Movies Opening This Weekend – June 29th, [videos]

Hollywood delivers this weekend with a few films that are entertaining and thought-provoking, with a few twists. ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ is your DEA vs. Drug cartel script, a film that leverages familiar faces with a well-known storyline. The ‘Cakemaker’ is a romantic foreign film that you’ll want to see with your significant other, while ‘Uncle Drew’ is the NBA fantasy film the whole family will enjoy.

Our pick of the week is a documentary called ‘Three Identical Strangers.’ Imagine discovering that you and two identical siblings were separated at birth, but accidentally discover each other as teenagers. Although the reunification of the three triplets is an initial reason for joy; why they were dispersed at birth will become the backstory that makes the whole documentary interesting.

Enjoy the movies his weekend, we always do!

The Cakemaker (2017)
(NR) 104 min – Drama
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer
Stars: Sarah Adler, Zohar Shtrauss, Tim Kalkhof, Roy Miller

This is a beautiful foreign film, as a German pastry chef maker journeys to the middle-east, Jerusalem to be specific, to find his dead lovers son. You may not speak the language, but the powerful emotion will speak to you. [watch trailer]

Leave No Trace (2018)
(NR) 109 min – Drama
Director: Debra Granik
Stars: Ben Foster, Dale Dickey, Jeff Kober, Thomasin McKenzie

A dad and his daughter realize that one mis-step can change the course of their lives forever. A man and his 13-year-old daughter chose to live in the forest until they are arrested by wildlife authorities. We discover that the man has been suffering from nightmares of his military service, and their entire relationship is thrown into suspicion. [watch trailer]

Dark River (2017)
(NR) 90 min – Drama
Director: Clio Barnard
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean, Esme Creed-Miles

A young woman sustains the death of her father, returning home, her 1st time in nearly 20 years. She quickly realizes that she must fight for what is rightfully hers. [watch trailer]

Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
(R) 101 min – Biography
Director: Susanna White
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp

This is the true story the late 1800s, Catherine Weldon, a nationally know painter from Brooklyn who unexpectedly takes up the Lakota peoples cause over land rights. If you believe life throws you curves for a reason, this wonderful film is for you. [watch trailer]

Uncle Drew (2018)
(NR) 103 min – Comedy
Director: Charles Stone III
Stars: Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll, Kyrie Irving, Nate Robinson

The whole family will love this film, starring NBA star Kyrie Irving as the legendary Uncle Drew. In a familiar storyline, a man loses his entire life’s savings trying to enter his basketball team in a tournament in Harlem. What he assembles is Uncle Drew (Kyrie Irving) and the aged star team of Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Chris Webber to win the event. [watch trailer]

Three Identical Strangers (2018)
(NR) 96 min – Documentary
Director: Tim Wardle
Stars: Silvi Alzetta-Reali, Eddy Galland, Ron Guttman, David Kellman

This is the documentary that will blow your mind. In New York around 1980, three complete strangers run into each other and determine that they are in fact identical triplets, separated at birth. At first this true story is a fodder for national talk shows and ‘feel good’ reflection. What happens when, and why the separation of the triplets, becomes the real story. The story behind the story is not only real, but hard to fathom. [watch trailer]

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
(NR) 122 min – Thriller
Director: Stefano Sollima
Stars: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro

The setting is the US-Mexico border, where the drug wat has exploded into violence. In typical Hollywood fashion, federal agents bend the law to secure justice. [watch trailer]

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