Loaded (AMC)

After selling their gaming company for millions, Josh (Jim Howick), Leon (Samuel Anderson), Ewan (Jonny Sweet) and Watto (Nick Helm) discover the challenges their new wealth brings and working for Casey (Mary McCormack), a Vice President at the parent company that bought them out in this dramedy based on the Mesudarim, the Israeli series created by Muli Segev and Assaf Harel.Premieres Jul 17, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Personal Shopper; Aquarius; Beauty and the Beast; A Quiet Passion and more – reviews

A haunted Kristen Stewart excels in Personal Shopper, Sônia Braga is brilliantly furious in Aquarius, while Terence Davies’s Emily Dickinson biopic is distinctly unpoeticDoors creak, ectoplasm swirls and wind whistles through crumbling mansions in Personal Shopper (Icon, 15), but Olivier Assayas’s sharp, glassy ghost story is no retro Victorian rehash. This tale of grief taking either uncanny or deliriously illusory form amid the walking cyphers of Paris’s celebrity set is quite the most modern vision of a phantom menace in recent memory – one that sees even an instrument as soulless as the iPhone become a potential conduit of spiritual…
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Alone in Berlin

Highly Recommended Director: Vincent PerezStarring: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Br hlYear: 2016The rise of the wonderful and incomparable Daniel Bruhl has been well-witnessed, at least among those who have been paying attention. The German/Spanish actor has been hitting more home runs than not with his film choices, or perhaps his talent level helps lift each lucky movie he appears in. Inglourious Basterds, Rush, A Most Wanted Man, Woman in Gold, <a href="http://arch...Read the entire review Source: DVD Talk
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Friends From College (Netflix)

The return of Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key) and Lisa Turner (Cobie Smulders) to their circle of college friends in New York City (Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, Jae Suh Park and Fred Savage) shakes up everyone's lives as they approach their 40s in this comedy from Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco.Premieres Jul 14, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Salvation (2017) (CBS)

Self-made tech billionaire Darius Tanz (Santiago Cabrera) and MIT grad student Liam Cole (Charlie Rowe) contact Pentagon Press Secretary Grace Barrows (Jennifer Finnigan) about the fact an asteroid will crash into Earth in six months. Premieres Jul 12, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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American Wrestler: The Wizard

Recommended The Movie:There have been a few films that include a metaphoric fish thrown into new, sometimes hostile waters, and on the heels of HBO's fascinating miniseries The Night Of, we now get American Wrestler: The Wizard, a similar story in its broadest strokes, based on true events.Written by Brian Rudnick and directed by Alex Ranarivero, American Wrestler tells the story of Ali Jahani (George Kosturos), an immigrant who left Iran during the Khomeni overthrow to live in California with his uncle Hafez. Hafez is played by Ali Afshar, producer of the film and the subject on whom the movie…
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