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# ✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: August 9-15
- URL: https://pamphleteer.co/post/weekly-film-rundown-august-9-15/
- Published: 2024-08-09T16:15:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-17T11:10:00.000Z
- Author: Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
- Tags: Movies, #hidden, #Import 2026-08-01 20:40

*The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our* [*2024 Film Guide*](https://pamphleteer.co/post/the-pamphleteers-2024-comprehensive-film-guide/amp/).

[***Borderlands***](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/borderlands?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Eli Roth; Starring Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart)Bad buzz about this adaptation of the first-person shooter game following a ragtag crew searching for a relic on a junkyard planet hasn’t changed our minds that horror maestro Roth’s latest is a must-see. *Now playing in theaters.* 

[***Cuckoo***](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cuckoo%5F2024?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Tilman Singer; Starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens) A teenager living with her father at an idyllic German Alps inn succumbs to bloody visions and unrelenting dread in this indie horror entry. *Now playing in theaters.* 

[***It Ends With Us*** ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/it%5Fends%5Fwith%5Fus?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Justin Baldoni; Starring Blake Lively) This Colleen Hoover adaptation about a woman hoping to free herself from the [cycles](https://pamphleteer.co/post/weekly-film-rundown-august-9-15/) of abuse that began in her childhood when she falls for a brilliant neurosurgeon is slated to be late summer’s breakout. *Now playing in theaters*.

[***Didi*** ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/didi%5F2024?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Sean Wang; Starring Joan Chen and Izaac Wang) A teen dramedy about a Taiwanese-American 13-year-old navigating middle school and online life in the summer of 2008 that proved Sundance’s biggest crowd pleaser. *Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20 and The Belcourt.* 

[***Sing Sing***](https://www.belcourt.org/films/sing-sing/?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Greg Kwedar; Starring Colman Domingo and Paul Raci) Inmates in the famous prison find personal redemption through their in-house theater troupe. *Now playing at the Belcourt.*

[**Weekend Classics: Animal Kingdom @The Belcourt**](https://www.belcourt.org/events/animalkingdom/?ref=pamphleteer.co)In conjunction with Cat Video Fest, The Belcourt has curated a series of the greatest animal movies ever made. This week brings a 35mm print of the unparalleled bird documentary *Winged Migration* and Hitchock’s *The Birds*. 

[***The Last Front***](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the%5Flast%5Ffront?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Julien Hayet-Kerknawi; Starring Iain Glen) A family man protects his loved ones by any means necessary as the Germans advance on his town during WWI. *Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20, AMC Murfreesboro 16, and Regal Hollywood 27\.* 

[***Purple Rain***](https://www.belcourt.org/films/purple-rain/?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Albert Mangoli; Starring Prince) His Royal Badness’s 80s biopic joins the lineup of The Belcourt’s Music City Mondays. 

[***The Color Purple***](https://www.belcourt.org/films/the-color-purple/?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Dir. Steven Spielberg; Starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey) the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Alice Walker’s classic American novel about two sisters growing up in the Deep South returns to the Belcourt this Wednesday. 

**The Latest in Bolly/Tolly/Kolly/Lollywood and Other Special Presentations of Asian and Middle Eastern Imports.**

[***Twilight of the Warriors: Boxed In***](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20316748/?ref%5F=nv%5Fsr%5Fsrsg%5F0%5Ftt%5F6%5Fnm%5F2%5Fin%5F0%5Fq%5Ftwilight%2520of%2520the%2520warri&ref=pamphleteer.co)(Cantonese; Dir.Soi Cheang; Starring Louis Koo ) A Wayward teen gets caught up in the gang violence of a walled-off city. *Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20 and Regal Hollywood 27.*

[***Minmini*** ](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15380516/?ref%5F=nv%5Fsr%5Fsrsg%5F1%5Ftt%5F6%5Fnm%5F2%5Fin%5F0%5Fq%5FMinmini%2520&ref=pamphleteer.co)(Tamil; Halitha Shameem; Starring Esther Anil) Two youngsters grapple with survivor's guilt. *Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27.*

[***Ex Merati*** ](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my%5Fwifes%5Fex?ref=pamphleteer.co)(Arabic; Dir. Moatax El Tony; Starring Muhammad Mamdooh) An ex-convict who is paroled early finds out his wife has moved on in this Egyptian comedy. *Now playing at Regal Opry Mills 20.*