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Almost a full half year before the start of the festival on June 18, the Chattanooga Film Festival has announced a “fun-sized first wave of films and events.” Now in its 13th year, the festival will celebrate that anniversary with a screening of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (which may or may not actually be more of a 40th anniversary celebration for the film) hosted by filmmakers and married couple Becca Howard and Joe Lynch. Howard and Lynch will also host a 45th anniversary screening of Heavy Metal and a live recording of their podcast A Couple of Old Fashionds. Alongside the live podcast recording, attendees on the ground in the festival’s namesake city can look forward to video artists Everything is Terrible’s…

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Plus: ‘July Rhapsody,’ ‘The Love That Remains,’ ‘Islands,’ ‘Bitter Rice,’ ‘The Moment,’ ‘A Poet.’

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Amir Bar-Lev directed.

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News from Variety this morning is that the V/H/S horror anthology franchise has been acquired from Studio71 by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Abu Dhabi.

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Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, and Lai-Ming Tang star in the Hong Kong action movie.

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A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton’s (The Imposter)’s adaptation of Don Winslow’s (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up, where you get half of the face, at best, the posters feature a stacked cast of movie stars who regularly moonlight as character actors, including Halle Berry, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Keoghan, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo. The latter is featured here, looking like he just stepped out of a Michael Mann flick — all five o’clock shadow and film grain. (I am not being abstract or figurative here, I mean Collateral to be exact. Ruffalo had a lovely minor part as an bad ass…

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John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan’s character study / crime drama.

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Russell Crowe also stars in director Padraic McKinley’s crime drama.

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Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, and Liam Neeson star in the thriller, directed by Jonny Campbell from a script by David Koepp.

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Directed by Josephine Decker, Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in the comedy-drama, alongside Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling, and Megan Mullally.

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