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October 2017 DVD & Blu-rays

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Jan. 16, 2018

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released October 2017

63%

  • 2.4

91%

  • 3.4

54%

  • 3.3

87%

  • 4.1

82%

  • 3.6

91%

77%

  • 3.7

78%

  • 3.5

57%

  • 2.7

76%

  • 3.3

76%

  • 3.7

61%

  • 2.3

57%

  • 3.3

75%

  • 3.6

73%

  • 3.5

43%

  • 1.5

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Jack Sparrow is set to return in this 5th chapter of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Brenton Thwaites, Stephen Graham, Jerry Bruckheimer, Martin Klebba, Adam Brown, Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, Terry Rossio

PG-13 Action Adventure 2 hrs, 15 mins

80%

  • 3.9
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Lifelong best friends decide to avoid their problems by taking a vacation only to find that their plane has been rerouted due to a hurricane warning. To make matters worse, the two friends find themselves battling for the same guy during an extended layover in St. Louis.

Alexandra Daddario, William H. Macy, David Hornsby, Lance Krall, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Rob Corddry

Comedy Road Trip

91%

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A drama about Winston Churchill and the 1944 D-Day invasion that turned the tide of World War II in Europe.

Brian Cox, Jonathan Teplitzky, Ella Purnell, Alex von Tunzelmann, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy, Julian Wadham

NR Drama Historical 1 hr, 45 mins

87%

  • 4.1
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SYNOPSIS: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

Fred Fernandez-Armesto, Dominic Monaghan, Dagen Merrill, Kevin Burke, Adam Gyngell, Tom Sizemore, Sarah Habel

Thriller Sci-Fi

61%

  • 2.3
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The film tells the tale of a ghost and the house he haunts.

David Lowery, Toby Halbrooks, Adam Donaghey, Rooney Mara, James M. Johnston, Liz Franke, Casey Affleck

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

57%

  • 3.3
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The new film will find Doug Glatt back in action with the Halifax Highlanders when there's a pro hockey lockout.

Don Carmody, Jay Baruchel, Wyatt Russell, Alison Pill, Evan Goldberg, David Gross, Jesse Shapira, Jesse Chabot

R Comedy Sequel 2 hrs, 1 min

84%

  • 2.5
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Tells the story of one of the most important choreographers living today, Ohad Naharin, who studied with some of the greatest dance figures of our time and created the daring new “movement language” Gaga. Meeting him at a critical turning point in his life, this spirited and insightful documentary introduces viewers to a most engaging, controversial, and always entertaining figure constantly battling for artistic perfection. E

Tomer Heymann

NR Documentary 1 hr, 41 mins

43%

  • 1.5
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A taut thriller telling the incredible true story of terror after six heavily-armed gunmen invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians and the military wrestle over the correct response, all observed by some the world’s first live TV news coverage.​

Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Toa Fraser, Abbie Cornish

Thriller Crime

86%

  • 4.2
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Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways.

Oona Chaplin, Tom Hughes, Mateo Gil, Charlotte Le Bon, Barry Ward

Sci-Fi

86%

  • 3
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Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more.

Daniel Raim

Documentary

62%

  • 3.3
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No plot details have been announced.

Maddie Ziegler, Colin Trevorrow, Naomi Watts, Sidney Kimmel, Gregg Hurwitz, Lee Pace, Sarah Silverman, Jacob Tremblay

PG-13 Drama Teen 1 hr, 45 mins

90%

  • 3.3
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Profiles portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman through her work with the Polaroid Land 20x24 camera and her Cambridge, Mass., studio, where she captured families, Beat poets, rock stars and Harvard standouts.

Errol Morris

Documentary

50%

  • 1.3
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A tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates his chronic infidelity, pressure from her family and community, and the alternating joys and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s rosy illusions about her privileged world are slowly stripped away.

Stéphane Brizé, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

NR Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 59 mins

71%

  • 1
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During Hitler's anniversary speech on November 8, 1939, a man is arrested on the Swiss border for possession of suspicious objects. Just minutes later, a bomb explodes in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller, immediately behind the Führer's lectern, killing eight people.The man is Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), a carpenter from Königsbronn in the Swabia region.When a map of the site of the assault and detonators are found on him, he is sent to the head of the Criminal Police in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt,Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klaussner) and the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller (Johann von Bülow) to be questioned. From them, Elser learns that his attempt has failed – that the man he wanted to kill in order to stop the bloodshed of the World War that had just begun, has left the Bürgerbräukeller 13 MINUTES before the explosion.

Katharina Schüttler, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Fred Breinersdorfer, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow

Drama 1 hr, 53 mins

66%

  • 1
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Edgar Wright, Tim Bevan, Eiza González, Eric Fellner, Nira Park, Lily James, Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx

R Action Crime 1 hr, 53 mins

82%

  • 3.6
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A guy along with his wife blows their daughter's college fund. Desperate for cash, they team with some neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs.

Joe Drake, Brendan O'Brien, Will Ferrell, Andrew Jay Cohen, Chris Henchy, Adam McKay, Nathan Kahane, Amy Poehler

R Comedy Crime

57%

  • 2.7
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When a playful octopus named Deep gets his undersea fish colony in trouble, the tribe’s stern leader Kraken orders Deep to go find help. Joined by his splashy BFFs—a sassy shrimp and a silly anglerfish—Deep takes an epic, colorful journey through submerged cities and sunken ships, where they meet outrageous creatures that help the trio on its way. Throughout the adventure, Deep and his buddies laugh, sing, and bond with one another, proving that friendship can be a very “deep” subject.

Julio Soto Gúrpide, Justin Felbinger, Stephen Ezra Hughes, Lindsey Alena, Elisabeth Catherine Gray, Anna Vocino, Dwight Schultz

PG Family Animation 1 hr, 32 mins

54%

  • 3.3
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In this intense thriller, three friends from California head to the rugged Australian coast for a cage-dive encounter with deadly Great Whites. But after attracting a swarm of vicious sharks, their tour boat is destroyed by a massive rogue wave. As clouds gather and darkness descends, the three friends find themselves alone and defenseless, afloat in the chilly ocean as hungry man-eaters begin to circle. With little hope of rescue, they must fight to survive using only their courage.

Gerald Rascionato, Megan Peta Hill, Joel Hogan, Pete Valley, Mark Fell

R Sequel Thriller 1 hr, 20 mins

70%

  • 3.4
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When 16-year-old misfit Claire finds a magic box that promises a chance at the life she’s always wanted, she never could have guessed that each wish would demand a deadly payment.

Ryan Phillippe, John Leonetti, Sherryl Clark, Barbara Marshall, Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert, Shannon Purser

PG-13 Thriller Horror

75%

  • 3.6
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An alienated girl is torn between two charismatic young men, unaware that they are fallen angels who have battled over her for centuries.

Joely Richardson, Hermione Corfield, Scott Hicks, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Kathryn Price, Nichole Millard, Michael Ross

PG-13 Drama Romance 2 hrs, 20 mins

73%

  • 3.5
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Explores the history and fondness people still carry for the typewriter...

Doug Nichol, Tom Hanks

NR Documentary 1 hr, 43 mins

56%

  • 3.7
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Follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound after its artificial intelligence is suddenly shut down. The crew begins to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they attempt to uncover what killed the previous team.

Gene Simmons, John Stockwell, Matt Savelloni, Wesley Snipes, Anne Heche, Seth Rollins, Dave Annable

R Thriller Sci-Fi

78%

  • 2.5
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Set in the 1950s and 1960s, a reclusive local fish peddler hires Maud Dowley — a tiny disabled woman – to be his housekeeper for his small home. Their romance blossoms as she becomes a well-known folk artist whose paintings hang in The White House.

Sally Hawkins, Aisling Walsh, Bob Cooper, Mary Young Leckie, Susen Mullen, Sherry White, Ethan Hawke

Drama Romance

87%

  • 3.9
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Every 53 hours in the United States, a police officer is killed in the line of duty. However these losses go mostly unnoticed, overshadowed by sensational, politically charged headlines of the day. Fallen takes a deeply personal look at the stories behind these statistics. More than five years in the making, the film follows the stories of eight fallen officers from across the country. Told through the eyes of those closest to them, as well as the communities they served, these stories offer a sobering glimpse into a routinely overlooked and misunderstood reality

Thomas Marchese

Documentary

76%

  • 4
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A group of monks undertake a pilgrimage to transport their monastery's holiest relic to Rome. When the true significance of the relic is revealed, the journey becomes much more treacherous, and the group's faith and loyalty to one another are tested.

Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, John Lynch, Brendan Muldowney, Jon Bernthal, Stanley Weber, Eric Godon, Tristan McConnell

Action Adventure 1 hr, 36 mins

73%

  • 3.7
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Witness the beginning of the world’s most audacious cat, Top Cat! Poor, lonely and living on the streets, Top Cat is one sad cat, until a chance meeting with Benny, a naïve and good-hearted feline looking for adventure. The pair quickly become best buddies - and partners in crime - pickpocketing their way out of poverty. Setting their sights higher, they decide to steal from Mr. Big, who rules New York’s backstreets. As Top Cat and Benny hatch a plan, little do they know, success is just the start of their problems.

Jason Harris, Andrés Couturier, Doug Langdale, James Kreig, Chris Edgerly, Bill Lobley, Matthew Piazzi

PG Comedy Family 1 hr, 35 mins

80%

  • 3
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A small town on the night of Orson Welles’s legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio hoax is fooled into believing aliens are invading America. As they face what they think is their last night alive, hilarious & life-changing events unfold.

Grace Kaufman, Erika Alexander, Jody Lambert, Michael Dowling, Tony Hale, Heather Burns, Anna Camp, Sam Jaeger

Comedy Sci-Fi

74%

  • 1.5
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Centers on a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) who is taken into a Southern girls' academy. There, the desires of the lonely women set off a whirlwind of jealousy, hate and lust.

Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell, Oona Laurence, Emma Howard, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola

Remake Adaptation

71%

  • 2
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Likely won't be another origin story, could be based on the original Peter Parker Spider-Man.

Amy Pascal, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Victoria Alonso, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Feige, Michael Keaton, Jon Watts

Action Superhero

91%

  • 4
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No plot details have been announced.

Kenya Barris, Queen Latifah, Malcolm D. Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Packer, Tracy Oliver, Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish

R Comedy

84%

  • 4
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Set in Iraq in 2003, Sand Castle follows a group of American soldiers in the early days of the second Gulf War. Bearing witness to the heat and the horror is the inexperienced Private Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult), who together with several fellow soldiers is ordered to the outskirts of Baqubah to repair a water pumping station damaged by U.S. bombs. But as Ocre discovers, in an atmosphere where resentment and anger fester, trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals is a task fraught with danger. It's here, in the streets, squares and schools that he discovers the true cost of war.

Glen Powell, Henry Cavill, Nicholas Hoult, Fernando Coimbra, Chris Roessner, Logan Marshall-Green, Beau Knapp, Neil Brown Jr.

Drama War

77%

  • 3.7
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Shot Caller follows the harrowing, often heart-rending journey of successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster after a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he slowly loses his previous identity and his relationship to his former life, including his wife and son. The grip of his new family, the prison gang, extends beyond the prison walls. Upon his release, chased by the law enforcement, threatened by his incarcerated “protectors,” Money must orchestrate one last dangerous crime. All is not what it seems. The ruthless process of fulfilling his obligations also becomes his path to sacrifice, retribution and self-definition.

Benjamin Bratt, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emory Cohen, Ric Roman Waugh, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Donovan

R Action Crime 2 hrs, 1 min

76%

  • 3.7
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Now-retired film star Eve Wilde (Glenn Close) prepares for her wedding to husband number four, renowned English writer Harold Alcott (Patrick Stewart) after a whirlwind courtship. At her upstate New York home – in the presence of both Wilde’s first husband, celebrated stage actor Laurence Darling (John Malkovich), and their collective families (Minnie Driver, Jack Davenport, Yael Stone, Peter Facinelli, Noah Emmerich, Grace Van Patten) – the long summer weekend offers the opportunity for everyone to get to know each other a bit more intimately. As sexual sparks begin to fly, there are unforeseen consequences abound.

Minnie Driver, Damian Harris, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Patrick Stewart, Jack Davenport, Yael Stone, Peter Facinelli

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 36 mins

76%

  • 3.3
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Set in Manhattan in 1995, three women of the Jacobs family — teenager Ali, older sister Dana and mom — navigate lots of sex, drugs and Japanese food.

Gillian Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm, Edie Falco, Abby Quinn, Gigi Pritzker, Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Jay Duplass

Comedy

75%

  • 3.3
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Dee Wallace headlines as Diane, a matriarch presiding over the gathering of her squabbling grown children on Christmas Day. Tensions give way to terror when a deformed stranger appears at the door with vengeance on his mind. Diane must protect her family as limbs are severed and secrets are brought into the light.

Craig Anderson, Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sarah Bishop, David Collins, Gerard O’Dwyer, Janis McGavin, Sam Campbell

NR Horror 1 hr, 22 mins

74%

  • 2.3
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A 19th century young bride sold into marriage to a middle-aged man.

Florence Pugh, William Oldroyd, Alice Birch, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Bill Fellows

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 30 mins

68%

  • 4.2
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The film is the story of how a Chinese general defeated Japanese pirates by using unique stratagems and maverick tactics.

Gordon Chan, Sammo Hung, Vincent Zhao

NR Action Period 1 hr, 56 mins

70%

  • 3.1
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The return of Leatherface.

Carl Mazzocone, Danny Dimbort, Julien Maury, Lili Taylor, Angela Bettis, Sam Coleman, Avi Lerner, Tobe Hooper

Thriller Horror

90%

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The story of Gene, an emoji that lives inside a texting app on a teenager's smartphone. In Gene's world, each emoji has only one expression, but gene is different -- he's bursting with multiple expressions. Gene is worried that if he can't find a way to be "normal," he'll disappoint his family, or worse, be deleted. Determined to change his unusually expressive personality, gene needs a "code" that will fix his programming and make him like everyone else. With the help of his emoji friends, Gene's search takes him on a fun-filled adventure across the teenager's smartphone, from his hope in a texting app through a succession of apps (including a gaming app, a music streaming app, a photo-sharing app, a video streaming app, a dance app, and a file-sharing app).

James Corden, Mike White, Maya Rudolph, T.J. Miller, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake T. Austin, Steven Wright, Anthony Leondis

PG Family Animation

63%

  • 2.4
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Revolves around apes with human intelligence who are society's new rulers.

Andy Serkis, Matt Reeves, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Chad Rook, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Aleks Paunovic

PG-13 Drama Action

80%

  • 3.8
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The possessed doll named Annabelle returns.

David F. Sandberg, Gary Dauberman, James Wan, Peter Safran, Talitha Bateman, Miranda Otto, Stephanie Sigman, Anthony LaPaglia

R Sequel Thriller

86%

  • 3.4
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Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.

Natalie Portman, Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo, Lily Rose Depp

Drama Supernatural

90%

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The follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore continues his decades-long fight to build a more sustainable future for the planet.

Diane Weyermann, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Richard Berge, Al Gore, Jeff Skoll, Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender

PG Documentary

59%

  • 2.6
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Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium. Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.

Olivier Assayas, Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 45 mins

63%

  • 2.5
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When Lucy (Snow) steps off the subway, she walks into an utter bloodbath on the streets of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool. Faced with a flurry of whizzing bullets and total destruction around every corner, Lucy takes shelter in the basement of Stupe (Bautista), a burly war veteran who reluctantly helps her traverse the treacherous five-block stretch of Bushwick to reach her destination—assuming it’s still there.

Dave Bautista, Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott, Christian Navarro, Brittany Snow, Jeremie Harris, Arturo Castro

Action Thriller 1 hr, 34 mins

64%

  • 3
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Daniel (Zachary Spicer) is a young, idealistic priest who loves his work more than anything. While he struggles to find balance between the dueling philosophies of his mentors, Father Victor (Danny Glover), an old school, no nonsense traditionalist, and Father Ollie (John C. McGinley), a chainsmoking, carb addicted Franciscan, Daniel’s passion for his calling never waivers. And then he meets Jane. After a chance encounter during a late night confession, the complicated and mysterious Jane (Wrenn Schmidt), starts to open up Daniel’s world to an entirely different set of possibilities. And problems. As new bonds form and old ones are tested, Daniel must decide what his true calling really is — and whether or not he has the courage to answer it.

Danny Glover, Paul Shoulberg, Zachary Spicer, Wrenn Schmidt, John C. McGinley

Drama Romance 1 hr, 36 mins

74%

  • 4
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The film tells the tale of lead character Roland Deschain's quest for the Dark Tower, a structure that holds the key to the nexus of all universes. He encounters many allies and enemies along the way, as the world crumbles around him.

Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, Akiva Goldsman, Nikolaj Arcel, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Jeff Pinkner, Abbey Lee

PG-13 Drama Fantasy 1 hr, 35 mins

91%

  • 3.4
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After her son is kidnapped at a local mall, a woman embarks on a chase to save him.

Ara Keshishian, Halle Berry, Gregory Chou, Malea Rose, Doris Pfardrescher, Knate Gwaltney, Jim Seibel, Todd Trosclair

R Thriller Suspense

78%

  • 3.5
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Top October 2017 Movie Trailers

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Sky Peals
My Fault London
Good Fortune
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TBA
Porcelain War
Armand
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Sci-Fi
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Comedy
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Action
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Drama
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Adventure
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