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In normal years (remember those?) mid-August marks the end of the "summer movie season." It's the perfect time to sift back through the summer's releases in search of films that might actually stand the test of time.
We're fulfilling the many requests we received for PIG and ROADRUNNER, both screening this week. Along with them, there's THE NIGHT HOUSE, a smart new horror film that is gathering praise from critics in early reviews. And crowds are loving FREE GUY, here for a second week.
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together – but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband’s belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing – a mystery she’s determined to unravel.
It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind . . . Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), this unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
In Twentieth Century Fox’s epic adventure-comedy “Free Guy,” a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi, “Free Guy” is directed by Shawn Levy from a story by Matt Lieberman and a screenplay by Lieberman and Zak Penn.
In his first feature, anime grandmaster Satoshi Kon brings trademark psychological layers to a portrait of Mima, a pop idol whose transition into a legitimate acting career angers her fans. As Mima’s friends start turning up dead, she suspects her squeaky-clean mirror image is the one killing them. With Kon’s coldly precise animation tracing the lines of the 90s thriller genre, PERFECT BLUE is an early exploration of fan toxicity in the internet age.
