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By: Al B.

THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY
@WellGoUSA
Available on Digital now & Blu-ray July 16
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.

MY PET AND ME
Omnibus Entertainment
Available via VOD & SVOD now
What’s it like to share your home with a 200-pound house pig or a world-famous Instagram “cat influencer?” MY PET AND ME, an endearing and comical portrait of the bond between humans and the animals they love, Johan Kramer’s documentary introduces audiences to a handful of individuals who’ve dedicated their lives to their colorful companions.

KILL YOUR LOVER
Dark Sky Films
Available in Theater & Digital/VOD now
Dakota and Axel’s relationship is a toxic mess. She knows it, everybody does… except Axel. The only thing is, until Dakota tries to break up with Axel, she doesn’t know how truly toxic it will become. The mere idea of splitting up causes Axel to become intensely ill, sprouting grotesque black veins and excreting a strange sticky liquid. His touch burns flesh and his need to hang onto Dakota becomes irrationally powerful.

LAUGH PROUD
Margin Films
Available on VOD now
Nine diverse LGBTQIA+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world’s first intersex comic Seven Graham aka 7G. Laugh Proud is the first LGBTQIA+ stand-up comedy feature film of its kind.

DON’T LOOK AT ME
IndiePix Classics
Available on DVD/Digital now
Hedi and single mother, Iva, live in the same building. After Hedi meets Sophia, Iva’s daughter, the two women become acquainted and eventually begin an intimate affair. And though their relationship is passionate, Hedi is also attracted to men, and Iva, desperately in love, becomes deeply jealous. It seems, however, that only one world exists for Hedi: her own. One day, Iva’s father makes plans to look after his granddaughter so the two women can spend time together, but when he doesn’t arrive, Hedi goes searching and the story takes a surprising twist.

DRAWING A LIFE
Gravitas Ventures
Available on VOD July 2
One of the most prolific artists of his time, Geoff McFetridge has undoubtedly influenced the way the world looks. His art is everywhere—on your Apple watch, in countless galleries around the world, in title designs for films by Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze, and in collaborations with Nike, Hermès, Warby Parker, and more. The antithesis of the archetypal artist fueled by drugs, alcohol, and chaos, what sets the prodigious McFetridge apart is his obsessive quest to balance family with a creative life.

THE SALES GIRL
Film Movement
Available on DVD/Digital now
When college coed Saruul takes a temporary job as a clerk in a sex shop, her poker-faced indifference makes her the perfect foil for the shop’s clientele, who range from slightly sheepish and cautiously curious to downright perverse. But it’s the shop’s flamboyant, eccentric female owner who initiates Saruul’s journey into adulthood – taking her under her wing, teaching her the art of living, and gently guiding her on the path to self-discovery.

IO CAPITANO
Cohen Media Group
Available on Blu-ray & DVD now
Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards®, and from the acclaimed director of Gomorrah and Dogman, Io Capitano narrates the epic journey of a teenage boy and his cousin as they decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe. Throughout this compelling odyssey, the young man confronts a myriad of challenges, from the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea.

CREATION OF THE GODS 1: KINGDOM OF STORMS
@WellGoUSA
Available on Digital, Blu-ray & DVD now
After conspiring with a conniving fox demon to kill the emperor and seize power, King Zhou reigns as a tyrant so brutal that he incurs the wrath of Heaven. In a final attempt to save the mortal world from desperate peril, the gods decide to intervene and invest in an unlikely champion brave enough to challenge the evil king—even if it may cost him everything.

BLUE ROSE
Dark Sky Films
Available in Theater & VOD/Digital July 12
A genre-bending surrealist noir set in the 1950s, THE BLUE ROSE follows the one-night journey of two rookie detectives as they set out to solve a seemingly clear-cut homicide, only to find themselves in an alternate reality of their worst nightmares.