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Gotta See<br />
entertainment | gotta SEE By lisa marie<br />
<strong>July</strong> 7th<br />
► Joy Ride<br />
The hilarious & unapologetically explicit story of identity & selfdiscovery<br />
centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a oncein-a-lifetime<br />
international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park)<br />
business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry<br />
Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be<br />
a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese<br />
soap star; Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their noholds-barred,<br />
epic travel experience becomes a journey of bonding,<br />
friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal<br />
truth of what it means to know and love who you are. Joy Ride is<br />
directed by Malaysian writer / filmmaker Adele Lim, making her<br />
feature directorial debut after working as a producer / writer for<br />
TV, and as a screenwriter on Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the<br />
Last Dragon.<br />
<strong>July</strong> 12th<br />
► Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One<br />
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt<br />
(Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous<br />
mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that<br />
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threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands.<br />
With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and<br />
dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the<br />
globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy,<br />
Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than<br />
his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.<br />
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is again directed<br />
by American filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the<br />
movies The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, plus both Mission:<br />
Impossible - Rogue Nation & Fallout. The cast in Part One includes<br />
Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai<br />
Morales, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry<br />
Czerny, and Cary Elwes.<br />
<strong>July</strong> 19th<br />
► The Deepest Breath ( Netflix)<br />
Laura McGann (also of the doc Revolutions previously) spent<br />
years collecting all of the footage and putting together this film,<br />
and it shows. Her passion for telling this story is evident in every<br />
frame of this film. The Deepest Breath introduces us all to two<br />
wonderful people - ambitious Italian freediving champion Alessia<br />
Zecchini, and the beloved Irish adventurer / freediving instructor /<br />
safety diver Stephen Keenan. They don’t meet until many years later<br />
into their careers, but the film tells their stories in parallel from<br />
childhood into adulthood. There’s a lovely cinematic comparison<br />
throughout with how they each choose unique lives. Aside from a<br />
harrowing inside look at the sport for freediving, the doc is another<br />
life-affirming reminder that living a good life is not about the<br />
money you make, but what you do, how you treat people, what you<br />
dedicate your life to, what your time is spent on. There’s even a few<br />
interviews with Stephen’s father where he candidly discusses this,<br />
saying that at first he wasn’t sure if his son was successful, but after<br />
watching this film there’s no way anyone can deny - this man was a<br />
hero. He changed lives, he even literally saved lives.<br />
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