Best VODs Released March 2017
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Wolves
Anthony (Taylor John Smith) is a standout player on his Manhattan high school’s basketball team with seemingly everything going for him: a killer three-point shot, a loving girlfriend (Zazie Beetz), and a chance at a scholarship to Cornell. But Anthony’s dreams of playing college ball are jeopardized by his volatile father (Michael Shannon), a hard-drinking writer whose compulsive gambling threatens to derail the lives of both his wife (Carla Gugino) and son. Though it goes against his nature, Anthony must summon the strength to step out from his father’s shadow and reclaim his future.
Michael Shannon, Zazie Beetz, Taylor John Smith, Carla Gugino, Bart Freundlich
Drama
Lavender
When a photographer (Abbie Cornish) suffers severe memory loss after a traumatic accident, strange clues amongst her photos suggest she may be responsible for the deaths of family members she never knew she had. Justin Long plays a psychiatrist who helps her recover lost memories.
Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Abbie Cornish, Diego Klattenhoff, Ed Gass-Donnelly
Thriller
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Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe
A documentary feature about the passion and personalities at the heart of today’s new wave of burlesque. On stage and in candid conversation, twelve of today’s hottest performers reveal the naked truth about an exotic world where artifice is a route to authenticity and pretending to be someone else is the ultimate journey to become yourself. These burlesquers put it all on the line in performances that are sexy, funny, elegant and outrageous – and they bare more than just their bodies as they discuss their artistic vision, their financial struggles, the misconceptions that infuriate them and the community that sustains them.
Jon Manning, Angelique DeVil, Ivizia Dakini, Babs Jamboree, Isaiah Esquire, Zora Von Pavonine, Sandria Dore’, Russell Bruner
Documentary Dance
3 / 5
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A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the most unlikely of friendships between a reclusive, agoraphobic young woman with dreams of being a children’s book author and a curmudgeonly old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. Despite her abandonment as a child, the all consuming OCD, the unfulfilled dream, her awful boss at the library and her paralyzing fear of flora and fauna, Bella is down but not out. She has a spark, an edge, a talent and a voice that we can feel from the get go. This girl has a preternatural survival instinct, having been found in Hyde Park in the middle of winter as a baby. When Bella is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her nemesis, match and mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a cantankerous, loveless, rich old man who lives next door. and is an amazing horticulturalist.
Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irvine, Andrew Scott, Matt Treadwell, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Barcardi
Drama
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Namour
A film about why life can feel like it's passing us by. Chronicling the unraveling of Steven Bassem (Saleh), a valet driver for a trendy Los Angeles restaurant caught between his dead-end job and the demands of his Arab-American immigrant family.
Drama
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Atomica
SYNOPSIS: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.
Fred Fernandez-Armesto, Dominic Monaghan, Sarah Habel, Kevin Burke, Adam Gyngell, Tom Sizemore, Dagen Merrill
Thriller Sci-Fi
2 / 5
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After 13-year-old Jacqueline Mather (Samantha Isler) loses her brother in a mysterious drowning accident she is soon visited by 3 moonshiners who offer to bring her brother back to life, but at a grim cost. As the dark history of her grandfather, Sheriff Waterhouse (Ted Levine) is unearthed, the true intentions of the moonshiners come to light.
Ted Levine, Danny Goldring, Hunter Adams, Samantha Isler, Ann Sonneville, and Troy Ruptash
Drama Thriller Mystery
All Nighter
Follows a workaholic father (Simmons) as he attempts to visit his daughter during a layover in Los Angeles, only to discover that she’s disappeared. In order to find her, he’s forced to team up with her awkward ex-boyfriend (Hirsch) and they end up having a life-changing night.
J.K. Simmons, Taran Killam, Emile Hirsch, Kristen Schaal, Seth Owen, Gavin Wiesen, Shannon Marie Woodward, Analeigh Tipton
Comedy
2 / 5
More Info The House on Willow Street
A kidnapped girl with a demonic secret turns the tables on her captors in this claustrophobic thriller.
Alastair Orr, Zino Ventura, Sharni Vinson, Carlyn Burchell, Gustav Gerdener, Steven John Ward
Thriller Suspense
Hidden Figures
A period space-race drama is inspired by the real-life tale of a group of African-American female mathematicians — Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson — who helped put astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
Taraji P. Henson, Jim Parsons, Kirsten Dunst, Glen Powell, Pharrell Williams, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Peter Chernin
Drama True Story
4 / 5
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