Maya Jama Edition: Bits & Pieces

Maya Jama Edition: Bits & Pieces – Jason Statham is back as Adam Clay in The Beekeeper 2. Pulled back into the fight when the Beekeeper organization goes rogue and sets its sights on controlling the government, Clay must take on the very group that made him.

From director Ruth Carney (Shetland, Brassic), making her feature film directorial debut, and writer, producer and actor Daniel P. Lewis, who drew on his own experiences with mental health, Amazing Grace combines raw social realism with a restrained cinematic style to explore trauma, shame and emotional isolation, while ultimately offering a message of hope, connection and resilience.

Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life—one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.

Russia, 2022. Amidst the comfortable trappings of affluence and domesticity, corporate executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) finds himself under siege on all fronts. At home, he is haunted by suspicions that his increasingly distant wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) is unfaithful. At work, he contends with a demand from local authorities to draft a quota of employees for the war in Ukraine. Desperate to keep his hands clean, Gleb struggles to reassert control even as the collapse of his carefully ordered life seems fated to accelerate toward violence.

The North depicts the grueling and emotional journey of two friends – Chris, a Dutchman (Bart Harder) and Lluis, a Spaniard (Carles Pulido) – who reunite after a decade to re-hike Scotland’s famed 330-mile West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. Brimming with both joy and reservation, they undertake Scotland’s lush, but unpredictable terrain as their days are filled with majestic mountainous vistas, creekside camping, the symphonic strains of wildlife, pummeling rain and a slew of eccentric fellow travelers each on their own paths of self-discovery.

Set against the sun-soaked surf culture of Southern California, IN WAVES, based on a true story, explores the joy of finding your soulmate, the courage it takes to live life to the fullest, and the enduring power of love to shape who we become and what we leave behind.

After suffering a shocking tragedy, a mother, daughter, and teenage boy embark on a trip to Tenerife, hoping to recreate a family holiday that never happened, only to find that under a strange new sun, the past, present, and future begin to overlap.

It’s the summer holidays in rural New Zealand, and fourteen-year-old Sid has nothing to fill them. Her father has checked out, and her only window onto a bigger life is a borrowed MSN account. Online and off, she watches the older teens who seem to move through the world so easily, and tries on their attitudes like stolen clothes. What she feels for them is part envy, part something she doesn’t yet have the words for.

A group of children are trapped inside a surreal 1990s children’s television show hosted by a giant orange unicorn named BUDDY, where defiance results in extreme violence.