Friday, September 16
Snowden
29-year-old Edward Snowden discloses to several media outlets thousands of classified documents that he acquired while working as an NSA contractor for Dell and Booz Allen Hamilton. The leaked documents uncover the existence of numerous global surveillance programs, many of them run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.
Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Woodrow, Melissa Leo, Kieran Fitzgerald, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant
Drama Thriller Political True Story
Blair Witch
Called "One of the scariest movies in decades, The Woods reinvents horror with a completely fresh and terrifying take on the genre."
Adam Wingard, Brandon Scott, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Keith Calder, Simon Barrett, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez
Sequel Thriller Horror
Bridget Jones's Baby
A British publishing executive, now in her 40s, attempts to have a baby before it's too late.
Tim Bevan, Renée Zellweger, James Callis, Enzo Cilenti, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, David Nicholls, Helen Fielding
Drama Comedy Sequel Romance
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Hillsong - Let Hope Rise
Director Michael John Warren's documentary chronicles the Australia-based, 11-member Christian worship band Hillsong United's rise to prominence, from a youth group at Hillsong Church to a worldwide sensation that has sold more than 16 million albums.
Benjamin Tennikoff, Simon Kobler, Michael John Warren, Brian Houston, Bobbie Houston, Joel Houston, Taya Smith, Jonathon Douglass
Documentary Music Faith
Mr. Church
Eddie Murphy stars as a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter, played by Britt Robertson.
Eddie Murphy, Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon, McKenna Grace, Bruce Beresford, Lee Nelson, David Buelow, Susan McMartin
Drama
Wild Oats
A widower and her granddaughter head to Las Vegas after they have a large windfall of cash.
Claudia Myers, Shirley MacLaine, Demi Moore, Jessica Lange, Billy Connolly, Matt Walsh, Michael Mailer, Andy Tennant
Comedy
Miss Stevens
A teacher's life is in disarray when she chaperones a group of high schoolers on a weekend trip to a state drama competition. There, through the admiration and humanity of her students, she rediscovers her own self-worth.
Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Timothee Chalamet, Oscar Nuñez, Julia Hart, Lily Rabe, Lili Reinhart, Anthony Quintal
Drama
The Vessel
Ten years after a tidal wave that killed dozens of elementary school students, young Leo (Lucas Quintana) nearly drowns. The local priest (Martin Sheen) sees his recovery as a sign from God, but when Leo begins to build a strange structure out of the old school's remains, the town is torn over its meaning.
Julio Quintana, Lucas Quintana, Elia Enid Cadilla, Julio Ramos, Marise Alvarez, Leonardo Castro, Terrence Malick, Martin Sheen
Drama
Operation Avalanche
In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two young CIA agents (Matt Johnson and Owen Williams) go undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and break into offices while purporting to learn more about the Apollo project. But when they end up uncovering a shocking NASA secret - and a major government cover-up - they decide to embark on a new mission that may put their own lives at risk.
Matt Johnson, Josh Boles, Owen Williams
Thriller Suspense
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
If there's one thing that the men of Rockford Texas love as much as their women, it's their guns. But when a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna (Andrea Anders), to rethink Rockford's obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down.
Matt Cooper, Katherine McNamara, Lauren Bowles, Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, John Michael Higgins, Horatio Sanz
Comedy
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years
From Academy Award-winning director and master storyteller Ron Howard, comes the extraordinary journey of the greatest band in history: The Beatles.
Ron Howard
Documentary Music
Live Another Day
In the fall of 2008, at the dawn of the Great Recession, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - three of the most famous and powerful American industrial companies- found themselves on the verge of total collapse.
Live Another Day is the story of why it happened and how these companies were really rescued by the U.S. Government. Based on the book Crash Course, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Ingrassia, the film provides exclusive insights and anecdotes from all the major participants at the center of this uniquely North American drama: the key members of President Obama’s Automotive Task Force, top executives of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and the UAW; politicians, journalists and academics.
Live Another Day is the story of why it happened and how these companies were really rescued by the U.S. Government. Based on the book Crash Course, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Ingrassia, the film provides exclusive insights and anecdotes from all the major participants at the center of this uniquely North American drama: the key members of President Obama’s Automotive Task Force, top executives of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and the UAW; politicians, journalists and academics.
Didier Pietri, Bill Burke
Adaptation Documentary True Story
Silicon Cowboys
Launched in 1981 by three friends in a Houston diner, Compaq Computer set out to build a portable PC to take on IBM, the world’s most powerful tech company. Many companies had tried cloning the industry leader’s code, only to be trounced by IBM and its high-priced lawyers. SILICON COWBOYS explores the remarkable David vs. Goliath story, and eventual demise, of Compaq, an unlikely upstart who altered the future of computing and helped shape the world as we know it today.
Jason Cohen, Rod Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto
Documentary
Cardboard Boxer
Willie, homeless and on Skid Row, is coerced by two teens to fight other men for cash. Now involved in a violent world he can’t understand and with few human connections beyond a girl's diary he found, Willie struggles to find a way out.
Robert S. Parks, Mike Witherill, David Henrie, Knate Gwaltney, Michael Roiff, Thomas Haden Church, Terrence Howard, Boyd Holbrook
Drama
Finding Altamira
Antonio Banderas stars as a man whose astonishing discovery threatens to shake religious understanding and tear his family apart.
Hugh Hudson, Antonio Banderas, Golshifteh Farahani, Allegra Allen, Clement Sibony, Pierre Niney, Rupert Everett, Tábata Cerezo
Drama
Dancer
Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal ballet's youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom - his talent more a burden than a gift. Here is an unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man who has made ballet go viral. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we know it. But virtuosity comes with a high price. How can you be free to be yourself when you are ballet's 'hottest property'?
Steven Cantor
Documentary