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Overlooked in '19 October 2019
871 movies were released in the United States in 2018. If each movie had an average 2 hour running time, that equates to about 1,742 hours, or over 72 days to watch every one. A recent survey revealed that on average about 46% of us go to the movies once a year or less, although frequency of movie-going can vary by generation. So, by most measures, we miss a lot of films. Some movies may earn good reviews, but due to economic reasons are only screened for short runs at theaters. Or, if the studio doesn't fund a major marketing campaign, audiences end up discovering smaller releases by word of mouth. For movie fans, there's nothing more exciting than the thrill of discerning and sharing cinematic gold.
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Chicago International Film Festival October 16 - 27 New York Film Festival Sept 27 - Oct 13
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Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie (Lily James). Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed. And he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed. Rated PG-13.
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In the third installment of the adrenaline-fueled action franchise, skilled assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin's guild, the High Table, he is excommunicado, but the world's most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn. Rated R.
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Amy and Molly (Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein) are two graduating, high school girls who have been best friends since childhood but are considered pretentious by their peers. On the eve of their high school graduation, Molly overhears classmates talking about her in the bathroom. She confronts them and tells them she got into Yale, but they reveal that despite partying, they, too, got into good colleges. Stunned, Amy and Molly set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classes. Rated R. Directed by actress Olivia Wilde.
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Apollo 11 /Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, director Todd Miller's spellbinding documentary takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Rated G.
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Wild RoseRose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow, Scotland, and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo). Rated R.
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Arctic /Overg̃rd (Mads Mikkelsen) is a resourceful yet increasingly desperate man stranded in a remote, snow-covered wilderness. After a plane crash in an icy wasteland, Overg̃rd must live by his wits as he waits for help to arrive. But when a long-awaited rescue effort fails, he faces a life-or-death decision: remain in the relative safety of his camp and hope to be found or embark on an arduous trek that may be the only hope for both him and a critically injured stranger. Rated PG-13.
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Transit /I n director Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1944 novel, Georg (Franz Rogowski), a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie. German language. Not rated.
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Echo in the canyon:A film that celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to LA to emulate the Beatles, and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of artists who would soon put their stamp on the history of American popular music. Rated PG-13.
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American WomanSet in rural Pennsylvania, Deb Callahan's (Sienna Miller) life is changed forever when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson and navigates the trials and tribulations of subsequent years, until a long-awaited discovery of the truth is revealed. Rated R.
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Mustang /The story of Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts) , a violent convict, who is given a chance to take part in a rehabilitation therapy program run by a rancher (Bruce Dern) involving the training of wild mustangs. Rated R.
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