Gotta See entertainment | gotta SEE By lisa marie <strong>July</strong> 7th ► Joy Ride The hilarious & unapologetically explicit story of identity & selfdiscovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a oncein-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their noholds-barred, epic travel experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are. Joy Ride is directed by Malaysian writer / filmmaker Adele Lim, making her feature directorial debut after working as a producer / writer for TV, and as a screenwriter on Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon. <strong>July</strong> 12th ► Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that 42 | july <strong>2023</strong> | www.<strong>Atlantic</strong><strong>Ave</strong><strong>Magazine</strong>.com threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is again directed by American filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the movies The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, plus both Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation & Fallout. The cast in Part One includes Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, and Cary Elwes. <strong>July</strong> 19th ► The Deepest Breath ( Netflix) Laura McGann (also of the doc Revolutions previously) spent years collecting all of the footage and putting together this film, and it shows. Her passion for telling this story is evident in every frame of this film. The Deepest Breath introduces us all to two wonderful people - ambitious Italian freediving champion Alessia Zecchini, and the beloved Irish adventurer / freediving instructor / safety diver Stephen Keenan. They don’t meet until many years later into their careers, but the film tells their stories in parallel from childhood into adulthood. There’s a lovely cinematic comparison throughout with how they each choose unique lives. Aside from a harrowing inside look at the sport for freediving, the doc is another life-affirming reminder that living a good life is not about the money you make, but what you do, how you treat people, what you dedicate your life to, what your time is spent on. There’s even a few interviews with Stephen’s father where he candidly discusses this, saying that at first he wasn’t sure if his son was successful, but after watching this film there’s no way anyone can deny - this man was a hero. He changed lives, he even literally saved lives. COPYRIGHTED
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