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PIXELS Pixels PG-13 105 min Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi When aliens intercept video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack Earth, using the games as models. Knowing that he must employ a similar strategy, President Will Cooper (Kevin James) recruits his childhood pal, former video-game champ and home-theater installer Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), to lead a team of old-school arcade players (Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad) and a military specialist (Michelle Monaghan) to save the planet. Director: Chris Columbus Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has Paper Towns PG-13 109 min Drama | Mystery recently undergone a burn-out. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. | Romance Samba’s willing to do whatever it takes to Young and shy Quentin (Nat Wolff) is in get working papers, while Alice tries to get for the night of his life when Margo (Cara her life back on track until fate draws them Delevingne), the most popular student in together. high school, recruits him to help her play Directors: Olivier Nakache | Eric Toledano mischievous pranks on the friends who Stars: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, betrayed her. The next day, however, the mysterious Margo is nowhere to be found. Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin With help from a few buddies and some Unexpected cryptic clues that she left behind, Quentin R 90 min Comedy | Drama embarks on an obsessive mission to find When Samantha Abbott begins the girl who stole his heart and made him her final semester teaching science at feel truly alive. a Chicago high school, she faces some Director: Jake Schreier Stars: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin unexpected news: She’s pregnant. Soon after, Samantha learns that one of her faAbrams, Justice Smith vorite students, Jasmine, has landed in a similar situation. “Unexpected” follows the Southpaw two women as they embark on an unlikely R 123 min Action | Drama | friendship. Sport | Thriller Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), Director: Kris Swanberg Stars: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail the reigning junior middleweight boxing Bean, Elizabeth McGovern champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish Big Significant Things lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, 85 min Comedy | Drama Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his Craig and his girlfriend have a house and his manager. He soon finds week before they move across the counan unlikely savior in Tick Willis (Forest try, and he decides to go on his first road Whitaker), a former fighter who trains the trip to the South alone. city’s toughest amateur boxers. With his Director: Bryan Reisberg future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim Stars: Harry Lloyd, Krista Kosonen, Sylvia the trust of those he loves the most. Grace Crim, James Ricker II Director: Antoine Fuqua Stars: Rachel McAdams, Jake GyllenPhoenix haal, 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker PG-13 98 min Drama | History A disfigured concentration-camp The Vatican Tapes survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after PG-13 91 min Horror | Thriller facial reconstruction surgery, searches The fate of the world hangs in the ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband balance when a cleric (Michael Peña) (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have bebattles an ancient satanic force for a trayed her to the Nazis. woman’s (Olivia Taylor Dudley) soul. Director: Christian Petzold Director: Mark Neveldine Stars: Kathleen Robertson, Michael Peña, Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott Samba R 118 min Comedy | Drama Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation PG-13 Action | Adventure | Thriller With the IMF now disbanded and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, a new threat -- called the Syndicate -- soon emerges. The Syndicate is a network of highly skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world order via an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Faced with what may be the most impossible mission yet, Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), a disavowed British agent who may or may not be a member of this deadly rogue nation. Director: Christopher McQuarrie Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson
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Vacation R 99 min Adventure | Comedy Remembering fond, childhood memories of his trip to Walley World, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) surprises his wife (Christina Applegate) and two sons with a cross-country excursion to America’s favorite fun park. Following in his father’s (Chevy Chase) footsteps, Rusty and the gang pack up the car and hit the road for some much-needed family bonding. Soon, the promise of fun turns into one misadventure after another for the next generation of Griswolds and anyone who encounters them. Directors: John Francis Daley | Jonathan M. Goldstein Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Gillies, Leslie Mann, Christina Applegate Best of Enemies The End of the Tour R 87 min Documentary | History | R 106 min Drama News The story of the five-day interview ‘Best of Enemies’ is a documentary about between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky the legendary series of nationally televised and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, debates in 1968 between two great public which took place right after the 1996 publicaintellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the tion of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended ‘Infinite Jest.’ as commentary on the issues of their day, Director: James Ponsoldt these vitriolic and explosive encounters came Stars: Mamie Gummer, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna to define the modern era of public discourse Chlumsky, Jason Segel in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, ‘What has television done to the way WHEN YOU CLICK ON we discuss politics in our democracy today?’ THIS ICON, IT WILL PLAY Directors: Robert Gordon | Morgan Neville RELATED VIDEO CONTENT Stars: Kelsey Grammer, John Lithgow, Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal
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