Author: Josh Hornbeck

Josh is the founder of Cinema Cocktail, and he is a writer and director, podcaster and critic, and communications and marketing professional living and working in the greater Seattle area.

House of Hummingbird (2019) | May 27

Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged. – JustWatch.com

Director: Kim Bora

Cast: Park Ji-hu, Kim Sae-byuk, Jung In-gi, Lee Seung-yeon, Park Soo-yeon, Son Sang-yeon, Seol Hye-in

Country: South Korea

Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

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The Reckoning (2021) | May 26

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind. – JustWatch.com

Director: Neil Marshall

Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington, Joe Anderson, Suzanne Magowan, Ian Whyte, Callum Goulden

Country: United Kingdom

Distributor: RLJ Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Holiday (2018) | May 26

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabella Eklöf

Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer, Yuval Segal, Bo Brønnum, Adam Ild Rohweder, Morten Hemmingsen

Country: Denmark

Distributor: Breaking Glass Pictures

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Platform: MUBI

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Pelo Malo (2013) | May 26

A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. – JustWatch.com

Director: Mariana Rondón

Cast: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benitez, Nelly Ramos

Country: Venezuela

Distributor: Cinema Tropical

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Platform: Kanopy

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Out 1: Parts 5 & 6 (1971) | May 26

Once thought an impossible-to-see legend of cinephilia, Jacques Rivette’s multi-part epic has been revived, restored, and is available for your delirious immersion. It was originally conceived for French television by the director and Cahiers du cinéma editor and critic, but never properly shown. In its astoundingly adventurous, freeform creation—taking improvisation beyond dialog and performance into storytelling itself—the opus represents what might be considered the last great gesture of the French New Wave. – MUBI

Director: Jacques Rivette

Cast: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot, Marcel Bozonnet, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Country: France

Distributor: Carlotta Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 3 hours, 10 minutes

Platform: MUBI, Kanopy

Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema, Classic Cinema

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Pop Aye (2017) | May 26

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they grew up together. – JustWatch.com

Director: Kirsten Tan

Cast: Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul, Bong

Country: Thailand

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Platform: Prime Video, Hulu

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (2013) | May 25

Returning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something? – IMDb.com

Director: Hélène Cattet , Bruno Forzani

Cast: Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Anna D’Annunzio, Hans de Munter, Birgit Yew, Ursula Bedena, Elsebeth Steentoft, Sylvia Camarda

Country: Belgium

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Yomeddine (2018) | May 25

A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families. – JustWatch.com

Director: Abu Bakr Shawky

Cast: Rady Gamal, Shahira Fahmy, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Shehab Ibrahim, Mohamed Abd El Azim, Yasser El-Ayouti

Country: Egypt

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Platform: Video-on-Demand

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Out 1: Parts 3 & 4 (1971) | May 25

Once thought an impossible-to-see legend of cinephilia, Jacques Rivette’s multi-part epic has been revived, restored, and is available for your delirious immersion. It was originally conceived for French television by the director and Cahiers du cinéma editor and critic, but never properly shown. In its astoundingly adventurous, freeform creation—taking improvisation beyond dialog and performance into storytelling itself—the opus represents what might be considered the last great gesture of the French New Wave. – MUBI

Director: Jacques Rivette

Cast: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot, Marcel Bozonnet, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Country: France

Distributor: Carlotta Films

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 3 hours, 34 minutes

Platform: MUBI, Kanopy

Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema, Classic Cinema

Where to Watch

An Easy Girl (2019) | May 25

Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her. – IMDb.com

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski

Cast: Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau, Lakdhar Dridi, Loubna Abidar, Henri-Noël Tabary

Country: France

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Platform: Netflix

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