Movies Released August 19, 2016

Friday, August 19

War Dogs R

Two stoners, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, win a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. The duo makes 85 deliveries of munitions to Afghanistan worth more than $66 million before their arms-dealing careers are cut short when federal agents raid their Miami Beach offices in August 2007, culminating in 71 counts of fraud.
Bradley Cooper, Miles Teller, Todd Phillips, Bryan Zuriff, Jason Smilovic, Jonah Hill, Ana de Armas, Scott Budnick
Comedy

Ben Hur PG-13

Judah Ben-Hur and Messala grow up best friends before the Roman Empire takes control of Jerusalem. Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince and Messala is the son of a Roman tax collector. After the latter leaves to be educated in Rome for five years, Messala returns with a different attitude. The two former friends struggle with their differences. Along the way, Judah has several encounters with Jesus Christ which moves him to become a believer in the Messiah.
Timur Bekmambetov, Sean Daniel, John Ridley, Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Joni Levin, Sofia Black-D’Elia
Drama Action Remake Period

Kubo and the Two Strings PG

In the epic fantasy, scruffy, kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living while devotedly caring for his mother in their sleepy shoreside village. It is a quiet existence – until a spirit from the past catches up with him to enforce an age-old vendetta. Suddenly on the run from gods and monsters, Kubo’s chance for survival rests on finding the magical suit of armor once worn by his fallen father, the greatest samurai the world has ever known. Summoning courage, Kubo embarks on a thrilling odyssey as he faces his family’s history, navigates the elements, and bravely fights for the earth and the stars.
Marc Haimes, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Matthew McConaughey, Travis Knight, Chris Butler, Art Parkinson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Animation 3D Stop-Motion
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102 mins

Hell or High Water

Two brothers, one an ex-con and the other a divorced father of two kids, face the foreclosure of their family’s West Texas farm. They team up for a skillfully-calculated bank robbing spree that puts them on a collision course with two Texas Rangers determined to take them down.
Ben Foster, Taylor Sheridan, Jeff Bridges, David MacKenzie, Peter Berg, Dale Dickey, Melanie Papalia, Sidney Kimmel
Drama Action Thriller Crime Heist
106 mins

Mia Madre R

Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor Barry Huggins, who is quite a headache on set. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together, despite her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.
John Turturro, Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti, Guilia Lazzarini
Drama
86 mins

The Devil’s Dolls

A serial killer’s curse unleashes a season of slaughter in the backwoods of Mississippi.
Padraig Reynolds, Samantha Smith, Danny Kolker, Christopher Wiehl, Kym Jackson, Tina Lifford, Kennedy Brice, Brandon Johnson
Horror

Billionaire Ransom

Follows the offspring of international billionaires, sent by their parents to a tough-love school in the remote wilderness. When the school is taken hostage by a group of sophisticated kidnappers, the kids take the situation into their own hands.
Phoebe Tonkin, Jeremy Sumpter, Jim Gillespie, Ed Elbert, Stefan Brunner, Alexander Ignon, Hari Dhillon
Action Thriller
108 mins

Imperium R

A young FBI agent goes undercover to find and stop white supremacists trying to make a dirty bomb.
Tracy Letts, Toni Collette, Daniel Radcliffe, Devin Druid, Chris Sullivan, Daniel Ragussis, Michael German, Seth Numrich
Drama Thriller True Story
110 mins

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the sacred Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regis of Lucis (Sean Bean) commands an elite force of soldiers called the Kingsglaive. Wielding their king’s magic, Nyx (Aaron Paul) and his fellow soldiers fight to protect Lucis. As the overwhelming military might of the empire bears down, King Regis is faced with an impossible ultimatum—to marry his son, Prince Noctis to Princess Lunafreya of Tenebrae (Lena Headey), captive of Niflheim, and surrender his lands to the empire’s rule. Although the king concedes, it becomes clear that the empire will stop at nothing to achieve their devious goals, with only the Kingsglaive standing between them and world domination.
Sean Bean, Aaron Paul, Jon Campling, Takeshi Nozue, Lena Headey, Kezia Burrows, Adrian Bouchet, Andrea Tivadar
Action Adventure Based on Game

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog conducted original interviews with cyberspace pioneers and prophets such as PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. These provocative conversatons reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works, from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.
Werner Herzog
Documentary

Morris From America R

Ccenters on Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas) a 13-year-old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis (Craig Robinson) to Heidelberg, Germany. Morris, who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G., is a complete fish-out-of-water—a budding hip-hop star in an EDM world. To complicate matters further, Morris quickly falls hard for his cool, rebellious, 15-year-old classmate Katrin (Lina Keller). Morris sets out against all odds to take the hip-hop world by storm and win the girl of his dreams.
Lina Keller, Jakub Gierszal, Craig Robinson, Markees Christmas, Chad Hartigan, Carla Juri
Drama Comedy Romance
105 mins

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, with no success so far due to the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the Holocaust -- he is concerned with the German future.
Jörg Schüttauf, Lilith Stangenberg, Lars Kraume, Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sebastian Blomberg, Michael Schenk
Drama

Friday, August 19