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Opening Wednesday, July 22
'Bad Counselors'
After being arrested on campus, a pair of frat bros are ordered to perform community service and decide to pose as counselors at a Christian youth camp. Starring Matt Cornett, Ramon Reed, Missi Pyle, Richard T. Jones and Chris Klein. PG-13 (for suggestive material). 105 mins.
Opening Friday, July 24
'Hadestown: the Musical'
The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comes to the big screen, with a mix of modern American folk music and New Orleans-inspired jazz setting the tone for a to-hell-and-back reimagining of a pair of ancient Greek myths: Orpheus and Eurydice and King Hades and Persephone. Starring Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Patrick Page and Bella Brown. Not rated. 141 mins.
'Haunted Heist'
In this horror comedy, four old friends reunite and set out to steal a valuable antique from a mansion. But the mansion's ghostly owners won't make it easy for them. Starring Stephen Blackwell, Tiffany Haddish, Lil Rel Howery and Brett Gelman. R (for pervasive language, sexual material and some violence/gore). 87 mins.
'Her Private Hell'
In this sci-fi horror thriller from director Nicolas Winding Refn, a troubled young woman (Sophie Thatcher) searches for her father in a futuristic metropolis engulfed by a mysterious mist. R (for some strong/bloody violence, sexual content and language). 109 mins.
'Motor City'
In this nearly dialogue-free crime thriller, a working-class man (Alan Ritchson) falls for a woman (Shailene Woodley), earning him the ire of a ruthless drug kingpin (Ben Foster). The gangster frames him for a crime he didn't commit, and he spends his time in prison plotting revenge. R (for strong bloody violence, some grisly images, drug content, sexuality/nudity and language). 103 mins.
'Pinocchio Unstrung'
In this dark re-imagining of the classic children's tale, the puppet launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy. Starring Richard Brake, Robert Englund and Cameron Bell. R (for strong bloody horror violence and gore, language and brief graphic nudity). 80 mins.
'Reading Lolita in Tehran'
The screen adaptation of Azar Nafisi's memoir tells the true story of a literature professor (Golshifteh Farahani) in revolutionary Iran who gathers her most dedicated female studies to study banned literary classics, amid a backdrop of censorship and religious extremism. Not rated. 107 mins.
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