📺 “The Bear: Season 5” Trailer: Carmy Walks Away as Syd, Richie, and Sugar Fight to Keep the Doors Open in Final Season — Premiering Wed, June 25th on FX on Hulu/Disney+

Here’s a thought: the success of The Bear was never really about audiences suddenly becoming fascinated by the subtle idiosyncrasies of fine dining. Or about whether a neighborhood sandwich shop could somehow become one of Chicago’s most talked-about eateries.

The show’s success, at least we believe, came from how it challenged our understanding of what success really is and how it should be measured. Personal growth, professional ambition, family baggage, creative fulfillment... all of it gets sifted into a bowl of anxiety, pride, and hard-earned self-discovery. Success isn’t a damn Michelin star.

It was the simple, brutal acknowledgment that Carmy, Syd, Richie, Tina, Sugar, Neil, Marcus, and the rest of the crew are all struggling in one form or another, yet still have to figure out how to work as a unit just to survive the day. Success is honoring that struggle without letting it burn the whole place down. Success is understanding that no one in that kitchen is worth less or more than anyone else.

And as much as Carmy is a culinary wunderkind, the kitchen he has built might very well close up shop sooner than anyone expected. But the true measure of success might be how everyone on that staff has grown, not just as cooks or workers, but as people learning how to trust themselves, trust each other, and keep showing up when the pressure feels impossible.

Something to think about as the fifth and final season prepares to debut later this month, capping off a phenomenal show that was never really just about food, but about the messy, painful, deeply human work of becoming better together.

That seems to be the idea sitting at the center of the final season, which picks up after Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy walks away from the restaurant business, leaving The Bear in the hands of Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and Sugar (Abby Elliott). And because this show has never been interested in giving anyone an easy shift, the team is immediately staring down a financial crisis, a possible sale, a delivery cutoff, and even a flood threatening to wash away whatever stability they had left.

With Sydney now in a new position of authority, stepping into the role of head chef, Richie appears to be stepping up as the kitchen’s biggest cheerleader as everyone fights to keep the place alive. Carmy, meanwhile, is still the tortured chef who seems to have buckled under the pressure of perfection, and his words of encouragement sound more like a confession than a victory lap.

Created by Christopher Storer, who also serves as executive producer alongside Joanna Calo, Josh Senior, Hiro Murai, Nate Matteson, and Matty Matheson, the final season once again brings back Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, Oliver Platt, Jon Bernthal, Ricky Staffieri, Molly Gordon, and more. Storer also serves as the season’s primary director, with Hiro Murai returning to direct as well.

Will The Bear stay open, or will it fail to keep its doors from closing? Maybe the real victory was never the menu, the reviews, or the Michelin star. The true accomplishment isn’t just the food on the plate, but the people who found a way to stand beside each other long enough to serve it.

The final season premieres Wednesday, June 25th on FX on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. Bon appétit, cousin!

📺 “Little House on the Prairie” Trailer: Netflix Reimagines the Ingalls Family’s Journey West in a Sweeping Frontier Drama Series Starring Luke Bracey and Alice Halsey — Streaming Thurs, July 9th on Netflix

Anyone raised on late-1970s and early-’80s television would know — and likely watched — Michael Landon’s classic TV series Little House on the Prairie, one of the pivotal shows of its era to offer American audiences a romantic vision of 19th-century frontier life, where grit, decency, and family values were enough to carry people through even the hardest stretches of hardship.

It was a family show meant to reassure viewers that goodness, faith, and perseverance could still hold a family together, even when life on the frontier kept testing them at every turn. Which just might make it the perfect show to bring back, as today’s audience seems hungrier than ever for comfort viewing that still wants to believe old-fashioned resilience can carry us through hard times.

Featuring Australian actor Luke Bracey (Hacksaw Ridge) in the Michael Landon role of Charles “Pa” Ingalls, Netflix’s new Little House on the Prairie series offers a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved semi-biographical books about her family establishing a homestead on the American frontier during the 1870s. The story begins with the Ingalls family setting out to build a new life in the West, following their journey across the frontier, where the beauty of the open prairie comes with isolation, danger, uncertainty, and the daily struggle to survive.

As seen in the trailer, this appears to be a heartfelt reimagining that keeps the focus on family, sacrifice, and the fragile idea of home. It also gives Netflix a chance to revisit a familiar American story with a broader scope, leaning into a more historically grounded setting and character landscape without drifting too far from the core principles of family struggle, resilience, and communal harmony.

Alice Halsey, of the soap series Days of Our Lives, steps into the shoes of young Laura Ingalls, once played famously by Melissa Gilbert in the original TV series. Laura is the heart and eyes of her family’s frontier experience, traveling across the plains in search of a better life.

Halsey is joined by Crosby Fitzgerald and Skywalker Hughes as Caroline and Mary Ingalls, along with Jocko Sims as Dr. George Tann, Warren Christie as John Edwards, Wren Zhawenim Gotts as Good Eagle, Meegwun Fairbrother as Mitchell, and Alyssa Wapanatâhk as White Sun.

Whether this new version can capture the warmth and staying power of the original remains to be seen. But the timing might be better than ever for a revival built around the stubborn belief that home is something worth building.

Little House on the Prairie premieres Thursday, July 9th on Netflix.

📺 “Ride or Die” Trailer: Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham Go on the Run After One Best Friend Turns Out to Be an Assassin in Amazon’s New Buddy-Comedy Action Series — Debuting Wed, July 15th on Prime Video

Some friendships come with baggage. Others come with aliases, getaway routes, and a body count that definitely should have come up over brunch.

That’s the setup behind Ride or Die, a new Prime Video series starring Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) and Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) as Debbie Claybourne and Judith Burton, two lifelong best friends whose relationship hits a very unusual speed bump when Debbie discovers Judith has been living a secret life as an international assassin.

Naturally, this is the kind of revelation between close friends that leads to a little anger and some awkward tension. But those group hugs will have to wait after a hit goes wrong and a mysterious figure from Judith’s past resurfaces, putting both women in immediate danger. With Judith’s secret blown and Debbie’s husband seemingly tied to some very bad people, the ladies are thrown into a frantic race across Europe, with law enforcement, trained killers, and dangerous criminals closing in from every direction.

The success of the show appears to rest heavily on Spencer and Waddingham, whose onscreen pairing seems primed for a little comedic friction. Put them together in a cross-continental buddy comedy with bullets flying, and the series has plenty of room to play both the friendship angle and the spies-on-the-run hijinks.

Created by Tessa Coates, with Matt Miller serving as showrunner, Ride or Die also features a strong supporting cast led by Bill Nighy as a stern British operative running operations from base, alongside Ed Skrein, Sylvia Hoeks, Calam Lynch, Savannah Steyn, and Jamie Parker.

Filmmaker Peyton Reed, best known for Bring It On and the Ant-Man films, is among the directors helming episodes.

Sometimes besties forever simply means dodging bullets and bad guys. We’ll see if Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham are truly “ride or die” buddies when the series debuts Wednesday, July 15th on Prime Video.

📺 “Elle” Trailer: This ’90s-Set Legally Blonde Prequel Series Rewinds Elle Woods Back to Her Grunge-Era High School Years Starring Lexi Minetree — Premiering Wed, July 1st on Prime Video

Before Harvard Law, courtroom victories, and one of the most famous bend-and-snaps in movie history, Elle Woods was just trying to survive high school. And yes, apparently even Elle had to deal with messy friendships, questionable romances, unwelcoming cliques, and the deeply unfair emotional warfare of teenage life.

Set in 1995 at the height of the grunge era, Elle rewinds the Legally Blonde universe back to Elle’s formative years, with Lexi Minetree stepping into the role of the future pink-powered legal icon. This time, Elle is navigating family friction, a major move, and the kind of fashion choices only the mid-’90s could fully justify.

The series also puts a strong focus on Elle’s family, especially her bond with her mother Eva, played by June Diane Raphael. Tom Everett Scott co-stars as Elle’s father Wyatt, who moves the family from the sunny hills of Southern California to the rainy gray of Seattle, during a time when grunge was in and glitz was out. While Elle struggles to fit into her new high school environment, she doesn’t let the flannel-clad locals break her stride, leaning into her sunny disposition to turn the whole experience into a very Elle Woods kind of reinvention.

Jacob Moskovitz, Gabrielle Policano, Chandler Kinney, Zac Looker, Amy Pietz, and the late James Van Der Beek help round out the ensemble cast of this ’90s-era comedy throwback, as this fish-out-of-water story gets bedazzled with a little Beverly Hills sparkle.

Created by Laura Kittrell (High School, Insecure), who co-showruns and executive produces alongside Caroline Dries, the streaming series also has Reese Witherspoon onboard as an executive producer.

Elle premieres Wednesday, July 1st on Prime Video.

📺 “Lioness: Season 3” Teaser: Zoe Saldaña Returns to Taylor Sheridan’s CIA Thriller as the War Comes Closer to Home — Returning Sun, August 2nd on Paramount+

Zoe Saldaña is one of those rare actresses probably best known for playing space-age heroines, from Avatar to the Guardians of the Galaxy films. And despite winning an Oscar for the wildly divisive narco-musical Emilia Pérez, Saldaña has quietly been delivering some of her strongest work in Taylor Sheridan’s military action-thriller series Lioness.

She stars as Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, a no-nonsense CIA operative responsible for training and leading female undercover agents through some of the government’s most dangerous missions. The balance between mother and warrior is nothing new for Saldaña, but the difference here is obvious: she isn’t hidden beneath motion capture or alien makeup. She’s raw, lethal, and quietly intimidating, proving she can still do the heavy lifting herself, no special effects required.

In Season 3, Joe finds herself surrounded by hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals as the war she’s been fighting begins reaching into every corner of her life. That means the line between duty and home gets thinner, especially as she tries to protect her family while managing a program built for deception, sacrifice, and impossible choices.

Morgan Freeman returns as U.S. Secretary of State Edwin Mullins, with Nicole Kidman as CIA official Kaitlyn Meade, Michael Kelly as Deputy Director Byron Westfield, Dave Annable as Joe’s husband Neal, and Hannah Love Lanier as their teenage daughter. Also returning are Laysla De Oliveira and Genesis Rodriguez, with Yellowstone alum Ian Bohen joining the Season 3 cast.

Lioness: Season 3 is slated to premiere Sunday, August 2nd on Paramount+.

📺 “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” Trailer: Larry David Takes on American History in HBO’s New Limited Sketch Comedy Series Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary — Premieres Fri, June 26th on HBO Max

America’s 250th anniversary is getting a history lesson, which naturally means Larry David has arrived to complain about it. Executive-produced by David, Jeff Schaffer, and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, this seven-episode HBO limited sketch comedy revisits the country’s past through awkward misunderstandings, petty grievances, and social discomfort. With Schaffer directing and familiar Curb Your Enthusiasm faces expected to appear, this looks like a very Larry David way to celebrate history: by turning national reflection into one long, uncomfortable argument.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3” Trailer: Maggie and Negan’s Uneasy Alliance Faces a Major Reset in AMC’s Zombie Spin-Off with Lauren Cohan & Jeffrey Dean Morgan — Returns Sun, July 26th on AMC and AMC+

Maggie and Negan may never fully outrun their brutal history, but survival has a strange way of rewriting the rules. Season 3 brings Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan back into a walker-filled world where their reluctant partnership continues to shift from bitter necessity into something closer to trust. With the new season teasing a major twist, an alternate-reality episode set in a very different version of New York City, and another test of their complicated dynamic, this spin-off looks ready to ask whether two former enemies can ever truly become allies.

📺 “Trying: Season 5” Trailer: Hard-Pressed Couple Nikki and Jason Face a New Family Storm in Apple’s British Comedy Series Starring Esther Smith, Rafe Spall & Charlotte Riley — Premieres Wed, July 8th on Apple TV

Parenting is hard enough before someone from the past knocks everything sideways. Season 5 of Apple’s heartfelt British comedy finds Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall) facing a new wave of complications after Princess and Tyler’s biological mother Kat (Charlotte Riley) suddenly reenters their lives. With their carefully built family thrown into fresh emotional confusion, the new season looks set to keep balancing messy parenting with the kind of domestic mayhem that comes from trying to hold everyone together.

📺 “Human Vapor” Trailer: Toho’s Classic Sci-Fi Horror Gets a Modern Reboot as a Killer Turns Fear Into a Deadly Force in Netflix’s New Japanese Sci-Fi Thriller Series — Premieres Thurs, July 2nd on Netflix

A villainous vapor is about to make society hold its breath. This new eight-episode Netflix series follows suspended detective Kenji Okamoto (Shun Oguri) as he’s pulled into a bizarre murder investigation after a college professor suddenly swells and explodes on live television. When a man calling himself the Human Vapor (UTA) announces more killings, Kenji teams with reporter Kyoko (Yu Aoi) to uncover the truth behind a culprit who seems impossible to contain. Based on the classic 1960 Toho film, this new version brings in Japanese director Shinzo Katayama and Korean writers Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) and Ryu Yong-jae (Parasyte: The Grey), with visual effects by Shirogumi, the Academy Award-winning team behind Godzilla Minus One, for a bold new visual spectacle.

📺 “Notes from the Last Row” Trailer: A Failed Novelist Finds Dangerous Inspiration in His Student’s Writing in Netflix’s Korean Psychological Drama Starring Old Boy’s Choi Min-sik — Arrives Fri, June 26th on Netflix

A great piece of writing can change a life, though maybe not always for the better. Old Boy’s Choi Min-sik stars as a failed novelist turned literature professor who becomes fascinated by the work of a quiet student whose writing carries an unsettling kind of power. What begins as private instruction soon slips into obsession, as teacher and student blur the line between mentorship, control, and creative possession. Adapted from Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row and directed by Kim Gyu-tae, this Korean psychological drama series turns literary ambition into a slow-burning mind game.

📺 “Fightland” Teaser: A Former Boxer Turned Newly Released Convict Seeks Redemption and Revenge in This 50 Cent-Produced Crime Series Starring Howard Charles and Nicholas Pinnock — Debuts Friday, July 31st on STARZ

Boxing has always had a dirty side, and this new STARZ crime drama looks ready to throw every punch from inside the criminal machine. Executive-produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the series stars Howard Charles as Duke Kilroy, a British-born boxer whose world heavyweight title win turns tragic when his brother is killed and Duke’s own fallout sends him to prison for eight years. Once released, Duke returns home chasing vengeance against the vanished criminal kingpin and former promoter Kingsley Marshall (Nicholas Pinnock), only to find Kingsley’s family, including Joy (Deborah Ayorinde), the love of Duke’s life, left behind in the wreckage. With cartels, boxing money, and old betrayals closing in, Duke has to turn the instincts that made him a champion into weapons for revenge.

📺 “The Map of Longing” Trailer: A Final Gift Sends One Young Woman (Alícia Falcó) Through Grief, Self-Discovery, and Unexpected Romance in This Spanish Miniseries Based on Alice Kellen’s Bestselling Novel — Streams Friday, July 17th on Netflix

Grief becomes a map in this emotional Spanish miniseries based on Alice Kellen’s bestselling novel. Alícia Falcó stars as Greta, a young woman who has spent her life believing she was born to save her sister Lucy, only to be left lost when Lucy dies unexpectedly. But before her death, Lucy leaves behind “The Map of Longing,” a deeply personal game meant to guide Greta through her pain, push her toward self-discovery, and lead her to Will (Pablo Álvarez), a mysterious young man carrying heartbreak of his own.

📺 “Camp Snoopy: Season 2” Trailer: Snoopy Leads the Beagle Scouts Into the Wild for a New Round of Summer Camp Adventures — Streams Fri, June 26th on Apple TV

The Beagle Scouts are back on badge duty. Season 2 finds Snoopy and his troop heading into nature after learning their group may be on the verge of disbanding, using the Beagle Scout Manual as their guide through the Great Outdoors. While Snoopy chases merit badges, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang settle into summer at Camp Spring Lake, where hiking, swimming, campfires, and classic camp mishaps are all part of this new season.

📺 “The Doomies” Trailer: Two Best Friends Accidentally Open a Portal to Evil in Disney’s New Animated Creature Comedy Series — Debuts Thurs, June 26th on Disney+

Friendship gets a serious stress test when the underworld comes knocking. Disney+’s new animated adventure comedy follows Bobby (Max Mittelman) and Romy (Madison Calderon), two best friends who accidentally open a portal to evil and turn their peaceful coastal town into a playground for creatures of doom. With monsters let loose and Bobby becoming a major target, the duo must chase down the mystery while dealing with the kind of inner demons that don’t always come with fang and claws.

📺 “Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston” Teaser: Tom Hiddleston Revisits the Final Hours of Pompeii in National Geographic’s New Historical Documentary — Coming Soon to NatGeo, Hulu, and Disney+

Sometimes to understand the present, we have to dig through the ash of the past. Loki star Tom Hiddleston produces and narrates this National Geographic documentary, which revisits the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the ordinary people caught in Pompeii’s final hours. Tracing the disaster minute by minute and hour by hour, this new TV special looks at the choices, panic, and survival stories buried beneath one of history’s most infamous natural disasters.

📺 “Worst Neighbor Ever” Trailer: Netflix’s True-Crime Series Turns Next-Door Tension Into Stories of Violence, Harassment, and Fear — Streams Wed, July 1st on Netflix

Bad neighbors are one thing. Lethal ones are another. Netflix’s true-crime series returns with firsthand accounts of neighborhood disputes that spiral into violence, intimidation, and deadly obsession. Using testimonials, bodycam footage, and animated reenactments, this docuseries digs into the unsettling possibility that the biggest threat on the block may be living right next door.

📺 “The American Experiment” Trailer: Netflix’s Five-Part Documentary Series Reexamines the Radical Question Behind American Democracy — Premieres Wed, June 24th on Netflix

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this five-part American history docuseries looks back at the country’s founding through one deceptively simple question: can a people govern themselves? The series brings together historians, political figures, legal voices, tribal chiefs, military experts, and thinkers across the political spectrum to explore how America’s original debates still echo today. With Tom Hanks involved among its executive producers, this looks like a broad, serious-minded civic history lesson with the present very much in view.

📺 “Hammerhead Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory” Trailer: National Geographic Heads Into Mexico’s Pacific Waters for a Rare Shark Encounter — Premieres Sun, July 5th on NatGEO, Hulu/Disney+

Fearless wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory heads into Mexico’s Pacific waters in this new National Geographic documentary focused on one of the ocean’s most recognizable predators. The special follows Gregory as he investigates why hammerhead shark sightings have become increasingly rare and how protected waters may offer a path forward. The journey builds toward a rare encounter that proves the ocean still has plenty of ways to make humans feel very small.

📺 “Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 2” Sneak Peek: Netflix Introduces Toph Beifong as Team Avatar Enters the Earth Kingdom — Debuts Thurs, June 25th on Netflix

Team Avatar gets a major new ally in this behind-the-scenes sneak peek at this new season of Netflix’s hit fantasy adventure series based on the beloved anime franchise. The preview introduces Toph Beifong (played by Miyako Cech) as Aang, Sokka, and Katara continue their journey into the Earth Kingdom. With Aang needing to master earthbending and the larger war still pressing in, Season 2 looks ready to open up a more complicated battlefield of politics, secrets, and alliances.

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🎥 “Heart of the Beast” Trailer: Brad Pitt and His Loyal Combat Dog Fight to Survive the Alaskan Wilderness in David Ayer’s Tough-Guy Canine Adventure Drama — Opening In Theaters September 25th

From Lassie to Rin Tin Tin to Old Yeller to The Shaggy Dog and Benji, American audiences have spent generations watching dogs do the impossible on screen: save lives, steal hearts, solve problems, and occasionally make grown adults cry in public.

Now, David Ayer is not the filmmaker who would automatically pop into one’s mind as the next great director of a heartfelt dog adventure. This is, after all, the guy who wrote Training Day, directed End of Watch, turned DC super-villains into antiheroes in Suicide Squad, and recently teamed with Jason Statham on The Beekeeper and A Working Man, where broken bones are about as common as hard stares.

Ayer’s films have, at times, been criticized for being a little too testosterone-fueled. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a soft spot for unlikely heroes and stories where toughness might just come with a wagging tail.

Reuniting with Brad Pitt after their collaboration on the 2014 WWII tank drama Fury — arguably Ayer’s most critically admired film to date, the hard-edged action filmmaker appears to be softening the edges just a bit, though not too much, for a new survival drama where man’s best friend truly lives up to the title. In other words, your favorite pup might not just have your heart... he might have your back, too.

In Heart of the Beast, Pitt stars as James Belmont, a 30-year Army Special Forces veteran who has entered retirement with plenty of scars and traumatic ghosts, many of them shared with his best friend from the field: Odin, a battle-weary, metal-legged combat scouting dog who has endured the same wars, the same dangers, and the same long road home.

As these two old soldiers try to find a way forward, James and Odin find a little solace in the remote quiet of the Alaskan wilderness. But when James unexpectedly suffers a medical emergency while flying a small passenger plane, the subsequent crash leaves both man and dog stranded in brutal, rugged terrain with no one coming to save them. There’s no extraction team, no backup, and no way out except through the very heart of the wilderness.

James and Odin have one more mission to complete, with only one rule left to follow: leave no man... or dog behind.

Heart of the Beast co-stars Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons, along with Canadian Inuk actress Anna Lambe, from the upcoming The Social Reckoning. Meanwhile, Odin is being played by Uber, a real-life mountain rescue dog from New Zealand, where most of the film was shot.

Safe to say, it’s a dog movie for tough dudes. So bring tissues, but maybe keep them tucked next to the survival knife when Heart of the Beast opens in theaters September 25th.

🎥 “Gatto” Teaser: Pixar Heads to Venice for a Feline Mob Tale with Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne — Coming to Theaters March 5th, 2027

Pixar has given us the first look at their latest animated adventure, Gatto. And yes, this one appears to understand an important truth about cats: they may be easily distracted, but they absolutely mean business. And whatever you do, don’t steal their tuna.

The new teaser introduces Nero, a scrappy black cat voiced by Mark Ruffalo, and Rocco, a ruthless feline mob boss voiced by Laurence Fishburne. The preview drops us straight into a funny interrogation scene, with Nero and Rocco questioning another cat in the kind of setup that makes the whole thing feel like Pixar wandered into a tiny Venetian crime movie and decided to put paws on everybody.

Set in the canal-ridden, superstition-soaked city of Venice, Italy, Gatto follows Nero after years of maneuvering through the city and starting to wonder whether he’s lived the right lives. Unfortunately for him, that kind of soul-searching gets complicated when you owe a debt to the local cat mob boss.

Before long, Nero is forced into an unexpected friendship that may finally help him find his purpose, assuming Rocco doesn’t get the better of him first.

The film comes from director Enrico Casarosa and producer Andrea Warren, the Oscar-nominated filmmaking team behind Luca, which already gives this project a strong sense of visual promise. It also appears to move away from the glossy 3D Pixar style toward a sketchier, hand-drawn aesthetic, a look that has become one of animation’s more welcome trends lately.

Venice, cats, superstition, and some major mobster energy? That’s a pretty solid recipe for another Pixar hit.

Gatto arrives exclusively in theaters March 5th, 2027.

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🎥 “Night Nurse” Trailer: A Caregiver Slips Into Desire and Delusion in Georgia Bernstein’s Sexually Charged Thriller Starring Cemre Paksoy, Bruce McKenzie & Mimi Rogers — In Theaters July 10th

Cemre Paksoy stars as Eleni, a new caregiver at a luxury retirement community who gets pulled into a strange web of scam calls targeting elderly residents. Written, produced, and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Georgia Bernstein, this sexually charged thriller follows Eleni as the community’s unsettling rhythms close in and her relationship with her elusive patient Douglas begins to blur the line between care, desire, devotion, and delusion. Bruce McKenzie and Mimi Rogers co-star in a film that looks ready to turn bedside manner into a steamy psychological spiral.

🎥 “Chapter 51” Trailer: Abigail Breslin and Colman Domingo Enter a Hollywood Murder Mystery as a Troubled Film Production Turns Deadly in Tyler Shields’ Tinseltown Thriller — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital June 23rd

A massive movie production becomes the scene of a dark Hollywood mystery in this Tinseltown thriller from photographer-turned-filmmaker Tyler Shields. Centering on a string of murders tied to a $500 million film called Dissident, Abigail Breslin, Colman Domingo, Emily Alyn Lind, Charlotte Lawrence, and Connor Paolo star in this inside-showbiz mystery-thriller about how the deaths of three actresses spark fear, suspicion, and a reopened investigation. The setup jumps between a cursed production and an FBI case revived years later, suggesting a story where ambition, obsession, and buried secrets keep rolling long after the cameras stop. Shot in multiple formats, from hand-cranked cameras to a newly created anamorphic IMAX format, the film appears to be chasing a textured, old-meets-new Hollywood intrigue.

🎥 “Look Back” Teaser: Award-winning Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda Brings Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Beloved Manga to Live Action in This Heartfelt Coming-of-Age Story About Two Aspiring Artists — Coming Soon

Palme d’Or winner and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda turns his attention to Tatsuki Fujimoto’s beloved manga with this live-action coming-of-age drama about two girls chasing their dream of becoming manga artists. Directed, edited, and adapted for the screen by Kore-eda, the film follows a creative friendship shaped by ambition, talent, and the fragile emotional pull of making art side by side. After the success of the 2024 animated adaptation, this new version gives Look Back another life on screen, this time through one of modern cinema’s most quietly devastating humanists.

🎥 “Drifter” New Teaser: ‘Fast and Furious’ Star Sung Kang Directs and Stars in This Desert-Set Car Drifting Drama About Speed, Regrets, and Found Family — Coming Soon

Fast and Furious star Sung Kang gets back behind the wheel in more ways than one with this car drifting drama, which he co-writes, directs, and stars in. Set in a forgotten desert town, the film follows a solitary racetrack janitor whose raw gift for drifting is matched only by the tragic past he can’t outrun. When he gets a rare shot at competing in a pro drifting event, he’s forced to confront the one skill speed alone can’t teach: trusting other people. There may be one person behind the wheel, but it will take a close-knit crew to keep him from spinning out for good.

🎥 “Ninja Scroll: 4K Remaster” Re-release Trailer: Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Seminal Anime Classic Returns to Theaters with a Director-Supervised Restoration — Back In Theaters October 4th, 5th & 7th

A legendary anime bloodbath gets a new 4K shine as Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1993 classic Ninja Scroll returns to theaters. The film follows wandering swordsman Jubei, whose rescue of a young ninja woman pulls him into an investigation involving a slaughtered village, a demonic conspiracy, and enemies determined to cut him down before the truth gets out. Written and directed by Kawajiri, this newly restored version was created from a 4K scan of the original 35mm negative, with the filmmaker himself supervising the process.

🎥 “The Kidnapping of Arabella” Trailer: An Aimless Woman Takes an Unlikely Road Trip with a Runaway Eight-Year-Old in Carolina Cavalli’s Offbeat Italian Drama with Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino & Chris Pine — Opening in New York July 17th, Expanding to More Cities Throughout July and August

Some quarter-life crises come with career panic, bad decisions, and the occasional theory about space-time. Benedetta Porcaroli stars as Holly, a restless young woman stuck in a dead-end job who becomes convinced that Arabella, an eight-year-old runaway played by Lucrezia Guglielmino, may somehow be her younger self sent back for a second chance. Written and directed by Carolina Cavalli, this offbeat Italian drama follows the two as they hit the road together, turning one strange encounter into a tender, oddball story about regret, escape, and the people who arrive when we need them most. Chris Pine co-stars as Arabella’s self-absorbed author father in this neo-realist Italian fable with a cosmic little twist.

🎥 “Gangland” Trailer: Lou Diamond Phillips Hunts a Dangerous Fugitive as Buried Reservation Secrets Threaten to Ignite a Gang War in Director Vincent Grashaw’s Tense Crime Thriller — on VOD/Digital July 10th

Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a weathered tribal police officer on the Thunderstone reservation whose past starts closing in fast when this veteran cop and his new trainee track a ruthless fugitive whose return exposes buried secrets and threatens to spark a violent gang war. With Nick Stahl, Kimberly Guerrero, Dana Namerode, Elisha Pratt, and Lane Factor rounding out the cast, this looks like a tense reservation-set crime thriller where the chase is only the beginning of a bigger reckoning.

🎥 “They Fight” Trailer: André Holland Steps Back Into the Ring as a Youth Boxing Coach in Hulu’s Southeast D.C. Boxing Drama with Wendell Pierce — Premieres July 17th on Hulu/Disney+

Redemption has a funny way of dragging you back to the places you swore you left behind. André Holland stars as Walt Manigan, a reformed ex-con who returns home to Southeast D.C. trying to reclaim his life, only to find himself pulled back into a struggling boxing gym run by his old mentor, Slim, played by Wendell Pierce. Inside, a trio of young kid fighters (Quincey, Peanut, and Twin) are battling their own demons with energy, gloves, and very little else. As Walt tries to guide them without losing himself, this inner-city boxing drama makes it clear that the hardest fight is rarely the one happening in the ring.

🎥 “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story” Trailer: HBO’s Sarah Jessica Parker-Produced Documentary Revisits the Public Access Pioneer Who Turned Late-Night TV Into a Fight for Free Speech — Premieres June 30th on HBO and HBO Max

Before influencers, livestreams, and internet fame, there was Robin Byrd broadcasting from New York public access in a black crochet bikini and turning late-night television into a proudly sex-positive platform. This HBO documentary looks back at the cult host of The Robin Byrd Show, whose mix of adult entertainment, experimental art, queer visibility, AIDS awareness, and frank talk about sex made her both a community lifeline and a target in a national censorship battle. Directed by Jyllian Gunther and Stephanie Schwam and produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, the doc follows Byrd as she approaches 70, reflects on a career built far outside the mainstream, and reckons with the legacy of a bawdy cable-access oddity that became something fearless, funny, and deeply New York.

🎥 “Welcome Space Brothers” Trailer: This Stranger-Than-Fiction Doc Explores the Alien-Channeling Spiritual Group That Became a 1980s Public-Access Phenomenon — Kicking Off Its National Road Tour June 13th in Los Angeles with a Live Performance from Moby

Truth gets stranger than sci-fi in this documentary from filmmaker Jodi Wille, the director behind The Source Family, and executive producer Moby. Welcome Space Brothers tells the true story of the Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school and self-healing community founded in Glendale before relocating to El Cajon in the 1970s. Under the cosmic leadership of Ruth E. Norman, known to followers as “Archangel Uriel,” the group evolved from a fringe spiritual movement into a wildly prolific public-access TV fixture of the 1980s. The documentary kicks off its national film tour with a one-night-only Los Angeles screening on June 13th, featuring a special live performance from Moby and the Unarius Choir.

🎥 “Mexicanamerican” Trailer: Filmmaker Eddie Sanchez Looks to His Parents’ VHS Home Movies for a Tender Portrait of Migration, Memory, and the American Dream — Premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival

What does the American Dream cost when the people chasing it are also leaving pieces of themselves behind? In his debut feature documentary, filmmaker Eddie Sanchez turns the camera toward his parents, Lalo and Beby, tracing their courtship, their journey to the United States, and the life they built on the other side of the border. Blending intimate interviews with VHS home movies once sent back to family members they couldn’t visit in person, this decade-spanning collage becomes both a love letter to immigrant sacrifice and a quiet reckoning with the questions families often wait too long to ask.

🎥 “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” Teaser Trailer: William Greaves’ Restored 16mm Documentary Reunites Harlem Renaissance Luminaries for One Extraordinary 1972 Gathering — In Select Theaters October 16th

A decade after William Greaves’ death, one of the genre-defying filmmaker’s most personal works finally steps back into the light. Shot on 16mm film in 1972 and newly restored under the direction of his son David, this landmark documentary captures an extraordinary gathering of Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals as they reminisce, debate, laugh, drink, and reflect on the cultural movement that shaped their lives and the generations that followed.

🎥 “Lockbox” Trailer: Carla Gugino Protects Her Cousin from a Supernatural Force in Daniel Stamm’s Horror Thriller Based on Knifepoint Horror Podcast — In Theaters July 13th

Carla Gugino puts everything on the line in this supernatural horror thriller from director Daniel Stamm, the horror filmmaker behind The Last Exorcism and 13 Sins. Based on the cult podcast Knifepoint Horror and its fan-favorite episode “The Lockbox” by writer, creator, and narrator Soren Narnia, the film follows a woman (Gugino) trying to protect her troubled cousin Winthrop (Lou Taylor Pucci) after he becomes the target of a dangerous otherworldly force. Katharine Isabelle co-stars in this eerie story of family loyalty, hidden terror, and the kind of supernatural threat that does not stop once it starts hunting.

🎥 “Horsegirls” Trailer: A Young Woman (Lillian Carrier) Finds Independence Through Hobbyhorsing in Lauren Meyering’s Heartfelt Feature Debut — In Theaters July 17th

Lillian Carrier stars as Margarita, a 22-year-old woman with autism who discovers the wonderfully specific world of hobbyhorsing just as her mother’s illness returns. Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Lauren Meyering, this heartfelt debut follows Margarita as she sets out to prove her independence to the person who worries about her most... stick horse and all. Gretchen Mol, Jerrod Haynes, and Tony Hale co-star in this coming-of-age story about family, self-determination, and finding your own way forward, even if the ride looks a little unconventional.

🎥 “Time of Death” Trailer: Michael Kelly Investigates a Vanishing Prisoner Inside a Decaying Prison in This Twisty Thriller with Kevin Pollak, Dennis Haysbert & Mena Suvari — On VOD/Digital June 12th

Michael Kelly trades familiar character-actor steel for a lead detective role in this locked-down prison thriller. Kelly stars as an investigator sent to a decaying facility on the verge of shutdown after a prisoner vanishes without a trace. What begins as a routine search quickly turns into a mystery that tightens with every unanswered question. With Kevin Pollak, Dennis Haysbert, and Mena Suvari co-starring, this twisty thriller makes every empty corridor seem like it knows more than it’s saying.

🎥 “Situations” Trailer: Greg Vrotsos Directs and Stars as a Los Angeles Photographer Trying to Move On After a Painful Breakup with P.J. Byrne, Fiona Dourif, and Melora Walters — Screening in Los Angeles June 26th

Getting over someone is hard enough before your friends, career, and every bad decision in Los Angeles start weighing in. LA-based actor Greg Vrotsos makes his feature directorial debut with this Silver Lake-set indie dramedy, starring as a photographer still trying to steady himself three months after a painful breakup. As he drifts through creative circles, fleeting flings, and the awkward pressure to move on, the film turns post-breakup limbo into a messy, funny, and painfully familiar search for whatever comes next. P.J. Byrne, Fiona Dourif, Melora Walters, Fernanda Andrade, George Basil, and No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal round out the supporting cast.

🎥 “Badland Rising” Trailer: Jake Ryan Fights Through the Queensland Wilderness After a Mob Cash Drop Goes Dead Wrong — On VOD/Digital June 12th

A desperate trip home turns into a survival run in this gritty action thriller built around stolen cash, armed pursuers, and one very unlucky ex-SAS sniper. Aussie action star Jake Ryan plays Dave Shepard, a construction worker trying to save his family farm when he accidentally flees a crime scene with money from a Russian mob drop. With a gangster, a hitman, and detectives hot on his tail, Dave is forced to rely on his military training to protect his wife and son. Which means plenty of bullets, bruises, and bad decisions waiting in the Queensland wilderness.

🎥 “Hadestown: The Musical” Trailer: The Tony-Winning Broadway Hit Journeys to the Big Screen — In Theaters Starting July 24th for 5 Nights Only

Love, music, and one very dangerous trip below take center stage in this live theater capture of the Tony-winning musical. Filmed from the West End production and directed for the screen by Brett Sullivan, Hadestown: The Musical reunites the original principal Broadway cast (Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada, and Patrick Page) for Anaïs Mitchell’s folk, blues, and New Orleans jazz-infused reimagining of Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades and Persephone. As Orpheus follows Eurydice into an industrial underworld ruled by Hades, the story turns ancient myth into a soulful battle over love, labor, trust, and whether hope can survive when the world is built to grind it down.

🎥 “Boss Cat” Trailer: Newcomer Olivia Hargroder Fights for Her Family Home Through Krump Dance in Genevieve Clay-Smith’s Feel-Good Australian Dramedy — Coming to Australian Cinemas December 3rd

Grief, family pressure, and one very loud temper take center stage in this feel-good Australian dramedy from filmmaker Genevieve Clay-Smith. Newcomer Olivia Hargroder stars as a woman with Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome, who must fight to keep her family home after her mother’s death, even as her estranged grandmother pushes to sell it and send her away. To make people listen, she has to turn all that anger into something louder, stronger, and more powerful: krump dance!

🎥 “My Father’s Island” International Trailer: Woody Norman Reconnects with Swann Arlaud on a Remote Norwegian Island in Vladimir de Fontenay’s Father-Son Survival Drama — Coming to UK & Ireland Cinemas July 3rd

A father-son reunion turns into an unforgiving survival test in this remote-island drama from director Vladimir de Fontenay. Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon) stars as Roy, a 13-year-old Londoner who agrees to spend a formative year with his estranged father, played by Anatomy of a Fall star Swann Arlaud, on an isolated island deep in the Norwegian fjords. It turns out rebuilding a fractured father-son bond is hard enough before the weather, the wilderness, and years of buried hurt start closing in.

🎥 “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” International Trailer: ‘Cinema Paradiso’ Director Giuseppe Tornatore Profiles Italian Fashion Icon Brunello Cucinelli in This Hybrid Biopic — Coming to UK Cinemas July 24th

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, Malena) comes this portrait of Brunello Cucinelli, tracing his path from humble farming roots to one of Italy’s most celebrated names in fashion. With an original score by Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful composer Nicola Piovani, this hybrid documentary and biopic looks at the philosophy, craftsmanship, and personal vision behind Cucinelli’s rise.

🎥 “Son of the Soil” Trailer: A Haunted Nigerian Ex-Commando Comes Home for Revenge in Chee Keong Cheung’s Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital July 14th

Razaaq Adoti stars as Zion Ladejo, a former Nigerian Special Ops paratrooper living in quiet exile until the death of his sister pulls him back home. Haunted by a mission that went wrong and cut off from the life he left behind, Zion returns to Nigeria to find his community ravaged by a drug epidemic and controlled by a violent criminal network. Directed by Chee Keong Cheung, this Nigerian-set action thriller turns one man’s grief into a hard-charging fight for justice as the streets around him are poisoned by corruption and violence.

🎥 “American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story” Trailer: Martin Sheen Narrates This Documentary About an Oklahoma Priest Who Refused to Abandon Guatemala’s Indigenous Tz’utujil People — In Limited Theatrical Engagement August 26th & 28th

Faith becomes a matter of life and death in this feature-length documentary narrated by Martin Sheen. This tells the true story of Father Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma-born priest who served the Indigenous Tz’utujil people of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, during the country’s brutal civil war. After learning their language, sharing in the life of the community, and helping translate the New Testament into Tz’utujil, Father Stan became a beloved spiritual figure whose refusal to leave made him a target... and a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and unwavering faith.

🎥 “4000 Days” Trailer: Three Families Turn Grief Into a Nationwide Fight Against Fraternity Hazing in This Paris Hilton-Produced Documentary — Premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival

Grief becomes a movement in this powerful documentary from director Daniel E Catullo III and executive producer Paris Hilton. This investigative doc follows three families who, after losing their sons to fraternity hazing, refuse to let silence, secrecy, and institutional denial define what happened next. Over the course of a years-long fight, their private heartbreak turns into a national push for accountability, legislative reform, and a clearer reckoning with the dangers of fraternity culture. The title marks the length of that struggle: the time it took to turn unimaginable loss into action, and action into law.

🎥 “PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie” Trailer: The Pups Crash-Land on a Dinosaur Island in This Prehistoric Animated Adventure — In Theaters August 14th

The PAW Patrol pups are going prehistoric in this new animated adventure, where a mysterious storm sends their ship crashing onto an uncharted tropical island filled with dinosaurs. There, they meet Rex, a dino-savvy pup who has been stranded on the island for years and knows exactly how wild things can get. But when Mayor Humdinger starts mining the island for its natural resources and accidentally wakes a dormant volcano, the pups are thrown into their biggest rescue mission yet. This time, saving the day means stopping Humdinger before the whole island goes extinct.

🎥 “Cars: 20th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: Lightning McQueen Races Back to Theaters as Pixar’s Route 66 Favorite Celebrates Two Decades — Back In Theaters September 4th

Twenty years ago, a detour through Radiator Springs reminded us that the journey can matter just as much as the finish line. Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car whose run toward the Piston Cup gets sidetracked in a sleepy Route 66 town filled with offbeat locals, including Sally, Doc Hudson, and Mater. What starts as an unwanted pit stop becomes a lesson in humility, friendship, and slowing down long enough to see what’s been passing you by. Pixar’s road-trip favorite races back into theaters in September.

🎥 “The Fast and the Furious: 25th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: The Original Street-Racing Blockbuster Roars Once More! — Back In Theaters August 21st

Long before the franchise started launching cars through skyscrapers and sending family drama around the world, The Fast and the Furious lived on the turbo-charged streets of Los Angeles. Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto rules the local racing scene with speed, muscle, and a code of loyalty that doesn’t bend easily, while Paul Walker’s undercover detective finds himself drawn deeper into Dom’s world than he expected. Add Rick Yune’s rival racer Johnny Tran into the mix, and the original film still has that early-2000s blend of adrenaline, and rubber-burning swagger. Now, twenty-five years later, the ride is headed back to theaters this summer where it belongs.

🎥 “The Fifth Element” Re-release Trailer: Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Cult Classic Returns to Theaters for Two Days Only — Back In Theaters July 26th & 27th, via Fathom Ent.

Bruce Willis stars as Korben Dallas, a 23rd-century cab driver pulled into a universe-saving mission in Luc Besson’s groundbreaking sci-fi adventure. With ancient evil returning, Gary Oldman’s Zorg stirring trouble, and Milla Jovovich’s Leeloo emerging as humanity’s best hope, this strange, colorful cult favorite still moves to its own beat as it heads back to theaters next month.

🎥 “Citizen Kane: 85th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: Orson Welles’ Landmark Classic Returns to Theaters with Exclusive Insight from Leonard Maltin — Back In Theaters July 5th & 8th, via Fathom Ent.

Orson Welles’ towering classic heads back to the big screen for its 85th anniversary, bringing Charles Foster Kane’s rise and fall back where it belongs. The film opens with Kane dying alone inside his sprawling Xanadu estate, leaving behind one final mystery in the form of a single word: “Rosebud.” From there, Citizen Kane pieces together the life of a man who inherited a fortune, built a newspaper empire, chased political power, and lost nearly everything through ambition, ego, and scandal. This special anniversary release includes exclusive insight from beloved film critic Leonard Maltin.

🎥 “The Piano: 4K Remastered” Re-release Trailer: Jane Campion’s Oscar-Winning 1993 Drama Returns to Theaters in a New 4K Restoration — Coming Soon

Jane Campion’s haunting Oscar-winning 1993 drama returns to theaters in 4K, bringing Ada’s story of silence, desire, and control back to the big screen. Holly Hunter stars as a mute woman who arrives in 19th-century New Zealand for an arranged marriage, only to have her beloved piano abandoned on the beach. When a neighboring settler (Harvey Keitel) offers a dangerous bargain, the arrangement pulls them into a complicated bond of power, longing, and obsession.

🎥 “Boogie Nights: 4K Restoration” Re-release Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Landmark Disco-Era Drama Returns to the Big Screen — Back in UK Cinemas in June

Oscar-winner Paul Thomas Anderson’s landmark disco-era drama returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration. Set inside the rise, excess, and fallout of the adult-film world, the film remains one of Anderson’s defining works, blending period detail, bruised ambition, and an ensemble-driven portrait of people chasing fame, family, and reinvention wherever they can find it. Now restored for theaters, this cult favorite heads back to UK cinemas this month.

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🎥 “The Social Reckoning” Teaser Trailer: Aaron Sorkin Returns to Facebook with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in This Social Network Companion Piece with Jeremy Allen White & Mikey Madison — Hitting Theaters October 9th

When it was first announced that director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were making a Facebook movie, most people were not only surprised by such an unlikely pairing of subject and talent, but also rolled their eyes at the very idea of turning a social media website into a serious Hollywood drama. Count us among those who initially thought it was a joke, a desperate sign of Hollywood grasping at straws.

Lest we forget, this was around 2009 and 2010, 16 years ago, when Facebook was still considered a growing American tech phenomenon, mostly a college-born social media company, rather than the global digital empire it would eventually become.

Oh, how times have changed.

The Social Network is now widely regarded as one of the defining films of the last 25 years, capturing the rise of a new digital age and the young “disruptors” who reshaped American capitalism in their own image before most of us fully understood where any of it was heading.

The only major blind spot in Fincher’s film, at least in hindsight, is that it could never fully grasp Mark Zuckerberg as the figure he would eventually become. The film certainly depicted him as a callous, almost robotic human being whose ambitions swallowed whatever basic decency he had left. Yet that characterization seemed to stem from a lack of emotional maturity rather than something far more troubling: a powerfully manipulative tech whiz kid who would end up reshaping public life, turning political discourse into a rotting sewer, and warping the entire landscape of modern communication while appearing almost indifferent to the consequences.

So, in the immortal words of James Taylor in Judd Apatow’s Funny People: “Fuck Facebook!”

Now, fast forward to 2026, and esteemed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who earned an Oscar for The Social Network, has taken the helm for a “companion” quasi-sequel aimed at rectifying his one major blind spot: finally depicting Zuckerberg as the powerfully influential figure we’ve all watched emerge over these past 16 years. Not the socially awkward college dork, but the obscenely rich tech tycoon whose platform helped reshape and poison the culture, whether we were ready for it or not.

The only thing missing? Jesse Eisenberg. But with Emmy winner Jeremy Strong of Succession fame taking over the role of Mark Zuckerberg, perhaps that marks the clearest signal that this version is less interested in the awkward young founder and more focused on the insulated, power-drunk mogul who came after.

Both written and directed by Sorkin, The Social Reckoning is based on the events behind The Wall Street Journal’s exposé “The Facebook Files,” following Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison in her first post-Oscar win for Anora, a young Facebook engineer who decides to expose the company’s closely guarded internal secrets. To do that, she enlists the help of Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, setting off a whistleblowing effort that pulls them into a modern David-and-Goliath fight over truth and corporate accountability.

From there, the story appears to dig into the social and political consequences of a platform that grew far beyond its college-campus origins. Misinformation, youth mental health, platform design, public harm, and institutional responsibility all seem to be sitting at the center of this new chapter, giving Sorkin plenty of room to return to the kind of morally charged institutional drama he knows well.

Jeremy Strong, donning an uncanny speech and voice pattern, takes over as an older and more ruthless Mark Zuckerberg who, at this point, hasn’t just built a tech corporation but an empire that feels empowered to do whatever it wants in this new “post-government” era.

The cast also includes Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, and Gbenga Akinnagbe, while Jeff Cronenweth, the cinematographer behind The Social Network, returns behind the camera, providing a similar look, even though this has clearly shifted from a tech-world origin story into a tense whistleblower thriller that seems to hark back to the conspiracy-driven newsman thrillers of the 1970s.

The Social Reckoning opens in theaters October 9th.

🎥 “Moana” Final Trailer: Disney’s Live-Action Remake Sends Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Lagaʻaia Back Across the Ocean — Hitting Theaters July 10th

Okay, let’s be real: Disney’s live-action remake of Moana looks exactly like what you’d expect: uninspired, derivative, and a little too polished for its own good. And Dwayne Johnson, who is usually quite charming when he wants to be, doesn’t quite seem to live up to his animated alter ego, making this Maui feel more like a cosplay version than a fully realized character.

That being said, the movie will likely make money this summer, as family moviegoing audiences don’t exactly need much convincing when it comes to Moana, Maui, or big live-action Disney spectacles in general. So with that mindset, maybe the real question isn’t whether this remake needs to exist, but whether, in the current state of the movie business, giving audiences what they already know is simply the safest bet.

And though we hate to admit it, remaking classic animated films into live-action versions, even when it’s only been ten years since the original, has become one of Disney’s most reliable business models. This Moana movie will likely continue that profitable, creatively exhausting trend when it hits theaters next month.

Dwayne Johnson has gotten a lot of flak online since it was revealed how he would look as the lovable demigod Maui in this live-action take. His curly hair was particularly hard to ignore. However, this final trailer seems to lean into it and own the exaggerated look, embracing Maui as a larger-than-life figure rather than trying to make him feel grounded or realistic.

Does it work? Maybe it’s just us, but it seems like the animators who originally brought Maui to life were better at capturing the character’s charm than Johnson is this time around. Then again, that’s a judgment based on only a two-minute trailer, so maybe it’s not quite a fair assessment.

Directed by Thomas Kail, best known for his stage work with Lin-Manuel Miranda on In the Heights and Hamilton, as well as directing the television projects Grease Live! and Fosse/Verdon, Disney’s live-action remake has newcomer Catherine Lagaʻaia stepping into the role of Moana, the young wayfinder of Motunui whose life changes when the sea pulls her beyond the safety of her island’s reef.

The story once again follows Moana as she leaves home for the first time on a mission tied to the future of her people. Her journey brings her face-to-face with Maui, the powerful, unruly demigod played once more by Dwayne Johnson, whose legend, abilities, and complicated past remain central to the quest.

This new version looks to lean into the sweeping ocean adventure, ancestral navigation traditions, and musical scale that made the animated film such a modern Disney favorite. The live-action approach also gives the story a chance to play with texture, landscape, and performance in a different register. And having The Rock in curls just might be worth the price of admission.

Also featuring John Tui as Chief Tui, Frankie Adams as Sina, and Rena Owen as Gramma Tala, with Jemaine Clement reprising the voice of Tamatoa, a giant, villainous coconut crab, Moana is set to sail into theaters July 10th.

🎥 “Nimrods” Trailer: Green Day Sends Three Teen Rock Dreamers on a Punk-Rock Road Trip in This Coming-of-Age Dramedy Starring Mason Thames and Mckenna Grace — In Theaters August 14th

We don’t pretend to be music experts or anything, but the word on the street is that rock music is coming back in a big way. Particularly that ’90s grunge-punk slacker sound, where everything feels a little messy, a little loud, and just detached enough to seem cool without trying too hard.

Now, we don’t know if that’s quite true, but damn, we hope it is. And as ’90s nostalgia keeps roaring back into the conversation, here comes Nimrods, a new coming-of-age road comedy that feels ripped straight out of that slacker era, except for one major detail: Green Day actually shows up.

Written and directed by Lee Kirk, who previously made the 2016 indie film Ordinary World with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in the lead role, Nimrods seems to be tapping into that familiar rock-star fantasy of teens heading out on the road with guitars, bad plans, and the reckless belief that music might somehow save them.

The film stars The Black Phone’s Mason Thames alongside Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust as three high school friends whose fledgling band hits the road for Los Angeles after they mistakenly believe they’ve been booked to open for Green Day on New Year’s Eve. The catch? It’s all an elaborate prank by an older asshole brother. But when you’re young, loud, desperate, and convinced your life is about to change, common sense usually gets left behind somewhere on the road to stardom... or dare we say, on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, eh.

Mckenna Grace, of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and Ghostbusters: Afterlife, co-stars as a cool punk-rock chick they meet while trying to make their gig. Meanwhile, The Office’s Jenna Fischer plays the mother of Mason Thames’ character. The cast also includes Angela Kinsey, Fred Armisen, Bobby Lee, Sean Gunn, and more.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool also appear as themselves, as the film is said to be loosely inspired by the band’s early years living in a tour van before Dookie changed the course of their career forever.

Nimrods is slated to open in theaters August 14th.

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🎥 “Whalefall” Teaser Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Swallowed by a Massive Sperm Whale in Brian Duffield’s Much-Buzzed-About Deep-Sea Survival Thriller with Josh Brolin — Opening in Theaters October 16th

We’ve always believed the ocean might be the last frontier cinema still hasn’t fully explored. After all, most of the world is covered in water, with deep pockets of mystery still waiting to be discovered. And don’t even get us started on the TikTok rabbit hole of scrolling through videos about how the ocean is basically a living beast designed to remind us we probably shouldn’t be down there in the first place.

Well, enter what might turn out to be the surprise hit of the year: a film about a young scuba diver who is swallowed by a massive sperm whale and forced to survive the ordeal. It’s like Pinocchio, only with less storybook magic and a whole lot more existential dread.

Watch the teaser trailer for Whalefall, a film that understands monsters do exist; sometimes they just happen to be massive mammals lurking in the deep ocean. And if you’re unlucky enough to get too close, you might just find yourself swallowed whole with seaweed, tiny fish, and every bad decision that led you there.

In the upcoming survival thriller Whalefall, Austin Abrams, of Weapons and the upcoming Resident Evil reboot, stars as Jay Gardiner, a young scuba diver who heads into the Pacific Ocean off the central coast of California following the death of his father, Mitt Gardiner, played by Josh Brolin.

Jay’s dive, however, takes a horrifying turn when he is attacked by a giant squid and then swallowed alive by a massive sperm whale. Trapped inside its belly with roughly one hour of oxygen left, Jay must fight through panic, injury, darkness, and the impossible realization that there may be something worse than death: being trapped inside a gigantic living sea creature with no clear way out.

The film recently became one of the most talked-about projects shown at CinemaCon back in April, as the teaser created quite a stir not only for the eye-popping sequence of Austin Abrams’s Jay getting swallowed by a whale, but also for the incredible sound design of the murky ocean. If there’s a film that screams “watch this on the biggest screen possible,” this might be it.

Also co-starring Elisabeth Shue, Jane Levy, Emily Rudd, and John Ortiz, the upcoming survival thriller hails from writer-director Brian Duffield, whose work tends to take strange genre ideas and ground them in messy human emotion. He wrote and directed the darkly comic teen flick Spontaneous, about the school phenomenon of random teen heads exploding without warning. A modern cult classic, if you ask us. Duffield also wrote and directed the mostly dialogue-free alien abduction thriller No One Will Save You, starring Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman who finds herself alone, defending her home from an alien invasion..

Based on Daniel Kraus’s 2023 novel of the same name, with Kraus and Duffield co-writing the adapted screenplay, Whalefall also has Brian Grazer and Ron Howard among its producing team.

What makes the teaser especially intriguing is that Whalefall appears to understand the fine line it has to walk. Push too far one way, and the premise becomes too ridiculous to believe. Push too far the other, and it loses the pulpy thrill of watching someone try to survive inside one of the most impossible places imaginable. Fingers crossed this hits that balance just right.

Whalefall opens in theaters October 16th. Prepare to be afraid of the water again.

🎥 “The Dog Stars” Full Trailer: Jacob Elordi Searches for Hope in Ridley Scott’s Stark Post-Apocalyptic Survival Drama with Josh Brolin & Margaret Qualley — Opening In Theaters August 28th

To be quite honest, Jacob Elordi was never someone we initially saw as more than the new flavor of the month: a Netflix heartthrob riding the streaming success of The Kissing Booth film series. Who knew he would later become one of the more interesting rising talents working today?

After making his mark on HBO’s groundbreaking, if occasionally exploitative, teen drama Euphoria, Elordi has continued to push past that early image. And with his career-redefining turn as the Monster in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, he has proven there’s far more to him than the pretty-boy label Hollywood first handed him.

Now it seems Elordi is entering that next phase in his career: one where he’s stepping into leading-man territory with something to prove. No longer just the romantic heartthrob, he’s now the brooding lost soul trying to find his footing in a world turned upside down.

In The Dog Stars, a new post-apocalyptic survival drama from legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott, Elordi stars as Hig, a young pilot living in a brutal post-apocalyptic world where survival has become a daily ritual. Together with Bangley, a military survivalist played by Josh Brolin, Hig has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in the ruins of civilization. But when violence and the threat of a larger unknown become more apparent, Hig is forced out of his semi-comfortable solitude by a mysterious radio transmission that may point to a world beyond devastation and total collapse.

Margaret Qualley, also a rising young talent after standout turns in The Substance, Honey Don’t!, and Poor Things, co-stars here as Cima, a resourceful medic who seems to have feelings for Elordi’s Hig as the two find themselves holding on to a fragile idea of the past that may never return.

Based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel of the same name, this feels like a bit of a departure for Ridley Scott after delivering back-to-back large-scale spectacles like Napoleon and Gladiator II. Though there appears to be no shortage of action or fight sequences involving feral dystopian outlaws, Scott seems more interested in telling a more intimate story of survival against immeasurable loss.

Joining Elordi, Qualley, and Brolin in this dystopian survival drama is a strong supporting cast led by Allison Janney, Benedict Wong, and Guy Pearce. The adapted screenplay comes from Mark L. Smith, who previously wrote The Revenant, a film that also dealt with themes of isolation, endurance, and the thin line between survival and surrender.

The Dog Stars opens in theaters August 28th. Come for the Elordi star factor, but stay for Ridley Scott trading empire-sized spectacle for something lonelier, rougher, and maybe a little more emotionally wounded.

🎥 “I Want Your Sex” Trailer: Filmmaker Gregg Araki Returns to His Kinky, Boundary-Pushing Roots with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman in a Cheeky Erotic Comedy Thriller — Coming to Theaters July 31st

Maverick indie filmmaker Gregg Araki, of The Doom Generation, Nowhere, and Mysterious Skin fame, has built a career out of making films that push the envelope, not only within the landscape of queer cinema, but also in the way they challenge our comfort with provocative subject matter. Sex, in particular, has long been part of Araki’s cinematic language, often portrayed with a mischievous wink, a cheeky attitude, and a willingness to poke at the boundaries of what audiences expect to see on screen.

His latest is no exception. In fact, it may just be a return to form for the 66-year-old auteur, who continues to prove that a mature filmmaker doesn’t need to water down the impulses that made his work feel so dangerous in the first place.

So yes, a new Gregg Araki film called I Want Your Sex sounds pretty much like exactly what you might expect from him. It’s a kinky erotic comedy thriller that toys with the boundaries of BDSM. It also turned plenty of heads at Sundance earlier this year, where it was praised for exploring the generational divide in how different age groups view sex and their attitudes toward desire, power, and consent.

In the film, Cooper Hoffman stars as Elliot, a fresh-faced young man who lands what appears to be a dream job working for Erika Tracy, a renowned artist, cultural provocateur, and icon of sexual liberation, played here by Olivia Wilde. Before long, Erika taps Elliot to become her sexual muse, pulling him into a world where fantasy fulfillment starts looking a lot more complicated than advertised. The thing is, Erika’s world is not only seductive, but it also comes with rules Elliot may not fully understand until he’s already too far inside.

Written by Araki and Karley Sciortino, the film appears to bring Araki back to the kind of cheeky, boundary-pushing territory that made his early ’90s films underground favorites. While he never achieved the same mainstream notoriety as someone like John Waters, Araki has nevertheless carved out his own lane as a filmmaker willing to turn taboo and rebellion into something unapologetically his own.

The cast also includes Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Mason Gooding, and Chase Sui Wonders, with Margaret Cho and Johnny Knoxville rounding out the ensemble.

I Want Your Sex is slated to open in theaters July 31st.

🎥 “Enola Holmes 3” Trailer: Millie Bobby Brown’s Young Detective Heads to Malta as Sherlock Goes Missing Before Her Wedding in Netflix’s Latest Holmes Installment — Premiering July 1st on Netflix

The Holmes family business has never exactly been low-stress, but Enola Holmes 3 appears ready to make things even more complicated for everyone’s favorite fourth-wall-breaking young detective. This time, Enola is heading far from London and straight into trouble in Malta, where personal plans and professional instincts are about to crash into each other in very inconvenient fashion.

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown returns for a third time as Enola, who is preparing to marry Lord Tewkesbury, played once again by Louis Partridge. But before wedding bells can ring, Sherlock Holmes goes missing.

That’s right: it will take a Holmes to save a Holmes.

The third film in this Netflix franchise finds Enola pulled into a case that looks bigger, riskier, and more tangled than anything she has faced before. Sherlock’s disappearance sends her through an unfamiliar setting filled with political tension, international danger, and a mystery that forces her to balance family loyalty, romantic uncertainty, and her own future as an investigator.

Henry Cavill returns as Sherlock Holmes, with Helena Bonham Carter back as their mother, Eudoria Holmes. The cast also includes Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Moriarty, along with Susan Wokoma and Hattie Morahan.

British director Philip Barantini, best known for Boiling Point and Netflix’s Adolescence, takes over the franchise from Harry Bradbeer. That makes this an interesting handoff, especially for a series known for its playful tone, period mystery, and social bite. Barantini’s background in tense, performance-driven drama could bring a sharper edge to Enola’s latest adventure.

Written by returning series writer Jack Thorne and based on Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes Mysteries, Enola Holmes 3 is due to premiere July 1st on Netflix.

🎥 “The Cat in the Hat” New Trailer: Bill Hader Voices Dr. Seuss’ Top-Hatted Agent of Nonsense in This New Animated Adventure — Arriving In Theaters November 6th

Some characters are built for bedtime stories. Others feel like they were designed to burst through the front door and wreck the living room.

The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss’ top-hatted agent of nonsense, is getting a new animated feature with comedian Bill Hader voicing the Cat himself. And honestly, Hader feels like a pretty natural fit for a character who operates on pure confidence, elastic logic, and the belief that every problem can be solved by making it much, much weirder.

This time around, the Cat works for the I.I.I.I., otherwise known as the Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, LLC. His latest assignment is to help Gabby and Sebastian, voiced by Xochitl Gomez and Tiago Martinez, two siblings struggling after moving to a new town. Naturally, his version of helping involves whisking them into a fantastical world of mischief, magic, and comic danger.

But there’s a catch. The Cat’s habit of taking things too far may finally cost him his magical hat, making this less of a simple kid-friendly adventure and more of a last-chance mission for the world’s most irresponsible imagination specialist.

Directed and written by Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja, the animated fantasy comedy also features Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Giancarlo Esposito, America Ferrera, Bowen Yang, Paula Pell, and Tituss Burgess.

The Cat in the Hat is slated to open in theaters and IMAX on November 6th.

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June is rolling in, and we’re already getting a pretty clear sense of how this summer is shaping up. Horror continues to be one of the most reliable draws on the calendar, while some of the bigger IP-driven titles aren’t hitting quite as hard as they used to. That doesn’t mean the summer movie season is in trouble, but it does suggest audiences may be getting a little pickier about what actually gets them off the couch and into a theater.

This week should be especially interesting, as we’ll see whether a master filmmaker like Steven Spielberg still has real sway at the box office, or if the summer conversation keeps shifting toward younger filmmakers becoming the new box office champions.

As always, we’ve rounded up the new movies and shows arriving this week across theaters, streaming, TV, and VOD. So whether you’re heading to your local movie theater, catching up on a new series, or just looking for something fresh to add to the watchlist, scroll down and see what stands out.

• 🎥 In Theaters This Week

• 🎦 Streaming This Week

• ✅ On VOD This Week

• 📺 On TV This Week

🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Honeyjoon
(Wed, June 10th — limited release; in NY & LA)

Grief gets awkward fast when a mother and daughter try to mourn in paradise. Ayden Mayeri stars as June, who travels with her Persian-British mother Lela (Amira Casar) to the Azores for an anniversary neither of them knows how to handle. Writer-director Lilian T. Mehrel’s darkly comic family drama turns mourning, flirting, memory, and resentment into one very uncomfortable vacation.

🎥 Disclosure Day
(Fri, June 12th — wide release)

The truth is out there, but deciding what to do with it may be the real problem. Emily Blunt stars as a Kansas City weather broadcaster who, along with a whistleblower played by Josh O’Connor, becomes the reluctant guardian of evidence that non-human intelligence may already exist on Earth. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who returns to his UFO roots, this sci-fi mystery co-stars Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, turning first contact into a dangerous question of power, secrecy, and whether the world is ready to know.

🎥 The Furious
(Fri, June 12th — wide release)

After his daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network, a Chinese father finds only corruption and indifference from the police. Martial artist Xie Miao stars as the desperate parent carving his own path toward justice, while The Raid’s Joe Taslim plays a relentless journalist searching for his missing wife. Directed by Kenji Tanigaki, this martial arts revenge thriller throws back to action films where stunt work did the heavy lifting... and also all the damage.

🎥 Stop! That! Train!
(Fri, June 12th — wide release)

Disaster movies finally get dragged onto the rails. Drag queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee star as two coach train stewardesses aboard the Glamazonian Express, where a catastrophic “Stormaganza” threatens to send the ride crashing toward Los Angeles. Directed by Adam Shankman, this campy disaster spoof turns drag performance, disaster parody, and RuPaul as the U.S. President into one runaway spectacle.

🎥 Kraken
(Fri, June 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)

A remote Norwegian fish farm becomes the center of something monstrous when strange disturbances, dead teenagers, and old sea legends point toward the dark heart of the bay. Sara Khorami stars in this chilly creature feature where a misguided salmon-treatment program appears to have stirred up more than the local ecosystem.

🎥 O Horizon
(Fri, June 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)

Grief gets a software update in this darkly comic sci-fi-tinged drama. Maria Bakalova stars as a young neuroscientist who reconnects with her late father through an AI-generated voice avatar, only to find that one more conversation can quickly become one complication too many. With David Strathairn, Adam Pally, and Maggie Grace co-starring, the indie film turns memory, data, and loss into something tender, funny, and deeply disconcerting.

🎥 This Tempting Madness
(Fri, June 12th — limited release; also on ✅VOD)

Memory becomes a trap in this psychological mystery-thriller. Simone Ashley stars as a battered woman who wakes from a coma with no clear memory of what happened, only to discover that her husband, played by Austin Stowell, has vanished. As each clue pulls her closer to the truth, the line between recovery and danger starts to feel dangerously thin.

🎥 Jinsei
(Fri, June 12th — limited release)

A life can take many forms, and this hand-drawn anime takes that idea across an entire century. Written, directed, edited, and hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki, the film follows a hero voiced by rapper ACE COOL as he shifts through names, identities, and eras, chasing superstardom before becoming an outcast, a leader, and finally a strange oracle of destiny.

🎥 Flag Day
(Fri, June 12th — limited release; in select theaters)

In Three Oaks, Michigan, Flag Day is more than a parade. This verité documentary follows veterans, business owners, marching bands, volunteers, and townspeople as they prepare for the nation’s largest Flag Day celebration, capturing a weekend ritual where American pride runs deep and the meaning of patriotism becomes harder to pin down.

🎥 I Shot Andy Warhol: 30th Anniversary
(Fri, June 12th — limited release; re-release)

American Psycho director Mary Harron’s 1996 feature film debut returns to theaters in a restored 4K presentation, with Lili Taylor starring as Valerie Solanas and Jared Harris as Andy Warhol. This indie landmark revisits fame, anger, politics, and notoriety inside New York’s counterculture underground, as Valerie’s troubled life leads to her attempted assassination of the famed pop artist.

🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Luz
(Tues, June 9th — streaming on Kino Film Collection)

Separate lives flicker between Chongqing, Paris, and a virtual world where escape starts to look like confession. This meditative drama follows an ex-con searching for his estranged daughter and a Hong Kong gallerist caring for her ailing stepmother, played by Isabelle Huppert. As grief pulls them into the same VR space, hidden truths surface and human connection takes on a strange new form.

🎦 The X-Files: I Want to Believe — Director’s Cut
(Thurs, Jun 11th — on Disney+)

Nearly two decades after its release, Chris Carter’s director’s cut restores darker horror elements reportedly toned down for the original PG-13 version. The film moves closer to Carter’s intended vision, following Mulder and Scully through a grim case involving psychic visions, a kidnapped FBI agent, and unsettling supernatural threats. For fans who felt the theatrical cut held back, this version promises a darker, more confident take on the story. It should also not be confused with the previously released “uncut” version, which only reinstated a handful of trimmed scenes. This new cut is being presented as a more substantial restoration of Carter’s original vision, with expanded horror content and material unseen in any prior home release.

🎦 I Am Frankelda
(Fri, June 12th — premiering on Netflix)

Set in 19th-century Mexico, this gothic stop-motion fantasy follows Frankelda, a gifted young writer whose imagination is dismissed by the world around her. But her demons are not just emotional, as the creatures she creates begin to sing, crawl, and lurk inside her subconscious. Written and directed by Mexican animators Arturo and Roy Ambriz, this dark fantasy musical expands the handmade, monster-filled mythology of Frankelda’s Book of Spooks, turning fear, authorship, and artistic identity into an eerie journey of self-discovery.

🎦 Find Your Friends
(Fri, June 12th — premiering on Shudder)

A girls’ weekend in Joshua Tree should mean drinks, bad decisions, and one decent group photo. Written and directed by Izabel Pakzad, this desert-set horror thriller follows Amber and her four best friends as they leave L.A. for a party weekend, only to discover the locals have other plans. Bella Thorne, Chloe Cherry, Helena Howard, Sophia Ali, and Zión Moreno star in this getaway-gone-wrong chiller, where vacation mode turns into survival mode fast.

🎦 Maternal Instinct
(Fri, June 12th — premiering on Netflix)

A perfect online life cracks wide open in this unsettling Netflix true-crime documentary. The story follows a young woman from a wealthy East Texas town whose carefully curated relationship and pregnancy collapse after a routine traffic stop reveals she has just given birth in her car. From there, the image she built online quickly falls apart, exposing an unthinkable crime where social media fantasy crashes hard into real-world horror.

🎦 They Will Kill You
(Fri, June 12th — streaming on HBO MAX)

One bad job. One very bad building. Zazie Beetz stars in this grindhouse horror-action hybrid as a desperate housekeeper who discovers her employers are part of a satanic cult with a monthly sacrifice on the schedule. But when she’s next in line, this would-be victim turns the tables, using her cage-fighting skills to battle through a blood-soaked night of survival.

✅ On VOD This Week
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✅ Michael
(Tues, June 9th — on VOD/Digital)

Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson steps into the role of a young Michael, charting his rise from Motown prodigy to solo superstardom in this Antoine Fuqua-directed jukebox biopic that leans into stage performance and behind-the-scenes craft. As pressure from his domineering father/manager (played by Colman Domingo) mounts and expectations close in, he turns to the music to define himself, carving a path toward global icon status. The focus lands less on controversy and more on how the sound, the moves, and the ambition built a legend.

✅ Mortal Kombat II
(Tues, June 9th — on VOD/Digital)

Karl Urban brings bruised action-star swagger to this bone-crushing sequel as Johnny Cage, a washed-up Hollywood action star whose ego takes a beating when real supernatural warriors start throwing punches. Director Simon McQuoid returns for a bloodier, louder sequel packed with familiar fighters, new challengers, and enough ’90s video-game nostalgia to make that old PS controller twitch.

✅ Mārama
(Tues, June 9th — on VOD/Digital)

A young Māori woman (Ariana Osborne) exiled in Victorian England finds her fragile sense of identity unraveling as secrets about her colonial past begin to surface, pulling her toward a reckoning she can’t outrun. With Toby Stephens costarring as the man directly tied to the damage, justice and vengeance become indistinguishable, threatening to consume her completely in this New Zealand period drama where ancestral wounds refuse to heal, nor be forgotten.

✅ Neglected
(Tues, June 9th — on VOD/Digital)

Retirement is going to have to wait. Josh Duhamel stars in this ticking-clock action thriller as a detective whose final days on the job turn nightmarish when Dylan Sprouse’s cold-blooded stranger delivers a brutal ultimatum: solve a string of gruesome murders, or his kidnapped son runs out of air. Nothing says “one last case” like trying to catch a killer before a loved one pays the ultimate price.

✅ Let’s Love
(Tues, June 9th — on VOD/Digital)

The cast of a beloved romance film gets one more chance to revisit the roles that changed their lives. Martin Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Malin Åkerman, and Jess Weixler star as former co-stars who reunite a decade later for a fan convention, only for the event to fall apart before it can really begin. When they return to the film’s original locations, talk of a sequel starts stirring up old feelings, buried tension, and the uncomfortable realization that nostalgia has a way of reopening every wound it pretends to heal.

✅ Saccharine
(Fri, June 12th — on VOD/Digital)

A killer diet trend takes a ghostly turn in this Australian supernatural horror film from Relic filmmaker Natalie Erika James. Grey’s Anatomy’s Midori Francis stars as a lovelorn medical student who falls into a bizarre weight-loss craze built around eating human ashes, only to find herself haunted by the person she’s consuming.

✅ Badland Rising
(Fri, June 12th — on VOD/Digital)

A long drive home turns into a brutal fight to stay alive. This Australian action thriller stars Jake Ryan as an ordinary man whose 19-hour road trip takes a violent detour when two unhinged criminals begin hunting him across the open road. With Nathan Phillips, Steve Mouzakis, and Hannah Levien also starring, the film turns the highway into a battleground where every mile brings him closer to either home or a dead end.

✅ Broken Land
(Fri, June 12th — on VOD/Digital)

A quiet Texas ranch becomes the site of a crisis no one can outrun. David Morse stars as Carson Tidwell, a reclusive rancher who accidentally shoots a pregnant migrant worker crossing his land and then tries to protect her from the consequences of his own mistake. But with his estranged son (Bill Heck) working as a Border Patrol agent, Carson’s desperate act of mercy soon pulls father, son, and wounded stranger into a tense moral standoff. Directed by J.T. Walker, this rural thriller turns guilt and survival into a hard road toward redemption.

✅ Time of Death
(Fri, June 12th — on VOD/Digital)

Michael Kelly trades familiar character-actor steel for a lead detective role in this locked-down prison thriller. Kelly stars as an investigator sent to a decaying facility on the verge of shutdown after a prisoner vanishes without a trace. What begins as a routine search quickly turns into a mystery that tightens with every unanswered question. With Kevin Pollak, Dennis Haysbert, and Mena Suvari co-starring, this twisty thriller makes every empty corridor seem like it knows more than it’s saying.

⇯ See Above: ✅Kraken (Fri, Jun 12; VOD/Digital)

⇯ See Above: ✅O Horizon (Fri, Jun 12; VOD/Digital)

⇯ See Above: ✅This Tempting Madness (Fri, Jun 12; VOD/Digital)

📺 On TV This Week
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📺 Alice and Steve
(Mon, June 8th — on Hulu/Disney+)

Some friendships survive anything, but dating your best friend’s daughter is pushing it. Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement star as Alice and Steve, longtime friends whose 25-year bond is thrown into crisis when Steve starts seeing Alice’s daughter (Yali Topol Margalith). Written and created by Sophie Goodhart, this British comedy turns loyalty, boundaries, and family complications into one painfully funny personal mess.

📺 Tony Hinchcliffe: Man of the People
(Tues, June 9th — on Netflix)

Stand-up comic Tony Hinchcliffe returns with his signature brand of sharp insults, confrontational crowd work, and equal-opportunity provocation, aiming at the audience, the culture, and just about every group imaginable.

📺 All the Queen’s Men: Season 5
(Wed, June 10th — on Paramount+)

Madam’s empire is taking its final bow, but not quietly. Eva Marcille returns for the final season as Madam’s life hangs in the balance, her shooter remains at large, and the dancers of Eden are left facing fear, betrayal, and enemies ready to move in. This last chapter brings the power plays, revenge, and survival games to a dangerous breaking point.

📺 Every Year After
(Wed, June 10th — on Prime Video)

Some summer loves never really stay in the past. Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett star as Percy and Sam, whose romance unfolds across six years and one unforgettable week in Barry’s Bay. Based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, this eight-episode Prime Video series turns first love, bad timing, and old heartbreak into a question of whether some wounds heal or simply wait to reopen.

📺 Sweet Magnolias: Season 5
(Thurs, June 11th — on Netflix)

Serenity is changing, but the Magnolias are still leaning on each other. JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley return as lifelong friends facing romance, family drama, wedding bells, new ambitions, and a summer that may push them beyond the comfort of home. This new season keeps friendship at the center, even when life refuses to stay sweet.

📺 Surviving Earth
(Thurs, June 11th — on NBC; next day on Peacock)

The planet has survived catastrophe before, and this docuseries digs into just how brutal that survival has been. From the producers of Walking with Dinosaurs, this eight-part prehistoric nature series journeys across 450 million years of extinction, evolution, and adaptation. Dinosaurs play a major role, but the bigger story belongs to Earth itself, a world repeatedly broken apart and rebuilt by disaster.

📺 Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 5
(Fri, June 12th — on STARZ)

Kanan Stark’s origin story reaches its final chapter, and every family secret is coming due. Mekai Curtis returns as Kanan Stark, caught in the fallout of betrayal, hard truths, and an all-out street war threatening the Thomas crime family. As Kanan moves closer to the man he is destined to become, family business just may be the most dangerous business of all, especially when it involves the drug game.

📺 The Listeners
(Fri, June 12th — on STARZ)

Rebecca Hall stars as Claire, a woman whose life unravels after a mysterious hum brings migraines, insomnia, isolation, and fractured relationships. Based on Jordan Tannahill’s novel and directed by Janicza Bravo, this British miniseries follows Claire into a support group where shared torment begins to blur the line between connection, obsession, and reality. It seems one strange sound is enough to break a life wide open.

this week's releases

🎥 “The Invite” New Trailer: Olivia Wilde & Seth Rogen Get More Than They Bargained for at One Very Awkward Dinner Party with Edward Norton & Penélope Cruz — In Select Theaters June 26th, Expanding Nationwide July 10th

A nice dinner with friends sounds harmless enough. Good food, easy conversation, maybe just enough wine to make the night feel a little less routine. But every so often, someone brings more than dessert to the table.

That’s the intriguing setup behind The Invite, a new A24 dramedy where a simple evening between two couples takes a sharp turn after one very unexpected proposal.

Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen star as a long-married San Francisco couple whose quiet night with their upstairs neighbors, played by Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz, slowly shifts from polite small talk into something much more uncomfortable.

The premise sounds simple. But simplicity is usually where these relationship comedies start getting a little dicey. When Norton and Cruz’s characters invite Wilde and Rogen’s buttoned-up couple into a night of unexpected intimacy, everyone tries to stay charming. The conversation flows... slowly. Then the two couples begin contemplating the eyebrow-raising invitation of a foursome, dragging everyone’s boundaries, insecurities, and private frustrations straight into the open.

Based on Cesc Gay’s 2020 Spanish comedy Sentimental, also known as The People Upstairs, this American remake comes from a script by actress Rashida Jones and actor Will McCormack, the same writing team behind the 2012 rom-com Celeste and Jesse Forever. Wilde also steps behind the camera, directing for the third time following the twisty thriller Don’t Worry Darling and the raunchy teen comedy Booksmart.

With Rogen and Wilde as the hosts and Norton and Cruz as the upstairs neighbors who know exactly how to disrupt the evening, this looks like the kind of dinner-party movie where the real action happens between the pauses and glances, as the night becomes increasingly awkward and, hopefully for the audience, hilariously entertaining.

Following a strong Sundance debut that sparked a bidding war eventually won by A24, The Invite is now slated to open in select theaters June 26th before expanding nationwide July 10th. Watch it with a friend or two... or three.

🎥 “Ice Age: Boiling Point” Teaser: Manny, Sid, Diego, Scrat, and the Rest of the Herd Head Into Hotter, Stranger Territory as the Beloved Animated Franchise Heats Up — Coming to Theaters February 5, 2027

The ice age didn’t last forever... the real one, not the animated franchise. In fact, despite the last installment arriving nearly ten years ago, another Ice Age movie is officially heading our way, proving once again that some franchises are simply too stubborn to go extinct.

But this time, things aren’t getting colder. They’re getting much, much hotter. Boiling, even.

Ice Age: Boiling Point brings Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Buck, Scrat, and the rest of the herd back for a new prehistoric adventure that sends them far from their usual frozen comfort zone and straight into the dangerous Lost World. So yes, the gang that was built for snow, ice, and subzero chaos now has to deal with dinosaurs, lava, volcanoes, and what sounds like the worst possible vacation package in prehistoric history.

Ray Romano returns as Manny, with John Leguizamo back as Sid, Denis Leary as Diego, Queen Latifah as Ellie, and Simon Pegg as Buck. And, of course, Scrat is expected to continue his eternal war with that cursed acorn, because apparently even volcanic danger can’t stop one squirrel from his life’s true calling.

Full plot details are still under wraps, but the teaser makes the direction pretty clear: the herd is heading into hotter, stranger, and more dangerous territory than usual. Full steam ahead!

Ice Age: Boiling Point arrives only in theaters February 5, 2027.

🎥 “By Any Means” Trailer: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Mark Wahlberg Fight Racist Violence with Mob Muscle in This 1960s Civil Rights FBI Thriller — Hitting Theaters September 4th

Some people will tell you the best response to ugliness is to rise above it. When they go low, you go high. But at times of great adversity and social disorder, sometimes fighting fire with fire is the only path forward.

In the upcoming historical drama-thriller By Any Means, the FBI comes up with an unconventional plan to push back against the disgusting racist violence gripping 1960s Mississippi: they decide to bring the mob in for a little muscle... and a whole lot of fire to match the hate.

Inspired by true events, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, of Wonder Man and Watchmen fame, stars as Wayne Strider, a young Black FBI agent sent to 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. But when the Bureau fails to pursue justice inside a system compromised by racism and fear, the agency turns to a highly unorthodox solution: bringing in notorious mafia hitman Gregory Scarpa to help Strider push back against white supremacist violence with methods far outside the normal rulebook.

Mark Wahlberg, oddly donning a large prosthetic nose but still packing plenty of muscle, takes on the role of Scarpa, the infamous New York mob enforcer of the Colombo crime family, famously nicknamed the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter. His style of business? Extremely deadly. His method of interrogation? Even deadlier.

Which makes him the most unlikely FBI collaborator the Bureau has ever seen, and for Abdul-Mateen’s Agent Strider, a wild card who might be just as dangerous as the men they’re hunting.

Strider and Scarpa are divided by race, background, ideology, and probably every personal code imaginable. But in this story, they find themselves moving toward the same target: the men responsible for terrorizing Black communities and civil rights leaders in the American South, including Vernon Dahmer, the civil rights leader and voting-rights activist played by Giancarlo Esposito.

The supporting cast includes Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, LisaGay Hamilton, LaChanze, Ethan Embry, and Esposito, giving the film a strong ensemble around its central pairing of Abdul-Mateen and Wahlberg as two men who might not see eye to eye but understand that the usual rules are not enough.

Elegance Bratton, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the semi-biographical Marine boot camp drama The Inspection, has been tasked with helming this searing historical thriller, which seems reminiscent of films like Mississippi Burning and, oddly enough, maybe not intentionally, Green Book.

Written by Sascha Penn, By Any Means is due to open in theaters September 4th.

🎥 “Ice Cream Man” New Red Band Trailer: Eli Roth Turns a Childhood Treat Into a Suburban Horror Show Where the Neighborhood Ice Cream Man Serves Up Something Sinister — Coming to Theaters August 7th

Leave it to Eli Roth to take something as sweet and innocent as the neighborhood ice cream man and turn it into a blood-splattered reason to never chase down a truck again. The old phrase goes, “You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream.” But in Roth’s hands, that last part sounds less like a jingle and more like a warning.

Written, directed, and co-produced by Roth, Ice Cream Man is set in an idyllic summer town where things begin to fall apart after a mysterious ice cream vendor starts serving treats with deeply disturbing consequences. What begins as a sunny slice of small-town nostalgia quickly devolves into something deeply sinister, as children line up for something sweet and end up getting more than anyone bargained for.

Ari Millen, best known for Orphan Black, stars as the unsettling Ice Cream Man, stepping into what looks like a new horror-villain role built around one of the most familiar figures in childhood suburbia. Because apparently, it wasn’t enough for horror to make us afraid of clowns, dolls, babysitters, camp counselors, and nice-looking houses. Now even the guy with the soft serve is suspicious.

Millen is joined by Benjamin Byron Davis, Karen Cliche, Dylan Hawco, Sarah Abbott, Shiloh O’Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Charlie Zeltzer, Charlie Storey, and Roth himself.

For Roth, this sounds like a return to the kind of visceral horror that helped define his early work with Hostel and Cabin Fever: simple setup, nasty escalation, and a familiar piece of everyday life twisted into something deeply unpleasant. And in this case, the Ice Cream Man isn’t serving ice-cold treats. He’s serving nightmares by the scoop.

Ice Cream Man arrives in theaters August 7th.

“Supergirl” Final Trailer and Film Clips: Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El Tears Across the Galaxy to Save Krypto in DC’s New Cosmic Superhero Movie with Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, Jason Momoa & David Corenswet — Landing In Theaters June 26th

Here’s the real difference between Superman and Supergirl, other than the obvious: he’s the hopeful optimist, and she’s the hardened realist. They may be cousins with similar powers, but as heroes, they’re worlds apart. And honestly, Kara Zor-El doesn’t seem all that interested in living in Superman’s shadow.

So when Krypto, the only thing she truly cares about, is suddenly hurt, Kara does everything in her power to save his life. Because realist that she is, she knows hope alone won’t be enough to save her dog. Which, funnily enough, just might make DC’s Supergirl not only one of the most anticipated superhero movies of the summer, but also its most unexpected movie for dog lovers.

Milly Alcock takes on the lead role of Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl. When her loyal companion Krypto — her last living connection to Krypton, the home she lost when everyone she loved was wiped away in an instant — is injured and poisoned, she tears across the galaxy to find the one person who can save him.

Here’s the thing: Kara isn’t exactly the bright, polished version of Supergirl some viewers may expect. She’s bitter, bruised, frequently hungover, and carrying enough grief to power a whole galaxy. So when the ruthless space pirate Krem of the Yellow Hills, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, shoots Krypto with a poisonous projectile and leaves him near death, Kara gets a very simple mission: find Krem, get the antidote, and make him regret every life choice that led him there.

Along for the ride is Eve Ridley as Ruthye Marye Knoll, a young alien orphan chasing her own revenge against Krem. Meanwhile, Jason Momoa enters the mix as Lobo, the cigar-chomping bounty hunter who looks ready to bring his own brand of trouble. And keep an eye out for David Corenswet, who reprises his role as Superman in a guest appearance.

Based on the acclaimed comic book miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely, this new DC film follows the events of James Gunn’s 2025 Superman and aims to prove once again that the cousin of Kal-El was never meant to be a carbon copy. She’s a hero forged from a very different kind of pain.

Plus… hands off Krypto. That’s the rule.

Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Ana Nogueira, Supergirl soars into theaters June 26th.

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🎥 “Fall 2: Deadpoint” Trailer: Harriet Slater and Arsema Thomas Face a 5,000-Foot Fight for Survival in This Vertigo-Inducing Thriller Sequel — In Theaters September 2nd

When the first Fall movie came out back in 2022, it became a surprise indie hit, earning a respectable $21.8 million worldwide at the box office and winning over critics for its sheer vertigo-inducing suspense and white-knuckle tension. So, a sequel was only inevitable. This time around, Harriet Slater stars as Jax, a grieving woman still haunted by the death of her sister Hunter, who sets out on a dangerous climb with Hunter’s old friend Luce (Arsema Thomas) to honor her memory. Big mistake! When a terrifying rockslide leaves them stranded on the perilous planks of Mount Kwan, 5,000 feet above the ground, the memorial trip turns into a brutal fight for survival. Directed by the Spierig Brothers, of Jigsaw, Daybreakers, and Predestination, this high-altitude thriller once again turns fear of heights into a full-body panic attack. Closure is hard enough on solid ground. Up there, it just might be deadly.

🎥 “Never Change!” Trailer: John Reynolds & Sofia Black-D’Elia Get Sent Back to High School as Thirtysomethings Forced to Finally Graduate in This Offbeat Comedy with Jo Firestone, Topher Grace & Jackie Cruz — Premieres June 17th on Hulu/ Disney+

High school was miserable enough the first time around... but a second semester sounds downright cruel. This offbeat comedy asks a terrifying question: what happens when adulthood forces you to do it all over again? John Reynolds, who also wrote the script, and Sofia Black-D’Elia lead this awkward, nostalgia-soaked comedy as former classmates dragged back to North Meadows High years after a tornado derailed their graduation, leaving unfinished business, old rivalries, and decades of emotional baggage waiting in the hallways. Also starring Carmen Christopher, Jo Firestone, Gary Richardson, Rudy Pankow, Topher Grace, and Jackie Cruz, the film follows former classmates now juggling careers, failed relationships, mortgages, and the horrifying realization that high school social dynamics apparently have no expiration date. Directed by Marty Schousboe, of the Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks with You, this comedy leans into deadpan absurdity while poking at nostalgia culture and the uncomfortable truth that growing older doesn’t always mean growing up.

🎥 “In Search of Darkness: 1970s” Trailer: CreatorVC Studios’ New Four-Hour-Plus Retrospective Horror Documentary Explores the Decade That Shook the Genre to Its Core — Available Now for Pre-Order; Via insearchofdarkness.com

Before slashers ruled the multiplex and horror became a franchise machine, the 1970s gave the genre some of its most dangerous, grimy, and nightmare-fueled nightmares. Directed by David A. Weiner, this extensive documentary from CreatorVC Studios turns back the clock to explore the films, filmmakers, and cultural fears that helped reshape horror into something darker, stranger, and harder to shake. From the crowd-funded team behind In Search of Darkness, Aliens Expanded, and The Thing Expanded, this deep-dive four-hour long horror doc cracks open the vault on a decade where the scares felt raw, restless, and way too close for comfort.

🎥 “Fjord” Teaser: Sebastian Stan & Renate Reinsve Face Suspicion and Social Scrutiny in Cristian Mungiu’s Chilly Norwegian Drama, Palme d’Or Winner — Coming Soon

Tolerance gets tested fast when suspicion enters the room. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve star as a Romanian-Norwegian couple who move with their family to her remote Norwegian hometown, only to find their new life unraveling after questions are raised about their behavior toward their children. As the family becomes the focus of mounting scrutiny, their friendship with a neighboring household gives way to distrust, judgment, and the brutal limits of a community that prides itself on openness. Written and directed by Cristian Mungiu, the Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker behind 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, this Norway-set drama looks ready to turn a quiet village into a pressure cooker of social suspicion and moral panic.

🎥 “The Isolate Thief” Trailer: Mackenzie Foy Faces Outlaws, Stolen Gold, and a Frozen Civil War Siege in John Suits’ Frontier Survival Thriller with Odeya Rush, Joe Pantoliano & Sean Bean — In Theaters July 10th

Winter already makes survival hard enough. Add stolen gold, a remote Union Army outpost, and a gang of vicious outlaws kicking down the door, and things get deadly fast. Mackenzie Foy stars as a young woman left as the lone caretaker of an isolated Civil War-era outpost when a stash of stolen treasure suddenly lands in her hands. As a gang of suspicious-looking men (led by Sean Bean) turns her home into a guarded stronghold, she has to rely on personal endurance and quick thinking to stay alive. Directed by John Suits and also starring Odeya Rush, Jack Kesy, Ty Simpkins, Martin Sensmeier, and Joe Pantoliano, this Western survival thriller looks ready to turn a frozen frontier hideout into one nasty game of cat and mouse.

🎥 “Mockbuster” Trailer: A Struggling Novice Filmmaker Gets Six Days, No Money, and One Wild Shot at Making a Knockoff Blockbuster — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital July 10th

Sometimes the dream of making movies comes with a tiny budget, a ticking clock, and a title that sounds suspiciously familiar. This comedic behind-the-scenes documentary follows filmmaker Anthony Frith as The Asylum, the notorious movie studio behind Sharknado and other cheaply made blockbuster knock-offs, gives him six days to direct a “mockbuster.” Directed by Anthony Frith himself, the behind-the-scenes documentary digs into the chaos, compromise, and strange creative pride of low-budget filmmaking, where ambition is big, money is small, and panic is practically part of the production schedule.

🎥 “Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises In The Desert” Trailer: Wu Jing Takes on a Deadly Escort Mission in Yuen Woo-Ping’s Desert-Set Martial Arts Adventure — On VOD/Digital June 30th and On 4K, Blu-ray & DVD August 25th

The road to Chang’an is paved with blood, betrayal, and a whole lot of bad decisions. Wu Jing stars as Dao Ma, a feared bounty hunter and wanted fugitive tasked with escorting the empire’s most wanted man across a brutal desert landscape crawling with rival warriors, officials, and hired killers. Directed by martial arts legend Yuen Woo-Ping and based on Xu Xianzhe’s manhua Biao Ren, this wuxia action epic co-stars Jet Li, Nicholas Tse, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Max Zhang, Kara Wai, and Zhang Yi, throwing loyalty, survival, and political intrigue into one dust-choked fight for power.

🎥 “Rhythm is a Dancer” Trailer: Lauren Caster Writes, Directs, and Stars in This Indie Dramedy About a Struggling Dancer Returning Home to Meet Her “Bio-Dad,” Played by Tate Donovan — In Select Theaters July 10th

Sometimes finding your rhythm means going back to where it all first started. This heartfelt indie dramedy from writer-director and star Lauren Caster follows Ro, a struggling young woman whose dance and acting career is running out of steam when she returns home and meets her biological father (played by Tate Donovan) for the first time. With Amy Aquino helping shape the family dynamics, the film spins an unconventional homecoming story into a warm look at identity, connection, and the people who help us get back on beat. Inspired by Caster’s own life, having been raised by her lesbian mother, conceived through insemination from an anonymous donor, and eventually meeting her “bio-dad,” the film turns one deeply personal story into a tender look at a family that might not fit in any traditional box but still finds its own rhythm.

🎥 “Let’s Love” Trailer: Martin Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Malin Åkerman, and Jess Weixler Are Old Castmates Reuniting for a Canceled Fan Convention in This Ensemble Indie Dramedy — Available on VOD/Digital June 9th

In this ensemble dramedy, Martin Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Malin Åkerman, and Jess Weixler star as the cast of a career-defining romance film who reunite a decade later for a fan convention, only to have the schedule fall apart before it really begins. Rather than call it a wash, the group heads back to the film’s original locations, where talk of a possible sequel starts stirring up old unresolved feelings and the kind of behind-the-scenes tension no press junket can smooth over. Written and directed by Jamie Adams, and co-starring Craig Roberts and Dermot Mulroney, this film-reunion comedy looks ready to poke at the messy line between reliving nostalgia and finally dealing with the past.

🎥 “Above the Line” Trailer: Six Hollywood Dreamers Plot an Oscar Heist in This Showbiz Crime Comedy Starring Reno Wilson, Gregg Henry, Cedric the Entertainer, Sophia Ali, Suzy Nakamura, & Jamie Lee — On VOD/Digital June 26th

Hollywood is already full of thieves, but these struggling dreamers are going straight for the gold. This showbiz heist comedy follows six beaten-down hopefuls who decide to rob the Oscars from the crooked producer who wrecked their careers. Starring Reno Wilson, Gregg Henry, Cedric the Entertainer, Sophia Ali, Suzy Nakamura, Jamie Lee, Jackson Pace, Dylan Playfair, and Adhir Kalyan, this one turns awards-season desperation into a comeback plan with very poor legal advice.

🎥 “Black Box” Trailer: A Routine Flight Turns Into a Supernatural Nightmare in ‘Final Destination 5’ Director Steven Quale’s New Sky-High Mystery Thriller — On VOD/Digital July 7th

Some flights hit turbulence. This one appears to tear straight through reality. In this supernatural mystery thriller from director Steven Quale (Final Destination 5), Vero Airlines Flight 298 takes off from New Orleans to Seattle before a routine domestic trip turns into a full-blown airborne nightmare. As bizarre technological failures, surreal visions, supernatural events, and possible alien influences begin warping reality, the passengers are forced to fight for survival while trying to figure out what’s actually happening around them. Starring Tom Brittney, Holly White, Betsy-Blue English, Dane Whyte O’Hara, and Kaja Chan, this flight-from-hell thriller looks ready to make the friendly skies feel anything but friendly.

🎥 “Man of War” Trailer: LaMonica Garrett Launches a Personal Rescue Mission Against Russian Mercenaries in This High-Stakes Action Thriller with Jason Patric — On VOD/Digital July 3rd

Some rescue missions are dangerous by design, but this one comes with a personal wound right at the center. Special Ops: Lioness actor LaMonica Garrett stars as an elite American Special Forces veteran whose past skills are forced back into action when his adopted daughter, an aid worker, is taken hostage by Russian mercenaries during the invasion of Ukraine. As the rescue mission drags him into a brutal landscape of fire and chaos, survival becomes less about protocol and more about how far one man is willing to go for family.

🎥 “Chris & Martina: The Final Set” Trailer: Tennis Icons Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova Revisit a Rivalry, a Friendship, and a Bond That Outlasted the Court — Premiering on Netflix June 26th

Some tennis rivalries end at the net. This intimate sports documentary looks back at Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova’s decades-long dominance of women’s tennis, tracing how fierce competition slowly became one of the sport’s most enduring friendships. From championship pressure to personal battles with cancer, this Netflix sports documentary serves up a story about greatness, resilience, and two legends who kept showing up for each other long after the final point.

🎥 “I, Object” Trailer: A Grieving Boy Finds Magic in Everyday Things in Andrew Niccol’s Heartfelt New Zealand Fantasy Drama Starring Bentley Storteboom & Karl Urban — Coming to New Zealand Cinemas July 23rd

Grief has a strange way of turning the ordinary into something alive. From acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War and Oscar-nominated writer of The Truman Show), this heartfelt fantasy drama follows Tom, a 10-year-old boy who retreats into the imaginative world he once shared with his father after a sudden loss. As faces begin appearing in everyday objects, the film turns childhood imagination into a tender escape route through sadness, memory, and healing.

🎥 “The Passenger” Trailer: Djimon Hounsou & Kodi Smit-McPhee Take One Terrifying Ride from Minneapolis to Chicago in This New Road Thriller — In Theaters June 5th

This is one airport shuttle ride that definitely deserves a bad review. Djimon Hounsou stars as a struggling driver who illegally agrees to take a stranded young passenger, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, from Minneapolis to Chicago. Directed by House of Sand and Fog helmer Vadim Perelman, this road thriller turns a desperate cash job into a nerve-racking trip where the meter keeps running, the danger keeps rising, and getting out may not be an option.

🎥 “Honeyjoon” Trailer: Ayden Mayeri & Amira Casar Take a Grief-Soaked Mother-Daughter Trip Through the Azores in Lilian T. Mehrel’s Darkly Funny Directorial Debut — Opening in New York on June 10th before hitting Los Angeles and Chicago June 19th

Grief gets complicated when the vacation comes with ocean views, unresolved feelings, and one distractingly philosophical surfer. Ayden Mayeri stars as June, who travels with her Persian-British mother Lela (Amira Casar) to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary neither of them knows quite how to handle. As mother and daughter clash over how to mourn, flirt, remember, and move forward, a local surfer (José Condessa) pulls them into a tour that turns into something messier and more revealing. Written and directed by Lilian T. Mehrel in her feature debut, this light-and-dark comedy rides the awkward waves between loss and desire.

🎥 “Husbands in Action” Trailer: A Detective Teams Up with His Ex-Wife’s New Husband in Netflix’s Korean Action Comedy — Streams June 19th on Netflix

Nothing says awkward teamwork like rescuing your ex-wife with her new husband riding shotgun. This Korean action comedy follows a detective forced to partner with his romantic replacement after their shared connection is kidnapped. Directed by Park Gyu-tae and starring Jin Sun-kyu, Gong Myoung, Jeon So-min, Kang Hanna, Kim Ji-suk, Lee Da-hee, and Yoon Kyung-ho, this Netflix film turns jealousy, bruised egos, and high-speed chaos into one very uncomfortable rescue mission.

🎥 “Luz” Trailer: Isabelle Huppert Enters a Neon-Lit VR Mystery Connecting Chongqing, Paris, and a Mystical Deer — Streaming June 9th on Kino Film Collection

Reality gets slippery when grief, distance, and technology start sharing the same strange space. Set between the neon streets of Chongqing and the quiet ache of Paris, this meditative drama follows an ex-con searching for his estranged daughter while a Hong Kong gallerist wrestles with her ailing stepmother, played by iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert. Their lives meet inside the VR world of “Luz,” where a mystical deer reveals hidden truths and turns digital escape into an unexpected path toward connection.

🎥 “Elijah Peel” Trailer: Robert Malcolm Cumming Stars as A Fading Rock Star Trying to Get a Second Chance at Life, Faith, and Healing in This Inspirational Drama — In Theaters August 14th

Fame can fill stadiums, but it doesn’t always fix what’s broken. Inspired by a true story, this inspirational drama stars Robert Malcolm Cumming as Elijah Peel, a rock star whose life of addiction and excess comes crashing down after a heart attack nearly kills him. Also starring Evelyn Grace Kite, April Billingsley, Princess Elmore, and Kevin Sorbo, the film turns an unexpected bond with a young girl into a story of recovery, forgiveness, and the long road back from the edge.

🎥 “Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul” Trailer: A Tender New Documentary Traces the Rock Legend’s Pain, Fame, and Lasting Sound — In Theaters June 17th

Every great talent carries a few ghosts. This new documentary traces blues rocker Gregg Allman’s journey from a childhood marked by tragedy to the generation-defining sound he helped create with the Allman Brothers Band. Through archival recordings, electrifying performances, and a look at his headline-making marriage to Cher, the film explores how Allman’s music turned pain, trauma and authenticity into something that still echoes to this day.

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📺 “Lucky” Trailer: Anya Taylor-Joy Goes on the Run in Apple’s New Crime Thriller Series with Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey & Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — Premiering Wed, July 15th on Apple TV

When your entire world gets turned upside down and you no longer know which way is forward, survival can start to feel like random chance. Maybe even a little luck just to make it through the day. But when you’ve spent your entire life preparing for disasters like this, luck eventually stops being part of the equation. That’s when instinct takes over.

And judging by this official trailer for Lucky, Anya Taylor-Joy’s newest role involves plenty of running, lying, fighting, and knowing exactly when to weaponize charm and sympathy to stay alive.

In the upcoming Apple original crime-thriller series, the Furiosa and Dune star leans into her elegant beauty and steely resolve as Luciana “Lucky” Armstrong, a highly skilled con artist whose carefully managed life implodes after a multimillion-dollar heist goes catastrophically wrong. Suddenly, she’s on the run with federal agents closing in from one direction and a ruthless crime boss, played by iconic actress Annette Bening, hunting her from the other.

From there, things spiral fast. As the walls close in, Lucky is forced to rely on every trick she has left: deception, manipulation, survival instincts, old connections, and whatever pieces remain of the identity she’s spent years building. The trailer leans hard into cat-and-mouse tension, last-minute disguises, close calls, and a little fake crying to get what she wants. After all, when your back is against the wall, leaning into people’s sympathy isn’t only useful... it’s survival.

Joining Taylor-Joy is a strong supporting lineup that includes Timothy Olyphant as Lucky’s veteran con artist father and Drew Starkey as Lucky’s boyfriend and partner in crime, who mysteriously goes missing along with a large stash of money when the proverbial shit hits the fan, igniting a chain of chaotic events.

Annette Bening plays the powerful crime boss hunting down Lucky in an attempt to retrieve her stolen cash. She is also the mother of Lucky’s missing boyfriend.

Meanwhile, King Richard breakout Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor costars as the tenacious FBI Agent Billie Rand, hot on Lucky’s trail, while Clifton Collins Jr., William Fichtner, and Eric Lange round out the cast.

Created by Jonathan Tropper, of Banshee, Your Friends & Neighbors, and Warrior, and based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, the upcoming series appears to blend crime drama, action-thriller momentum, and cat-and-mouse tension in a way that seems perfectly suited for someone of Anya Taylor-Joy’s caliber, especially since she has already proved she can be both absolutely ferocious in Furiosa and effortlessly magnetic in The Queen’s Gambit.

Lucky premieres Wednesday, July 15th on Apple TV.

📺 “Silo: Season 3” Trailer: Rebecca Ferguson Searches for the Truth Behind Apple’s Acclaimed Dystopian Sci-Fi Mystery with Jessica Henwick, Colin Hanks, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez and More — Premiering Friday, July 3rd on Apple TV

Imagine this: a dystopian world where people are forced to live underground in massive silos because the air outside has become so toxic that stepping outside means instant death. But what if the people in charge have been lying? What if the real reason no one is allowed to leave has less to do with survival and more to do with control?

That’s the fascinating hook behind Silo, Apple’s terrific sci-fi mystery series based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling book trilogy. And with Season 3 arriving this July, the show appears ready to widen the scope in a major way, moving beyond the question of what’s outside and digging into how this whole nightmare began in the first place.

Rebecca Ferguson returns as Juliette Nichols, the stubborn, brilliant engineer who has spent the series pulling at every loose wire in the system until the entire underground society starts to short-circuit. After surviving her forced “cleaning” and discovering that the world beyond her own silo is far more complicated than she was ever told, Juliette now finds herself caught between buried truths, broken memories, and an increasingly fractured community still reeling from rebellion.

Season 3 will continue the present-day story inside the silo as the survivors try to recover from social turmoil while facing a new threat that could push their fragile society even closer to collapse. But the season also jumps back centuries earlier to the so-called “Before Times,” where D.C. journalist Helen Drew, played by Glass Onion’s Jessica Henwick, and Congressman Daniel Keene, played by Succession’s Ashley Zukerman, begin uncovering a conspiracy with catastrophic consequences.

That dual timeline might feel like a big swing. But Season 3 seems ready to pull back the curtain on the origin story of the silos and the carefully built secrecy that surrounds them, tracing the moment when civilization above ground started falling apart and the future of humanity was sealed underground.

Among those returning this season are Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Rick Gomez, Billy Postlethwaite, and Clare Perkins. New additions include Laura Innes, Jessica Brown Findlay, Morven Christie, Reed Birney, Matt Craven, and Colin Hanks in a recurring role. Steve Zahn is also set to return as Jimmy “Solo” Conroy, the only living survivor of the rebellion in Silo 17.

Executive produced by showrunner Graham Yost, of Justified and Speed fame, Silo has turned Howey’s dystopian world into one of Apple’s most gripping slow-burn sci-fi dramas to date. And if the Season 3 trailer is any indication, this season won’t just ask what happened to the world. It’s going to ask who helped bury the truth in the first place.

Silo: Season 3 premieres Friday, July 3rd on Apple TV.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3” New Teaser: Maggie and Negan Finally Become True Allies as the AMC Spin-Off Returns — Premieres Fri, July 26th on AMC & AMC+

Maggie and Negan may never fully outrun their brutal history, but Season 3 of their spin-off series looks ready to push their uneasy partnership into new territory. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan return for another round of walker-filled chaos, this time with the promise of a major twist, an alternate-reality episode set in a very different version of New York City, and what may be the biggest reset yet for Maggie and Negan’s complicated dynamic. After years of hatred, survival, betrayal, and reluctant teamwork, the two longtime enemies might finally be forced to become real allies... assuming that kind of peace can actually last in The Walking Dead universe.

📺 “Paul Simon: The Quiet Celebration Concert” Trailer: The Legendary Singer-Songwriter Returns to the Stage in an Intimate Hulu Concert Special — Premieres Fri, June 26th on Hulu/Disney+

Paul Simon returns to the stage with something quieter, smaller, and deeply personal in this new Hulu concert special. Recorded live at Seattle’s McCaw Hall during his recent acoustic tour, the two-hour concert features Simon performing his Grammy-nominated work Seven Psalms live for the first time, alongside reimagined classics and deeper cuts from his legendary catalog. Simon also reflects on the hearing loss that made live performance feel uncertain for years, turning this into more than just another career-spanning showcase. It’s a warm, intimate portrait of an artist finding his way back to the musicians, the audience, and the songs that shaped him.

📺 “I Will Find You” Official Trailer: Sam Worthington Escapes Prison to Find the Son He Was Convicted of Killing in Netflix’s New Harlan Coben Mystery Series with Britt Lower & Milo Ventimiglia — Premieres Thurs, June 18th on Netflix

A dead child, a convicted father, and one image that changes everything. Sam Worthington stars as David Burroughs, a man serving life in prison for murdering his young son... until a shocking new clue suggests the boy may still be alive. Based on Harlan Coben’s novel and also starring Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia, Erin Richards, Jonathan Tucker, Madeleine Stowe, Clancy Brown, and Logan Browning, this fugitive thriller sends one desperate father running from the law and straight into a web of buried secrets.

📺 “Outlander: Blood of My Blood: Season 2” Teaser: Two Love Stories Across Time Face New Heartbreak, Highland Trouble, and the Pull of Destiny — Returning Fri, September 18th on STARZ

Love was never going to come easy in the Outlander universe, and this prequel series seems determined to keep that tradition alive. Season 2 continues the intertwined romances of Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) in 18th-century Scotland, while Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) face their own time-tangled trials tied to war, fate, and those mysterious stones. With clan politics, family loyalties, and supernatural forces closing in, this next chapter looks ready to make romance hurt in all the familiar Outlander ways.

📺 “Oasis” Trailer: A Luxury Resort Turns Into a Locked-Down Mystery in Netflix’s New Spanish Teen Crime Thriller — Streams Fri, June 19th on Netflix

Paradise gets a little less relaxing when one of its guests mysteriously disappears. Set inside an elite luxury resort built for privileged families, this glossy mystery thriller follows a group of young people whose perfect summer escape quickly turns into a locked-down investigation where no one can leave and everyone has something to hide. Starring Ana Garcés, Tomy Aguilera, Victoria Kantch, Berta Castañé, Manel Duarte, Ada Molina, Álex Mola, and Cande Méndez, this Spanish Netflix series mixes sun-soaked excess with secrets, suspicion, and plenty of rich-kid panic. Now that’s a five-star vacation nightmare waiting to happen.

📺 “Bust Up” Trailer: Exes Become Small-Town Cops Solving Weird Crimes in This New Zealand Crime Comedy Series Starring Morgana O’Reilly & Roimata Fox — Now Airing in NZ

Small-town policing gets awkward fast when your new partner also happens to be your ex. Morgana O’Reilly (of Housebound) and Roimata Fox (of The Wrecking Crew) star as Deb Brighton and Mihi Renata, former romantic partners forced back into each other’s orbit after a decade apart while investigating bizarre crimes in the fictional town of Waitote, the garden gnome capital of Aotearoa. As the cases grow stranger and the danger ramps up, this offbeat crime series looks ready to mix mystery, unresolved feelings, and one very uncomfortable work reunion.

📺 “All the Queen’s Men: Season 5 (Final Season)” Trailer: Madam’s Empire Faces Its Final Fight as Loyalty, Survival, and Revenge Take Center Stage — Streams Wed, June 10th on Paramount+

Madam’s kingdom is under attack, and the final season is making sure nobody walks away untouched. With Madam’s life hanging by a thread and her shooter still at large, the dancers of Eden are left rattled as enemies move in to exploit the chaos. Eva Marcille returns for one last round of power plays, betrayal, and high-stakes survival as All the Queen’s Men heads toward its final bow.

📺 “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Season 3” Trailer: A New Group of Hopefuls Chases the Dream, the Pressure, and the Perfect High Kick in This Cheerleader Docuseries — Streams Tues, June 16th on Netflix

The kicks are high, the expectations are higher, and the competition is not here to hand out participation trophies. Season 3 follows a new batch of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders hopefuls as they fight for a spot on one of the most recognizable squads in sports entertainment. Between the precision, pressure, and personal stakes, this Netflix docuseries continues to show just how much work goes into making game-day glamour look effortless.

📺 “Tony Hinchcliffe: Man of the People” Sneak Peek: Equal-Opportunity Offender Returns with a Brutally Unfiltered New Stand-Up Special — Premieres Tues, June 9th on Netflix

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe is back at the mic, and apparently, nobody in the room is getting out clean. The stand-up comic returns with a new Netflix hour built around his signature roast-heavy style, tearing into the audience, the culture, and just about every group imaginable. Whether that sounds fearless, reckless, or both probably depends on where you’re sitting.

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🎥 “The End of Oak Street” Full-length Trailer: Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor Face Suburban Dino-Sized Terror in David Robert Mitchell’s Sci-Fi Survival Thriller — In Theaters and IMAX August 14th

There’s something about dinosaurs that offers cinema a thrilling sense of enormous scale, horrifying danger, and pure old-school wonder. Maybe it’s because every time a dinosaur appears on screen, it instantly becomes a monster movie. All logic is suddenly thrown out the window, and what’s left is pure survival. Now throw an ordinary suburban family into the center of it, and suddenly all that prehistoric terror gets a little more intimate... and a little more terrifying.

When the first teaser trailer for The End of Oak Street dropped a few months ago, it didn’t just spark a wave of social media buzz. It also raised plenty of questions. What exactly is this movie? Why are dinosaurs running around what looks like an early ’80s-era mystery thriller about a middle-class family shocked to find themselves living through their own prehistoric nightmare?

Well, a new full-length trailer has been released this week, and while there are still plenty of unanswered questions left to be solved, it does shine a light on the tone and overall vibe. Let’s just say, expect plenty of frightening sequences of rampaging and snarling dinosaurs. Just don’t expect to truly know why they’re running around in a little neighborhood.

Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, best known for the horror smash It Follows and the cult neo-noir mystery Under the Silver Lake, the film stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as Denise and Greg Platt, parents trying to keep their family together after a mysterious cosmic event rips their street out of ordinary 80s-era suburbia and drops the entire neighborhood block into someplace unknown. Back in time, perhaps? Or maybe a different dimension, you know, like Land of the Lost or something?

That “someplace unknown,” as it turns out, appears to come with trees, fog, panic, and enough prehistoric threats to make real estate values collapse overnight.

Maisy Stella, of My Old Ass, and Christian Convery, of Cocaine Bear, co-star as Audrey and Brian, the Platt children caught in the middle of this impossible Twilight Zone-like scenario. What starts as a bizarre neighborhood-wide displacement quickly turns into a full-scale survival ordeal, as the familiar comforts of home give way to rampaging creatures, shaken neighbors, and the dawning realization that nobody really knows where they are anymore.

And that seems to be the hook here. The End of Oak Street isn’t just selling dinosaur mayhem, though the trailer certainly delivers plenty of that. It’s also leaning into suburban dread, family tension, and the strange horror of watching an ordinary street become a dead-end road into the unknown. Sometimes the scariest thing about a dinosaur movie isn’t the giant teeth or thunderous footsteps. It’s realizing your quiet little street may no longer be connected to the world you thought you knew.

The cast also includes Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, and Chris Coy, with filmmaker J.J. Abrams among the producers, working under his production banner Bad Robot. Behind the camera, Mitchell is joined by his frequent DP, acclaimed cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, who is also known for working on Jordan Peele’s Us and M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, Glass, and Old. Composer Michael Giacchino provides the score, which should only add to the film’s mix of wonder, fear, and dino-driven panic.

The End of Oak Street is slated to arrive in theaters and IMAX on August 14th. We are already picturing what the popcorn bucket might look like.

🎥 “Onslaught” Trailer: Adria Arjona Unleashes Hell in Adam Wingard’s Old-School Action-Horror Thriller with Rebecca Hall, Reginald VelJohnson & Michael Biehn — Hitting Theaters September 4th

One of the main reasons why ’80s and ’90s action thrillers are considered the height of the genre is that they often threw grounded, everyday heroes into wildly extreme situations. More often than not, those situations devolved into cartoonish levels of chaos and violence, but never at the expense of the main character or characters. They always had a clear sense of morality and purpose, even when using some questionable methods.

Having spent a major chunk of this decade playing in the kaiju sandbox on two Godzilla vs. Kong blockbusters, filmmaker Adam Wingard returns to his gritty indie roots with his latest film. And he seems to be trading giant monster mayhem for a blast of old-school action-genre muscle harkening back to those over-the-top ’80s and ’90s actioners where villains were cold and ruthless, and heroes still had a moral code despite their own personal issues and shortcomings.

In our eyes, Wingard made one of the best ’80s/’90s action-thriller throwbacks in recent memory with 2014’s The Guest, an awesome homage to John Carpenter and the kind of pulpy, horror-leaning action thrillers that defined those decades.

With Onslaught, Wingard appears to be returning to that same lane, this time mixing a little Rambo with Commando with a heaping dash of Universal Soldier, while tossing in some shadowy government conspiracy for good measure.

This upcoming A24 action-thriller stars Adria Arjona (of Andor fame) as a PTSD-suffering ex-military sniper who is now living in a trailer park with her young daughter, trying to keep her life from falling apart. She is soon forced to tap back into those survival skills and killer instincts when a violent threat escapes from a secret military base. And not just any threat. We’re talking genetically engineered super soldiers breaking loose in the desert, turning an already rough situation into a full-blown chaotic nightmare.

From there, things seem to get messy fast.

As mercenaries move in to contain the situation, Arjona’s character and her young daughter become trapped between a runaway experimental menace and the heavily armed forces trying to suppress it. Which, in classic action-thriller fashion, means the people who claim they’re there to fix the problem might be just as dangerous as the thing they’re hunting.

But little do they know, Arjona isn’t a woman who goes down quietly. Locked and loaded, she’s about to remind everyone that there are some trailer parks you don’t want to roll into uninvited.

The cast also includes Rebecca Hall as a shadowy government agent barking out orders, alongside Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Eric Wareheim, with Dan Stevens set to make a guest appearance. And for those hardcore ’80s and ’90s fans, Die Hard’s Reginald VelJohnson and Aliens’ Michael Biehn are rounding out the lineup just to keep things interesting.

Wingard, of course, has built a career out of bending genre expectations. From the home-invasion horror of You’re Next to the synth-soaked action menace of The Guest, as well as a couple of Godzilla vs. Kong hits, his best work often lives in that sweet spot between horror atmosphere and hard-hitting thriller energy. So the idea of him making a gonzo action-horror film about a badass Army sniper protecting her daughter from escaped super soldiers sounds pretty much right in his wheelhouse ... and ours.

Onslaught opens in theaters September 4th.

🎥 “How to Rob a Bank” Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Turns Viral Bank Heists Into Anti-Capitalist Mayhem in David Leitch’s Action-Comedy Thriller with John C. Reilly, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai & Pete Davidson — Hitting Theaters September 4th

They say there’s a thin line between cops and robbers. Both are chasing the score, just from opposite sides of the law. But they often forget there’s an even thinner line between robbers and revolutionaries. Sometimes it all depends on whether you’re stealing for yourself or stealing to make a point.

Fresh from his villainous turn as Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor, Nicholas Hoult will be back on the big screen this September playing a very different kind of scoundrel: one whose criminal actions aren’t entirely without purpose. One could even say he’s robbing from the rich to expose something much bigger and uglier in the system.

In the upcoming action-comedy heist thriller How to Rob a Bank, Hoult stars as the leader of a crew of social media-savvy, animal mask-wearing bank robbers who don’t just pull off daring heists. They broadcast them on their phones. Their crimes become content, their rebellion becomes public spectacle, and their growing online fame turns them into something between wanted criminals and viral folk heroes.

Of course, the problem with turning bank robbery into a public performance is that law enforcement eventually starts watching too. And as the crew’s notoriety grows, they find themselves in the crosshairs of the FBI.

Enter John C. Reilly as a veteran FBI agent tasked with taking down these viral masked thieves before their online celebrity becomes something worse: a full-scale movement of its own.

With growing public resentment working both for and against the elusive robbers, Reilly’s FBI agent recruits a brilliant but convicted computer hacker, played here by Zoë Kravitz in full snarky slacker mode, to help track Nicholas Hoult and his crew. In exchange for getting out of house arrest, she agrees to use her illegal but frighteningly effective tracking software to find out where they are... or better yet, where they’re planning to hit next.

But the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes these robbers aren’t choosing targets at random. They’re going after powerful banks with long histories of corruption, exploitation, and dirty money.

They’re thieves with a cause. And this time, their run of good luck may finally be running out.

Directed by David Leitch, the filmmaker behind Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, and The Fall Guy, the film arrives with a built-in promise of slick action, bruising comedy, and stunt-driven thrills with a side order of class warfare and anti-capitalist sentiment.

In a world where the rich are at their most powerful, banks are too big to fail, people are getting screwed left and right, and the little guy is left holding the bag, the question isn’t who broke the law, but... who’s robbing who?

Joining Hoult, Kravitz, and Reilly in the cast are Emmy-winning Shogun star Anna Sawai, comedian Pete Davidson, The Penguin breakout Rhenzy Feliz, and Mortal Kombat II’s Tati Gabrielle as the rest of Hoult’s crew of rebellious bandits, while Christian Slater co-stars as an arrogant bank manager who doesn’t know he’s the next target.

How to Rob a Bank is slated to open in theaters September 4th. Come for the action comedy, stay for the message that we’re all getting robbed one way or another.

🎥 “Rich Flu” Trailer: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Faces a Wealth-Based Plague in the Latest Dystopian Class-War Thriller From ‘The Platform’ Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia — on VOD/Digital June 5th

Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia first came onto our radar with the deliciously wicked dystopian thriller The Platform. Released in 2019 before finding a wider audience on Netflix during the height of the pandemic, the film hit a nerve by taking a brutally simple idea and turning it into a full-blown social nightmare.

The allegory was blunt but effective: a tower of survival where the most fortunate eat first, while everyone below is left fighting over whatever scraps trickle down from a descending platform. It was basically the “eat the rich” genre taken to one of its nastiest extremes.

Well, it looks like Gaztelu-Urrutia isn’t done taking sharp, sinister swings at class, privilege, and the ugly things people do when the system isn’t just stacked against them, but starting to collapse. And yes, the title alone kind of gives it away: Rich Flu.

In this upcoming dystopian-tinged thriller, Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Laura, a woman whose career is peaking just as the world is thrown into utter chaos by a deadly virus that targets the wealthy. First, it comes for billionaires. Then millionaires. Then the next rung down. Suddenly, money isn’t power anymore. It’s a warning sign. Which creates one hell of a panic.

As the disease spreads, the rich start doing the one thing they were never exactly famous for doing quickly: giving away all their money. Assets are dumped. Fortunes are unloaded. Bank accounts become liabilities. Because when wealth becomes a death sentence, generosity suddenly starts looking a lot less selfless.

That’s the wicked hook behind Rich Flu, which from the look of things takes the class-war metaphor and makes it literal, turning financial status into a kind of biological countdown. The richer you are, the closer you are to death in this topsy-turvy scenario where the 1 percent finally learns how it feels to be at the bottom.

Joining Winstead in the cast are Rafe Spall, Lorraine Bracco, Jonah Hauer-King, and Timothy Spall, giving the film a strong ensemble to play out this nasty little nightmare of class status, global panic, and desperation.

Gaztelu-Urrutia clearly has a thing for turning social inequality into genre pressure cookers, and Rich Flu looks like another brutal thought experiment built around one simple question: what happens when the people at the top suddenly become the most vulnerable? It seems the answer involves a whole lot of rich people trying to get poor in a hurry.

Rich Flu will be available on VOD/Digital this Friday, June 5th.

June is here... and it’s bringing the summer season with it. Meaning you can expect an onslaught of new big releases, buzzy streaming premieres, and more than a few titles trying to muscle their way onto your watchlist this summer. The next couple of weeks should only get louder, busier, and a whole lot more crowded as studios start rolling out their summer slate.

As always, we’ve put together a weekly roundup of what’s arriving in theaters and on streaming over the next few days. So whether you’re heading out to catch something on the big screen or staying cool indoors with the remote within arm’s reach, scroll down and see what catches your eye.

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🎥 Masters of the Universe
(Fri, June 5th — wide release)

By the power of Grayskull, ‘80s sword-and-sorcery may be ready for another swing. Nicholas Galitzine raises the Power Sword in this long-awaited live-action He-Man reboot, playing an Earthbound Prince Adam who, after years in exile, must return to Eternia after Skeletor seizes control. Directed by Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee), this fantasy adventure brings Idris Elba, Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, Morena Baccarin, Jared Leto, and more into the fight, where a hero rises, evil falls, and nostalgia gets seriously swole.

🎥 Scary Movie
(Fri, June 5th — wide release)

The knives are out again, and no horror trend is safe. Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall reunite for this long-awaited Scary Movie sequel, taking aim at reboots, legacy sequels, elevated horror, and modern hits like Sinners, Smile, M3GAN, Terrifier, and The Substance. After 13 years away, the franchise is back to prove horror may evolve, but parody never dies.

🎥 Power Ballad
(Fri, June 5th — expands wide)

Sing Street and Once filmmaker John Carney returns to the messy business of making music with this song-driven dramedy about creativity, credit, and one hit single with two possible fathers. Paul Rudd stars as a washed-up songwriter-turned-wedding singer whose late-night jam with Nick Jonas’s fading pop star turns into a comeback smash, a stolen-song feud, and one very tuneful fight over who gets to claim the glory.

🎥 The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
(Fri, June 5th — wide release)

The viral animated sensation heads to theaters for one final bow, combining episode 8 with the all-new, hour-long episode 9. As Pomni and the gang reach the end of their bizarre digital nightmare, the grand finale promises long-awaited answers, hidden circus history, and one last reality-bending trip under the big top.

🎥 The Last Whale Singer
(Fri, June 5th — wide release)

A teenage humpback whale with a rebellious streak heads for the ocean’s deepest waters in this German-made animated fantasy adventure, where a mystical song may be the only thing standing between the seas and total destruction. With his companions by his side, he must face a monstrous creature freed from a melting iceberg. Turns out saving the ocean requires a little courage and one seriously powerful set of pipes.

🎥 Carolina Caroline
(Fri, June 5th — limited release)

Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner play two lovers with nowhere to go but deeper into trouble in this southern-fried crime thriller from Dinner in America filmmaker Adam Carter Rehmeier. What starts as small-town escape quickly turns into a dangerous road trip of scams, bad choices, and toxic chemistry. Love may be the getaway plan, but self-destruction is riding shotgun.

🎥 Savage House
(Fri, June 5th — limited release)

Privilege gets delightfully poisonous in this 18th-century satire starring Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant. As disease spreads and political unrest rises outside their estate, one status-hungry aristocratic couple schemes, manipulates, and spirals toward disaster in Peter Glanz’s dark comedy of manners gone mad.

🎥 Signal One
(Fri, June 5th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)

First contact gets dangerous in this sci-fi mystery from writer-director Jonathan Sobol. Isabelle Fuhrman stars as a brilliant young scientist recruited by Dennis Quaid’s tech billionaire into a secret cosmic project, with Josh Hutcherson and David Thewlis joining a discovery that could change humanity’s place in the universe.

🎥 The Birthday Party
(Fri, June 5th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)

Willem Dafoe throws one seriously loaded celebration in this 1970s Mediterranean drama from director Miguel Ángel Jiménez. As a wealthy Greek tycoon hosting his daughter’s lavish birthday party, he hides an agenda that turns luxury, family duty, and seaside glamour into something far more controlling.

🎥 Chum
(Fri, June 5th — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)

A destination wedding turns into a full-blown feeding frenzy in this Malta-set survival thriller starring Alice Eve. After a shark attack traps the wedding party in open water, a sinister fisherman adds another threat to the nightmare, proving cold feet are the least of anyone’s problems.

🎥 She’s the He
(Fri, June 5th — limited release)

A terrible plan turns surprisingly real in this sharp-edged queer coming-of-age comedy from writer-director Siobhan McCarthy. Misha Osherovich and Nico Carney star as best friends who pose as trans women to shut down rumors, only for the joke to crack open something much more honest.

🎥 Another World
(Fri, June 5th — limited release)

Death gets complicated in this dark anime fantasy from first-time feature director Tommy Ng Kai Chung. Based on Naka Saijo’s novel Sennenki, the film follows a Soul Keeper who befriends a cursed young girl whose grief and rage threaten both the human world and the spirit realm.

🎥 Trainspotting: 30th anniversary
(Fri, June 5th — re-release)

Choose life, choose chaos... choose the big screen again! Danny Boyle’s kinetic 1996 classic returns in a 30th anniversary 4K restoration, bringing Ewan McGregor’s Mark Renton and his self-destructive Edinburgh crew back with all the dark humor, raw energy, and needle-sharp impact intact.

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🎥 “In the Hand of Dante” Trailer: Oscar Isaac Travels Through Art, Crime, and Madness in Julian Schnabel’s Time-Spanning Thriller with Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino & Jason Momoa — Premiering June 24th on Netflix

Julian Schnabel is not exactly the easiest filmmaker to pin down.

The painter-turned-director has built a film career out of wildly different subjects, though he often seems drawn to artists, writers, and tortured souls trying to create something meaningful while life, ego, obsession, and self-doubt keep getting in the way. From Basquiat to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to At Eternity’s Gate, Schnabel has shown a fascination with the messy, punishing act of making art... and the complicated people who can’t seem to live without it or survive it.

His latest film, In the Hand of Dante, sounds like another strange, ambitious dive into that same territory, only this time with a little more crime, violence, and possibly a whole lot of literary madness, as parallel timelines are used to connect the past to the present and vice versa.

Oscar Isaac stars in dual roles as modern-day writer Nick Tosches and 14th-century poet Dante Alighieri, two men separated by centuries but connected by obsession, beauty, love, and the search for something divine.

In the present-day storyline, Nick is pulled into a dangerous criminal scheme after a handwritten manuscript of The Divine Comedy is said to have surfaced from the Vatican Library. Recruited by a mob boss to authenticate and help steal the priceless text, he descends into an underworld where literature becomes currency, faith becomes leverage, and desire turns destructive.

Meanwhile, the film also follows Dante as he searches for the inspiration behind his greatest work, turning the story into a parallel journey through art, violence, and spiritual longing.

Schnabel directs from a script he co-wrote with Louise Kugelberg, adapting Nick Tosches’ novel of the same name.

The cast is stacked, with all-star talent like Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Gal Gadot, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina Impacciatore, Franco Nero, and Benjamin Clementine, along with out-of-left-field guest appearances from Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, and Jason Momoa joining Isaac in what sounds like one seriously odd literary-crime fever dream.

In the Hand of Dante is slated to premiere June 24th on Netflix. Art may be eternal, but apparently, so are decisions we can’t outrun.

🎥 “Spa Weekend” Trailer: Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau & Anna Faris Turn Self-Care Into Full-Blown Chaos in New Comedy — Hitting Theaters August 21st

A luxury spa weekend with Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris sounds like exactly the kind of thing that should involve massages, champagne, fluffy robes, and maybe one emotionally honest conversation in a steam room.

But since this is coming from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writing-directing team behind the rowdy comedies The Hangover and Bad Moms, we’re guessing peace and relaxation are not exactly on the itinerary. In fact, one could expect plenty of bruised egos and deeply questionable deeds.

Spa Weekend follows four lifelong friends who realize they’ve let careers, relationships, families, and the usual daily grind shove their friendship to the side. Burned out and long overdue for a break, they head to a luxury spa retreat hoping to reconnect, unwind, and maybe remember what it feels like to put themselves first for once.

But soon, things go off the rails... and we do mean very far from relaxation.

What begins as a weekend of massages, champagne, and self-care quickly spirals into ill-advised decisions, awkward encounters, and the kind of escalating comic chaos that tends to happen when grown adults finally get a little too much freedom. Think less calming cucumber water and more four-woman midlife meltdown with a resort bill attached.

Mann, Fisher, Buteau, and Faris lead the ensemble, with Yasmin Kassim, Adam Demos, Dominic Ona-Ariki, and Stephen Hunter rounding out the cast.

Lucas and Moore have made a career out of taking ordinary adult responsibilities and pushing them into full-blown meltdown mode, so Spa Weekend looks right in their wheelhouse: a female-led friendship comedy about the messy joy of remembering who you were before life got so exhausting.

Spa Weekend opens in theaters August 21st.

🎥 “The Get Out” Trailer: Russell Crowe Gets Dragged Back Into the Criminal Underworld in Derrick Borte’s Hardboiled Crime Thriller with Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, Nina Dobrev & Aaron Paul — Hitting Theaters June 26th

If you asked us, we kind of like this phase of Russell Crowe’s career.

The Oscar-winning actor seems more than willing to take roles that let him swerve away from what we usually expect from him. Wildly questionable accents? Sure. Pulpy genre swings? Absolutely. Characters who feel less concerned with arthouse prestige and more interested in having a little fun? Even better.

That seems to be the vibe for Crowe’s latest, where he seems to be enjoying himself just enough to let loose without completely winking at the camera.

The Get Out is a new action-driven crime thriller that reunites Crowe with Unhinged director Derrick Borte. Here, Crowe stars as a nightclub owner trying to leave his dangerous past behind and settle into a quieter life with his girlfriend. Naturally, because this is a crime thriller, “quieter life” lasts about as long as a peaceful night at a nightclub owned by a guy with cartel problems.

The trouble starts when masked gunmen rob his club, dragging him back into the violent world he thought he had escaped. From there, his exit plan turns into a deadly game of survival as cartel pressure closes in and a mysterious buyer arrives with his own interest in taking over the business.

Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, Nina Dobrev, Aaron Paul, Daniel Zovatto, and Kartiah Vergara round out the cast, giving Crowe plenty of dangerous company as the night spirals from bad business deal to full-blown criminal trap.

Directed by Borte and co-written with Daniel Forte, The Get Out is based on Thomas Perry’s novel Strip, which should give the film a nice hardboiled edge. And with Crowe back in bruiser mode, this one looks like it could be the kind of lean, nasty thriller where some last-minute decisions come with broken bones and very bad consequences.

The Get Out opens in limited release on June 26th.

🎥 “Citizen Vigilante” Trailer: Armie Hammer Takes Justice Into His Own Hands in Uwe Boll’s Grimy Revenge Thriller — Arriving in Theaters and on VOD/Digital June 19th

Armie Hammer and director Uwe Boll have just made a movie together.

Okay... admittedly, we can think of way better actor-director combos. And sure, this is not exactly the team-up we’ve been waiting years to see. But are we strangely curious to see what these two can cook up together? Yeah, a little. From the looks of things, Citizen Vigilante probably isn’t going to rock the very foundations of cinema, but it might scratch that grimy little revenge-thriller itch for some.

The new action thriller stars Hammer as Sanders, a wealthy American businessman living in Zagreb who becomes fed up with a justice system he believes has failed to punish violent criminals, rapists, and corrupt officials. So, naturally, he decides to take justice into his own hands. Because apparently therapy, charity work, or moving somewhere quieter were not dramatic enough options.

Before long, Sanders begins hunting offenders himself, turning into an underground vigilante whose brutal actions spread across social media. To some, he becomes a folk hero willing to do what institutions won’t. To others, he’s a dangerous criminal whose growing popularity threatens to send everything spiraling out of control.

Costas Mandylor co-stars as Interpol Chief Henry, the man determined to bring Sanders down before his bloody crusade turns him into something even more powerful than a criminal: a heroic symbol.

Written and directed by Boll, Citizen Vigilante is being pitched as a “Death Wish for the 21st century,” which feels like a bit of a stretch, even though conversations around justified vigilantism have remained very much in the public consciousness.

Boll, of course, has built a long and controversial career out of low-budget genre films, shlocky video-game adaptations, and provocation-heavy action cinema, so this definitely feels like familiar territory for him. Meanwhile, Hammer is still trying to find his footing after a very public scandal from several years ago, one that still hangs over any attempted comeback.

Citizen Vigilante opens in theaters and arrives on VOD/Digital June 19th.

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🎥 “Supergirl” Promo Spots: Milly Alcock Takes Flight Across the Galaxy as Kara Zor-El Hunts Down Matthias Schoenaerts’ Ruthless Space Pirate Krem — In Theaters and IMAX June 26th

Supergirl is taking her fight far beyond Earth, and these new promo spots give us a sharper look at the cosmic trouble waiting for her. Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, who finds herself on an interstellar mission of vengeance and justice after a ruthless adversary strikes too close to home. Along the way, she teams up with unlikely companion Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley) while crossing paths with Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts), a dangerous space pirate who looks ready to make Kara’s galaxy-hopping quest a whole lot messier. Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Ana Nogueira, with David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and Jason Momoa as Lobo rounding out the cast, this DC Studios adventure sends the Girl of Steel into a bigger, stranger, and more dangerous corner of the universe.

🎥 “Disclosure Day” Featurettes: Steven Spielberg Returns to Sci-Fi Mystery as Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, and Colman Domingo Face a World-Changing Truth — In Theaters June 12th

Steven Spielberg is heading back into the skies, and the truth is apparently getting harder to keep buried. Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo star in this new UFO mystery thriller about a discovery that could change humanity forever: proof that we are not alone. Details have mostly been kept under wraps, but these newly released featurettes offer a closer look at Spielberg’s latest original event film, which reunites him with screenwriter David Koepp, the writer behind Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and War of the Worlds. And when the truth belongs to eight billion people, keeping it hidden may be the scariest thing of all.

🎥 “I Am Frankelda” Trailer: A 19th-Century Mexican Writer Faces the Monsters of Her Own Imagination in Netflix’s Gothic Stop-Motion Fantasy — Coming to Netflix June 12th

Every writer has demons. Frankelda’s just happen to sing, crawl, and lurk inside her subconscious. Set in 19th-century Mexico, this gothic stop-motion fantasy follows a gifted young writer whose imagination is dismissed by the world around her, only for the creatures she created to come roaring to life inside a strange realm between fiction and reality. Directed by Arturo and Roy Ambriz, the filmmakers behind Frankelda’s Book of Spooks, this dark fantasy musical expands the handmade, monster-filled mythology of Frankelda’s world while turning fear, authorship, and artistic identity into one eerie journey of self-discovery.

🎥 “Fatherland” Trailer: Sandra Hüller & Hanns Zischler Journey Through Postwar Germany in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes-Winning Historical Drama — Coming Soon

A return home can feel less like a homecoming and more like walking through a ghost story. From Ida and Cold War filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, this postwar historical drama follows Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika Mann as they travel through a divided Germany in 1949, confronting exile, memory, family tension, and the ruins of a country still reckoning with itself. Starring Munich’s Hanns Zischler and Project Hail Mary’s Sandra Hüller, along with August Diehl, Anna Madeley, and Devid Striesow, this Cannes-winning drama looks like a restrained but emotionally loaded journey through art, conscience, and national remorse.

🎥 “We Are Pat” Trailer: Filmmaker Rowan Haber Revisits SNL’s ‘It’s Pat’ Through Today’s Conversations Around Gender, Comedy, and Queer Identity — On VOD/Digital June 23rd

A ’90s sketch gets pulled into a much bigger conversation. Directed by Rowan Haber, this documentary looks back at the origins of Saturday Night Live’s “It’s Pat,” examining how a character built around cultural anxiety over gender now speaks directly to today’s debates around transness, queerness, comedy, and representation. Featuring Julia Sweeney, Abby McEnany, Ally Beardsley, Joey Soloway, River Butcher, Sabrina Wu, Kevin Nealon, and more, this Tribeca Films release turns one strangely funny ’90s pop-culture artifact into a sharp look at how jokes age and take on new meaning for a new generation.

🎥 “I Shot Andy Warhol: 30th Anniversary (4K Restoration)” Trailer: Lili Taylor Burns Through Mary Harron’s Radical 1990s Indie Portrait of Valerie Solanas — Back In Theaters June 12th

Some biopics whisper through history; this one still feels like it’s kicking the door open. American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron’s feature debut returns for its 30th anniversary in 4K, with Lili Taylor delivering a fierce performance as Valerie Solanas, the brilliant, volatile radical feminist whose attempted assassination of Andy Warhol (played by Jared Harris) turned her into one of the most notorious figures of the 1960s counterculture. With a John Cale score and a hallucinatory trip through New York’s political and artistic underground, this restored 1996 indie landmark still has plenty of bite left, reminding us that fame and infamy have always shared the same dirty little spotlight.

🎥 “Hunt for the Wilderpeople: 10th Anniversary” Trailer: Taika Waititi’s Beloved New Zealand Adventure Returns to the Big Screen — In UK & Irish Cinemas August 7th

The bush is calling again, and Ricky Baker is still majestical. Taika Waititi’s beloved New Zealand adventure comedy returns for its 10th anniversary, sending Julian Dennison’s rebellious city kid and Sam Neill’s grumpy foster uncle back into the wild as their accidental disappearance sparks a full-blown national manhunt. Funny, scrappy, and secretly tender, this big-screen re-release is a reminder that some odd-couple survival stories only get better once they’ve had a decade to roam.

🎥 “Hammer’s Dracula” Teaser Trailer: Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee Return in a Restored 4K Cut With Long-Lost Uncensored Footage — Arriving October 2026

The Count is back, and this time he’s bringing the footage censors tried to bury. Hammer’s original 1958 horror classic returns in a newly restored 4K version, complete with long-lost material unseen outside Japan’s original theatrical release and never before available in the UK, US, or on home entertainment. With Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee restored to full gothic glory, this October re-release gives one of horror cinema’s most iconic vampire showdowns its most complete presentation ye

🎥 “The Ribbon Hero” Trailer: Netflix Reimagines Osamu Tezuka’s ‘Princess Knight’ as a Dazzling Anime Fantasy — Streams August 8th on Netflix

Destiny is calling, and Sapphire doesn’t sound ready to answer politely. Inspired by Osamu Tezuka’s landmark manga Princess Knight, this new anime fantasy follows a young hero pushing back against grief, trauma, and the role the world has chosen for her. Directed by Yuki Igarashi, the filmmaker behind the Star Wars: Visions short “Lop & Ochō,” this Netflix animated feature reintroduces a foundational shoujo adventure with polished action, fairy-tale emotion, and a hero determined to cut her own path.

🎥 “Adolescence of Utena” Trailer: Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Surreal Anime Classic Returns With Duels, Desire, and Revolution — In Theaters June 21st & 22nd via GKIDS Films

Fairy tales rarely come this strange, stylish, or ready to overthrow the whole system. Kunihiko Ikuhara’s 1999 standalone anime classic follows Utena as she arrives at Ohtori Academy, gets pulled into a secret dueling society, and becomes entangled with Anthy, the mysterious “Rose Bride” at the center of the school’s elaborate power games. With writer Yoji Enokido, art director Shichiro Kobayashi, and J.A. Seazer’s unforgettable music helping shape the experience, this theatrical return promises swords, symbolism, emotional turmoil, and one very stylish demand for freedom.

🎥 “BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity” Trailer: Ichigo Kurosaki Faces the Beginning of the End in the Final Anime Showdown — Arriving In Theaters June 25th–29th, Limited Engagements

The endgame has arrived, and the Soul Society is running out of second chances. This limited theatrical event brings the final part of the BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War anime adaptation to the big screen, as Ichigo Kurosaki and his allies face Yhwach’s catastrophic push toward the Royal Palace and the collapse of the Three Worlds. Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and Hikaru Murata, with Masakazu Morita, Noriaki Sugiyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Kentaro Ito, and Takayuki Sugo leading the voice cast, this supernatural anime showdown turns sacrifice and destiny into one last blade-swinging battle for everything.

🎥 “Robotica” Trailer: Lilly Bell Stars as a Vengeful Sex-Bot Breaking Bad Programming in Charles Band’s Bloody Sci-Fi Revenge Thriller — On VOD/Digital This Summer

Revenge gets a serious software update in this Full Moon sci-fi horror thriller. Lilly Bell stars as a beautiful android sex-bot who snaps free from her programming after enduring abuse from her male overlords, turning her pain into one very bloody system reboot. Directed by horror vet Charles Band, this high-octane android-revenge romp looks like a grindhouse circuit breaker with a mean streak, a body count, and just enough sleaze to earn that “I Spit on Your Circuitry” tagline.

🎥 “Hold the Fort” Trailer: A New Home Comes With One Hell of an HOA Problem in William Bagley’s Suburban Horror-Comedy — On VOD/Digital June 29th in the UK

Home ownership is scary enough before the neighborhood starts coughing up monsters. Chris Mayers and Haley Leary star as Lucas and Jenny, a couple hoping their move to the suburbs will bring a little peace, quiet, and grown-up stability... only to discover their new homeowners association is actually guarding a hell portal that opens every year. Directed by William Bagley, this creature-packed horror-comedy turns an awkward neighborhood party into a full-blown siege of witches, werewolves, zombies, demons, and HOA fine print, proving the real nightmare of buying a house might be what’s not disclosed upfront.

🎥 “Stepfather” Trailer: Taye Diggs Hunts for the Perfect Family in Tubi’s Deadly Domestic Thriller — Premiering June 19th on TUBI

Family bonding has rarely looked this dangerous. Taye Diggs stars as a desperate man searching for the perfect household, only for his new wife and daughters to realize their fresh start may have come with a very unstable new patriarch. Directed by Chris Stokes and co-starring Tamar Braxton, Kalani Jules, Jessica Jarrell, and Janeline Hayes, this Tubi original horror-thriller turns domestic bliss into a survival test where simply getting out of the house may be the hardest part.

🎥 “Groundswell” Trailer: Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson Narrate This Globe-Spanning Agriculture Documentary About the Power Beneath Our Feet — Premiering June 5th on Prime Video

Hope lies in the soil, and this new documentary aims to dig deep. Narrated by Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson, this sweeping final chapter in the Kiss the Ground and Common Ground trilogy travels across five continents to spotlight farmers, scientists, Indigenous leaders, and visionaries working to restore the planet through regenerative agriculture. Directed by Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell, this eco-minded documentary connects climate change, species loss, and soil collapse into one urgent, surprisingly hopeful story about renewal from the ground up.

🎥 “Big Girls Don’t Cry” Teaser Trailer: A New Zealand Teen Navigates Desire, Identity, and the Early Internet in Paloma Schneideman’s Coming-of-Age Drama — Coming Soon to NZ Cinemas

Growing up online was confusing enough before feelings got involved. Set in rural New Zealand in 2006, this tender coming-of-age drama follows 14-year-old Sid Bookman as one transformative summer pulls her into a messy swirl of identity, desire, imitation, and the strange intimacy of the early internet. Written and directed by Paloma Schneideman, with Ani Palmer, Rain Spencer, Noah Taylor, Tara Canton, Ngataitangirua Hita, and Beatrix Rain Wolfe starring, this debut feature looks like a quietly aching portrait of wanting to be seen by becoming whoever might make people love you back.

🎥 “Flies” Trailer: Mexican Filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke Finds Quiet Chaos Inside a Mexico City Apartment in This Black-and-White Drama — Opening July 2nd in Latin America

Sometimes one small disruption is enough to crack open an entire life. Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke returns with a spare black-and-white drama about Olga, a solitary woman whose tightly controlled routine begins to unravel after a lodger secretly brings his young son into her Mexico City apartment. Starring Teresa Sánchez, Bastian Escobar, Hugo Ramírez, and Enrique Arreola, this intimate character piece turns loneliness, grief, and an unwanted houseguest into a story about the strange little ways connection can sneak in through the window.

🎥 “The Marked Woman” Trailer: Candela Peña Investigates a Shipping Container Mystery in Netflix’s Barcelona-Set Suspense Thriller — Premiering June 5th on Netflix

Nothing good ever starts with someone waking up inside a shipping container. Candela Peña stars as detective Anna Ripoll, who is assigned to a disturbing case after a woman is found bound, gagged, and unable to remember who she is at the Port of Barcelona. Directed by Gabe Ibáñez and co-starring Ana Rujas, Pol López, Manolo Solo, Luka Peros, and Kira Miró, this Netflix thriller turns one missing identity into a race against time where every clue points toward someone who wanted this “marked” woman erased.

🎥 “How to Divorce During the War” Trailer: A Lithuanian Marriage Falls Apart as History Comes Crashing In — In Theaters Summer 2026

Timing is everything, especially when asking for a divorce one day before a war begins. Set in Vilnius in 2022, this Sundance-winning drama follows Marija and Vytas, a Lithuanian couple whose crumbling marriage becomes tangled with the upheaval of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a refugee crisis, and the fallout of long-buried resentments. Directed by Andrius Blaževičius and starring Zygimante Elena Jakstaite and Marius Repsys, this family drama suggests some uncomfortable truths can surface even faster when separation is playing out against extraordinary events.

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📺 “House of the Dragon: Season 3” Final Trailer: Westeros Burns as Rhaenyra Enters a Dragon-Fueled War for the Iron Throne — Premiering Sun, June 21st on HBO

War is hell. That goes without saying. War with dragons, however, is a massacre in motion that, once it gets going, might be impossible to contain.

That’s something worth pondering as House of the Dragon heads into its highly anticipated third season, where a Targaryen civil war isn’t just tearing a family apart, it’s threatening to burn an entire kingdom down with it. And it’s something Rhaenyra Targaryen (again played with fiery determination by Emma D’Arcy), the disputed Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, is facing as her claim to the Iron Throne becomes harder to defend without turning the entire realm into a mountain of smoky ash.

The pursuit of power has always been messy, bloody, and full of betrayal in the world of Game of Thrones. But taking power is rarely the hardest part. Holding onto it is where the real damage begins. Now add a fractured kingdom, a royal bloodline at war with itself, and several fire-breathing dragons, and Westeros is once again staring down a family feud big enough to scorch just about everything worth fighting for.

After the surprise success of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which brought a lighter dose of honor and humor to the franchise, House of the Dragon aims to return this June with the kind of political chaos and dragon-fueled carnage that made the Game of Thrones universe famous. Backstabbing alliances, brutal strategy, feuding bloodlines, and throne-room ambition are all back on the menu as viewers prepare for another fiery descent into Targaryen madness.

The new season finds Westeros in utter turmoil as multiple factions fight for control. Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) now sits on the throne after turning against his own brother, Prince Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney), leaving him scarred and believed dead. Meanwhile, Alicent (Olivia Cooke), shaken by what her son has become, secretly aligns herself with Rhaenyra in hopes of restoring order before the realm tears itself apart. But they all seem to have forgotten that the throne isn’t a prize to be won, but a curse that demands blood from everyone who gets too close to it.

Joining this new season is James Norton as Ormund Hightower, Tommy Flanagan as Roderick Dustin, and Dan Fogler as Torrhen Manderly, along with returning cast members Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen, Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria, Phoebe Campbell as Rhaena Targaryen, Phia Saban as Helaena Targaryen, Bethany Antonia as Baela Targaryen, Fabien Frankel as Criston Cole, and more.

With showrunner Ryan Condal back, working from George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, Season 3 serves as the show’s penultimate chapter, with Season 4 expected to bring the saga to its conclusion in 2028. So expect escalation, shifting loyalties, plenty of dragon-sized consequences, and a whole lot of blood-soaked political fallout.

House of the Dragon: Season 3 premieres Sunday, June 21st on HBO and streams on HBO Max.

📺 “X-Men ’97: Season 2” Trailer: Apocalypse Rises as Marvel’s Mutant Heroes Get Thrown Across Time — Premiering Wed, July 1st on Disney+

Anyone who picked up a few X-Men comic books back in the 1990s can tell you those stories were something else. Arguably, the ’90s was the best decade in X-Men history, not just because these issues were flying off the shelves and becoming some of the biggest-selling comics of their era, but because the storytelling felt massive and operatic in the best comic-book way.

That’s probably one reason why the ’90s animated series became such a favorite among fans, capturing all that mutant angst, comic-book melodrama, and world-ending drama in a way that made Saturday morning cartoons feel unexpectedly epic. So it was a pretty nice surprise when Marvel Animation managed to rekindle that same spark with X-Men ’97, the revival series designed to pick up exactly where the original series left off nearly 30 years ago.

Well, it seems the highly acclaimed Marvel animated series is returning this summer with its eagerly awaited second season, aiming to bring viewers back to the very decade that helped make the X-Men feel larger than life in the first place. And this season, it’s the age of Apocalypse. The X-Men’s infamous supervillain Apocalypse is back in play, bringing with him the kind of mutant mayhem, time-twisting chaos, and extinction-level stakes that made the comics feel so cinematically epic.

Season 2 finds the heroic mutant team divided and scattered across different eras in time, from the ancient past to the present and even a distant future, as they struggle to find their way back home. Meanwhile, back in the 1990s, new enemies and fresh waves of mutant intolerance begin rising in the wake of the X-Men’s absence.

The nine-episode season features the returning voice cast of Ross Marquand as Professor X, Matthew Waterson as Magneto, Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Lenore Zann as Rogue, and George Buza as Beast.

X-Men ’97: Season 2 streams Wednesday, July 1st on Disney+. So prepare to follow the X-Men back to the ’90s... and maybe a few other timelines as well.

📺 “Sugar: Season 2” Trailer: Colin Farrell Digs Into a New L.A. Mystery in Apple TV’s Stylish Neo-Noir Detective Series — Premiering Fri, June 19th on Apple TV

At this point, Colin Farrell has entered one of those interesting phases in his career where he can stretch his acting chops while still leaning into his status as a classic leading man with character-actor instincts.

That worked beautifully in The Penguin, where Farrell delivered a genuinely stunning performance buried under layers of full prosthetic makeup, disappearing so completely into Oz Cobb that it almost felt like a magic trick of sorts.

But with Sugar, Farrell is doing something different. No heavy makeup. No comic-book grotesquerie. Just old-school movie-star cool, bruised melancholy, and plenty of gumshoe mystique. He’s still stretching those chops, still leaning into his leading-man charm, but also diving into a character who feels like he stepped out of a classic detective movie and wandered into a very modern Los Angeles mystery.

And now, Farrell is back as John Sugar in the second season of Apple TV’s neo-noir mystery series, once again playing a dashing Los Angeles private detective with a fondness for cinema and a few secrets tucked away in the shadows.

Season 2 brings Sugar into a new case, tracking the troubled older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer while his search for a beloved missing sister continues. But because this is noir territory, one missing-person case doesn’t stay small for long. The deeper Sugar digs, the more the investigation pulls him into a citywide conspiracy with sinister intentions.

Naturally, that also means Sugar will have to wrestle with the big moral question at the heart of every great detective story: how far is he willing to go to do what’s right?

Farrell returns as both star and executive producer, with Sugar creator Mark Protosevich still behind the series. Season 2 is showrun by Sam Catlin, known for Breaking Bad and Preacher, with executive producers including Audrey Chon, Simon Kinberg, Scott Greenberg, and Chip Vucelich.

The new season also introduces a fresh ensemble cast that includes Sasha Calle, Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly, and special guest star Shea Whigham.

Sugar: Season 2 premieres Friday, June 19th on Apple TV.

📺 “Zorro” U.S. Trailer: Jean Dujardin Suits Up as the Legendary Masked Hero in This Playful French-Language Action-Comedy Series — Premiering Tues, June 30th on MHz Choice

It’s Zorro... but in French?

If you need an example of just how far and wide the swashbuckling Spanish Californian character has traveled through pop culture over the decades, this new French-language reimagining might do the trick.

After all, Zorro has long been considered a prototype for the modern superhero: a masked hero with a secret identity who fights for justice, stands up against corrupt tyrants, and knows how to make an entrance with a sword. He’s certainly a proto-superhero character with worldwide appeal. And much like Robin Hood, Zorro has become a symbol of righteous rebellion.

Of course, the myth can also be a source of humor.

In this playful French-language period action-comedy, Oscar-winning French superstar Jean Dujardin, of The Artist fame, dons the Zorro mask and sword as Don Diego, a reluctant mayor trying to save Los Angeles from financial ruin in 1821.

After inheriting the mayor’s chair following the sudden death of his father, Diego finds himself overwhelmed by a city in turmoil. So, with some encouragement from his mute servant Bernardo, he decides to bring his legendary alter ego back to life after a ten-year break. The only problem? The suit feels a little tighter, the heroics are a little rustier, and being Zorro isn’t quite as simple as it used to be.

Before long, Zorro is restoring order, winning hearts, and becoming the toast of the town. Unfortunately for Diego, that includes winning over his own wife, Gabriella, while his everyday mayoral self becomes increasingly unpopular. So now Diego has a new problem: how do you defeat your own alter ego when everyone likes him better?

Directed by Émilie Noblet and Jean Baptiste Saurel, the series also stars Audrey Dana, Salvatore Ficarra, and Grégory Gadebois.

Zorro is slated to premiere Tuesday, June 30th in the U.S. and Canada on the streaming platform MHz Choice, via watch.mhzchoice.com.

📺 “A Different World” Sneak Peek Teaser: Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert’s Daughter Starts Her Own Hillman Legacy in the New Spinoff/Sequel Series Starring Maleah Joi Moon — Premiering Thurs, September 24th on Netflix

Class is back in session at Hillman College, and this time the next Wayne generation is trying to make the grade without living under a famous family shadow. Maleah Joi Moon stars as Deborah, the free-spirited youngest daughter of Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy), whose freshman year brings new friends, old expectations, and plenty of campus-sized growing pains. With Guy, Hardison, Darryl M. Bell, and Cree Summer, among others, returning alongside a fresh young cast, this reboot sequel series looks ready to mix a little ’90s nostalgia with some new-school energy at Hillman.

📺 “The Simpsons: Extreme Makeover — Homer Edition” Trailer: Homer Gets a Full-Blown Marital Makeover in Disney+’s New Exclusive Simpsons Special — Streaming Wed, June 17th on Disney+

Springfield’s favorite family is kicking off a summer of new Disney+ exclusives, and naturally, Homer is already finding new ways to make married life more complicated. When Marge discovers Homer left Bart, Lisa, and Maggie unsupervised with only a doorbell camera as a babysitter, date night takes a hard left into tipsy fantasy territory. The result is a trilogy of “what if?” versions of Homer, proving that even after 800-plus episodes, America’s most lovable doofus still has plenty of room for self-improvement... or at least a few more donuts.

📺 “AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy” Sneak Peek: Netflix Celebrates a Comedy Legend with a Star-Studded Hollywood Tribute — Premieres Sun, May 31st on Netflix

Eddie Murphy’s career has never exactly been short on iconic moments, and this Netflix special looks ready to celebrate the full sweep of that massive comedy legacy. The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award honors Murphy’s decades of blockbuster roles, stand-up brilliance, and culture-shifting screen presence with a lineup of friends, collaborators, and admirers. From fast-talking comic firepower to genuine movie-star charisma, this tribute puts the spotlight on an entertainer who didn’t just make audiences laugh... he helped redefine what comedy could look like on the big screen.

📺 “All American: Season 8 (Final Season)” Trailer: The CW’s Long-Running Football Drama Heads Into Its Series Finale — Premieres Mon, July 13th on The CW

The end zone is finally in sight, but nobody’s getting there without a few hard hits first. The final season of this long-running CW football drama picks up six months after the Beverly-versus-Crenshaw showdown, with Jordan still sorting through Cassius’ betrayal, Cassius facing the fallout at Beverly, and the Baker legacy once again casting a long shadow. With Daniel Ezra and Samantha Logan returning as Spencer and Olivia, now expecting twin girls, this farewell season looks ready to bring the drama full circle before the final whistle blows.

📺 “A Woman of Substance” Trailer: Jessica Reynolds and Brenda Blethyn Lead This Sweeping Rags-to-Riches British Period Drama Series — Premieres Wed, June 24th on BritBox, U.S.

A penniless Yorkshire maid with a master plan is about to turn hardship into empire-building in this sweeping BritBox period drama. Jessica Reynolds and Brenda Blethyn star as Emma Harte across six decades, tracing her rise from early 1900s servant girl to one of the wealthiest women in the world. Based on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s bestselling novel, this ambitious saga mixes family power struggles and glass-ceiling-smashing fortitude into one long climb to the top.

📺 “Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence” Teaser: Antonia Thomas and Josh Dylan Bring Christie’s Classic Detective Duo Into Modern London — Premieres Tues, September 15th on BritBox, U.S.

Agatha Christie’s sharp-witted sleuthing duo gets a modern-day refresh in this BritBox mystery series about romance, danger, and detective work that rarely stays tidy. Antonia Thomas and Josh Dylan star as Tuppence and Tommy, a complicated pair navigating both their turbulent relationship and a string of thrilling cases across contemporary London. With Imelda Staunton, Nicholas Richardson, Charlie Condou, Callie Cooke, and Chizzy Akudolu rounding out the cast, this new adaptation brings a fresh spark to one of Christie’s most playful crime-solving teams.

📺 “Surviving Earth” Trailer: This New Prehistoric Nature Docuseries Journeys Through 450 Million Years of Extinction, Evolution, and Survival — Premieres Thurs, June 11th on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

Earth has been through a lot, and this eight-part NBC and Peacock docuseries looks ready to dig into the planet’s long, brutal history of survival. From the producers of Walking with Dinosaurs, this prehistoric deep dive travels across 450 million years to explore major extinction events and the creatures that somehow fought their way through them. Dinosaurs may get the marquee treatment, but the real star here is the planet itself... resilient, chaotic, and apparently very hard to keep down.

📺 “Notes from the Last Row” Teaser: Choi Min-sik Becomes Dangerously Obsessed With a Student’s Writing in Netflix’s Korean Psychological Drama — Premiering Fri, June 26th on Netflix

Some teachers inspire their students… while others start reading a little too closely. Old Boy’s Choi Min-sik stars as a failed novelist turned literature professor whose stalled creative life gets jolted when he discovers the unsettling brilliance of a quiet student seated in the back of his classroom. Adapted from Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row and directed by Kim Gyu-tae, this Korean psychological drama mini-series turns private writing lessons into a tense battle of envy, obsession, and authorship.

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🎥 “Disclosure Day” Final Trailer: Emily Blunt & Josh O’Connor Search for the Truth in Steven Spielberg’s New UFO Mystery Thriller — Hitting Theaters June 12th

Disclosure Day isn’t just a conspiracy-laden sci-fi thriller. It’s one directed by Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, who returns to the subject matter and genre that helped build his career: UFOs.

Only this time, the 79-year-old master filmmaker seems more interested in truth than mystery. Whereas his first sci-fi blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, released nearly 50 years ago, built its tension around the enigma of not knowing what (or who) was trying to contact us, Spielberg’s latest appears to explore whether we, as a society, can even comprehend such a world-shattering revelation once the mystery is finally stripped away.

It’s also interesting to note that Spielberg, who was once a reliable box office champion churning out hit after hit decades ago, is still the main reason to see Disclosure Day. He is front and center in this newly released final trailer, offering more insight into the film’s big ideas while reminding us why his name still carries so much cinematic weight.

After all, a new Spielberg UFO movie is nothing to shrug off. Paired with the recent renewed interest in UAPs and what our government is willing to admit... or still refusing to explain, it feels like Spielberg may have found his way back to the genre at exactly the right moment.

In the film, Emily Blunt stars as a local weather woman who becomes pulled into a shadowy conspiracy after realizing she may have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings when she was young. That discovery leads her to a stranger (played by Wake Up Dead Man’s Josh O’Connor), a possible fellow abductee who may share a traumatic history with Blunt’s character. More importantly, he holds explosive evidence that could prove the truth is not only out there, but has been waiting for someone brave enough to disclose it to the world.

With multiple forces closing in (some government-backed, others privately funded interest groups), they attempt to tell the world what is really going on. The question is... is society ready to know the truth, or are we better off with our heads stuck in the sand?

Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Wyatt Russell, Elizabeth Marvel, and Colman Domingo also co-star.

Spielberg directs from a story idea he wrote and from a screenplay by veteran screenwriter David Koepp, whose long history with the filmmaker includes Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

“I am much more inclined now than I was when I made Close Encounters to really believe that we’re not the only intelligent civilization in the universe,” Spielberg says in this final trailer, popping up in this promotional material that recalls the days of big filmmaking personalities like Alfred Hitchcock. “I used to say to myself, wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of this turned out to be true? I’m now thinking, would it be wonderful for people to know... all of this IS true.”

Disclosure Day opens June 12th. Prepare for some uncomfortable truth and maybe a little existential panic on the side.

🎥 “Toy Story 5” Final Trailer: Woody, Buzz, and Jessie Battle a Smart Tablet for Control of the Toy Room in Pixar’s Latest Sequel with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack & Greta Lee — Coming to Theaters June 19th

No one wants to feel obsolete or outdated. People still want to prove they’re useful, no matter how old they get. The same goes for toys. Namely, a certain pull-string cowboy and a plastic space ranger.

That’s right, the old Toy Story gang is back. And this time, they might be facing their biggest threat yet: a world where playtime has gone fully digital. Will they get traded in for 1s & 0s, or whatever nightmare comes preloaded on a kid’s smart device?

Better question: how do you convince a child to pick something from an old-school toy box over a glowing digital screen in this day and age?

In this fifth installment of the popular Pixar franchise, Tom Hanks returns as Woody, Tim Allen is back as Buzz Lightyear, and Joan Cusack once again voices Jessie as they team up once more to defeat a new opponent in the form of Lilypad, a frog-shaped smart tablet threatening to make old-school toys obsolete. Now showing their wear and tear with a new bald spot or two, Woody, Buzz, and Jessie rally up the team as they confront not only this shiny new piece of kid-friendly tech, but also a new era where tactile entertainment isn’t the main attraction anymore.

Greta Lee (Past Lives, The Morning Show) voices Lilypad, a digital toy with sharp instincts, a shiny screen, and a serious advantage in the battle for Bonnie’s attention. If she had it her way, all the other toys would be boxed up and tossed somewhere in the garage.

Lucky for Woody, Buzz, and Jessie, this old gang still knows a thing or two about sticking together. After 30 years of toy adventures built on friendship and loyalty, this crew can survive just about anything... even the touchscreen generation.

Tony Hale returns as the anxious, lovable Forky, while Conan O’Brien joins the cast as Smarty Pants, a toilet-training tech toy. Ernie Hudson voices Combat Carl, with Anna Faris, Craig Robinson, Melissa Villaseñor, and Matty Matheson also joining the voice lineup alongside returning favorites Annie Potts, Wallace Shawn, Blake Clark, Bonnie Hunt, Kristen Schaal, and Keanu Reeves.

Directed by Oscar-winner Andrew Stanton (WALL•E, Finding Nemo) and co-directed by Kenna Harris (Ciao Alberto), this new Toy Story installment seemingly marks a return to what Pixar does best: mixing heart, humor, and tiny plastic existential dread into one big summer-ready adventure.

Toy Story 5 opens in theaters nationwide June 19th.

🎥 “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” Trailer: Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun Turns a Slasher Remake Into a Neon-Soaked Horror Fever Dream with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson — In Theaters August 7th

Let’s make a little concoction, shall we? Toss David Cronenberg’s Videodrome into a neon-colored vat of body-horror madness, stir in a splash of midnight-movie sleaze, and let the whole thing start to boil a bit. Now throw in some ’90s X-Files nostalgia, add a healthy dose of Friday the 13th slasher mayhem, and you’ve got the kind of freaky genre cocktail that feels like it was brewed in the back room of a haunted video store.

Indie filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, of I Saw the TV Glow fame, returns with their latest stylish horror concoction, and it feels very much like the kind of genre cocktail we just described, yet still not quite definable by any normal rules of genre or cinematic logic. As a filmmaker very much driven by tone and atmosphere, Schoenbrun seems to be continuing to blend haunting retro horror nostalgia with themes of identity, alienation, and the strange ways pop culture can burrow under one’s skin.

With Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Schoenbrun joins forces with Emmy-winning Hacks star Hannah Einbinder and two-time Emmy winner Gillian Anderson, of The X-Files and The Crown, as they offer a meta dive into making a horror franchise remake that quickly slips into a fever dream of warped nostalgia and identity-bending weirdness.

Here, Einbinder stars as Kris, a young rising horror filmmaker who wins her dream job of directing the next installment in the Camp Miasma horror film series. Intended to be a revival chapter in the slasher franchise (picture Crystal Lake meets late-night cable horror), she has a vision of bringing back the original final girl for one last bloody encore.

Anderson plays Billy Preston, the now-aging, eccentric actress from the original 1980s films who has remained reclusive for decades, carrying both the franchise’s cult legacy and a few strange secrets of her own. After agreeing to meet Kris, they both soon find themselves pulled into a surreal creative partnership where obsession, fandom, attraction and buried trauma start twisting the film project into something far stranger than anyone planned.

Already creating waves at its recent Cannes world premiere, where it earned mostly positive reviews while reportedly leaving audiences slightly confounded, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma proves Jane Schoenbrun isn’t a horror filmmaker who plays by the same old genre rule book, but rather one who likes to bend it until it starts gushing neon-soaked psychosexual madness.

Co-starring Sarah Sherman, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald, and Amanda Fix, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is slated to hit theaters August 7th via MUBI. Buy a ticket for yourself, and bring your inner VHS-era horror freak along for the ride.

🎥 “Primetime” Teaser: Robert Pattinson Plays Chris Hansen in A24’s Behind-the-Scenes Drama-Thriller About the Birth of “To Catch a Predator” — Coming Soon

Back in the mid-2000s, there were few words more terrifying to online predators than Chris Hansen’s now-iconic greeting on Dateline NBC: “Hello, I’m Chris Hansen. Why don’t you have a seat?”

Now imagine that being said by Robert Pattinson.

In what is shaping up to be a very busy year for The Batman star, which also includes the other A24 film The Drama and Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic The Odyssey, Pattinson takes on the role of famed NBC journalist Chris Hansen in Primetime, a behind-the-scenes drama-thriller about the creation of To Catch a Predator.

Set in 2006, the film explores how Hansen and his team set out to make television history with an undercover news segment built around sting operations targeting suspected child predators who believed they were meeting underage victims online. Instead, they walked into a televised trap, a waiting camera crew, and one of the most uncomfortable confrontations ever broadcast into American living rooms.

What began as a shocking piece of investigative television quickly became a cultural phenomenon. That strange, deeply unsettling catchphrase (“I’m Chris Hansen, from Dateline NBC”) turned into must-see TV, while the segment itself opened the public’s eyes to the growing threat of online predators and the disturbing ways the internet had changed stranger danger for a new generation.

Directed by Lance Oppenheim, who helmed the acclaimed documentary Some Kind of Heaven, the upcoming film also stars Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher, and Bokeem Woodbine.

A24 has yet to announce an official release date, but Primetime is coming soon to theaters later in the year.

🎥 “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” Trailer: Zoey Deutch Chases the Elusive Jon Hamm Through L.A. in David Wain’s Ridiculous Hall Pass Comedy — In Theaters July 10th

A hall pass... a celebrity sex pass, whatever you want to call it. It’s one of those silly little relationship hypotheticals designed to make your romantic partner laugh. The basic idea is that, should the wildly impossible opportunity ever arise, you’d be granted a “free pass” to sleep with your celebrity crush.

But what if it wasn’t so hypothetical, and you actually caught your partner in the act with their so-called celebrity hall pass? What then? Well, for Gail Daughtry, she doesn’t just get mad... she gets even.

In the new silly goofball comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, from director David Wain, the comedian and filmmaker behind Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models, Zoey Deutch stars as Gail Daughtry, a small-town hairdresser whose engagement hits a very public pothole after her fiancé, Tom (Michael Cassidy), meets and sleeps with his own celebrity pass. Not exactly the kind of romantic detour anyone wants before the wedding.

So naturally, Gail heads to Los Angeles to even the score. And we do mean she intends to even the score in the most literal, ill-advised, celebrity-stalking way possible.

Joined by her friend Otto, played by Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Gail gets pushed further down the rabbit hole after a psychic convinces her that the only way to save her marriage is to “even the scales” with her own celebrity crush.

Her target? Jon Hamm. Apparently, Don Draper might be the key to marital healing. Or at least one spectacularly bad idea.

From there, Gail and Otto team up with a talent agency assistant (played by Ben Wang), a paparazzo (Ken Marino), and Mad Men’s very own John Slattery as they chase Hamm through the weird, wacky underbelly of Los Angeles.

The stacked cast includes Jon Hamm and John Slattery as themselves, alongside Sabrina Impacciatore, Joe Lo Truglio, Thomas Lennon, Fred Melamed, Michael Ian Black, Richard Kind, Zac Oyama, and “Weird Al” Yankovic, with a lineup of star cameos rounding things out.

Co-written by Wain and Marino, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass opens in theaters July 10th.

🎥 “Enola Holmes 3” Teaser: Millie Bobby Brown’s Young Sleuth Takes on Marriage, Mystery, and a Dangerous New Case — Premiering July 1st on Netflix

Some detectives solve crimes with a magnifying glass, a sharp eye, and a stiff upper lip. Enola Holmes, on the other hand, prefers to solve her mysteries while breaking the fourth wall, dodging danger, and reminding everyone that being a Holmes doesn’t mean a wedding ceremony will stop her from cracking the case.

That’s right, Netflix’s Enola Holmes franchise is back for a third round, with Millie Bobby Brown once again stepping into the boots of Sherlock’s brilliant, rebellious younger sister. And this time, Enola is heading far from London, where things appear to get even more complicated... more personal, a little more professional, and probably a bit more romantic than she expected.

In Enola Holmes 3, Enola finds herself caught up in a new case involving her famous older brother Sherlock, right around the same time she has been proposed to in marriage. And for a young detective who has already survived missing-person mysteries, political conspiracies, family drama, and the general inconvenience of being constantly underestimated by nearly everyone around her, this could be her most tangled case yet. It’s a new case... and a new location. But it’s also the same young Holmes refusing to stay out of trouble.

Louis Partridge returns as Tewkesbury, which suggests Enola’s personal life may be just as messy as the mystery itself. Henry Cavill is also back as Sherlock Holmes, bringing his usual brooding detective energy, while Helena Bonham Carter returns as Enola’s unconventional mother, Eudoria.

Philip Barantini, the Emmy-winning director of Adolescence, takes over the directing reins for the franchise with what sounds like a bigger, more dangerous case for Enola to crack.

Netflix is also reminding viewers that Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2 are now playing, so there’s plenty of time to catch up before the next mystery arrives.

Enola Holmes 3 premieres July 1st on Netflix.

Now that May is drawing to a close, with some major releases already out and making their mark, this week still has plenty of new movies and shows worth getting excited about. The summer season is about to heat up in a big way as the calendar gets ready to flip another page, which means new releases are only going to get bigger, louder, and a lot harder to keep up with. So, consider this week a good time to catch up before the summer rush really kicks into gear.

As always, we’ve pulled together a quick guide to what’s arriving over the next few days across theaters, TV, streaming, and VOD. So whether you’re heading out to the movies or staying in with the remote within arm’s reach, scroll down and see what catches your eye. Chances are, something will.

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🎥 Backrooms
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)

YouTube creator Kane Parsons turns his viral creepypasta shorts into a full-blown theatrical horror film, dragging audiences into an endless maze of empty office rooms, dead-end corridors, and reality-bending dread. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as a troubled man and his therapist pulled into a secret dimension where getting lost may be the least terrifying part.

🎥 The Breadwinner
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)

Nate Bargatze trades stand-up calm for stay-at-home chaos in this family comedy about a laid-back dad suddenly promoted to full-time household commander. When his wife (Mandy Moore) lands a major career opportunity, Nate is left juggling three daughters, school schedules, chores, and the terrifying realization that parenting is not a side gig. Colin Jost, Kumail Nanjiani, and Will Forte round out the cast in a comedy where dad jokes may not be enough to save the day.

🎥 Pressure
(Fri, May 29th — wide release)

History doesn’t get much heavier than the days before D-Day. Brendan Fraser stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower, facing the impossible call of when to launch the Allied invasion, while Andrew Scott plays meteorologist James Stagg, whose weather forecast could alter the course of World War II. Directed by Hotel Mumbai helmer Anthony Maras, this tense historical drama turns military strategy into a nerve-rattling countdown where hesitation and miscalculation could cost thousands of lives.

🎥 Power Ballad
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)

Sing Street and Once filmmaker John Carney returns to the messy business of making music with this song-driven dramedy about creativity, credit, and one hit single with two possible fathers. Paul Rudd stars as a washed-up songwriter-turned-wedding singer whose late-night jam with Nick Jonas’s fading pop star turns into a comeback smash, a stolen-song feud, and one very tuneful fight over who gets to claim the glory.

🎥 The Last Viking
(Fri, May 29th — limited release; and on ✅VOD/Digital)

Family reunions are tricky enough before buried robbery money enters the picture. Nikolaj Lie Kaas stars as a recently released convict trying to recover his hidden loot, only to discover that his eccentric brother, played by a wonderfully against-type Mads Mikkelsen, can’t remember where it is. From Riders of Justice filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, this offbeat Danish crime comedy turns a desperate treasure hunt into a darkly funny excavation of sibling rivalry where forgiveness may be harder to find than the cash.

🎥 Pitfall
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)

One wrong step turns a peaceful outdoor trip into a dirt-covered nightmare. Richard Harmon stars as a young man who gets separated from his friends and falls into a spike-lined pit that definitely wasn’t built by nature. Trapped, injured, and possibly being watched, he must figure out how to survive when escape is ten feet above him and danger may be waiting at the edge.

🎥 Time and Water
(Fri, May 29th — limited release)

Iceland’s melting glaciers become both warning and memory in this National Geographic documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa. Poet and author Andri Snær Magnason reflects on climate change through family archives, photographs, songs, and folklore, turning a changing landscape into something deeply personal.

🎥 Speed Demon
(Sun, May 31st — limited release; and on ✅VOD/Digital)

Katie Cassidy and William H. Macy board the train ride from hell in this exorcism thriller on rails. When a demon begins possessing passengers, Sister Lu and Father Novak are trapped inside a speeding nightmare with nowhere to run and very little room for holy water. Directed by Jon Keeyes, the film combines supernatural horror with runaway-train tension, because apparently evil now prefers public transportation.

🎥 Tekkonkinkreet (Remastered in 4K)
(Sun, May 31st and Mon, June 1st — re-release)

STUDIO4°C’s cult anime returns to theaters in a new 4K remaster, bringing Treasure Town back in all its strange, kinetic glory. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga, the story follows orphaned street kids Black and White as they fight to protect their crumbling city from gangsters, yakuza, alien assassins, and darker forces closing in.

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🎥 “Victorian Psycho” Teaser Trailer: Maika Monroe Unleashes Buttoned-Up Bloodlust in This Gothic Horror Satire — Coming to Theaters September 25th

Is evil something that can’t be contained once it takes hold? Could it be so irresistible, so intoxicating, that it turns an ordinary person into a willing participant in something monstrous? A kind of bloodlust, perhaps.

That’s the dilemma facing Maika Monroe, who stars as a Victorian-era woman seduced by violence in her latest trip into horror. Only this time, she gets to sink her teeth into the dark Gothic satire of female hysteria.

In the upcoming gothic thriller Victorian Psycho, Monroe stars as Winifred Notty, an eccentric young governess who arrives at Ensor House in 1858 and immediately turns the place into the kind of drafty nightmare where every candlelit hallway seems to be hiding a bad decision.

At first, Winifred appears to be settling into her new post. But then the staff begin to disappear, one by one, and the owners of the manor start wondering whether their mysterious new governess is merely odd... or something far more dangerous.

Monroe, already well-versed in horror tension thanks to her breakout turns in chillers such as It Follows and Longlegs, seems perfectly suited for this kind of buttoned-up madness, fully leaning into the polite smiles, repressed rage, and blood-soaked absurdity of a woman slowly coming undone.

She is joined by Last Night in Soho’s Thomasin McKenzie and The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs, while Ruth Wilson, Amy De Bhrún, Jacobi Jupe, and Evie Templeton round out the cast.

The film is directed by Zachary Wigon, who previously helmed the darkly comic psychological thriller Sanctuary, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott. The screenplay comes from author Virginia Feito, adapting her own novel of the same name after making a sharp literary debut with Mrs. March.

So yes, we’re dealing with corsets, candlelight, class tension, missing servants, and a governess who may be one polite curtsy away from total chaos. In other words, Victorian Psycho isn’t just a killer title, it’s practically a mission statement.

The film makes its world premiere at Cannes this month, followed by an official theatrical release on September 25th.

🎥 “Miss You, Love You” Trailer: Allison Janney & Andrew Rannells Find an Unexpected Bond in HBO’s Grief-Tinged Odd-Couple Dramedy From Jim Rash — Premieres May 29th on HBO

Anyone who has had the horrible misfortune of experiencing a death in the family knows that kind of loss can bring out both the worst and the best in people. And sometimes, it comes from people you barely know. But when this type of tragedy strikes, anyone willing to step in, offer comfort, and help carry the weight can start to feel like family, even if they arrived as a stranger.

This is where this new HBO Original film Miss You, Love You comes in, as Oscar-winner Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells play a couple of strangers brought uncomfortably together by grief, only to let a little kindness crack open something unexpected.

Janney stars as Diane Patterson, a blunt, grieving widow suddenly faced with the impossible task of planning her husband’s funeral. The only problem? She’s not doing it with her estranged son. Instead, she’s stuck handling the arrangements with Jamie Simms, her son’s assistant, played by Rannells.

That’s already an awkward setup. But as Diane and Jamie stumble through funeral plans, family tensions, and all the messy business that comes with saying goodbye, their strange little partnership begins to lead to something emotionally deeper. As buried secrets surface and long-held resentments come bubbling up, somewhere between the darkly funny circumstances and the emotional wreckage, the two begin forming an unlikely bond as Jamie develops into the surrogate son Diane so desperately needs at that moment.

Janney, who can do sharp, wounded, and hilarious all in the same breath, seems perfectly matched with Rannells, whose gift for anxious charm should make this odd-couple pairing enticing to watch.

The cast also includes the always hilarious Bonnie Hunt, Dead to Me’s Suzy Nakamura, and The Office’s Oscar Nuñez.

Written and directed by comic actor and writer Jim Rash, Miss You, Love You marks his feature directorial debut. Rash, who won an Oscar for co-writing Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, knows a thing or two about blending heartbreak with dry humor. So expect a few tears from both laughter and genuine emotional gut punches.

Miss You, Love You is slated to air Friday, May 29th on HBO and stream on HBO Max.

🎥 “The Fox” Teaser: Jai Courtney Makes a Very Bad Deal With Olivia Colman’s Talking Fox in Dario Russo’s Twisted Fantasy Satire — In Australian Cinemas October

Imagine this: a talking fox movie where Olivia Colman lends her voice and razor-sharp wit to the furry little troublemaker. But before you assume this is some kind of cuddly family comedy, think again. This is a pitch-black Australian fantasy satire, and it’s definitely not something you throw on for the kids. A talking fox may sound adorable, sure, but this one comes with teeth, tricks, and a very wicked agenda.

Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Dario Russo, best known for co-creating the ’50s spy spoof web series Danger 5 and creating the viral parody short Italian Spiderman, The Fox stars Jai Courtney as Nick, the affable heir to a wealthy rural landowner who discovers that his fiancée, Kori, played by Emily Browning, is cheating on him. Heartbroken and desperate to fix the relationship, Nick stumbles into the sort of fairy-tale bargain that should come with a very large warning label.

One night, he captures a rogue fox, voiced by Olivia Colman, who offers him a deal: spare her life, and she’ll help him save his relationship. The solution? Push Kori into a magic hole that can transform her into the perfect partner.

Naturally, Nick does what any emotionally stable person would absolutely not do. And at first, the new version of Kori seems like everything he wanted. But perfection rarely stays perfect for long, and her strange new quirks soon have Nick wondering whether he solved his problem or created a much weirder one.

The cast also includes Justified’s Damon Herriman, The Boys’ Claudia Doumit, Superman’s Zlatko Burić, and The Lord of the Rings’ Miranda Otto, with veteran actor Sam Neill as the voice of a vulgar magpie.

The Fox seems destined to be one of those weird, out-there breakouts that gets people talking, for better or worse. But for anyone who likes their fantasy comedies twisted, strange, and a little feral, this is definitely one to keep an eye on.

Following its screening at this year’s Sydney Film Festival after premiering at SXSW in March, The Fox is scheduled to open in Australian cinemas in October. As of now, the film doesn’t have an official U.S. release date.

🎥 “Jimmy” Trailer: Riverdale’s KJ Apa Portrays Hollywood Icon Jimmy Stewart as War, Fame, and Trauma Reshape an American Legend — Hitting Theaters November 6th

Few actors have ever carried the image of American decency quite like Jimmy Stewart. But behind that gentle voice, lanky frame, and aw-shucks charm was a man who didn’t just play heroes on screen... he became one when the world demanded it.

In the upcoming biographical drama Jimmy, Riverdale star KJ Apa takes on the daunting task of portraying one of Hollywood’s most beloved leading men during the most defining chapter of his life. Fresh off his Academy Award win for The Philadelphia Story, Stewart walked away from movie stardom and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps as World War II began reshaping the globe.

And this wasn’t some symbolic celebrity enlistment. Stewart flew twenty combat missions over Europe, rose to the rank of colonel, and returned home a very different man. The film follows that emotional whiplash between fame, duty, trauma, and the difficult question of whether he still had a place in Hollywood after everything he had seen.

That answer would come through one role: George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life. What became one of Stewart’s most iconic performances was also, in this telling, the role that helped bring him back to himself.

Directed by Aaron Burns and written by Justin Strawhand, Jimmy also features Kara Killmer, Neal McDonough, Max Casella, Jason Alexander, Christopher McDonald, Sarah Drew, Rob Riggle, and more.

Rather than running through the usual cradle-to-grave biopic checklist, this one appears to focus on the stretch where war reshaped the man and art helped piece him back together.

Jimmy opens exclusively in theaters November 6th.

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🎥 “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” New Teaser Trailer: Zoey Deutch Goes Looking for Her Celebrity Pass, Jon Hamm, with Help from John Slattery in David Wain’s Wild Marriage-Revenge Comedy — Coming to Theaters July 10th

Revenge gets awkwardly star-studded in this oddball comedy from director David Wain and co-writer Ken Marino. Zoey Deutch stars as Gail, a small-town hairdresser whose engagement hits a very public pothole after her fiancé sleeps with his celebrity crush. So naturally, she heads to Los Angeles to even the score by finding her own celebrity pass: Jon Hamm. With John Slattery playing a heightened version of himself, alongside Ken Marino, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Ben Wang, Joe Lo Truglio, and Sabrina Impacciatore along for the ride, this Tinseltown romp turns heartbreak into one very strange Hamm hunt.

🎥 “Voicemails for Isabelle” Trailer: Zoey Deutch Accidentally Grieves Her Way Into a New Connection in Leah McKendrick’s Netflix Rom-Com with Nick Robinson — Premiering June 19th on Netflix

Sometimes the wrong number gets exactly the right message. The always-busy Zoey Deutch gets to flex her rom-com chops once more, starring as Jill, a grieving woman in San Francisco who keeps leaving chaotic, confessional voicemails for her late sister, only for the number to be reassigned to Wes (Nick Robinson), an elusive Austin real estate agent who suddenly becomes an accidental listener to her messy life updates. After listening to a few private phone messages from Jill, Wes is both concerned and completely drawn in, leading to a possible connection neither of them saw coming. Written and directed by Leah McKendrick, with Harry Shum Jr., Lukas Gage, and Nick Offerman rounding out the cast, this romantic comedy turns grief, oversharing, and one very unexpected phone connection into a long-distance meet-cute.

🎥 “Humpty Dumpty X” Trailer: Filmmaker Tony Kaye Revisits the Chaotic ‘American History X’ Battle That Became Hollywood Folklore in His Long-Buried Hollywood Documentary — Premiering June 6th at Tribeca

Twenty-eight years after his infamous studio battle over American History X, filmmaker Tony Kaye digs into the personal footage he captured during one of the industry’s most notorious director-versus-studio showdowns, where he lost final cut and proceeded to fight to remove his name from the project, despite the film eventually becoming a modern classic. Built from executive phone calls, candid conversations, notebooks, paintings, photographs, and Kaye’s own restless creative spiral, this documentary revisits the messy saga behind the “Humpty Dumpty” credit dispute, for which he wanted to legally change his name to Humpty Dumpty just to keep his real name off the film. And yes, the story still sounds completely unreal; one that even had legendary actor Marlon Brando laughing, but still backing Kaye up.

🎥 “Resident Evil” Featurette: Filmmaker Zach Cregger Explains How He Went on to Reinvent the Survival-Horror Franchise — Hitting Theaters September 18th

Survival horror gets a nasty new reset from Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger. Watch this behind-the-scenes look as Cregger explains how he’s bringing the franchise back to its video game roots, with Austin Abrams starring as Bryan, a medical courier whose ordinary night turns into a full-throttle nightmare when chaos erupts around him. This new franchise entry looks less like a greatest-hits remake and more like a fresh run through the dark, getting back to the basics of survival, suspense, and monsters lurking just out of sight.

🎥 “Strung” Trailer: A Violin Tutor Gets Pulled Into an Opulent Nightmare in Malcolm D. Lee’s Psychological Horror Thriller Starring Chloe Bailey — Premiering June 26th on Peacock

A dream gig hits a very wrong note in this Blumhouse-produced psychological horror thriller from director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man, Girls Trip). Chloe Bailey stars as a talented violinist who accepts a prestigious job tutoring the daughter of an influential family, only to find herself pulled into a polished world full of dangerous secrets. As the family’s luxury starts looking more like a trap, she begins questioning her safety, her ambition, and even her own sanity. Some houses don’t need ghosts to feel haunted. They just need someone new to let in.

🎥 “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: 20th Anniversary” Trailer: Will Ferrell’s NASCAR Comedy Returns for One More Victory Lap — Back in Theaters June 28th, June 30th, and July 1st

Shake and bake, the big-screen victory lap is back. Will Ferrell returns as Ricky Bobby, the NASCAR superstar whose “win at all costs” lifestyle hits the wall when Sacha Baron Cohen’s flamboyant Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges his racing throne. With John C. Reilly, Gary Cole, and Michael Clarke Duncan rounding out Adam McKay’s beloved racing comedy, this 20th anniversary re-release brings the absurdity back where it belongs.

🎥 “Pressure” New Trailer: Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott Face the Impossible 72 Hours Before D-Day — In Theaters May 29th

History tightens like a vise in this WWII drama about the final 72 hours before D-Day. Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott star as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg, two men forced to weigh weather, timing, and the fate of the free world before launching the largest seaborne invasion in history. The stakes don’t get much heavier than deciding whether to risk everything or lose the war by waiting. No pressure, right?

🎥 “Lucky Strike” Trailer: Scott Eastwood Gets Trapped Behind Enemy Lines in Rod Lurie’s WWII Survival Thriller — In Theaters June 26th

One soldier, one radio, and one very bad place to be. Scott Eastwood stars in this WWII survival thriller about a soldier stranded behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, armed only with his wits and a cutting-edge Motorola SCR-300 radio. Director Rod Lurie reunites with Eastwood after The Outpost, trading fortress warfare for a tense cat-and-mouse fight through enemy territory.

🎥 “Land of Wolves” Trailer: Captured Navy SEALs Fight Their Way Through an Underground Deathmatch in Tommy Jackson’s Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital June 19th

A covert rescue mission turns into a billionaire bloodsport in this brutal action thriller from director Tommy Jackson. After four elite Navy SEALs are captured and thrown into an underground deathmatch, survival means fighting without weapons, backup, or mercy. James William Clark, Matthew Gray, Felix Alexander, and Russell Shealy lead the cast as soldiers forced to turn their training into a jailbreak.

🎥 “Bad Counselors” Trailer: Two Frat Bros Fake Their Faith at Summer Camp in This Rowdy Christian-Camp Comedy Starring Matt Cornett, Ramon Reed, Brec Bassinger, Missi Pyle & Chris Klein — In Theaters July 22–27 via Fathom Ent.

Community service gets a holy loophole in this rowdy summer-camp comedy. After one wild night puts two fraternity brothers (Matt Cornett, Ramon Reed) on the brink of expulsion, they decide the fastest way to complete 120 mandatory hours is by posing as counselors at a Christian youth camp. The only problem? They don’t like kids, hate camping, and wouldn’t know a hymn from a hot dog. With Brec Bassinger, Mckaley Miller, Nathan Gamble, Missi Pyle, and Chris Klein rounding out the cast, redemption may be possible, but subtlety is clearly not part of the program.

🎥 “Stop! That! Train!” Trailer: Drag Queens Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Symone, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia, and RuPaul Ride Into High-Speed Camp in This Disaster-Movie Spoof — In Theaters June 12th

All aboard the disaster express, now with extra glitter. Drag Queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee star as two coach train stewardesses who get bumped into a high-speed nightmare when a catastrophic “Stormaganza” threatens to send the Glamazonian Express crashing toward Los Angeles in this campy, queer-friendly disaster spoof from Hairspray and Rock of Ages director Adam Shankman. Also starring Symone, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Rachel Bloom, Sarah Michelle Gellar, among others, with RuPaul joining the madness as the President of the United States (naturally), this goofball comedy looks like part disaster flick, part drag spectacular, and part runway show on rails. Someone better secure the wigs before impact.

🎥 “Earth, Wind & Fire” Trailer: Questlove Tells the Story Behind the Legendary Band’s Sound, Spirit, and Legacy — Premieres June 7th on HBO Max

The music is instantly recognizable, but the story goes much deeper. Roots drummer and Oscar-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directs this HBO documentary about the Grammy-winning band whose fusion of funk, soul, jazz, pop, and spiritual energy helped shape generations of music. The film tracks their evolution, triumphs, setbacks, and cultural legacy with the kind of rhythm only Questlove would know how to follow. Expect the groove, but also the history behind it.

🎥 “Bring Me The Beauties” Trailer: New HBO Documentary Revisits ‘80s Male Supermodel Hoyt Richards and His Involvement in the Beauty-Obsessed Eternal Values Cult Movement — Premieres June 1st on HBO Max

Beauty, celebrity, and manipulation make for a disturbing combination in this HBO documentary. The film follows male supermodel Hoyt Richards’ experience inside Eternal Values, a cult led by the charismatic Frederick von Mierers and built around image, devotion, and control. With figures like Jackie Adams and Cindy Crawford tied to the larger story, this looks like a glossy world hiding something much darker underneath.

🎥 “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend” Trailer: Dennis To Returns as the Wing Chun Icon in Li Liming’s Martial-Arts Sequel — Available On VOD/Digital July 14th

Tradition comes under attack in this action-packed follow-up from director Li Liming. Dennis To returns as Ip Man, who leaves his police career behind to open a martial arts club, only to find the local martial community threatened by a western boxing gym buying up its property. With fists flying and cultural pride on the line, this sequel turns real estate pressure into a full-on martial-arts showdown. Some eviction notices are better answered with Wing Chun.

🎥 “Husbands in Action” Trailer: Jin Seon-kyu and Gong Myung Become the Worst Rescue Duo Possible in Netflix’s Korean Action Comedy — Streaming June 19th on Netflix

Nothing says “awkward alliance” like teaming up with your ex-wife’s new husband. Jin Seon-kyu and Gong Myung star in this Korean action comedy about a bitter detective forced to work with his romantic replacement after his ex-wife is kidnapped. With Kang Han-na also starring, the rescue mission becomes a wild chase fueled by bruised egos, bad timing, and reluctant teamwork.

🎥 “Forever Your Maternal Animal” Trailer: Writer-Director Valentina Maurel Explores Family Fractures, Repression, and Return in Her Costa Rica-Set Drama — Winner of the Female Ensemble Prize at Cannes 2026

Family reunions rarely come with easy answers in this quietly unsettling drama from Costa Rican filmmaker Valentina Maurel. After years studying in Europe, Elsa (Daniela Marín Navarro) returns to Costa Rica and finds her younger sister (Mariangel Villegas) slipping into isolation while their mother (Marina de Tavira) remains absorbed in her own messy lives. What begins as a homecoming slowly turns into an emotional confrontation between three women bound by love, distance, and everything they refuse to say out loud.

🎥 “The Summoning (aka The Summoning of Baby Blue)” Trailer: A Babysitting Gig Awakens a Vengeful Urban Legend in This Creepypasta Horror Anthology — On VOD/Digital June 5th

Babysitting was already stressful before the supernatural death curse showed up. This anthology horror film follows three teenagers whose ordinary gig turns terrifying after they accidentally summon Baby Blue, a dark urban legend with one very angry spirit attached. Directed by multiple filmmakers, including Sergio Gonzalez, Brandon Piskorik, Felipe Vargas, Corey Benson Powers, and Brian Sepanzyk, this chiller turns a simple night of kid-watching into a fight to uncover the past and survive the wrath of the dead.

🎥 “Hot Girl Summer” Trailer: Three Teen Best Friends Chase Firsts, Fumbles, and Feminist Chaos in This German Coming-of-Age Sex Comedy — Available On VOD/Digital July 10th

Growing up gets messy, awkward, and very personal in this German coming-of-age sex comedy from director Martina Plura. Three teenage best friends (Kya-Celina Barucki, Julia Novohradsky, Nhung Hong, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen) make a pact to experience their first orgasms before summer ends, only to discover that desire, confidence, and high school humiliation do not follow a clean checklist. Based on the 2001 cult film Mädchen, Mädchen, this contemporary retelling turns sexual awakening into a chaotic, funny, and surprisingly honest ride.

🎥 “Bouchra” Trailer: A Queer Moroccan Artist Wrestles with Family, Identity, and Filmmaking in Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s Hybrid Animated-Live-Action Drama — In Theaters June 26th

Writer’s block becomes something far more personal in this hybrid animated-live-action experimental drama from New York-based filmmaker Orian Barki and Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani. The story follows Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in New York City, whose overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca begin shaping the first film she’s struggling to make. Between artistic pressure, romantic entanglements, and the emotional distance between two homes, this intimate reckoning becomes its own creative breakthrough.

🎥 “Maternal Instinct” Trailer: Netflix’s True-Crime Documentary Unravels a Perfect Social Media Pregnancy and a Terrifying East Texas Case — Debuting June 12th on Netflix

A perfect online life cracks wide open in this unsettling Netflix true-crime documentary. The story follows a young woman from a wealthy East Texas town whose carefully curated relationship and pregnancy collapse after a routine traffic stop reveals she has just given birth in her car. From there, her story quickly falls apart, exposing the frightening truth behind an unthinkable crime where social media fantasy crashes hard into real-world horror.

🎥 “Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal” Trailer: Go Inside the Closed Gloriavale Religious Community in This New True-Crime Documentary — Streaming June 2nd on Paramount+

Faith and control blur into something far more troubling in this Paramount+ original true-crime documentary. With rare access inside the closed Gloriavale religious community, the doc examines allegations of abuse, institutional cover-ups, and the cost of obedience within a deeply isolated world. The result looks like a sobering look at belief systems that demand loyalty while shutting out accountability.

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📺 “Vought Rising” First Look Teaser: Jensen Ackles Returns as Soldier Boy in Upcoming ‘The Boys’ Prequel Series Digging Into Vought’s Twisted 1950s Origins — Premiering 2027 on Prime Video

Now that the popular, ultra-violent, provocative superhero satire The Boys has ended its five-season run with a season finale that landed with a bloody, fist-pounding wallop, fans might be feeling a little empty as the twisted yet outrageously hilarious world that showrunner Eric Kripke helped shape finally takes its last bow. But if you think this will be the last time you’ll be invited into this live-action universe birthed from the warped mind of comic book creator Garth Ennis... well, don’t be so sure.

Amazon Studios clearly isn’t done with the franchise just yet. The streamer has already greenlit Vought Rising, a new prequel series set decades before the arrival of Homelander, taking us all the way back to the 1950s to explore the twisted origins of Vought International.

The series will revolve around one of the franchise’s breakout characters: Soldier Boy, with Jensen Ackles returning to the role once more. Also back in the mix is Aya Cash as Stormfront, making this prequel less about clean superhero mythology and more about digging into the rotten foundation beneath Vought’s patriotic branding.

Billed with the ominous tagline “One nation, under gods,” Vought Rising looks to pull back the curtain on where the supes began and how Vought’s corporate nightmare first took shape. And knowing this universe, that origin story will probably come wrapped in blood, propaganda, ego, and a whole lot of deeply questionable American exceptionalism.

Ackles and Cash will also serve as producers, with Paul Grellong acting as showrunner and executive producer. The cast includes Mason Dye, Will Hochman, KiKi Layne, Jorden Myrie, Nicolo Pasetti, Elizabeth Posey, Ricky Staffieri, and Brian J. Smith.

Executive producers include Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, and more, with Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios producing.

Vought Rising is set to premiere in 2027 on Prime Video. The Boys may be done, but Vought clearly has plenty of skeletons left in the corporate closet yet to be unearthed.

📺 “Lanterns” New Teaser: Kyle Chandler & Aaron Pierre Bring Green Lantern Down to Earth in DC’s Small-Town Superhero Crime Series — Premiering Sun, August 16th on HBO and HBO Max

The online conversation after the first footage from the upcoming Lanterns series dropped months ago has mostly centered on one big question: just how much cosmic territory will the show actually cover? After all, Green Lantern and the Green Lantern Corps are fan-favorite DC heroes known for their sprawling space-opera mythology, intergalactic adventures, alien worlds, and glowing green power-ring powers.

So it makes you wonder why the entire show is being set in a small American Western town, complete with sheriffs, deputies, and local criminal activity, when the source material is famous for sending its heroes across galaxies.

Well, perhaps to offer a little more clarity, WB has released a brand-new teaser this week confirming that, yes, audiences will see a bit of Hal Jordan’s backstory as a chosen Lantern donning the suit. A flashback before he becomes the war-weary grump who isn’t too keen on giving up the ring to new recruit John Stewart.

Much of the series appears to be built around the tense and contentious dynamic between veteran Lantern Hal Jordan (played by Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler) and young Lantern-in-training John Stewart (played by Rebel Ridge’s Aaron Pierre). Hal clearly isn’t thrilled by the idea that he may be replaced someday, likely sooner rather than later, while John seems more than ready to suit up, take the ring, and prove he’s up for the job.

But wearing the ring doesn’t automatically make you a hero. It only gives you the power to prove whether you have what it takes to become one. It’s something Hal has already learned and something John will have to discover the hard way, as the two are pulled into a strange murder investigation in the American heartland that will likely point to something much bigger. That alone gives the series a different flavor and tone from the usual superhero story.

Joining Chandler and Pierre is a stacked supporting ensemble that includes Kelly Macdonald as the local sheriff and Garret Dillahunt as a cowboy with possibly more secrets than he’s willing to let on. They are joined by Poorna Jagannathan, Jason Ritter, Ulrich Thomsen, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Paul Ben-Victor, Chris Coy, and Jasmine Cephas Jones, with Nathan Fillion making a guest appearance, reprising his role as Guy Gardner. Laura Linney also appears in an undisclosed role, rumored to be Carol Ferris, Hal’s longtime love interest in the comics, though nothing has been confirmed yet.

With directors James Hawes, Stephen Williams, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Alik Sakharov helping steer the season, and Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King serving as executive producers alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran, Lanterns is set to debut Sunday, August 16th on HBO and HBO Max.

And judging by that final question: “Are you afraid?”... fear may be the real villain here.

📺 “Spider-Noir” Final Trailer: Nicolas Cage Goes Full Hard-Boiled Gumshoe in Marvel’s Pulp-Soaked Superhero Noir Series — Premiering Wed, May 27th on Prime Video

For more than 40 years, Nicolas Cage has given us some of the most out-there performances ever captured on screen. Sure, some have been wildly over the top, while others have been immensely memorable. But Cage’s larger-than-life screen presence has always been something to marvel at, as he has never tackled a role with anything less than full-throttle commitment. Yet there is one thing he has somehow never attempted until now: committing to a character over the course of several episodes.

Cage will be making his television debut this month, and in pure Cage fashion, it’s a role that feels tailor-made for his particular brand of theatrical weirdness, as he taps into some of cinema’s greatest noir detectives while adding his own slightly unhinged spin on the Spider-Man mythos.

In Spider-Noir, Cage stars as Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who’s forced to confront his past life as the city’s one and only masked vigilante. Think classic noir gumshoe, but with webs, bruises, bad memories, and a whole lot of cigarette-smoke atmosphere, with Cage at the center doing exactly what he does best: making the weird feel strangely magnetic.

Based on the alternate Marvel comic from the 2010 Marvel Noir universe, the series gives Spider-Man a pulp-fiction makeover, blending hard-boiled detective spunk with superhero mythology. The final trailer leans heavily into that mix: shadowy streets, stark lighting, mob trouble, and a weary hero being dragged back into a fight he thought he left behind.

Cage previously voiced Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and this live-action version looks like it’s letting him fully sink into the trench coat, fedora, and tortured inner monologue of it all.

The eight-episode series comes from co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal executive producing. The cast includes Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, and Abraham Popoola, with Jack Huston as a film-noir version of Sandman and Brendan Gleeson as mob boss Silvermane.

Spider-Noir arrives Wednesday, May 27th on Prime Video, with audiences able to choose between “True-Hue Full Color” and “Authentic Black & White” when deciding which version of the show they want to experience.

Though, let’s be honest: if Cage is going full noir, black and white feels like the only respectable choice here. After all, Cage has said his performance was designed with the intention that viewers would see it through a black-and-white format. Now that is truly the most Cage thing we’ve ever heard.

📺 “The Agency: Season 2” Trailer: Michael Fassbender’s CIA Spy Gets Pulled Deeper Into Paranoia, Betrayal, and a Dangerous Mole Hunt — Premieres Sun, June 21st on Paramount+

Michael Fassbender is a damn liar. He has lied to his friends, lied to his colleagues, betrayed his own country, and gotten people hurt because of it. But what do you expect? He’s a CIA spy.

In The Agency: Season 2, Fassbender returns as Martian, a compromised CIA operative whose already messy life gets even messier when London Station is thrown into chaos by a mole hunt. Betrayed, exposed, and still haunted by the woman he couldn’t save, Martian finds himself trapped in a world where loyalty is temporary, trust is dangerous, and the truth can do just as much damage as a bullet.

The new season looks to push him even deeper into the kind of psychological spy-game hell where every answer opens another door, and every door probably has someone waiting behind it with a gun, a secret, or both.

Jeffrey Wright returns as Martian’s CIA boss and mentor, with Richard Gere also back as the CIA London Station chief. Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, and India Fowler round out the cast.

If Season 1 was about deception and secrets, this next chapter appears ready to turn paranoia into the main event, as Fassbender squirms even harder to find a way out before the whole operation closes in around him.

Created by Edge of Tomorrow scribes Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth and based on a French espionage series, The Agency: Season 2 is due to debut Sunday, June 21st exclusively on Paramount+ (no Showtime package needed this time).

📺 “Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 2” Trailer: Aang, Katara, and Sokka Enter the Earth Kingdom as Toph Beifong Joins the Gaang — Premiering Thurs, June 25th on Netflix

Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender is heading back for Season 2, and fans are finally getting a taste of what’s coming next.

After the events of Season 1, the Gaang has grown up a bit. And the stakes have grown right alongside them. Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), and Sokka (Ian Ousley) are still carrying the weight of their hard-won, bittersweet victory over the Fire Nation at the Northern Water Tribe, but there’s no time to sit around and celebrate.

The next leg of the journey pushes them deeper into the Earth Kingdom, where their mission becomes clear: find the elusive Earth King and convince him to join the fight against Fire Lord Ozai, once again played by Daniel Dae Kim.

But Season 2 also brings one of the franchise’s most beloved characters into the fold: Toph Beifong. Played by Miya Cech, the earthbending powerhouse makes her live-action debut this season, and if the original animated series taught us anything, her arrival should shake up the group dynamic in a major way... emotionally, comedically, and probably quite literally on the battlefield.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 2 is coming soon to Netflix beginning Thursday, June 25th. The Earth Kingdom awaits, and something tells us the ground is about to move just enough to get fans properly rattled.

📺 “The Westies” Teaser: J.K. Simmons Stars in MGM’s Upcoming Brutal 1980s Irish Mafia Series with Titus Welliver — Premieres Sun, July 12th on MGM+

Hell’s Kitchen in the early 1980s was not exactly known for playing nice, and this gritty MGM+ crime drama looks ready to turn old neighborhood muscle into full-blown mob warfare. J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, Jessica Frances Dukes, and Sarah Bolger star in this bruising series about the Westies, the notoriously violent Irish gang trying to hold onto power while sharing uneasy territory with the Italian mafia. Created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes, the producers of Godfather of Harlem, this kinetic underworld saga suggests that when money, pride, and territorial control start boiling over, even a fragile truce can go up in flames.

📺 “The Vampire Lestat” Extended Look Preview: Sam Reid’s Immortal Rock Star Hits the Road in AMC’s Glam-Goth Anne Rice Series — Debuts Sun, June 7th on AMC and AMC+

Lestat de Lioncourt has spent centuries being misunderstood, so naturally his next move is to form a band and turn his side of the story into a full-blown rock spectacle. Sam Reid returns as the flamboyant vampire icon, now clawing his way back into public view after Daniel Molloy’s bestselling book leaves him feeling more than a little misrepresented. With Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, and Jennifer Ehle joining the chaos, showrunner Rolin Jones keeps AMC’s Anne Rice universe humming as immortality and old wounds hit the stage with plenty of bite.

📺 “Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 5” Trailer: Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis) Faces the Beginning of the End in STARZ’s Final Season — Premieres Fri, June 12th on STARZ

Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis) has spent years learning the truth about his family, his mother, and himself... and now those truths are coming due. The final season of this STARZ crime drama finds the Thomas family ready for all-out war as secrets, loyalty, and survival push everyone toward their breaking point. As Kanan steps closer to becoming the man we know he’s destined to be, this last chapter looks ready to prove that family business can be the bloodiest business of all.

📺 “The Doll Factory” Trailer: Esmé Creed-Miles Chases Artistic Freedom as Victorian London Turns Dangerous in This British Period Thriller — Streams May 28th on The Network App, in the U.S.

Victorian London gets dark and dangerous in this 2023 British miniseries about one young woman’s hunger for freedom, art, and a life beyond the walls closing in around her. Esmé Creed-Miles stars as Iris, a frustrated shopgirl secretly chasing her dream of becoming an artist while her sister Rose, played by Mirren Mack, grows increasingly worried about the dangers circling around them. Based on Elizabeth Macneal’s bestselling novel, directed by Sacha Polak and adapted by Charley Miles, this shadowy thriller suggests that to be free, one may first have to step into the dark.

📺 “The Capture: Season 3” Trailer: Holliday Grainger Hunts the Truth in Peacock’s Deepfake-Fueled Surveillance Thriller Series — Premieres Thurs, June 18th on Peacock

In a world where video evidence can lie, trusting your own eyes is starting to feel like a rookie mistake. Holliday Grainger returns as Rachel Carey, now acting head of SO15 after exposing a secret deepfake program that shook public faith in surveillance technology. But when a coordinated terrorist attack drags her into a sprawling geopolitical conspiracy, Season 3 looks ready to turn truth itself into the most dangerous weapon in the room.

📺 “Harry Wild: Season 5” Trailer: Jane Seymour’s Literature-Loving Sleuth Returns for More Dangerous Cases in Acorn TV’s Irish Mystery Series — Premieres Mon, June 22nd on Acorn TV

Retirement clearly does not suit Harry Wild, especially when murder keeps giving her fresh material to work with. Jane Seymour returns as the sharp-witted former literature professor whose knack for solving crimes once again pulls her into undercover operations, chilling murders, and criminals who refuse to go quietly. With a new pathologist joining the team, Season 5 looks ready to give this cozy-ish Irish mystery series a few sharper edges.

📺 “Tip Toe” U.K. Trailer: Alan Cumming and David Morrissey Face Suburban Paranoia in Russell T Davies’ Gripping British Thriller Series — Premieres Sun, May 31st on Channel 4

The suburbs are supposed to be quiet, but this Manchester-set thriller looks ready to turn neighborhood tension into something far more dangerous. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey star as two neighbors—one openly gay and the other increasingly consumed by animosity—whose lives begin to unravel as prejudice, paranoia, and radicalization poison the community around them. From Russell T Davies, this gripping Channel 4 drama suggests that the scariest threat on the block might not be the one living right next door, but the hate festering behind closed doors.

📺 “Two Weeks in August” U.K. Trailer: Jessica Raine Hits Her Breaking Point in BBC’s Greek-Island Black Comedy Drama Series — Premieres Sat, May 23rd on BBC iPlayer

A sunny Greek island vacation should be relaxing, but apparently nobody told this group of friends. Jessica Raine leads a sharp ensemble cast—including Damien Molony, Nicholas Pinnock, Antonia Thomas, Leila Farzad, and Hugh Skinner—in this BBC black comedy drama about a people-pleaser who finally reaches her limit. As secrets surface and friendships start cracking under the heat, this getaway looks less like a holiday and more like emotional baggage claim.

📺 “Two Years Later” Aussie Trailer: Phoebe Tonkin & Brenton Thwaites Find Post-Lockdown Romance in This Brisbane-Set Love Story — Streaming Now on Paramount+ in Australia

Returning to the office is bad enough, but falling for someone on the commute? That’s where things get complicated. Phoebe Tonkin and Brenton Thwaites star in this Brisbane-set romantic drama series about two people reconnecting with work, life, and maybe each other two years after a global COVID lockdown. Created by Pete Bridges, this Australian love story explores the thin line between ambition and commitment... because apparently rush-hour romance comes with plenty of emotional traffic.

📺 “Teach You a Lesson” Trailer: Kim Moo-yul & Lee Sung-min Fight Back Against School Bullies in Netflix’s Action-Packed K-Drama — Premieres Fri, June 5th on Netflix

Kim Moo-yul and Lee Sung-min star as hard-hitting inspectors from the fictional Teachers’ Rights Protection Bureau, a government agency called in when schools spiral into chaos and bullies start running the show. Directed by Hong Jong-chan and written by Lee Nam-kyu, this action-packed Netflix K-drama turns classroom discipline into full-contact justice.

📺 “Michael Jackson: The Verdict” Trailer: New 3-Part Doc Reexamines the Trial, Legacy, and Lingering Questions Around the King of Pop — Premieres Wed, June 3rd on Netflix

Few celebrity trials became cultural events quite like Michael Jackson’s 2005 courtroom saga. This three-part Netflix docuseries revisits the case through key figures who were inside the courtroom, including jurors, eyewitnesses, accusers, and defenders. Directed by Nick Green and created by showrunner David Herman, this comprehensive documentary looks back at the trial, the acquittal, and the complicated legacy that continues to stir public discord.

📺 “Hannah Berner: None of My Business” Trailer: Hannah Berner Gets Personal, Messy, and Part-Time Hot in Hulu’s New Stand-Up Special — Premieres Fri, June 5th on Hulu

Hannah Berner is back onstage, and this time the jokes come with a little more oversharing. The comedian’s sophomore stand-up special finds her digging into dating secrets, career detours, future anxiety, and the very relatable burden of being “part-time hot.” It sounds like Hulu’s latest comedy special is less about having life figured out and more about making life’s little disasters sound painfully funny.

📺 “Untold UK: Vinnie Jones” Trailer: Netflix Revisits the Football Hard Man’s Wild Rise, Fall, and Hollywood Comeback — Premieres Tues, May 26th on Netflix

Before he became a familiar tough-guy face in Hollywood, Vinnie Jones was already building a reputation the hard way... on the football pitch. This raw Netflix documentary tracks his unlikely journey from construction worker to Wimbledon’s infamous Crazy Gang, FA Cup glory, tabloid chaos, and a second act as an actor. As the latest installment in Netflix’s Untold sports documentary series, this one looks at a career built on grit, red cards, reinvention, and the kind of screen presence you apparently can’t teach.

📺 “RAFA” Trailer: Spanish Tennis Star Rafael Nadal Opens Up About His Legendary Career in Netflix’s Intimate Four-Part Tennis Documentary — Streaming Fri, May 29th on Netflix

Not everything behind a legend happens on the court. This four-part Netflix documentary offers an intimate look at Rafael Nadal’s life and career, from his childhood beginnings to his emotional final ATP Tour season in 2024. With Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, John McEnroe, family members, and Nadal’s inner circle adding perspective, the series digs into the strain, sacrifice, and stubborn drive behind one of tennis’ greatest careers. Even the trophies don’t tell the whole story.

📺 “WWE: Made in America” Trailer: USA Network Explores How Professional Wrestling Became One of America’s Biggest Cultural Exports — Premieres Fri, May 29th on USA Network

WWE has never been shy about going big, and this new USA Network documentary special looks at just how far that spectacle has traveled. Tied to America’s 250th birthday celebration, the special explores how professional wrestling grew from regional showmanship into a global sports-entertainment machine. With Triple H calling WWE one of America’s greatest exports, this documentary aims to unpack the patriotic pageantry, pop-culture muscle, and worldwide appeal behind the squared circle.

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🎥 “Little Brother” Trailer: John Cena Gets Stuck With Eric Andre as the Chaotic Sibling He Never Asked For in Netflix’s New Comedy with Michelle Monaghan — Premieres June 26th on Netflix

This one is for all those who’ve wished they had a little brother in their life to look after them and keep them out of trouble. To know that sibling bond means someone always has your back, even when life starts throwing punches.

Oh wait... scratch that!

This one is for anyone who hated their little brother growing up... or thanked the heavens their parents never decided to ruin their lives by bringing home a tiny chaos machine built purely to annoy them for the rest of their lives.

In this new Netflix comedy, John Cena plays one such person who never had the good (or mis)fortune of having a little brother until one day, all that changed when Eric Andre entered his life, turning it upside down and dragging every ounce of peace and quiet straight out the window. Worse yet? He isn’t his real little brother, just some guy who took part in a high school charity program where they were paired up as honorary siblings. And apparently, he never got the memo that the program ended decades ago.

Directed by Ingrid Goes West helmer Matt Spicer, Little Brother features Cena as Rudd, a successful real estate agent and television personality who has built the kind of polished, well-organized life that screams, “Please do not touch anything.” He has a great job, a loving and beautiful wife (played by Michelle Monaghan), and a comfortable routine that appears to be running exactly the way he wants it.

That’s until he gets a sudden phone call saying that his “brother” has been in a terrible accident and has been rushed to the emergency room. Believing that it’s his older brother, someone he has always revered and looked up to (played by Christopher Meloni), Cena’s Rudd rushes down there only to discover the injured sibling in question is... Marcus, the so-called “little brother” he barely remembers signing up for in the first place.

With encouragement from his much more caring wife, Rudd is pressured into inviting Marcus to stay with them until he fully recovers from his injuries. What he doesn’t know is that one little act of kindness is about to turn his perfectly ordered life into a full-blown comedy of errors, adding unneeded stress to his career, marriage, patience, blood pressure, and possibly his threshold for human nonsense.

Little Brother is set to premiere June 26th only on Netflix. So if you ever wanted a sibling, this might either warm your heart... or make you grateful your parents stopped while they were ahead.

🎥 “Her Private Hell” Teaser: Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn Returns with a Neon-Soaked Fever Dream Starring Sophie Thatcher & Charles Melton — Coming to Theaters July 24th

Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn recently had an emotional Cannes premiere for his latest film, Her Private Hell. The film not only marks his first feature effort since 2016’s The Neon Demon and his first major project since the 2019 Amazon limited series Too Old to Die Young and the 2023 Netflix miniseries Copenhagen Cowboy, but also marks Refn’s return after a near-death experience involving what he described as a “leaking heart” medical crisis that doctors were able to repair before it was too late. Given a new lease on life, Refn spoke thoughtfully at his Cannes press conference about how grateful he is now to focus on the important things in life, namely his family and creating thought-provoking art.

But lest you think Refn has eased up on delivering provocative films after going through such a life-altering scare, think again. Here, the director who brought us Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Pusher trilogy is back doing what made him such a singular cinematic provocateur in the first place: turning style, violence, obsession, and moral decay into something that is both visually beautiful and likely deeply uncomfortable.

Set in a futuristic metropolis swallowed by a mysterious mist, Her Private Hell follows a troubled young woman (starring Sophie Thatcher, of Yellowjackets and Companion fame) searching for her missing father as a deadly, elusive entity begins stalking the city. Her journey soon crosses paths with an American GI (Charles Melton, fresh off his stellar performance in Season 2 of Beef) on his own harrowing mission: to rescue his daughter from damnation itself.

So yes, this sounds very much like Refn operating in full neon nightmare, likely something gorgeous enough to admire and disturbing enough to ruin your sleep. And for fans of the Danish auteur’s work, we wouldn’t want it any other way.

Also co-starring Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Diego Calva, with NEON backing the distribution, Her Private Hell is slated to open in theaters July 24th. Sure, some filmmakers come back with crowd-pleasers. Refn, on the other hand, comes back with a ticket to a neon-lit Hell.

Added note: During the screening of his film at Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn said something poetic about the state of cinema to the audience that we believe needs repeating: “Cinema is the Future, Cinema is Alive ... It’s Resurrected.”

🎥 “Hope” Teaser: Acclaimed Korean Filmmaker Na Hong-jin Returns with a New Korean Monster Thriller — Coming This Fall from NEON

When it comes to Korean cinema, filmmakers like Bong Joon Ho are often among the first names that come to mind, especially when thinking of directors who can mix genres in deeply satisfying ways. But one would be foolish to think Bong is the only Korean director working now who can pull off that kind of enthralling, genre-blending tightrope act.

Case in point: Na Hong-jin. After unnerving audiences with his deeply unsettling 2016 horror film The Wailing, not to mention breaking onto the scene with his thrilling 2008 crime-actioner The Chaser, Na Hong-jin returns with another genre-blender that will surely have people talking, guessing, and squirming in their seats.

Set to make its world debut at Cannes this month, we’re getting a peek at what will likely be popping up on your 2026 must-watch list, especially for those who love Korean monster thrillers with a wicked sense of dread.

Na Hong-jin’s Hope takes place in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor near the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where a mysterious creature has started leaving destruction in its wake, and the locals are about to learn that some things are better left undiscovered. As a small-town police investigation turns stranger and deadlier, this already sounds like another nerve-rattling plunge into fear, folklore, and monster-movie mayhem.

Starring Korean actor Hwang Jung-min (New World) and Korean model-turned-actress Jung Ho-yeon as a police chief and his rookie partner leading a desperate investigation alongside a group of hunters trying to hunt down what looks to be the start of an alien invasion, the cast also features a few surprising faces, including Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell (Bones and All), and Cameron Britton (Mindhunter).

Hope will be released in the U.S. by NEON, the same distributor that helped bring Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite to American audiences. Following its Cannes debut, the film is currently penciled in for a fall release in the States.

🎥 “Rolling Loud” Teaser: Owen Wilson Sneaks His Son Into a Hip-Hop Music Festival in Jeremy Garelick’s Father-Son Comedy with Travis Scott — In Theaters October 2nd

There comes a time in every father’s life when he must look deep within himself and ask the hard question: “Am I still cool?”

The answer is usually no. But that doesn’t stop Owen Wilson from trying... or at the very least, still living up to some idea of cool in his son’s eyes in Rolling Loud, a new father-son comedy set against the real-life hip-hop music festival of the same name.

Packed with a ton of hip-hop cameos, including rappers Travis Scott, Ty Dolla Sign, Sexyy Red, Ski Mask the Slump God... and Henry Winkler (‘cuz you know the Fonz is a true G), Owen Wilson takes on the role of a seemingly normal suburban dad who decides the best way to connect with his 13-year-old son (played here by Cocaine Bear’s Christian Convery) is to sneak him into Rolling Loud, the massively popular hip-hop festival headlined here by Travis Scott.

So, what begins as a well-meaning attempt to become the “cool dad” quickly turns into a chaotic, crowd-packed adventure full of terrible parenting decisions, loud music, and the very real possibility this wannabe hip father will not make it out with his dignity intact.

Written and directed by Jeremy Garelick, whose comedy credits include The Wedding Ringer, The Binge, and Murder Mystery 2, Rolling Loud leans into the madness of the festival setting, with some filming taking place at the actual Rolling Loud event. So expect thousands of fans, nonstop energy, and plenty of opportunities for Owen Wilson to look deeply out of place in the funniest way possible.

Co-starring Matt Rife and Christine Ko, Rolling Loud is scheduled to open in theaters October 2nd. Consider it a reminder that father-son bonding is important... but maybe not worth risking your child’s safety, your sanity, and whatever remains of your cool-dad credibility.

🎥 “Couture” Trailer: Angelina Jolie Navigates Paris Fashion Week, Personal Crisis, and Runway Pressure in Alice Winocour’s French Drama — In U.S. Theaters June 26th

Paris Fashion Week is built on the illusion of perfection: the clothes, the cameras, the glamorous faces, the carefully arranged chaos. But in the new French drama Couture, Angelina Jolie seems less interested in the runway fantasy and far more focused on what happens when real life quietly slips behind the curtain.

Jolie stars as an American filmmaker in Paris during Fashion Week, where she finds herself crossing paths with women from different corners of the fashion world. Real-life fashion model Anyier Anei co-stars as a rising model heading into the spotlight, Swiss actress Ella Rumpf (Tokyo Vice) plays a behind-the-scenes makeup artist, while French actor/filmmaker Louis Garrel (The Innocent) appears as a familiar creative collaborator.

What begins as a professional trip for Jolie’s character soon becomes something far more personal, as she is forced to confront the choices, fears, and emotional weight shaping her life. The film also finds Jolie getting to show off her French-speaking skills, as her character navigates not only a foreign city, but a life-altering breast cancer diagnosis.

So while the setting may be filled with models, designers, makeup chairs, and high-end spectacle, this looks like a drama more interested in the private moments that happen once the spotlight moves elsewhere.

Written and directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Alice Winocour, whose credits include Mustang, Disorder, and Augustine, Couture is set to arrive in U.S. theaters June 26th.

🎥 “Masters of the Universe” Final Trailer: Nicholas Galitzine Has the Power as He-Man Returns for a Big-Screen ’80s Fantasy Revival — In Theaters June 5th

At the recent movie premiere for the upcoming Masters of the Universe, ’80s icon Dolph Lundgren was kind enough to show up and pass the Power Sword to actor Nicholas Galitzine, who takes on the iconic role in this modern redo. It was a symbolic act of torch-passing, from one live-action He-Man to the next, and a nice little nod to the franchise’s big-screen past.

While the 1987 Cannon-produced, Dolph Lundgren-starring live-action version was mostly derided by critics, He-Man has never left the pop-culture conversation, especially for those raised on a steady diet of ’80s toys, cartoons, and Saturday-morning muscle-bound fantasy.

Question is, is ’80s nostalgia enough to power a new big-screen adventure to box office glory? Well, if you’re still sitting on the fence on whether to raise your sword and shout “I have the power!” again as you head to movie theaters, this might be the moment to decide, as the studio has dropped the final trailer. And it’s packed with enough sword-swinging spectacle, cosmic fantasy, and Eternian weirdness to suggest this reboot is going big or going home.

Directed by Travis Knight, the Laika co-founder behind Kubo and the Two Strings and the ’80s-set Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, the film sees Galitzine as Prince Adam, reimagined here as an Earthbound version of the character named “Adam Glenn.”

After being sent away to Earth as a child, Adam grows up far from his home world of Eternia, which has since fallen under the control of Skeletor and his evil army. But when Adam is reunited with his legendary Power Sword, he gains the power to return home, reclaim his destiny, and become the sword-swinging savior known as He-Man.

The cast includes Idris Elba as Man-At-Arms, Camila Mendes as Teela, Kristen Wiig as the voice of Roboto, Jared Leto as Skeletor, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, and Morena Baccarin as the Sorceress.

Masters of the Universe is set to open in theaters June 5th. Don’t be surprised if you end up sitting next to a middle-aged man with a tear in his eye and a plastic Power Sword hidden under his seat. Cut him some slack, it’s been a long time for fans to feel the power again.

Summer is officially starting to flex a little, as this week’s releases aim to test the box office with a handful of high-profile blockbusters. But the small screen isn’t exactly sitting this one out either, with a fresh batch of TV premieres looking to make their mark as the summer season gets underway.

As always, we’ve rounded up the new movies and shows arriving over the next few days, whether you’re heading out to the theater, staying in for a streaming binge, or just trying to figure out what’s worth adding to the watchlist. So scroll down and see what catches your eye. The summer lineup is only getting started.

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The Boys: Season 5 - Finale Episode
(Tues, May 19th — *One-Night Big Screen Event)

“Superheroes are done!” Well, at least in the blood-soaked world of Amazon’s darkly twisted superhero satire The Boys, which has spent five seasons serving up some of the wildest and most subversive jabs at the genre. Now, for a special one-night big-screen event, fans can watch Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Annie (Erin Moriarty), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) make one last push to bring down Homelander (Antony Starr) for good.

🎥 The Secret World of Arrietty
(Tues, May 19th — re-release; *IMAX One-Night Event)

Tiny people, big trouble, and one very risky friendship. This Studio Ghibli favorite returns in a newly restored 4K IMAX presentation, following Arrietty, a tiny Borrower living beneath the floorboards of an ordinary home. When a lonely boy discovers her hidden world, curiosity turns dangerous as Arrietty must protect her family while stepping into a friendship that could change everything.

🎥 Stolen Kingdom
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in LA)

Disney adults, urban explorers, and black-market collectors turn the Magic Kingdom into a true-crime funhouse in this wild documentary about a missing high-value animatronic and the obsessive subculture surrounding it. What begins as fan devotion soon slips into trespassing, theft, and jaw-dropping confessionals from people who may have taken their love of the parks way too far. Turns out pixie dust has a street value.

🎥 Ask E. Jean
(Thurs, May 21st — limited release; in NY)

E. Jean Carroll gets the documentary treatment in this portrait of a trailblazing journalist, advice columnist, and courtroom fighter. Directed by Ivy Meeropol, the film traces Carroll’s life from media personality to public figure who took on Donald Trump in court and won... twice!

🎥 The Mandalorian and Grogu
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)

A galaxy far, far away finally returns to the big screen with this pulpy space-western adventure, as Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and his Force-sensitive foundling Grogu track Imperial holdouts across a lawless post-Empire frontier. With Sigourney Weaver joining as a New Republic colonel and Jeremy Allen White suiting up via motion capture as Rotta the Hutt, this big-screen chapter brings Star Wars back to its scrappy gunslinger roots.

🎥 Passenger
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)

The open road turns into a dead-end nightmare in this supernatural horror thriller from horror director André Øvredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell star as a van-life couple whose dream getaway spirals after they witness a deadly roadside accident and find themselves stalked by a demonic presence that refuses to let them outrun it. Melissa Leo co-stars as a fellow traveler who knows the road hides something far worse than bad directions.

🎥 I Love Boosters
(Fri, May 22nd — wide release)

High fashion gets a five-finger discount in this darkly satirical caper from Sorry to Bother You filmmaker Boots Riley. Keke Palmer stars as the leader of the Velvet Gang, a stylish crew of Oakland boosters lifting designer goods from luxury boutiques and flipping them for people priced out of the fantasy. But when Demi Moore’s fashion mogul becomes their biggest target, this Robin Hood hustle turns into a sharp, absurdist takedown of capitalism in couture.

🎥 Tuner
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)

Leo Woodall stars as a gifted piano tuner whose extraordinary hearing turns into a very dangerous side hustle. While apprenticing under a veteran tuner played by Dustin Hoffman, he discovers he can crack safes by sound alone, pulling him into New York’s criminal underworld. What starts as a rare talent quickly becomes a costly temptation.

🎥 Saccharine
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)

A killer diet trend takes a ghostly turn in this Australian supernatural horror film from Relic filmmaker Natalie Erika James. Grey’s Anatomy’s Midori Francis stars as a lovelorn medical student who falls into a bizarre weight-loss craze built around eating human ashes, only to find herself haunted by the person she’s consuming.

🎥 Corporate Retreat
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release)

Team-building gets a body count in this darkly comic survival thriller, as a group of ambitious tech executives find their luxury desert retreat turning into a blood-soaked corporate nightmare. Alan Ruck, Rosanna Arquette, Odeya Rush, Ashton Sanders, Sasha Lane, and more enter a sadistic game where office politics give way to primal instinct. Consider it the ultimate performance review, with termination taking on a whole new meaning.

🎥 Giant
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)

Prince “Naz” Hamed steps into the ring in this British underdog boxing drama starring Amir El-Masry as the flashy, fearless British-Yemeni fighter who rose from Sheffield kid to one of the most electric boxers of the ’90s. Pierce Brosnan co-stars as tough-love trainer Brendan Ingle, with Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, executive producing.

🎥 Reckless
(Fri, May 22nd — limited release; also on ✅VOD/Digital)

Scott Adkins punches his way through one very messy second chance in this darkly comic British action thriller about an ex-con hunting down his share of a long-buried heist. But with the law closing in, old associates circling, and Vinnie Jones and Nicole Deon adding to the trouble, staying free might be tougher than surviving the job.

🎥 Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 35th Anniversary
(Fri, May 22nd — re-release)

James Cameron’s sci-fi action classic returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary, bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed cyborg protector back to the big screen. Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong’s John Connor, and Robert Patrick’s liquid-metal T-1000 still make this one of the great sequels in blockbuster history. Some movies age well. This one comes back stronger.

🎥 Legally Blonde: 25th Anniversary
(Sun, May 24th and Wed, May 27th — re-release; via Fathom Ent.)

Elle Woods heads back to the big screen for an anniversary re-release, proving once again that pink, confidence, and legal brilliance make a pretty unbeatable combo. Reese Witherspoon’s beloved comedy follows Elle as she enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex, only to discover she’s far more than anyone expected. What starts as a romantic mission becomes a masterclass in self-respect.

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🎥 “Wildwood” Teaser Trailer: LAIKA Ventures Into a Darkly Magical Hidden Forest in Travis Knight’s Forthcoming Stop-Motion Fantasy — Arriving In Theaters October 23rd

There are places you don’t go. Which, in movie language, usually means somebody is absolutely going there.

And in Wildwood, the upcoming stop-motion fantasy from LAIKA, that forbidden place just happens to be a dangerous hidden forest near Portland, filled with secrets, strange creatures, and a whole winged kingdom waiting beyond the trees.

Directed by LAIKA co-founder Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee) and based on the bestselling children’s novel of the same name by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, Wildwood follows Prue McKeel (voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee, of Disney Channel’s Andi Mack), a young girl whose life changes when her infant brother Mac is kidnapped by crows and carried into the mysterious wilderness known as the Impassable Wilderness. Determined to save him, Prue ventures into this hidden world with her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), only to discover that the forest is much bigger, stranger, and more politically tangled than either of them expected.

This isn’t just a simple rescue mission. The teaser points toward a sweeping dark-fantasy adventure about love, loss, sacrifice, and the kind of courage it takes to step into the unknown when turning back is no longer an option. Along the way, Prue and Curtis are pulled into the Avian Principality, a winged realm shaped by power struggles, secrets, and a mysterious woman named Alexandra, voiced by Carey Mulligan.

The stacked voice cast also includes Mahershala Ali, Jemaine Clement, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Richard E. Grant, Rob Delaney, and more.

Chris Butler, who previously wrote and directed LAIKA’s ParaNorman and Missing Link, wrote the film’s adapted screenplay. And with Knight back in the director’s chair after Kubo and the Two Strings, Wildwood looks to be another handcrafted swing from a studio that has built its reputation on tactile worlds, eerie beauty, offbeat adventures, and frame-by-frame stop-motion magic.

Wildwood is slated to open in theaters October 23rd.

🎥 “The Rivals of Amziah King” Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Rules the Ruthless Honey Game in Andrew Patterson’s Backwoods Oklahoma Crime Thriller — Hitting Theaters August 14th

There are plenty of crime thrillers about drugs, guns, money, and power. But honey? Now that’s one sticky business. And the more you stir the pot, the more likely you are to get stung.

Matthew McConaughey heads deep into rural Oklahoma in The Rivals of Amziah King, the new crime thriller from writer-director Andrew Patterson, the filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed low-budget UFO gem The Vast of Night. And judging by the trailer, Patterson is once again building a strange little world where genre expectations get bent into something more offbeat, more musical, and maybe a whole lot meaner than expected.

McConaughey stars as Amziah King, a charismatic, bluegrass-loving beekeeper who runs the best honey-making operation in town while surrounding himself with a ragtag band of musically gifted misfits. He’s got the charm, the swagger, and the apparatus to turn his beekeeping empire into something big. But in this corner of Oklahoma, the honey trade isn’t exactly sweet... and there are plenty of rivals swarming around, waiting for their time to strike.

Things take a more personal turn when Amziah’s estranged foster daughter Kateri, played by newcomer Angelina LookingGlass, unexpectedly returns after a devastating loss. For Amziah, her arrival offers a rare chance to rebuild a broken bond and maybe turn his honey operation into something resembling a family business.

Of course, this is a crime thriller, which means family healing can only last so long before somebody starts threatening the whole hive. And when the situation turns ugly, Kateri will be forced to find her own inner strength and seek justice within a system built to protect the powerful.

Joining McConaughey and LookingGlass is a strong ensemble that includes Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, and Tony Revolori, with the legendary Kurt Russell taking on the role of a powerful bigwig who sets his sights on Amziah’s honey empire and clearly isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to get what he wants.

Making his highly anticipated follow-up to The Vast of Night, writer-director Andrew Patterson burst onto the scene as a rising indie filmmaker working outside of Hollywood. As someone who formed his own production company in Oklahoma City, producing sports commercials for the local basketball team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, it seems Patterson has moved on to bigger things while keeping his Oklahoma roots firmly intact.

The Rivals of Amziah King is scheduled to open in theaters August 14th.

🎥 “72 Hours” Trailer: Kevin Hart Crashes a Miami Bachelor Party From Hell in Tim Story’s New Netflix Comedy — Premiering July 24th on Netflix

Kevin Hart has spent plenty of time getting roasted, mocked, chased, punched, and generally humiliated for our entertainment. But in the upcoming Netflix comedy 72 Hours, he may have finally found his most dangerous opponent yet: a bachelor party full of twentysomethings! And worse, he kind of asked for it.

Directed by Tim Story, the filmmaker behind Barbershop, Think Like a Man, and Hart’s Ride Along movies, 72 Hours stars Hart as a 40-year-old executive whose career is wobbling just enough to make one very bad idea sound like a good one. After he’s accidentally added to a bachelor party group chat, he decides to crash the weekend and prove he can still hang with the younger crowd. Big mistake. Huge!

The trailer lays out three days of Miami-fueled anarchy, with Hart’s character getting dragged into a weekend packed with yacht parties, party buses, drugs, run-ins with the law, cartel trouble, and enough bad decisions to make anyone over 40 start rethinking every life choice that led them there.

Hart leads the cast alongside SNL cast member Marcello Hernández, Scream’s Mason Gooding, comedian Kam Patterson, and Please Don’t Destroy member Ben Marshall as the younger party crew. The ensemble also includes Severance’s Zach Cherry, Better Call Saul’s Michael Mando, comedian Mike Epps, recent Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor, and legendary actor Andy Garcia.

Working from a script penned by Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows, along with Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Tim Story directs as well as produces alongside Hart.

So, yes, Kevin Hart, Miami, bachelor parties, cops, drug dealers, and 20-something hijinxs may sound like a random assortment of words. But in 72 Hours, they’re basically the whole itinerary.

72 Hours is slated to debut July 24th only on Netflix.

🎥 “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” Teaser: Rinko Kikuchi Hits the Dance Floor in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Sundance-Winning Ballroom Drama — Coming to Theaters This Fall

Grief, rhythm, and second chances take the floor in this Sundance-winning Tokyo-set ballroom dance flick from writer-director Josef Kubota Wladyka. Rinko Kikuchi, of Babel and Pacific Rim fame, stars as Haru, a competitive dancer whose life with her longtime partner is upended by tragedy, sending her into isolation until friends slowly pull her back into the dance studio. But when a new instructor, a Cuban dancer (Alberto Guerra), stirs up unexpected feelings, Haru must decide whether she’s ready to move again, on the dance floor and in life.

🎥 “Backrooms” New Promo: Viral YouTube Horror Creator Kane Parsons Turns His Creepy Online Nightmare Into a Big-Screen Chiller with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve — Hitting Theaters May 29th

The office has never looked less inviting. Based on Kane Parsons’ viral lo-fi creepypasta shorts, this unsettling horror film follows a troubled man who believes he has discovered a secret dimension filled with endless empty corridors, dead-eyed conference rooms, and exits that don’t seem to exist. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in Parsons’ feature debut, where one man’s impossible discovery pulls his therapist into the same reality-bending maze.

🎥 “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Practical Production Promo: Watch How They Made Tom Holland Swing with Practical Stunts — Hitting Theaters July 31st

Peter Parker is truly on his own this time. Set four years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, this new chapter finds Peter living as a full-time Spider-Man in a New York that no longer knows his name, fighting crime while carrying the weight of a life erased from everyone he loves. Watch as director Destin Daniel Cretton and star Tom Holland break down the practical stunts and effects that went into making this next big-screen adventure, which pushes Peter into darker, lonelier territory.

🎥 “The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford” Trailer: Peter Mullan Plays a Grieving Tour Guide Losing His Grip on History in Seán Dunn’s Offbeat Scottish Dark Comedy — Coming to Theaters June 12th via MUBI

The past has a funny way of refusing to stay in the gift shop. Peter Mullan stars as Kenneth, a grieving Scottish tour guide devoted to preserving the legacy of Sir Douglas Weatherford, an eighteenth-century inventor and philosopher who remains the pride of his small village. But when a fantasy TV series rolls into town and starts stealing the spotlight from local history, Kenneth’s fragile sense of purpose begins to crack. Written and directed by Seán Dunn, this darkly funny character study turns one man’s historical obsession into a strange, melancholy battle between myth, memory, and modern life.

🎥 “Bitter Christmas” Teaser: Acclaimed Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar Returns With a Meta Drama About Autofiction, Creative Drought, and Stories Within Stories — Premiering at Cannes 2026

Reality and fiction start blurring in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, a layered drama that moves between two timelines and two intertwined acts of creation. In 2004, Elsa (played by Bárbara Lennie), an advertising director, spends a long December weekend with her boyfriend and friends, while in 2026, Raúl (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a screenwriter and director, begins writing what may be her story... or some disguised version of his own. As creative drought gives way to autofiction, this reflective drama aims to dig into inspiration, intimacy, and the messy business of turning real life into art.

🎥 “Finding Emily” U.S. Trailer: Angourie Rice & Spike Fearn Turn a Wrong Number Into a Campus-Wide Rom-Com Frenzy — Coming to U.S. Theaters August 28th

Love has a funny way of dialing the wrong number. Spike Fearn stars as Owen, a lovesick musician who accidentally texts the wrong girl and teams up with Sami, a driven psychology student (played by Angourie Rice) to track down the dream girl he thinks got away. Directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, this charming British rom-com turns one messy mix-up into a campus-wide search for love, only to suggest the real connection may have been standing next to him the whole time.

🎥 “The Magic Faraway Tree” U.S. Trailer: Claire Foy & Andrew Garfield Discover a Magical World Above the Clouds in This British Fantasy Adventure — In U.S. Theaters August 21st

Sometimes the best escape isn’t a vacation. It’s a tree. Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield star in this British fantasy comedy adventure as parents who move their family to the English countryside, only for their children to discover a magical tree that leads to ever-changing lands above the clouds. Adapted by Paddington 2 writer Simon Farnaby and directed by Ben Gregor, this Enid Blyton adaptation looks ready to blend storybook wonder, cheeky British charm, and enough whimsical weirdness to make climbing trees feel like a very reasonable life choice.

🎥 “Broken Land” Trailer: David Morse Plays a Reclusive Texas Rancher Pulled Into a Border Crisis in This Texas Thriller — Arriving on VOD/Digital June 12th

A quiet ranch becomes the center of a moral reckoning in this rural Texas drama-thriller from director J.T. Walker. Veteran character actor David Morse stars as Carson Tidwell, a rancher who wants nothing more than to be left alone until he accidentally shoots a pregnant migrant worker (Jaklyn Bejarano) crossing his land. As he tries to protect her from his estranged Border Patrol agent son (Bill Heck), an unlikely bond begins to form between two wounded people searching for a way forward.

🎥 “Chum” Trailer: Alice Eve’s Dream Destination Wedding Turns Into Shark-Infested Chaos — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital June 5th

Something borrowed, something blue, something circling beneath the water. Alice Eve stars in this Malta-set survival thriller, where a destination wedding spirals into blood-soaked chaos after a shark attack and a sinister fisherman trap the wedding party between open water and human danger. Directed by Jonathan Zuck and co-starring Eric Michael Cole, Elle Haymond, Sarah Siadat, Johnny Gaffney, Lisa Yaro, and Jim Klock, this toothy thriller turns cold feet into the least of the newlyweds’ problems.

🎥 “Models vs Werewolves” Trailer: Full Moon’s Horror Comedy Sends Self-Obsessed Influencers Into a Furry Fight for Survival — Streaming Summer 2026

A weekend getaway turns into a full-moon nightmare in this campy horror comedy from director Danny Draven and Full Moon producer Charles Band. Sara Moliski, Rebecca Stoughton, Alexa Reddy, Sophie Swiszcz, Hanna Hueston, and Bela Mraz star as image-obsessed influencers who head for the countryside, only to find themselves hunted by bloodthirsty shapeshifters. With The Howling legend Dee Wallace joining the fun, this beastly little chiller looks ready to give “going viral” a whole new bite.

🎥 “The Grim Rapper” Trailer: A Murdered Hip-Hop Icon Returns From the Dead for Supernatural Revenge in Full Moon’s New Horror Flick — Premiering This Summer

Death can’t stop the beat in this supernatural revenge chiller, as murdered rap icon D.A. Mann rises from the grave three decades after making a dark pact with an Aztec blood demon. After a ruthless record label executive tries to profit from his unreleased music, the resurrected rapper comes back swinging, hunting down the people who betrayed him while chasing one last chance to see his true love. Featuring Chuey Martinez, Kemo The Blaxican, Ernie C. of Body Count, and Volume 10, this bloody hip-hop horror tale looks ready to drop the mic... and a few bodies.

🎥 “The Curse” Trailer: A Moroccan Student’s Parisian Nightmare Spirals Into Psychological Horror — On VOD/Digital June 2nd

A fresh start becomes a waking nightmare in this chilling psychological horror about isolation, trauma, and the terrors that refuse to die. Lina El Arabi stars as Yara, a young Moroccan student in Paris whose agoraphobia keeps her trapped inside her apartment as fragments of her past begin bleeding into terrifying visions. Directed by Abel Danan and co-starring Ouidad Elma, Sairi Salma, and Souad Labsy, this eerie chiller turns one woman’s unraveling mind into a haunted room with no easy way out.

🎥 “Karma” Teaser: Marion Cotillard Runs From Her Past in Guillaume Canet’s French Mystery Drama with Denis Menochet & Leonardo Sbaraglia — Premiering at Cannes 2026

Some pasts don’t stay buried, especially when a missing child brings every old secret back to the surface. Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard stars as Jeanne, a French woman trying to rebuild her life in northern Spain with Daniel, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia, until the mysterious disappearance of her six-year-old godson turns her into the prime suspect. Directed by Guillaume Canet and co-starring Denis Menochet, this tense French drama follows Jeanne as she flees to the community that shaped her, while the man who loves her races to find her before the police do.

🎥 “Ocean’s Eleven” 25th Anniversary Trailer: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts Return to the Big Screen for Steven Soderbergh’s Slick Vegas Heist Classic — In Theaters June 21st & 24th via Fathom Entertainment

Some heists age like fine wine. Steven Soderbergh’s cool, sharp, and impossibly stylish casino caper returns next month to theaters for its 25th anniversary, with George Clooney’s Danny Ocean stepping out of prison and straight into one of the most elaborate robbery plans Las Vegas has ever seen. With Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts rounding out the star-stacked ensemble, this big-screen rerelease brings back the charm, the suits, the swagger, and the question that never gets old: is Danny after the money, the girl, or both?

🎥 “Tekkonkinkreet” Re-Release Trailer: Cult Anime Classic Returns to Theaters for a Visually Wild Big-Screen 4K Remaster Re-Release — Back In Theaters May 31st & June 1st

Treasure Town is crumbling, but Black and White aren’t giving it up without a fight. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s acclaimed manga, Michael Arias’ visually explosive anime follows two orphaned street kids trying to protect their city from gangsters, yakuza, alien assassins, and the darker forces pulling at their own bond. Newly remastered in 4K, this STUDIO4°C cult favorite brings its strange, kinetic, and deeply emotional tale of brotherhood back to the big screen.

🎥 “Your Fault: London” Trailer: Noah and Nick’s Romance Faces Its Toughest Test Yet in the Sequel to ‘My Fault: London’ Starring Asha Banks & Matthew Broome — Premiering June 17th on Prime Video

Love was the easy part. After the explosive events of My Fault: London, Noah and Nick (played by Asha Banks and Matthew Broome) return stronger, closer, and more committed than ever, only to discover that holding onto love can be messier than finding it. As Noah heads to Oxford and Nick gets pulled deeper into work, new faces, old insecurities, and rising jealousy begin testing the bond they thought was unbreakable. Now, with passion flaring and trust wearing thin, this romantic sequel asks whether true love can survive real life getting in the way.

🎥 “Poldi” Trailer: German Football Legend Lukas Podolski Looks Back on His Remarkable Career in Netflix’s New Sports Documentary — Premiering June 4th on Netflix

The left foot became famous, but the man behind it became something bigger. This Netflix documentary follows Lukas Podolski near the end of his football career, tracing his journey from street footballer and son of Polish immigrants to World Cup champion and beloved Cologne icon. Still playing professionally in Poland while building a second act as a businessman, “Prince Poldi” looks back on the game, the grind, and the legacy of one of Germany’s most authentic football stars.

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📺 “The Hawk” Teaser Trailer: Will Ferrell Plays a Washed-Up Golf Legend Swinging for One Last Comeback in Netflix’s New Golfing Comedy Series with Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tatro, Fortune Feimster & Luke Wilson — Premiering Thurs, July 16th on Netflix

Will Ferrell has mocked the world of NASCAR, figure skating, youth soccer, basketball, and just about every other sport that lets grown men take themselves way too seriously. So, honestly, it was only a matter of time before he grabbed a golf club and took a big, ridiculous swing at the PGA Tour. And here we are. Meet Ferrell’s latest creation: a loud-mouthed, egomaniacal golf pro with absolutely zero self-awareness who goes by the name of... The Hawk!

In this upcoming Netflix comedy series, Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a once-dominant golf legend whose glory days are sitting somewhere back in 2004, right next to his better knees, sharper swing, and probably a few questionable endorsement deals. Lonnie was once the number one golfer in the world. Now, he’s stuck on the back nine of his career, trying to convince everyone around him that he still has enough magic left to mount one last comeback. His body says retire. His pride, on the other hand, says the opposite.

But The Hawk’s path to golfing glory becomes a whole lot messier when he faces his number one rival... who not only happens to be golf’s new golden boy but also his very own son, Lance (played by Jimmy Tatro). Now this twisted father-son dynamic should give Ferrell plenty of room to do what he does best: playing a man whose confidence is somehow both completely delusional and yet also weirdly inspiring.

With fellow SNL alum Molly Shannon as The Hawk’s fuming ex-wife, along with comedian Fortune Feimster as his loyal caddy, joined by Luke Wilson, David Hornsby, Katelyn Tarver, and Chris Parnell, this cast seems to suggest that it won’t just be about golf, but about all the messy personalities orbiting a fallen sports icon looking for one last shot at greatness.

Created by Ferrell with a producing team that includes filmmakers Rian Johnson and David Gordon Green, the series looks like another entry in Ferrell’s long-running mission to turn every corner of the sports world into his own playground of man-child hijinks and buffoonery.

The Hawk premieres Thursday, July 16th on Netflix.

📺 “East of Eden” Teaser Trailer: Florence Pugh, Mike Faist & Christopher Abbott Star in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix Miniseries Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Classic American Saga — Coming Fall 2026

Some stories don’t just follow a family. They dig through generations of hurt, ambition, betrayal, and questionable decisions until the whole thing starts to feel so expansive it practically demands multiple episodes to unpack.

That’s the territory Netflix is stepping into with East of Eden, a new seven-episode miniseries adapted from John Steinbeck’s 1952 literary classic that tells the story of the Trask family, whose lives become tangled in love, jealousy, moral conflict, and the darker side of the California dream. And in this iteration, the story shifts its attention toward one of Steinbeck’s most unforgettable figures: Cathy Ames, played here by Florence Pugh.

The limited series is written and executive produced by actress-writer Zoe Kazan, whose acting credits include HBO’s The Plot Against America and The Big Sick, and who also wrote and starred in the fantasy-laced rom-com Ruby Sparks. Kazan also brings an interesting bit of family history to the project, since her grandfather, legendary filmmaker Elia Kazan, famously adapted Steinbeck’s novel into the James Dean classic.

This new interpretation, however, follows Florence Pugh’s Cathy as her life becomes tangled with generations of men in the Trask family, including Adam Trask (played by The Testament of Ann Lee’s Christopher Abbott) and Charles Trask (played by Challengers’ Mike Faist). Across decades, their choices ripple through family history, turning the American dream into something much darker, stranger, and harder to escape.

The series spans from the shadow of the American Civil War to the dawn of World War I, tracing the lives of Cathy and the Trasks as they cross paths with a wide circle of characters trying to survive a rapidly changing America. Among them are Samuel Hamilton, played by Ciarán Hinds, an Irish immigrant who builds a life in California; Lee, played by Hoon Lee, a deeply intelligent Chinese American caretaker; and Faye, played by Martha Plimpton, a brothel owner whose generosity may come at a dangerous cost.

The cast also includes Joseph Zada as Caleb “Cal” Trask, Cathy and Adam’s son and Aron’s fraternal twin brother; Joe Anders as Aron Trask; and Tracy Letts as Cyrus Trask, Charles and Adam’s stern war veteran father.

Acclaimed Lion filmmaker Garth Davis directs the first four episodes, while Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, known for The Mustang, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and The Act, directs episodes five through seven.

Veteran screenwriter-producer Jeb Stuart, whose credits include The Fugitive, Die Hard, and Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla, serves as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Kazan.

And while the 1955 James Dean film only covered the final part of Steinbeck’s novel, this new Netflix adaptation aims to tell the whole story, putting Pugh’s Cathy Ames at the center of its sprawling tale of family, fate, and moral corruption.

East of Eden is coming to Netflix in Fall 2026.

📺 “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” Teaser Trailer: Kevin Sussman’s Big Bang Theory Fan Favorite Breaks Reality in HBO Max’s New Multiverse Comedy Series with Brian Posehn, Lauren Lapkus & John Ross Bowie — Debuting Thurs, July 23rd on HBO Max

Well, if you haven’t noticed, turning a franchise into its own multiverse is all the rage these days. But no one said comic book heroes are the only ones who get to deal with alternate timelines and reality-bending mayhem. ‘Cuz sometimes a couple of comic book geeks can get sucked into the madness as well. With that in mind, prepare to witness a Big Bang Theory spinoff like no other; one where the fate of the universe falls into the hands of one nerdy comic book store owner... Stuart Bloom.

In this new HBO Max original comedy series Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, Kevin Sussman returns as Stuart Bloom, the comic book store owner and longtime sad-sack survivor of social awkwardness and whatever chaos the Pasadena nerd circle dragged through his front door. This time, however, Stuart’s problems are a little bigger than slow book sales and uncomfortable small talk.

After breaking a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, Stuart accidentally tears reality wide open, triggering a full-blown multiverse... Armageddon. So now it’s up to Stuart to fix the universe he helped break. Which, let’s be honest, does not exactly inspire a whole lot of confidence. The universe just might be cooked.

Well, thankfully, he’s not doing it alone. Joining him on this reality-saving quest are his girlfriend Denise, played by Lauren Lapkus, and his geologist friend Bert, played by Brian Posehn. Lispy quantum physicist Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie) is also here, remaining exactly the kind of brilliant, aggravating person you’d both need and deeply regret having to deal with. But because this is the multiverse, an alternate Barry has somehow turned into a controlling post-apocalyptic tyrant ruling over all of South Pasadena... naturally.

Along the way, Stuart and his crew will encounter alternate-universe versions of familiar characters from The Big Bang Theory, giving the series plenty of room to play with fan-favorite faces, weird timelines, and sitcom-style hijinks on a much larger cosmic scale.

Created, written, and executive produced by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady, the ten-episode series comes from Chuck Lorre Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Kyle Newacheck also executive produces and directs multiple episodes, which should help give the show some extra comic momentum as Stuart stumbles through one disaster after another.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe debuts Thursday, July 23rd on HBO Max.

📺 “The Five Star Weekend” Trailer: Jennifer Garner Invites Old Friends for an Emotional Weekend in Peacock’s Nantucket-Set Dramedy with Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, Gemma Chan & D’Arcy Carden — Premiering Thurs, July 9th on Peacock

When you’re facing a personal crisis, it’s best to invite a few friends over for some emotional support. But when you’re throwing a weekend get-together with several friends from different stages of your life, emotional support isn’t the only thing you’re asking for... you’re also inviting some serious self-reflection.

That’s the emotional setup at the core of Jennifer Garner’s new Peacock original series, where she plays a woman turning to her lifelong friends during one of the most vulnerable moments of her life. What starts as a few days of comfort and support quickly turns into something much more emotional, as friendships are tested to levels they may not be ready for.

Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel, The Five Star Weekend brings Garner to the New England coast as Hollis Shaw, a beloved food blogger, famed cook, and bestselling author whose life appears almost perfect from the outside. But after the devastating loss of her husband (Josh Hamilton), that polished image begins to crack. Her daughter pulls away, and her carefully curated world starts to feel on the verge of collapse.

So begins a weekend away at her comfy beachfront Nantucket estate, where she invites four lifelong friends from four different stages of her life. The idea is to gather for some much-needed five-star treatment, as well as personal healing and self-reflection, as Garner’s Hollis finds herself dealing with grief, loneliness, and the uncomfortable realization that a picture-perfect life can still leave you feeling completely lost.

Among those playing Garner’s closest friends in this heartfelt dramedy are Chloë Sevigny as Tatum McKenzie, Regina Hall as Dru-Ann Jones, Gemma Chan as Gigi Ling, and D’Arcy Carden as Brooke Kirtley.

Executive produced by Bekah Brunstetter, whose producing and writing credits include This Is Us, Switched at Birth, and Maid, the limited series also co-stars Harlow Jane as Hollis’s daughter, and Timothy Olyphant as Jack, Hollis’s former teenage boyfriend who just so happens to come back into her life at this moment of emotional free fall.

Rounding out the cast are Caroline Shaw, David Denman, Rob Huebel, and the always lovely Judy Greer, reuniting with Jennifer Garner after the two starred together in 13 Going on 30.

The Five Star Weekend is slated to premiere Thursday, July 9th on Peacock.

📺 “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” New Teaser: Tatiana Maslany Gets Pulled Into a Twisted Scam in Apple’s Darkly Comic Thriller Series — Premieres Wed, May 20th on Apple TV

Tatiana Maslany stars as a newly divorced working mother who thinks she has witnessed a kidnapping online, only to be told it’s probably just another cruel dating scam. But when the people behind the con seem to know every detail of her life, embarrassment turns into panic, and panic turns into a very bad plan. Created by David J. Rosen, with David Gordon Green directing the pilot, this darkly comic Apple TV thriller sets out to prove the internet is a terrible place to look for love... and an even worse place to find yourself trapped in someone else’s game.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3” Teaser: Maggie and Negan’s Uneasy Alliance Faces New Horrors — Premieres Sun, July 26th on AMC/AMC+

Maggie and Negan’s relationship has always been complicated, but somehow this twisted survival partnership keeps finding new ways to get messier. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan return as the former mortal enemies are once again forced to stand together in a crumbling city cut off from the mainland, where the dead still roam and the living may be even harder to fend off. Hope is running thin, danger is closing in, and in this city, old wounds have a nasty habit of reopening.

📺 “House of the Dragon: Season 3” Behind-the-Scenes Look: The Cast Returns to Set as HBO’s Fiery Fantasy War Drama Gears Up for Battle — Premieres Sun, June 21st on HBO Max

Season 2 lit the fuse, and Season 3 looks ready to burn the whole kingdom down. This new behind-the-scenes look brings us back to the set with co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal, alongside Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, and more as the Targaryen civil war moves closer to all-out fire and blood. In Westeros, family drama is never just family drama... it usually comes with dragons and a whole lot of scorched-earth chaos.

📺 “Anna Pigeon” Trailer: Tracy Spiridakos Trades City Life for National Park Mysteries in USA Network’s New Crime Drama Series — Premieres Fri, August 7th on USA Network

The great outdoors gets a little less peaceful in this new mystery crime series, where every scenic trail seems to lead straight into trouble. Tracy Spiridakos (Revolution, Chicago P.D.) takes on the title role as Anna Pigeon, a grieving former city slicker who becomes a national park ranger after a devastating loss upends her life. Based on Nevada Barr’s bestselling mystery novels, this 10-episode series blends crime, open-air suspense, and personal reckoning across America’s most breathtaking (and dangerous) landscapes, with Paulina Alexis, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Tricia Helfer, and Kim Coates rounding out the cast.

📺 “Bad Thoughts: Season 2” Trailer: Comedian Tom Segura Unleashes More Darkly Twisted Sketches From the Weirdest Corners of His Brain — Premieres Sun, May 24th on Netflix

Comedian/podcaster Tom Segura is back with another round of bad ideas, worse impulses, and cinematic nightmares played for maximum discomfort. This new six-episode season sends the comedian into a new batch of unthinkable situations and deranged fantasies, where every sketch feels like it crawled out of the darkest corner of his imagination. Consider it comedy with the safety rails removed... and the emergency brake snapped clean off.

📺 “Human Vapor” Teaser: Toho’s Legendary Sci-Fi Thriller Gets a Gaseous New Netflix Remake From Director Shinzo Katayama — Premieres Thurs, July 2nd on Netflix

Japan is gripped by fear after a man suddenly swells up and explodes on live television, revealing a killer unlike anything the country has ever seen. Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi, UTA, and Yutaka Takenouchi star in this new remake of Toho’s legendary sci-fi thriller, where a mysterious figure transformed into gas begins carrying out impossible murders while slipping through every attempt to identify him. Directed by Shinzo Katayama and written by Yeon Sang-ho and Ryu Yong-jae, this eerie Netflix series brings The Human Vapor back with large-scale action, Shirogumi’s Oscar-winning VFX muscle, and one very hard-to-catch killer.

📺 “The Season” Trailer: Shadow and Bone’s Jessie Mei Li Takes Aim at Hong Kong’s Elite in Hulu’s Glossy High-Society Revenge Drama Series — Premieres Wed, June 17th on Hulu/Disney+

Every empire has cracks, and this one is about to spring a very expensive leak. Set inside the luxurious, cutthroat world of Hong Kong’s high-society boating scene, this White Lotus-esque revenge drama follows a privileged circle of friends whose sun-drenched summer spirals into lies, power plays, and life-changing consequences. Shadow and Bone’s Jessie Mei Li stars as Cola, a newcomer with a hidden agenda and the Hext family in her crosshairs, joined by Toby Stephens, Karena Lam, Chris Pang, Celina Jade, Justin Chien, Yvonne Chapman, Kōki, Lee Jae-yoon, Anson Lo, and Marf Yau.

📺 “Every Year After” Trailer: Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett Revisit First Love, Old Heartbreak, and One Very Complicated Summer in Prime Video’s BookTok-Favorite Romance — Premieres Wed, June 10th on Prime Video

Some summer loves fade. Others just wait for the right lake house to reopen old wounds. Based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, this romance series follows Percy and Sam across six years and one unforgettable week in Barry’s Bay, where first love, bad timing, and the choices that stick with us all come rushing back. Sadie Soverall and Matt Cornett lead this eight-episode Amazon series, with Elisha Cuthbert, Abigail Cowen, Aurora Perrineau, Michael Bradway, and Joseph Chiu rounding out the cast.

📺 “Little House on the Prairie” New Teaser: Alice Halsey, Luke Bracey & Crosby Fitzgerald Star in Netflix’s Sweeping Reimagining of the Ingalls Family’s Journey West — Premieres Thurs, July 9th on Netflix

Home isn’t just a place, it’s something you build. This heartfelt reimagining of the classic ’70s series, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved books, follows the Ingalls family as they leave everything behind in search of a new life on the American frontier, where hope and hardship go hand in hand. With Alice Halsey, Luke Bracey, and Crosby Fitzgerald leading the way, this new take blends intimate family moments with the unforgiving realities of frontier life. Out on the prairie, survival is never guaranteed... but neither is giving up.

📺 “Sweet Magnolias: Season 5” Trailer: Wedding Bells, Big Dreams, and a Summer of Change Return to Serenity in New Season of Netflix’s Beloved Southern Drama — Premieres Thurs, June 11th on Netflix

The Magnolias are back, and Serenity is serving up another round of friendship, romance, family drama, and sweet-tea wisdom. JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley return as lifelong best friends navigating new dreams, changing relationships, and a summer that may push them beyond the comfort of home. Change may be in the air, but these women still know how to hold each other together when life gets messy.

📺 “Homestead: Season 2” Teaser: Winter Tightens Its Grip on This Post-Apocalyptic Survival Drama From Angel Studios — Streaming Late 2026 on Angel.com and the Angel App

Winter has come for this faith-driven survival drama, and the walls of the Homestead are starting to feel just as dangerous as the wasteland outside. Dawn Olivieri, Charles Esten, Olivia Sanabia, and Bailey Chase return as a community already shaken by nuclear disaster now faces colder weather, scarce resources, power struggles, and hard moral choices.

📺 “The World of Money Heist” Announcement Promo: The Revolution Isn’t Over Yet as Netflix Teases More Red Jumpsuits, Dalí Masks, and High-Stakes Robberies — Coming Soon to Netflix

The world of Money Heist is cracking open again, and apparently one perfect strike was never going to be enough. From the original cash-grabbing heist to Berlin and The Lady with an Ermine, Netflix’s red-suited revolution keeps finding new ways to grow, twist, and sing “Bella Ciao” at full volume. The plan may change, the players may shift, but the mask still means trouble.

tv trailers of the week

Looking for something to watch this week? Well, we’ve got you covered. As always, we’ve put together a weekly list of new movies and TV shows heading your way over the next few days. So, whether you’re planning to hit your local movie theater for the latest big-screen release or kick off those work boots, slide into some slippers, and sink into the sofa for the newest streaming premieres, there are plenty of fresh picks to keep you busy.

Get ready to fill up that watchlist, ’cuz the summer season is just getting started, and we can only imagine how packed the schedule is about to get.

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🎥 Top Gun / Top Gun: Maverick (Re-release)
(Wed, May 13th — IMAX release; one week only)

Feel the need all over again with this special IMAX double feature, pairing Tony Scott’s 1986 fighter-pilot classic with Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 legacy sequel for one full-throttle theatrical ride. Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell goes from cocky hotshot chasing glory to battle-tested aviator confronting his past while training a new generation for an impossible mission. Two films, one big screen, and enough jet-fueled nostalgia to rattle the cockpit.

🎥 Obsession
(Fri, May 15th — wide release)

Be careful what you wish for, especially when love is involved. Michael Johnston stars as a socially awkward music store employee who uses a mysterious novelty item to make his longtime crush (played by Inde Navarrette) fall for him. But in Curry Barker’s feature debut, affection turns dangerous fast, transforming one lonely guy’s romantic fantasy into a supernatural nightmare with no safe word.

🎥 In the Grey
(Fri, May 15th — wide release)

Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, and Eiza González team up for Guy Ritchie’s latest snarky action thriller, playing elite operatives sent to recover stolen billions from a ruthless dictator. What should be a slick recovery job quickly turns into a messy fight through dictators, double-crosses, and political chaos. When the bullets start flying, subtlety is clearly not part of the mission plan.

🎥 Is God Is
(Fri, May 15th — wide release)

Kara Young and Mallori Johnson star as twin sisters crossing brutal emotional and physical terrain to confront the father (Sterling K. Brown) who shattered their childhood. Written and directed by Aleshea Harris from her award-winning play, this fierce revenge saga turns trauma, sisterhood, and justice into one burning question: what happens when the fire that hurt you becomes the fire that drives you?

🎥 Driver’s Ed
(Fri, May 15th — limited release and on ✅VOD/Digital)

Love makes people do dumb things, and this teen road-trip comedy happily floors it from there. Sam Nivola stars as a lovesick high school senior who convinces his classmates to steal a driver’s ed car and chase down his college-bound girlfriend (Lilah Pate). Directed by Bobby Farrelly, with Molly Shannon and Kumail Nanjiani along for the ride, this reckless coming-of-age romp turns bad decisions into a full tank of teenage chaos.

🎥 The Wizard of the Kremlin
(Fri, May 15th — limited release)

Power doesn’t just rise; it gets carefully scripted. In Olivier Assayas’ icy political drama, Paul Dano plays a soft-spoken Russian filmmaker drawn into the inner circle of Jude Law’s emerging KGB strongman, Vladimir Putin, where image, manipulation, and fear become tools of control. As he helps shape a regime built on illusion, the stage grows larger, the stakes turn global, and the performance becomes impossible to escape.

🎥 LifeHack
(Fri, May 15th — limited release)

A group of tech-savvy teens target a crypto billionaire by exploiting his daughter’s overshared social media life, only to realize their bedroom cyber-prank has opened the wrong digital door. Executive produced by filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov and actor Michael Fassbender (yes, really!), this “screenlife” thriller turns laptops, phones, and reckless ambition into a dangerous online game with real-world consequences.

🎥 Forge
(Fri, May 15th — limited release)

Kelly Marie Tran and Brandon Soo Hoo star as siblings running a slick art-forgery operation in Miami, where every fake masterpiece comes with very real consequences. When a disgraced millionaire pulls them into a bigger scheme and the FBI starts circling, their carefully painted double life begins to crack around the edges.

🎥 Decorado
(Fri, May 15th — limited release)

Something is very wrong in Anywhere, and one unemployed mouse is starting to see the seams. From acclaimed Spanish animator/Illustrator Alberto Vázquez (Birdboy: The Forgotten Children), this fantastical animated horror fantasy follows Arnold, who suspects his entire life may be a scripted performance controlled by forces he can’t see. But when his best friend dies mysteriously, his paranoia leads him toward a corporate conspiracy hiding in plain sight.

🎥 Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
(Fri, May 15th — limited release)

A revolution is never clean, especially when the fight starts cutting too close to the heart. Hathaway Noa leads MAFTY against the Earth Federation’s corrupt rule, carrying the legacy of his father and the weight of a world that failed its people. But as the Adelaide Conference nears and Gigi Andalucia enters his orbit, this animated sci-fi epic turns rebellion into a battle between duty, identity, and regret.

🎥 Shrek (25th Anniversary)
(Fri, May 15th — re-release)

We’re taking it back to the swamp for the 25th anniversary return of DreamWorks Animation’s ogre-sized comedy classic. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow bring the fairy-tale chaos back to theaters, as one grumpy ogre’s quest for peace turns into a rescue mission full of dragons, bad deals, unlikely friendship, and big green feelings. Some classics age like fine wine; this one ages like onions.

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