This is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brush strokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration, the Salvator Mundi’s fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by Leonardo da Vinci? Unravelling the hidden agendas of the richest men and most powerful art institutions in the world, reveals how vested interests in the Salvator Mundi are of such tremendous power that truth becomes secondary. In English and French with subtitles.(PG-13, 96 mins)

“An enthralling, globe-trotting story of greed. It plays out like a detective mystery and feels as meticulously plotted as an art heist. It’s so well told.” – Claudia Puig, FilmWeeek

“Filmmaker Andreas Koefoed paints a telling portrait about the art world, illustrating the deception, the pretense and the secret billionaire buyers at the apex of some shady shenanigans.” – Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

“Really, The Lost Leonardo is a detective story. Like any good detective story, it’s also a morality tale.” – Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

Horror and fantasy filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) has adapted the graphic novel Sandcastle, an original thriller about a family on a tropical holiday. They find a secluded beach that somehow is causing them to age rapidly… reducing their entire lives into the duration of a single day. The stellar international cast includes Gael Garcia Bernal, Tomasin McKenzie, and Vicki Krieps. (PG-13, 108 mins)

“Old says something about life that’s as profound as it is frightening, the nebulous, beauteously unfathomable peculiarities a human life is born to navigate from first breath to last ambitiously displayed in all their monstrous ambiguity.” – Sarah Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com

“I was glued to every single second of it.” – Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together — but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband’s belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing — a mystery she’s determined to unravel. (R, 110 mins)

“Confidently directed by David Bruckner from a clever script written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, “The Night House” excels in tension building -it is both unpredictable and unnervingly restrained.” – Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press

“The Night House is a compelling meditation on the horror of one’s own mind.” – Becca James, Chicago Reader

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A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff Flake on an airplane goes viral, catapulting him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists ignite a once-in-a-generation political movement called “Be a Hero.” Together, they barnstorm across the country and empower people to confront their elected officials with emotional, personal stories to demand healthcare justice and Ady holds groundbreaking interviews with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. As Ady rises to become Politico’s Most Powerful Activist in America,” he discovers that collective action and speaking truth to power offers hope for this family and millions of others. A rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes! (96 mins)

“A pure shot of inspiration.” – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com

“A fierce, and dying, health care advocate shows us what John Lewis meant by Good trouble.” – Roger Moore, Movie Nation

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Film director Lou Jenet has set her sensual drama during the gay nineties of urbane Paris in 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant of Portrait of a Lady on Fire), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion for erotic photography. One year later, Pierre returns to Paris with Zohra and begins a relationship anew with Marie. In French with subtitles. (107 mins)

“Between eroticism and seduction, Lou Jeunet describes with pleasure the emergence of a woman who discovers the joys of emancipation in all its forms.” – – Avoir Alire

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