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ADELANTE RECOMENDS...
COSMOBALL WONDER WOMAN 1984
Well Go USA Entertainment Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Now on Digital/Blu-ray & DVD Now on PVOD/Digital/DVD/Blu-ray/4K
Cosmoball is a mesmerizing intergalactic game of future The fate of the world is once more on the line, and only
played between humans and aliens at the giant extraterres- Wonder Woman can save it. This new chapter in the
trial ship hovering in the sky over Earth. A young man with Wonder Woman story finds Diana Prince living quietly
enormous power of an unknown nature joins the team of hot- among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s, and era of
headed superheroes in exchange for a cure for his motherʼs excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though
deadly illness. The Four from Earth will fight not only to sheʼs come into her full powers, she maintains a low
defend the honor of their home planet in the spectacular profile, curating ancient artifacts and only performing
game, but to face the unprecedented threat to the Galaxy her superheroic acts incognito. But now, Diana will
and embrace their own destiny. have to step directly into the spotlight and muster all
her wisdom, strength and courage in order to save
FAR WESTERN mankind from a world of its own making.
Corinth Films
DVD/Digital April 13, 2021
Far Western is a feature documentary film that tells the THE INTERROGATION
phenomenal story of the transplant of American country Corinth Films
music to post-World War II Japan. Nearly 70 years later, for Now on DVD/Digital
a devoted group the music has become a lifelong obsession. This film is a fictional recounting of the final interro-
Part music history and part character portrait, Far Western is gation and last days of Rudolph Ferdinand Hoss, the
told through the lives of musicians, fans, and live-music longstanding commandant of the Auschwitz concen-
venue owners. Set both in modern Japan and the American tration camp during World War 2 where Hoss was later
South, the film explores the uncanny ability of a simple form executed for his crimes against humanity. This film is
of music to cross geographic and language barriers, forming notable in the fact that for the first time, an Israeli film
a strange cultural bridge between the two countries. Now, director (Erez Pery) gives voice to the perpetrator.
these Japanese musicians have made their own pilgrimages
back to America, to the birthplace of the music, playing in
honky-tonks and festivals in America. MY MEXICAN BRETZEL
INDIEPIX FILMS
Now on DVD/DIGITAL
YALDA, A Night for Forgiveness The Film uses silent home movies, fleeting snippets
Film Movement of sound, and diaristic narration to tell the story of
Now on DVD/Digital Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman, and her
husband, Léon, a WWII pilot-turned-entrepreneur.
Maryam is a young woman who has been sentenced to death
for murdering her husband, Nasser. Iranian law allows for the Partial hearing loss doesn't impede Léon from creating
a pharmaceutical wonder drug that changes their lives,
victimʼs family to forgive her and spare her life, so Maryamʼs propelling the go-lucky couple into a world of
fate will be decided by Nasserʼs daughter, Nona, who has adventure, romance, and mystical truth-seeking. From
always been like a big sister to her. Live, in front of the
the 40s through 60s, from the Alps to Le Mans to
cameras and millions of viewers during Yalda, a Persian Manhattan to Hawaii, vulnerability, belonging, truth,
celebration of the winter solstice, Maryam and Mona discover and mid-century opulence are explored in a way that
that forgiveness can be difficult as they relive the past. only the magic of cinema allows... with a dazzling
twist.
MAFIA INC.
Film Movement
DVD/Digital March 9, 2021 LITTLE ENGLAND
In 1994. Frank Paterno, a Montreal mafia boss, hopes to Corinth Films
legitimize his criminal operations by investing $180 million in Now on DVD/Digital
an ambitious bridge project that would connet Sicily with The 20 year-old Orsa is madly in love with the
southern Italy. First, however, he has to recover the lieutenant Spyros, which she dares not reveal to
anyone, least of all her domineering mother, Mina,
necessary funds from his Greek creditor. Frank entrusts this
mission to his protégé Vincent, the son of tailor Henri herself the wife of a captain who prefers the seas over
Andros. Without considering the girls desire to love,
Gamache, who has been dressing the Paternos for three Mina conspires to wed them to the wealthiest suitors:
generations. But after Vincent executes a plan to smuggle Orsa to ship owner and captain Nikos and Moscha to
millions in drugs out of Venezuela, his ruthless tactics ignite
the very man Nina rejected as Orsaʼs future husband
a war between the two families.
Spyro. A final tragedy seals the fate of the sisters as
the story progresses into the throes of World War II
THAT CLICK
Omnibus Entertainment
DVD/DIGITAL 3-16-21 AMBERʼS DESCENT
"That Click" is a documentary about legendary photographer Breakig Glass Pictures
Douglas Kirkland that with his camera portrayed sixty years Now on VOD & DVD
of pop culture ranging from photojournalism to celebrity After surviving a violent encounter, renowned pianist,
portraits, from film photography to global events. After taking Amber Waltz, relocates to a rural farmhouse to
some of the most iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, with his complete her latest symphony. When the music
unique style and approach he described fashion, celebrities mysteriously begins writing itself, Amber slowly
discovers that this piece could be her last.
and show business with immortal images that still influence
us today.
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