Friday, October 19
Halloween
Continuing horrors of Michael Myers.
Judy Greer, Jason Blum, David Gordon Green, Jamie Lee Curtis, Malek Akkad, Danny R. McBride, Andi Matichak, Miles Robbins
Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror
Mid90s
Follows a group of California teens who are trying to navigate drinking, drugs, fighting, sex and being 'cool' — and making some really bad choices along the way.
Jonah Hill, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Sunny Suljic
Comedy Coming-of-Age
The Night Comes For Us
Described as a neo-noir hitman thriller.
Iko Uwais, Gareth Huw Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Joe Taslim, Asha Kenyeri Bermudez
Action Thriller
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Brampton's Own
After 12 years of withstanding the rigors of minor league baseball in hopes of making it to the big leagues, Dustin Kimmel has decided to call it a career and return to his small hometown where he was once a celebrated athlete. Dustin discovers much has changed since he’s last been back as he struggles to fit in. His old friends have started families, his ex-girlfriend is now engaged, his mom is selling his childhood home and moving in with her new boyfriend, and the only person who wants to hang out with Dustin is Gavin, a 40-year-old Brampton lifer who still wears his varsity football letterman jacket around town. Having neglected to prepare for life after baseball, Dustin’s trip home forces him to confront the very decisions that led to his current purposeless state.
Rose McIver, Jean Smart, Alex Russell, Scott Porter, John Getz, Spencer Grammer
Drama Romance
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lee Israel, a respected biographer, falls on hard times and turns to counterfeiting the letters of deceased writers and celebrities in order to pay her rent. When the forgeries start to raise suspicion, she turns to stealing the actual letters from library archives and sells them through an ex-con fence she met in a bar, while the FBI is closing in on the scam. In 1993, she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property and served six months under house arrest. She died in 2014.
Richard E. Grant, Bob Balaban, Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty, Dolly Wells, Marielle Heller
Drama Biography Crime
Malicious
When Adam, a young college professor, accepts his first big teaching position at a respected university, he and his beautiful pregnant wife, Lisa, move into a country house just outside of town. But soon after the happy couple settles in, Lisa suffers a miscarriage under mysterious circumstances and becomes convinced that some “unnatural force” caused her to lose the baby. To make things worse, as Lisa recovers back at home, she finds herself haunted by a malicious entity. Her sanity questioned and her once happy marriage crumbling, Lisa must fight against logic to find answers and discover what happened to her unborn baby.
Michael Winnick, Bojana Novakovic, Josh Stewart, Melissa Bolona
Horror
Galveston
Follows Roy, a cancer-ridden debt collector and sometime killer. A young prostitute named Rocky flees with Roy when an attempt on his life ends in violence.
Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Mélanie Laurent, Nic Pizzolatto, Beau Bridges, Maria Valverde, Adepero Oduye, Lili Reinhart
Drama Thriller Adaptation
Wildlife
Follows a teenage boy who watches his parents’ marriage start to come apart after the family moves to Montana.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Bill Camp, Andrew Duncan, Alex Saks, Carey Mulligan
Drama Adaptation Coming-of-Age
The Great Buster
Documents the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
The story follows Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage taking a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only.”
Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Aubrey Plaza, Jim Hosking, David Wike, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry
Comedy
Cuba
Focuses on the Cuba’s culture, meticulously maintained colonial architecture and pristine ecosystems at a time when the nation is undergoing economic and social change.
Peter Chang, Mose Richards, Neil Nightingale
Documentary IMAX
The Guilty
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
Gustav Möller, Jacob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Johan Olsen
Thriller Crime
Caniba
Documents the cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Documentary
The Super
The Super centers on the mysterious disappearance of several tenants at a luxury New York City apartment building. Phil Lodge (Flueger), the building’s new superintendent and former NYPD officer, immediately suspects Walter (Kilmer), the strange maintenance man. With his daughters’ lives on the line, Phil must decipher the cryptic riddles in which Walter speaks to solve the disappearances before it’s too late.
Stephan Rick, John J. McLaughlin, Val Kilmer, Patrick John Flueger
Thriller
Reach
Centers on a socially awkward genius (Clayton) who divulges to a pro-suicide support group that he plans to kill himself after being constantly picked on by a former childhood friend and school bully (Doww) and his widowed father, for whom he harbors a deep resentment for over his mother’s death. When the new quirky kid (Bragg) in school befriends him, his plans are sidetracked.
Steven Thomas Capp, Michelle Danner, Jarret Tarnol, Maria Capp, Johnny James Fiore, Grant Harling, Garrett Clayton, Jordan Doww
Drama Teen
Don’t Go
Follows a loving couple, Ben and Hazel Slater, as they struggle to cope with the loss of their child from a devastating accident.
Stephen Dorff, David Gleeson, Ronan Blaney, Melissa George, Simon Delaney, Sean Mahon, Charlotte Bradley
Thriller Mystery
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Directed by Caroline Suh, each episode of this four-part series joins our spirited guide Samin as she travels to home kitchens of Italy, the southern islands of Japan, the heat of the Yucatán and back to Berkeley's Chez Panisse—where she started her culinary career—to demystify and explore the central principles of what makes food delicious and how each of us can easily incorporate those elements into every dish.
Caroline Suh
Documentary
Transformer (Matt 'Kroc' Kroczaleski Story)
In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, banned from competing, and she changed her name to "Janae". This film follows Janae as she attempts to find her place in society.
Michael Del Monte
Sports Documentary LGBTQIA+
The Advocates
Over half a million people are homeless in the United States--25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles--nearly 54,000 people on any given night--three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of “care in the community” looks like amid a changing policy landscape.
Rémi Kessler
Documentary