Starring: Tiffany Bolling, Robin Mattson, Alex Rocco, Steve Sandor
This July, The Deuce lights the firework fuse of furious fun on the bombastic blast of BONNIE’S KIDS! A powder-keg riot of righteous, ribaldrous revenge and rebellion… a portrait of an America driven to perditious desperation… BONNIE’S KIDS are gonna blow the mutha up!!
After dispatching with their letch of a step-dad, the titular sibs – Ellie and Myra – boldly blaze a wrath-filled path through a criminal underworld of mobsters, hit-men, maddened dykes, and suspect private dicks – all in pursuit of a bounty of stolen loot, all the while bulldozing buffoons and goons right and left with wild abandon and bawdy bravado!!
With terrifically talented cult-fave beauty Tiffany Bolling – as the elder of the “kids” of the never seen, barely mentioned, seemingly pre-movie dead “Bonnie” – tearing through this torrid crime-and-grime pot-boiling tale like a tornado… a blazing boulder of smoldering fury… lithe with feminine felinity… taut… and truly believable… unbelievably true! Proving – like many of the era’s Playboy Playmated, pigeoned into “exploitation” actresses (ie: CLAUDIA JENNINGS!!) – to have more chops than many an “A-lister” – or Peter Luger’s, even!!
Genre-movie maestro, writer/director Arthur Marks (Friday Foster, Detroit 2000, The Centerfold Girls) has this monster of mayhem so packed to the rafters with exploitation extravagance that he seems bound and determined to give movie-going miscreants of every predilection/persuasion/perversion more bang for their measly buck than they’d ever got… while still managing a bait-and-switch that must have had the wanna-be-jean-creaming creeps of Times Square’s Liberty Theatre castratingly cowed by the laughter of ladies in the face of maledom’s utter lameness..!
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah
Cousins Paulie (Eric Roberts) and Charlie (Mickey Rourke) plan to rob a merchant in the New York City neighborhood that’s home to the restaurant where they work. When their scheme results in the death of a police officer and draws the ire of the Mafia-linked businessman who was ripped off, Charlie’s girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) bolts, and mob henchmen exact a brutal price from Paulie. With the mob threatening to kill them, the thieves must think fast if they intend to survive.
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei
In 1976, teenager Vivian Abromowitz (Natasha Lyonne) is weathering upheavals beyond her control. Her father (Alan Arkin) is constantly moving her and her brothers to new ramshackle apartments within the Beverly Hills zip code – they may lack the income for the tony neighborhood, but he wants the school district. Her body is also changing, and everybody seems to have an opinion about it. When her cousin Rita (Marisa Tomeii) moves in with them, she brings a welcome female presence that can advise on mustache removal and vibrators.
Writer/director Tamara Jenkins, basing the story on her own coming-of-age, crafted a hilarious film that feels sincerely lived-in, with peak performances from the entire cast, including David Krumholtz as older brother Ben, in tighty whiteys, singing “Luck Be a Lady.”
Starring: Ariyan A. Johnson, Ebony Jerido, Kevin Thigpen
A hip, intelligent Brooklyn teenager dreams of escaping life in the projects to go to college and eventually become a doctor. Things go awry when she meets a cute dude with a Jeep, a brownstone, and a mom who spends a lot of time at her boyfriend’s.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, Erin Boyes, Dakota Daulby, Blair Underwood
FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.
Starring: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard
Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). As Madison falls for one of Gary’s hit man personas — the mysteriously sexy Ron — their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes. Co-written by Linklater and Powell and inspired by an unbelievable true story, Hit Man is a cleverly existential comedy about identity.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams
Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth, Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.
Starring: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
Starring: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie
Kinds of Kindess is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer
Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming. The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely unconventional and utterly “ungentlemanly” fighting techniques. Ultimately their audacious approach changed the course of the war and laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare.
