill-equipped engine and little, if any, means of navigation, facing frigid temperatures, 60-foot high waves and hurricane-force winds.

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Ip Man 3 (2015)

<br /> Title: Ip Man 3 (aka. Yip Man 3)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Wilson Yip
Written by: Lai-yin Leung, Chan Tai-Li and Edmond Wong
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Jin Zhang and Mike Tyson
Release Date: 12/24/2015
Running Time: 105 minutes

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When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

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Aferim! (2015)?

Title: Aferim!
Rating: NR
Directed by: Radu Jude
Written by: Radu Jude and Florin Lazarescu
Starring: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu and Toma Cuzin
Release Date: 1/22/2016
Running Time: 108 minutes

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1835—a police officer and his son travel across the Romanian countryside in pursuit of a runaway gypsy slave. In their journey they encounter people of different religions and nationalities, each with their own prejudices and opinions on the state of the country. Beautifully shot in black-and-white, this road movie incorporates humor and the absurd to deliver a stunning tale. Alternating between action scenes and surreal dialogue, Radu Jude, one of the youngest new faces of Romanian cinema, delivers a Romanian Western that is more than a gripping look at the political and religious landscape of 19th century Eastern Europe. It approaches issues of slavery and racism in a way that resonates dangerously close to home. In the words of Radu Jude, “When we speak of the past, in fact we speak of our perspective of the past.”

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Joy (2015)

Title: Joy
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: David O. Russell
Written by: David O. Russell and Annie Mumolo
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez and Diane Ladd
Release Date: 12/25/2015
Running Time: 124 minutes

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Joy is the story of a family across four generations and the woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.

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Memoriam: In Loving Memory of Burton Brand, M.D. 1925 – 2015, Bertil Sandgren 1942 – 2015 and Sharon Baumgarten Maifeld 1959 – 2015

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