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Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, as his flashes of memory of his grisly nighttime acts manifest themselves through his artwork.
Starring Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Rigo Garay, Motell Gyn Foster, John Speredakos, Barbara Crampton, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Kevin Corrigan, James Le Gros, Joe Swanberg, Marshall Bell, Ella Rae Peck, Marc Senter, Michael Buscemi, Asta Paredes, Jeremy Holm, Cody Kostro, Clay von Carlowitz, Braxton Sohns, Gaby Leyner, and more.
Music by Will Bates
Cinematography by Collin Brazie
Written and Directed by Larry Fessenden

Writer/Director Francis Galluppi joins the show to discuss his piece, The Last Stop in Yuma County.

While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.
Starring Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Nicholas Logan, Faizon Love, Michael Abbott Jr., Gene Jones, Robin Bartlett, Sierra McCormick, Ryan Masson, Connor Paolo, Alexandra Essoe, Sam Huntington, Jon Proudstar, Barbara Crampton, and more.
Production Design by Charlie Textor
Art Direction by Adam Gascho
Music by Matthew Compton
Cinematography by Mac Fisken
Edited, Written, and Directed by Francis Galluppi

From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them into the web of Lou's criminal family.
Starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Anna Baryshnikov, Jena Malone, and more.
Edited by Mark Towns
Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography by Ben Fordesman
Written by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska
Directed by Rose Glass

Ben is a former CIA station chief whose world comes crashing down after his wife, a former operative, dies in a terrible accident. Soon, a cryptic message sends him back into the shadowy underworld of Eastern Europe, teaming up with a former adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he knew about his wife and the agency that he worked for.
Starring Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Alex Pettyfer, Chris Petrovski, Laetitia Eido, Nick Moran, Daniel Bernhardt, and more.
Music by Sean Murray
Cinematography by Jonathan Hall
Edited by Richard Blackburn and Matthew Lorentz
Written by George Mahaffey
Directed by Jesse V. Johnson

After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that teacher's bullying is behind her young son's sudden strange beahvior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satifactory answers-and with an increasingly distressed child-she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. But as the story unfolds through the multilayerd perspectives of mother, teacher, and child, the real truth gradually emerges-and proves much more complex than anyone could have expected.
Starring Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shido Nakamura, and Yuko Tanaka
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography by Ryuto Kondo
Screenplay by Yuji Sakamoto
Edited and Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

A prequel to The Admiral: Roaring Currents-the most-watched film in Korean history-Hansan: Rising Dragon depicts the Battle of Hansando. In 1592, Admiral Yi Sun-sin and fleet faced off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon headships known as geobukseon, to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.
Starring Park Hae-il, Byun Yo-han, Ahn Sung-ki, Son Hyun-joo, Kim Sung-kyu, Kim Sung-kyun. Kim Hyang-gi, Ok Taec-yeon, and more.
Music by Kim Tae-seong
Cinematography by Kim Tae-sung
Edited by Hyun-Gun Ahn and Gang-hee Lee
Written by Han-min Kim and Hong-gi Yun
Directed by Han-min Kim