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Max Schindler

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28 Oct

Run Sweetheart Run

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After what begins as dinner with a client, a single mom (Ella Balinska) finds herself hunted by a monstrous and seemingly unstoppable assailant (Pilou Asbæk) in this terrifying dark thriller. [Amazon]Rated: RRelease Date: Oct 28, 2022
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27 Oct

Armageddon Time

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Armageddon Time is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 28, 2022
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27 Oct

Eternal Spring

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In March 2002, a state TV station in China was hijacked by members of outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal was to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea. Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, Eternal Spring retraces the…
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27 Oct

Holy Spider

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Female journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer who believes he is doing the work of God, cleansing the streets of sinners by murdering sex workers. As the body count mounts and Rahimi draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain as the Spider Killer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of serial killer Saeed Hanaei.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 28, 2022
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25 Oct

Inside Man (2022) (Netflix)

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A misunderstanding between vicar Harry Watling (David Tennant) and a math tutor (Dolly Wells) leads journalist Beth Davenport (Lydia West) to American death row inmate Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci) in this drama from Steven Moffat. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 26 Sep 2022 and premieres in the US on Netflix on 31 Oct 2022]Premieres Oct 31, 2022
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25 Oct

Call Jane

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Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are poised on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. When Joy’s pregnancy leads to a life-threatening heart condition, she must navigate an all-male medical establishment unwilling to terminate her pregnancy in order to save her life. Her journey for a solution leads her to Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), an independent visionary fiercely committed to women’s health, and Gwen (Wunmi Mosaku), an activist who dreams of a day when all women will have access to abortion, regardless of their ability to…
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25 Oct

The Novelist’s Film

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Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actress also questioning her role as an artist. It’s then that Junhee has an epiphany: she will make a film starring Kilsoo. It won’t be like other films. It will be the novelist’s film. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 28,…
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24 Oct

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. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date:…
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22 Oct

The Pez Outlaw

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Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan man, boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable Pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of debt and finally be able to quit his job of 25 years. Steve becomes the hero of his own adventure, smuggling the rarest of goods into the U.S. and making millions in the process. It was all magical, until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date:…
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22 Oct

Voodoo Macbeth

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In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast production of Macbeth struggles to make it to opening night amid the downward spiral of their young and untested director - Orson Welles.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 21, 2022
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21 Oct

Wendell & Wild

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From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele, comes Wendell & Wild, an animated tale about scheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Jordan Peele) - who enlist the aid of Kat Elliot - a tough teen with a load of guilt - to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what Kat demands in return leads to a brilliantly bizarre and comedic adventure like no other, an animated fantasy that defies the law of life and death, all told through the handmade artistry of stop motion. [Netflix]Rated: PG-13Release Date: Oct 21, 2022
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20 Oct

Descendant

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Descendant tells the story of the Clotilda - the last known ship to smuggle stolen Africans to America - the unthinkable cover-up, and the impact of that crime on generations of descendants living in Africatown. Once the past is revealed, can the future be reclaimed?Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 21, 2022
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20 Oct

Gangs of London: Season 2 (AMC)

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The second season picks up a year later with The Investors seeking to control the chaos after the events of the first season by working with heroin drug lord Asif Afridi (Asif Raza Mir) who hires Koba (Waleed Zuaiter) to ensure all activity goes through them. [Premiered in the UK on Sky Atlantic 20 Oct 2022 and set to air in the US on AMC+ on 17 Nov 2022]Premieres Oct 20, 2022
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20 Oct

The Stranger

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Two men who meet on a plane and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.Rated: TV-MARelease Date: Oct 19, 2022
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20 Oct

The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile

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Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.Rated: RRelease Date: Oct 21, 2022
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