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Warren

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It was five years ago, in the middle of his meteoric rise through the Chicago improv scene, just before he was ready to move west to pursue his dreams, Warren Cavanee's world suddenly collapsed. His girlfriend Emma, whom he planned to marry, left him and her own pursuit of painting for a more secure lifestyle in the business world of New York. At the same time, his parents announced their divorce, and Warren couldn’t leave his younger brother all by himself in Chicago with the mess. Today, Warren is barely getting by as a barista, slinging coffee to corporate drones and picking up the pieces of his life as his childhood home prepares to be torn down: His father’s vintage Porsche gathers dust in the garage; a symbol of dreams unfulfilled and roads not taken. One fall night, Emma walks into Warren’s coffee shop and back into his life. Although she dreamed of being an artist, Emma is now a hard-working career woman on a stable trajectory, and engaged to Ted Gordon–a successful businessman with all the trappings of what a husband and provider should be. Yet Emma remains ambivalent about her future and the life she really wants. Emma’s return, and Warren's disillusionment at the course she has chosen for her life, inspires him to return to his forgotten passion: the stage. However, as Warren and Emma rekindle their friendship, Warren’s life continues to fall apart. It doesn’t help that his dad, Jack, still lost after the divorce, suddenly loses his job of 35 years, while his mother Claire strikes up a new romance and his younger brother begins to hang with the wrong crowd and slide into a world of drugs. Jack’s mid-life crisis and Warren’s quarter-life crisis collide as Warren struggles to understand his dad’s choices. Warren wants to avoid the mistakes his father made, and decides to take radical action. On the 15th hole of a golf course, Warren finally confronts his father and suddenly, Warren is left facing a decision. Maybe the only thing left to do is take a chance. Maybe the chariot his father never drove off is just waiting for him in the garage. Maybe it's his decision to after all.

The Co(te)lette Film

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"THE CO(TE)LETTE FILM" is Mike Figgis' cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek. Women and flesh, beauty and perishableness, raw and fragile. A delirious desire overwhelms the dancers. A desire for physical and mental satisfaction. The dancers go from appeal to sensuality, over lust, fleshness, fame, success, reflection and control, to silence. They are slaves of their own desires while trying to get in control of them. Female bodies in a frenzy. In Co(te)lette, three female dancers are shown in a rather intimate atmosphere, in a chicken-and-egg situation between desire and satisfaction. There is no confrontation, nor rivalry. No story-telling, no solution and no ending. Co(te)lette's story is restless and... empty.

Bear City

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BearCity is Queer As Folk meets Sex and the City - only with more hair, girth and tons of hot bear-on-bear action! Closet bear-chaser and hot cub Tyler Hall fantasizes about stuffing Santa's stocking and finding a Daddy bear to do more than cuddle. But as he dives into the Bear community, he finds that it can be hard for a hairless guy to get some fuzzy loving. Scene stealers Brent and Fred are the maybe-not-so-monogamous couple who invite him to move in as they figure out how to spice things up. Southern bear-belle Michael struggles to juggle his lover, his job search and his body image issues, but an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction might solve all three. Rakish Roger is the stud-about-town, and he'll pretty much bang anyone with facial hair. That is, until an awesomely awkward encounter at the local bowling alley challenges both his bowling prowess and his bear-loving mojo. Add to that some adorable eye-candy, an indispensable fairy-god-roommate and "stroller meat," and BearCity is a prime cut of movie-beef that will have you laughing to the final frame.

Back to Zero

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Henry “Hank” Thornton has spent the last seven years working off a debt to Jimmy “The Fat Man” Costello. His job is to drive escorts to and from their “dates”. His last night working for Jimmy goes terribly wrong when one of the ladies he is responsible for goes missing. Hank must find her before morning or face dire consequences.

Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born

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Few musicians have made an impact throughout the decades as seismic as Bob Dylan. Retrace his journey, from humble folk beginnings in Hibbing, to the bustling electric Greenwich Village. Discover his musical predecessors & the events that sparked a young Bob Dylan to venture into his own psyche. As the times changed, Dylan’s anti war & pro civil rights message has become ever more present.Unable to be pinned down, Bob’s sound evolved, rewriting the songwriting rule book in the process. Armed with only his guitar and harmonica, he defied the normal conventions set before him, and championed for the weak and down trodden. Dylan has pushed music to its boundaries, and become the only musician to have been awarded a Nobel prize.

Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

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When Akin arrives at the farm, he finds his job. This is what he expected to find. When Sarah opens her legs, she finds someone watching. This is what she expected to find. When Jeremiah opens his mouth, frightening things come out of it. This has come to be expected. But what happens by the creek next to the cow. This was not expected.Director Josephine Decker’s highly acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appa- lachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg (director of Happy Christmas and Drinking Buddies) delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a summer job working for the belligerent, domineering Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), who lives in incestuous isolation with his daughter. Sophie Traub’s performance as the daughter, Sarah, has the sun-dappled quality of one of Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings: hers is a completely innocent and destructive sexuality, overripe to the point of bursting.Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is a highly intimate and subtly erotic thriller inspired by John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and featuring love, death, guns, goats, a farmer, his grown daughter and the secrets they no longer succeed in keeping.

How to Steal 2 Million

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Jack gets out of jail after five years, to find that his partner Twala, who never got caught, has married his girlfriend. Desperate for money, he agrees to help his partner rob his partner's father for two million Rand. However the robbery goes wrong, and secret plans come out. As the pressure mounts on them, the tension builds towards the surprising and explosive finale.

Bad Asses On the Bayou

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BAD ASSES ON THE BAYOU reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.

Fortnite: Battle, Build, Survive!

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With over 125million active players around the globe, Fortnite has taken the world by storm. It has changed lives, created universal stars and enhanced careers in the world of streaming. On top of that it is now branching out and becoming one of the biggest Esports to date. So grab your pickaxe, jump out of the battle bus and join us on the battlefield as we explore one of the biggest games the world has ever seen. This is Fortnite.

Please Baby Please

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Suze (Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Harry Melling) live an outwardly traditional lifestyle as the Lower East Side’s most bohemian Eisenhower-era couple. The pair's cage is rattled when they encounter a gang of sadistic, leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents. Suze and Arthur’s initial thrust of fear evolves into confusion of thrill and lust. This sudden exposure to flamboyant masculinity unlocks the realization that Suze is an aspiring leather daddy who mistook herself for a housewife. Meanwhile, the perpetually sensitive Arthur’s obsessive gender trouble goes sideways when Young Gent Teddy (Karl Glusman) sparks a queer desire. PLEASE BABY PLEASE presents a full spectrum of underground fetishism and seductive musical asides featuring alluring cameos by Demi Moore and Cole Escola. Visionary filmmaker Amanda Kramer pegs the hetero hellscape of the 1950s in a witty, syncopated riff that plays like a high camp emission from your wildest dreams.

Fisherman's Friends: One and All

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FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS: ONE AND ALL follows the celebrated shanty singers through the highs and lows as lifelong friendships are put to the test, the community is struck by the ‘curse of the second album’ and ultimately the band realise their dream by performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

Love Dream

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Tiger a talented young artist gets accepted into a prestigious design college in Los Angeles. After finding out his true love Lily has left him for another man, he seeks the help of his friend Fred and even a psychotherapist. As things get worse, Tiger starts to loose his grip on reality and begins to take matters into his own hands.

Starred Up

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Condemned to an adult prison, an explosively violent young man is forced to fight for survival as criminal forces attempt to control him for their own good. Help comes from the unlikeliest source, his estranged father also serving time.

Pink Opaque

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Travis Wolfe lives in a world all his own. He's roaming the streets of Hollywood, struggling to finish his thesis documentary project for film school before he can graduate and start the next phase of life. After reconnecting with his estranged uncle Robin, a veteran television producer on the wrong side of his career, Travis unravels the mystery of his father's suicide. A glimmer of hope is offered through his relationship with Kristen, a streetwise girl from Korea-town with big dreams of her own. As tensions begin to brew with her protective older brother Bobby and family secrets put his newly established connection with Robin to the test, Travis struggles to hold it all together long enough to figure out his future, as well as his past.

The Coolest Guy Movie Ever

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Few films have left an impression like John Sturges’ classic THE GREAT ESCAPE. The documentary, The Coolest Guy Movie Ever is the ultimate tribute to the film that takes us back to the time at which it was made – revealing some little known facts about the timeless classic starring The King of Cool Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and many more. THE COOLEST GUY MOVIE EVER is the definitive look at the making of the 1963 classic.

Lower Learning

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Welcome to Geraldine Ferraro Elementary, where the teachers are drunk, lazy, or psychotic, every child has been left behind, and burned-out Vice Principal Tom Willoman (Jason Biggs) is barely holding on. But when totally hot district inspector Rebecca Seabrook (Eva Longoria Parker) arrives to shut down the school, she and Tom hatch a plan to take back the classrooms from insanely corrupt Principal Billings (Rob Corddry). What tragedy in Willoman's past has turned him into a complete wuss? When are Nyquil shots and boxing matches considered proper teaching tools? Monica Potter and Will Sasso co-star in this twisted comedy about the perils of public education and the higher calling to Lower Learning.

Reborn

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In the City of Dallas Texas, during a 24-hour period the paths of Alexander, Michelle, Joaquín, Jared y Johnny interlace in a violent scenario that will change their destiny. Alexander gets too deep in the underground gambling circuit while falling in love with Michelle, sister of the underground boss. Wile Joaquin, a former Marine, adjusts with life being a civilian realizing he's on borrowed time; and best friends, Jared and Johnny, look to go out with a bang during their senior year of high school.

House of Manson

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An unflinching chronicle of the life of Charles Manson, the ex-con who was able to amass a dedicated following of young people in the late 1960s. The era of peace and love was ultimately brought to its knees following his orchestration of the notorious Tate and LaBianca murders, which sent a shockwave throughout the world. To this very day, Manson remains a fascinating figure to today's youth.

She Paradise

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A teenage girl stumbles upon a free-spirited dance crew, leading to alluring but unsettling encounters with nightlife and money.

Holding the Man

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Based on the international best-seller, HOLDING THE MAN is the sweeping love story of two high school boys, one the hunky captain of the football team and the other a sensitive drama student. After a sweet courtship, the two fall madly in love and traverse an enduring relationship over 15 years. Featuring Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia, this inspirational true story captures the beauty and heartbreak of the best romances of our time.

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