Earning the largest distribution deal in Sundance history, Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation arrives in October and tells the story of Nat Turner, who organized a slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830’s.

Two of this week’s new releases have gotten rave reviews from critics while one failed to live up to it’s star studded cast.

Batman takes a much overdue vacation while the other Justice League members watch over Gotham but things quickly get out of hand when The Joker and the rest of Batman’s rogues escape from Arkham Asylum in the next Lego Justice League movie, Gotham City Breakout.

Nicolas Winding Refn follows up the brutal beauty of Only God Forgives with the horror of the fashion world as Elle Fanning stars in The Neon Demon

Godzilla returns home as Toho releases their first Godzilla movie in 12 years this summer, Godzilla Resurgence.

We’re going on the “adventure of a lifetime” this month by watching Cannon Films attempt at an Indiana Jones style adventure movie, King Solomon’s Mines, with Richard Chamberlain starring as public domain action hero Allan Quartermain.

Sasha Petrosevich is an undercover FBI agent at New Alacatraz prison when a team of mercenaries storms the prison to interrogate an inmate who knows where over $200 million in gold bricks is hidden and Sasha must rally the inmates to stop them.

After his hands are ruined in a car accident, surgeon Stephen Strange travels the globe for a way to heal them and eventually comes across the the magical citadel of The Ancient One in the upcoming Doctor Strange movie.

Not a lot out this week but the latest DC Animated Movie, Justice League vs Teen Titans, is along with The Forest, Laurence Fishburne vs Tom Jane in Standoff and a few other things.

The Old School Kung Fu festival was this past weekend in NYC and, while we weren’t able to attend in person, we were able to check out a few of the films highlighted this year, and one from last year’s Ninja fest.