Video releases
“NIGHT SWIM”
After being forced into early retirement due to a degenerative disease, former professional baseball player Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) and his family — wife Eve (Kerry Condon) and children Izzy (Amelie Hoerferle) and Gavin (Gavin Warren) — search for a new home. They decide to purchase a house with a pool after hearing that the pool could be used for therapeutic benefits. After restoring the pool, it’s discovered that the water source to the pool is derived from an underground healing spring. But the idyllic discovery harbors a dark secret tied to numerous disappearances from the property over the years.
Director: Bryce McGuire. Stars: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amelie Hoerferle, Gavin Warren, Jodi Long. 2023. 98 minutes. Horror.
“FINESTKIND”
Discontent with his structured life and the expectations thrust upon him by his father, young college graduate Charlie (Toby Wallace) visits his half-brother Tom (Ben Foster), a scallop fisherman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Charlie convinces Tom to take him on his next fishing excursion and, after narrowly surviving an explosion at sea, the fishing crew celebrates at a local bar, where Charlie meets Mabel (Jenna Ortega), a drug dealer. After his father’s boat is seized by U.S. authorities following an illegal fishing excursion in Canadian waters, Charlie and Tom, not wanting his terminally ill father to die without his boat, agree to participate in a one-time heroin deal in order to raise bail for the boat. Director: Brian Helgeland. Stars: Ben Foster, Jenna Ortega, Toby Wallace, Tommy Lee Jones. 2023. 126 minutes. Crime Drama.
“IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE”
One winter in Angel Falls, while celebrating Christmas with her friends and family, Winnie Carruthers (Jane Widdop) witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of a serial killer known as “The Angel.” With her brother Jimmy’s (Aiden Howard) help, Winnie kills The Angel by electrocuting him with jumper cables. The killer is revealed to be Henry (Justin Long), a business partner of her father, David (Joel McHale). A year later, Winnie is still grieving her friend’s death when, at her boyfriend Robbie’s (Jason Fernandes) Christmas party, she discovers he has been cheating on her with her best friend, Darla (Zenia Marshall). Wishing she had never been born, Winnie is transported to an alternate reality where the killer is still alive and something much worse: he’s now the mayor of Angel Falls.
Director: Tyler MacIntyre. Stars: Jane Widdop, Joel McHale, Justin Long, Jess McLeod, Katharine Isabelle, Aiden Howard, Jason Fernandes, Zenia Marshall, William B. Davis. 2023. 87 minutes. Comedy Horror.