Movies Released April 5, 2019

Shazam!

Billy Batson, a shy preteen boy, discovers that he has a magical connection to an ancient Egyptian wizard named Shazam who lives in another dimension. By saying the wizard's name, Billy is transformed into a tall, powerful red-white-and-yellow-costumed superhero named Captain Marvel endowed with six amazing abilities: the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury.

Dwayne Johnson, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Ian Cheney, Ron Cephas Jones, Michael Uslan, David F. Sandberg, Peter Safran

The Best of Enemies

Ann Atwater, a ferocious civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina, has a decade-long battle with sworn enemy C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of Durham's Ku Klux Klan. Their feud comes to an abrupt and unlikely end in 1971.

Taraji P. Henson, Nick Searcy, Danny Strong, Sam Rockwell, John Gallagher Jr., Fred Bernstein, Matt Berenson, Dominique Telson

Pet Sematary

A nice family moves to a quaint Maine town that has a pet cemetery and an Indian burial ground.

Steven Schneider, John Lithgow, Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Matt Greenberg, Jeff Buhler, Jason Clarke

Unicorn Store

Centers on a woman who moves back in with her parents. She receives an invitation to a store that will test her ideas of what it really means to grow up.

Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Cusack, Bradley Whitford, Brie Larson, David Bernad, Ruben Fleischer, Samantha McIntyre, Susan Park

Billboard

Casey Lindeweiler (John Robinson) inherits the last remaining independent radio station in town, WTYT 960, only to find the station is in financial shambles and in the ratings basement. To right the sinking ship, Casey pulls out one of the oldest tricks in radio, the wacky contest. His idea is to host a billboard sitting contest where four people will live on a catwalk in front of a billboard in hopes of winning “nine-sixty” thousand dollars and a mobile home. All they have to do is be the last one living on the billboard. Unprepared for the spotlight, Casey attempts to rise to the challenge of running a business, as he has to worry about his contestants, the competition, the local authorities, the media’s interpretation of his contest, and mother nature.

Zeke Zelker, John Robinson, Heather Matarazzo, Leo Fitzpatrick, Alice Wills, Eric Roberts

Storm Boy

Storm Boy' has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father. He recounts to his grand-daughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Their remarkable adventures and very special bond has a profound effect on all their lives.

Geoffrey Rush, Erik Thompson, Shawn Seet, Justin Monjo, Jai Courtney, Finn Little, Trevor Jamison, Morgana Davies

Peterloo

Chronicles the 1819 massacre by British government forces at a peaceful pro-democracy rally. Some 700 working people were injured and 18 killed during the incident in Manchester.

Leo Bill, David Bamber, Alastair Mackenzie, Mark Ryan, Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe, Maxine Peake, Rory Kinnear

High Life

Follows convicts who trade in their jail time by agreeing to crew a dangerous mission to a black hole.

Juliette Binoche, Robert Pattinson, Jessie Ross, Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Patricia Arquette, Mia Goth

Teen Spirit

Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, Teen Spirit is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.

Elle Fanning, Rebecca Hall, Zlatko Buric, Max Minghella, Agnieszka Grochowska

The Wind

Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard) is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, an overwhelming dread that her husband (Ashley Zukerman) dismisses as superstition. When a newlywed couple arrives on a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy’s fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.

Ashley Zukerman, Miles Anderson, Emma Tammi, Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Dylan McTee

The Chaperone

Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It’s a story full of surprises—about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

Blythe Danner, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Hill, Géza Röhrig, Michael Engler, Haley Lu Richardson, Campbell Scott

Berserk

Berserk follows Raffy Rivers (Nick Cannon), a fading movie star in need of a career revival and his writer friend, Evan (Rhys Wakefield) who never tasted success. Both believe their zombie script will provide the breakthrough they need, but they are in desperate need of inspiration to finish the project. When Evan realizes that neither has felt true fear, the pair set out to trick each other into feeling it… but things take a turn for the worst when a surprise visitor, hallucinatory drugs, an ex-girlfriend, a police officer, and a pack of hungry coyotes get involved.

Nick Cannon, Rhys Wakefield, William Day Frank, Nora Arnezeder, James Roday

The Haunting of Sharon Tate

Takes a look at the last days leading up to Sharon Tate’s murder from her point of view. She has dreams about ghosts haunting her house and foreseeing her own death at the hands of a satanic cult.

Hilary Duff, Daniel Farrands, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst

The Public

Homeless individuals organize a sit-in at a library to protest the lack of a public shelter. A police standoff and media circus ensues.

Gabrielle Union, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Michael K. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone

Amazing Grace

The never before seen movie featuring Aretha Franklin recording the most successful gospel album of all time, Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace is crafted from never before seen footage originally captured in 1972.

Division 19

In the future, prisons have been turned into online portals where paying subscribers get to vote on what felons eat, watch, wear and who they fight. Panopticon TV is so successful it is about to be rolled out to a whole new town. When the world’s most downloaded felon escapes, the authorities set a trap to reel him in. The bait is his little brother who has so far managed to avoid detection.

S A Halewood, Linus Roache, Alison Doody, Jamie Draven, Lotte Verbeek, Clarke Peters, L. Scott Caldwell, Will Rothhaar