New This Week in Theaters, September 15, 2016

 Blair Witch (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Callie Hernandez, Valorie Curry, Brandon Scott

After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling.

 Snowden (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson

The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

 Bridget Jones’s Baby (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey

Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father.

 Operation Avalanche (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Sharon Belle, Matt Johnson, Krista Madison

In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

 Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (PG)
Opens on Friday, September 16

A documentary on the Australia-based band Hillsong and their rise to prominence as an international church.

 Mr. Church (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Britt Robertson, Eddie Murphy, Natascha McElhone

“Mr. Church” tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook – Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.

 Malibu Road (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Jessica Jade Andres, Michael Andricopoulos, Lillian Solange Beaudoin

Dr. Raymond Forrester, professor of psychology at UCLA, takes student and Hollywood starlet Dorothy Crowder to a Malibu hotel of questionable reputation. The two ingest LSD, sent in a mysterious package to Forrester, and become some of the first Americans to go on a psychedelic experience. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year’s Eve 1960 and now the duo must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in ‘paradise.’

 The Vessel (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Lucas Quintana, Martin Sheen, Jacqueline Duprey

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school’s remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.

 Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman

If there’s one thing that the men of Rockford Texas love as much as their women, it’s their guns. But when a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna, to rethink Rockford’s obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down. Much to the chagrin of her husband,  Jenna ignites a movement by recruiting the women to withhold sex from the men until every gun in Rockford is vanquished. A wild and hilarious showdown ensues between the sexes. As tensions and libidos rise, the men and women of Rockford must decide what’s really important: keeping the peace or getting a piece.

 Bastard Son of a Thousand Fathers (R)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Lanre Sarumi, Tirf Alexius, Remoh Romeo

A doctor-turned sociopath develops the ultimate, addictive, illegal drug and will stop at nothing to get it in the hands of ‘customers’.

 Wild Oats (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Demi Moore, Jessica Lange, Judd Hirsch

Everything changes for Eva when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

 Silicon Cowboys (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 16

Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM, for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.

 Miss Stevens (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Lily Rabe, Oscar Nuñez, Rob Huebel, Lili Reinhart

A comedy focused on a teacher who chaperones a group of high schoolers to a state drama competition.

 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

 The Good Neighbor (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 16
Starring: James Caan, Logan Miller, Keir Gilchrist, Laura Innes

A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor. While keeping his every reaction under surveillance, they see much more than they bargained for.

Synopsis by IMDB.

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