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In The Etruscan Smile, Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO’s Succession) stars as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory’s life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson and by a new love affair with a beautiful woman (Rosanna Arquette). The film also features JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Tim Matheson, Peter Coyote, and Treat Williams.

Goldstone tells the tale of an indigenous detective, Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen, Mystery Road), who arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation opens a web of crime, corruption, trampling of indigenous people’s land rights, and human trafficking. Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh (Alex Russell, SWAT), so together they can bring justice to Goldstone. Also starring two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook) as the corrupt mayor, David Wenham (Lord of the Rings) as the greedy mine director, David Gulpilil (Crocodile Dundee) as the indigenous man who can’t be bought, and Cheng Pei-Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as the unscrupulous madam. Film noir meets Great American Western in the Outback.