Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Watts
Written By: Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford
Starring: Peter Stormare, Eli Roth, Laura Allen
Studio: Dimension Films
Synopsis: A loving father finds a clown suit for his son’s birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Written By: Kelly Marcel
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle and Marcia Gay Harden
Studio: Focus Features
Synopsis: Literature student Anastasia Steele’s life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. – (Source)
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Written By: Jason Latour
Art By: Robbi Rodriguez
Cover By: Robbi Rodriguez
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Synopsis: Gwen Stacy is Spider-Woman, but you knew that already. What you DON’T know is what friends and foes are waiting for her in the aftermath of Spider-Verse! From the fan-favorite creative team that brought you Spider-Gwen’s origin story in EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE, Jason Latour and Robbie Rodriguez! – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 75% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Kiah Roache-Turner
Written By: Kiah Roache-Turner and Tristan Roache-Turner
Starring: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill
Studio: IFC Midnight
Synopsis: Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor – together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Erik Van Looy
Written By: Bart De Pauw and Wesley Strick
Starring: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Matthias Schoenaerts and Eric Stonestreet
Studio: Open Road Films
Synopsis: Five married guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city–a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Matthew Vaughn
Written By: Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman
Starring: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Charlie McDowell
Written By: Justin Lader
Starring: Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson
Studio: Radius-TWC
Synopsis: Struggling with a marriage on the brink of falling apart, a couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Marjane Satrapi
Written By: Michael R. Perry
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: A dark comedy about a likeable guy (Ryan Reynolds) pursuing his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets – but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By: Gary Shore
Written By: Matt Sazamaa and Burk Sharpless
Starring: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon and Charles Dance
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Spike Lee
Starring: Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Synopsis: Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Richard Bates Jr.
Written By: Richard Bates Jr. and Mark Bruner
Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Barbara Biven and Ray Wise
Studio: TSWRA LLC
Synopsis: Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can’t find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone’s lives. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Joe Lynch and Yale Hannon
Starring: Salma Hayek, Akie Kotabe, Laura Cepeda and Hiroyuki Watanabe
Studio: Dimension Films
Synopsis: An action/thriller centered on a woman who faces down assassins sent by her ex, a mob boss, while holed up in her apartment. – (Source)
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