Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Written By: Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul
Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt and Russell Brand
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis:Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. – (Source)
Created By: Paul Abbott
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Karla Crome, Reece Noi, Jordan Bennie, Peter Wight and Jonas Armstrong
Studio: Netflix
Synopsis:HIT AND MISS, from Paul Abbott, creator of Shameless and State of Play, is a high concept and ambitious new series that follows Chloë Sevigny as Mia, a contract killer with a secret: she’s a transgender woman. Mia’s life is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from an ex-girlfriend dying from cancer revealing that Mia fathered a son eleven years ago. Faced with a difficult decision, Mia becomes the guardian to a new family forcing her to mix her killer instincts with her newly developing maternal instincts. HIT AND MISS tells the story of a lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family and how all of their lives will be dramatically changed forever.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) / 74% (Audience)
Directed By: Gore Verbinski
Written By: Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Ruth Wilson and Tom Wilkinson
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Synopsis:From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/ Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice-taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63% (Critics) / 78% (Audience)
Directed By: Paul Feig
Written By: Katie Dippold
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir, Marlon Wayans and Michael Rapaport
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner — or a friend for that matter. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 49% (Critics) / 73% (Audience)
Directed By: Roland Emmerich
Written By: James Vanderbilt
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Woods
Studio: Sony Pictures
Synopsis:While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: Robbie Pickering
Written By: Robbie Pickering
Starring: Rachael Harris, Matt O’Leary, John Diehl and Jon Gries
Studio: Cinema Guild
Synopsis: Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 28% (Audience)
Directed By: Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton
Written By: Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton
Starring: Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Clark Freeman and Laura Heisler
Studio: Bloody Disgusting/The Collective
Synopsis: 1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the wilderness attempts to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 32% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Ryuhei Kitamura
Written By: David Cohen
Starring: Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar, Lindsey Shaw and Lee Tergesen
Studio: Anchor Bay Films
Synopsis: A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Stephen Sommers
Written By: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Nico Tortorella, Addison Timlin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Willem Dafoe
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
Synopsis: Stephen Sommers adapts Dean Koontz’s best-selling book Odd Thomas with this Fusion Films production concerning a clairvoyant 20-year-old (Anton Yelchin) who discovers a dark secret about a stranger in his hometown. Willem Dafoe, Patton Oswalt, 50 Cent, and Addison Timlin co-star. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Matthew Lillard
Written By: Michael M.B. Galvin, Peter Speakman
Starring: Jacob Wysocki, Matt O’Leary, Billy Campbell
Studio: Outsider Pictures
Synopsis: A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 33% (Audience)
Directed By: Makinov
Written By: Makinov
Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vinessa Shaw
Studio: Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Synopsis: A couple take a vacation to a remote island – their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present – an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality. – (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 68% (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Marc Forster
Written By: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof and J. Michael Straczynski
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. – (Source)
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