Starring: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund, Joe Spinell, Scatman Crothers

When Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges), an aimless Alabaman from a wealthy family, is tasked with buying an old gym for nefarious gangster-prospectors, he finds himself charmed by the various characters that hang out there. Among them are body builder Joe Santo (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Mary Tate Farnsworth (Sally Field), who are stark contrasts to the country club snobs Craig is used to. Aligning himself with the gym contingent, Craig seems ready to embrace his status as the black sheep of the family, but still has the gangsters to contend with.

Director Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces) had a knack for oddballs, and here assembled many craggy faces including Joe Spinell, R.G. Armstrong and Scatman Crothers. Delightful moments include Schwarzenegger playing the fiddle, Bridges doing a Southern jig, and a slew of body builders taking to the streets of Birmingham, posing atop buses and cheesing for the fascinated crowds.

Starring: Tomokazu Seki, Junko Iwao, Kazuhiko Inoue, Mami Koyama, Rica Matsumoto, Yûko Minaguchi, Kotono Mitsuishi

In this fantastical animated tale, Kamui Shiro is a warrior charged with making a world-altering decision as he weighs his allegiance to powerful supernatural forces — the Dragons of Heaven or the Dragons of Earth. His choice will make the difference between humanity thriving or perishing. Meanwhile, mystical feuding sisters Hinoto and Kanoe can both see into the future, but each one envisions a different reality. Which glimpse of humanity’s fate will turn out to be true?

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Starring: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer… and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.

Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Starring: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

Starring: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Lady Chablis, Jack Thompson, Irma P. Hall, Jude Law, Alison Eastwood

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In this adaptation of John Berendt’s book, a young journalist, John Kelso (John Cusack), travels to Savannah, Ga., to cover the city’s Christmas celebration amid a backdrop of eccentric characters. He becomes intrigued by a sultry singer, Mandy (Alison Eastwood), and engrossed by a murder trial. Wealthy society figure Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey) is accused of shooting his male lover, and the question is whether it was in self-defense as he claims.

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Mary Alice

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In a dystopia overrun by robots, Neo (Keanu Reeves), mankind’s greatest hope, is trapped in a limbo world. Meanwhile, the majority of the planet’s population remains in a state of suspended virtual reality. The few humans who are cognizant of the grim realities of the world desperately try to hold off their mechanical enemies long enough for Neo to escape and save the day, but things turn disastrous when all-powerful computer program Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) arrives in the flesh.

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In the wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary Kokomo City, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City — Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell and Dominique Silver — who unapologetically break down the walls of their profession. Holding nothing back, the film vibrates with energy, sex, challenge, and hard-earned wisdom.

Preceded by:
HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS (Nyala Moon, 2022)
A break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. 14 mins.

Starring: Horst Tappert, Werner Peters, Hubert Suschka, Walter Richter, Erika Pluhar, Judy Winter

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When a popular local trans drag performer is found dead in the trunk of a car, vice detective Perrak is put on the case. But as he begins getting closer to solving the mystery, he finds himself pulled deeper and deeper into a sexual underworld of corruption and blackmail that reaches the highest echelons of power and industry.

A surprisingly gnarly variation on the German krimi film from genre legend Alfred Vohrer (The Creature with the Blue Hand), Hard Women makes good use of its trans milieu by providing plum supporting roles for performers like Ramona Vargas and Angie Stardust—the latter of whom would later go on to star in Rosa von Praunheim’s trans musical masterpiece City of Lost Souls. A flop upon its initial American release as The Blonde Connection—with an ad campaign that emphasized its trans elements—the film would eventually be recut and rereleased by exploitation film legend Samuel M. Sherman’s Independent-International Pictures as the kinky Hard Women before falling into obscurity. This English-dubbed version of the film has never been released on home video.

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti

Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.