ON THE BIG SCREEN

THE BIKERIDERS
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Previous Academy Award acting nominees Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Michael Shannon join Emmy a Jodie Comer in this rough tale of a real Midwestern motorcycle gang formed in 1965. Tough guys abound, as does some romance, as the gang escalates from being just “bikeriders” into violence, drug dealing, and lots more criminal activities. Butler’s the latest in a long line of hunks on bikes—think Marlon Brando in 1953’s The Wild One and you’ve got the idea.

HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA
CHAPTER ONE
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It’s been over 30 years since Kevin Costner won Oscars for directing and producing Dances with Wolves; in fact, he has only directed three films in his long career. Now, after his modern Western TV hit Yellowstone, he’s taken a big leap to go back to starring, writing, and directing a Wild West trilogy of films known as Horizon: An American Saga. This first chapter begins the saga of the pre- and post-Civil War story that explores the colonization of America’s west. Chapter Two arrives in August, with a third to come in 2025. Oscar nominees Thomas Haden Church and Kathleen Quinlan join a star-studded cast for Costner’s epic saga.

INSIDE OUT 2
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Every child and adult who loved the Oscar-winning 2015 animated film Inside Out will rejoice with this sequel to the story of Riley, who’s now a teenager. Amy Poehler returns as her voice, as do Lewis Black as Anger and Phyllis Smith as Sadness. Tony Hale joins as Fear, as does Ayo Edebiri as Envy, just some of the emotions that pop out as Riley negotiates those fraught teenage years. Disney/Pixar are at it again in another must-see full-length cartoon for all ages.

KINDS OF KINDNESS
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Will this be the movie that gives five-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos a golden statue? As the auteur director/producer of Poor Things and The Favourite, he’s certainly making movies unlike any other (and that we just adore), filled with Oscar-winning performances. Emma Stone, who won Best Actress for Poor Things, again stars in his heady visions, along with four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe. Plus, fellow acting nominees Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau are along to realize Lanthimos’ weird and slightly wacky cinematic vision in this comedy-drama, so what’s not to like?

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE
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Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and two-time Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou join forces to silently bring the terrifying origin story of A Quiet Place to the big screen in this summer horror flick. Creator John Krasinski returns as screenwriter, but his wife Emily Blunt isn’t a part of this one, as the setting is before the original movie. This one is in NYC, as the sound-loving aliens descend on the city that never sleeps. Alex Wolff and Joseph Quinn costar in this film that is sure to make you make way too much noise as it unfolds.