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The follow-ups to the engaging martial arts movie 3 NINJAS, this trilogy follows the adventures of three young brothers whose grandfather has trained them in ninjitsu. 3 NINJAS KICK BACK sees Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum traveling to Japan with their grandfather to help him deliver a ceremonial dagger at a ninja tournament. The trio’s martial arts skills will be put to the test by a trio of bumbling thieves and a handful of opposing ninjas. Then, in 3 NINJAS KNUCKLE UP, the mini-ninjas take on a wealthy toxic waste polluter who threatens to obliterate the Indian community. To do this the boys must, against all odds, locate a disk with incriminating evidence. Finally, in 3 NINJAS HIGH NOON AT MEGA MOUNTAIN, the dastardly villains Medusa and Lothar Zogg invade a family fun park and take its summer visitors hostage. Now it’s up to the three ninjas to save the day, with a little help from an aging action movie hero who needs to pull off the rescue to regain his street credibility.

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Based on Matt Crowley’s play of the same name, THE BOYS IN THE BAND is a hilarious farce that focuses on the personal mores and identity politics of a group of gay friends at a private birthday party in Manhattan. Released one year after Federico Fellini’s SATYRICON, BOYS reflects director William Friedkin’s youthful admiration of the personal European films many American directors were emulating at the time. Michael (Kenneth Nelson) is throwing a birthday party for his scathingly self-deprecating friend Harold (Leonard Frey), and the exclusive circle of friends invited are all gay men, all of whom suffer some form of the identity crises imposed by an intolerant society that requires complicit suppression. The release from social preoccupations behind closed doors results in an alcohol-induced claustrophobia, and when an unexpected visit from Michael’s straight college friend takes everyone by surprise, unspoken personal revelations come boiling to the surface. With the sort of lively and rabid repartee of an Oscar Wilde play combined with the dark, psychological stalking of Edward Albee/Mike Nichols WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, THE BOYS IN THE BAND is Friedkin’s most accomplished, and final, European-influenced, auteurist effort before he turned to genre and self-described commercial filmmaking.

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Director Fumihiko Sori (PING PONG) helms VEXILLE, a sci-fi anime feature that takes place in the year 2077. Relations between Japan and the rest of the world have deteriorated to the extent that the country has cut off all communication with the other inhabitants of Earth. Vexille is a female commander who leads a team of U.S. special forces, named SWORD, who have been charged with infiltrating Japan to discover the potentially dangerous technological advances the country is making. Their mission, and their discoveries, reveal a new android that could spark chaos if it the Japanese unleash it on the globe. (1 hr. 49 min.)

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Samson fights an army of Tartars to save a Chinese princess, then burrows out of a rocky tomb in this classic sword-and-sandal spectacle.

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