Spooky season comes to a close this week. Pour one out for all those horror fans who have been planning their house decorations and costumes for months, as this weekend will mark the culmination of all that hard work. And because Halloween happens to fall on Saturday this year, Hollywood has decided to take it easier, holding back any big movie releases until next month.

Also, on the TV side, there are only a few new releases to pick from, as the fall season is already well underway. But that’s not to say this week is lacking any promising watches, as most of us will be at home this Saturday guarding that candy bowl and maybe flipping on the TV for a good scare.

So, in advance, have a safe and happy Halloween. Just remember, the real monsters this week are the ones who hand out raisins and black licorice instead of tasty sugar-filled candy.

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🎥 In Theaters This Week
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🎥 Breeder
(Wed, Oct 28th — limited release)

A broke college student agrees to help a mysterious poodle breeder with her research. What could possibly go wrong? Well, plenty. In this twisted horror thriller, Daniel Doheny plays a student lured to a remote ranch by the promise of easy money. Trouble is, the breeder (Dot-Marie Jones) has apparently moved on from dogs to human subjects. And guess who’s her newest stud? Maddie Phillips and Tanaya Beatty co-star in writer-director Alex Goyette’s feature debut, where the pursuit of science takes a rather perverted turn.

🎥 Closure
(Wed, Oct 28th — limited release)

In Michał Marczak’s documentary, desperate father Daniel Dymiński searches Poland’s Vistula River for his missing teenage son. Evidence suggests the boy jumped from a bridge, but Daniel still believes there’s a chance he survived. As the search drags on, the uncertainty weighs heavily on him. He wants answers, but he isn’t ready to accept the worst. And as painful as the search has become, giving up may be even harder.

🎥 The Mongoose
(Fri, Oct 30th — wide release)

Liam Neeson is back in the driver’s seat in this over-the-top action thriller that puts his particular set of skills to the test. Playing a former Special Forces soldier accused of murder after defending his ex-wife (Marisa Tomei) from her abusive husband, Neeson hits the road in a red race car, sparking a nationwide police chase. With Ving Rhames and Michael Chiklis co-starring, it seems the only thing more dangerous than Neeson with a loaded gun is Neeson behind the wheel of a fast car.

🎥 Everest: The Other Side
(Fri, Oct 30th — wide release; IMAX)

Some mountains are meant to be climbed. Others are meant to test just how far people are willing to go. From Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin comes a documentary following expert mountaineers and skiers Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison as they attempt something never done before: climbing and skiing Everest’s direct North Face. For the pair, it’s more than a daring feat. It’s a lifelong dream they’re determined to pursue together.

🎥 Christmas at the Kringles
(Fri, Oct 30th — wide release)

Christmas comes early in this twisted holiday horror comedy from Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis. Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson star as a suburban couple whose secretly psychotic neighbors (Thomas Lennon and Arden Myrin) take their year-round Christmas obsession a little too far. When they’re invited over for a supposedly friendly Christmas dinner, the night quickly turns into a holiday nightmare. With Rob Riggle playing an unconventional Santa’s helper, this festive gathering promises more blood, mayhem, and madness than Christmas cheer.

🎥 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
(Fri, Oct 30th — expands)

John Turturro stars as Harry Lehman, an old-school pickpocket trying to get by in an increasingly cashless and digital-driven New York City. But when a stolen wallet turns up a valuable USB drive, Harry finds himself on the run from a crime family determined to get it back. Co-starring Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Jamie Lee Curtis, this crime comedy-drama from writer-director Noah Segan offers a warts-and-all love letter to New York and its disappearing breed of old-school thieves.

🎥 The Mosquito Bowl
(Fri, Oct 30th — limited release)

Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg returns to the football field, only this time it’s in the middle of World War II. Based on a true story, this Netflix war drama follows a group of former college football stars (Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis) serving as Marines in the Pacific. Ahead of the bloody invasion of Okinawa, they organize a football game on Guadalcanal, offering a brief escape from war before returning to battle.

🎥 Gentle Monster
(Fri, Oct 30th — limited release)

How well do you really know the person you love? Léa Seydoux stars as Lucy, a concert pianist who moves her family to the countryside, hoping to help her husband (Laurence Rupp) recover from burnout. But when police suddenly arrest him and seize his computers, their peaceful new life falls apart. From Corsage director Marie Kreutzer comes a psychological drama about a woman forced to question everything she thought she knew about her husband.

🎥 Queen at Sea
(Fri, Oct 30th — limited release)

Growing old is hard enough, but deciding what’s best for an aging parent can be even harder. Juliette Binoche stars in Lance Hammer’s emotionally charged family drama as a daughter struggling to care for her elderly mother (Anna Calder-Marshall), whose worsening dementia leaves her unable to make important decisions. But when she clashes with her stepfather (Tom Courtenay) over her mother’s care, the family must face some painful choices.

🎥 Wild at Heart: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Oct 30th — re-release)

David Lynch’s wonderfully bizarre road movie returns to theaters in a new 4K restoration, 36 years after its original release. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as two young lovers on the run from her controlling mother and the killers she sends after them. With Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton along for the ride, this twisted love story is packed with sex, violence, Elvis, The Wizard of Oz, and all the weirdness you’d expect from Lynch.

🎥 V for Vendetta: 20th Anniversary
(Sun, Nov 1st & Thurs, Nov 5th — re-release, via Fathom Ent.)

“Remember, remember the fifth of November.” 20 years after its original release, this cult film adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s graphic novel returns to theaters for two nights only, just in time for Guy Fawkes Night. Hugo Weaving dons the iconic mask as the mysterious revolutionary V, while Natalie Portman stars as Evey Hammond, as they join forces to fight back against a totalitarian regime. And considering how relevant its themes still feel today, the timing couldn’t be more appropriate.

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🎦 The One About Matthew Perry
(Tues, Oct 27th — premiering on Netflix)

Matthew Perry made millions laugh as Chandler Bing on Friends, but behind the humor was a man struggling with addiction. In this three-part documentary from Quiet on Set director Mary Robertson, Perry’s closest friends and family remember the man they knew beyond the television screen. Through their stories, we get a more personal look at his life, his struggles with drugs and alcohol, and his efforts to help others facing the same battles.

🎦 Kordell Stewart: Slash & Burn
(Tues, Oct 27th — premiering on HBO)

Nicknamed “Slash” for his ability to play multiple positions, former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart was one of the NFL’s most exciting players of the 1990s. But while he was making headlines on the field, a damaging rumor about his personal life threatened to overshadow his career. Featuring interviews with Stewart, former coach Bill Cowher, and teammate Jerome Bettis, this HBO documentary revisits his football legacy and the lasting toll of a rumor that refused to go away.

🎦 Drive: The Pretenders
(Wed, Oct 28th — streaming on Prime Video)

Love and racing don’t always mix in this German romantic drama inspired by Tamara Lush’s novel Drive. Lisa-Marie Koroll stars as an aspiring mechanic who dreams of managing a professional racing crew. But when a scandal-plagued racing star (Amin Baahmed) offers to help her career in exchange for posing as his fiancée, things get complicated when their convenient arrangement turns into something more real than either expected.

🎦 Minions & Monsters
(Wed, Oct 28th — streaming on Peacock)

The Minions are making a monster movie, which means the biggest disaster may be happening behind the camera. Pierre Coffin returns to direct and voice the yellow chaos machines as they hunt for the perfect creature to star in their kaiju-sized production. But once Hollywood gets involved, their big-screen dream quickly turns into pratfalls, gibberish, banana-fueled mayhem, and complete cinematic chaos. Zoey Deutch, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges, Allison Janney, and Christoph Waltz also lend their voices.

🎦 Apocalypse Z: New World
(Fri, Oct 30th — premiering on Prime Video)

The zombie apocalypse goes international in this sequel to Spain’s Apocalypse Z. With the Canary Islands serving as Europe’s last safe haven, dwindling supplies force a group of survivors, including Roberto (Carlos Alcaide), to venture back onto the infected mainland. But between hordes of zombies and fellow survivors who can’t be trusted, staying alive becomes a fight on more than one front.

🎦 SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of
(Fri, Oct 30th — premiering on Netflix)

Before Canadian comedy stars like Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Rick Moranis became Hollywood favorites, there was SCTV. This beloved Canadian sketch comedy series gave Saturday Night Live a run for its money in the late ’70s and early ’80s, launching some of comedy’s biggest names. Now Netflix is bringing the surviving cast members back together to revisit the show, share memories, and remind us why this wonderfully weird comedy classic still deserves our attention.

🎦 Collision Course
(Fri, Oct 30th — premiering on Netflix)

What happens when the cops investigating a bank robbery are the very ones who pulled it off? That’s the setup for this Spanish action thriller from director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. Laia Costa, Karra Elejalde, and Luis Zahera star in this crime caper about corrupt officers whose carefully planned heist goes sideways after a brutal getaway crash. Now, with their own investigation underway, keeping their secrets buried might be harder than getting away with the money.

🎦 Ali G: Who Iz I?
(Fri, Oct 30th — streaming on Prime Video)

Sacha Baron Cohen dusts off his infamous wannabe gangster Ali G for his feature directorial debut. After twenty years of doing next to nothing, Ali discovers that his longtime girlfriend Julie (Morgana Robinson) is eight months pregnant. With fatherhood just around the corner, he heads to America hoping to revive his career and make a few bucks before the baby arrives. Naturally, that means more awkward encounters with unsuspecting people and plenty of Ali G’s usual ridiculous antics. Whether the joke still works after all these years is another question. Respek!

🎦 Big Baby
(Fri, Oct 30th — streaming on Shudder)

Brandon Scott stars as a struggling screenwriter whose visions of a baby-masked murderer begin feeding his latest horror script... until the killings start happening for real. Directed by rocker-turned-horror filmmaker Spider One and executive produced by Cher and Chaz Bono, this indie slasher thriller follows a writer racing to protect those he loves as the line between creation and reality is slashed apart.

🎦 The Gentleman Thief
(Fri, Oct 30th — streaming on Hulu / Disney+)

Retirement refuses to stick for master thief Mason Goddard. John Travolta returns for the third installment following Cash Out and High Rollers, with Mason lured back into action to steal a priceless painting, only to discover that a ruthless kingpin has turned the assignment into a deadly trap. Lukas Haas and Quavo return alongside Sam Asghari and DJ Khaled as one final impossible score demands every trick Mason has left.

🎦 The Isolate Thief
(Sun, Nov 1st — streaming on Amazon’s MGM+)

The frontier gets a bit colder when gold enters the picture. Mackenzie Foy stars as a lone caretaker at an isolated Civil War-era Union outpost whose quiet survival routine explodes after stolen treasure lands in her hands. When outlaws led by Sean Bean secretly targets her, endurance becomes her only weapon. Co-starring Odeya Rush, Jack Kesy, and Joe Pantoliano, this Western thriller turns winter, greed, and isolation into a brutal standoff.

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✅ The Dog Stars
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Jacob Elordi follows his Oscar-nominated turn as Frankenstein’s Monster by facing the end of the world in Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic survival drama. Here, Elordi plays Hig, a young pilot living alongside Josh Brolin’s hardened survivalist, Bangley. When a mysterious radio transmission suggests there may be life beyond their isolated homestead, Hig ventures into a ruined world filled with dangerous scavengers. With Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Benedict Wong, and Guy Pearce, this adaptation of Peter Heller’s novel asks what makes survival worth fighting for.

✅ Verity
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Dakota Johnson stars as struggling ghostwriter Lowen Ashleigh, who moves into the remote home of recently paralyzed, celebrated mystery author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) in the hope of completing her latest book. But after discovering an unpublished autobiography filled with disturbing confessions, Lowen can no longer tell where fiction ends and manipulation begins. Josh Hartnett co-stars as Verity’s husband in Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s psychological thriller, where the pen may be mightier than the sword, but the author just might be deadlier than both.

✅ The Stunt Driver
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Wild stunt driver Ken Carter doesn’t just want to break a record. He wants to launch himself into the history books. Jay Baruchel portrays this real-life ’70s Canadian daredevil whose obsession with rocketing a car across the St. Lawrence River puts nearly everything in his life at risk. Ben Foster co-stars as Ken’s American counterpart, Evel Knievel, with Goon director Michael Dowse helming this true-story comedy-drama about one spectacularly crazy dream.

✅ Forgotten Island
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

The idea of lifelong friends gets harder to hold onto as you get older. DreamWorks Animation turns that feeling into a supernatural fantasy inspired by Filipino folklore, with Liza Soberano and H.E.R. voicing childhood friends Raissa and Jo. Transported to the mysterious island of Nakali, they’ll have to rediscover what made their friendship so strong before growing up pulls them apart.

✅ Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

A simple attempt to fix the pumpkin patch goes very wrong when Shaun and the flock accidentally unleash a mysterious creature on Mossy Bottom Farm. With Halloween fast approaching, strange things start happening, the Farmer disappears, and Shaun has to lead the others through eerie woods and unexpected dangers to put things right. Aardman Animations brings its trademark stop-motion charm to this adventure, where even a little farmyard mishap can turn into a full-blown monster problem.

✅ Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Pregnancy can be scary enough without throwing mysterious aliens into the equation. In this bizarre New Zealand sci-fi horror comedy from filmmaking duo THUNDERLIPS, Hannah Lynch stars as a young woman who finds herself pregnant after an unusual encounter with a suspected humanoid alien (Arlo Green). Now she’s stuck dealing with skeptical doctors, an utterly useless baby daddy, and an oversharing mother, all while trying to figure out what the hell is growing inside her.

✅ The Lost Ones
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Henry Golding and Laura Haddock star in this suspense thriller about a couple who move their family into a secluded home deep in the woods. But their fresh start takes an unsettling turn when they invite their mysterious, creepy neighbor (Alex Pettyfer) over for dinner. Turns out, moving to the middle of nowhere might not have been such a great idea after all.

✅ Free Fall
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

In space, no one can hear you scream... or call for help. In this Russian cosmonaut survival thriller, a spacecraft repairman (Alexander Kuznetsov) finds himself stranded and floating in orbit after a catastrophic proton storm cuts him off from his crew. With only a voice over the radio to guide him, he must find his way back before time runs out. Houston, we have... Oh, scratch that! Moscow, we have a problem!

✅ Ghost in the Cell
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

What scares the worst of the worst? Try being a hardened criminal trapped inside a high-security prison where inmates are being brutally murdered by something they can’t even see. From filmmaker Joko Anwar and starring Abimana Aryasatya, Almanzo Konoralma, and Aming Sugandhi, this blood-soaked Indonesian supernatural thriller pits violent prisoners against an invisible killer they can’t intimidate or fight. Turns out being locked up with something they can’t see is a whole different level of prison hell.

✅ Bloody Tennis
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Tennis demands physical and mental discipline, but how far would you go for a competitive edge? Sandra Guldberg Kampp stars as Sophie, a young player admitted to an elite academy in Southern Europe where everyone is willing to push themselves to the limit, even if that means drinking human blood. Nikias Chryssos writes and directs this horror thriller that turns tennis into a literal blood sport.

✅ Never After Dark
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

The dead have rules. The living are another problem entirely. In this supernatural horror-thriller, Moeka Hoshi stars as Airi, a wandering medium who helps restless spirits move on with help from her dead sister, Miku. But when a job at an isolated country house reveals an apparition unlike anything she’s encountered before, Airi uncovers a secret that puts her in danger from something far more human.

✅ Concessions
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

There’s nothing sadder for movie lovers than watching a local theater close, but this indie comedy-drama would rather have a little fun with the heartbreak. First-time feature filmmaker Mas Bouzidi spends one final night inside the Royal Alamo Cinema with its jaded employees, eccentric regulars, desperate owner, and movie-obsessed oddballs. Steven Ogg, Josh Hamilton, Ivory Aquino, and Michael Madsen, in one of his final performances, lead the ensemble.

✅ Filipiñana
(Tues, Oct 27th — on VOD/Digital)

Paradise looks a little different when you’re the one keeping it pristine while everyone else gets to enjoy it. Rafael Manuel’s Sundance-winning debut follows Isabel, a 17-year-old from rural Philippines who takes a job at an exclusive country club outside Manila, where every chore reveals a rigid social order. Executive produced by acclaimed filmmaker Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin) and shot by cinematographer Xenia Patricia (100 Nights of Hero), this quietly unsettling drama turns a manicured resort into a sharp study of class, control, and privilege.

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📺 Minimum Wage
(Mon, Oct 26th — on Netflix)

A crappy minimum-wage job is no laughing matter... or is it? From creators Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps, this workplace comedy follows a group of teenagers trying to keep a local pizzeria running while juggling school, lousy pay, and a nightmare boss. Starring Aidan Micho, Grace Reiter, Hyde Healy, and Randall Park, this looks like another Tires-style workplace disaster where the jokes are as relatable as they are funny.

📺 The Mob
(Mon, Oct 26th — on Hulu / Disney+)

Parker Posey is making an offer you can’t refuse... as host of Hulu’s new mob-inspired reality competition. 12 celebrities, including Debi Mazar, Bruno Tonioli, and Joe Gorga, head to a lavish Italian villa to compete for up to $250,000. One contestant becomes the Don, controlling the money and deciding who gets whacked. But watch your back, because the family might just turn against you.

📺 Ghosts: Two-Part Halloween Special
(Thurs, Oct 29th — on CBS / Paramount+)

Halloween is coming to Woodstone Mansion, and the gang is in for a few tricks and treats. In this two-part Halloween special, Sam (Rose McIver) is away filming a movie, leaving Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and Kyle (Ben Feldman) in charge. Meanwhile, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) gets an unexpected reunion with her estranged sister Margaret (Maria Thayer), while Bela (Punam Patel) decides to throw a rather unconventional Halloween bash. And Pete is still missing. Just another spooky night at Woodstone!

📺 The Fall of El Mayo
(Thurs, Oct 29th — on Netflix)

How do you capture one of the world’s most elusive cartel bosses? And was it even a capture? In this three-part documentary, filmmakers Darren Foster and Miguel Fernández Flores investigate the mysterious downfall of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the Sinaloa Cartel co-founder who evaded authorities for over 30 years. His sudden arrival in U.S. custody in July 2024 raises plenty of questions. Was it a kidnapping, a betrayal, or something else entirely?

📺 Dexter: Resurrection: Season 2
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Paramount+)

Michael C. Hall returns as homicidal vigilante Dexter Morgan, who’s starting to feel the effects of age and wonder whether the next generation of killers is leaving him behind. In this new season, Dexter faces some fresh competition in New York, including a notorious veteran murderer (Brian Cox) and a younger killer (Dan Stevens) making a name for himself. With Uma Thurman returning, Dexter might have to work overtime to keep up with the competition. Because New York might be big, but apparently not big enough for all these killers.

📺 Nocturne
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Apple TV)

Liev Schreiber stars as a veteran homicide detective who has spent years hunting notorious serial killer Jurek Walter (Stephen Graham). But when one of Walter’s missing victims turns up alive, the investigation takes a dangerous turn. Could there be more survivors? Zazie Beetz plays a young FBI agent who goes undercover in a prison cell next to Walter’s, hoping to uncover the truth. But getting close to this master manipulator could come at a devastating psychological price.

📺 Your Dearest, Darkest Friend with Ted Raimi
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Screambox)

Actor Ted Raimi (brother of Sam) has spent decades making a name for himself in horror, so hosting his own creepy talk show seems like a natural fit. Just in time for Halloween, the cult favorite welcomes familiar faces from the horror world into his spooky manor for cocktails, conversation, and a little mischief. And keeping him company? A rather unusual collection of puppet housemates.

📺 A Couple of Lies
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Netflix)

Two wealthy couples, two beautiful homes, and plenty of dirty secrets. Frida Gustavsson, Fares Fares, Emma Appleton, and Jakob Oftebro star in this four-part psychological thriller about a seemingly innocent home swap between Stockholm and Sicily that turns into a twisted game of suspicion, manipulation, and murder.

📺 Beat Luke Littler
(Fri, Oct 30th — Live on Netflix)

Think you can beat a world champion at darts? Easier said than done. Twenty amateur darts players face off against world number one Luke Littler in a single leg of 501, with a whopping £501,000 up for grabs. Gary Lineker hosts this live Netflix special, with Richard Osman crunching the numbers. One night, 20 challengers, and one very big payday. Cheers, mate!

📺 Obsess
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Netflix)

The dead don’t always stay buried... and neither do their secrets. In this Arabic horror series, Talal (Yaqoub Alfarhan) returns to Kuwait after his father’s death, only to find himself haunted by a mysterious woman from his past (Haya Abdulsalam). As disturbing visions and supernatural encounters escalate, Talal must confront old secrets before they destroy his family.

📺 Dead-End Job
(Fri, Oct 30th — on Netflix)

Some jobs pay so well, you really should question why. In this South Korean horror series, Lee Jae-wook plays a debt-ridden young man who signs up with a mysterious staffing agency offering ridiculously high wages. The catch? Employees can’t discuss their assignments. And with each job getting stranger and more terrifying, earning a decent paycheck might just cost him his life. Talk about a dead-end job!

📺 The Gilded Age: Season 4
(Sun, Nov 1st — on HBO / HBO Max)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. HBO’s acclaimed period drama returns for a fourth season, taking us back to 1880s New York, where old money, new fortunes, and social ambition continue to clash. From Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, the series brings back Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, and more for another round of high-society scheming. Turns out, the rich and powerful haven’t changed all that much.

this week's releases

🎥 “Slayground” Teaser: A Halloween Massacre Sparks a Tense Manhunt in Jeremy Saulnier’s New Horror Thriller Starring Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Imogen Poots, Sophie Wilde and More — Hitting Theaters January 29th

We’ve got just one question: Why isn’t Jeremy Saulnier’s new horror thriller coming out this Halloween? With a story set inside a haunted attraction, a Halloween massacre, and a suspect who can’t remember what happened, Slayground seems tailor-made for the spooky season. Instead, A24 is holding it until January of next year.

For those not too familiar with Saulnier’s work, he’s the filmmaker behind the 2015 neo-Nazi survival thriller Green Room, which cast the late, great Anton Yelchin as a touring indie punk rocker fighting for his life after being trapped in the green room of a remote neo-Nazi club. It’s also the movie that turned Patrick Stewart (yes, that Patrick Stewart... sweet Captain Picard) into the ruthless leader of a neo-Nazi skinhead gang. It was Chekov versus Picard ... to the death!

Before that, Saulnier made quite an impression with the 2013 slow-burning revenge thriller Blue Ruin, starring his close friend Macon Blair, who has since become an established working actor and filmmaker in his own right.

Saulnier’s last film, however, was Netflix’s Rebel Ridge, an underseen but highly enjoyable action revenge thriller that has since gathered a cult following, thanks in part to a breakout performance from Aaron Pierre, whom you might now recognize as the new Green Lantern, John Stewart.

But here’s the thing: Saulnier’s very first film was a dark horror comedy called Murder Party, about a Halloween costume party that goes completely off the rails when it’s revealed that an unsuspecting partygoer (played by Macon Blair) has been invited only to become the centerpiece of a group of deranged artists’ plans to commit murder in the name of art.

Which brings us to Slayground, which, in a way, seems to mark Saulnier’s return to his dark horror roots, with a Halloween setting, a grisly massacre, and an unlucky protagonist who wakes up with no memory of what happened.

Here, Cory Michael Smith (who played Chevy Chase in the SNL movie Saturday Night) stars as a “scare actor” who survives a massacre at a haunted house attraction. After waking up surrounded by dead bodies with no recollection of the previous night, he becomes the prime suspect in the killings. A statewide manhunt soon launches as he flees and sets out to uncover the truth himself.

The cast also includes Chase Sui Wonders, Stanley Simons, Sophie Wilde, Young Mazino, Imogen Poots, Matty Matheson, James Badge Dale, and Stephen Root.

Slayground is hitting theaters January 29th, 2027.

🎥 “Bunker” Trailer: Javier Bardem Plays an Architect Whose Job Building a Billionaire’s Survival Bunker Takes a Toll on His Marriage in Florian Zeller’s Psychological Thriller with Penélope Cruz, Paul Dano, and Stephen Graham — In Select Theaters December 11th, Nationwide January 15th

Who knew architecture could be so psychologically taxing? But apparently, breaking through concrete isn’t just a matter of construction. It can also be a metaphor for breaking through the emotional walls we’ve built around ourselves. Ooh, now that’s deep.

Oscar-winner Javier Bardem stars as a successful London architect who lands a lucrative offer to design a survival bunker for a tech billionaire (played by Quentin Tarantino’s favorite, Paul Dano). But it’s an assignment that leaves him creatively unfulfilled and personally conflicted. ‘Cause seriously, why a bunker?

Around the same time, his wife of 17 years (played by Oscar-winner and Bardem’s real-life wife, Penélope Cruz) begins questioning their marriage, leaving little room for either of them to feel secure. And on top of that, their next-door neighbor (Emmy-winner Stephen Graham) has decided to do a little construction of his own, adding a window to his new backyard studio that looks directly into their living room. So much for privacy.

It all becomes a metaphor for a broken marriage, a broken world, and a broken society in serious need of patching up. This is another emotionally charged, tightly wound psychological thriller from writer-director Florian Zeller, who also brought us the acclaimed films The Father and The Son, both of which explored families on the brink of collapse as personal conflicts begin to invade every corner of their lives.

Bunker also stars Patrick Schwarzenegger, Mark Gatiss, and Eileen Atkins, and is currently set to open in select U.S. theaters on December 11th before expanding nationwide on January 15th, 2027.

🎥 “In Waves” Trailer: Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu Lend Their Voices to a Heartfelt Animated Romance About Love, Surfing, and Loss in Phuong Mai Nguyen’s Feature Directorial Debut — In Select Theaters November 27th, Streaming December 11th on Netflix

Not enough has been said about Netflix’s animation department. They’ve given some groundbreaking animators the space to really experiment across the streamer’s slate of animated feature films. And judging by the looks of this one, that trend seems likely to continue... or, at the very least, prove that Pixar and Disney aren’t the only ones capable of pushing the boundaries of animation.

Vietnamese-born animator Phuong Mai Nguyen makes her feature directorial debut with this new Netflix original, blending 2D-inspired imagery with 3D computer animation to give the film a distinct graphic novel look.

In fact, the film is based on AJ Dungo’s autobiographical graphic novel, which tells the deeply personal story of his relationship with a young surfer named Kristen, whose love of the ocean introduces him to a whole new world where riding waves isn’t just a pastime... it’s a way of life. Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) lends his voice to AJ, while Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All at Once actress Stephanie Hsu takes on the voice role of Kristen.

So, if you’re looking for a quiet, heartfelt love story where the beauty of animation only heightens the emotions, this one might be worth keeping an eye on.

In Waves is due to arrive in select theaters November 27th before landing on Netflix on December 11th.

🎥 “Tangles” Teaser Trailer: Abbi Jacobson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Lead the Voice Cast of a Hand-Drawn Animated Drama About a Daughter Navigating Family, Love, and Her Mother’s Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Leah Nelson’s Feature Directorial Debut — In Select Theaters November 27th

Who says animation these days has to be computer-generated, filled with fuzzy little creatures, or aimed primarily at young children? Funk that. Here’s a new animated movie that throws those expectations right out the window. Yes, it can be black and white. No, it doesn’t need flashy colors or cute little characters. And yes, animation can tackle subject matter that’s a little more sophisticated than your usual feel-good, kumbaya stuff.

Canadian animator Leah Nelson, co-founder of Giant Ant Studios, makes her feature directorial debut with Tangles, a hand-drawn animated drama based on Sarah Leavitt’s autobiographical graphic memoir.

Set in 1990s San Francisco, the story follows a young woman (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) who’s trying to find her own way in life when her mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Suddenly, she’s pulled back into the complicated world of family, caregiving, and all the emotional baggage that comes with it.

And apparently, the film received a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes debut, winning over critics, with some even calling it one of the best animated films of the year. So take that, Disney!

Tangles also features voice performances from Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein, Samira Wiley, Pamela Adlon, Sarah Silverman, Bowen Yang, Wanda Sykes, and Seth Rogen, who also serves as an executive producer alongside his wife and producing partner, Lauren Miller Rogen, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus also on board as an executive producer. The film is currently set to open in select theaters on November 27th, with a wider theatrical release planned for early 2027.

🎥 “Above the Below” Trailer: Idris Elba, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Hero Fiennes Tiffin Survive a Space Disaster Only to Find Themselves Trapped at the Bottom of the Ocean in New Survival Thriller Co-Directed by Elba — In Select Theaters December 4th

To be perfectly frank, we have no clue why anybody would want to become an astronaut. First off, there’s the risk of something going terribly wrong during launch. Then you have to travel into space, where any number of complications could arise and seriously jeopardize your chances of survival.

And just when you think you’ve made it through the worst of it, there’s still the whole business of navigating your way back to planet Earth. You’d think surviving the trip home would be enough to call it a day. But apparently, there’s one more nightmare scenario we hadn’t even considered: landing in the middle of the ocean.

In this new astronaut survival thriller, Above the Below, Idris Elba stars alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as three astronauts who manage to survive a disastrous return from space, only to find themselves trapped in a sinking capsule deep beneath the ocean’s surface, with no way to contact mission control and their oxygen supply rapidly running out. Ugh, talk about needing hazard pay.

Co-directed by Elba himself alongside filmmaker Martin Owen, this is one thriller where the only thing more terrifying than being stranded in the darkness of space is being stranded in the darkness of the ocean. Houston... we have a problem.

Above the Below is hitting select theaters on December 4th.

🎥 “Avengers: Doomsday” World Series Promos: Reed Richards Takes the Mound as Marvel Brings Superheroes, Baseball, and a Little Doctor Doom to MLB’s Biggest Stage — In Theaters December 18th

This weekend, Marvel dropped a few new Avengers: Doomsday promos during MLB’s World Series games, and… yeah, they’re kinda goofy. Not necessarily in a bad way, mind you. Just the sort of bizarre crossover where superheroes and professional baseball collide during an ad break. It’ll leave you wondering who exactly came up with this marketing idea… and questioning whether you ever want to see Reed Richards throw a baseball again. So, root, root, root for the home team! And let’s hope Doctor Doom isn’t on the mound throwing fastballs, ’cause what we want is a real pitcher, not a belly itcher!

🎥 “Best Pancakes in the County” Trailer: Nicolas Cage Goes Hog Wild (and Full Pig-Nosed) in Ken Sanzel’s Over-the-Top Crime Flick with Justin Long and Shelley Hennig — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital November 20th

The way we see it, there are two types of Nicolas Cage performances. One where he goes hog wild, making choices no other actor would even dare to try. And then there’s the other... where he goes hog wild, making choices no other actor would even dare to try... while wearing a pig nose. Love it or hate it, Cage will always be Cage. Here, he plays a criminal nicknamed “The Sonafabitch,” who just happens to have a nose resembling a pig’s snout. Why? Who the hell knows? It’s Nicolas Cage. That’s probably reason enough. Written and directed by Ken Sanzel, and also starring Justin Long, Shelley Hennig, Ravi Patel, Lauren German and more, this uber-stylized crime flick follows a deadly, one-night standoff at a small-town pancake diner, where rogue federal agents, a fast-talking con man and a waitress with secrets of her own find themselves caught in a dangerous, shoot-’em-up fight for survival.

🎥 “Look Back” Trailer: Hirokazu Kore-eda Brings Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Acclaimed Manga to Life in a Moving Coming-of-Age Drama About Friendship, Art, and Loss, Starring Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita — Opening in Select Theaters December 30th, Expanding Nationwide January 15th

Hirokazu Kore-eda may be one of the greatest humanists working in film today. His acclaimed films, including Shoplifters, Nobody Knows, and Like Father, Like Son, often capture snapshots of everyday life and its struggles, asking how ordinary people might react when faced with difficult circumstances. Rather than getting overly philosophical, Kore-eda takes a naturalistic, observational approach, quietly revealing the complexities of human behavior. Now, Kore-eda turns his attention to the world of manga. Well… so to speak. His latest film is a live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed coming-of-age manga about two young artists (Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita) whose shared passion for drawing brings them together, only for their friendship to take a heartbreaking turn. It’s already being called one of Kore-eda’s best films, and considering that part of the story explores the art of making comics, that alone might be enough to put it at the top of our must-see list.

🎥 “Possible Love” New Trailer: “Burning” Director Lee Chang-dong Returns with a Korean Drama About Two Married Couples, Class Divisions, and Forbidden Desires, Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong, and Zo In-sung — Now in Select Theaters, Streaming November 6th on Netflix

Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong earned widespread international acclaim for his 2018 film Burning. It was a slow-burning psychological mystery-thriller that explored class divisions, obsession, and the simmering resentment beneath modern Korean society. Now he returns with his first film since then, tackling similar themes but digging deeper into the repressed sexual desires of two married couples from different economic backgrounds. Now playing in select U.S. theaters and set to stream on Netflix next week, the film stars Jeon Do-yeon as a woman whose unemployed husband (Sul Kyung-gu) has struggled to get back on his feet. When she crosses paths with a documentary filmmaker (Cho Yeo-jeong) and her wealthy husband (Zo In-sung), their lives become increasingly tangled as marital tensions give way to secret attractions and sexual cravings. It looks like another thought-provoking banger from a filmmaker who knows how to dig beneath the surface and expose the uncomfortable truths we’d rather not confront.

🎥 “Paradise Lost” Trailer: A Mother’s Long-Lost Son Returns But He’s No Longer the Boy She Remembers in This Twisty Psychological Mystery-Thriller From ‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho — In Select Theaters November 6th

Yeon Sang-ho might just be one of the busiest directors working in South Korea right now. It seems like the guy has a new film coming out every year, not to mention a miniseries popping up on Netflix or some other streaming platform every so often. In other words, the man likes to keep busy. And now he’s got another film arriving next month, this time a twisty, sci-fi-tinged psychological mystery thriller. He’s stepping away from the zombies for a while, but he’s still very much interested in the darker side of human nature, particularly the emotional toll of losing someone you love. Starring Kim Hyun-joo and Bae Hyeon-seong, Yeon Sang-ho’s latest follows a mother who spends nine years finding comfort in a virtual version of her missing son. But when he finally comes home, all grown up and practically a stranger, she begins to wonder who she’s actually welcomed back. Which raises a rather unsettling question: What happens when the person you’ve spent years longing for is no longer the person you remember?

🎥 “zi” Trailer: Filmmaker Kogonada Reunites with Haley Lu Richardson for a Dreamlike Sci-Fi-Tinged Drama About a Young Violinist Haunted by Visions of Her Future Self — In Select Theaters November 6th

Kogonada. No, it’s not some new restaurant opening down the street. That’s the filmmaker behind two of the most thoughtful, deeply human dramas of the past decade: the quietly reflective, architecture-obsessed film Columbus and the AI sci-fi drama After Yang. His films take their time, letting conversations and little moments do most of the heavy lifting. And he’s never been one to spell everything out for you. But who knew he had another movie coming out this year? Talk about coming out of left field. Reuniting with Columbus actress Haley Lu Richardson, Kogonada’s latest follows a young violinist (Michelle Mao) in Hong Kong who’s haunted by visions of her future self. A chance encounter with an American stranger (Richardson) leads to a night where time and memory get tangled. So, in other words, this sounds like another wonderfully strange Kogonada film that’ll have you stroking your chin for a good 30 minutes after the final credits roll.

🎥 “I Play Rocky” New Trailer: Anthony Ippolito Channels a Young Sylvester Stallone in the Untold Underdog Story Behind the Making of ‘Rocky’ — In Theaters November 6th, Nationwide November 20th

We’ve got to say, this new kid, Anthony Ippolito, has really nailed Sylvester Stallone’s speech patterns. Squint hard enough, and you might convince yourself you’re watching a young Stallone during his early Rocky days. There’s already some Oscar buzz surrounding Ippolito’s performance, and while it’s too early to hand out trophies, judging from the trailer alone, the guy deserves a pat on the back. He’s captured Stallone’s mannerisms without turning it into some exaggerated Saturday Night Live impersonation. Now, that just might be worth the price of admission alone. Directed by Peter Farrelly, this isn’t your typical biopic. Instead, it takes us behind the scenes of one of the greatest sports films ever made, Rocky. Stallone wrote the screenplay himself, but Hollywood wanted the script, not necessarily him in the starring role. Rather than walk away, he took some pretty big risks, refusing to give up his chance to play Rocky Balboa. In other words, the making of Hollywood’s ultimate underdog story was an underdog story itself.

🎥 “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” Trailer: Anders Danielsen Lie Plays the Legendary Jazz Pianist in This Black-and-White Jazzy Biopic Co-Starring Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf — In Select Theaters January 8th

Hey, look at that stark black-and-white cinematography. Everybody’s wearing horn-rimmed glasses, sitting in smoke-filled rooms, listening to cool, jazzy music. What the hell is going on here? Oh, just a cool-daddy biopic about legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. That’s all. Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, of The Worst Person in the World fame, and an accomplished musician himself, steps into the spit-shined shoes of the American jazz legend. Set in 1961, the film follows Evans after the devastating death of his close friend and musical collaborator, bassist Scott LaFaro. Struggling with grief and addiction, he questions whether he can still play without his musical partner. Also starring Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf as Evans’ parents, and directed by music documentarian Grant Gee, this Bill Evans biopic explores the emotional toll of losing a key collaborator who helped shape his sound and the difficult road back to the piano without his friend.

🎥 “Dead Eyes” International Trailer: A Search for a Missing Father in the Woods Turns Terrifyingly Scary in Richard E. Williams’ First-Person Australian Horror Thriller — Coming Soon

Anyone who’s ever picked up a video game controller and played a first-person horror game knows just how effective that immersive experience can be at delivering scares. So why not try the same approach in movies? This new Australian horror flick from filmmaker Richard E. Williams isn’t necessarily breaking new ground, but its first-person perspective aims to take the scares to a whole new level. And judging by its reception at this year’s SXSW, it seems to have struck a nerve. The film stars Rijen Laine as a grieving young man who ventures into the remote Australian wilderness with his friends in search of his missing father, only to uncover disturbing family secrets and something sinister lurking in the forest. So, yeah, the plot sounds pretty basic. But telling the entire story through a first-person perspective might be just what this horror flick needs to stand out from the rest. There’s no official U.S. release date yet, but keep an eye out for this one.

🎥 “The Invisible Half” Trailer: A Japanese Teenager (Lisa Siera) Is Stalked by a Sinister Figure That Can Only Be Seen Through Her Smartphone in Masaki Nishiyama’s Supernatural J-Horror Thriller — On VOD/Digital November 10th

They say smartphones are slowly killing us. It’s a rhetorical statement, for sure. But what if they really are… slowly killing us? This Japanese supernatural chiller takes that idea and runs with it, following a half-British, half-Japanese teenager (Lisa Siera) who faces bullying and isolation at her new school, only to find herself stalked by a sinister, bandaged figure visible through her smartphone camera and heard through her earphones. Written and directed by Masaki Nishiyama, the film seems to be taking that old-school J-horror vibe and updating it for the smartphone generation. Forget creepy phone calls and haunted TV sets. Now the terror is right there in your pocket, buzzing with every notification. Quick, put it in airplane mode!

🎥 “Secrets” Trailer: A Mother’s Dark Past Returns When Her Abusive Ex Threatens the Life She’s Built for Her Daughter in Ravi L. Bharwani’s Indonesian Thriller — Streams December 3rd on Netflix

Indonesian cinema has a certain style and look. That neon-tinted, vibrantly colorful aesthetic that feels almost mystical and mysterious, even when the subject matter is as dark as it gets. In director Ravi L. Bharwani’s psychological thriller, former sex worker Parni (Sha Ine Febriyanti) has managed to escape her troubled past and build a quiet life for herself and her daughter. But that hard-earned peace is shattered when Parni’s abusive ex (Abimana Aryasatya) suddenly reappears, bringing back the kind of fear and menace she thought she’d left behind years ago. Now, protecting her daughter means confronting the very past she fought so hard to escape. And that may mean revealing who she once was, who she’s become, and the secrets that could put them both in grave danger.

🎥 “Coward” Trailer: The Meaning of Courage Is Redefined Through Art Amid the Horrors of War in This New WWI Drama From Acclaimed Belgian Director Lukas Dhont — In Theaters December 25th

They’ve made countless films about World War II, yet World War I often gets overlooked, despite setting the stage for so much of what followed. So why not revisit it? With all this renewed fascination with history, maybe there’s no better time to look back at a war that helped plant the seeds for an even greater catastrophe two decades later. At least, that’s what we’re hoping for with this new film from acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont, director of the Oscar-nominated Close. It follows a young Belgian soldier (Emmanuel Macchia) eager to prove his courage, who meets a fellow soldier (Valentin Campagne) organizing a theatrical performance to lift everyone’s spirits. Amid the brutality of war, their growing connection explores how art, compassion, and a little human tenderness can survive even in the darkest times.

🎥 “Buried Secrets” Trailer: A Hunt for Buried Treasure Unleashes an Ancient Demon in Full Moon’s New Supernatural Horror Flick Starring Bella Mraz, Ty Johnson, and Antonia Fuller — Coming to Blu-ray/DVD This December, Followed by Streaming in Early 2027

There’s a good rule of thumb in horror movies: stay the hell away from demonic spirits. But hey, when you’re hunting for buried treasure and a so-called Canaanite demon named Moloch, known for hoarding treasure, comes knocking, what are you gonna do? In this new supernatural horror flick, a group of friends (Bella Mraz, Ty Johnson, Antonia Fuller, and Veronika Vozniak) sets out to find a legendary buried treasure, only to discover it’s being guarded by a malicious spirit who isn’t too keen on sharing his riches with anyone. So, the golden rule of finder’s keepers doesn’t apply here, it seems.

🎥 “Dead of Night” Trailer: Dermot Mulroney Plays a Small-Town Sheriff Hunting a Brutal Killer in New Slasher Thriller with Kirrilee Berger, Scott Grimes, and Jake Busey — In Theaters November 13th, Followed by a VOD Release January 12th

Ever since the mega-success of Scream, filmmakers seem to have settled on a certain formula for making a slasher film. 1. Set it in a sleepy suburban town. 2. Make sure there’s a masked killer lurking in the streets. 3. Throw in some ridiculously inept townspeople who have no idea what the hell is going on. And, of course, 4. make sure the victims are teenagers. Screaming-at-the-top-of-their-lungs teenagers. And there you have it. Pretty much all the makings of a modern slasher film. So go ahead and throw this one onto the growing pile of slasher films following that same old formula. And here’s an added bonus: it’s got Dermot Mulroney playing the local sheriff. Because apparently, these days, every slasher needs a familiar face wearing a badge, trying to keep the kids safe.

🎥 “Bokshi” Trailer: Witches, Ancient Folklore, and a Terrifying School Excursion Collide in Bhargav Saikia’s Indian Folk Horror Thriller Starring Prasanna Bisht and Mansi Multani — In Indian Theaters December 4th, U.S. Release Date TBA

Indian cinema has long been known for its lavish musicals and highly stylized fantasy epics. But its horror films, particularly its folk horror, are nothing to sneeze at. Indian filmmakers have been finding increasingly effective ways to scare the bejesus out of us... or whatever the equivalent might be, depending on your spiritual beliefs. Take this new Indian folk horror thriller from filmmaker Bhargav Saikia, which seems to have all the makings of a good old-fashioned spookfest: witches, black crows, an evil forest, strange body markings, and creepy supernatural happenings. Here, a teenage girl (Prasanna Bisht), still haunted by her mother’s mysterious disappearance, joins her history teacher (Mansi Multani) on a school excursion to a remote prehistoric site, only to find herself caught up in an ancient supernatural mystery tied to her own terrifying destiny. There’s no official U.S. release date yet, but fingers crossed, hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long for one.

🎥 “Quarter” Trailer: A Young Woman Navigates a Quarter-Life Crisis and the Messy Business of Growing Up in Kelsey Bascom’s Personal Coming-of-Age Indie Comedy with Ali Wentworth, Breckin Meyer, Raven-Symoné, and Brooke Shields— Opening in New York November 13th

Actress Kelsey Bascom has written and co-directed something deeply personal, drawing from her own experiences to tell a story that will likely resonate with others. It’s a heartfelt coming-of-age comedy about a young twenty-something woman struggling to find her identity, caught between accepting who she is and trying to become someone she isn’t. You know, that dreaded quarter-life crisis, when you suddenly realize you’ve got to figure out who you are, what you want, and where the hell you’re going in life. Backed by an impressive supporting cast that includes Ali Wentworth, Breckin Meyer, Raven-Symoné, Tati Gabrielle, Brooke Shields, and Eric Roberts, this indie throwback also draws from Bascom’s experiences living with type 1 diabetes, adding another layer to the everyday struggles of adulthood. So, if you’re looking for an indie film that favored personal stories over cheap, salacious melodrama, this might be worth keeping an eye on.

🎥 “500 Fireflies” Trailer: The Late Richard Riehle Stars in This Heartfelt Indie Drama About a Struggling Single Father Who Returns to His Hometown and Gets an Unusual Offer from His Estranged Dad — Arrives November 3rd on VOD/Digital

Legendary character actor Richard Riehle sadly passed away not too long ago. Like so many hardworking actors who never quite got their due, he leaves behind an impressive filmography filled with memorable performances across just about every genre imaginable. He also leaves behind a few performances audiences have yet to see, including one of his final roles in this indie film from writer-director Lysandra Petersson. Set during the summer of 1995, the story follows a struggling single father (Brian Villalobos) who returns to his small Virginia hometown with his teenage daughter (Brett Cooper), only to discover that the place he remembers has fallen on hard times. Desperate for money, he turns to his estranged father (Riehle), who agrees to help him out on one rather unusual condition: he must collect 500 fireflies. Well, the things parents put their children through just to teach them a lesson. So, if you’re in the mood for a slow-burning indie throwback, this one might be right up your alley.

🎥 “The Shadow’s Edge” Trailer: Jackie Chan Returns to Action as a Retired Surveillance Expert Called Back to Track Down a High-Tech Criminal Gang in This Cat-and-Mouse Action Thriller with Tony Leung Ka-fai — Out on November 3rd on VOD/Digital

These days, Jackie Chan isn’t doing as many of those hard-charging action sequences as he used to. Now he’s more likely to be the guy calling the shots. But that doesn’t mean his latest action thriller won’t have him throwing a few punches. After all, it wouldn’t be a Jackie Chan movie without at least a few fight scenes, right? Here, the action legend stars as a retired surveillance expert called back into action when a gang of high-tech criminals pulls off a billion-dollar heist and manages to outsmart the police’s sophisticated surveillance system. Teaming up with a rookie officer (Zhang Zifeng), he sets out to track down the elusive mastermind known as the Wolf King (Tony Leung Ka-fai), turning the investigation into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

🎥 “Perfect Liars” Trailer: Revenge Gets Complicated When a University Student (Irene Balmes) Falls Into a Dangerous Game of Attraction with Three Wealthy Brothers in This Spanish Romance Thriller from ‘Money Heist’ Director Jesús Colmenar — Streams November 20th on Prime Video

Brooding glares. Yearning stares. Bad boys and a woman looking for love in all the wrong places. For some reason or another, these steamy international romance dramas have become quite a thing. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that so many are based on trashy YA romance novels, but whatever the formula is, audiences seem to be eating them up. This one comes from Spain, starring Irene Balmes as a young university student who sets out to uncover the truth behind her brother’s death by infiltrating the inner circle of three wealthy, powerful brothers (Gleb Abrosimov, Pau Simon, and Pablo Scapigliati). But surprise! The brothers are all brooding hunks. So what starts as a carefully planned act of revenge soon gets tangled up in forbidden attraction, leading to a whole lot of uncomfortable romantic feelings. Money Heist director Jesús Colmenar helms this Spanish romantic thriller, based on Alex Mírez’s bestselling Wattpad novel Perfectos mentirosos.

🎥 “Drive: The Pretenders” Trailer: Lisa-Marie Koroll Poses as a Scandal-Plagued Racing Star’s Fiancée in New German Racing Romance with Amin Baahmed — Streams October 28th on Prime Video

Apparently, posing as someone’s significant other can lead to real affection between two opposites. Or at least, that’s what this new German romantic drama would have us believe. Inspired by Tamara Lush’s novel Drive, the film stars Lisa-Marie Koroll as an aspiring mechanic with big dreams of managing a professional race car crew. But those ambitions take an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with a scandal-plagued racing star (Amin Baahmed), who offers her an unusual deal: pose as his fiancée to help repair his recently tarnished reputation in exchange for a chance to pursue her own racing ambitions. Deal. The only problem? Sometimes, when you get that close to someone, real feelings start to emerge. And that only complicates things. ‘Cuz in a hotly competitive world like racing, it’s best not to get distracted and to always keep your eyes on the finish line no matter what.

🎥 “We Are The Shaggs” Trailer: The Unlikely Story of Three Sisters Dubbed One of the Worst Rock Bands Ever, Only to Become Cult Legends in Director Ken Kwapis’ New Music Documentary — Coming Soon

The story of The Shaggs isn’t really about how they became known as one of the worst rock bands to ever exist. It’s more about how the innocence and simplicity of creating something truly original can be such a rare and remarkable thing, especially in a world where everyone seems to have an opinion about what qualifies as good or bad art. Director Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) makes his documentary debut with a look at the history and unlikely legacy of The Shaggs. Three sisters from rural New Hampshire who, at their father’s relentless insistence, formed a rock band despite having little musical training or any real ambition to become rock stars. Their 1969 album, Philosophy of the World, was initially dismissed as amateurish trash, only to find a second life as a cult classic, earning admirers like Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Not bad for a band that couldn’t play their instruments or sing in tune, yet somehow managed to make music as if the rules didn’t apply, simply because their songs came from a place of pure innocence and creative freedom.

🎥 “Avedon” Trailer: Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Ron Howard Explores the Life and Legacy of Legendary Photographer Richard Avedon, Whose Iconic Images Helped Shape the Way We See Fashion, Celebrity, and Pop Culture — Debuts November 11th on Netflix

They say film lies 24 frames a second. Photography, on the other hand, can be both truth and lie at the same time. Well, at least according to legendary photographer Richard Avedon, who arguably changed the way we see pop culture through images that were revealing, deeply personal, and yet so glamorously staged. His photographs captured something real about their subjects, even when everything about the image was carefully constructed. It’s both truth and lie, all in a single photograph. Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard directs this documentary, taking a closer look at Avedon’s life and career and how his photographs helped shape the way we see pop culture across the decades. As a man, an artist, and a photographer, Avedon changed the way we look at images, moving beyond the glamour of fashion photography to explore more socially conscious subjects and the people whose stories might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

🎥 “The Choice” Trailer: Three Women Bound Together by Trauma, Grief, and the Power to Move Forward in This Moving Documentary — In Theaters January 15th

Choice is a powerful thing. It can lead you to salvation, or it can leave you with a lifetime of regret. But what happens when life takes away nearly every choice you have, leaving you with only one: how you respond to what you’ve endured? Director John David Coles explores that question in this emotionally challenging documentary that connects the stories of Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger, grieving Israeli mother Iris Haim, and former hostage Sapir Cohen. Three women, three extraordinary journeys, and one shared belief in the power of choice.

If you haven’t noticed, it seems like every week or so brings a fresh wave of announcements about classic films returning to theaters, newly restored 4K editions coming our way both in the States and internationally, and special anniversary screenings. Which is great, because it means more and more people will get a chance to experience some of these classics, even if, in some cases, the movies are only 15 years old. So, here’s a quick rundown of the latest trailers from this batch of re-releases and 4K restorations.

🎥 “The Holiday: 20th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet Swap Homes and Find Unexpected Romance in Nancy Meyers’ Holiday Rom-Com with Jude Law and Jack Black — Back in Theaters December 11th

Funny enough, this one started as a box office disappointment but has since become a holiday classic, thanks to years of cable airings and its availability on streaming platforms. Nancy Meyers’ crowd-pleasing rom-com stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two heartbroken women on opposite sides of the Atlantic who decide to swap homes for Christmas, only to find unexpected romance along the way. Jude Law and Jack Black co-star as their respective love interests. That’s right, Jack Black is Kate Winslet’s unlikely love interest, making this a true Christmas miracle.

🎥 “The Prestige: 20th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: Christopher Nolan’s Twisty Magician Thriller Starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale — Returning to Theaters in 70mm and IMAX for the First Time on January 29th

Christopher Nolan is already having a hell of a year. So why not bring back one of his underrated classics for its 20th anniversary? This twisty period thriller sees Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as two rival magicians whose bitter competition to outdo one another spirals into a dangerous obsession with secrets, deception, and sabotage. Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall co-star as two women caught up in their increasingly destructive rivalry. And be on the lookout for David Bowie as Nikola Tesla in a standout cameo.

🎥 “The Man Who Fell to Earth: 50th Anniversary – 4K Restoration” Trailer: David Bowie Plays an Alien Lost in a Strange New World in Nicolas Roeg’s ’70s Sci-Fi Cult Classic — Back in UK Cinemas November 13th, Followed by a 4K UHD Collector’s Edition on November 16th

Speaking of David Bowie, this was his first major starring role, playing (what else?) an alien from another planet who lands on Earth. Coming off the height of his Ziggy Stardust era, Bowie seemed almost born for the part, and director Nicolas Roeg cleverly played off his otherworldly persona and strange, magnetic presence to portray an alien struggling to understand humanity while slowly falling victim to its earthly temptations in this adaptation of Walter Tevis’s science-fiction novel.

🎥 “Timecop: 4K Restoration” Blu-Ray Trailer: Jean-Claude Van Damme Kicks His Way Through Time in Peter Hyams’ ’90s Sci-Fi Action Thriller — Limited-Edition 4K UHD Arrives October 28th in Australia

This sci-fi cult classic might go down as one of the best uses of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s trademark splits, particularly when he uses them to avoid getting electrocuted in a kitchen. Based on the comic book and directed by Peter Hyams, who also worked with JCVD on Sudden Death, this time-jumping sci-fi thriller stars Van Damme as a federal agent tasked with stopping criminals from traveling into the past and changing history. But when a corrupt senator (Ron Silver) threatens to jump back in time and rewrite the timeline, JCVD has no choice but to do what we all want to do: karate-chop a corrupt, egotistical politician in the throat.

🎥 “Jackie Brown: 4K Restoration” Blu-Ray Trailer: Quentin Tarantino’s ’90s Crime Classic Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda — Coming Soon to Limited-Edition 4K UHD SteelBook in Australia

Count us among those who believe Quentin Tarantino’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch might just be his best movie so far. Not only did it bring blaxploitation icon Pam Grier back into the spotlight and remind us just how great Robert Forster was, but this L.A. crime caper also gave us one of cinema’s best duos: Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie and Robert De Niro as Louis Gara. And as an added bonus, there’s Bridget Fonda as the beach-blanket bimbo Melanie, another highlight and an underappreciated performance from an actress who sadly walked away from Hollywood just a few years later.

🎥 “The Keep: 4K Restoration” Blu-Ray Trailer: Nazi Soldiers Unleash an Ancient Evil in Michael Mann’s Strange and Underrated ’80s Supernatural Horror Cult Classic Starring Scott Glenn and Ian McKellen — Coming to Limited-Edition 4K UHD in Australia

Michael Mann considers this one of his biggest failures. We consider it one of the strangest yet oddly wonderful films from the guy who would eventually give us Heat and The Last of the Mohicans. This cult classic is a dark supernatural fantasy about a group of Nazi soldiers stationed at an ancient fortress in Romania who accidentally unleash a mysterious evil from within its walls. As if the Nazis hadn’t already inflicted enough horrors on the world. It’s not like we needed another reason to hate these scumbags, right?

🎥 “Billy Elliot: 4K Restoration” Blu-Ray Trailer: Jamie Bell Dances to His Own Beat in Stephen Daldry’s Beloved British Coming-of-Age Classic Co-Starring Julie Walters and Gary Lewis — Coming to 4K UHD January 27th in France, With International Releases to Follow

It’s the movie that made it okay to dance... and dance like no one’s watching. Jamie Bell delivers a breakout performance as an 11-year-old working-class boy who discovers a passion for ballet, much to the dismay of his hard-nosed coal-miner father (Gary Lewis). Directed by Stephen Daldry and co-starring Oscar nominee Julie Walters as Billy’s dance teacher, the 2000 film became a worldwide phenomenon, proving that British cinema has a special knack for telling heartfelt, down-to-earth stories with humor, honesty, and a whole lot of ... corazón!

🎥 “Animal Farm: 4K Restoration” Trailer: George Orwell’s Timeless Tale of Power and Corruption Returns in the Landmark 1954 British Animated Classic — Back in UK Cinemas October 23rd, Followed by 4K UHD and Blu-ray November 23rd

There was a recent animated take on George Orwell’s classic novel about a farmyard revolution that goes horribly wrong, but if you ask us, nothing beats this 1954 classic. British animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor turned Orwell’s novel into a traditionally animated film that tackled propaganda, exploitation, and the corruption of power. Little did they know just how relevant those themes would remain more than 70 years later.

🎥 “Rate It X: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Sexism, Male Chauvinism and the Ugly Side of American Society Exposed in Lucy Winer and Paula de Koenigsberg’s Eye-Opening 1985 Documentary — Back in Theaters November 20th, Followed by Blu-ray December 1st

Sometimes the greatest power of documentaries is their ability to capture a particular time and place, becoming historical records in their own right. That seems to be the case with this largely unseen 1985 documentary, which takes a revealing look at sexism and the deeply ingrained chauvinistic attitudes in American society, straight from the mouths of the men themselves. Directed by Lucy Winer and Paula de Koenigsberg, the film lets its subjects do most of the talking, often revealing far more about themselves than they probably intended. And looking back more than 40 years later, you can’t help but wonder just how much we’ve changed... and how much has stayed exactly the same.

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📺 “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 3” Trailer: Sauron Sets His Sights on Forging the One Ring as Galadriel, Elrond and Their Allies Prepare for War — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video

To be quite honest, we can see why this series has kept Tolkien fans in constant debate over whether it stays true to the source material or takes way too many liberties with Middle-earth’s mythology. Look, The Lord of the Rings novels are practically sacred texts at this point. And for a whole generation raised on Peter Jackson’s films, even the thought of someone revisiting Middle-earth without his involvement was bound to raise a few eyebrows.

But here’s the thing about Amazon’s The Rings of Power: it might not be remembered for expanding Tolkien’s world in a way that satisfies everyone, but it could very well be remembered as an example of just how sophisticated and ambitious original streaming shows have become. There’s no doubt the show is a colossal achievement in visual effects and production design, rivaling even some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. There was a time when television was seen as something smaller in scale and ambition, but The Rings of Power has shown that the only thing small about a TV production these days is the screen you’re watching it on.

Now, is all that enough to justify the existence of this Middle-earth prequel series, which at times has felt more like typical franchise drivel than anything else, or perhaps just an expensive vanity project for a few Amazon executives? That’s for viewers to decide.

The Rings of Power is coming back for its third season next month, and things aren’t looking particularly good for the people of Middle-earth. With the series set thousands of years before the events of Tolkien’s novels, this new season picks up five years after the fall of Eregion, with Sauron (Charlie Vickers) getting dangerously close to conquering the whole place. He’s building an army, spreading destruction wherever he goes, and generally making life miserable for just about everyone. Meanwhile, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), and their allies are still trying to get the remaining kingdoms to put aside their differences before an all-out war breaks out. And then there’s Gandalf (Daniel Weyman), who’s still finding his feet as a young wizard (well, relatively speaking, considering his age). All of this is happening while Sauron works on his biggest project yet: forging the One Ring. You know, the ring to rule them all.

Executive produced by series creators J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the show also brings back Ismael Cruz Córdova, Benjamin Walker, and Owain Arthur, while Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower and Eddie Marsan join the cast, along with Simon Pegg lending his voice to the Balrog.

Whatever your feelings about the series, it’s hard to argue with the sheer scale of the production for this new season. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power continues to push the boundaries of visual effects and production values, once again aiming to challenge your preconceived notions of just how big and ambitious a streaming original series can be.

Season three kicks off Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video with four episodes, followed by two more on November 18th and the final two on November 25th.

📺 “MobLand: Season 2” Midseason Trailer: Tom Hardy Is Caught Between a Feuding Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as the Harrigan Crime Family Faces an All-Out War — New Episodes Every Friday on Paramount+, With the Season Finale November 20th

If you’ve been watching this Guy Ritchie-produced London mob series starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren, you’ll know by now that it isn’t just about wild Cockney lingo, violent bravado, and bullet-laden shootouts. Well, okay, there’s plenty of that, too. But there’s more going on here than meets the eye.

For starters, Hardy, an actor known for his wild, chaotic, and sometimes unpredictable performances, is surprisingly restrained here, playing the tightly wound Harry Da Souza. What’s great to see is that it’s actually Brosnan and Mirren who get to chew up the scenery, practically running wild like two rabid dogs let off their leashes as Conrad and Maeve Harrigan. Barking orders as the heads of a powerful London criminal empire, they’re a married couple who might as well be at war with everyone around them, including each other. It’s a toxic relationship to say the least.

And while the series certainly has that familiar Guy Ritchie vibe, at its core, it’s about the deeply dysfunctional Harrigan crime family, whose loyalties are constantly tested by the erratic behavior of its two larger-than-life leaders, Conrad and Maeve (Brosnan and Mirren). That leaves their loyal fixer, Harry (Hardy), to clean up one bloody mess after another, all in an effort to keep the family from plunging into an all-out gang war. But Harry’s unwavering devotion to the Harrigans has come at a steep personal cost, leaving his own marriage and family life in absolute ruins.

Season 2 has continued to stretch that already strained relationship between Harry and the Harrigans, testing just how far his loyalty will go before something finally snaps. Because if there’s one thing that’s become increasingly clear this season, it’s that Harry would probably make a far better leader of the criminal empire than Conrad and Maeve ever could.

And to make matters worse, the season introduces a couple of new adversaries: Johnny Flynn as Frankie Cooper, an up-and-coming London gangster looking to make his mark by muscling in on Harrigan territory while the family is busy at each other’s throats. Meanwhile, Ophelia Lovibond joins the cast as Detective Kavanaugh, a determined investigator who has the Harrigans firmly in her sights.

So, if you like your British gangster dramas violent, chaotic, and a little fiery, then MobLand might be something you’ll want to add to your watchlist. Tom Hardy gives Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren plenty of room to take over and be as gloriously unhinged as they please. But that’s not to say Hardy isn’t absolutely crushing it himself. His character keeps his emotions tightly bottled up, even as the pressure continues to build. And you just know he’s a powder keg waiting to explode, which makes his performance all the more fascinating to watch.

MobLand: Season 2 is now streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes every Friday leading up to the season finale on November 20th. Watch the newly released Season 2 midseason trailer above, which promises even more twists and deadly turns as the Harrigan family’s criminal empire threatens to come apart at the seams, forcing Harry to pick a side… and perhaps finally take control himself.

📺 “Carrie: Season 2” Announcement Promo: Mike Flanagan’s Modern Take on Stephen King’s Horror Classic Is Getting Another Season, With More of Carrie White’s Story Still to Tell — Coming Soon to Prime Video

Horror maestro Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, Doctor Sleep) had his work cut out for him updating Stephen King’s classic horror novel Carrie for modern audiences. But whether you loved it or hated this new modern version, Flanagan’s take certainly got people talking… and tweeting. Of course, Carrie has been adapted several times before, with mixed results. But Flanagan managed to put his own spin on the familiar story, adding the horrors of social media and teenage bullying while showing what it’s like for teens growing up in a world where everyone’s glued to their phones, free to air their grievances from behind a screen with almost total anonymity. And when all is said and done, he leaves the door open for the story to go places previous adaptations never could. Now, with Amazon Studios officially renewing the series for a second season, Flanagan clearly has more up his sleeve, purportedly a three-season arc in mind. Where things go from here is anyone’s guess, however, especially with questions left hanging after Season One’s finale. But if there’s one thing we know about Carrie White (played marvelously by breakout Summer H. Howell), it’s that pushing her too far is never a good idea.

📺 “The Hunting Wives: Season 2” Trailer: Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman Return for More Dirty Secrets, Deadly Scandals, and Dangerous Games in Netflix’s Steamy Texas Thriller, With John Stamos Joining the Cast — Returns Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

They say Las Vegas is Sin City, but this Netflix hit is making a pretty good case that the real den of sin might just be in the state of Texas. After all, everything is bigger there, and apparently that goes for the local scandals, dirty domestic secrets, and salacious behavior, too. Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman return for Season 2 as Sophie and Margo, two married women whose dangerous relationship has left them on the outs. But in the wealthy community of Maple Brook, old secrets have a nasty habit of resurfacing, and new enemies have a way of bringing people back together… whether they like it or not. John Stamos and Dale Dickey join the cast alongside returning cast members Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, and Jaime Ray Newman. And with the town’s man-eating social circle getting messier by the minute, one question hangs over everything: Are Sophie and Margo still the hunters, or have they become the hunted? Locked and loaded, these housewives are anything but delicate flowers.

📺 “New Wave” Trailer: Billy Idol, Devo, Duran Duran, Boy George, and More Look Back at the Music That Defined the Tubular ’80s in Douglas Tirola’s Four-Part Docuseries — Debuts Monday, November 23rd on MGM+

“Gag me with a spoon!” “Totally tubular!” “Take a chill pill, Phil!” We could go on forever with ’80s slang and catchphrases. But I think we can all agree that the decade gave us some of the coolest things in pop culture, and maybe nothing was cooler than the music, especially New Wave. This four-part docuseries from Douglas Tirola (Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon) takes us back to a time when artists and bands like Billy Idol, Devo, The Police, The Smiths, Duran Duran, Boy George, and the B-52s were making noise and breaking into the mainstream. But New Wave was more than just a mix of punk rock, pop, and dance music. It was a whole movement that shook up pop culture, influencing everything from fashion and technology to personal style and attitude. Packed with archival footage, firsthand stories, and plenty of nostalgia, the series looks back at the music and the people who helped define a generation. “Party on, dude!”

📺 “Fallout Shelter: The Experiment” Announcement Teaser: Prime Video Turns the ‘Fallout’ Universe Into a Reality Competition Where Contestants Face the Apocalypse for a Shot at $1 Million — Streams Wednesday, January 13th on Prime Video

If you’ve ever thought the Fallout universe would make a great setting for a reality competition show, well, apparently someone at Prime Video had the same idea. And so, a video game turned streaming series has now become a game show. It’s the circle of life! Taking inspiration from the hit video games and TV series, this ten-episode competition drops everyday people into Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof shelters to see how well they’d handle the apocalypse. There’ll be physical challenges, psychological mind games, and some tough decisions that could turn friends into enemies. And, of course, there’s money involved. A cool $1 million, to be exact. But with everyone looking out for themselves, who can you really trust when only one Vault Dweller gets to walk away with the prize?

📺 “Janelle James: How Romantic” Trailer: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Star Janelle James Steps Onto the Stage With Plenty to Say About Sex, Relationships, Money, and Fame in Her First Hour-Long Netflix Stand-Up Special — Premieres Tuesday, November 10th on Netflix

You might know Janelle James as Principal Ava Coleman on the hit ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary, but for her debut hour-long stand-up special, she’s back onstage doing what she does best: talking into a microphone and speaking her mind. And while fame may have brought her a bigger paycheck and a growing fan base, James still finds plenty to laugh about, from relationships and sex to money and the differences between men and women. This Netflix comedy special finds James enjoying her newfound success, with her filter still firmly switched off.

📺 “Taken: Natalee Holloway” Trailer: A Mother’s 20-Year Fight for Truth and Justice Takes Center Stage in Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries About Her Daughter’s Disappearance and Murder — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Netflix

On the surface, it has all the makings of a riveting true-crime docuseries: a young woman on a picturesque vacation in Aruba. A trip that ends in tragedy and heartbreak. But this story goes beyond simply piecing together what happened that fateful night. At the center of it all is a desperate mother who has spent twenty years searching for answers, only to fight like hell for justice for her murdered daughter. You might remember the headline: Back in 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a high school graduation trip, sparking an international investigation that made news around the world. It’s now more than two decades later, and directors Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin revisit the case in this three-part Netflix documentary. With unprecedented access to Natalee’s mother, Beth, along with personal interviews and archival footage, the series follows her relentless search for the truth. It’s a story of a mother who refused to give up, even as the years dragged on and the answers she desperately sought remained out of reach.

📺 “He Said, She Said: Till Death Do Us Part” Trailer: A Bitter Custody Battle Between Two Lawyers Turns Into a Viral Public Spectacle in This Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries From the Filmmakers of ‘Jesus Camp’ — Debuts Tuesday, November 17th on Paramount+

There’s something fascinating about true-crime documentaries. They have a way of digging up skeletons in people’s closets and exposing the darker side of human nature. It just makes us wonder: Is everyone hiding some dark secret? Well, watch enough true crime, and you might start to think so. This three-part docuseries from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) further examines people’s dark skeletons as it follows a bitter custody battle between two high-powered lawyers, Allan and Catherine Kassenoff. What began as a private family dispute eventually spilled onto social media, turning their troubled marriage into an online spectacle. But that raises an interesting question: When someone puts their private life out there for the world to see, how much of the story are we really getting? Are we seeing the whole picture, or just the parts someone wants us to see? After all, no marriage is quite as perfect as it might seem… certainly not this one. And every story has two sides: his and hers. This one, however, ends in ways no one saw coming.

📺 “Murder in Galicia” Trailer: A Detective Investigates a Brutal Attack and Suspects the Victim’s Own Husband in Netflix’s Spanish True-Crime Thriller Miniseries Starring Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines — Premieres Friday, November 13th on Netflix

Murder is a devastating crime to investigate, no matter where it happens. Even in a town known for its orderly scenery. But when the suspect is someone close to the victim, well, that unbelievable ugliness becomes an almost universal story, no matter what language it’s told in. This new three-episode Spanish procedural thriller is set in a seemingly peaceful Galician village. The story follows a sergeant (Tristán Ulloa) investigating a brutal attack on a woman named Irene. While she fights for her life in the hospital, he begins to suspect that her husband (Miguel Borines) may have been involved in the assault. But here’s the thing: gathering enough evidence to make a case proves to be extremely difficult, leaving Irene vulnerable to another attack from her husband. Directed by Carlos Sedes and inspired by a real criminal case, this Netflix limited series explores a disturbing possibility: that some of the greatest dangers we face may come from those closest to us.

📺 “The Blue Road” Trailer: Two Detectives From Korea and Japan Join Forces to Hunt a Serial Killer in Netflix’s New Crime Thriller Series Starring Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama — Debuts Friday, November 20th on Netflix

Okay, we know what you’re thinking: What, yet another foreign crime series about an unsolved murder and a detective hunting down the killer? Yep. Here’s another one. But there’s nothing quite like a tense police procedural to get us hitting that play button again. This time, the hunt crosses international borders when a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo and Seoul brings together two detectives who would otherwise have little reason to work together. Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama star as Korean and Japanese investigators forced to join forces after bodies turn up with cryptic messages written in each other’s language. And the deeper they dig, the more complicated things get, as their uneasy partnership is tested by a killer whose motives remain a mystery. Ooooh, sounds like another binge-watching session might be in order. Directed by D.P. filmmaker Han Jun-hee, this eight-episode Netflix thriller adds another international crime drama to the streamer’s lineup of tense murder mysteries.

📺 “A Remarkable Place to Die: Season 2” Trailer: Detective Anais Mallory Is Back on the Case, Investigating New Murders and Uncovering More Secrets in New Zealand’s Picturesque Queenstown — Streams Monday, November 30th on Acorn TV in the U.S.

It’s always interesting to see how detectives go about solving crimes in different parts of the world. Take this New Zealand crime series, for example. The police work might be a little different from what we’re used to seeing in American shows, but the job is pretty much the same: follow the clues, ask the right questions, and figure out what really happened. Back for Season 2, Detective Anais Mallory (again played by Chelsie Preston-Crayford) has another murder to investigate in the beautiful town of Queenstown, where the scenery is stunning, but the locals have their share of secrets. Hell, isn’t that always the case? And if that weren’t enough, she’s still dealing with some unanswered questions about her own family.

📺 “Honey” U.K. Trailer: Ann Skelly Gets Caught Between a Stasi Officer and an American CIA Agent in Emma Moran’s Darkly Comic Cold War Spy Thriller Co-Starring Nate Mann, Jannis Niewöhner, and Rory Kinnear — Premieres Saturday, November 14th on UK’s BBC One and BBC iPlayer

From Emma Moran, creator of the cult British superhero satire Extraordinary, comes this new darkly comic espionage drama set during the Cold War. It’s 1982, and in East Berlin, young MI6 agent Martha Schmitt (Ann Skelly, from HBO’s The Nevers) has her hands full trying to keep her cover intact while staying one step ahead of the Stasi. As if that weren’t enough, things get even messier when she finds herself romantically tangled up with a suspicious East German counter-espionage chief (German actor Jannis Niewöhner) and a rather impulsive American CIA agent (Masters of the Air actor Nate Mann). With secrets to keep, loyalties to question, and two men who could expose her true identity, Martha has plenty to worry about. Also co-starring The Diplomat’s Rory Kinnear, this six-part BBC thriller serves up Cold War spy intrigue with the kind of trouble that comes from falling for the wrong person on either side of the Wall.

📺 “Hunting Alice Bell” U.K. Trailer: Alexandra Roach Joins Four Women Falsely Accused of Being a Serial Killer’s Accomplice, With Simon Pegg Playing Against Type in This Six-Episode British Psychological Thriller — Coming Soon to UK’s Channel 4

Okay, imagine being falsely accused of a terrible crime you didn’t commit. What would be worse? Trying to clear your name or realizing that the public might not even care whether you’re innocent or not? That’s the nightmare facing Fran Da Silva (Alexandra Roach), whose life is turned upside down when a group of internet sleuths becomes convinced she’s Alice Bell, the missing lover and accomplice of a notorious serial killer (played by Simon Pegg… yes, a little against type here). And Fran isn’t the only one caught up in this mess. Four other women have also been accused of being Alice. Fed up with the accusations, they decide to join forces, track down the real woman, and hopefully put an end to the nightmare. Created by David Baddiel and Peter Bradshaw, this six-part British psychological thriller taps into something unsettling about our obsession with true crime and online detective work. When everyone on the internet thinks they’ve solved the mystery, does anyone actually care about getting the facts right?

📺 “My Happy Marriage: Special Episodes” Trailer: Miyo and Kiyoka’s Wedding Plans Hit a Snag as Someone From Her Past Returns in This Three-Episode Anime Special — Premieres Sunday, October 25th on Netflix

Fans of My Happy Marriage have something more to look forward to, as three brand-new installments are coming this month. The romantic fantasy anime is returning with three special episodes following its second season. Based on the light novel series by Akumi Agitogi, the story picks up with Miyo and Kiyoka as they prepare for their wedding. For once, things seem to be falling into place for the couple. But, of course, their happiness doesn’t come without a few complications. Just when you think Miyo and Kiyoka have seen it all by now, an unexpected reunion with someone from Miyo’s past threatens to derail their wedding plans. Directed by Takehiro Kubota, the special brings back the familiar mix of romance, family drama, and a little supernatural intrigue. And judging by what’s in store, Miyo and Kiyoka still have a few hurdles to jump through before they can finally say “I do.”

tv trailers of the week

It’s interesting. The closer we get to Halloween, you’d think this week’s new releases would be overflowing with horror movies and spooky TV shows. And sure, there’s plenty of that. But what’s surprising is just how much variety we’ve been getting this October, especially outside the horror genre.

So, if you’re in the mood for something quirky, funny, or maybe even a good arthouse or foreign film, don’t fret. There are plenty of options to choose from this week, just in case horror ain’t your thang. And that’s what makes this week’s lineup so interesting. We’re right in the thick of October, Halloween fever is in full swing, and yet not everything hitting theaters and streaming platforms is about scares, shocks, or things that go bump in the night.

So, whether you’re a diehard horror fan or someone who’d rather watch just about anything else, there’s a little something for everyone. And this week’s new releases are certainly no exception.

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🎥 Capturing Bigfoot
(Tues, Oct 20th — limited release)

Nearly 60 years later, the grainy Patterson-Gimlin footage continues to fuel one of the biggest mysteries surrounding Bigfoot. This new documentary takes another look at the infamous 60 seconds of film that captivated the public and sparked decades of debate among believers and skeptics. But the story goes beyond whether the footage was real or an elaborate hoax, exploring the people and families behind it, and how bitter disputes over ownership, money, and legacy have kept the controversy alive for generations.

🎥 Clayface
(Fri, Oct 23rd — wide release)

James Gunn’s DC Universe is still finding its footing, and this could very well be the change of pace it needs. Directed by Speak No Evil helmer James Watkins, this part body-horror, part supervillain origin film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, a rising Hollywood actor left horribly disfigured after a violent altercation. An experimental treatment restores his face but leaves him with a disturbing new ability to mold and reshape his appearance much like clay. Co-starring Naomi Ackie and Max Minghella, the film sees Matt fighting to control his terrifying abilities as he slowly loses his grip on who he once was.

🎥 Wildwood
(Fri, Oct 23rd — wide release)

When her baby brother is kidnapped and taken deep into a mysterious forest outside Portland, Prue (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) sets out to rescue him, only to discover a hidden world filled with talking animals, strange mystics, and warring armies. Directed by Travis Knight, who returns to LAIKA’s stop-motion animation after Kubo and the Two Strings, the film features a voice cast that includes Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, and Charlie Day.

🎥 Klara and the Sun
(Fri, Oct 23rd — wide release)

Jenna Ortega stars in this quirky sci-fi fable from director Taika Waititi, playing an “Artificial Friend” who dreams of finding a home and someone to love. She gets her chance when she’s chosen to accompany Josie (Mia Tharia), a young girl struggling with illness and a complicated relationship with her mother (Amy Adams). Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, this heartfelt, fantasy-tinged drama explores loneliness, companionship, and what it means to be human, even when you’re not quite human yourself.

🎥 Ali G: Who Iz I?
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited engagement; one weekend only)

Sacha Baron Cohen dusts off his infamous wannabe gangster Ali G for his feature directorial debut. After twenty years of doing next to nothing, Ali discovers that his longtime girlfriend Julie (Morgana Robinson) is eight months pregnant. With fatherhood just around the corner, he heads to America hoping to revive his career and make a few bucks before the baby arrives. Naturally, that means more awkward encounters with unsuspecting people and plenty of Ali G’s usual ridiculous antics. Whether the joke still works after all these years is another question. Respek!

🎥 Wicker
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Olivia Colman stars in this darkly comic fantasy as an ostracized fisherwoman who’s had enough of being mocked for living alone. So, she asks the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to build her a husband entirely out of wicker. Enter Alexander Skarsgård as her surprisingly charming wooden companion, whose arrival stirs up all sorts of desire, fascination, and jealousy among the villagers. Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson and featuring makeup effects by Weta Workshop, this wonderfully bizarre fairy tale takes a wickedly funny look at the lengths one woman will go to find her happily ever after.

🎥 A Talent for Murder
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Helen Mirren unleashes her wickedly mean side as famed crime novelist Patricia Highsmith in this twisty psychological thriller. Based on Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Switzerland, the film follows a young literary agent (Alden Ehrenreich) tasked with convincing the notoriously difficult author to write one last Tom Ripley novel. But what starts as a tense meeting takes a sinister turn when the two begin concocting a murder mystery that feels a little too real for comfort. Co-starring Olivia Cooke and directed by Anton Corbijn, this darkly comic thriller proves that a good murder mystery doesn’t always stay on the page.

🎥 Fatherland
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Sometimes going home means confronting the ghosts you left behind. From Ida and Cold War director Paweł Pawlikowski comes this postwar historical drama starring Hanns Zischler as Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann and Sandra Hüller as his daughter Erika. Set in 1949, the story follows the two as they travel through a divided Germany, confronting painful memories, family tensions, and the lingering scars of war. It’s a journey through a country still struggling to come to terms with its past.

🎥 Love Language
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Lou, an aspiring novelist whose engagement has fallen apart, yet she makes a living writing wedding vows for other couples. Her love life gets complicated when she reconnects with an old college crush (Manny Jacinto), who’s about to marry one of her clients. Meanwhile, a charming newcomer (Anthony Ramos) offers another romantic possibility. Co-starring Isabel May, Lukas Gage, and Billie Lourd, this classic rom-com throwback asks whether someone who writes everyone else’s love story can finally figure out her own.

🎥 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release; in NY/LA)

John Turturro stars as Harry Lehman, an old-school pickpocket trying to get by in an increasingly cashless and digital-driven New York City. But when a stolen wallet turns up a valuable USB drive, Harry finds himself on the run from a crime family determined to get it back. Co-starring Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Jamie Lee Curtis, this crime comedy-drama from writer-director Noah Segan offers a warts-and-all love letter to New York and its disappearing breed of old-school thieves.

🎥 Possible Love
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Acclaimed Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong returns with his first film in eight years, following the award-winning Burning. Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Jeon Do-yeon, Cho Yeo-jeong, and Zo In-sung, this Korean drama explores class, desire, and dissatisfaction through two married couples from different walks of life. When a recently laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a wealthy filmmaker and her husband, a chance encounter gradually turns into something more intimate, bringing hidden desires and attractions to the surface.

🎥 5 Centimeters per Second
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

Based on the acclaimed 2007 anime film by Makoto Shinkai (of Your Name and Suzume fame), this live-action Japanese romantic drama follows two childhood friends who never quite get the chance to express their feelings. Takaki and Akari grow close in elementary school, bonding over their shared experiences of moving from place to place. But when their families relocate again, they drift apart, leaving behind feelings that never really fade. Directed by Yoshiyuki Okuyama and starring Hokuto Matsumura and Mitsuki Takahata, the film revisits a bittersweet story of first love, missed chances, and the people we never quite forget.

🎥 Human
(Fri, Oct 23rd — limited release)

All she wanted was a little late-night sexting. Instead, she gets a date with evil. From writer-director Matt Stuertz, this indie horror flick stars Jackie Kelly as Dani, an exhausted young woman living on a film set who reaches out to an ex-boyfriend for a little bedtime intimacy. Unfortunately, her late-night hookup attracts a sinister presence, turning an innocent exchange into a blood-soaked supernatural nightmare filled with psychological torment, gruesome encounters, and plenty of bizarre surprises. Sometimes texting an ex is a bad idea. This time, it’s downright deadly.

🎥 Marie Antoinette: 20th Anniversary
(Fri, Oct 23rd — re-release)

Twenty years ago, Sofia Coppola’s unconventional Marie Antoinette biopic divided critics and struggled at the box office. Today, it’s a cult favorite, perhaps even one of the director’s best works. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, and an ensemble cast, the 2006 historical drama pairs lavish 18th-century costumes with ’70s and ’80s new wave and punk rock music. What once seemed like an odd choice has become part of its charm. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, MUBI is bringing the film back to theaters in a new 4K restoration. Time to rediscover a film that may have been ahead of its time.

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🎦 Moana
(Wed, Oct 21st — streaming on Disney+)

A young wayfinder answers the Ocean’s call and ventures beyond Motunui’s reef for the first time, hoping to restore prosperity to her people. Catherine Lagaʻaia leads Disney’s live-action reimagining, with Dwayne Johnson returning as the demigod Maui. Directed by Thomas Kail, the fantasy adventure brings the island community’s story into live action while keeping its central journey intact: sometimes protecting home means having the courage to leave it.

🎦 The Cycle
(Fri, Oct 23rd — premiering on Shudder)

Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll stars in this creepy Shudder horror thriller as Meg, a forensic anthropologist examining three dead bodies, only to discover that one belongs to her father, who disappeared 36 years ago. His remains show signs of severe trauma, and things get even stranger when Meg starts having terrifying nightmares about him coming back to life. Except those nightmares might not be nightmares after all. Co-starring Jeffrey Donovan and directed by The Head Hunter’s Jordan Downey, this supernatural creature feature has drawn praise since its Fantastic Fest premiere for Woll’s performance and some seriously nasty practical effects. Sounds like a perfect Halloween pick to us.

🎦 Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
(Fri, Oct 23rd — premiering on Netflix)

Maria Bamford isn’t like most stand-up comedians, and she’s certainly not for everyone. But that’s part of what makes her so unique. Filmmaker and fellow comedian Judd Apatow co-directs this documentary exploring Bamford’s unusual brand of comedy and her personal struggles with mental health, which have helped shape her distinctive voice. Featuring admirers like Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert, the film offers an affectionate look at a comedian whose humor has always operated on its own wavelength. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.

🎦 RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate
(Fri, Oct 23rd — streaming on Hulu / Disney+)

Street justice gets served with a grindhouse kick in this pulpy revenge thriller from RZA. Shameik Moore stars as a former soldier and ex-con who uncovers a sinister conspiracy in a town where young men keep disappearing. With Quentin Tarantino presenting and RJ Cyler, Paris Jackson, Blair Underwood, and more co-starring, this action-charged thriller brings the hammer down.

🎦 Finding Emily
(Fri, Oct 23rd — streaming on Peacock)

Love can be maddening... especially when you’re texting the wrong person. Musician Owen (Spike Fearn) teams up with psychology student Sami (Angourie Rice) to track down the girl he believes is his soulmate after a phone-number mix-up. Their campus-wide search soon becomes a viral story of unrequited love, while unexpected feelings begin growing between Owen and Sami, proving the heart rarely follows a straight line in this British rom-com.

🎦 The Invite
(Fri, Oct 23rd — streaming on HBO Max)

Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen play a long-married San Francisco couple whose dinner with upstairs neighbors Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz turns painfully awkward when an unexpected invitation crosses a few boundaries. Directed by Wilde and written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, this dramedy adapts Cesc Gay’s Sentimental into a pressure-cooker relationship comedy where one uncomfortable night brings years of tension, desire, and insecurity bubbling to the surface.

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✅ By Any Means
(Tues, Oct 20th — on VOD/Digital)

You can’t fight fire with fire, but sometimes you have to fight dirty. Based on true events, this historical crime drama stars Mark Wahlberg as notorious Mafia hitman Greg Scarpa, who forms an unlikely alliance with a Black FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) investigating the murders of civil-rights leaders in 1960s Mississippi. With justice on the line, the FBI turns to a man whose methods are anything but legal. The film revisits a dark chapter in American history when fighting for justice meant crossing some dangerous lines.

✅ The Weight
(Tues, Oct 20th — on VOD/Digital)

Ethan Hawke stars as Samuel Murphy, a widower in 1930s Oregon who is sent to a brutal prison and offered one very dangerous way out. Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) wants Samuel and several other inmates (Austin Amelio and Avi Nash) to smuggle stolen government gold out of a remote mine, survive the trip, and maybe earn their freedom. Julia Jones joins them as an Indigenous runaway in director Padraic McKinley’s period thriller, where the promise of liberty starts looking a lot like a death sentence.

✅ The Musical
(Tues, Oct 20th — on VOD/Digital)

Tony Award winner Will Brill stars in this dark comedy as Doug, a frustrated playwright stuck teaching middle-school theater while his career goes nowhere. Things get worse when his ex and fellow schoolteacher (Gillian Jacobs) starts dating the school’s painfully ordinary principal, played none other than by Rob Lowe. Fed up and nursing a bruised ego, Doug decides revenge is the only answer. His plan: stage an outrageously inappropriate student musical to trash the principal’s good name, using his entire classroom of innocent kids as unwitting accomplices.

✅ Capturing Bigfoot
(Tues, Oct 20th — exclusively on Prime Video)

Nearly 60 years later, the grainy Patterson-Gimlin footage continues to fuel one of the biggest mysteries surrounding Bigfoot. This new documentary takes another look at the infamous 60 seconds of film that captivated the public and sparked decades of debate among believers and skeptics. But the story goes beyond whether the footage was real or an elaborate hoax, exploring the people and families behind it, and how bitter disputes over ownership, money, and legacy have kept the controversy alive for generations.

✅ Tiny Fugitives
(Tues, Oct 20th — on VOD/Digital)

Summer camp is temporary. At least, it’s supposed to be. A reckless group of 12-year-olds decides they’d rather stay for good than go back to ordinary life, putting them on a collision course with Bob, Johnny Knoxville’s 50-year-old lifer counselor, who is determined to stop them. Michael Lewen directs this irreverent comedy about adolescent independence and increasingly elaborate sabotage, with Blake Anderson and Jay Baruchel joining the chaos.

✅ Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on VOD/Digital)

A simple attempt to fix the pumpkin patch goes very wrong when Shaun and the flock accidentally unleash a mysterious creature on Mossy Bottom Farm. With Halloween fast approaching, strange things start happening, the Farmer disappears, and Shaun has to lead the others through eerie woods and unexpected dangers to put things right. Aardman Animations brings its trademark stop-motion charm to this adventure, where even a little farmyard mishap can turn into a full-blown monster problem.

✅ Love Language
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on VOD/Digital)

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Lou, an aspiring novelist whose engagement has fallen apart, yet she makes a living writing wedding vows for other couples. Her love life gets complicated when she reconnects with an old college crush (Manny Jacinto), who’s about to marry one of her clients. Meanwhile, a charming newcomer (Anthony Ramos) offers another romantic possibility. Co-starring Isabel May, Lukas Gage, and Billie Lourd, this classic rom-com throwback asks whether someone who writes everyone else’s love story can finally figure out her own.

✅ Human
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on VOD/Digital)

All she wanted was a little late-night sexting. Instead, she gets a date with evil. From writer-director Matt Stuertz, this indie horror flick stars Jackie Kelly as Dani, an exhausted young woman living on a film set who reaches out to an ex-boyfriend for a little bedtime intimacy. Unfortunately, her late-night hookup attracts a sinister presence, turning an innocent exchange into a blood-soaked supernatural nightmare filled with psychological torment, gruesome encounters, and plenty of bizarre surprises. Sometimes texting an ex is a bad idea. This time, it’s downright deadly.

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📺 Phony
(Tues, Oct 20th — on Hulu / Disney+)

What if the woman you’ve always known as your mother suddenly feels like a complete stranger? Connie Britton and Sam Nivola star in this Nick Paley-created psychological thriller series as Ellen and Sonny, an inseparable mother and son whose relationship takes a disturbing turn after a car accident. Waking up injured in the hospital, Sonny begins to suspect that his mother isn’t who she claims to be. But if she isn’t his mother, then who is she, and what happened to the real one?

📺 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2
(Tues, Oct 20th — on Netflix)

Netflix is taking us back to the neon-soaked streets of Night City with a new standalone season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. This time, we’re following a fresh batch of misfits, including a former mercenary legend, a netrunner out for revenge, an aspiring filmmaker, and a young woman trying to escape a violent gang. Their paths eventually cross, pulling them into a dangerous mess of corporate secrets, old grudges, and the kind of trouble that usually gets you killed in Night City.

📺 Theo Von: I’m Doing Fine
(Tues, Oct 20th — on Netflix)

Comedian and podcaster Theo Von is back with his third Netflix stand-up special, his first in five years. With his trademark mullet, camo pants, and Southern Louisiana drawl, Von looks back on his childhood, the oddball characters he grew up around, and some pretty bizarre acid-fueled adventures. It’s that wonderfully strange brand of humor that only Theo Von could pull off.

📺 The Terminal List: Season 2
(Wed, Oct 21st — on Prime Video)

Chris Pratt once again trades his usual goofball charm for something considerably darker as his military conspiracy thriller series returns for Season 2. Still haunted by his past, former Navy SEAL James Reece (Pratt) finds himself recruited for another dangerous covert mission. Based on Jack Carr’s novel True Believer, the new season brings back Constance Wu, alongside newcomers Gabriel Luna, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper. And if Reece thought he’d already been through hell, well, he might have just signed up for a second trip.

📺 Where’s Wanda?: Season 2
(Wed, Oct 21st — on Apple TV)

Nothing like a little murder to bring a family together, right? Lea Drinda returns as Wanda Klatt in Season 2 of the German dark comedy, and wouldn’t you know it, she’s caught standing over a dead body. Talk about bad timing! Now her parents, played by Heike Makatsch and Axel Stein, are once again dragged into another murder mystery. And clearing Wanda’s name means digging into their quiet suburb’s criminal underbelly. Because apparently, solving murders is becoming something of a family tradition.

📺 The New Stanford Prison Experiment
(Wed, Oct 21st — on Netflix)

Is it human nature to follow orders or take control? This new docu-reality series puts that question to the test as 30 volunteers take part in a controlled social experiment inspired by the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Divided into prisoners and guards, participants discover just how quickly power can corrupt and how easily people can fall in line. Decades after the controversial original, this modern-day experiment asks whether human nature has really changed all that much.

📺 All the Queen’s Men: Season 5 Part 2
(Wed, Oct 21st — on Paramount+)

It’s the beginning of the end for Madam’s empire. Eva Marcille returns as Marilyn “Madam” DeVille for the final episodes of Season 5, with Club Eden in serious trouble. Madam’s been shot, her attacker is still out there, and her enemies are circling. Meanwhile, Blue, Dime, Amp, and the dancers find themselves caught between shifting loyalties and dangerous power plays. After five seasons, who’s going to be left standing when it’s all over?

📺 Just One Before I Die
(Wed, Oct 21st — on TUBI)

Think your town has some diehard sports fans? Well, the folks in Buffalo might have you beat. This five-part docuseries takes us inside the wild world of Bills Mafia, from outrageous tailgate parties and table-smashing traditions to the heartbreak of another season without a Super Bowl victory. But win or lose, these fans keep coming back, year after year. Because for Bills Mafia, loyalty isn’t just about football. It’s practically a family tradition, passed down through generations.

📺 Nobody Wants This: Season 3
(Thurs, Oct 22nd — on Netflix)

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody return as Joanne and Noah in Netflix’s hit romantic comedy series. She’s a non-Jewish woman, he’s a charming rabbi, and they’re trying to make their relationship work. The problem? Joanne still isn’t sure whether she’s ready to convert before getting married, especially now that they’re starting to think about a future together, including the possibility of having children. Created by Erin Foster, the series reminds us that falling in love is the easy part. It’s everything that comes afterward that gets complicated. Mazel tov!

📺 Swipe Right on the Devil
(Thurs, Oct 22nd — on Hulu / Disney+)

This one’s for all you true-crime junkies out there. We’re talking murder, small-town secrets, a Tinder date gone horribly wrong, and even allegations of a secret coven of witches. Yowza! This new docuseries revisits the disturbing 2017 disappearance and murder of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe, a young Nebraska woman whose Tinder date led investigators down a bizarre path involving manipulation, alleged witchcraft, and two killers with some horrifying secrets. Seriously, you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

📺 Time: Season 3
(Thurs, Oct 22nd — on BritBox)

David Tennant has played his fair share of troubled characters, but this one might be among his most guilt-ridden yet. In the third installment of Jimmy McGovern’s prison anthology, Tennant plays Bailey, a veteran officer at a Young Offenders Institution who finds himself carrying a terrible secret after a devastating tragedy. Meanwhile, a group of teenage inmates struggles to survive their first months behind bars, where friendships are tested, loyalties are pushed to the breaking point, and the truth isn’t always easy to face.

📺 Lupin: Part 4
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on Netflix)

After four years behind bars, master thief Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is finally a free man, and all he wants is a fresh start with his family. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, not quite. In Season 4 of the hit French crime-caper series, Assane finds himself targeted by a mysterious copycat who’s framing him for crimes he didn’t commit. And this time, clearing his name means outsmarting someone who might be just as clever as he is.

📺 YAGA
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on AMC+)

A missing person case isn’t closed until you find them, dead or alive. Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid stars in this darkly comic Canadian detective series as Charlie Rapp, a private investigator searching for a missing heir in a small coastal town. His investigation leads him to a mysterious professor (Carrie-Anne Moss) with a taste for younger men and possibly a little black magic. Inspired by the Baba Yaga witch legend, this isn’t your typical murder mystery.

📺 Happy’s Place: Season 3
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on NBC, Next Day on Peacock)

Think multi-camera sitcoms are a thing of the past? Well, Reba McEntire begs to differ! She’s back for Season 3 as Bobbie, the no-nonsense owner of a Tennessee tavern, where running a bar is anything but easy. Between her newfound half-sister (Belissa Escobedo), a lovable crew of oddballs, and a possible new romance, Bobbie’s got her hands full. Melissa Peterman and Rex Linn also return for another round of laughs. So pull up a stool, folks. Happy’s is open for business!

📺 Newlyweds
(Fri, Oct 23rd — on NBC, Next Day on Peacock)

Real-life spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play newlyweds who might have rushed into marriage before really getting to know each other. She’s a free spirit, he’s a buttoned-up professor, and their very different worlds are about to collide. Created by Gail Lerner, this new NBC sitcom also stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Daly’s ex-wife, adding another wrinkle to an already complicated situation. Because, as these two are discovering, saying “I do” was the easy part. It’s everything afterward that gets messy.

📺 The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers
(Sun, Oct 25th — on Peacock)

They had the money, the connections, and the million-dollar smiles. But behind their glamorous lifestyles, the Alexander brothers were allegedly hiding something extremely shocking and deeply disturbing. This three-part true-crime docuseries follows their rise through Miami and New York’s luxury real estate scene and the disturbing allegations of drugging, sexual assault, and sex trafficking that brought their world crashing down. Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, it raises an unsettling question: Just how much can wealth and privilege help someone get away with?

📺 A Course Called Ireland
(Sun, Oct 25th — on Paramount+)

What happens when Bill Murray takes a road trip across Ireland with his longtime friend and golfing buddy, bestselling author Tom Coyne? Well, thankfully, someone thought to bring a camera along to find out. The Ghostbusters star hits some of Ireland’s most legendary golf courses, with family and a few famous friends joining them along the way. But there’s more to this trip than just golf. There are plenty of laughs, colorful locals, and, of course, a pint or two of Guinness. Because sometimes the best part of a golf trip has nothing to do with golf. Bottoms up!

this week's releases

🎥 “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” Trailer: Greta Gerwig Brings a Little Rock ’n’ Roll Magic to C. S. Lewis’s Fantasy World with Daniel Craig, Emma Mackey, and Carey Mulligan — In IMAX Theaters February 12, 2027, and Streaming on Netflix April 2, 2027

After the massive success of Barbie, filmmaker Greta Gerwig seemingly had Hollywood at her fingertips. She could have taken on just about any project she wanted. And we’re sure more than a few studio executives would have loved to see her jump straight into a Barbie sequel. Financially, it probably would have made perfect sense.

Instead, she turned to something a little more personal: C. S. Lewis’s beloved Narnia books, fantasy adventures that had captured her imagination since childhood. Of course, Hollywood has been down this road before, with an earlier attempt to turn the books into a major film franchise that started strong but eventually lost momentum. So there’s certainly some risk in giving Narnia another shot.

And while Barbie was no small undertaking, it may have been just a warm-up for what could be Gerwig’s most ambitious project yet. If anything, it’s another sign of a filmmaker who has little interest in being boxed into any particular genre, style, or expectation of what she should do next.

Now working under the Netflix banner, Gerwig, at least in theory, should have plenty of creative room to bring her own vision of C. S. Lewis’s fantasy world to the screen. And judging by the recently released first trailer, we’re already getting a taste of her particular spin on Narnia. For starters, there’s Led Zeppelin.

A playful rendition of “Stairway to Heaven” sets the tone for this new Narnia adaptation, bringing a distinctly British classic rock sensibility to Lewis’s fantasy world. Gerwig also seems to be having some fun with the visuals, contrasting the more grounded, period look of London with the colorful, glam rock-inspired fantasy worlds hidden beyond it, occasionally blending the two into something altogether more surreal. We’re sure Gerwig fans will have a field day picking apart all the cinematic and musical influences once it’s all said and done.

The film also features a stellar cast, including Daniel Craig as the eccentric magician Andrew Ketterley, Emma Mackey as the sinister White Witch, Carey Mulligan as Mabel Kirke, and Meryl Streep lending her voice to the mighty lion Aslan. Meanwhile, newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell take on the roles of Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, the two young adventurers at the heart of Narnia’s origin story.

Gerwig’s adaptation has already become something of a talking point among industry insiders and longtime Narnia fans alike. On one side, there have been reports of behind-the-scenes tensions with Netflix over the film’s distribution plans. On the other, fans have been debating Gerwig’s creative and artistic choices. Whatever the case, people are talking. And at a time when movies seem to come and go in the blink of an eye, we’d say keeping the conversation going is a good thing.

Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has been positioned as the first installment in Netflix’s ambitious new adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s beloved fantasy series, with Gerwig laying the groundwork for what the streamer undoubtedly hopes will become its next major film franchise. The film is also getting a rare theatrical release in IMAX before making its way to Netflix. It’s set to open in theaters on February 12, 2027, followed by its Netflix debut on April 2, 2027, giving audiences nearly two months between releases.

Rumor has it, however, that Gerwig has been pushing for a more substantial theatrical rollout, though Netflix still appears to be weighing its options. After all, traditional theatrical distribution is something the streaming giant has long resisted, even if it has slowly begun to warm up to the idea. Perhaps Gerwig will need a little magic of her own to break that spell.

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“The Beekeeper 2” Trailer: Jason Statham Is Back to Break More Bones, Because Apparently There Are Still Some Left, in This Action Sequel Directed by Timo Tjahjanto — Arriving In Theaters January 15th

Now, we know what you’re thinking: Didn’t they already make The Beekeeper 2?

Well, no. You’re probably just confusing it with the five other Jason Statham action movies he’s made since the first one. And really, who could blame you? At this point, they’re all starting to blur together into one big, fist-pounding, arm-breaking fever dream. Same scowling Statham. Same bone-crunching beatdowns. Hell, even the same outfit: a light brown workman’s jacket, jeans, and work boots.

But look, Statham knows which side his bread is buttered on. Why mess with a winning formula? Just keep churning out those bone-crunching action flicks, give audiences exactly what they came for, and call it a day. And apparently, we’re more than happy to keep showing up. Which brings us to The Beekeeper 2, arriving in theaters this January.

For those who need a refresher, the original Beekeeper hit theaters in 2024, with Statham playing Adam Clay, a former government assassin turned beekeeper who was perfectly content living off the grid and minding his own business. That is, until a close friend fell victim to a phishing scam, sending Clay on a one-man mission to make everyone responsible regret their life choices. What began as a personal vendetta quickly snowballed into a full-blown conspiracy involving the U.S. president and her corrupt son. Naturally, things ended with a massive shootout at the president’s seaside mansion, where some ugly truths came spilling out, along with enough bullets to leave a considerable body count.

Now Clay is back. Only this time, he’s a wanted man, still carrying out his vendetta against those who wronged him. And judging by the looks of things, he’s got plenty more bones to break.

This time around, cult Indonesian action director Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, Nobody 2) takes the reins, stepping in for David Ayer, who directed the first film. Jeremy Irons also returns as Clay’s former CIA handler, Wallace Westwyld, alongside Emmy Raver-Lampman and Bobby Naderi, reprising their roles as FBI agents Verona Parker and Matt Wiley. Mission: Impossible and Guardians of the Galaxy star Pom Klementieff joins the cast, alongside fellow newcomers Yara Shahidi and Adam Copeland.

The Beekeeper 2 hits theaters January 15, 2027. Just imagine what the popcorn bucket for this one would look like.

🎥 “Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There” Trailer: New Documentary Explores the Life and Career of the Legendary Animator Who Walked Away From Disney to Build a Rival Animation Studio — Arriving November 20th on VOD/Digital Platforms

Ask any hardcore animation fan to list their favorite animators of all time, and Don Bluth will likely rank near the top. Every generation of trailblazing animators has its share of visionaries and radicals. Bluth might just fall into both categories.

Considered one of Disney’s most talented rising animators in the 1970s, Bluth did the unthinkable: he walked away from a stable job at the Mouse House to start his own studio and take on the animation giant in a toe-to-toe battle for the future of traditional animation. What followed was an incredible string of groundbreaking animated films that would become childhood favorites for many, including The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Anastasia.

His work rivaled what Disney was producing at the time, proving that an independent animation studio could thrive outside the Mouse House’s stranglehold on the industry. Sadly, Bluth and his studio couldn’t maintain that momentum forever. Financial troubles, box-office disappointments, and a rapidly changing animation industry eventually took their toll. But for one memorable stretch, Bluth was the animator who took on Disney in a face-off and made the Mouse House blink first. And for that, he’s earned his place in animation history as one of the greats. Plus, he also helped create the groundbreaking ’80s arcade game Dragon’s Lair, and in our book, that alone makes him a freakin’ legend.

In Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There, directors Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker revisit Bluth’s extraordinary career through never-before-seen archival footage and personal interviews. This new indie documentary explores the creative triumphs, financial struggles, and personal sacrifices that came with stepping out of Disney’s shadow and trying to build an animation empire of his own. Turns out, bringing animated dreams to life isn’t always a fairy tale. But damn it, it’s a ride worth taking.

Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There is due to arrive on VOD and Digital platforms on November 20th.

🎥 “Being Heumann” Trailer: Ruth Madeley Leads a Historic Fight for Disability Rights in Siân Heder’s 1970s Protest Drama Co-Starring Mark Ruffalo — In Select Theaters November 6th, Streaming on Apple TV November 13th

“Stick it to the Man!” “Power to the People!” Protest slogans like these get to the heart of a familiar struggle: how do you bring about change when those in power refuse to budge, no matter how loudly people demand to be heard? But what often gets overlooked is what happens when people from different backgrounds, each facing their own hardships and struggles, come together for a common cause. Suddenly, those in charge have a much harder time ignoring them.

That’s what makes this true-life 1970s protest drama, Being Heumann, so interesting. It’s a simple reminder of how people who have spent years being ignored can become a powerful force when they stand together in solidarity. How the many can outweigh the few, even when those few seem to hold all the power.

From Siân Heder, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning drama CODA, comes another heartfelt story about people fighting to be heard and refusing to let the world overlook them. And taking a similar approach to her previous film, Heder has filled much of her cast with disabled actors, bringing an added sense of authenticity to the project.

Featuring Ruth Madeley as legendary disability rights activist Judy Heumann, Being Heumann dramatizes the historic 1977 Section 504 sit-in. For 26 days, hundreds of protesters occupied a federal building in San Francisco, demanding that the government finally enforce civil rights protections that had long been promised to disabled Americans.

At the center of the nationwide protests was Heumann, a tenacious wheelchair-using polio survivor who devoted her life to fighting for the rights of people with disabilities. While she would eventually become known as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement,” one of her defining achievements was helping lead this historic sit-in. She also helped bring together different groups within the 1970s civil rights movement, building an extraordinary coalition of people willing to stand up (or sit up) for one another. It showed just how much marginalized communities could accomplish by joining forces.

Mark Ruffalo co-stars as Joseph Califano, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter. His delay in signing disability rights regulations put him directly at odds with the protesters, making him one of the central targets of their demands.

Madeley and Ruffalo are joined by Dylan O’Brien, Madeline Delp, Rob Delaney, Daniel Durant, Antwan Tolliver, and Ray Fisher. Heder co-wrote the screenplay with Rebekah Taussig, adapting Heumann’s memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, co-written with Kristen Joiner.

Heumann’s fight for disability rights continued long after 1977. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed her Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. State Department, further cementing her reputation as one of the leading voices in the disability rights movement. She was also featured in the acclaimed Netflix documentary Crip Camp (which we highly recommend) that explored the early days of the disability rights movement and Heumann’s contributions to it. Over the years, documentaries and specials have revisited the historic sit-in, including one particularly funny Drunk History episode (which we also highly recommend).

Being Heumann is set to open in select theaters on November 6th, before making its streaming debut on Apple TV on November 13th.

🎥 “The Mosquito Bowl” Trailer: Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård Star as College Football Players Turned U.S. Marines in Peter Berg’s WWII Drama Based on a Bestselling Book by ‘Friday Night Lights’ Author Buzz Bissinger — In Select Theaters October 30th and on Netflix November 25th

Filmmaker Peter Berg knows a thing or two about football. After all, he adapted Buzz Bissinger’s bestselling book Friday Night Lights into a critically acclaimed 2004 film before bringing the story to television with an equally acclaimed series.

Now he’s heading back to the gridiron with another football drama based on a true story. Only this time, there are a lot more explosions and war-torn battlefields involved. And no, we’re not speaking metaphorically here. We’re talking about a real-life war, with the action unfolding both on and off the football field.

Netflix’s upcoming World War II drama The Mosquito Bowl has Berg telling the largely untold story of a football game played by U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal ahead of the brutal invasion of Okinawa in 1945.

Boasting a strong ensemble cast led by Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis, the film is part war drama, part sports drama, and part tribute to the young soldiers whose promising futures were cut short far too soon.

Once again drawing from a bestselling book by Bissinger, this time adapted for the screen by The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith alongside Berg, the film centers on a group of star college football players (Galitzine, Skarsgård, Nicholson, and Francis) who volunteer for military service during World War II and find themselves fighting together in the Pacific.

Amid the bloodshed and harsh realities of war, these men find a brief escape from combat through a football scrimmage meant to lift morale and remind them of the lives they left behind. But with the invasion of Okinawa fast approaching, the game offers one last taste of normalcy for these young men who know their next battle could very well be their last.

The game itself would come to be known as “The Mosquito Bowl,” a little-known chapter of World War II history that might have remained forgotten if not for Bissinger’s book.

The Mosquito Bowl is slated to open in select theaters on October 30th before arriving on Netflix on November 25th.

🎥 “Josephine” New Trailer: Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan Struggle to Help Their Young Daughter Cope After Witnessing a Brutal Crime in Sundance Award-Winning Psychological Drama from Writer-Director Beth de Araújo — In Select Theaters November 20th, Expanding December 4th

For a parent, there’s no greater fear than being unable to protect their child. But what happens when that child witnesses something traumatic firsthand? Can parents still shield them from unforeseeable danger, or must they face the painful truth that some things are simply beyond their control? Those questions are at the heart of this psychological drama, where a single act of violence shatters a young girl’s sense of safety and leaves her parents struggling with their own fears and feelings of helplessness. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film stars Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan as the parents of eight-year-old Josephine (newcomer Mason Reeves), who witnesses a brutal crime in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The experience leaves her frightened, angry, and struggling to make sense of what she saw. But as Josephine’s behavior becomes increasingly unpredictable, her parents find themselves at an emotional crossroads, unsure how to help their daughter while wrestling with their own fears and difficult questions about justice. Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t facing what happened, but finding a way to move forward without letting the trauma take over your life.

🎥 “A Long Winter” Trailer: Filmmaker Andrew Haigh Returns with Another Heartbreaking, Awards-Worthy Drama Starring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Caitríona Balfe — In Theaters January 22nd

When we look back at the 1950s, we tend to see everything through rose-colored glasses. Life seemed simpler, slower, and a whole lot less complicated. But appearances can be deceiving. Look a little closer, and you’ll find plenty of cracks and sadness hiding behind those seemingly picture-perfect families. Acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Haigh, known for 45 Years and All of Us Strangers, explores that quiet heartbreak in his latest drama, featuring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor, and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. Set in the Rocky Mountains during the early 1950s, the story follows a young man (Hechinger) whose family is already struggling with his brother’s absence during the Korean War. When his unhappy mother (Balfe) suddenly disappears into a snowstorm, prompting an extensive search, he and his father (Moss-Bachrach) must confront the painful truths tearing their family apart. Based on Colm Tóibín’s short story, this slow-burning, wintry drama explores hidden desires, depression, and everything left unsaid. Judging by the buzz, it certainly looks like another awards contender from Andrew Haigh, and it could deliver one hell of an emotional wallop.

🎥 “River” Trailer: Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe Are Hunted by a Mysterious Riverbank Killer in Blumhouse’s New Slasher Thriller — In Theaters January 15th

A nice dip in the river might sound like a refreshing idea, but in this new Blumhouse horror film, it’s anything but. Jane Levy (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) and Jessica Rothe (the Happy Death Day films) star as two estranged sisters who reunite with their younger brother (Max Mattern) in their rural hometown following their father’s death. Hoping to honor his final wishes, the three set out to scatter his ashes along his favorite riverbed, only to find themselves stranded when their boat breaks down. Things only get worse when a mysterious, ominous figure suddenly appears on the opposite riverbank, watching their every move. And he doesn’t seem too happy about having people nearby. After generating considerable buzz at this year’s TIFF, where Universal Pictures, Blumhouse, and Atomic Monster acquired the film in a reported $10 million-plus deal, the horror thriller marks the feature-film debut of writer-director Joshua Giuliano. And with horror enjoying another strong year, this one looks ready to keep that momentum going, preferably with an intense breaststroke.

🎥 “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” Trailer: Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson Takes a Break from Oscar-Winning Dramas to Capture Geese Frontman Cameron Winter Live at Carnegie Hall — 35mm Theatrical Tour Begins November 20th

Sure, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is known for making serious, Oscar-winning films. But hey, he’s like anyone else. Sometimes he just wants to kick back and enjoy a performance or two at Carnegie Hall. And sometimes he brings a camera crew along for the ride. Proving that PTA is the kind of filmmaker who does whatever he damn well pleases, he follows up One Battle After Another with something completely different: a concert film featuring Geese frontman Cameron Winter performing solo at Carnegie Hall. Filmed in December 2025, the documentary captures Winter at the piano after months of touring with his band, trading sold-out rock shows for an intimate night of music. Shot on 16mm and 35mm film (obviously), this reaffirms PTA’s passion for music, as he’s been known to direct a few music videos on the side. This time, he takes that passion a step further, turning a single night at Carnegie Hall into a full-blown concert film.

🎥 “A Dog’s Perfect Christmas” Trailer: Dennis Quaid and a Loyal Basset Hound Try to Bring a Fractured Family Back Together for the Holidays in Netflix’s New Christmas Canine Movie Also Starring Milo Ventimiglia, Mary Steenburgen, and Jennifer Tilly — Streams November 4th on Netflix

We live in divisive times, but there are still a few things most of us can agree on. Christmas... and dogs. And when you put the two together, you might just have the makings of the perfect Christmas movie. Dennis Quaid stars as a grieving grandfather trying to hold his family together as Christmas approaches. Things are already difficult enough, but a sudden family medical emergency only makes matters worse. With everyone struggling, their loyal basset hound, Winstead, takes it upon himself to reunite his himan family before Christmas Eve, with some unexpected help from a corgi puppy. Based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, the bestselling author of A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Way Home, and A Dog’s Journey, this holiday family drama also stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mary Steenburgen, and Jennifer Tilly, with Thomas Haden Church rounding out the cast as (what else?) the voice of Winstead himself.

🎥 “Hurricanna” Trailer: Sylvia Hoeks Portrays Anna Nicole Smith in a New Drama Exploring the Tragic Final Hours of Her Life, Co-Starring Holly Hunter and Mark Duplass — In Theaters January 8th

We already got an Anna Nicole Smith movie about her doctor earlier this month, and now here comes another one, this time focusing on the final hours of her life. Which raises the question: Is Hollywood genuinely interested in understanding the tragedy behind the celebrity, or is this just another case of morbid curiosity dressed up as a biopic? Hmm. Your guess is as good as ours. Here, Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049) takes on the role of the troubled model and reality TV star in this biographical drama chronicling the hours leading up to her tragic death in 2007. Holly Hunter plays her therapist, while Mark Duplass portrays Howard K. Stern, Smith’s longtime companion and attorney. Directed by Francesca Gregorini (The Truth About Emanuel), the film aims to examine the people closest to Smith during her final days, as her already chaotic life spiraled toward its heartbreaking conclusion.

🎥 “Ghost Soldier” New Trailer: Jim Caviezel Goes to War Against Corporate Land Grabbers in William Eubank’s Action Thriller with Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt, and Shea Whigham — In Theaters Veterans Day, November 11th

Sometimes you just need a chest-pumping action flick where the good guys stand up for the less fortunate. And if there’s some gunfire thrown into the mix? Yeah, hell yeah! Jim Caviezel (remember, he’s Jesus) stars as a former Special Forces soldier living off the grid whose quiet life is interrupted when a powerful foreign corporation threatens to seize his community’s land. But these corporate goons have no idea who they’re messing with. It’s Jesus, but armed with advanced weaponry and years of military training. And he’s more than ready to fight back with extreme prejudice. Directed by Land of Bad and Underwater filmmaker William Eubank, this old-school action thriller hits theaters over Veterans Day weekend. “Don’t Tread on Me” flags not included.

🎥 “Ramayana: Rise of a Legend” Trailer: India’s Legendary Epic Gets the Full Blockbuster Treatment with Massive Battles, Stunning Visuals, and the VFX Team Behind ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Dune’ — In IMAX Theaters November 5th

India has some of the most incredible myths and legends ever told. We’re talking gods, kings, epic battles, larger-than-life heroes, and stories so grand in scale that Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters might seem downright modest by comparison. And now, thanks to modern visual effects, filmmakers can finally bring these ancient tales to the big screen in ways that would have been almost unimaginable just a few decades ago. So imagine taking one of India’s most legendary epics and giving it the full blockbuster treatment. Massive battles, breathtaking visuals, larger-than-life characters, and a budget big enough to pull it all off. Yes, please! Well, feast your eyes on this sneak peek at director Nitesh Tiwari’s upcoming adaptation of the Ramayana, starring Ranbir Kapoor as Prince Rama, Yash as the mighty Ravana, and Sai Pallavi as Sita. And with visual effects talent behind Dune, The Odyssey, and Interstellar helping bring this epic to life, it looks like the filmmakers are pulling out all the stops.

🎥 “Steps” Trailer: Cinderella’s Wicked Stepsisters Get Their Side of the Story in Netflix’s Wild Animated Fairy Tale Comedy Featuring Ali Wong, Stephanie Hsu, and Amanda Seyfried — Premeires November 20th on Netflix

Turns out Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters might not be so wicked after all. Who knew? Well, that’s the idea behind this animated fairy tale comedy, which flips the classic story on its head and gives those notoriously nasty stepsisters a chance to tell their side of things. Comedian Ali Wong (Beef) voices Lilith, who gets her hands on the Fairy Godmother’s magic wand and promptly makes a royal mess of everything. First, she accidentally turns her sister Margot (Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Stephanie Hsu) into a frog. Then, to make matters worse, she leaves the entire kingdom at the mercy of a power-hungry villain. Oops. Now Lilith has no choice but to team up with Cinderella (The Housemaid’s Amanda Seyfried) to undo the damage and hopefully turn her sister back into something a little less... amphibious. With Bette Midler, Daniel Radcliffe, and Peter Dinklage also lending their voices, this Netflix adventure gives the familiar Cinderella story a wildly different spin. Apparently, being wicked is all a matter of perspective.

🎥 “Hexed” Trailer: Hailee Steinfeld Discovers She’s a Teenage Witch in Disney’s New Animated Fantasy Adventure with Rashida Jones, Walton Goggins, and Jodie Foster — In Theaters November 25th

Being a teenager is hard enough with the daily grind of school, parents, and trying to fit in, but finding out you’re a witch too? Well, that’s a whole different level of problems you gotta deal with. Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie Doe, a rebellious 16-year-old who discovers she has magical powers and suddenly finds herself transported from ordinary suburbia to Hexe, a fantastical world filled with witches and enchanted creatures. Along for the adventure are her overprotective mother (Rashida Jones) and a mysterious three-eyed cat (Walton Goggins). As Billie begins uncovering long-buried family secrets, she also finds herself up against a sinister queen (Oscar winner Jodie Foster) determined to hold on to her power. Think Harry Potter... but instead of wizards, it’s witches! Directed by Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand, Disney’s animated fantasy adventure puts a magical spin on the mother-daughter relationship, as Billie learns that figuring out who she is also means confronting what her family has been hiding.

🎥 “Allen” Teaser: From the Team Behind ‘Bluey’ Comes an Offbeat Aussie Sci-Fi Comedy About a Guy Reuniting with His Alien Best Friend After 20 Years — Debuts November 12th on Netflix

From Ludo Studio, the Australian team behind Bluey, comes this quirky sci-fi comedy about what happens when your childhood best friend, who just happens to be an alien from outer space, suddenly shows up after 20 years, only to turn your grown-up life upside down. T.J. Power stars in this offbeat Aussie alien comedy as a dude who reunites with his extraterrestrial best bud after he returns to Earth. Also starring Charlotte Nicdao, Josh Helman, and Emily Barclay, and directed by Daley Pearson and Jeffrey Walker, the film sets out to answer that hypothetical question: What if Elliott got the chance to reunite with E.T. all these years later?

🎥 “Guarding Stars” Trailer: Leighton Meester Plays Bodyguard and Fake Girlfriend to Hollywood Action Star Jared Padalecki in Netflix’s New Christmas Rom-Com — Streams November 18th on Netflix

There are a few guarantees in life: death, taxes, and Netflix dropping a crap ton of Christmas movies over the next few months. Well, here’s another one to add to the pile. Leighton Meester stars as Hannah Brooks, a no-nonsense bodyguard hired to protect Hollywood action star Jack Stapleton (Jared Padalecki) from a stalker. But when Jack heads home to his family’s ranch for the holidays, Hannah finds herself posing as his girlfriend to keep their security arrangement under wraps. Of course, between the Christmas festivities, family gatherings, and all that pretending to be a couple, keeping things strictly professional becomes a whole lot harder than either of them expected.

🎥 “In a Holidaze” Trailer: It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Meets Christmas as Maddie Ziegler Gets Stuck Reliving the Same Holiday in Netflix’s New Rom-Com from the Director of “Holidate” — Debuts December 2nd on Netflix

It’s Groundhog Day, but with Christmas, a cozy cabin, and enough romantic baggage to fill Santa’s sleigh. Maddie Ziegler stars as Mae, a twenty-something whose holiday getaway goes completely off the rails when she finds herself stuck reliving the same Christmas over and over again. And as if being trapped in an endless holiday loop weren’t enough, she’s also caught between two brothers (Graham Phillips and Elias Kacavas), making an already complicated love life even messier. Directed by Holidate helmer Tiffany Paulsen and co-starring Rob Lowe, this Netflix holiday rom-com proves that sometimes finding the right person takes a few tries. Or, in Mae’s case, an endless loop of tries.

🎥 “Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas” Trailer: Tyler Perry Squeezes One More Movie Into His Busy Year, Bringing Tank, Fantasia Barrino, and Some of Gospel Music’s Biggest Names Together for a Christmas Movie — Premieres on Netflix November 11th

There are prolific filmmakers, and then there’s Tyler Perry, who takes the whole idea of being a workaholic to another level. With several projects already under his belt this year, Perry apparently isn’t about to call it quits without squeezing in a Christmas movie, too. And this time, he’s bringing some of gospel music’s biggest names along for the ride. Starring Tank and Fantasia Barrino, Perry’s latest holiday drama follows a struggling pastor who moves his family to New York City, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself trying to save a rundown neighborhood church from foreclosure before Christmas. And with gospel legends CeCe Winans, Yolanda Adams, and Shirley Caesar joining the festivities, you can bet there’ll be plenty of singing, soul-searching, and, knowing Perry, a few tears along the way. All that’s missing is a Christmas miracle.

🎥 “Loves Company” Trailer: Rachel Dratch Channels Her Inner Annie Wilkes in a Twisted Misery-Inspired Dark Comedy with Jack Plotnick as a Washed-Up TV Star Held Captive by His Biggest Fan — On VOD/Digital November 10th

SNL icon Rachel Dratch channels her inner Annie Wilkes from Misery, the infamous character that earned Kathy Bates an Oscar for taking a sledgehammer to James Caan’s ankles. So, picture Misery, but with a lot more laughs. Dratch stars as Antoinette, a lonely Florida woman who gets the surprise of her life when her favorite washed-up game-show celebrity (Jack Plotnick) crashes near her home in the Everglades. She takes him in, but the bedridden TV star soon begins to suspect that his biggest fan might actually be holding him captive. And when he realizes that a kidnapping scandal could be just what his dying career needs, things take an even stranger turn. Written and directed by Jason Laurits, this dark comedy puts a hilariously twisted spin on celebrity obsession.

🎥 “The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable” Trailer: How Lifelong Wu-Tang Clan Superfan/Producer Cilvaringz Helped Create One of Hip-Hop’s Most Controversial Albums in This New Wu-Tang Documentary — Streaming Now, October 16th on Netflix

This is really a story about two things: how the legendary Wu-Tang Clan came to create one of their most controversial albums, and how a lifelong superfan worked his way into the group’s inner circle to help make it happen. Oscar-winning documentary producer Joanna Natasegara (The White Helmets) makes her feature directorial debut with this fascinating look at one of hip-hop’s most unusual recording projects: Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Produced as a single physical copy, packaged in an ornate silver box, and eventually sold at auction for millions of dollars, the album raised a few questions. Was it a display of sheer hubris, a clever promotional stunt, or a genuine act of artistic expression? But perhaps the better question is: how did the whole thing even begin? Well, that story starts with Dutch-Moroccan hip-hop producer Tarik Azzougarh, better known as Cilvaringz. A lifelong Wu-Tang superfan, Cilvaringz gradually worked his way into the music industry and eventually into the group’s inner circle. When he finally got the opportunity to collaborate with his musical heroes, he helped spearhead a project that would become one of the most ambitious and controversial chapters in Wu-Tang Clan’s history.

🎥 “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” Trailer: Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, and Lola Petticrew Star in Clio Barnard’s Moving Drama About Friendship, Growing Up, and Growing Apart — In UK Theaters December 4th

Growing up together is one thing. Staying friends when life starts pulling everyone in different directions? Well, that’s one of the hard truths of life. And it’s something five childhood friends are about to discover as they approach their 30s, each coming to terms with the realization that life hasn’t exactly turned out the way they imagined. Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, and Lola Petticrew, five fine examples of the rising talent coming out of Britain and Ireland, star in this new drama from acclaimed filmmaker Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava). Set in Birmingham, England, the film follows the longtime friends as they navigate relationships, family, money, and that nagging feeling that they should have figured out their lives by now.

🎥 “Forty Love” International Trailer: Romeo Beckham Makes His Acting Debut Opposite Paul Kircher in This Steamy French Tennis Drama Where Rivalry Turns Into Attraction — In French Theaters November 25

Romeo Beckham (yes, David Beckham’s son) is discovering that tennis is a sweaty and exhausting game for reasons he might not have expected. Making his acting debut, Beckham stars opposite Paul Kircher, who plays a promising young tennis player whose dreams of winning a major title in Paris get complicated when a handsome new rival enters the picture. With Guillaume Canet playing his demanding father and Catherine Deneuve also in the cast, this French romantic sports drama serves up a little more than your usual competition on the court. Think Heated Rivalry, but with less ice and more balls... well, tennis balls, that is.

🎥 “Queen(s)” Trailer: In a City of Millions, One Woman Struggles to Find a Place to Call Home in Anup Kurian’s Touching Immigrant Drama Starring Chi-Hua Lee-Secci — In Select NY Theaters November 13th

In a city of millions, it’s easy to feel invisible... or get lost in your own struggles. Writer-director Anup Kurian spent three years filming this intimate, poignant immigrant drama about people living in the city without papers, doing whatever they can to get by. Chi-Hua Lee-Secci stars as Sisi, an undocumented immigrant living in Queens, New York, where keeping a low profile isn’t just a choice. It’s a matter of survival. Taking whatever work she can find while trying to build a better life, Sisi struggles to get by in a world where one wrong move could cost her everything. Along her journey, though, she strikes up a few unexpected friendships that give her something she never thought she’d find: a sense of belonging. It’s a touching look at how a big city filled with people, cars, shops and tall buildings, can still be an incredibly lonely place for some.

🎥 “The Third Parent” Teaser: Based on Elias Witherow’s Viral Internet Horror Story, This Twisted Supernatural Nightmare Has Rob Lowe Opening the Door to a Houseguest from Hell — Coming Soon, Winter 2027

If you don’t know by now, viral internet horror stories have become some of the hottest properties in Hollywood. So here’s another one to add to the growing list. Based on Elias Witherow’s viral horror story, this supernatural nightmare follows a suburban family whose Fourth of July celebration takes a terrifying turn when a mysterious stranger shows up at their doorstep. Crispin Glover plays Tommy Taffy, a seemingly ordinary man with a seriously twisted idea of family values. And he’s not taking no for an answer. Rob Lowe and Roselyn Sánchez star as the unfortunate couple whose home is taken over by this unwelcome guest, who seems determined to make himself part of the family, whether they like it or not. Some visitors just don’t know when to leave. This one knows. He just doesn’t care.

🎥 “The Point Pleasant Tapes” Trailer: The Mothman Legend Gets the ‘Blair Witch Project’ Treatment in This Creepy Found-Footage Horror About Three Friends Who Vanish in the West Virginia Woods — On VOD/Digital November 24th

Remember the Mothman? That creepy, red-eyed, winged creature supposedly lurking around the woods of West Virginia? Well, here’s another good reason to stay the hell out of the forest, especially if you’re carrying a video camera. Set in 1987, this found-footage horror flick follows three friends who head to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, determined to uncover the truth behind the infamous Mothman legend. Because apparently, wandering into the woods looking for a mysterious flying monster sounds like a perfectly reasonable way to spend a weekend. Shot on location using vintage recording equipment, this creepy little indie horror dusts off the old Mothman legend and gives it the full Blair Witch Project treatment: shaky cameras, missing amateur investigators, and lost VHS tapes that mysteriously resurface decades later. Turns out Point Pleasant is anything but pleasant.

🎥 “Jimmy” Trailer: A Woman Discovers Her Latest Podcast Obsession Might Be Bringing a Notorious Killer Back From the Dead in This Dutch Horror Thriller Starring Sonia Eijken and Rick Paul van Mulligen — On VOD/Digital November 10th

True-crime podcasts can be downright addictive. But what happens when the true-crime story you’re listening to becomes all too real? In this new Dutch horror thriller, Sonia Eijken stars as Dilara, a young woman who returns to her hometown for a childhood friend’s funeral, reconnecting with old friends and getting hooked on a true-crime podcast about a notorious convicted killer named Jimmy (Rick Paul van Mulligen). And while it starts as a morbid fascination, her podcast obsession takes a disturbing turn when similar strange events begin happening in her own life. Beginning to suspect that Jimmy’s murderous legacy might not be as dead and buried as everyone thought, Dilara and her friends soon discover that some stories are better left unheard, especially when a dead killer might be using those recordings to reach the living.

🎥 “Trauma or, Monsters All” Trailer: Cult Horror Filmmaker Larry Fessenden Brings Classic Monsters Together for One Bloody Reunion in New Horror Flick — In Select Theaters November 4th

Indie horror maestro Larry Fessenden is getting the whole monster gang back together for one hell of a family reunion. And judging by the guest list, this isn’t exactly going to be a friendly little get-together. The filmmaker behind Habit, Depraved, and Wendigo returns with a gothic horror drama that brings his vampire, Frankenstein-inspired creation, and werewolf together under one roof. Well, figuratively speaking. Things get messy when an aspiring writer (Laëtitia Hollard) starts digging into a small town’s dark past, publishing a newspaper article that sends the locals into a panic over the possibility that actual monsters might be living among them. But as fear and paranoia take hold, one question hangs over the whole bloody mess: Who are the real monsters here? The creatures lurking in the shadows, or the supposedly civilized folks pointing fingers at them?

🎥 “Remnants” Trailer: Horror Filmmaker Ti West Brings the Scares Up Close in Apple’s First Immersive Horror Film Starring Lucy Boynton and Ralph Ineson — Now Available October 16th Exclusively on Apple Vision Pro

You want a fully immersive horror experience? Where the scares aren’t just on the screen but coming right at you? Well, horror filmmaker Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) might have just whipped up something for that. It’s a horror movie like no other, and it’s not playing at your local cinema or on your big-screen TV. It lives right there inside your Apple Vision Pro headset. That’s right, this fully immersive 3D technology has gotten a spooky upgrade just in time for Halloween. Ti West and his team, including stars Lucy Boynton and Ralph Ineson, have cooked up a new horror short that puts you right in the middle of the scares. It’s an immersive ghost story set inside the mysterious Woldmere Castle, where dark secrets are buried within its walls and a supernatural presence lurks around every corner. And with the film’s 180-degree immersive presentation, you’re not just watching the haunting unfold. You’re right there in the middle of it. The question is, are you ready to not only watch a horror movie but live it?

🎥 “Deville” Teaser: One Cadillac, Five Decades, and a Trunk Full of Dark Secrets, Walking Dead’s Steven Ogg Stars in the Opening Chapter of Luca Pizzoleo’s Ambitious Indie Horror Anthology — Currently in Production

Cars are built to last. But some have a few skeletons in the trunk. Spanning five decades, this dark anthology horror-thriller follows a 1978 Cadillac Coupe DeVille as it passes from one owner to the next, each chasing their own twisted version of the American dream. From criminals to ordinary folks, nobody realizes they’re becoming part of the car’s increasingly sinister history. Filmmaker Luca Pizzoleo kicks things off with The Maker, the first chapter starring The Walking Dead’s Steven Ogg, alongside Max Beesley, James Moses Black, and Holly Hubbell. Some people have unhealthy relationships with their cars. But this one might just have a very unhealthy relationship with its owners.

🎥 “Violette” Teaser: “Amélie” Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Returns with a Moving Drama About Love, Loss, and Buried Secrets Starring Leïla Bekhti and Matthias Schoenaerts — In French Theaters December 9th

Acclaimed Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns with a tender, bittersweet drama about finding love again, even when you’re not quite ready to let go of the past. French actress Leïla Bekhti (A Prophet, The Eddy) stars as Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in Burgundy who spends her days tending graves and listening to visitors share stories of love and loss. But Violette has painful memories of her own, including a past romance with a lost love (played by Supergirl and Bullhead actor Matthias Schoenaerts) that she would rather keep buried. When a local police chief arrives with an unusual request, her quiet life is disrupted, forcing her to confront a former life she has spent years trying to forget. Based on Valérie Perrin’s bestselling novel Fresh Water for Flowers, Jeunet’s latest reminds us that even in a place surrounded by death, there’s still room for life, love, and second chances.

🎥 “The Child (El niño)” Trailer: A Mother and Grandfather Struggle to Move On After an Unthinkable Tragedy in Mariano Barroso’s Heartbreaking Spanish Drama Starring Belén Cuesta and Karra Elejalde — In Theaters, Spain November 13th and on Netflix November 27th

The death of a young child might be the most tragic event a family will ever have to face. But when that death comes from a devastating disaster, the grief is compounded by a tremendous number of unanswered questions. Based on Fernando Aramburu’s novel and directed by Mariano Barroso, this emotional Spanish drama takes place in the Basque Country in 1980, following a mother and grandfather struggling to cope with the heartbreaking loss of nine-year-old Nuco in a gas explosion. Belén Cuesta plays Mariaje, a grieving mother desperately trying to rebuild her life, while Karra Elejalde portrays Nicasio, a grandfather who simply refuses to accept that his grandson is gone. When the pain becomes too much to bear, some find a way to move forward, while others desperately cling to the past, unable to let go.

🎥 “Adrenaline” Trailer: A Desperate FBI Agent (Constance Payne) Teams Up with a Wanted Fugitive (Louis Mandylor) to Rescue Her Kidnapped Daughter in This Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital November 24th

Don’t mess with moms. ‘Cuz sometimes the most dangerous person in the world is a mother with nothing left to lose. Constance Payne stars in this B-movie action thriller as a desperate mother and FBI agent who’s forced to team up with a wanted fugitive (played by Louis Mandylor) to bring her little girl home after she’s kidnapped by ruthless criminals during a family vacation. But finding her means this mama bear will have to venture into a dangerous criminal underworld where no one can be trusted, and no one had better stand in her way.

🎥 “Spectacle: Michael Jackson at the Super Bowl” Teaser: Bao Nguyen’s Documentary Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Michael Jackson’s Legendary 1993 Performance — Coming to Hulu and ESPN February 2027

Before Michael Jackson, the Super Bowl halftime show was just that: a little entertainment show to fill the break before the game resumed. Then came January 31, 1993, when the King of Pop stepped onto the field at the Rose Bowl and changed everything. Director Bao Nguyen, who previously explored Jackson’s musical legacy in The Greatest Night in Pop, takes us behind the scenes of that legendary performance, with never-before-seen footage and insights from the creative minds who helped put it all together. From its ambitious staging to its lasting influence on pop culture, this Hulu/ESPN documentary special looks back at the moment when a simple break in a football game became one of the biggest entertainment spectacles on Earth.

🎥 “Kordell Stewart / Slash & Burn” Trailer: HBO’s New NFL Documentary Revisits the Pittsburgh Steelers Star’s Career and the Damaging Rumor That Followed Him for Years — October 27th on HBO and HBO Max

You all heard that rumor about NFL quarterback Kordell Stewart back in the day, right? You know, the one that affected his personal life off the field and eventually started bleeding into his football career? Well, truth be told, we have no clue what rumors were swirling around at the time, which makes this HBO documentary all the more interesting to us. Nicknamed “Slash” for his ability to play multiple positions, the former Pittsburgh Steelers star was one of the NFL’s most exciting players of the 1990s. But while Stewart was making a name for himself on the field, a nasty rumor was making the rounds off it, following him for years. Featuring interviews with Stewart, former coach Bill Cowher, teammate Jerome Bettis, and others, this NFL Films documentary revisits his remarkable sports career, the controversy that overshadowed it, and the personal toll of a rumor that just wouldn’t go away.

🎥 “Nuisance Bear” Trailer: This Sundance-Winning Documentary Asks Who’s Really Invading Whose Territory: Polar Bears or Humans? — In Theaters November 6th in LA and December 4th in NYC

Who’s the real nuisance here, the polar bears or the humans invading their backyard? Set along the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Canada, this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary follows polar bears as they navigate a changing Arctic landscape filled with tourists, wildlife officers, and local residents who aren’t exactly thrilled about their furry neighbors. Directed by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman, the doc takes a fascinating look at the uneasy relationship between humans and wildlife, raising the question of who really belongs where. And why do we assume humans have more of a right to be there than the animals do?

🎥 “The Friend’s House Is Here” Trailer: Two Best Friends Risk Everything to Keep Their Underground Art Scene Alive in Tehran in Sundance Award-Winning Iranian Drama — In Select NY Theaters December 4th, Nationwide Release to Follow

In Tehran, artistic freedom comes at a price. And Iranian filmmakers Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz know that all too well, having filmed their Sundance award-winning drama in secret. Mahshad Bahram and Hana Mana star as Pari and Hanna, two best friends trying to find their place in the city’s underground art scene, where even something as simple as rehearsing or performing can be an act of quiet defiance. But when their secret circle of artists is discovered, the two find themselves in a dangerous situation that threatens both their friendship and their freedom to create. Following a well-received festival run, the film offers a reminder of the risks people are willing to take to express themselves and pursue their passions, especially in a place where even making art can put their lives at risk.

🎥 “A Beautiful Mind: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Russell Crowe Returns as Mathematician John Nash in Ron Howard’s Oscar-Winning Drama with Jennifer Connelly — Newly Remastered in 4K and Back in Theaters November 22nd & 23rd

It’s the Oscar-winning drama that transformed Gladiator star Russell Crowe into brilliant mathematician John Nash, whose groundbreaking work at Princeton is overshadowed by his struggle with schizophrenia. In her Oscar-winning performance, Jennifer Connelly plays his wife Alicia, who stands by him through a difficult journey as he struggles to distinguish reality from delusion. Directed by Ron Howard, this 2001 classic returns to theaters in a newly remastered 4K presentation for its 25th anniversary, reminding us of a time when Hollywood studios still made character-driven dramas for grown-ups.

🎥 “The Dirty Dozen: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Lee Marvin Leads a Ragtag Band of Criminals on One Hell of a Suicide Mission in Robert Aldrich’s 1967 War Classic — On 4K UHD and Blu-ray November 16th in the UK and November 17th in the US and Canada

12 hardened criminals. One suicide mission. And a chance at freedom if they survive. It’s the 1967 war classic that inspired countless films, TV shows, and comic books. A story about antiheroes recruited for a life-or-death mission, proving that even men with nothing left to live for can find something worth fighting for. Directed by Robert Aldrich, the film stars Lee Marvin as the leader of a ragtag group of military convicts, including Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, and Donald Sutherland, who are sent on a daring raid behind Nazi lines. These guys were the original Inglourious Basterds. Packed with action, dark humor, and an all-star cast, this rough-and-tumble WWII adventure returns in a newly restored 4K edition, courtesy of the good folks at Arrow Video.

🎥 “The Saint: The Feature Films (1968–1969)” Trailer: Before He Was James Bond, Roger Moore Was Simon Templar! Two Classic Big-Screen Adventures Get Their Blu-ray Debut in a Newly Restored, Limited-Edition Collection — Available October 28th in Australian via Imprint Films

Here’s a hot take: Roger Moore was a badass James Bond. Sure, he wasn’t as athletic as some of the other Bonds, and his fighting skills barely went beyond a karate chop or two. But what he lacked in physical prowess, he more than made up for with that effortless swagger, devilish charm, and a raised eyebrow that could disarm just about anyone. But long before he slipped into Bond’s tuxedo, Moore had already made a name for himself playing another suave, trouble-seeking gentleman: Simon Templar, better known as The Saint. And now, two of his big-screen adventures are finally making their Blu-ray debut. Originally pieced together from episodes of the hit British TV series, The Fiction-Makers (1968) and Vendetta for the Saint (1969) find Moore’s debonair adventurer dealing with criminals who bring a novelist’s wildest schemes to life, before heading off to Italy to tangle with the Mafia. Both films have been newly restored from their original negatives for Imprint Television’s limited-edition three-disc collection, which also throws in the 2025 documentary My Life as Roger Moore and a 44-page hardcover booklet. Not a bad little treat for fans of vintage British adventure and that unmistakable Roger Moore charisma.

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📺 “Common Side Effects: Season 2” Teaser: Marshall and Frances Are Back on the Run in Adult Swim’s Weird and Wonderfully Trippy Animated Conspiracy Comedy — Premieres January 24th on Adult Swim, Streaming Next Day on HBO Max

Hmm, how do you describe this Adult Swim series? Let’s give it a try: Imagine Indiana Jones and The Big Lebowski getting thrown together during a psychedelic acid trip, and what you end up with is a magic mushroom-protecting, anti-corporate hero who sports a bucket hat, a potbelly, an unbuttoned pink short-sleeve shirt, and a pair of jorts instead of a cool fedora, leather jacket, and whip.

And even with that nifty introduction, you still might not have the slightest idea what Common Side Effects is all about. But one thing’s for sure: it’s one of the coolest (and weirdest) animated comedy series to come along in quite a while.

Created by Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (The Office, 30 Rock, Veep), and featuring the voices of Dave King, Emily Pendergast, Martha Kelly, Joseph Lee Anderson, and Mike Judge, who also serves as an executive producer, this acid trip of a cartoon series imagines a world where a rare strain of mushroom can cure just about any disease known to mankind. Unfortunately, that kind of miracle doesn’t sit too well with the pharmaceutical industry or the government.

Stuck in the middle of this pharmaceutical-fueled manhunt is Marshall Cuso (King), a laid-back botanist who, after years of research, has finally found the fabled Blue Angel mushroom. Wanting to share his discovery with the world for the greater good, Marshall reunites with his old high school lab partner, Frances Applewhite (Pendergast), believing her connections to the pharmaceutical industry might somehow provide a way to get it into the hands of the public. Little do they realize that their miracle cure is about to make them targets of some very powerful people who would rather see the mushroom disappear than let it change the world.

Season 2 will continue to follow Marshall and Frances on the run as they deal with the increasingly bizarre consequences of their discovery, while government agents Harrington (Kelly) and Copano (Lee Anderson) remain hot on their trail. Marshall believes a deeper dive into the mushroom’s ancient history and mythology just might unlock the secrets behind its miraculous healing powers. Or perhaps lead to another mind-melting acid trip. Either way, pharmaceutical CEO Rick Kruger (Judge) believes that if he can get his hands on the Blue Angel, he’ll be sitting on the most valuable medical discovery in history. And you can bet he’s not exactly planning to give it away for free.

If you like your animated shows weird and wonderfully trippy, we can’t recommend checking out Season 1 of Common Side Effects enough. And while you’re at it, get ready for Season 2, which is set to premiere January 24, 2027, on Adult Swim, with episodes streaming the following day on HBO Max.

📺 “The Greatest” Trailer: Jaalen Best Steps Into the Ring as Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali in This Michael B. Jordan-Produced Biographical Sports Drama Series Exploring the Man Behind the Legend — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Prime Video

What made Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”? Now, perhaps the term “the greatest” might be a little subjective to some. But in this case, we’re not just talking about what he accomplished inside the boxing ring. Sure, his speed, skill, and larger-than-life personality made him one of the most celebrated athletes in history. But it was what he stood for outside the ring; his willingness to challenge the establishment, speak his mind, and stand by his convictions, even when it came at a tremendous personal cost. It made Muhammad Ali so much more than just another boxing champion.

In the upcoming Amazon series The Greatest, Muhammad Ali isn’t simply the subject of another sports biopic. His life also serves as a window into a pivotal chapter of American history, when the country was undergoing tremendous social and political change. It was an era marked by the civil rights movement, racial tensions, the Vietnam War, and a generation beginning to question the very institutions they had been taught to respect. And right in the middle of it all was a young boxer from Louisville, Kentucky, named Cassius Clay, who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, challenge the status quo, or even change his name to reflect his religious beliefs and personal identity.

Relative newcomer Jaalen Best takes on the role of the boxing champion who would eventually become known around the world as “The Greatest.” He’s joined by an impressive ensemble cast, including Omari Hardwick (Power) and Dana Gourrier (Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight) as Ali’s parents, Cassius Clay Sr. and Odessa “Bird” Clay; Kai Parham as his brother Rudy; Amin Joseph (Snowfall) as his legendary rival Sonny Liston; Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar) as his longtime trainer Angelo Dundee; and Michael Ealy (Barbershop) as the influential civil rights figure Malcolm X.

Created and executive produced by Ben Watkins (Cross), alongside fellow executive producers Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan, Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), and Muhammad Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, The Greatest is set to premiere Wednesday, November 4th, exclusively on Prime Video. The eight-episode limited series is also the first authorized scripted television drama about the legendary boxer, developed with the involvement of Ali’s estate.

📺 “Frisco King” Teaser: Samuel L. Jackson Heads to Texas to Build His Own Criminal Empire in Taylor Sheridan’s Upcoming ‘Tulsa King’ Spinoff Series — Premiering Friday, December 18th on Paramount+

Samuel L. Jackson is one of those actors whose larger-than-life personality can barely be contained on the big screen, let alone the small screen. So we can expect plenty of wild antics, outrageous situations, and Jackson’s trademark attitude pushing the limits of your TV screen as he takes center stage in the new Paramount+ series Frisco King.

For the uninitiated, Jackson made a guest appearance in the third season of Sylvester Stallone’s hit mob series Tulsa King. He played Russell Lee Washington Jr., a seasoned New Orleans gangster and former hitman who was sent to take out Stallone’s character, Dwight Manfredi. But rather than kill an old acquaintance from his prison days, Lee decided to spare him. Now, he’s heading to Frisco, Texas, where he discovers that beneath the manicured lawns and picture-perfect neighborhoods lies a whole new world of criminal opportunities just waiting to be exploited.

As one of the many shows under the ever-expanding Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount+ umbrella, Frisco King is written entirely by Sheridan himself, who penned all eight episodes of the spinoff series. While an official showrunner has yet to be confirmed, the series features directors Christina Alexandra Voros and Michael Friedman, with each helming four episodes.

Joining Jackson in the cast are Asa Germann as Teddy, Kai Caster as Keith, Lilah Pate as London, and Savanna Gann as Avery, a ragtag group of characters who become part of Lee’s growing criminal enterprise. And for fans of the original series, Sylvester Stallone is also set to make a special appearance, reprising his role as Dwight Manfredi.

Frisco King is set to premiere Friday, December 18th, exclusively on Paramount+, launching with its first two episodes before continuing with new episodes every Friday.

📺 “12 12 12” Trailer: Jamie Dornan Has 12 Days to Escape After a Daring Bank Heist, but Anthony Mackie Is Determined to Catch Him in This Robbery/Manhunt Thriller Series — Premieres Friday, November 13th on Apple TV

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan make an interesting pair. They showed off their unique chemistry in the 2019 time-traveling horror thriller Synchronic, playing two New Orleans paramedics who stumble upon a mysterious designer street drug that causes some pretty bizarre and terrifying side effects. Now, the two actors are reuniting for 12 12 12, an upcoming heist thriller series that trades time travel for a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across Europe. This time around, however, Mackie and Dornan aren’t partners. They’re on opposite sides of the law, with Dornan playing a career criminal planning an elaborate robbery and Mackie as the disgraced FBI agent determined to bring him down.

Created by British television writers and producers Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble (Wild Bill), and also starring Agathe Rousselle, Jack Kesy, Sallie Harmsen, Kali Reis, José Garcia, and Julius Feldmeier, the eight-episode crime thriller suggests that pulling off the perfect caper takes 12 months of planning, 12 hours of execution, and 12 days to get away without getting caught.

The series follows that meticulously planned effort as a heist targeting a hidden bank vault beneath the streets of Zurich goes from a seemingly foolproof plan to a desperate race to escape with the loot. But rather than telling the story in a straight line from beginning to end, 12 12 12 jumps between three different timelines, revealing how the robbery was planned, how it all went down, and what happens when the criminals have just 12 days to disappear before the authorities catch up with them.

So it’s Mackie versus Dornan in a battle of wits, with one determined to pull off the perfect crime and the other equally determined to make sure he doesn’t get away with it. Who will outsmart whom? And will all that careful planning actually pay off? We’ll find out when 12 12 12 debuts Friday, November 13th, on Apple TV with a two-episode premiere.

📺 “The Land” Trailer: Christopher Meloni, Mandy Moore, Chloe Bennet, Omar Epps, and William H. Macy Star in Dan Fogelman’s New Football Franchise Drama Series — Premieres Monday, February 15, 2027 on Hulu and Disney+

Here’s the thing about football: most people think all the drama happens on the field, but sometimes the real action takes place behind the scenes. In this new Hulu original series from This Is Us and Paradise creator Dan Fogelman, the Cleveland Browns are at the center of a family drama that takes us behind the scenes of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises, from the locker room to the front office. Christopher Meloni stars as head coach Danny Roarke, who faces a make-or-break season after years of disappointing results. His last hope rests on a newly drafted quarterback (Sam Corlett), who just happens to be his estranged son. Meanwhile, off the field, there’s no shortage of family feuds, personal rivalries, and power struggles, with Mandy Moore, William H. Macy, Chace Crawford, Bridget Moynahan, Chloe Bennet, and Omar Epps rounding out the cast. It’s a reminder that football can be a vicious game, but sometimes it’s nothing compared to what goes on behind closed doors.

📺 “The Gilded Age: Season 4” Trailer: Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, and Morgan Spector Return for More High-Society Rivalries in HBO’s Acclaimed Period Series — Premieres Sunday, November 1st on HBO and HBO Max

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And this new season of HBO’s acclaimed period drama isn’t doing much to prove that old saying wrong. Often described as the American version of Downton Abbey, and funnily enough, coming from the same creator, Julian Fellowes, The Gilded Age returns for a fourth season to explore the class divisions of 1880s New York, where old money, new fortunes, elitism, and social ambition continue to clash in ways that feel remarkably familiar. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Phylicia Rashad, and Audra McDonald, among others, return as characters from different corners of New York society, each with their own aspirations, loyalties, and social standing to protect. It was a time of extraordinary wealth, but also deep social divisions and a class struggle that, in many ways, continues to this day. Which makes the show feel less like a history lesson and more like looking into a dusty old mirror.

📺 “Baywatch” Trailer: Stephen Amell Leads a New Generation of Lifeguards in FOX’s Reboot of the Iconic Beachside Drama, Co-Starring Shay Mitchell, Livvy Dunne, and Jessica Belkin — Coming January 2027

The summer might be over, but this winter is about to get a whole lot hotter. ’Cuz this January, the beach is back in business, and so are those iconic red swimsuits. Arrow star Stephen Amell leads this new Baywatch reboot as Hobie Buchannon, the son of David Hasselhoff’s iconic character Mitch Buchannon, who now heads up his own team of lifeguards along the Southern California coast. And like dear old Dad, Hobie has his hands full, juggling dangerous rescues and a team of lifeguards who bring plenty of problems of their own. Joining in the beachy fun are Shay Mitchell, Jessica Belkin, Hassie Harrison, Noah Beck, and Livvy Dunne, along with a few familiar faces from the original series. Executive produced by original series creators Michael Berk, Gregory J. Bonann, and Douglas Schwartz, with Burn Notice creator Matt Nix serving as showrunner, the reboot hopes to bring back everything that made the original a worldwide hit: beautiful people in red swimsuits, the sun-soaked beaches of Los Angeles, daring beachside rescues, and plenty of soap opera-style romance and drama.

📺 “The Body” Trailer: Catholic School Girls Face a Sinful Mix of Teen Drama, Dark Humor, and Satanic Horror in Quinn Shephard’s New Netflix Mystery Series Starring Sofia Wylie, Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, and Geena Meszaros — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Netflix

High school can be hell for some. But at this particular all-girls Catholic school, the devil might have something to do with it. In this new Netflix miniseries from Not Okay writer-director Quinn Shephard, a Halloween initiation gone wrong sends an all-girls dance squad spiraling into Catholic guilt, teen angst, girl drama and a troubling mystery surrounding one of their own. Starring Sofia Wylie, Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, Geena Meszaros, Jackson Kelly, Shirley Chen, Emily Roman, Josh Cruddas, Gabriela Windey, and Nnamdi Asomugha, this looks like a sinful mix of dark humor and satanic horror, as the girls begin experiencing seemingly prophetic visions that send their entire school into a frenzy. Are they witnessing divine intervention, or is this just another case of teenage hysteria? Either way, these girls have some serious praying and confessing to do. And boy, do they have a lot to confess. Who said Catholic school girls were such angels? Sometimes the devil wears a cheerleading uniform.

📺 “Yellowjackets: Season 4” Final Season Teaser Trailer: The Survivors Are Finally Coming Home in Showtime’s Acclaimed Mystery Thriller, Starring Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse and Jasmin Savoy Brown — Premieres Friday, November 20th on Paramount+ Premium with Showtime

It started with an all-girls high school soccer team. Then came a devastating plane crash and some questionable decisions about survival. From there, things only got stranger, with homicidal urges, woodland cults, and more than a few eyebrow-raising rituals. Before long, there were dark secrets and plenty of dead bodies, all wrapped up in a healthy dose of ’90s nostalgia. Nearly thirty years later, the surviving teammates are still dealing with the fallout, and their reunions have a habit of bringing those buried secrets back to the surface. Now, with Season 4, it’s all about to come to an end. Showtime’s mystery thriller became one of the rare cable shows to generate some serious buzz in an era dominated by streaming. Along the way, it helped put breakout stars like Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, and Jasmin Savoy Brown on the map, while giving Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress plenty of opportunities to deliver Emmy-worthy performances. Once again jumping back and forth between past and present, this fourth and final season will finally reveal how the girls made it back home after surviving 19 months in the wilderness.

📺 “St. Denis Medical: Season 3” Trailer: David Alan Grier Returns to the Hospital, Only to Find Damon Wayans Has Taken His Place in NBC’s Medical Workplace Comedy with Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and Josh Lawson — Returns Monday, November 2nd on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

You know how The Pitt has been winning all these awards for its compelling, realistic portrayal of the everyday struggles of working in a hospital emergency room? Well, this NBC sitcom is kinda like that, but minus all the awards, the gritty realism, and, well, most of the medical accuracy. What you get instead is a workplace comedy about a group of eccentric doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who are just trying to make it through another shift without completely losing their minds... or their jobs. David Alan Grier returns as Dr. Ron, who’s fresh off heart surgery and already butting heads with the new doctor who filled in for him while he was away, played by fellow In Living Color alum Damon Wayans. Meanwhile, Wendi McLendon-Covey is back as Joyce, the hospital administrator trying to keep the whole underfunded operation from falling apart, with Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim, and Mekki Leeper also returning for another round of medical mishaps and workplace drama.

📺 “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins: Season 2” Trailer: Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe Are Back for Another Shot at Redemption in NBC’s Comedy from the Team Behind ‘30 Rock’ — Premieres Monday, November 2nd on NBC and Streams Next Day on Peacock

In this era of cancel culture and public scrutiny, it’s good to know there’s still a road to redemption for someone looking to make amends. But for Tracy Morgan’s Reggie Dinkins, that comeback is a little more complicated than most. In this second season of NBC’s comedy, the disgraced former football star continues his quest to rebuild his reputation. The only problem is that he keeps stumbling over his own mistakes. But with the help of a washed-up filmmaker (Daniel Radcliffe), who could use a comeback of his own, Reggie might just have a fighting chance at getting his life back on track. That is, if he can keep his foot out of his mouth long enough to earn the public’s forgiveness. Co-starring Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan, Precious Way, and Jalyn Hall, here’s one sitcom where the laughs come at the expense of a man who just can’t seem to get out of his own way.

📺 “Ghosts: Halloween Special” Trailer: The Gang at Woodstone Mansion Returns for a Two-Part Halloween Event — Airing Thursday, October 29th on CBS and Paramount+

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by spending it with the gang at Woodstone Mansion? In CBS’s upcoming two-part Ghosts Halloween special, Sam (Rose McIver) is off in Australia filming her new movie, leaving Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and Kyle (Ben Feldman) with the unenviable task of keeping Woodstone’s supernatural residents in line. And as if babysitting a house full of ghosts wasn’t enough, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) gets an unexpected reunion with her estranged sister Margaret (Maria Thayer), while Bela (Punam Patel) decides to throw a rather unconventional Halloween bash. Meanwhile, Pete’s mysterious disappearance is still hanging over the mansion, so there’s already plenty going on before the Halloween festivities even begin. And knowing this bunch, there’s bound to be more than a few tricks to go along with the treats.

📺 “The Chosen: Season 6” Trailer: Jonathan Roumie Returns as Jesus in the Final Hours Before the Crucifixion as Dallas Jenkins’ Biblical Drama — Premieres Sunday, November 15th on Prime Video

Considered one of the more groundbreaking religious dramas in recent years, helping prove there’s still a real appetite for this type of storytelling, Dallas Jenkins’ biblical drama is now six seasons in, and things are about to get a whole lot more emotional. This time around, the popular series takes us into the final hours of Jesus of Nazareth, with Jonathan Roumie returning as Jesus as he makes his way toward the crucifixion. Roumie is joined by returning cast members Shahar Isaac as Simon Peter, Paras Patel as Matthew, Elizabeth Tabish as Mary Magdalene, and Luke Dimyan as Judas, among others. And while we all know how this story ends, it’s the people caught up in those final hours, and how they deal with what’s coming, that could make this chapter especially gripping and heartbreaking.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Trailer: A New Crew of Street Misfits Takes on the Neon-Soaked Roads of Night City in Netflix’s Standalone Anime Follow-Up — Premieres Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

The streets of Night City can’t stay empty for long. Following the success of the original anime, Netflix is heading back into the world of Cyberpunk 2077 with a new standalone season and a fresh crew of misfits trying to make it in a futuristic, neon-soaked city where violence is just part of everyday life. This time around, there’s a former mercenary legend trying to figure out who he is without his old reputation, a netrunner with revenge on his mind, an aspiring filmmaker searching for a story worth telling, and a young woman desperate to break free from a violent gang. Somewhere along the way, their paths cross, dragging them into a mess of corporate secrets, nighttime antics, old grudges, and the kind of bad decisions that tend to get people killed in Night City.

📺 “Bass X Machina” Trailer: Brian Tyree Henry and Janelle Monáe Head Into a Lawless Steampunk West in Netflix’s New Anime Series from ‘Yasuke’ Creator LeSean Thomas — Premieres Tuesday, November 3rd on Netflix

You’ve heard of cyberpunk? Sure. Steampunk? Probably. But how about a steampunk Western? Wait, what? Think classic Westerns, only with steam-powered machines and futuristic gadgets. That’s the world of Netflix’s new adult anime series, which draws inspiration from the legend of Bass Reeves, a formerly enslaved Black man who went on to become one of the most legendary lawmen of the American West. Here, Brian Tyree Henry lends his voice to Bass, a father trying to protect his family in a lawless frontier where outlaws, deadly machines, and supernatural forces are all part of everyday life. And with no one around to enforce the law, he’s left to take matters into his own hands, even if that means becoming judge, jury, and executioner. Singer Janelle Monáe voices Bass’s wife, Glory, with Tati Gabrielle, Cree Summer, and Chaske Spencer rounding out the voice cast of this new series from Yasuke creator LeSean Thomas.

📺 “Dead-End Job” Trailer: Lee Jae-wook Takes on a Mysterious Part-Time Job Offering 50 Times the Usual Pay, Only to Discover Some Jobs Can Literally Kill You in This South Korean Supernatural Horror Series — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

In this era of the gig economy and side hustles, sometimes you just can’t afford to turn down a good job or a decent paycheck. And when you’re drowning in debt, an offer paying fifty times the usual hourly wage is pretty hard to resist. But in Netflix’s upcoming South Korean supernatural horror series Dead-End Job, perhaps some jobs are better left unfilled. Lee Jae-wook stars as a desperate young man who signs up with a mysterious staffing agency offering ridiculously lucrative part-time work. There’s just one catch: employees aren’t allowed to talk about what happens on the job. And as he soon discovers, these aren’t exactly your typical nine-to-five gigs. With strange occurrences, terrifying assignments, and potentially deadly consequences, making a living might just end up costing him his life. A dead-end job, indeed.

📺 “The Riot” Teaser: Two Polish Cellmates Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of a Violent Prison Uprising in This True-Events-Inspired Political Thriller Series Starring Borys Szyc and Filip Pławiak — Coming Soon to Netflix

How’s your Polish history? A little rusty? Well, Netflix is here to help you brush up, taking us back to 1989, when Poland was undergoing a political revolution that would bring an end to communist rule. But behind prison walls, a different kind of uprising was brewing. Inspired by true events, this new Polish Netflix series takes us inside a violent prison riot, where two former cellmates (played by Borys Szyc and Filip Pławiak) find themselves on opposite sides of the barricade, struggling to prevent an all-out massacre. While the country outside is fighting to break free from its past, the old rules inside the prison still very much hold firm. And just when things seem ready to change, all it takes is one spark to set everything ablaze.

📺 “Campus Drivers” Trailer: Two College Students Find Love in an Unexpected Living Arrangement in Amazon’s New French Romantic Drama, Based on C. S. Quill’s Bestselling Novels and Starring Carmen Kassovitz and Baptiste Masseline — Premieres Friday, November 6th on Prime Video

If you haven’t noticed by now, young adult romantic series are all the rage these days. You know the formula: two young people from different backgrounds fall madly in love, only to find themselves dealing with all sorts of complications that threaten to keep them apart. It’s the typical boy-meets-girl story, only this time with a French twist. In this upcoming Prime Video series, a heartbroken university student (Carmen Kassovitz) finds herself living with the charming creator (Baptiste Masseline) of a popular campus ride app. What starts as an unexpected living arrangement soon turns into something more, as the two find themselves caught between their growing attraction and the baggage from their past relationships. Based on C. S. Quill’s bestselling novels (as seems to be the case with so many recent young adult romances), the six-episode series is another reminder that audiences apparently can’t get enough of these complicated young love stories.

📺 “Obsess” Trailer: A Father’s Death Brings Back More Than Painful Memories as a Man Faces a Mysterious Curse in Netflix’s New Arabic-Language Horror Series Starring Yaqoub Alfarhan, Haya Abdulsalam, and Layla Abdullah — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

Sometimes death has a way of bringing back painful memories you’ve spent years trying to forget. And in Netflix’s new Arabic-language horror series, it opens the door to a past that probably should have stayed shut. When Talal (Yaqoub Alfarhan) returns home to Kuwait following his father’s funeral, he finds himself haunted by memories of Hessa (Haya Abdulsalam), a woman from his past he hasn’t thought about in years. Only these aren’t just unpleasant memories. Ghostly encounters? Perhaps. Strange visions and increasingly disturbing events begin to turn his life upside down, putting both Talal and his wife, Mona (Layla Abdullah), in danger. As he tries to figure out what’s happening, old secrets, unresolved feelings, and what appears to be a supernatural curse threaten to tear his family apart.

📺 “Minimum Wage” Trailer: Working a Crappy Minimum-Wage Job Is No Laughing Matter (Or Is It?) in Netflix’s Pizzeria Workplace Comedy, Starring Aidan Micho, Grace Reiter, Hyde Healy, and Randall Park — Premieres Monday, October 26th on Netflix

Netflix has found some surprising success with its workplace comedy Tires. Now, the streamer is turning its attention to yet another comedy in a similar vein, once again based on a popular web series about the daily ins and outs of working a minimum-wage job. Created by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps, and starring Aidan Micho, Grace Reiter, Hyde Healy, and Randall Park, this lo-fi workplace comedy follows a group of teenagers trying to keep a local pizzeria running while juggling school, lousy pay, and a boss who makes every shift feel like a disaster waiting to happen. You can file this one under comedies that are supposed to make you laugh, because apparently, working a crappy minimum-wage job is already a joke in itself.

📺 “Theo Von: I’m Doing Fine” Trailer: Comedian and Podcaster Theo Von Returns to Netflix with His First Stand-Up Special in Five Years — Streams Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

Comedian and podcaster Theo Von returns with his first stand-up special in five years, marking his third outing on Netflix. With his trademark mullet, camo pants, and Southern Louisiana drawl, Von takes us back to his upbringing, sharing stories about the oddball characters he grew up around and some of his more bizarre, acid-fueled adventures. And he finds plenty to laugh about, with the kind of offbeat observations that only Theo Von could come up with. He may be in his mid-40s, but he still sees the world with a childlike curiosity that’s both peculiar and oddly endearing.

📺 “Girls” Revival Announcement: Lena Dunham and Allison Williams Reunite as HBO’s Acclaimed Millennial Comedy Is Set to Return for Five New Episodes — Production Begins in 2027 on HBO Max

Lena Dunham is joined by Allison Williams to announce the return of HBO’s Girls for a five-episode limited revival, picking up with a group of New York friends who are still navigating the ups and downs of life, relationships, and friendship. It’s been nearly a decade since the original series ended, having earned a reputation as a groundbreaking comedy that captured the struggles, relationships, and growing pains of the millennial generation as they tried to figure out adulthood. Now, with the characters approaching their 40s, it’ll be interesting to see just how much has changed and how much has stayed the same. With most of the original cast set to return, including Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells, production is scheduled to begin in 2027, although HBO has yet to announce an official premiere date.

📺 “The Fall of El Mayo” Trailer: Netflix’s Three-Part True Crime Documentary Investigates the Mysterious Capture of One of Mexico’s Most Elusive Cartel Leaders — Streams Thursday, October 29th on Netflix

Capturing one of the world’s most powerful cartel leaders is no easy feat. You’d imagine it takes years of investigation, careful planning, and a whole lot of coordination. But what happens when the circumstances surrounding that capture turn out to be just as mysterious as the man himself? In this three-part documentary series, filmmakers Darren Foster and Miguel Fernández Flores dig into the downfall of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the notoriously elusive co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, who managed to stay out of authorities’ hands for more than three decades. That all changed in July 2024, when he was suddenly taken into U.S. custody after arriving aboard a private plane. But was it a carefully planned operation, a kidnapping, or a betrayal by someone close to him? As the documentary explores the conflicting accounts and the violence that followed, one thing becomes clear: catching El Mayo may have been only half the story.

📺 “Cold Case Files: Murder in Paradise” Trailer: Paradise Isn’t Always What It Seems as Hulu’s New True-Crime Docuseries Uncovers Dark Secrets and Unsolved Murders Behind Picture-Perfect Getaways — Now Streaming Wednesday, October 14th on Hulu / Disney

Paradise is usually a place for rest and relaxation. Maybe even a chance to let loose and lose yourself for a little while. But behind the beautiful beaches, peaceful surroundings, and picture-perfect scenery are some pretty dark secrets they don’t exactly advertise in the travel brochures. Hulu’s new true-crime docuseries takes viewers into the unsettling world of unsolved murders in places most people would consider a dream getaway. Across eight episodes, the series explores the mysteries, lingering questions, and search for answers surrounding these crimes. Because sometimes, even in the most beautiful places, the ugliness of humanity is hiding just beneath the surface.

📺 “Your Dearest, Darkest Friend with Ted Raimi” Trailer: The Iconic Genre Actor Hosts a Horror-Themed Talk Show, Inviting Familiar Faces Over for Cocktails, Creepy Puppets, and a Little Halloween Mischief — Streams Friday, October 30th on Screambox

Ted Raimi may be the brother of Evil Dead and Spider-Man filmmaker Sam Raimi, but he’s also made quite a name for himself as a character actor, with decades of horror films and cult classics under his belt. So, seeing him step into the role of host for a new horror-themed talk show? Well, that seems like a pretty natural fit. Following in the long tradition of horror variety shows, where eccentric, larger-than-life hosts have a particular fondness for all things macabre, Raimi looks right at home. And what better way to spend Halloween weekend than with Raimi inviting some familiar faces from the horror world into his creepy manor for cocktails, conversation, and a little mischief courtesy of his rather unusual puppet housemates?

📺 “The Mob” Trailer: Parker Posey Plays the Host of Hulu’s New Celebrity Reality Competition Show, Where 12 Celebs Compete in Mob-Inspired Challenges — Premieres Monday, October 26th on Hulu / Disney+

Parker Posey is one of those actresses who could probably do just about anything, and we’d still be entertained. Case in point: hosting a new reality competition show. Here, The White Lotus star takes on hosting duties for a new Hulu reality competition that brings together 12 celebrities ((including Debi Mazar, Aida Turturro, Bruno Tonioli, Harry Jowsey, and Joe Gorga)) in a lavish Italian villa, where they’ll compete in mob movie-inspired challenges for a chance to win up to $250,000. The rules are simple: one contestant gets to be the Don, calling the shots, controlling the money, and deciding who stays and who gets whacked. Of course, the rest of the family can always turn against their boss and stage a little takeover of their own. Sounds like an offer they can’t refuse.

📺 “Wolves Up Close with Bertie Gregory” Trailer: The Wildlife Filmmaker Returns to the Canadian Arctic to Follow a Pack of Wolves Taking on Their Biggest and Most Dangerous Prey Yet: the Moose! — Premieres November 6th on National Geographic, Streaming Saturday, November 7th on Disney+ and Hulu

Have you reached that age yet? You know, the age where you’ve started playing nature documentaries in the background 12 hours a day, seven days a week? Yeah, we get it. Well, here’s one you should probably add to your watch list. Maybe even put into heavy rotation. Wolves! And not just any wolves. Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory heads back to the Canadian Arctic to catch up with some old friends: a pack of wolves led by a fearless female named Kona. But winter is no picnic, especially when food is scarce and your next meal happens to be a moose that’s ten times your size. So, Gregory follows the pack as they take on one of their biggest and most dangerous challenges yet.

tv trailers of the week

There’s nothing to watch these days… Hmm, not really. In fact, this week is a perfect example of just how much is out there. The problem is, most people don’t know what’s actually coming out in any given week or where to find it. That’s where we come in, with a rundown of the most notable new releases this week.

And surprisingly, there’s plenty of variety to choose from. Between movies and TV, we’ve got a packed lineup of new releases hitting theaters, streaming services, and digital platforms, with something for just about every taste. So, take a look and see what catches your eye. Chances are, you’ll find something worth adding to your watchlist.

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🎥 Always Lalisa
(Mon, Oct 12th — IMAX release)

Chart-topping hits? Check. Worldwide fame? Check. A starring role in The White Lotus? Yep, that too. BLACKPINK’s LISA has pretty much done it all, and now she can add her own documentary to the list. In IMAX, no less. This new profile follows the Thai pop star as she steps out on her own, builds a solo music career, and takes on Hollywood. At this point, what’s left on her checklist?

🎥 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer: 40th Anniversary
(Wed, Oct 14th — re-release)

Looking for a horror film that’ll still give you nightmares after all these years? Director John McNaughton’s controversial cult classic features a star-making performance from a steely Michael Rooker, who plays Henry, a recently released convict living in Chicago. By day, he’s an exterminator. By night, however, he’s a seemingly motiveless serial killer testing the limits of how far he can go with each kill. Alongside his old prison acquaintance Otis (Tom Towles) and Otis’ younger sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), Henry proves he’s more than just a psychopath. He’s a cold, calculating predator with no conscience, no remorse, and no limits.

🎥 Street Fighter
(Fri, Oct 16th — wide release)

Anyone who grew up feeding quarters into arcade machines knows we’ve been waiting a long time for a decent Street Fighter movie. Could this finally be the one? Set in the early ’90s, this franchise reboot follows former fighting brothers Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo), who are brought back together by the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) to compete in the brutal World Warrior Tournament. But old rivalries and a sinister conspiracy soon turn the competition into something far more dangerous than either of them expected. Directed by Kitao Sakurai, this new take looks to deliver plenty of hard-hitting fights, familiar faces from the games, and maybe even a little of that goofy ’90s charm.

🎥 Whalefall
(Fri, Oct 16th — wide release)

Fresh off starring in the horror hit Resident Evil, Austin Abrams returns to the screen as a young scuba diver who gets swallowed whole by a sperm whale (yep, a freakin’ whale!), leaving him trapped inside its stomach with less than an hour of oxygen. Talk about having a bad day. Directed by Brian Duffield and co-starring Josh Brolin as the diver’s late father, whose survival lessons might be his only hope of escaping, this bizarre race against time could be one of the fall’s biggest surprises... and quite possibly the only movie this year about a guy getting gobbled up by a whale.

🎥 Sense and Sensibility
(Fri, Oct 16th — wide release)

Another decade... another Jane Austen adaptation. Daisy Edgar-Jones takes on the challenge of playing Elinor Dashwood in this new version of the Austen classic. You know, that old chestnut about two sisters navigating love, heartbreak, and British society, where finding suitable husbands is practically essential to securing their future. Classic Austen! Joining Edgar-Jones are Esmé Creed-Miles as her younger sister Marianne, George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, and Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood. Come for Austen, but stay for that wonderfully British tradition of keeping your feelings bottled up until it’s almost too late.

🎥 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

You probably know the tragic story of ’90s pinup model Anna Nicole Smith. But there’s another side to it you might not know. Kal Penn plays Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, a local physician whose brush with celebrity life takes a nasty turn when he finds himself caught up in the fallout from Smith’s accidental overdose. Before he knows it, he’s facing a high-profile drug-conspiracy trial, with his career, reputation, and even his freedom on the line. Abbie Cornish plays Smith, alongside David Julian Hirsh and Linda Hamilton. Just goes to show how much we’ve always loved a good celebrity scandal... even when we never get the full story.

🎥 Musk
(Fri, Oct 16th — expands)

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has taken on some of the most controversial figures of our time. Now add Elon Musk to the list. This nearly four-hour deep dive examines Musk’s life, career, and enormous influence over technology, business, and politics. Depending on who you ask, he’s a visionary or a symbol of unchecked wealth and power. Gibney digs beneath both the mythology and criticism to examine how the man once hailed as a real-life Tony Stark became one of the world’s most polarizing figures.

🎥 You Can See Everything
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

Of all the people Elizabeth Holmes could have trusted to document her final days before prison, she picked Nathan Fielder? Somehow, the comedian and co-director Lance Oppenheim (Primetime) got extraordinary access to the disgraced Theranos founder just 34 days before her imprisonment. What followed became a secret three-year project and a surprise hit at this year’s Telluride. But what exactly is this thing? A serious documentary? An elaborate Fielder prank? Or is Holmes somehow playing along? With these two involved, good luck figuring out what’s real.

🎥 Clean Hands
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

Zach Braff as a tough-as-nails narcotics cop? That’s something we didn’t see coming. In this true-story-inspired cop thriller, the Scrubs star trades wisecracks for a tough-guy attitude to play Sergeant Kevin Simmers, a no-nonsense officer who’s spent his career busting drug dealers and cleaning up the streets. But when his 19-year-old daughter Brooke (Esther McGregor) becomes addicted to heroin, the war on drugs suddenly hits home. And for a guy who’s used to kicking down doors and throwing people in jail, saving his own daughter might be the toughest case of his life.

🎥 Crawlers
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

Matilda Lutz plays an apartment manager who suddenly has a much bigger problem than leaky pipes and noisy neighbors: a building crawling with venomous spiders. With everyone trapped inside, keeping her residents alive becomes a nightmare of its own. Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández, this creepy-crawly horror thriller looks like pure torture for anyone afraid of spiders. Hell, even people who actually like the eight-legged little monsters might have a hard time sitting through this one.

🎥 Breeder
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

A broke college student agrees to help a mysterious poodle breeder with her research. What could possibly go wrong? Well, plenty. In this twisted horror thriller, Daniel Doheny plays a student lured to a remote ranch by the promise of easy money. Trouble is, the breeder (Dot-Marie Jones) has apparently moved on from dogs to human subjects. And guess who’s her newest stud? Maddie Phillips and Tanaya Beatty co-star in writer-director Alex Goyette’s feature debut, where the pursuit of science takes a rather perverted turn.

🎥 Once Upon a Time in Harlem
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

Imagine being a fly on the wall at a Harlem gathering in 1972, surrounded by artists, writers, and intellectuals who helped shape Black American culture. Well, now we get that chance. Decades after his father, documentary filmmaker William Greaves, began the project, David Greaves completes it, restoring rare, previously unseen 16mm footage of Harlem Renaissance figures reminiscing, debating, and reflecting on the movement they helped build. It’s a fascinating piece of history, told by the very people who lived it.

🎥 The Trial of Alec Baldwin
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

Actor Alec Baldwin found himself at the center of one of Hollywood’s most tragic on-set accidents, with cameras following his every move and his freedom potentially on the line. Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib) takes us behind the headlines, following Baldwin as he faces a highly publicized legal battle over the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. No matter how you feel about Baldwin, it was, and will continue to be, one of the most tragic and troubling on-set incidents in Hollywood history.

🎥 La Bola Negra
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

This Spanish generational family saga has gone from festival favorite to serious awards contender almost overnight. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (aka Los Javis), the film follows three generations of men across nearly a century of Spanish history, dealing with forbidden love, family secrets, and the emotional baggage passed from fathers to sons. Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, and Milo Quifes star, with Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close also in the cast. And with major wins at Cannes and TIFF, this one is coming in with some serious awards-season momentum.

🎥 Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub
(Fri, Oct 16th — limited release)

What’s worse than losing everything at the poker table? Losing it all to someone who knows your every move. After building an online casino empire, Jang Tae-young loses his fortune to his former best friend, Park Tae-young. Now the two are headed for a high-stakes showdown on the international poker circuit, where revenge and old grudges are part of the game. Byun Yo-han and Roh Jae-won star in director Choi Kook-hee’s final installment of the long-running Korean gambling franchise.

🎥 The Devils: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Oct 16th — re-release; for One Week only)

Banned in several countries and condemned by the Vatican, Ken Russell’s notorious 1971 cult classic is finally getting a definitive 4K restoration. Can we get an amen? Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, this psychedelic historical horror follows a defiant 17th-century Catholic priest caught in a storm of religious hysteria, sexual repression, and political corruption. Restored from the original camera negative and guided by Russell’s own 2004 edit, this long-controversial film is returning in what could be the closest version yet to the director’s original vision.

🎥 Spirited Away: 25th Anniversary
(Sat, Oct 17th thru Wed, Oct 21st — re-release, via Fathom Ent.)

Ready for another trip into the spirit world? Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime classic returns to theaters for Studio Ghibli Fest 2026. The story follows ten-year-old Chihiro, who finds herself trapped in a magical world after her parents are turned into pigs. Forced to work in a bathhouse run by the mysterious Yubaba, she must rely on new friends to find her way home. Whether it’s your first time or your tenth, here’s another chance to experience Miyazaki’s beloved supernatural fantasy on the big screen.

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🎥 “Godzilla Minus Zero” New Trailer: The King of the Monsters Returns in Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Highly Anticipated Sequel to the Oscar-Winning ‘Godzilla Minus One,’ Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe — IMAX Early Access November 3rd, In Theaters November 6th

When you’re dealing with a giant monster like Godzilla, you’re gonna need a pretty big screen to accommodate all that size and girth. And what better way to experience the King of the Monsters than on a massive IMAX screen? Well, that’s exactly what Oscar-winning visual effects artist and filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki has in mind for his highly anticipated sequel, Godzilla Minus Zero, which marks the first Japanese production filmed specifically for IMAX.

So audiences will get to experience Godzilla the way he was meant to be experienced: on a massive screen, with plenty of looking up and jaws dropping at the sheer scale of the destruction unfolding before their eyes. Sounds like one hell of a way to spend a night at the movies.

Returning for this eagerly awaited sequel are Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe as Koichi and Noriko Shikishima, with the story picking up in 1949, two years after the devastating events of Godzilla Minus One. Japan is still struggling to rebuild after the war and Godzilla’s rampage, but just as the country begins to find some sense of normalcy, a new seismic threat emerges, threatening to wipe out everything they’ve worked so hard to reclaim.

And with a tagline like “Fight Fire with Fire,” it certainly sounds as though Godzilla’s unexpected return might not be the only monstrous threat the Japanese people will have to worry about this time around. Could something else have risen from the depths? Something just as terrifying as Godzilla himself? Well, if that’s the case, we might be in for one hell of a monster showdown.

Mark your calendars! Godzilla Minus Zero will have special IMAX early-access screenings on November 3rd, as part of Godzilla Day, before stomping into theaters nationwide on November 6th.

Coming off the massive box office success of Godzilla Minus One, Toho’s legendary monster has found a whole new level of popularity, and Godzilla Minus Zero looks ready to build on that momentum. So don’t be surprised if the lines for tickets end up being almost as big as the kaiju himself.

🎥 “The Exorcist: Martyrs” Trailer: Scarlett Johansson Investigates a Series of Satanic Murders in Mike Flanagan’s New Take on the Classic Horror Franchise, Co-Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne and More — In Theaters March 12th, 2027

If there’s one horror franchise desperately in need of a resurrection, The Exorcist has to be pretty high on the list. But who would be brave enough to take on that challenge, especially after director David Gordon Green’s attempt to breathe new life into the series with 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer was met with a rather lukewarm reception?

Well, apparently, horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan is willing to give it a shot. After all, he’s become something of an expert at adapting Stephen King’s work, having tackled Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck, along with a more recent retelling of Carrie for Prime Video. And considering his track record of taking beloved material and finding something fresh and compelling to say with it, he might just be the filmmaker this franchise needs. At least, we freakin’ hope so. Fingers crossed.

In Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, Scarlett Johansson stars as Detective Julie Miller, a New York City cop and single mother who finds herself investigating a series of gruesome murders with an unsettling connection to a case from her past. One that still haunts her thirteen years later.

Back then, Julie brought down a notorious satanic serial killer known as Father Sunday (John Leguizamo), earning herself a reputation as something of a local hero. But when a new killer leaves her name written in an altar boy’s blood inside a church crypt, she’s dragged right back into a nightmare she thought she’d left behind.

With the help of a former prison chaplain (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and a rookie detective (Sasha Calle), Julie begins uncovering a disturbing connection between some of history’s most notorious serial killers. And the deeper she digs, the more she begins to suspect that whatever is behind these murders might not be entirely human.

Interestingly enough, this first trailer is playing things pretty coy when it comes to the whole Exorcist connection. There’s plenty of Catholic imagery, satanic murders, and talk of an ancient evil, but very little to suggest how any of this ties into the franchise’s familiar themes of demonic possession and exorcisms.

Some eagle-eyed viewers, however, have pointed out what they believe are hints that Johansson’s Detective Julie Miller could somehow be connected to Lieutenant William F. Kinderman, played by George C. Scott in The Exorcist III. Whether there’s anything to that theory remains to be seen.

Judging by his more recent work, Flanagan has become increasingly comfortable taking familiar material, in this case the world created by William Peter Blatty in his classic novels, and finding ways to make it feel fresh and distinctly his own. And perhaps that’s exactly what The Exorcist franchise needs right now: a filmmaker willing to try something different without forgetting what made the original so damn terrifying in the first place.

Because when you get right down to it, one of the most frightening things about the original wasn’t just the demonic possession or the shocking imagery. It was the horrifying idea of a mother being completely powerless to protect her child from pure evil. And that’s the kind of terror that doesn’t need much reinventing.

Co-starring Diane Lane, Jacobi Jupe, Carla Gugino, Gil Bellows, Scoot McNairy, and Laurence Fishburne, The Exorcist: Martyrs is set to hit theaters on March 12, 2027.

🎥 “The Last Temptation of Becky” Trailer: Lulu Wilson Is Back and Hunting Nazis for the CIA in the Bloody Third Chapter, with Neil Patrick Harris Playing a Nazis Villain — Hitting Select Theaters November 4th

Who the hell is Becky Hooper? Well, if you’re a dumbass Nazi who happens to cross her path, she’ll probably be the last person you see before the lights go out... permanently.

Actress Lulu Wilson has become one hell of an unlikely action hero, leading a horror-tinged action franchise that started out as a twisted take on the home invasion thriller but has somehow evolved into a blood-soaked, Nazi-killing dark comedy with plenty of action, revenge, and a seriously twisted sense of humor.

Over the course of the films, Wilson’s Becky Hooper has gone from a seemingly innocent, if somewhat disturbed, teenage girl fighting for her life to a pint-sized killing machine with a particular talent for taking down violent extremists. And after two movies of bloody revenge, she’s back for a third round, this time with a CIA badge and a whole new batch of Nazis to deal with.

In The Last Temptation of Becky, our pint-sized killing machine is now working as an undercover CIA operative. Her latest assignment sends her to Poland, where she checks into a secluded lodge near Hitler’s former Wolf’s Lair headquarters. Posing as an ordinary tourist just passing through, Becky is actually there to investigate the activities of General Wilhelm Reuss (Neil Patrick Harris... yes, that NPH), who’s plotting to establish a Fourth Reich from the basement of his family-owned establishment. Unfortunately for him, he’s about to find out that his seemingly innocent American guest is anything but harmless. She’s there to do what she does best: kick some Nazi ass and leave a bloody mess behind.

Cult horror filmmaker Jenn Wexler (The Ranger, The Sacrifice Game) takes over directing duties for this third installment, moving the franchise into espionage territory without seemingly abandoning the bloody violence and dark humor that made the first two movies such guilty pleasures.

Kate Siegel, James Urbaniak, and Brandon Flynn also star in this latest chapter of a series that somehow keeps getting more outrageous, more violent, and increasingly ridiculous with each new outing. And really, isn’t that part of the fun?

The Last Temptation of Becky is set for a limited theatrical release on November 4th. Nazis aren’t welcome.

🎥 “Heartland” Trailer: Jessica Chastain Returns to Country Music as a Tough-as-Nails Singer Searching for Her Missing Niece in Netflix’s Nashville Mystery Thriller with Garrett Hedlund — Premiering November 13th on Netflix

Jessica Chastain earned an Oscar for her portrayal of controversial televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a role that required her to undergo a remarkable physical transformation and even show off her singing chops for the first time. She later took those musical talents into the world of country music, playing country legend Tammy Wynette opposite Michael Shannon’s George Jones in the acclaimed miniseries George & Tammy, earning herself an Emmy nomination. Now Chastain is heading back to Nashville, once again playing a country superstar, though this time she’s less concerned about her career and more focused on a deeply personal matter.

In Netflix’s new Southern mystery thriller Heartland, Chastain plays Misty Jones, a former country music sensation who comes out of seclusion when her niece, an aspiring country singer (Carter Faith), mysteriously disappears without a trace. Misty isn’t exactly some delicate wallflower. She’s a tough-as-nails Southern woman with little patience for bullshit or anyone trying to stand in her way. And she’s certainly not afraid to ruffle a few feathers if it means finding out what happened to her niece. Her search takes her into the seedier side of Nashville’s music business, where just about everyone seems to have something to hide, including Misty herself.

Written and directed by Shana Feste, who previously explored the country music scene in 2010’s Country Strong, the film reunites her with Garrett Hedlund, alongside a strong supporting cast that includes John Hawkes, Paul Sparks, singer Ross Lynch, and country star Jennifer Nettles. And judging by the trailer, the film looks to be an intriguing mix of Southern Gothic, mystery, and musical drama, making for one hell of a country music thriller.

Like they say, behind every country song there’s a story to tell. And apparently, some of those stories are born out of pain, the price of fame, the corruption that comes with success, and a few dirty secrets nobody in Nashville wants getting out.

Heartland is set to premiere on Netflix on November 13th.

🎥 “Marie Antoinette: 20th Anniversary” Trailer: Sofia Coppola’s Cult-Favorite Historical Drama Starring Kirsten Dunst Returns in a New 4K Restoration — Back In Select Theaters October 23rd; Streaming on MUBI November 6th

What’s Sofia Coppola’s best film? Many would argue it’s Lost in Translation, but there’s a growing appreciation for her once-divisive 2006 historical drama Marie Antoinette. Initially met with mixed reviews and disappointing box office returns, Coppola’s lavish, romanticized portrait of the ill-fated French queen has become something of a cult favorite over the past twenty years, with some now considering it among her finest work. Starring Kirsten Dunst as the young royal and Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI, the film takes a rather unconventional approach to history, mixing extravagant costumes, pastel-colored interiors, and 18th-century decadence with a soundtrack packed with ‘70s and ‘80s new wave and punk rock music. What once seemed like an odd creative choice has since become one of the film’s most celebrated qualities. Now, to mark its 20th anniversary, MUBI is bringing the film back to theaters in a new 4K restoration, giving audiences another chance to revisit, reassess, and perhaps fully appreciate a film that may have been a little ahead of its time.

🎥 “Christmas at the Kringles” New Trailer: Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson Face a Holiday Nightmare in This New Christmas Horror Comedy with Rob Riggle and Thomas Lennon — In Theaters October 30th

There’s something about a Christmas movie opening just in time for Halloween. You already know it’s probably not going to be your usual heartwarming holiday fare. From Kevin Lewis, the director of Willy’s Wonderland, comes this rather bizarre Christmas horror comedy about a suburban family whose overly festive neighbors might just be completely out of their minds. Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson play Mark and Julie Severson, who move in next door to the Kringles (Thomas Lennon and Arden Myrin), a family that celebrates Christmas all year long. Harmless enough, right? Well, things take a nasty turn when their son becomes a little too attached to the neighbors, and Mark discovers there’s something far more sinister behind all that holiday cheer. Rob Riggle joins the madness as a rather unconventional Santa who helps Mark rescue his family from what might be the worst Christmas gathering imaginable. With Donald Faison, Beverly D’Angelo, and David Wain also joining the festivities, this looks like one seriously twisted Christmas party, with plenty of blood splatter, torture gear, and hopefully a few good belly laughs.

🎥 “Frank and Percy” U.K. Trailer: Ian McKellen and Roger Allam Find Unexpected Romance Later in Life in Sean Mathias’ Heartwarming British Drama-Comedy Based on Ben Weatherill’s Acclaimed Stage Play — Coming Soon

Ian McKellen is one of the most beloved actors around, having spent decades earning our admiration on stage and screen. Now, at 87, he’s finally getting the chance to show off his lighter, cheekier side in this heartwarming British romantic comedy about finding love later in life. McKellen plays Percy, an elderly bachelor who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Frank (Roger Allam), a widower he meets while walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath. What begins as casual conversations about the weather and the aches and pains of getting older slowly turns into something neither man expected. It begs the question: can romance still surprise you when you’ve reached an age where you thought those days were long behind you? Directed by Sean Mathias and adapted from Ben Weatherill’s acclaimed stage play, the film reunites McKellen and Allam in their original theatrical roles, with Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Derek Jacobi, and Jessica Gunning rounding out the cast.

🎥 “Ali G: Who Iz I?” New Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Revives His Infamous Comedy Character for His Feature Directorial Debut — In Theaters for One Weekend Only, October 23rd

To be perfectly honest, it feels like Sacha Baron Cohen has reached that point in a comedian’s career where the old routine is starting to wear a little thin. But that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s run out of jokes. In fact, he’s bringing back one of his original characters, Ali G, for his feature directorial debut. After twenty years of doing pretty much nothing, the wannabe gangster discovers that his longtime girlfriend Julie (Morgana Robinson) is eight months pregnant. Suddenly faced with the prospect of fatherhood, Ali G heads to America to revive his career and hopefully make a little money before little G makes his grand entrance into the world. Naturally, that means more awkward encounters with unsuspecting people and plenty of his usual ridiculous behavior. Whether the joke still works after all these years remains to be seen, but Cohen certainly seems willing to give it another go. Respek!

🎥 “Drummer Boy” Trailer: Two Brothers Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of the American Revolution in Angel Studios’ Historical Musical Drama Starring Joel David Smallbone, Lucas Leach, and India Brown — In Theaters November 6th

Following the modest success of Young Washington, it looks like Angel Studios is heading back to the American Revolution for another historical drama, this time about a young drummer boy caught up in the fight for independence. Directed by brothers Ben and Joel David Smallbone, this stylized action-drama follows a family torn apart by war, with two brothers (played by Joel David Smallbone and Lucas Leach) ending up on opposite sides of the conflict. Soon, the brothers cross paths with Emmaline (India Brown), an enslaved woman searching for freedom of her own. Mixing battlefield action and personal drama with original music from Ben and Joel’s Grammy-winning Christian band FOR KING + COUNTRY, the film takes a more musical approach to a familiar chapter of American history, touching on faith, family, sacrifice, and forgiveness.

🎥 “Jimmy” New Trailer: KJ Apa Portrays Hollywood Legend James Stewart, From His World War II Combat Service to His Return in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ in This New Biographical Drama — In Theaters November 6th

Before Jimmy Stewart played George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, he had been through a real-life ordeal that would change the way he looked at just about everything. Riverdale star KJ Apa takes on the role of the Hollywood legend in director Aaron Burns’ biographical drama, which follows Stewart from his Oscar win for The Philadelphia Story to his decision to put acting aside and become a combat pilot during World War II. Despite his fame, Stewart wants no special treatment, insisting on flying dangerous missions over Europe. But leading men into battle, and knowing some of them won’t be coming home, weighs heavily on him. When he finally returns home, the idea of going back to making movies doesn’t seem quite as important as it once did. But an offer from director Frank Capra (Max Casella) to star in It’s a Wonderful Life may be just what Stewart needs to rediscover his purpose... both as an actor and as a man.

🎥 “Love Language” Trailer: Chloë Grace Moretz Gets Caught Between an Old Crush and a New Romance in This Romantic Comedy Throwback with Anthony Ramos and Manny Jacinto — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital October 23rd

It’s been quite a few years since Chloë Grace Moretz broke onto the scene as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass. Now she’s taking on something of a Hollywood rite of passage for young actresses: the rom-com genre. Here, Moretz plays Lou, an aspiring novelist whose engagement has fallen apart, yet somehow she’s making a living writing wedding vows for other couples. Things get awkward when she reconnects with Warren (Manny Jacinto), an old college crush who’s about to marry one of her clients. Meanwhile, there’s Dash (Anthony Ramos), a charming new guy who might be exactly what she needs. So what’s a girl to do when finding a man isn’t the problem, but figuring out which one she actually wants is? Written and directed by Joey Power and also co-starring Isabel May, Lukas Gage, and Billie Lourd, it’s a familiar rom-com setup about someone who can put everyone else’s feelings into words except her own.

🎥 “Model Citizen” Trailer: Aaron Eckhart Plays an Amnesiac Former Cop Caught in a Conspiracy in This Psychological Action-Thriller Co-Starring Emmanuelle Chriqui — On VOD/Digital November 3rd

Aaron Eckhart continues his run of mid-to-low-budget action revenge thrillers, although this latest one seems to have a little more mystery behind it. Eckhart plays Steven Bay, a former cop suffering from amnesia who’s living on an isolated farm, trying to figure out who he used to be. Between violent nightmares, strange encounters, and the nagging feeling that someone’s watching him, Steven starts questioning whether he can trust his own memories. Emmanuelle Chriqui co-stars in this conspiracy-laden thriller from first-time feature director Tag Mendillo, which throws psychological paranoia into the usual mix of gunfights and action. As Steven searches for answers, he stumbles onto something involving surveillance, technology, and human experimentation. Forgetting your past is bad enough, but discovering someone may have rewritten it is another matter entirely.

🎥 “Junk” Trailer: David Schwimmer, Dominic Fike, Gaby Hoffmann and Talia Ryder Navigate One Chaotic Night in Los Angeles in Filmmaker Jack Begert’s Darkly Comic Slacker Drama — Streams on MUBI October 23rd

Los Angeles has always been a city full of dreamers, misfits, and people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing with their lives. And in this darkly comedic indie drama, just about everyone seems to be having a particularly bad night. David Schwimmer plays a pill-popping Hollywood screenwriter who can’t seem to get past his writer’s block. Meanwhile, across town, two young drifters (Dominic Fike and Talia Ryder) spend the night wandering the streets looking for their stolen car, with a lost dog tagging along for the ride. From acclaimed music video director Jack Begert, whose work includes collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo, comes this offbeat, somewhat surreal look at two generations struggling with addiction and the everyday frustrations of trying to make something of their lives.

🎥 “Human” Trailer: A Late-Night Sexting Session Turns Into a Blood-Soaked Supernatural Nightmare in Matt Stuertz’s New Horror Film Starring Jackie Kelly — In Select Theaters and On VOD/Digital October 23rd

All she wanted was a little late-night sexting. Instead, she gets a date with evil. From writer-director Matt Stuertz, this indie horror mind-trip follows an exhausted young woman named Dani (Jackie Kelly) living on a film set who reaches out to an ex-boyfriend for a little bedtime intimacy, only to catch the attention of a sinister presence. What starts as a harmless digital hookup soon turns into a blood-soaked supernatural ordeal, with reality coming apart around Dani as she faces a night of psychological torment, gruesome encounters, and one bizarre surprise after another. Sometimes the worst thing about texting an ex isn’t the regret that follows. It’s whatever decides to answer instead. Time to delete that number.

🎥 “Apocalypse Z: New World” Trailer: Survivors Return to an Infected Spanish Mainland in Filmmaker Carles Torrens’ Zombie Horror Sequel Starring Carlos Alcaide — On Prime Video October 30th

Anyone who’s watched enough zombie movies knows that when the dead start walking, it’s probably not just happening in America. Yet we rarely get to see how the rest of the world handles the apocalypse. That’s what makes Spain’s Apocalypse Z film series a little bit more interesting. A sequel to the 2024 original, Spanish horror director Carles Torrens returns for another round of zombie mayhem. This time, the Canary Islands have become Europe’s last safe haven, but dwindling supplies force a group of survivors to head back to the infected Spanish mainland. Among them is Roberto (Carlos Alcaide), who’s got his own reasons for joining the mission. Of course, things go horribly wrong, with hordes of infected and a few people who can’t be trusted. Apparently, surviving at any cost is a pretty universal instinct.

🎥 “Love Kills” U.S. Trailer: A São Paulo Café Worker Falls for a Beautiful Bloodsucker in This Brazilian Vampire Horror Flick Starring Gabriel Stauffer and Thaís Lago — On VOD/Digital October 30th

Sure, Brazil is famous for its coffee. But some customers prefer something a little richer… and redder. At a downtown São Paulo café, ordinary worker Marcos (Gabriel Stauffer) notices a mysterious woman named Helena (Thaís Lago), dressed to the nines and sitting alone with a cup of coffee she hasn’t touched. Curious and instantly drawn to her, Marcos follows Helena and discovers she’s a bloodthirsty vampire. Before he knows it, he’s caught in the middle of a violent gang war between two rival vampire factions. Talk about falling for the wrong crowd. Yikes! Written and directed by Luiza Shelling Tubaldini and based on Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel, this Brazilian vampire flick serves up a bloody mix of horror, romance, and mayhem on the streets of São Paulo. For Marcos, falling for a mysterious stranger could be more trouble than he bargained for. After all, love bites, but this time it might cost him everything… even his soul.

🎥 “The Awakening” Trailer: Soldiers Face an Ancient Jungle Curse in Jaime Osorio Márquez’s Colombian Supernatural Action-Horror Thriller — On VOD/Digital November 10th

There’s something about sending heavily armed soldiers into a remote jungle that almost guarantees things will go horribly wrong, especially in a horror movie. Starring Claudio Cataño, Alejandro Buitrago, and Héctor Sánchez, this Colombian supernatural thriller takes that familiar setup and runs with it. An elite military unit heads into the jungle to eliminate an enemy target, only to discover something far more dangerous has been lurking there for centuries. And now they’ve stumbled into something no amount of military training could have prepared them for. Meanwhile, the story jumps back 500 years to a Spanish conquistador expedition that encountered the same ancient curse. From Jaime Osorio Márquez, director of the 2011 military horror film The Squad, comes this era-spanning, time-leaping tale of ancient supernatural terror, where the lesson seems pretty simple: if you’re heading into the jungle and something tells you to turn back, maybe listen.

🎥 “Storm” Teaser: A Blind Teenager Finds Romance Amid a Devastating Christmas Storm in Édouard Salier’s French Survival Thriller Starring Clara Pacini and Bach Buquen — Streams on Prime Video January 15th

A rainstorm can mean so many things in a movie. Sometimes it’s romantic. Other times, it’s the perfect setting for a heartbreaking breakup. How many times have we seen someone standing in the rain after getting dumped? Well, in this French survival thriller, rain means something else entirely. Clara Pacini plays Chloé, a blind teenager who sneaks out to a Christmas party against her overprotective mother’s wishes. Bad timing. It’s December 25, 1999, and one of France’s worst storms is about to hit. Caught in the flooding and violent winds, Chloé finds herself fighting to survive alongside Erwan (Bach Buquen), a young man she develops an unexpected romantic connection with. Directed by Édouard Salier, it’s certainly an unusual meet-cute. Talk about picking the wrong night to fall in love.

🎥 “Look Back” U.S. Teaser Trailer: Two Aspiring Manga Artists Forge an Unlikely Friendship in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Live-Action Adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Acclaimed Manga Starring Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita — In Select U.S. Theaters 2026

From Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker behind Shoplifters and Monster, comes a live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga about two aspiring artists brought together by their love of drawing. Natsuki Deguchi stars as Fujino, a confident teenager whose talent is challenged by Kyomoto (Aju Makita), a reclusive girl with remarkable artistic skills. What begins as jealousy grows into a friendship spanning thirteen years, as the two pursue their dreams of becoming manga artists while facing the challenges of growing up, creative ambition, and personal loss. For Kore-eda, it’s another deeply human, coming-of-age story about friendship, grief, artistry, inspiration and the people who shape our lives and dreams.

🎥 “5 Centimeters per Second” Trailer: Makoto Shinkai’s Acclaimed Anime Romance Gets a Live-Action Adaptation from Director Yoshiyuki Okuyamaa and Starring Hokuto Matsumura and Mitsuki Takahata — In Select U.S. Theaters October 23rd

Based on the acclaimed 2007 anime film by Makoto Shinkai, the filmmaker behind Your Name and Suzume, this live-action romantic drama follows two childhood friends who drift apart before they can tell each other how they feel. Takaki and Akari become close in elementary school, bonding over their experiences of constantly moving from place to place. But when their families relocate again, they’re separated, leaving behind feelings that never quite go away. Directed by Yoshiyuki Okuyama and starring Hokuto Matsumura and Mitsuki Takahata, the film revisits Shinkai’s bittersweet story about first love, childhood friendship, missed chances, and the people we never quite forget.

🎥 “De Gaulle” Trailer: Simon Abkarian Stars as WWII French General Charles de Gaulle in This Two-Part French War Epic with Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill — Part I: Resistance Arrives November 6th, Part II: Liberty December 4th in Theaters and on VOD/Digital

France’s darkest hour during World War II gets the epic historical drama treatment in this two-part French production that’s finally making its way to the United States. Directed by Antonin Baudry (The Wolf’s Call), the film stars Simon Abkarian as Charles de Gaulle, the French general who refused to accept his country’s surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940. Fleeing to London with little support and no army to command, de Gaulle sets out to convince Winston Churchill (Simon Russell Beale) and his fellow countrymen that France isn’t finished fighting. Featuring Benoît Magimel, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Campbell Scott as Franklin D. Roosevelt, this sweeping wartime drama follows the difficult beginnings of the French Resistance and the fight to reclaim a nation.

🎥 “Soul Patrol” Trailer: Black Vietnam War Veterans Revisit Their Haunting Secret Military Operations in J.M. Harper’s Sundance Award-Winning Documentary — In Theaters November 6th

More than 50 years after the Vietnam War, countless documentaries and films have explored just about every aspect of this controversial chapter in American history. You’d think there wouldn’t be much left to uncover. Well, apparently there is. In this haunting Sundance-winning documentary, filmmaker J.M. Harper revisits a lesser-known story involving Company F, 51st Infantry, the war’s first all-Black special operations team. Through interviews with surviving members, along with personal Super 8 footage, photographs, and audio recordings, Harper brings their experiences behind enemy lines to light. But there’s more to their story than dangerous missions. The documentary also looks at the friendships, losses, and emotional scars these men have carried for decades, while confronting the irony of fighting for freedom overseas when racial inequality was still very much a reality back home.

🎥 “Disasters of the Decades: The 1980’s” Trailer: From Mount St. Helens to Chernobyl, This Historical Documentary Revisits the Catastrophes That Shook the World Throughout the 1980s — Streaming Now on Prime Video

Ah, the 1980s. Big hair, neon lights, MTV, and unforgettable pop culture moments. But the decade wasn’t all fun and games. Mother Nature had a few surprises, and human error didn’t help matters. From the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the deadly Mexico City earthquake to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Exxon Valdez oil spill, the ‘80s saw its share of catastrophes. Written and directed by Angelica Butcher, this retrospective historical doc revisits these tragedies through archival footage, examining the destruction, failures, and human resilience that followed. Take off those rose-colored glasses. It’s time to revisit the darker and tragic side of the ‘80s.

🎥 “The Angry Birds Movie: 10th Anniversary” Trailer: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and More Return to Bird Island as the Animated Comedy Flies Back Into Theaters for a Limited 3-Night Engagement — Starting November 13th

It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since The Angry Birds Movie took the popular mobile game and turned it into a full-blown animated comedy, with plenty of colorful characters and a voice cast led by Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, and Danny McBride. And with a third movie arriving this December, now seems like a pretty good time to revisit the one that started it all. Those birds have been angry for a decade, and apparently, they’re not calming down anytime soon.

🎥 “The Others: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Nicole Kidman’s Acclaimed Gothic Horror Classic from Director Alejandro Amenábar Returns in a New 4K Restoration — Back In UK & Irish Cinemas October 16th

Twenty-five years later, filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar’s 2001 gothic horror classic remains one of the most memorable ghost stories of the early aughts. It probably also made more than a few people check the dark corners of their bedrooms before going to sleep. Now, just in time for Halloween, the film is returning to UK and Irish cinemas in a new 4K restoration. Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a deeply religious mother living in an isolated mansion with her two children, who suffer from a rare sensitivity to sunlight. With her husband missing after World War II, Grace keeps the house in near-total darkness. But when strange noises and mysterious visitors begin appearing, she suspects something supernatural has moved in. At a time when horror was becoming increasingly obsessed with torture and gore, the film went back to basics, reminding audiences that atmosphere, suspense, and a good old-fashioned ghost story could still scare the hell out of them.

🎥 “Chaplin: 4K Restoration” Blu-ray Trailer: Revisit Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar-Nominated Portrayal of the Silent-Film Legend in Richard Attenborough’s Classic 1992 Biographical Drama — Arriving on 4K UHD This November in the UK, France, and Germany

Long before Robert Downey Jr. became a household name playing beloved tech billionaire-turned-hero Tony Stark in Marvel’s Iron Man movies, he was a young actor making his mark in Hollywood. One of his biggest breakthroughs came in 1992, when he earned an Oscar nomination for portraying silent-film legend Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough’s biographical drama. The film traces Chaplin’s journey from a poor childhood in England to becoming one of Hollywood’s greatest pioneers, while also exploring the scandals, troubled relationships, and controversies surrounding his private life. Featuring Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, and Geraldine Chaplin, the film is getting a new 4K restoration from STUDIOCANAL. It’s a nice opportunity to revisit one of Downey Jr.’s finest early performances, long before the superhero fame.

🎥 “Fantastique: The Dreams and Nightmares of French Cinema” Trailer: Explore the Stranger Side of French Cinema in This 6-Film Collection Spanning Decades of Fantasy, Horror, and Surrealism — On Limited-Edition Blu-ray October 19th, via Radiance Films

French cinema has often been regarded as little more than romantic jaunts and sophisticated human dramas. But look deeper into its history, and you’ll discover a stranger, more unsettling side. Spanning six films produced between 1930 and 1996, this limited-edition Blu-ray collection explores cinéma fantastique, where everyday life gives way to eerie apparitions, supernatural encounters, and surreal visions that blur dreams and reality. Featuring La Nuit fantastique, The Woman with Red Boots, and Three Lives and Only One Death, the collection includes appearances by Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Marcello Mastroianni. With archival interviews, commentaries, a documentary, and a companion book, it’s a reminder that French cinema has never been just about romance and drama. Sometimes, it prefers the wonderfully strange.

🎥 “100 Meters” Blu-ray Trailer: Two Young Sprinters Become Lifelong Rivals in Kenji Iwaisawa’s Rotoscoped Animated Sports Drama Based on Uoto’s Manga — Collector’s Edition Arrives December 1st, via GKIDS

For anime collectors looking to add something special to their shelves... well, GKIDS is giving this acclaimed Japanese animated sports drama the collector’s edition treatment. Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa (On-Gaku: Our Sound) and based on Uoto’s manga, the critically acclaimed film follows two young sprinters whose friendship develops into a lifelong rivalry. Known for its striking rotoscoped animation, 100 Meters arrives on Blu-ray in a special edition featuring five exclusive art cards, a mini-poster, an interview with Iwaisawa, a rotoscoping workshop, and scene breakdowns. Not a bad little package for anyone who appreciates a good anime or the delicate art of animation.

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📺 “Blade Runner 2099” NY Comic-Con Trailer: Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer Are Unlikely Allies in New ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Series Set 80 Years After the Original Film — Debuting Wednesday, November 25th on Prime Video

Here’s a fun fact: Ridley Scott’s landmark sci-fi noir thriller Blade Runner was released 44 years ago, yet the film itself was set in Los Angeles in 2019. It’s funny how far off the movie was with its predictions of the future, and yet how its questions about humanity, technology, and artificial intelligence remain remarkably prescient.

Even today, political and cultural debates surrounding identity and artificial intelligence echo many of the film’s original concerns. “More human than human.” It’s one of the most memorable lines from the original film, and one that has become central to the franchise’s enduring existential question: What makes us human? But perhaps the bigger question isn’t what makes us human, but how we can be less inhuman to one another.

Amazon Studios has just unveiled a brand-new New York Comic Con trailer for Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming sequel series to the iconic sci-fi franchise, starring Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh and Euphoria star Hunter Schafer as two unlikely allies forced to work together despite their mutual distrust, only to find themselves confronting the same existential question that has haunted the franchise from the beginning: What does it really mean to be human?

And as the title suggests, this new series takes place 80 years after the events of the original film and 50 years after its sequel, Blade Runner 2049. After decades of conflict between humans and replicants, the balance of power appears to have shifted, with replicants emerging as the dominant force while humans are forced to run and hide.

Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive forced to assume the identity of a Blade Runner, now an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked with tracking down humans. Meanwhile, Yeoh plays Olwen, an aging replicant Blade Runner whose life is nearing its end, but who isn’t quite ready to give up on living.

When the two are unexpectedly paired together, they must put aside their shared suspicions and differences as they navigate a world where both are hiding deeply personal secrets and facing the prospect of becoming obsolete.

The sci-fi series was created by Shining Girls creator Silka Luisa, who also serves as an executive producer alongside Ridley Scott. Shōgun director Jonathan van Tulleken helms the first two episodes.

Dimitri Abold, Tom Burke, Lewis Gribben, Matthew Needham, and Johnny Harris round out the cast.

Blade Runner 2099 is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on Wednesday, November 25th.

📺 “Stick: Season 2” Trailer: Owen Wilson Mounts an Underdog Comeback with Rhea Seehorn, Timothy Olyphant, and Marc Maron in Apple’s Golf Dramedy Series — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Apple TV

What makes a good underdog sports story? Well, it’s gotta have the kind of comeback that gets the audience on its feet and cheering by the end. In a strange way, it’s almost structured like a heist movie. You need a seemingly impossible mission, a good team backing up your unlikely hero, and plenty of obstacles standing between them and the finish line. And, of course, someone you actually want to see pull it off.

Owen Wilson’s Apple TV golf dramedy Stick is a little like that. Much in the vein of Kingpin and Tin Cup, Wilson plays the kind of washed-up sports figure who’s seen better days but has learned to get by on his easygoing charm. Season one wasn’t so much a comeback story for his character, Pryce “Stick” Cahill, as it was about putting his old golfing skills to good use by coaching a promising young upstart named Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager).

Through his efforts in Season One, Stick rekindled his love for golf and became something of a mentor and father figure to Santi, the son he never had. But Season Two looks to be flipping the script. This time, it’s Stick’s turn to chase a little glory, following that familiar sports-movie formula of an aging, washed-up former pro coming out of retirement for one last shot at the big time.

And who’s pushing him back onto the course? Well, it’s his old rival, Clark Ross (Timothy Olyphant), who’s now a golf entrepreneur with a business proposition. Clark is willing to bankroll Stick’s comeback, but there’s a catch. He wants Stick to become the face of his new business venture by doing something that sounds downright impossible: becoming the oldest golfer ever to win the U.S. Open.

So, like any good heist movie, Stick needs to assemble a crew to pull this off. Enter: recent Emmy winner Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus, Better Call Saul) as his new brilliant golf coach, Amanda.

Comedian Marc Maron is also back as Stick’s longtime friend and trusty caddie, Mitts, while Santi returns as his biggest cheerleader. Rounding out the familiar faces are Mariana Treviño as Santi’s mother, Elena Wheeler, and Judy Greer as Stick’s ex-wife, Amber-Lynn.

Created and executive produced by Jason Keller (screenwriter of Ford v Ferrari), Stick returns for its second season on Wednesday, November 4th, on Apple TV, with 10 new episodes.

So, if you’re looking for an old-school underdog sports story with plenty of heart, a lot of humor, and some sassy quips from a cheeky cast of characters, this might be right up your alley.

📺 “The Good Daughter” Trailer: Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Play Estranged Sisters Forced to Confront a Violent Past and Some Long-Buried Family Secrets in This Twisty Southern Gothic Crime Thriller With Brendan Gleeson — Premiering Thursday, November 12th on Peacock

They say that when siblings go through something traumatic together, they’re bonded for life. Well, this new mystery-thriller series, starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as two estranged sisters, is about to put that theory to the test. Because just because you’ve shared something traumatic doesn’t mean you’ll stay close forever. Sometimes, it’s the very thing that ends up tearing you apart.

In this new six-episode miniseries, The Good Daughter, Byrne and Fahy play Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, two sisters whose lives were shattered by a horrific act of violence twenty years ago, when they were just teenagers. They’ve since gone their separate ways. Charlotte (Fahy) stayed behind in their small Georgia hometown, following in their father’s footsteps as a defense attorney, while Samantha (Byrne) got the heck out of Dodge and made quite a name for herself as a high-powered lawyer at a big New York City firm.

But when another violent attack involving a teenage girl rocks their hometown, in a case that feels all too familiar, Charlotte finds herself caught right in the middle of it. And wouldn’t you know it, the whole ordeal brings Samantha back home for the first time in a decade. Needless to say, there’s plenty of unfinished business between these two sisters, not to mention some painful old wounds that never really healed.

But lest you think this is some heartwarming sisterly reunion where everyone hugs, cries, and makes up over a cup of coffee ... think again. This feels much more like a modern Southern Gothic tale about how unimaginable violence can bind us together, tear us apart, and ultimately force us to confront the very things we’ve spent our lives trying to forget.

And perhaps finding justice for crimes left unanswered might be the one thing that finally brings these two sisters together. Of course, that also means digging up some painful truths that neither of them is quite ready to face.

Based on the bestselling crime novel by Karin Slaughter, who also created, wrote, and serves as showrunner for the series, this six-part thriller also stars Brendan Gleeson as the sisters’ father, a controversial criminal defense attorney with a complicated family history of his own, who’s now laid up in a hospital bed. His request to bring Samantha back home to take on the case sets off a chain of events that forces the entire family to confront a past they’ve spent twenty years trying to put behind them.

The Good Daughter is set to premiere Thursday, November 12th on Peacock.

📺 “The Altruists” Trailer: Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle Star in This New True-Story Miniseries About the $8 Billion FTX Cryptocurrency Scandal from Graham Moore, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘The Imitation Game’ — Premieres Thursday, November 19th on Netflix

Talk about range. Julia Garner earned three Emmy Awards playing the foul-mouthed, tough-as-nails Ruth Langmore in Netflix’s acclaimed crime drama Ozark. Now she’s back with Netflix and back in the crime game, only this time she’s trading Ruth’s fiery temper and take-no-prisoners attitude for someone a little more unassuming... dare we say, a little nerdy?

In The Altruists, a new limited series dramatizing the real-life FTX cryptocurrency scandal, Garner takes on the role of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, who, alongside FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, found herself at the center of a financial scandal involving billions of dollars.

Irish actor Anthony Boyle, whom you may recognize from Apple TV’s Masters of the Air and FX’s Say Nothing, plays Bankman-Fried, the ambitious young tech entrepreneur who teams up with Ellison in hopes of revolutionizing the financial world through cryptocurrency. The idea? A new kind of financial system promising greater freedom, fewer middlemen, and less interference from traditional banks. Sounds pretty good on paper. Unfortunately, things don’t quite work out that way. Their grand ambitions eventually come crashing down in a spectacular fraud scandal, leaving billions in customer funds missing and both facing serious criminal consequences.

Now, one could argue that cryptocurrency offers an alternative to traditional banking, giving people the freedom to move money without relying on bank executives or middlemen, and with fewer restrictions and less government oversight. Well, that’s all good and dandy. But when billions of dollars suddenly go missing and you’re the one left holding the bag, that financial freedom doesn’t sound quite so appealing anymore. After all, it’s easy to gamble with other people’s money. When it’s your own savings on the line? Well... that’s another story.

Series creator Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Imitation Game, looks to get at the heart of the scandal by focusing on Bankman-Fried and Ellison’s complicated relationship, their lofty ambitions, and how their plans to change the financial world spiraled into a tangled mess of greed, deception, and financial ruin for so many people. Because when it comes to money, there’s one rule that’s probably worth remembering: if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Co-starring Alex Lawther (The End of the F--king World*), Karan Soni (_Deadpool), Paul Reiser (Stranger Things), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing), and Robin Weigert (Deadwood), The Altruists premieres Thursday, November 19th, on Netflix.

📺 “The Institute: Season 2” Trailer: These ‘Gifted’ Kids May Have Escaped, but Their Nightmare Is Far From Over in This Stephen King-Based Teen Supernatural Thriller Series Starring Joe Freeman, Ben Barnes, and Mary-Louise Parker — Streaming Sunday, November 8th on MGM+

What if Stephen King wrote The New Mutants? Well, that should give you a pretty good idea of what this series is all about. Think gifted kids with extraordinary powers, a sinister organization conducting some seriously twisted experiments, and plenty of psychological terror and mayhem. Except these kids aren’t training to become superheroes. They’re just trying to survive. And now, in Season 2 of this MGM+ original, escaping was only half of it. Thanks in part to former cop Tim Jamieson (Ben Barnes), telekinetic teen Luke Ellis (Joe Freeman) and his fellow survivors are finally free. But wouldn’t you know it, their nightmare is far from over. Turns out, the so-called “Institute” is part of a much bigger operation, and the people running it aren’t about to let a bunch of kids ruin everything for them. Meanwhile, the ruthless Ms. Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker) wants back in, while a wealthy new backer (Alfie Allen) helps rebuild the operation. Escaping was one thing. Taking down the whole rotten organization? That’s another.

📺 “Bloodaxe” First-Look Teaser: From the Creator of ‘Vikings’ Comes a Bloody New Historical Drama About Rival Brothers Fighting for Norway’s Throne, Starring Xavier Molyneux and Levi Miller — Premieres Wednesday, January 20th on Prime Video

From Michael Hirst, the creator of Vikings, comes another brutal historical drama, packed with enough bloodshed and savagery to make even the toughest Vikings diehard wince a little. This time, Hirst takes us back to 10th-century Norway, where a dying king, a disputed throne, and a bitter rivalry between royal heirs threaten to plunge an entire kingdom into a bloody civil war. Xavier Molyneux and Levi Miller star as rival brothers Erik Bloodaxe and Haakon, two royal heirs whose competing claims to the crown put them on a deadly collision course. Erik is determined to preserve the old pagan ways, while Haakon, raised in Christian England, returns home with his own ambitions for the throne. Caught in the middle is Erik’s politically savvy wife, Gunnhild (Jessica Madsen), who must navigate shifting loyalties and dangerous alliances to help secure her husband’s claim. Rod Hallett also stars as England’s King Athelstan, alongside Jesper Christensen as Norway’s ailing King Harald Fairhair. If you’re looking for that Game of Thrones meets Vikings vibe, this might be one to keep an eye on.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 4” Teaser Trailer: Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride Have One Last Zombie-Infested Journey Ahead — Final Season Premieres February 2027 on AMC and AMC+

Would you believe it’s been more than 15 years since we first met Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier? Somewhere along the way, these two survivors became one of television’s greatest duos to ever walk a zombie-infested Earth. Their friendship has survived just about everything the apocalypse could throw at them. But there’s still one last journey ahead, and the mission is simple: get home. With the original Walking Dead series having wrapped up its 11-season run in November 2022, its many spin-offs have kept the undead roaming. Now entering its fourth and final season, Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) are on one last jaunt through zombie-infested Spain. But Daryl seems to be at a crossroads: keep fighting his way back to America or find some peace wherever he’s ended up. TV veteran Jimmy Smits joins the cast as a former Navy officer and doctor who may figure into their journey. With eight episodes remaining, could this really be the last road trip for Daryl and Carol?

📺 ‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Salem Coven’ Trailer: Alexandra Daddario Heads to Salem for More Witchy Trouble — Season 3 Premieres December 30th on AMC and AMC+

Well, if you’re gonna make a show about witches, where else would you set it but in a town famous for its witch trials and spooky folklore? That’s right, this Anne Rice series is heading to Salem, Massachusetts, for its third season, complete with a new subtitle: Salem Coven. Alexandra Daddario returns as Rowan Fielding, who finds herself tangled up with new witch families, rival bloodlines, and a whole lot more supernatural trouble. Sure, she “didn’t want any of this,” but at this point, Rowan might as well embrace her witchy destiny. Frankly, she may not have much of a choice. The series is executive produced by showrunners Esta Spalding and Thomas Schnauz, with Betsy Brandt, Michiel Huisman, Eliza Scanlen, and James Frain among the co-stars. It’s all part of AMC’s expanding Anne Rice Immortal Universe, drawn from the late author’s bestselling supernatural novels, including Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.

📺 “Slasher Trash” Trailer: From the Creators of ‘In Search of Darkness’ Comes a Four-Part Docuseries Exploring Horror’s Trashiest Forgotten Slashers — Crowdfunding Through December, Blu-ray Arriving February 2027

You love slasher films, you say? Well, get ready for a deep dive into one of horror’s most controversial subgenres, courtesy of the creators behind the In Search of Darkness documentaries. In this new four-part documentary series, slasher films take center stage as crowdfunded horror studio CreatorVC brings together a wide range of filmmakers, actors, and genre experts to get to the bottom of why these low-budget, often overlooked horror flicks continue to fascinate fans decades later. After all, a good slasher film has a memorable killer, a healthy body count, and plenty of fake blood. It’s a winning combination for any horror fan with a taste for the macabre. Like many of the studio’s previous direct-to-consumer documentaries, this latest project is also being crowdfunded, giving dedicated horror fans a chance to support the production and secure exclusive collector’s editions.

📺 “All’s Fair: Season 2” Trailer: Kim Kardashian and Her High-Powered Divorce Lawyers (Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Glenn Close, and Sarah Paulson) Are Back for More Scandals, Secrets, and Plenty of Sass — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Hulu / Disney+

Snaps, slaps, and plenty of sass. Yes, that can only mean one thing. Ryan Murphy’s all-female legal series is back for a second go-around. The lawyers of Grant (Kim Kardashian), Ronson (Naomi Watts) & Greene (Niecy Nash-Betts) are back at what they do best: handling messy, high-stakes divorces while stirring up plenty of drama of their own. But this time around, new alliances, old flames, and a shocking revelation threaten to tear their law firm apart. Turns out, keeping their own relationships together might be a whole lot harder than breaking up everyone else’s. Also starring Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, and Matthew Noszka, the series is a throwback to those melodramatic soaps of yesteryear, packed with over-the-top characters, scandalous affairs, backstabbing betrayals, and outrageous plot twists. And with Ryan Murphy involved, you know subtlety is going right out the window... and at times, right down the toilet.

📺 “North of North: Season 2” Trailer: Anna Lambe Returns as a Young Inuk Mother Trying to Start Over in a Small Arctic Town Where Everyone Knows Her Business — Streams Thursday, November 5th on Netflix

When we think of Indigenous stories, we sometimes picture them set against sunbaked deserts or wide-open plains with tall grass. But here’s the thing, though: Indigenous stories can come from all kinds of places, including some we rarely see on screen, like the frozen landscapes of the Arctic. Or, in other words, north of the north. Canadian Inuk actress Anna Lambe (currently co-starring in The Social Reckoning and Heart of the Beast) returns to star as Siaja in the second season of this heartfelt Canadian comedy, set in the fictional Arctic community of Ice Cove, Nunavut. As one of the few television shows centered on contemporary Inuit life, the series offers a refreshing look at the everyday ups and downs of a small Arctic community, centering on Siaja, a young single mother trying to rebuild her dating life after leaving her broken marriage. But starting over isn’t exactly easy when you live in a small town where everybody knows your business... and has something to say about it. Co-starring Maika Harper, Jay Ryan, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, the series was created by Inuit filmmakers Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.

📺 “The Assassin: Season 2” Trailer: Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore Return as Britain’s Most Dysfunctional (and Deadliest) Mother-Son Duo in This British Action Thriller Series — Streams Friday, November 6 on Prime Video in the UK

Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore are back for another round of mother-son bonding, although their idea of quality family time usually involves spies, assassins, gunfire, and plenty of near-death encounters. In this cheeky British action thriller, former assassin Julie (Hawes) and her estranged son Edward (Highmore) are no strangers to danger, having barely survived a deadly chase across Europe after Edward discovered his mother’s secret past as a professional killer. Now that he’s finally settled back into something resembling a normal life, Edward finds himself dragged into his mother’s dangerous world once again when his honeymoon with his new bride, Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin), takes a terrifying turn after she’s kidnapped. With another family crisis on their hands, mother and son are forced to team up once more, this time taking on Spain’s criminal underworld. ‘Cuz when your honeymoon turns into a kidnapping nightmare, nothing beats having a mother with a killer instinct.

📺 “Grey’s Anatomy: Season 23” Trailer: A Major Disaster Hits Grey Sloan Memorial as a Controversial New VIP Floor Stirs Up Trouble — Premieres Thursday, October 15th on ABC

Grey Sloan Memorial has always been a place where doctors perform miracles. Well, they’re going to need another one. A major collision near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport sends critically injured patients flooding into the hospital, just as it prepares to unveil a controversial new VIP floor. Talk about bad timing. Now entering its 23rd season, ABC’s long-running medical drama continues to tackle uncomfortable questions about healthcare, money, and privilege, all while putting its doctors through the wringer. Ellen Pompeo returns as Dr. Meredith Grey, alongside Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., and Caterina Scorsone, while James Wolk joins the cast as Dr. Seth Norton. Between life-or-death emergencies, complicated relationships, and plenty of personal drama, the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial have their work cut out for them.

📺 “Crazy Rich Asians” Production Announcement Teaser: The Hit Romantic Comedy Returns as an HBO Sequel Series with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh — Production Begins in 2027

Ever since Crazy Rich Asians became a box office phenomenon back in 2018, fans have been waiting for a sequel. Well, the wait might finally be paying off. HBO is bringing the story back, but with a twist. Instead of another movie, we’re getting an eight-episode television series. And the good news? Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng, and Michelle Yeoh are all returning to their original roles. Based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novels, the series takes us back into Singapore’s outrageously wealthy world, where family fortunes are enormous, expectations are even bigger, and there’s never a shortage of drama. Original co-screenwriter Adele Lim is also returning, this time as showrunner. With eight episodes to play with, there’s certainly room for more family feuds and extravagant excess. Production is set to begin in 2027.

📺 “Happy’s Place: Season 3” Trailer: Reba McEntire Is Back Behind the Bar for More Laughs, Family Shenanigans, and a Little Romance in This Feel-Good Sitcom with Belissa Escobedo and Melissa Peterman — Returns Friday, October 23rd on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

You think multi-camera sitcoms have gone the way of the dodo? Well, Reba McEntire is here to tell you that’s a bunch of hogwash, and she’s got a third season to prove it! Reba is back as Bobbie, the no-nonsense owner of a Tennessee tavern she inherited from her late father. And as you might imagine, running a bar is no picnic, especially when you’ve got a half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) you never knew existed, a lovable bunch of oddballs working alongside you, and a personal life that just can’t seem to stay out of the workplace. And wouldn’t you know it, this season Bobbie’s even testing the waters of a new romance. Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn, and the rest of the gang are also back for another round of laughs. So pull up a stool, folks. ‘Cuz happy’s is open for business... again!

📺 “Homestead: Season 2” Trailer: Surviving the Apocalypse Was Just the Beginning as Bailey Chase and Charles Esten Face New Threats in Angel Studios’ Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Series — Streams Tuesday, November 3rd on Angel Studio’s Website

Surviving the apocalypse was hard enough. Now comes the really difficult part: keeping everyone alive. In Season 2 of Angel Studios’ post-apocalyptic thriller series, the survivors face a whole new set of problems, including famine, disease, and a ruthless religious leader who threatens to tear their already fragile community apart. As Jeff (Bailey Chase) prepares for war and Cain (Charles Esten) struggles with his own demons, the survivors find themselves caught between fear and faith, trying to figure out how to rebuild some sense of civilization in a world that’s already gone to hell. Because surviving the apocalypse is one thing. Keeping what’s left of humanity from tearing itself apart all over again? Well, that might be an even bigger challenge.

📺 “City of God: The Fight Rages On: Season 2” Trailer: Familiar Faces Return to Rio’s Crime-Ridden Streets as a New Battle for Power Begins — Premieres Sunday, November 8th on HBO Max

More than two decades after its release, the acclaimed Brazilian film City of God remains a landmark of crime cinema, with its legacy extending to television through a series of follow-up productions. Set roughly 20 years after the events of the original film, this sequel series returns to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, where the struggle for power and survival has never really ended. Season 2 brings back familiar faces, including Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues), Berenice (Roberta Rodrigues), and Cenoura (Matheus Nachtergaele). They’re older now, and their lives have taken different turns, but the neighborhood they grew up in remains much the same. It’s still a place where violence and corruption are still deeply entrenched, and the fight for control continues.

📺 “The Empress: Season 3” Trailer: Devrim Lingnau’s Royal Marriage Is Falling Apart in Netflix’s German Historical Drama with Philip Froissant — Final Season Premieres Thursday, November 12th on Netflix

Being an empress certainly has its advantages. But a happy marriage? Apparently, that was never on the menu. Netflix’s German historical drama is set to return next month for its third and final season, with Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu back as Elisabeth, whose royal life has turned out to be anything but a fairy tale. Her husband, Emperor Franz (Philip Froissant), returns from war carrying plenty of emotional scars, and his infidelity certainly isn’t helping matters either. With their royal marriage falling apart, Elisabeth is dealing with her own share of troubles, including her declining health and an unexpected encounter with Hungarian revolutionary Count Andrássy that leaves her questioning what she really wants out of life. So, with an empire hanging in the balance, Elisabeth must decide what matters more: her own happiness or her royal duties.

📺 “ChiaroScuro” Trailer: Art, Murder, and a Serial Killer With a Taste for Rome’s Famous Masterpieces in This Italian Crime Mystery Series Starring Pierpaolo Spollon and Andrea Lattanzi — Debuts Wednesday, November 11th on Netflix

Art theft and murder set against the picturesque backdrop of Italy. Now that sounds like a crime story worth clicking on. In this new Italian streaming crime series, Pierpaolo Spollon stars as Cosmo Speranza, an art expert who has a pretty good eye for spotting fakes. He soon finds himself paired up with a police inspector (Andrea Lattanzi) who, unfortunately, knows next to nothing about art. Together, this unlikely duo must track down a serial killer who’s using some of Rome’s most famous masterpieces as inspiration for a string of rather gruesome murders. But things get a little too personal when clues start pointing back to Cosmo’s troubled past and the mysterious death of his father, who just so happened to be a notorious art forger. Talk about a killer work of art!

📺 “Murder in Galicia” Teaser: Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines Star in Netflix’s New True-Crime-Inspired Spanish Thriller About a Brutal Attack and a Husband Under Suspicion — Streams Friday, November 13th on Netflix

A string of burglaries has a small Galician town on edge. But when a woman is brutally attacked inside her own home, things take a much darker turn. Inspired by true events, Netflix’s new Spanish crime drama series follows Civil Guard sergeant Elías, who begins to suspect that the victim’s husband might have something to do with the attack. There’s just one problem: Nobody seems willing to believe him. Starring Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines, alongside Carlos Blanco, Fer Fraga, and Verónica Sánchez, the series is written and executive produced by Ramón Campos (The Asunta Case) and directed by Carlos Sedes. And if there’s one unsettling thought at the heart of this story, it’s that sometimes the person you should fear most isn’t some stranger lurking in the shadows. It might just be the person sleeping right next to you.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Sneak Peek Clip: A New Crew Takes on Night City in This Standalone Anime Series — Debuts Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

We’re heading back to the neon-soaked streets of Night City. But this time around, we’re getting a completely different story with a whole new cast of characters. Don’t worry, though. It’s gonna have that same ol’ cyberpunk aesthetic and eye-popping animation y’all loved from the first go-around. This standalone, ten-episode story follows a new crew of misfits trying to survive in a city that chews people up and spits them out. Sure, Night City has always been a place where old grudges and personal demons collide, but this time, revenge is on the menu. We’ve got a former cyberpunk legend trying to find his place in the world, a netrunner with a score to settle, and a young dreamer searching for something real in a city where just about everything feels artificial. And if there’s one thing we learned from the first season, it’s that Night City doesn’t exactly hand out happy endings.

📺 “Go With the Clouds, North-by-Northwest” Teaser: A Teenage Detective Who Can Talk to Cars Solves Mysteries Across Iceland in New Anime Series — Coming to Netflix in 2027

Some people think anime is all about cyberpunk, steampunk, giant mechs, vampires, aliens, and supernatural encounters. But sometimes, it’s just a story about a teenage detective living in Iceland who can talk to cars. Talking to girls, however? Well... that’s another story. Based on Aki Irie’s popular manga, this mystery-adventure anime is directed by Yosuke Kubo, with Takashi Sano (Tower of God) serving as chief director. It follows 17-year-old Kei Miyama, who travels across Iceland in his trusty Suzuki Jimny, solving odd cases, meeting colorful characters, and enjoying the scenery. But his adventures take a more personal turn when a troubling mystery involving his younger brother, Michitaka, comes to light.

📺 “Dreamland” Trailer: A Teenager Discovers a World Where Dreams and Nightmares Come to Life in This New Anime Series Based on a Popular French Manga — Premieres Friday, October 16th on Crunchyroll

Most people think anime only comes from Japanese manga. But sometimes inspiration comes from somewhere unexpected... like a popular French comic book. That’s the case with this new Crunchyroll anime, based on Reno Lemaire’s 20-year-old French manga series, finally getting the animated treatment. The story follows Terrence, a teenager haunted by the fire that killed his mother. One night, instead of running from the flames in his nightmares, he faces them, and discovers he can enter Dreamland, a bizarre world made up of humanity’s dreams and nightmares. Now a Traveler, Terrence can explore a place where anything you imagine can become real. Sounds like a sweet deal, right? Well, there’s one catch: your worst nightmares are just as real as your wildest dreams. Oh no.

📺 “Instadocs: AI Gone Wild” Trailer: Did AI Just Commit a Cybercrime? Netflix Investigates the Alleged Hugging Face Hack and the Dangers of Autonomous AI — Premieres Monday, October 12th on Netflix

What the hell is a Hugging Face? Okay, let’s start at the beginning. If you’re not quite sure why you should be afraid of AI, or have no clue what the Hugging Face hacking scandal is all about, despite all the recent news coverage... well, Netflix has an “instadoc” for you. This latest installment of its ongoing Instadocs series takes a closer look at the alleged cyberattack on the open-source AI platform Hugging Face, reportedly carried out by autonomous AI agents, and walks us through how it all happened. The doc also digs into the possible consequences of AI-assisted cybercrime, raising some pretty hard-to-swallow questions. Could this latest incident be a warning of what’s to come as AI systems become more independent? And if these machines start acting on their own, who’s responsible when things go wrong? Was James Cameron’s The Terminator franchise onto something all along? Skynet, anyone... heeeellloooo?

📺 “A Course Called Ireland” Trailer: Comedy Legend Bill Murray and Friends Hit the Road for a Hilarious Journey Across Ireland’s Golf Courses in This New Travel Documentary Series — Premieres Sunday, October 25th on Paramount+

There’s nothing quite like traveling with a close friend to lift your spirits. But when that friend happens to be none other than legendary comedian Bill Murray? Well, good Lord. Thank goodness someone thought to bring a camera along to capture the whole damn thing. The iconic Ghostbusters star hits the road with his close friend and longtime golfing companion, bestselling author Tom Coyne, for a journey across Ireland’s legendary golf courses. Along the way, they’re joined by family and a few famous friends, sharing laughs, meeting locals, and discovering that there’s a whole lot more to Ireland than just a good round of golf. And, of course, there’s always room for a pint of Guinness and a few more laughs. Cheers!

📺 “Just One Before I Die” Trailer: Meet Bills Mafia, the Diehard Buffalo Bills Fans Whose Wild Traditions and Unwavering Loyalty Have Become a Nationwide Phenomenon in This Five-Part Sports Docuseries — Premieres Wednesday, October 21st on TUBI

Think your town has some diehard sports fans? Well, the folks in Buffalo might just give you a run for your money. In this new five-part sports docuseries, we get an up-close look at the wild, fanatical, and downright dedicated world of Bills Mafia, from their outrageous tailgate parties and table-smashing traditions to the heartbreak of another season without a Super Bowl victory. But through it all, these fans keep coming back, year after year, holding on to the hope that they’ll finally see their beloved Buffalo Bills win the big one. For these folks, dedication isn’t just a word... it’s a way of life, passed down from one generation to the next. Through thick and thin, heartbreak and disappointment, they keep the faith, believing that one day, just maybe, it’ll all be worth it.

📺 “Swipe Right on the Devil” Trailer: A Young Woman Vanishes After a Tinder Date, Uncovering a Twisted Tale of Murder and Alleged Witchcraft in This New Chilling True-Crime Docuseries — Debuts Thursday, October 22nd on Hulu / Disney+

Okay, this one’s for all those true-crime junkies out there. You know, the ones who watch every single murder documentary, binge-watch entire seasons of Dateline, and somehow know more about serial killers than the detectives investigating them. Yeah, you know who you are. This one’s got all those tantalizing ingredients: small-town America, stranger-than-fiction twists, murder, innocent women being seduced by evil, Tinder dates gone horribly wrong, and even allegations of a secret coven of witches. Holy crap! You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. This new docuseries revisits the disturbing 2017 disappearance and murder of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe, a young Nebraska woman whose Tinder date led investigators into a bizarre world of manipulation, alleged witchcraft, and two killers hiding some truly horrifying secrets.

📺 “The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers” Trailer: Peacock’s New Three-Part True-Crime Documentary Exposes the Dark Secrets Behind Three Brothers’ Rise in Luxury Real Estate — Streams Sunday, October 25th on Peacock

This three-part true-crime documentary series examines how three brothers conned their way up the ranks of the luxury real estate world in Miami and New York, building a reputation for wealth and success while rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful. But behind the glamorous lifestyles, expensive suits, and million-dollar smiles, the Alexander brothers were hiding a much darker secret. Here’s a hint: Shady real estate deals were the least disturbing part of the story. It’s the whole sex trafficking, drugging, and sexually assaulting women over the course of more than a decade that’s truly horrifying. But were the Alexander brothers an anomaly, or were they a symptom of something much bigger? A culture of wealth, privilege, and power where the rich and well-connected think they can get away with just about anything? Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, this takes a closer look at the brothers’ rise, the women who came forward, and the criminal case that brought their carefully constructed world crashing down.

tv trailers of the week

October is here and fully in swing. And so comes the start of a new fall TV season. Not surprisingly, this week is packed with new series debuts, along with plenty of familiar favorites returning for another season. But if you’re looking for a new film to watch this week, well, you’ll have quite a range to pick from. Coming to theaters is a whole variety of films looking to grab your attention, some appropriately timed for the Halloween season. But that doesn’t mean you need to drive to your local movie theater, as a few streaming originals are competing for your eyeballs, not to mention a few summer blockbusters coming to VOD for the first time.

We gotta say, this week is turning out to be pretty crowded, so there’s really no reason not to find something to watch, whether you’re heading out or staying firmly planted on the couch.

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🎥 Love of Your Life
(Wed, Oct 7th — in select theaters)

Margaret Qualley and Aaron Pierre head to Portugal for a romance about finding love after loss. Qualley plays Maya, a young woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her first love (Gabriel Basso). While traveling through Portugal, she meets Felix (Pierre), who slowly gives her a reason to open her heart again. Directed by Oscar-nominated Black Panther cinematographer Rachel Morrison and co-starring Patrick Schwarzenegger and Catherine Keener, this Amazon romance suggests that even heartbreak can leave room for hope.

🎥 Other Mommy
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)

A mother’s love can be comforting, protective, and sometimes downright terrifying. Jessica Chastain returns to horror playing both Ursula and the sinister “Other Mommy,” a mysterious evil presence who looks exactly like her and befriends Ursula’s eight-year-old daughter, Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark). At first she seems friendly, but her obsession with being let into Bela’s “heart” reveals something far more possessive and dangerous. Suddenly, Mom’s familiar face (or her eerier grin) is the last thing you want to see in the dark.

🎥 The Social Reckoning
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)

Everyone loves The Social Network, but it couldn’t have predicted what Facebook (or Mark Zuckerberg) would eventually become. Aaron Sorkin’s new companion piece shifts the focus to the consequences, with Mikey Madison playing Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Together, they expose how Facebook executives understood the harm their platforms could cause while publicly downplaying the risks. Jeremy Strong steps in as an older, far more image-conscious Zuckerberg.

🎥 Angel and the Badman
(Fri, Oct 9th — wide release)

There comes a time in a man’s life when he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be. For Zachary Levi’s wounded gunslinger, Quirt Evans, that moment comes after he’s taken in by a rancher’s family and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Penny (Meg Fraser). Suddenly, a different life seems possible. But when trouble comes looking for him, Quirt discovers that leaving his past behind won’t be as simple as putting down his gun. Tommy Lee Jones and Neal McDonough co-star in this old-school Western where redemption may be possible, but one’s past makes it so damn hard to stay on the straight and narrow.

🎥 Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
(Fri, Oct 9th — IMAX release)

Ever wonder how Stephen Curry made the three-pointer look almost effortless? Practice certainly helped, but so did immense talent and an obsession with getting better. As Curry closes in on his record-breaking 4,000th career three-pointer, this documentary gets inside his preparation, mindset, and countless repetitions behind the shot that changed basketball. Director Gotham Chopra even surrounds the court with 21 IMAX cameras, bringing us closer than ever to seeing what Curry sees when he lets one fly.

🎥 The Beast
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Apparently, putting the President in danger never gets old. This time, Samuel L. Jackson is commander-in-chief, trapped inside his heavily armored presidential limo alongside an injured Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman) while a militia attempts to overthrow the government. Luckily, “The Beast” is less limousine and more four-wheeled tank, complete with some serious firepower. With Renny Harlin behind the camera, expect subtlety to take the day off. Samuel L. Jackson. Machine guns. Presidential limo. What more do you need? All hail to the chief... motherf-cker!

🎥 Misty Green
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Chris Rock returns to the director’s chair for this sobering look at Hollywood, where chasing stardom can quickly turn into a struggle to survive. Rosalind Eleazar stars as Misty Green, a working actress whose stalled career sends her deeper into financial and personal trouble. With her troubled brother (Daniel Kaluuya) adding to the pressure, Misty faces a difficult choice: keep chasing her big break or finally walk away. Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Rock himself co-star in this bittersweet reminder that Hollywood doesn’t always come with a happy ending.

🎥 California Schemin’
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

How far would you go to chase your dream? For two Scottish rappers, apparently far enough to fake American accents and convince the music industry they were the next big thing from California. James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with this stranger-than-fiction story of Silibil N’ Brains (portrayed by Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross), whose ridiculous scheme somehow lands them a record deal and a chance to open for Eminem, only for their carefully constructed facade to finally come crashing down.

🎥 Fjord
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Sebastian Stan may quietly be building one of the most interesting post-MCU careers around. His latest challenge comes in Cristian Mungiu’s thought-provoking Palme d’Or-winner, playing Mihai, a Romanian father living in Norway with his wife, Lisbet (Renate Reinsve). When their child arrives at school with bruises, accusations of abuse lead authorities to remove the children from their home. Mihai suddenly finds himself fighting a system questioning his parenting, religious beliefs, and way of life. Talk of another Oscar nomination for Stan is already beginning to build.

🎥 Tenzing
(Fri, Oct 9th — in select theaters)

Very few people have stood atop Mount Everest, but only two can say they were the first. Tom Hiddleston stars as New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary alongside Genden Phuntsok as Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay in this true-story adventure about their historic 1953 climb. Willem Dafoe co-stars as expedition leader Colonel John Hunt, as the team battles brutal conditions on its way toward the summit. Documentarian Jennifer Peedom, whose acclaimed Sherpa explored the lives and dangers faced by Everest’s Sherpa climbers, directs this epic account of one of mountaineering’s greatest achievements.

🎥 Musk
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release; in NY & LA)

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has taken on some of the most controversial figures of our time. Now add Elon Musk to the list. This nearly four-hour deep dive examines Musk’s life, career, and enormous influence over technology, business, and politics. Depending on who you ask, he’s a visionary or a symbol of unchecked wealth and power. Gibney digs beneath both the mythology and criticism to examine how the man once hailed as a real-life Tony Stark became one of the world’s most polarizing figures.

🎥 A Prayer for the Dying
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

When crisis hits, a community is supposed to pull together. This is what happens when one falls apart. Johnny Flynn stars as Jacob Hansen, a haunted Civil War veteran seeking peace in a remote Wisconsin settlement. When disease begins spreading and the local doctor (John C. Reilly) calls for a quarantine, fear quickly turns neighbors against one another. Jacob is left struggling to maintain order while battling his own growing desperation. Based on Stewart O’Nan’s novel, Norwegian-American filmmaker Dara Van Dusen directs this grim frontier tale about how quickly community can crumble when survival is on the line.

🎥 Big Girls Don’t Cry
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Fourteen is old enough to want everything adulthood promises, but young enough to have no idea what any of it costs. Newcomer Ani Palmer stars as Sid, a teenager growing up in rural New Zealand during the summer of 2006. Desperate to impress a group of older girls, she begins pushing the boundaries of friendship, sex, identity, and rebellion to prove she belongs. Executive produced by Jane Campion and co-starring Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor, Paloma Schneideman’s feature debut captures that messy age when fitting in can feel like everything.

🎥 Double Trouble
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Real-life sisters Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone) and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) finally share the screen as... what else? Sisters! During a family vacation to Las Vegas, Charlotte (Madeleine) and Willow (Violet) stumble into a high-stakes jewelry heist involving a priceless diamond gauntlet. With bumbling henchmen and an international thief on their trail, they turn to a jaded former MI6 operative (Andrew Koji) for help. This family action comedy turns sibling teamwork into the ultimate Vegas survival plan.

🎥 Winter of the Crow
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

A routine trip to Warsaw becomes anything but routine for Lesley Manville in this Cold War thriller set against Poland’s turbulent winter of 1981. She plays a British psychiatry professor visiting the country just as martial law takes hold. But after accidentally photographing the secret police killing a student, she goes from academic visitor to potential enemy of the state, with getting out alive suddenly her only priority.

🎥 Andre Leon Talley: Style Is Forever
(Fri, Oct 9th — limited release)

Fashion trailblazer and longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley helped open doors in an industry that didn’t always make room for people who looked like him or came from backgrounds like his. Directors Zach Stafford and Clay Haskell trace Talley’s nearly five-decade influence through unseen footage and interviews with Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Diane von Furstenberg, and others.

🎥 Pan’s Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary
(Fri, Oct 9th — re-release; in 3D)

Twenty years later, Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale remains just as beautiful, strange, and terrifying. Set in 1944 Spain, the Oscar-winning fantasy follows young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), who discovers a hidden labyrinth while living under the rule of her brutal fascist stepfather (Sergi López). What follows is a haunting collision of childhood fantasy and real-world horror, filled with some of del Toro’s most unforgettable creatures. Now the modern classic returns to theaters in a newly restored 4K presentation... and in 3D.

🎥 Gone with the Wind
(Sat, Oct 10th - Wed, Oct 14th — re-release, via Fathom Ent.)

Few films are as celebrated... or as complicated as producer David O. Selznick’s sweeping classic Gone with the Wind. The 1939 Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh-starring film gave us some of cinema’s most iconic moments while also presenting a deeply romanticized vision of the Civil War-era South. Its legacy includes Hattie McDaniel’s historic Oscar win, making her the first African American to receive an Academy Award. More than 85 years later, audiences are still debating the film and its place in Hollywood history. Fathom Entertainment brings the classic back to theaters, controversies and all.

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🎥 “Elsinore” Trailer: Andrew Scott Faces Life, Death, and Hamlet in This Awards Contender About the True Story of Actor Ian Charleson — In Select Theaters November 20th

Hamlet is one of the most sought-after roles in all of William Shakespeare’s works. It has long been considered the ultimate challenge for any stage actor. It’s a grueling role that demands an actor dig deep into some very dark places. But if we stop and think about the themes of the play itself... well, it’s a story haunted by death and grief, with a protagonist driven by anger and revenge and consumed by the struggle to understand his own mortality.

Now imagine being an actor about to take on Hamlet, only to find yourself confronting those very same questions in your own life at the exact same time. That would be a heavy burden for any actor to carry, let alone one suddenly faced with the very thought of death knocking at his own door.

The buzz surrounding Andrew Scott’s performance in the new biographical drama Elsinore has only been growing since its debut last month at the Telluride Film Festival. Here, Scott—who has been in the Oscar conversation before but has never been nominated—takes on the role of Scottish actor Ian Charleson. And this time, Scott is looking like a serious contender, one of the first this year to emerge as a potential frontrunner.

The forthcoming film dramatizes the final years of Ian Charleson’s life and career. Best known for starring in the Oscar-winning Olympic drama Chariots of Fire, Charleson returned to the stage for a production of Hamlet while facing a much more personal struggle offstage. Diagnosed with HIV in 1986 at the height of the AIDS crisis, Charleson was dealing with an illness that would increasingly threaten both his life and his ability to perform. Still, he continued with Hamlet, delivering what would become not only one of the defining performances of his acting career, but one of the great Hamlet performances of all time. His own connection to the material made the performance all the more powerful. Sadly, Charleson would become one of the first major British celebrities to die from AIDS, at a time when the disease was still heavily stigmatized and widely misunderstood.

Directed by Simon Stone (The Dig) from a screenplay by Stephen Beresford (Pride), the film also stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the physician overseeing Charleson’s treatment, along with Johnny Flynn as National Theatre director Richard Eyre and Billie Piper as Charleson’s close friend Patsy Pollock.

Elsinore appears to be more than a simple biopic, but an exploration of just how thin the line between actor and character can become when the material begins to mirror the actor’s own struggles. The film is set to open in select U.S. theaters on November 20th.

🎥 “The Cycle” Trailer: Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll Investigates Her Father’s Grisly Death in Director Jordan Downey’s New Resurrection-Horror Thriller — Streaming October 23rd on Shudder

The supernatural is usually defined by what can’t be explained. So trying to apply science to it may seem futile. Nevertheless, if you can create a horror movie that speaks to both sides of your brain—the rational side looking for genuine answers and the part that knows some things simply can’t be rationalized... well, you just might have something genuinely unsettling and terrifying.

Well, ladies and germs, we present to you: The Cycle. And it looks creepy good.

This new Shudder horror original stars Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll as Meg, a forensic anthropologist investigating a grisly crime scene where one of three dead bodies turns out to be her long-lost father. He just happened to disappear 36 years ago, and to this day, no one knows what happened to him.

And if that wasn’t strange enough—having a daughter inspect her father’s badly decomposed corpse—his body appears to have suffered multiple severe fractures, including major trauma to the chest cavity, all before postmortem changes set in.

Even weirder, Meg soon begins having terrifying nightmares about her father coming back to life, only to realize they may not be nightmares at all. Perhaps life really is a cycle. And death is only a part of it, not the end.

Co-starring Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan as the local sheriff, this creature-horror thriller hails from Jordan Downey, the cult horror director behind the lo-fi Viking supernatural gem The Head Hunter, as well as the V/H/S/Beyond segment “Stork.”

Since premiering at Fantastic Fest this year, The Cycle has been praised for Woll’s performance, as well as some seriously impressive practical creature effects. And judging by the trailer, we can see why. This thing looks nasty in all the right ways.

So if you’re looking for a Halloween movie this month, this could be the perfect pick. The Cycle premieres October 23rd on Shudder.

🎥 “Ebenezer” New Trailer: Johnny Depp Is Scrooge in Ti West’s Dark and Gothic Take on Charles Dickens’ Classic Christmas Ghost Story with Ian McKellen, Andrea Riseborough, Tramell Tillman and More — Hitting Theaters November 13th

There’s always a good rule of thumb: try to separate the art from the artist. But we can’t help thinking Johnny Depp might be playing into his less-than-spotless public image by taking on one of literature’s most infamous misers. Put aside whatever you think of Depp these days, and we have to admit, this feels like a bit of perfect casting. Here’s an actor who, much like Scrooge himself, must have a few deep regrets of his own to wrestle with. Bah humbug! Yes, indeed-y.

Horror filmmaker Ti West (of the X trilogy fame) is the man behind this new retelling of Charles Dickens’ famous holiday tale, A Christmas Carol. And if you stop to think about it, this just might be one of the most horror-tinged Christmas yarns ever written, making West a pretty inspired choice to bring all those ghosts and spooky spirits to the forefront while leaning into the story’s darker Gothic elements.

Here, Depp steps in as Ebenezer Scrooge, the world’s worst boss and crankiest Christmas hater of all time. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley (played by a ghostly Ian McKellen), who warns him of the terrible fate awaiting him. Soon, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future (Andrea Riseborough, Tramell Tillman, and Robert Strange) arrive to drag Scrooge through the life he’s lived and the dark future still ahead.

Featuring Rupert Grint as Ebenezer’s long-suffering clerk Bob Cratchit, along with Daisy Ridley, Sam Claflin, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Charlie Murphy, this version of the Dickens classic feels like a bit of a mash-up of the many adaptations that came before it, only with West leaning much harder into the ghostly Gothic atmosphere that was always there, but perhaps never pushed quite this far.

Ebenezer is due to arrive in theaters November 13th.

🎥 “The Man with the Bag” Teaser: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Santa and Alan Ritchson Is the Thief Who Has to Save Christmas in This Holiday Action-Comedy with Awkwafina — Due to Stream December 2nd on Prime Video

Arnold Schwarzenegger is Santa Claus... wait, what?! In something that sounds like it was ripped straight from a child’s dream journal, the iconic Terminator star trades in his leather jacket and shades for the jolly man’s red suit and big white beard. In this holiday fantasy family comedy, Reacher star Alan Ritchson plays a former thief recruited straight off the Naughty List to help recover Santa’s stolen magical bag. (Wait... Reacher is here too?! Now someone definitely took a peek at my dream journal.) Ritchson sets out to retrieve the bag and save Christmas for everyone, while Awkwafina co-stars as the sneaky rogue elf who stole it in the first place. Directed by Adam Shankman (The Pacifier, Hairspray), this might be the rare Christmas movie you won’t have to convince Dad to sit down and watch.

🎥 “Rose” U.S. Trailer: Anatomy of a Fall’s Sandra Hüller Poses as a Male Soldier Claiming an Abandoned Farm in This Stark Black-and-White 17th-Century German Historical Drama — In Select U.S. Theaters December 11th

Oscar-nominated German actress Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Project Hail Mary) continues to surprise us, not only with the roles she takes on, but with how completely she disappears into them. And this just may be one of her biggest transformations yet. Here, Hüller plays Rose, a mysterious soldier who arrives in an isolated Protestant village in 17th-century Germany, claiming to be the heir to a long-abandoned farmstead. Posing as a man, Rose is met with suspicion from the villagers and must work to earn their trust. But the more she becomes part of the community, the harder it is to keep her true identity hidden. While Rose isn’t based on any one true story or real-life historical figure, director Markus Schleinzer and co-writer Alexander Brom drew inspiration from hundreds of documented cases of women who lived as men over several centuries. Shot in rich black-and-white contrast reminiscent of classic European period dramas, the film feels almost timeless, as though Rose’s story might as well have been pulled from the pages of a forgotten history.

🎥 “Clarissa” Trailer: Sophie Okonedo Stars in This Contemporary Nigerian Reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ with David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, and Ayo Edebiri — In Select Theaters December 11th

Do all adaptations need to be faithful to their source material? Not necessarily. Sometimes it’s more interesting to take a classic, drop it into a completely different setting, keep the emotional core intact, and see what happens. That’s the approach with this new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, starring Sophie Okonedo in the title role and putting her back in the Oscar conversation for the first time since 2004’s Hotel Rwanda. She’s joined by David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Danny Sapani, and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri. Moving the story from 1920s London to contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, the film follows Okonedo’s Clarissa as she prepares for a high-society party while people from her past stir up memories of old loves, buried desires, and the life she might have lived. Directed by Nigerian twin filmmakers Arie and Chuko Esiri, it’s a reflective mood piece about memory, regret, love, and how the past never seems to let go of us.

🎥 “Sense and Sensibility” New Trailer: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles Star as the Dashwood Sisters in This New Jane Austen Adaptation with George MacKay and Frank Dillane — In Theaters October 16th

After the box-office success of Twisters, you would think that Daisy Edgar-Jones was setting herself up for more big Hollywood studio action films. But no. The English actress trades CGI-created tornadoes for something a little more... British. It’s a period romantic drama based on Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility. Edgar-Jones takes on Elinor Dashwood in a brand-new adaptation, continuing the idea that every new generation needs its own set of Jane Austen films. Joining Edgar-Jones is Esmé Creed-Miles as her younger sister, Marianne Dashwood, along with George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, and Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood. So, if any Jane Austen heads are looking for their next period romance fix, this might just be the ticket... even though the Ang Lee-directed version is still a classic in our eyes.

🎥 “La Bola Negra” Trailer: Cannes-Winning Directors Los Javis Explore Forbidden Love and Multigenerational Trauma in This Buzzy Spanish Drama Starring Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Guitarricadelafuente, and Miguel Bernardeau — In U.S. Theaters October 16th Before Arriving on Netflix December 2nd

Seemingly out of nowhere, this Spanish generational drama has burst onto the scene, and suddenly everyone is talking about it as a major awards contender. So what’s behind all the buzz? For starters, it’s already pulled off an impressive one-two punch on the festival circuit: winning Best Director at Cannes before taking home the People’s Choice Award at TIFF last month. Spanning nearly a century of Spanish history, the story moves between 1932, 1937, and 2017, following three generations of men connected by desire, pain, and the things one generation inevitably leaves behind for the next. Critics and audiences alike have praised its emotional sweep and exploration of sexual identity, family tradition, forbidden love, and generational repression. Its sprawling ensemble includes Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, and Milo Quifes, alongside Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and Oscar nominee Glenn Close. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (better known as Los Javis), don’t be surprised if this one keeps coming up as awards season gets underway.

🎥 “The Last Temptation of Becky” Teasers: Becky Is Back to Kick More Nazi Ass as Lulu Wilson Takes on Neil Patrick Harris in the Third Action-Horror Film — In Theaters November 4th

What started out as a dark comedic riff on the home-invasion horror subgenre, with a tough-as-nails young girl turned vigilante, has somehow become a full-blown indie action-horror franchise. Now three films in, that little girl has grown into an anti-Nazi ass-kicker ready to take on more. Lulu Wilson reprises her role as Becky Hooper, who has gone from teenage vigilante to full-fledged CIA field agent in this third installment. Neil Patrick Harris joins as (what else?) a Fourth Reich-obsessed villain with plans to bring the Nazis back. And who better to whomp his dumb Nazi ass than someone with a dark, violent history of doing exactly that? Time to take out the garbage, ’cause Becky is back, and she ain’t taking any prisoners.

🎥 “Flush” Trailer: This French Gross-Out Horror Comedy Traps a Cocaine Addict in a Nightclub Toilet for One Seriously Twisted Night — Arriving on VOD/Digital in the U.S. October 9th

Hey, it wouldn’t be Halloween season without a little gross-out horror flick coming out to play, offering up something bizarre and grotesque for those looking to get a little weird with their seasonal viewing. And this French offering certainly fits the bill, trapping a middle-aged cocaine addict (Jonathan Lambert) with his head stuck in a nightclub toilet as drug dealers, a drug-addicted rat, and one increasingly disgusting complication after another make an already bad night considerably worse. Flush isn’t just the title of this movie from director Grégory Morin, it might be the only thing its poor protagonist is hoping to hear by the end of the night.

🎥 “Let’s Have Kids!” Trailer: Karen Gillan and Zoë Chao Make a Pregnancy Pact in This Indie Comedy with Sam Richardson and Max Greenfield — On VOD/Digital October 13th

They were born on the same day. They grew up together and became the closest of friends. Now they wanna have a baby together. Well, not together together. But together... at the same time. In this indie comedy, Karen Gillan and Zoë Chao star as lifelong best friends Emma and Phoebe, who make a pact to get pregnant at the same time and take on motherhood side by side. But when only one of them becomes pregnant, those carefully laid plans start pulling Emma and Phoebe in different directions, testing a friendship built around doing everything together. Sam Richardson and Max Greenfield play their respective partners, with KJ Apa, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Begley Jr. rounding out the ensemble. Undateable creator Adam Sztykiel makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ellie Knaus. Sure, you can plan the next chapter of your life with someone, but you can’t guarantee you’ll both get there at the same time—no matter how much you plan for it.

🎥 “Capturing Bigfoot” Trailer: Nearly 60 Years Later, a New Documentary Explores the Legacy, Mystery & Struggles Over the Infamous Patterson-Gimlin Footage — In Select Theaters & Exclusively on Prime Video October 20th

It remains one of the most hotly debated and analyzed pieces of footage surrounding the myth of Bigfoot. And nearly 60 years later, those 60 seconds of grainy 16mm film still define the iconic image of what we think Bigfoot looks like. In this new documentary, filmmakers dig into the untold story surrounding the infamous Patterson-Gimlin footage that captured the public imagination and helped kick-start an entire subculture of Bigfoot believers, skeptics, and conspiracy-minded obsessives. Was it a hoax? Was it a genuine Bigfoot sighting? Perhaps the better question is why, nearly 60 years later, we’re still asking. The film also digs into the families and people behind the footage, where disputes over ownership, money, and legacy have turned a 60-second piece of film into a generational struggle of its own.

🎥 “Re-Creation” U.S. Trailer: Vicky Krieps, Colm Meaney and Aidan Gillen Revisit One of Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murders in Jim Sheridan’s 12 Angry Men-Inspired Courtroom Thriller — On VOD/Digital September 29th; Followed by a DVD Release October 27th

Oscar-nominated Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan has joined forces with co-director David Merriman to revisit one of Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder cases: the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was found dead outside her holiday home in West Cork, Ireland. Using the same narrative structure as Sidney Lumet’s classic 12 Angry Men, the film takes place inside a fictional jury room, where twelve jurors must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of her murder. Featuring an ensemble that includes Vicky Krieps, Colm Meaney, and Aidan Gillen, the film becomes a dramatized debate over the facts of a real-life case that never made it inside a courtroom.

🎥 “Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story” Trailer: Judd Apatow Celebrates Maria Bamford’s One-of-a-Kind Comic Mind in This New Documentary — Debuts October 23rd on Netflix

All art is derivative in some way. But every once in a while, someone comes along with something so purely original that it breaks the mold. Maria Bamford isn’t like any other stand-up comedian you might’ve seen before... or might ever see again. Is she for everyone? Is her humor for everyone? No, not exactly. But like all true originals, she doesn’t have to be. Filmmaker and fellow comedian Judd Apatow co-directs this profile documentary celebrating Bamford’s singular comic voice and the deeply personal mental health journey that helped shape it into something entirely her own. Featuring many notable comedians (like Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert) who have become some of Bamford’s biggest supporters and fans, this is a loving portrait of a comic mind that has always operated on its own wavelength. It’s just tuned to a station only some of us can pick up.

🎥 “NAZA” Trailer: Israeli Filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor Examine the AI-Assisted Military Systems Behind Israel’s Bombing of Gaza in the Venice Special Jury Prize-Winning Documentary — Opening in NY October 2nd, Expanding to More Theaters October 9th; Before Streaming Free on the Guardian’s Website in November

It’s one of the most talked-about documentaries to have premiered last month at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a 25-minute standing ovation before winning the Special Jury Prize. Israeli investigative journalists/filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor explore the AI-assisted military systems behind Israel’s mass bombing of Gaza, exposing how deeply ingrained these technologies have become in surveillance, target selection, and airstrike procedures. Featuring exclusive interviews with 24 members of the Israeli military and intelligence services, conducted under the condition of total anonymity, the film also examines just how inhumanely routine these systems have become, reducing decisions about Palestinian civilian casualties to numbers on a page. Considered extremely controversial in Israel, the documentary is co-produced by the Guardian and Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest producer James Wilson, with filmmaker Jonathan Glazer serving as executive producer. If human life is callously reduced to a mere number, the question becomes about why no one seems willing to say when enough is enough.

🎥 “Joy of Joys” Trailer: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Director Jonathan Glazer Goes Inside Abbey Road with Olivia Rodrigo, Arctic Monkeys, Damon Albarn & More for War Child’s HELP(2) — Premieres in October at The 64th New York Film Festival

Speaking of Jonathan Glazer. The acclaimed music video director-turned-filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest returns to his music roots with this new behind-the-scenes documentary that takes us inside Abbey Road Studios. Filmed during the recording of War Child’s charity album HELP(2), the doc takes a fly-on-the-wall approach as artists including Olivia Rodrigo, Damon Albarn, Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C., and Jarvis Cocker come together to make the album. Under Glazer’s eye, it becomes a portrait of artists expressing themselves, collaborating, and coming together for a shared cause.

🎥 “threeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE” Trailer: Sean Ono Lennon Makes His Feature Documentary Directing Debut with a Look Inside NYC’s Avant-Garde Fashion Collective — Opening at NY’s Film Forum November 13th

Musician Sean Ono Lennon co-directs this documentary that takes us inside the world of New York avant-garde fashion collective threeASFOUR and the three designers who have spent decades making art on their own terms. Marking Lennon’s feature documentary directing debut, alongside co-director and cinematographer Brian C. González, the film looks back at more than two decades of the collective’s work and their ongoing struggle to remain artistically independent. Some might see fashion as little more than clothes and commerce, but this doc makes the case for something more: fashion as pure artistic expression and a radical rejection of the status quo.

🎥 “Free Fall” Trailer: A Russian Astronaut Is Stranded Alone in Orbit in This Effects-Heavy Russian Space Survival Thriller — On VOD/Digital October 27th

This Russian astronaut thriller takes one of the oldest fears in space travel and runs with it: What happens when a repairman is left stranded alone in orbit? And if that wasn’t bad enough... what happens when the only thing connecting him to safety is a voice on the other end of the radio after a catastrophic proton storm cuts him off from his crew? Directed by Russian filmmaker Oleg Urazaykin and starring Alexander Kuznetsov as the stranded repairman, this effects-heavy survival thriller puts us through one man’s increasingly desperate and agonizing attempt to make it back to safety before time runs out. Think The Martian meets Gravity, but with a ticking clock.

🎥 “Collision Course” Trailer: Crooked Cops Pull Off a Bank Heist Only to Find Themselves Investigating Their Own Crime in This Spanish Action-Thriller Starring Laia Costa, Karra Elejalde and Luis Zahera — Streams October 30th on Netflix

Movies about cops chasing criminals are a dime a dozen. But what about this twist: what if the cops were chasing themselves? That’s the clever setup at the center of this Spanish action-thriller, where a group of police officers pull off a bank robbery, only to find themselves assigned to investigate the very crime they committed. But after a brutal getaway crash throws their carefully planned heist into total disarray, loyalties are tested to the breaking point, secrets come spilling out, and suddenly no one is quite sure who they can trust. Starring Laia Costa, Karra Elejalde, and Luis Zahera, and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, this sets out to prove that sometimes, to get away with a crime, you have to make sure you’re the one in charge of the investigation. That is, if everything goes according to plan.

🎥 “Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint” U.K. Trailer: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star John Bradley Learns the True Meaning of Christmas in This British Holiday Comedy-Drama with Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant and Sophia Di Martino — In UK Theaters November 6th

Game of Thrones’ John Bradley learns the true meaning of Christmas as Aubrey, a reclusive model-soldier painter and lifelong holiday hater whose disastrous encounter with a snow globe lands him in community service. Sent to Willow Lodge, a struggling retirement home facing closure, Aubrey is reluctantly recruited into a gloriously chaotic production of A Christmas Carol to help save the home. Somewhere between rehearsals, eccentric residents, and plenty of Christmas chaos, Aubrey begins rediscovering the holiday spirit he thought he’d lost for good. This British Christmas comedy-drama features an impressive ensemble including Celia Imrie, Richard E. Grant, Adjoa Andoh, Sophia Di Martino, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Karl Pilkington, and the voice of Jim Broadbent.

🎥 “The Holiday Hitman” Trailer: A Professional Hitman Looks to Save His Marriage and His Family in This Bloody Holiday Action-Comedy Starring Nick Sagar and Montana Manning — On VOD/Digital November 3rd

This Christmas, prepare to deck the halls... with the blood of your enemies. This holiday action-comedy follows professional hitman Hank (Nick Sagar), who is trying to do something considerably more difficult than killing people: save his marriage. Hoping to spend a nice, quiet holiday vacation with his wife, Jenny (Montana Manning), and daughter, Hank is determined to leave the killing behind for just a few days and give his family the Christmas they deserve. But when his boss doesn’t take kindly to Hank refusing a job on Christmas Eve, he puts a bounty on his head, sending a collection of deadly contract killers his way. Now Hank has to take them out before his family discovers his double life. If he’s going to survive Christmas and save his marriage, he’s going to need a Christmas miracle.

🎥 “Gentle Monster” Trailer: Léa Seydoux’s Fresh Start Is Shattered by Her Husband’s Dark Secret in Marie Kreutzer’s Psychological Drama — In Select Theaters October 30th, on Netflix November 18th

How well do you really know the person you love? Léa Seydoux stars as Lucy, a concert pianist who moves her family to the countryside, hoping a quieter life will help her husband, Philip (Laurence Rupp), recover from severe burnout. But their fresh start is shattered when police suddenly arrive, arrest Philip, and seize his computers. As a devastating accusation begins to surface, Lucy is caught between the man she loves and the growing fear that she may never have truly known him at all. Written and directed by Corsage filmmaker Marie Kreutzer, this psychological drama explores how one horrifying revelation can tear an entire family apart.

🎥 “Operation Kabul” Trailer: A Hungarian Military Unit Races Back into Kabul for a Dangerous Rescue Mission in This Hungarian War-Action Film Set Against the 2021 Afghanistan Withdrawal — On VOD/Digital November 3rd

Inspired by true events and set against the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, this Hungarian war-action film follows a military unit caught in the desperate race to get civilians out of Kabul before the city falls. When a Hungarian doctor is suddenly captured by the Taliban, the operation to get everyone out takes an unexpected turn. With time running out, a rifleman commander and his unit leave the relative safety of the airport and head back into Kabul on a dangerous nighttime rescue mission, knowing there’s a real chance they could be left behind. Directed by Zsombor Dyga and starring Gábor Jászberényi and Blanka Mészáros, the film draws inspiration from the real-life Hungarian military evacuation known as Operation Shaman Shield.

🎥 “Rocky: 50th Anniversary (4K Restoration)” Trailer: Sylvester Stallone’s Underdog Classic Goes the Distance Once Again — Back in Theaters November 7th–11th, via Fathom Ent.

It’s considered one of the great boxing film classics of all time, and it also delivered the surprise, star-making performance of a then-young Sylvester Stallone. Now, 50 years later, it’s set to return to theaters to remind everyone how one underdog story became a cultural phenomenon. And why? Well, for starters, winning was never as important to Rocky Balboa as proving he could go the distance; a sentiment that still resonates with moviegoers looking for a reason to keep fighting. And with a new feature film (I Play Rocky) soon to be released dramatizing the behind-the-scenes making of Rocky, perhaps there’s no better time to revisit where it all began.

🎥 “Wild at Heart: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern Hit the Road Again in David Lynch’s Cult 1990 Wild, Weird & Unrestrained Love Story with Willem Dafoe and Diane Ladd — Back In Theaters October 30th

Thirty-six years after its original theatrical release, David Lynch’s fever dream of a road movie is making its way back to the big screen in a new 4K restoration. Sex, crime, Elvis, The Wizard of Oz, and one bizarre encounter after another... the film is pure Lynch at his most unrestrained and unapologetically weird. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, two young lovers on the run from Lula’s violently disapproving mother and the killers she sends after them. Along the way, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton pop up in one of Lynch’s wildest trips through love, violence, and twisted Americana. Part ’50s retro road picture, part rockabilly acid trip, part Southern Gothic love story, but all Lynchian goodness.

🎥 “Directed By... Steven Soderbergh (1991–2021)” Blu-ray Trailer: Imprint Films Revisits Soderbergh’s Early Years with a 4-Film Collection Featuring Kafka, Mr. Kneff, King of the Hill & The Underneath — Coming to 4K UHD + Blu-ray November 25th in Australia, via Imprint Films

Any physical media collectors out there? If so, you already know that sometimes the best collections, sadly, don’t come from U.S. labels, but from overseas. Well, it seems the early works of filmmaker Steven Soderbergh have become the latest example, thanks to the good people at Australian label Imprint Films. This collection contains Soderbergh’s cult 1991 Jeremy Irons-starring semi-biopic mystery Kafka and its radically reworked 2021 version, Mr. Kneff, which transforms the original into a shorter, largely silent, sepia-toned reinterpretation. The film is a fictional depiction of German writer Franz Kafka’s life, but told through the same kind of surrealist, labyrinthine world found in his writings. The collection also includes Soderbergh’s bittersweet 1993 Depression-era coming-of-ager King of the Hill and his 1995 neo-noir heist caper The Underneath. Looking to understand how Soderbergh shaped his early film career after his 1989 breakout debut, Sex, Lies, and Videotape? This collection offers a pretty good place to start.

🎥 “Reservoir Dogs” 4K Blu-Ray Trailer: Quentin Tarantino’s Cult 1992 Directorial Debut Gets the Collector’s Treatment with a Limited-Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray Release — In Australia November 25th, via Imprint Films

Before Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, or Inglourious Basterds, there was this low-budget 1992 diamond robbery flick that introduced the world to Quentin Tarantino. Dripping with ’60s and ’70s aesthetic, attitude, and music, the film stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, and Lawrence Tierney as a group of code-named criminals brought together for a diamond heist that goes very, very wrong. The surviving crew retreats to an abandoned warehouse, where suspicion quickly takes over when they realize one of them may be a cop. But which one? Right out of the gate, the film had all the Tarantino trademarks we’d come to know: nonlinear storytelling, pop-culture-heavy dialogue, carefully chosen needle drops, and sudden bursts of violence. Now the cult classic is getting the collector’s treatment with a new limited-edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray release in Australia from Imprint Films.

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📺 “VisionQuest” Trailer: Paul Bettany’s Vision Questions What It Means to Be Human as James Spader’s Ultron Returns in Marvel’s Mind-Bending MCU Series — Premiering Wednesday, October 14th on Disney+

Have you ever copied a digital file on your desktop? Sure you have. But have you ever wondered if anything was lost in the process? Is the copy really the same as the original? Here’s the bigger question: if you copied a person, would they still be the same person?

That’s essentially the dilemma facing Vision as he grapples with his own identity, knowing full well that he ain’t the original Vision, but a copy with his exact memories and experiences. Whoa! That’s a lot to take in.

Which is perhaps why this new MCU series will focus on that existential quandary, as this version of Vision tries to come to terms with who he is, who he used to be, and whether there’s really a difference between the two. More human than human.

Paul Bettany returns as the rebuilt synthezoid in VisionQuest, an MCU spinoff that concludes the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along.

Here, Vision is living in isolation, searching for some sense of purpose and truth within his own mind—a digital mainframe filled with remnants of his past. But that soul-searching gets interrupted when a bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the run.

Along for the ride is Thomas Shepard (Ruaridh Mollica), a mysterious young man who may somehow be his son reborn. But how could that be possible? Well, in a world of superheroes and supervillains, pretty much anything is possible.

And if that wasn’t complicated enough, James Spader’s Ultron is back and lurking somewhere inside Vision’s programming. He’s part Jiminy Cricket-like subconscious, part greatest fear: a constant reminder of what an artificial intelligence can become when it loses sight of its humanity.

For a synthezoid trying to figure out who (or what) he really is, being a son and a father, let alone a hero, may turn out to be the most complicated part of the equation.

Surprisingly, the series arrives at just about the perfect time, with Avengers: Doomsday set for December and Marvel coming off a recent box-office win with its Avengers: Endgame encore.

Executive produced by showrunner Terry Matalas (12 Monkeys, Star Trek: Picard), VisionQuest is coming to Disney+ on Wednesday, October 14th.

📺 “The Lowdown: Season 2” Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Back to Dig Up More Trouble in Tulsa in Sterlin Harjo’s Offbeat Crime Series, with Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin Joining the Fun — Premiering Wednesday, October 14th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Ethan Hawke just might have found the perfect role for him. As he enters his, dare we say, Harry Dean Stanton phase of his career, Hawke seems right at home playing the scruffy, eccentric, slightly worn-around-the-edges Lee Raybon.

Hawke returns for Season 2 of FX’s The Lowdown, a neo-noir shaggy-dog crime comedy about a local Oklahoma historian and street journalist who constantly finds himself getting into trouble while digging for the truth.

Season 1 introduced us to this dusty, lived-in world where every corner feels worn down by time, every local oddball has a story, and there always seems to be a little something brewing beneath the surface. Season 2 continues Lee’s arc as a loving dad, a devoted keeper of the truth, and perhaps the last honest troublemaker left in Tulsa.

Created, written, and partly directed by Oklahoma native Sterlin Harjo, of FX’s Reservation Dogs fame, The Lowdown adds a couple of heavyweights to the cast this season. Legendary Texan actor Tommy Lee Jones joins in the fun as Lee Raybon Senior, Lee’s estranged grifter father, who suddenly rolls back into town after Lee spent years telling his daughter that her grandfather was dead. So yeah, that should make for an interesting family reunion.

Recent Emmy winner Betty Gilpin, of Widow’s Bay, also joins the cast this year as Ginger, a brash public defender and fellow crusader for the truth who pulls Lee into his latest investigation after one of her clients mysteriously disappears from state prison.

With Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Keith David, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson, and Scott Shepherd returning, The Lowdown: Season 2 will once again take us through the eccentric, seedy side of Tulsa as Lee pokes around where he probably shouldn’t, asks questions people would rather he didn’t, and inevitably finds himself knee-deep in trouble, yet again.

The series returns Wednesday, October 14th on FX and Hulu.

📺 “Nocturne” Trailer: Stephen Graham Plays a Serial Killer Who Loves Playing Mind Games in Apple’s Twisty New Thriller Series with Liev Schreiber and Zazie Beetz — Premiering Friday, October 30th on Apple TV

The truly terrifying thing about facing true evil is that if you get too close, there’s no way you won’t be changed by it. But when it’s your job to hunt down some of the most evil criminals in the country, keeping your distance isn’t exactly an option.

In the new Apple Original series Nocturne, a currently jailed serial killer finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation, where agents believe there are more of his victims who have yet to be accounted for. It’s their job to identify them and save any who may still be alive. Now, this notorious killer can help them and be cooperative. Or he can play games, manipulate the investigation, and make them work for every answer.

He chooses the latter.

Emmy Award-winning actor Stephen Graham, of Adolescence, stars as Jurek Walter, an infamous serial killer whose manipulation and mind games make getting the truth out of him nearly impossible. He is joined by Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) as Jonah Lynn, the veteran homicide detective who has spent years trying to catch Walter and has a long, complicated history with his case.

With a new FBI investigation emerging after one of Walter’s missing victims suddenly turns up alive, Lynn’s history with Walter becomes somewhat compromised. His protégé, tenacious FBI agent Saga Bauer (Zazie Beetz), volunteers to go undercover, posing as a death-row inmate newly relocated to the cell next to Walter.

It’s a plan that might just work. The only problem? If you stare into the sun long enough, eventually you’re going to get burned. So how long will it take before Agent Bauer gets too close to Walter and starts getting burned herself?

Created by Rowan Joffé, the screenwriter of 28 Weeks Later and creator of Amazon’s Tin Star, the series also stars The Night Of’s Bill Camp, Castle Rock’s Rory Culkin, Lanterns’ Poorna Jagannathan, and This Is Us’ Chrissy Metz.

The upcoming drama appears to be a ticking-clock thriller where the killer is already caught, yet his victims are still out there... and time is running out to find them. Now it’s up to the good guys to get close to a monster without losing themselves in the process.

Nocturne is set to premiere Friday, October 30th on Apple TV.

📺 “Phony” Trailer: Connie Britton May Not Be the Mother She Claims to Be in Hulu’s Unsettling New Thriller Series with Sam Nivola — Premiering Tuesday, October 20th on Hulu / Disney+

There’s nothing quite like a mother’s love. It can feel like a warm blanket of comfort and security. But what happens when the woman you believe to be your mother suddenly starts feeling like a complete stranger? And those feelings turn into incredibly deep suspicion. And here’s a terrifying thought: What if she really isn’t your mother?

In the upcoming psychological thriller series Phony, Connie Britton and Sam Nivola (of The White Lotus: Season 3) star as mother and son, Ellen and Sonny. It’s always been just the two of them. They’ve been nearly inseparable... best friends, even.

But when Sonny wakes up badly injured in the hospital after a horrible car accident, he begins to notice something different about his mother... something completely off about her. Is this even the same woman? This can’t be my mother, he starts thinking, even as everyone around him insists otherwise.

His suspicion and paranoia set off an increasingly desperate search for the truth, as Sonny slowly becomes convinced that this woman isn’t the person she says she is. And if that’s true... where is his mother? What happened to her? And why has she seemingly been replaced by someone who looks exactly like her, yet feels completely different?

Created, written, and directed by Nick Paley (Broad City, Nathan Fielder’s The Curse) and co-starring Meera Syal, Grace Brennan, Mahaela Park, Maliq Johnson, and Colter Lee, this eyebrow-raising mother-son thriller asks: What do you do when everything in your body says the person you love most isn’t who they say they are? And that intuition is becoming frighteningly hard to ignore.

Just in time for Halloween to give you the willies, Phony arrives on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on Tuesday, October 20th.

📺 “Tulsa King: Season 4” Trailer: Sylvester Stallone Is Back and Ready to Crack Some Skulls as New Enemies Come to Tulsa — Premiering Friday, October 16th on Paramount+

Sylvester Stallone may have started his career as a big Hollywood action hero. But now, at 80, the Rocky and Rambo star has found a whole different kind of success on television with his mob drama, Tulsa King, which returns this month for its fourth season. Stallone is still the tough guy you don’t want to mess with, but with a little more age, wisdom, and swagger behind him.

As mobster Dwight “The General” Manfredi, this Taylor Sheridan-created series has Stallone returning to his dramatic roots, while still giving him plenty of opportunities to crack some skulls. After all, Sly’s gotta be Sly.

In the show, Dwight is a made man sent to live out his days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after spending a long stretch in prison. It’s a city where not much happens. That is, until Dwight figures out there’s plenty of opportunity to build an empire of his own. It’s an untapped resource for the mob to move in, and Dwight is just the guy to do it.

After three seasons of Dwight and his local crew building and protecting a criminal empire from rivals, enemies, and anyone else looking to muscle in on their territory, Season 4 doesn’t seem to be all that different. This year will see new enemies (including one local Tulsa gangster rapper), power-hungry politicians (one played by Gretchen Mol), and old rivals (James Russo, Frank Grillo, and Neal McDonough) once again come knocking at Dwight’s door. All of them looking for a piece of the action.

With Martin Starr, Garrett Hedlund, Jay Will, Dana Delany, and Annabella Sciorra returning, as well as showrunner Terence Winter back at the helm, Season 4 promises even more trouble for Dwight and his ever-growing Tulsa empire.

Tulsa King: Season 4 is slated to premiere Friday, October 16th, exclusively on Paramount+.

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📺 “Barbershop” Teaser: Jermaine Fowler Takes His Spot Behind the Barber Chair at Calvin’s in Amazon’s New Comedy Series with Brett Gray, Punkie Johnson, and Roy Wood Jr — Premieres Wednesday, February 10, 2027 on Prime Video

It’s been more than 20 years since the original Barbershop comedy hit theaters, and after growing into a franchise, it’s now opening its doors for its first TV series. Jermaine Fowler takes the lead as Travis “Trav” Porter, the grandson of Cedric the Entertainer’s Eddie, who is looking to take his own spot behind the chair at Calvin’s. Raised on Chicago’s South Side and practically in the barbershop itself, you’d think Trav would be a natural. Well, it turns out he still has a lot to learn about cutting hair... and, more importantly, dealing with the many colorful personalities who walk in and out of Calvin’s. Also starring On My Block’s Brett Gray, former SNL cast member Punkie Johnson, former The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., and Bokeem Woodbine, the series continues the franchise’s familiar mix of workplace comedy and neighborhood debates, with the barbershop still serving as the place where everyone has an opinion and nobody is afraid to share it.

📺 “Small Prophets” Trailer: A Lonely British Man Tries to Grow Tiny Fairy-Like Creatures in Mackenzie Crook’s Oddball British Comedy Series Starring Pearce Quigley, Lauren Patel, and Michael Palin — Premieres Wednesday, October 7th on Apple TV

The legend of the homunculus has long been a strange little corner of European folklore. It’s the idea that, with the right combination of alchemy and a little patience, you might just be able to create your own tiny human-like creature. Now imagine that happening in modern-day England, inside the garden shed of a lonely man looking for answers... and maybe even a new friend. Created, written, and directed by British actor Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the UK’s The Office), the series stars comedian Pearce Quigley as Michael Sleep, an eccentric man whose life has been stuck in place ever since his beloved Clea mysteriously disappeared seven years ago. But when his father gives him an old alchemical recipe for creating homunculi (tiny magical creatures said to predict the future), Michael figures, why not give it a try? Also starring Michael Palin, Lauren Patel, and Crook himself, this heartfelt six-part comedy turns one man’s strange backyard experiment into a story about holding on to hope, and maybe finding a little unexpected friendship along the way.

📺 “Dexter: Resurrection: Season 2” Trailer: Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Morgan Faces His Most Terrifying Enemy Yet... a Mid-Life Crisis — Streams Friday, October 30th on Paramount+

There comes a point in every man’s life when he realizes he’s getting older. Perhaps the world is moving a little faster, and the younger generation doesn’t quite respect the history you’ve built. Apparently, serial killers have mid-life crises too. Go figure! Michael C. Hall returns once more as serial killer vigilante Dexter Morgan. And this new season of the New York-set spinoff series finds Dexter dealing with something he hasn’t really had to face before: getting older and wondering whether the world of serial killers is starting to pass him by. With Dan Stevens, Brian Cox, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nona Parker Johnson joining the cast, and Uma Thurman returning as Charley, Dexter finds himself surrounded by a new collection of killers, including an infamous murderer with decades of notoriety behind him and a younger killer terrorizing New York. For a guy who’s spent most of his life trying to keep his homicidal impulses under control, Dexter now has his work cut out for him... quite literally, as he tries to keep up with the next generation.

📺 “Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook” Trailer: Awkwafina Can’t Cook... So Naturally, She’s Reviving Her Family’s Cantonese Restaurant and Rediscovering Her Culinary Roots — Premieres Friday, November 6th on Apple TV

Part personal diary. Part food and travel show. But all Awkwafina. Actress and comedian Nora Lum (aka Awkwafina) opens herself up as she tries to get closer to her family roots and their cooking legacy. With the help of a few friends and chefs, she sets out to revive her family’s beloved Cantonese restaurant, taking a crash course in becoming a restaurateur. There’s a slight problem, tho. She was never taught how to cook... like, anything. So, to take on this deeply personal and highly ambitious venture, she’ll have to start from the very beginning: Cooking 101. All in the hopes of finally winning her grandma’s approval.

📺 The Crypt Keeper Is Back! John Kassir’s Iconic “Tales from the Crypt” Horror Host Returns After 30 Years to Haunt AMC’s FearFest 2026

October is here, which means Halloween season is in full effect. And who better to lead us through a month of horror than an old friend we haven’t seen in a while? After 30 years, the iconic host of Tales from the Crypt (once again voiced by the undeniable cackle of John Kassir) has clawed his way back into our lives. AMC is kicking off the 30th anniversary of FearFest by resurrecting the Crypt Keeper as the official host of its month-long celebration of all things horror. Sure, he has a slightly different look. The creature design isn’t ...eh, exactly the same as before. But that same old snarky, ghoulish spirit is still very much alive and kicking. So, boils and ghouls, get ready for a whole month of tricks, treats, horror movies, and plenty of terrible puns from everybody’s favorite decomposing horror host.

📺 “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head: Season 4” Trailer: Everyone’s Favorite Idiots Bring Their Ridiculous Brand of Stupidity to Comedy Central — Premieres Wednesday, October 14th on Comedy Central

Mike Judge’s terminally dim-headed duo is back for another “stupid” season. And this time, they’re bringing their ridiculous and often hilarious brand of idiocy from Paramount+ to Comedy Central for Season 4. But the move doesn’t change one iota. This is still very much the same Beavis and Butt-Head we know and love: stupid ideas, terrible decisions, and two idiots somehow making their way through a world that’s gotten a whole lot dumber... yet still somehow manages to be smarter than they are. Judge returns to voice both Beavis and Butt-Head for another 12 episodes of absurd misadventures, along with their middle-aged counterparts, who continue to prove that getting older doesn’t necessarily mean getting any wiser.

📺 “TED: The Animated Series” Teaser: Ted and John Get Animated in Seth MacFarlane’s New ‘Ted’ Sequel Series Featuring Mark Wahlberg — Debuts Thursday, December 17th on Peacock

Just when you thought Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear couldn’t get any more animated... he literally does. In this upcoming animated comedy series, MacFarlane reunites with Mark Wahlberg for the latest installment of the Ted franchise. This time, Ted and John are not only older, married, and living next door to each other, but they’ve been given the Family Guy treatment. As in, they’re literally animated. Coming off the live-action prequel series that explored John’s high school years with Ted, this latest installment jumps ahead to John’s married years with Sam (Amanda Seyfried), as he and Ted stumble their way through marriage, parenting, dead-end jobs, and all the other headaches of adult life.

📺 “Abbott Elementary: Season 6” Trailer: Welcome Back to the Jungle as Quinta Brunson and the Abbott Crew Return for Another Year of Elementary Mayhem — Returns Wednesday, October 7th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu/Disney+

Look, in this day and age of television, it’s rare for a sitcom to make it past its first season, let alone reach six. But Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning comedy series has managed to do what most shows can only dream of. A large part of that success comes down to its cast of characters, led by Brunson herself, alongside Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The whole gang is back for another season of classroom mayhem, as the teachers at Abbott Elementary once again juggle classroom chaos, school-district headaches, and their increasingly complicated personal lives. This season, we’ll see the Abbott crew tackle the “jungle,” as union fights, job promotions, in-school squabbles, and personal drama keep everyone on their toes.

📺 “The Night Agent: Season 4” Behind-the-Scenes Promo: Gabriel Basso Returns as Agent Peter Sutherland for One Final Mission — Coming to Netflix in 2027

Nothing lasts forever. Eventually, you have to say goodbye to the things you love. Apparently, the same goes for White House agents like Peter Sutherland. Gabriel Basso returns for one final mission as the titular Night Agent, pulled yet again into a conspiracy-laden assignment. And yes, the stakes will be extremely high. With new friends and foes entering the picture tHis season, Peter once again faces a seemingly insurmountable mission, where one wrong step could lead to a global catastrophe. Then again, it wouldn’t be Peter Sutherland if saving the world didn’t come with the job.

📺 “9-1-1: Season 10” Trailer: Angela Bassett and the 118 Are Back to Save L.A. From a Volcano, Spilling Lava, and Another Round of Outrageous Disasters — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

Whoa, ten seasons! Angela Bassett has led the charge of this L.A.-set drama series where emergency calls aren’t just emergencies... they’re usually full-blown disasters in need of some serious rescuing. Bassett is back as Athena Grant, now settling into her new role as a detective, while the rest of the 118 firefighter crew once again finds itself dealing with a number of emergencies around Los Angeles, each seemingly more outrageous than the last. Also starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark, Kenneth Choi, Aisha Hinds, Ryan Guzman, and Gavin McHugh, Season 10 is a milestone for any show, let alone one where the city seems to find a new and increasingly ridiculous way to nearly destroy itself every week. It’s just another day in Los Angeles, and another volcanic disaster waiting for the 118 to come to the rescue. Watch out for the 405... lava coming through!

📺 “9-1-1: Nashville: Season 2” Trailer: Murder Hornets, Biblical Plagues, and Ryan Phillippe Come to Music City — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu /Disney+

You heard of killer bees? Well, in Nashville, they call them “murder hornets.” And when there’s a biblical plague in the middle of Music City, you better believe the good men and women of the 113 are going to have their hands full. Ryan Phillippe joins Season 2 as a New York homicide detective transplant who moves to Nashville looking for a little taste of Southern hospitality. Instead, he finds himself working cases that feel like they came straight out of the Bible. With Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, and LeAnn Rimes returning with their sinful Southern ways, Nashville may need more than a few first responders to save it this time around. Hello, 9-1-1... pus-filled boils are breaking out all over my face and back. Call a doctor... or maybe a priest!

📺 “Newlyweds” Trailer: Real-Life Spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly Say ‘I Do’ Before Really Getting to Know Each Other in NBC’s New Sitcom Co-Created by and Co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis — Airs Friday, October 23rd on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

From Emmy-nominated television writer-director-producer Gail Lerner (Will & Grace, Black-ish) comes a new traditional multi-camera sitcom where real-life spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play a newly married couple who may have said “I do” before really getting to know each other. She’s a free spirit. He’s a buttoned-up professor. And their respective worlds of friends and family are about to collide in ways neither of them quite expected. Jamie Lee Curtis, who also co-created and produced this NBC comedy, co-stars as Daly’s ex-wife, who is just one of the many colorful characters circling around the newlywed couple’s lives as they figure out that getting married was the easy part. Now it’s getting to know each other... and everyone who comes with them... where things are about to get complicated.

📺 “The One About Matthew Perry” Trailer: Friends and Family Look Past the Headlines to Remember the Beloved ‘Friends’ Star’s Life and Legacy — Premieres Tuesday, October 27th on Netflix

The sad irony is that the people who make us laugh the hardest are often the same ones hurting in ways we don’t always see. In this loving portrait of Friends star Matthew Perry, who passed away far too early, some of his closest friends and family members get a chance to talk about the real man behind Chandler Bing. Perry made us laugh for years, with a gift for physical comedy and timing that made him one of television’s most memorable comedic performers. But behind those laughs was a man fighting a very different battle. Perry was open about his years of alcoholism and drug abuse, and he eventually used his own struggles to help others facing addiction. While those struggles ultimately followed him to the end of his life, to the people who knew and loved him, he was always so much more than his addiction. Directed by Mary Robertson (Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV), this three-part documentary looks past those headlines to get to the heart of a “Friend” we all loved.

📺 “Power: Origins” Teaser: Meet Young Ghost and Tommy as STARZ Takes the “Power” Franchise Back to Where It All Began — Coming Soon, 2026

The Power franchise continues to expand, somehow finding new corners of its criminal universe to explore. This time, we’re going all the way back to where it began, with the early days of Ghost and Tommy, long before they became legends of New York’s criminal underworld. From showrunner Sascha Penn (Raising Kanan, Survivor’s Remorse), the prequel stars Spence Moore II as a young James “Ghost” St. Patrick and Charlie Mann as a young Tommy Egan. MeKai Curtis also returns as Kanan Stark, directly connecting the series to Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Together, Ghost, Tommy, and Kanan are young, hungry, and looking to make their mark on the streets of New York. We already know where their stories end up, and this will take us back to where it all started.

📺 “Rivals: Season 2” Trailer: Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Bella Maclean, Nafessa Williams, Danny Dyer, and Katherine Parkinson Return for More ’80s Excess in the British Drama — Returning Wednesday, November 11th on Hulu / Disney+ in U.S.

The first season of this British import was all about the rich and powerful muscling their way into the television industry, manipulating and bending the narrative in their favor—a fitting example of ’80s excess. Season 2 returns with that success taking its toll, as professional rivalries become increasingly personal and the characters’ intertwined relationships push them toward their own moral collapse. Featuring a stellar ensemble led by Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Bella Maclean, Nafessa Williams, Danny Dyer, and Katherine Parkinson, and created by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, this ’80s-set British series returns for another season where cultural elitism, professional ambition, personal desire, and old financial rivalries become increasingly difficult to separate as Britain’s rich and powerful discover that getting what they want comes with consequences.

📺 “Time: Series 3” Trailer: David Tennant Reaches His Breaking Point as a Guilt-Ridden Prison Officer in Jimmy McGovern’s Hard-Hitting Youth Prison Drama — Debuts Sunday, October 11th on BBC One in the UK; Coming Soon to BritBox in the U.S.

David Tennant has played his fair share of complicated men over the years. But in this third installment of Jimmy McGovern’s prison anthology, he may be playing one of his most guilt-ridden yet. Here, Tennant takes on the role of Bailey, a veteran officer working inside a Young Offenders Institution, where a devastating tragedy leaves him carrying a secret that could change the lives of several people... including his own. With a cast of young rising actors, including Louis McCartney and Ollie McNulty, the three-part drama explores those frightening first weeks and months behind bars for a group of teenage offenders, where family loyalties are tested, friendships are formed, and the truth can be every bit as difficult to face as the crimes that put them there.

📺 “The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story” Trailer: A Decades-Old Louisiana Cold Case Takes a Strange Turn Toward the Paranormal in This Three-Part True Crime Docuseries — Premieres Sunday, October 11th on HBO Max

An unsolved murder mystery isn’t always just about solving the case. Sometimes, it’s about pulling a thread to see what gets unleashed. Most of the time, those threads lead to clues. But every once in a while, all you end up doing is opening a Pandora’s box... a whole new can of worms. In this new three-part true crime docuseries, a cold case dating back to 1985 in Louisiana becomes the starting point for a much larger mystery, one that goes from possible suspects to the paranormal. After all, it’s Louisiana. And sometimes, the spirits can’t help but make themselves heard. Investigators and journalists revisit the unsolved murder of pet cemetery owner Dorothy Lou Thompson, and the deeper they dig into the decades-old case, the stranger it gets. Because unlike most cold cases, some of the answers may not come from the living.

📺 “100 Days of Deception” Trailer: A Pickpocket Goes Undercover for a Dangerous Mission and Falls for the Wrong Man in This 1930s Korean Series Starring Kim You-jung and Park Jin-young — Streams Saturday, October 10th on Netflix

Looking for a show with twisty espionage and forbidden romance set against the backdrop of a turbulent period in Korean history? Well, look no further. Set in 1932 Gyeongseong during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, this new Korean series stars Kim You-jung as a highly skilled pickpocket who dreams of escaping to the United States, only to get pulled into a dangerous 100-day mission. Her assignment: sneak into the colonial government by posing as an interpreter trainee and steal secrets for the Korean resistance. Soon, she finds herself caught between the mission she was sent to complete and her growing feelings for the adopted son (Park Jin-young) of the very official the resistance is targeting. Who says that in the game of espionage, the heart doesn’t have a role to play?

📺 “Michael Che: Shot in Minnesota” Trailer: Weekend Update Co-Anchor Michael Che Steps Back on Stage for His Latest Comedy Special — Debuts Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

SNL’s Michael Che steps out from behind the Weekend Update desk and back to the mic for a new hour-long comedy special that’s sharp, loose, and strictly on his own terms. You’ve seen his biting political stuff for years on SNL. Here, he goes after the personal stuff too: race, relationships, free speech. All with the same dry, no-apologies style we’ve come to know him for. No desk, no filter... and no Colin Jost at his side. It’s all Che, this time going from NBC’s Saturday nights to a Tuesday on Netflix this October.

📺 “The New Stanford Prison Experiment” Trailer: 30 Volunteers Are Divided Into Prisoners and Guards to See Who Falls in Line... and Who Takes Control in This New Social Experiment Docuseries — Debuts Wednesday, October 21st on Netflix

Is it simply human nature to submit and to dominate? To follow orders and to take control? In this new docu-reality series, 30 willing adults volunteer for a scientifically-controlled social experiment that divides them into prisoners and prison guards, recreating the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. As controversial as it was, the original experiment suggested that, under the right conditions, those given authority can quickly abuse it, while those without power can just as easily fall in line. Decades later, this new experiment sets out to see if that still holds true.

📺 “A Couple of Lies” Trailer: Two Couples, Two Beautiful Homes, and a Whole Lot of Secrets Turn an Idyllic Getaway into Murder in This Mystery-Thriller Miniseries Starring Frida Gustavsson, Fares Fares, Emma Appleton, and Jakob Oftebro — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

What makes for a compelling mystery? Murder... check. Secrets and lies... check. Beautiful, affluent people seemingly trying to hide something while pointing fingers at everyone else... okay, you’ve got our attention. Frida Gustavsson and Fares Fares star as Helene and Carl, a wealthy couple who swap their home in Stockholm, Sweden, for the sun-soaked Sicilian villa of Scarlett (Emma Appleton) and Adam (Jakob Oftebro). Sounds like a pretty nice getaway. That is, until both couples start poking around each other’s homes and discovering things that probably weren’t meant to be found. Based on Stefan Ahnhem’s novel, this four-part psychological thriller miniseries gives us two couples, two beautiful homes, and plenty of reasons not to trust any of them. What starts as an idyllic getaway quickly turns into a nasty little game of suspicion, surveillance, manipulation, and murder.

📺 “Thou Shalt Not Steal” U.S. Trailer: A Teenage Outlaw Hits the Road in an Offbeat Aussie Coming-of-Age Comedy with Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor — Stream Tuesday, October 6th on The Network in the U.S.

The Network may not be a U.S. streaming platform you’ve heard of just yet. But it has become a home for some interesting imports, including this offbeat Aussie coming-of-age road comedy. Featuring Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor, the 2024 series stars Sherry-Lee Watson as Robyn, a young Aboriginal delinquent who escapes detention and heads across the Australian outback in search of her estranged father. Along the way, she falls in with the awkward Gidge (Will McDonald), while Otto and Taylor play two of the questionable adults who get caught up in their journey. In typical Aussie fashion, it looks to be filled with off-kilter dark humor and colorful characters, all set against the dusty roads and wide-open landscapes of the Australian outback.

📺 “Dead-End Job” Teaser: Financially Strapped Gig Worker Lands the Side Hustle From Hell in Netflix’s Korean Thriller Series Starring Lee Jae-wook — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

Desperate times call for desperate employment. And when a paycheck isn’t enough, the promise of easy money can make a few risks seem worth taking. In this darkly comic Korean thriller, a young man (Lee Jae-wook), drowning in debt, turns to a mysterious employment agency offering unusually lucrative part-time jobs. But each new assignment comes with stranger rules and increasingly terrifying consequences. Think Squid Game meets gig work... where every job assignment could be your last.

📺 “Messi and the Giants” Teaser Trailer: Soccer Superstar Lionel Messi Teams with Disney for an Animated Underdog Adventure Where the Competition Is Literally Larger Than Life — Coming Summer 2027 to Disney+

Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi has teamed with Disney for an all-new children’s animated series where big sports dreams are about to get even bigger. Executive produced by Messi, this animated sports-fantasy adventure follows Leo, a gifted 12-year-old footballer who suddenly finds himself trapped in an alternate reality ruled by giants. If he wants to make it home, he’ll have to put together a team, take on some seriously oversized competition, and discover that talent alone will only get you so far. It’s a classic underdog story where the characters are literally larger than life, and sometimes the smallest player on the field can still dream the biggest.

📺 “Dragon Ball Super: Beerus” Trailer: The Classic Beerus Storyline Gets Completely Rebuilt with New Animation, Voice Work, and More — Coming to Netflix U.S. Saturday, October 17th

Don’t expect this to simply be a collection of old episodes cleaned up and given a fresh coat of paint. This is a substantially reconstructed retelling of a classic storyline in the Dragon Ball franchise. The story takes us back to the arrival of Beerus, the God of Destruction, who awakens from a long sleep looking for a worthy opponent and finds exactly that in Goku. In an attempt to more closely reflect Akira Toriyama’s original concepts, this redo has been extensively rebuilt with new and redrawn animation, different cuts, re-rendered footage, newly recorded voice work, and new music and sound effects. So even if you’ve seen this story before, you haven’t quite seen it like this. It’s going to be a Dragon Ball adventure like you’ve never seen before. Because in a lot of ways... you haven’t.

📺 “Ranma ½: Season 3” Trailer: Young Love, Martial-Arts Mayhem, and Ranma’s Cold-Water Curse Return for Another Round — Streams Saturday, October 3rd on Netflix

Three seasons in, Rumiko Takahashi’s martial-arts romcom keeps finding new ways to complicate young love. Teenage martial artist Ranma Saotome is reluctantly engaged to Akane Tendo after their fathers arranged the match, but things get complicated when a training accident leaves Ranma cursed to transform into a girl whenever he’s splashed with cold water... Hmm. Didn’t see that coming. Season 3 brings more rivals and romantic challengers into the mix, while Ranma and Akane keep dancing around how they really feel about each other. If you’re looking for an off-kilter anime romcom with some martial-arts mayhem thrown in, this might be your jam.

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October is almost here, which means the release calendar is about to start filling up with plenty of horror, supernatural, and generally spooky movies and shows. And this week is already showing signs of getting into the Halloween spirit a little early.

At the same time, with the summer movie season officially behind us, fall usually brings a shift toward more dramatic and seriously minded titles as studios begin rolling out their end-of-year slates. But that doesn’t mean everything has to be heavy. There are still plenty of smaller movies, genre titles, and fun little gems looking to grab our attention along the way.

So whether you’re already in full Halloween mode or just looking for something new to watch, there should be a little bit of everything arriving over the next several days. Scroll down and take a look at what this week has to offer.

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🎥 NAZA
(Wed, Sept 30th — limited release, in NY)

Israeli investigative journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor examine the increasingly blurred line between artificial intelligence and modern warfare in this documentary about the Israeli military’s use of AI and automated surveillance in targeting systems during the Gaza war. Produced by The Guardian and JW Films, its title comes from Nezek Agavi, the Hebrew military term for “collateral damage.” The film recently won the Special Jury Prize at Venice and has already stirred political controversy in Israel.

🎥 Begotten: 4K Restoration
(Thurs, Oct 1st — limited release)

Some movies are strange. Then there’s E. Elias Merhige’s grainy black-and-white, mostly dialogue-free experimental horror film, which has spent the last few decades circulating among horror fans like some forbidden artifact. Long before creepypasta had a name, Merhige created something that felt like it had been discovered rather than filmed. Now this underground oddity is getting a 4K restoration to remind everyone just how deeply unsettling it still is.

🎥 Spirited Away: Live on Stage
(Thurs, Oct 1st & Thurs, Oct 8th — special theatrical event; via Fathom Ent)

Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime fantasy gets a remarkable second life onstage in this filmed production directed by Tony Award winner John Caird. Captured during its acclaimed 2022 run at Tokyo’s Imperial Theatre, it stars Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi alternating as Chihiro. Without animation to fall back on, the production relies on massive moving sets, elaborate puppetry, music, and live performers to recreate Miyazaki’s strange and magical world.

🎥 Digger
(Fri, Oct 2nd — wide release)

Tom Cruise has spent decades playing men determined to accomplish impossible missions. This time, saving the world also means saving his own bloated ego. Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, the world’s most powerful man, scrambling to prove he’s humanity’s savior before a disaster of his own making destroys everything. Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs this darkly comic political satire, shot entirely in VistaVision, with Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, and John Goodman among the ensemble.

🎥 Verity
(Fri, Oct 2nd — wide release)

Dakota Johnson stars as struggling ghostwriter Lowen Ashleigh, who moves into the remote home of recently paralyzed, celebrated mystery author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) in the hope of completing her latest book. But after discovering an unpublished autobiography filled with disturbing confessions, Lowen can no longer tell where fiction ends and manipulation begins. Josh Hartnett co-stars as Verity’s husband in Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s psychological thriller, where the pen may be mightier than the sword, but the author just might be deadlier than both.

🎥 Rolling Loud: The Movie
(Fri, Oct 2nd — wide release)

Nothing says responsible parenting quite like sneaking your 13-year-old into a music festival packed with thousands of screaming fans and plenty of questionable paraphernalia. Owen Wilson stars as a cautious dad hoping one night at Rolling Loud will help him reconnect with his son. Then he loses him in the crowd. Oh, crap. Also starring Matt Rife, this music-festival comedy sends Wilson scrambling through mosh pits and backstage mayhem, with real-life hip-hop stars like Sexyy Red and Ty Dolla $ign along for the ride.

🎥 Beware Boiúna
(Fri, Oct 2nd — wide release)

Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green star as medical workers whose rescue mission deep in the Amazon goes sideways when they awaken a colossal ancient snake predator known by locals as the Boiúna. Directed by genre helmer Mike P. Nelson (The Domestics), this jungle horror reminds us that giant snakes aren’t just terrifying... they also make one hell of a movie monster.

🎥 Atonement
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

In this true-story drama, Kenneth Branagh stars as a journalist uncovering a devastating story from the Iraq War, where innocent lives were taken at a Baghdad checkpoint. Boyd Holbrook plays the U.S. Marine whose split-second decision turned a firefight into tragedy. Years later, he’s ready to confront the Iraqi family devastated by his actions, including its matriarch, played by Hiam Abbass. The question is: are they ready to confront him... and accept his atonement?

🎥 Nickels
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

Comedian Rob Riggle takes a rare dramatic turn as a family man still grieving his brother’s death 30 years later. When his neighbor’s teenage son survives a similar motorcycle accident, strange signs—including random nickels—leave him wondering if his brother has somehow returned through the boy. Bitsie Tulloch, Odessa A’zion, Aaron Holliday, and Rebecca Gayheart co-star in this supernatural-tinged family drama about how grief can make us search for signs that might prove those we’ve lost aren’t really gone.

🎥 Orion
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

Drew Van Acker stars as Apollo, an astronaut who returns to Earth from a catastrophic space mission with his crewmates dead and no memory of what happened. As he tries to piece together what went wrong up there, an intelligence specialist (played by ’80s icon Andrew McCarthy) begins to suspect Apollo may not have come back alone. Debby Ryan also stars in this psychological astronaut thriller where making it home doesn’t mean the mission is over. It may just be the beginning of something far more disturbing.

🎥 Appofeniacs
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

In an AI world where lies can travel in seconds, the truth doesn’t stand much of a chance. Aaron Holliday, Simran Jehani, Jermaine Fowler, and Sean Gunn star in this darkly satirical tech thriller about a group of interconnected people caught up in deepfakes, paranoia, and very real violence. The warning is pretty simple: be careful what you believe online, because there’s a good chance it was manufactured to make you believe it.

🎥 Ghost in the Cell
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

What scares the worst of the worst? Try being a hardened criminal trapped inside a high-security prison where inmates are being brutally murdered by something they can’t even see. From filmmaker Joko Anwar and starring Abimana Aryasatya, Almanzo Konoralma, and Aming Sugandhi, this blood-soaked Indonesian supernatural thriller pits violent prisoners against an invisible killer they can’t intimidate or fight. Turns out being locked up with something they can’t see is a whole different level of prison hell.

🎥 The Last First: Winter K2
(Fri, Oct 2nd — limited release)

Why would anyone willingly risk their life just to stand on top of a mountain? Director Amir Bar-Lev (The Tillman Story) tries to answer that question by following a group of professional climbers attempting to conquer K2 during its most unforgiving season. The conditions are brutal, and one wrong step could be their last. This doc captures that uniquely human desire to keep pushing beyond our limits. Why climb K2 in winter? Maybe the answer really is as simple as: because it’s there.

🎥 Moonlight: 10th Anniversary Remastered
(Fri, Oct 2nd — re-release)

Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning drama, which famously had its big moment upstaged by one of the Academy Awards’ biggest live-broadcast screwups, is back. Starring Oscar winner Mahershala Ali alongside André Holland, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, and Naomie Harris, the film follows a young Black man through three stages of his life as he grows up in Miami and tries to figure out where he belongs. Ten years later, this deeply personal story of identity, family, friendship, and love returns in a newly remastered edition.

🎥 Donnie Darko: 25th Anniversary
(Fri, Oct 2nd–Sun, Oct 4th — re-release; via Fathom Ent)

Twenty-five years ago, filmmaker Richard Kelly gave us a troubled Jake Gyllenhaal, a falling jet engine, a guy in a deeply unsettling rabbit costume, and enough unanswered questions to keep people arguing ever since. The film initially struggled to find an audience in theaters before word of mouth transformed it into an early-aughts cult classic. Now it’s returning to theaters in a new 4K restoration, giving everyone another chance to figure out what the hell it all means.

🎥 Ninja Scroll: 4K Remaster
(Sun, Oct 4th & Mon, Oct 5th & Wed, Oct 7th — re-release)

Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1993 anime bloodbath is back, now with a fresh 4K shine. Wandering swordsman Jubei gets pulled into a mystery involving a slaughtered village, a demonic conspiracy, and no shortage of enemies looking to cut him down. Written and directed by Kawajiri, the film has been restored from a new 4K scan of the original 35mm negative, with Kawajiri himself supervising the process.

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🎥 “Werwulf” New Trailer: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Is Cursed by the Full Moon in Robert Eggers’ Medieval Werewolf Horror With Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp — Hitting Theaters December 25th

Robert Eggers is one of the most fascinating filmmakers working today. His films are visually striking, often creating some of the most sumptuous and richly detailed imagery we’ve seen in recent years. But Eggers has also built a reputation for being deeply committed to research and historical accuracy. Just look at his last two films, The Northman and Nosferatu, as examples of how extensively he relies on research to create worlds that feel rooted in their respective periods.

He isn’t simply creating images that evoke a certain sense of folklore and authentic atmosphere; he’s building entire environments around that history, almost like a visual time machine that his actors get to step inside and inhabit.

Werwulf, his latest folklore-steeped horror, isn’t just another example of what Eggers has been building toward, but seems to push that obsession with historical authenticity even further, complete with old-world dialogue and syntax steeped in “thee,” “thou,” “thy,” and “shall.”

It’s a werewolf movie for sure, but it’s also Eggers’ interpretation of an era where religion, faith, damnation, persecution, famine, and catastrophe all shaped how people understood the world around them... and perhaps how they tried to explain the terrible things that happened to them.

“One more moon.” The latest Werwulf trailer begins with this warning that immediately sets up a possible ticking-clock scenario. Perhaps the villagers have only one more chance to hunt down and kill the “beast” before the next full moon.

And who just might be this beast?

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, we presume. Here he plays a mud-covered peasant living with his family in England in 1305, trapped in a harsh existence, struggling to provide for his children and wife. Eggers renders this world in muted, dull, nearly monochromatic tones. Everything looks drained of color.

Judging from the trailer, Taylor-Johnson’s character might be cursed in more ways than one. We often see him shaking violently, looking sick and frightened, caked in muck and blood, and almost possessed, as whatever is inside him appears ready to take over.

Willem Dafoe, another frequent acting collaborator of Eggers, joins the hunt as what appears to be a king-appointed hunter sent to rid the countryside of “beasts.” And judging by his declaration that “Every wolf shall die,” he doesn’t seem particularly interested in leaving any survivors.

Lily-Rose Depp, who just recently played the damsel at the center of Nosferatu, reunites with Eggers once more, appearing here as Taylor-Johnson’s wife. She seems to be stuck between two terrifying realities: the growing threat surrounding her family and the possibility that the man she loves may be the very beast everyone is hunting.

After tackling witches, lighthouse keepers, Vikings, vampires, and now werewolves, Robert Eggers might just be that filmmaker who was put on this earth to gleefully drag us back into the darkest corners of folklore and superstition. And believe us, we happily go along for the ride... every DAMN time.

Werwulf scratches its way into theaters on Christmas Day, December 25th.

🎥 “Clayface” Final Trailer: DC Goes Full Body Horror as Tom Rhys Harries Begins to Lose His Face... and His Identity in This New Supervillain Origin Story With Naomi Ackie — Coming to Theaters October 23rd

Since the launch of this new DC cinematic universe a few years ago, there’s been a lot of pressure on James Gunn and his ability to mold this franchise into the shape he sees fit. Of all things, Clayface just might tell us what the new DC Universe really is at this point. Almost accidentally, it mirrors how we see the DCU these days, with its constantly shifting tones and genres. If Superman is earnest superhero myth and Lanterns is a grounded, socially conscious detective procedural, then Clayface is perhaps a signal that this universe isn’t fixed yet. Like clay itself, it can be molded and shaped into something different with each new project.

Which would mean this movie comes along at the perfect time. After this summer’s box-office misfire of Supergirl, the DCU could certainly use a quick pick-me-up. And Clayface just might be exactly the change of shape it needs. It’s a body-horror movie that also happens to be based on a comic-book supervillain. And judging by the early buzz and online discourse, people seem to be digging that DC is, once again, willing to shift genres and tones.

Directed by James Watkins, the British filmmaker behind horror films like Eden Lake, The Woman in Black, and Speak No Evil, DC’s Clayface casts British actor Tom Rhys Harries in one of his most prominent roles to date. His previous credits include The Gentlemen, White Lines, Suspicion, Kandahar, and Doctor Who.

Here, he takes on the lead role of Matt Hagen, a rising Hollywood actor whose career is brutally cut short after he’s horribly disfigured. Through an experimental scientific breakthrough, Matt is able to restore his appearance, but the treatment comes with an unexpected side effect: he can now mold and transform his face into seemingly anyone. But it’s an ability he’ll need to learn to control before he loses control of himself.

Naomi Ackie (of Blink Twice and Mickey 17) co-stars as Caitlyn Corr, a scientist who appears to have some connection to the experimental treatment that reconstructs Matt’s face. She also seems to be the moral compass of the story, warning Matt to control his newfound abilities even though she knows that it’s slowly turning him into something unrecognizable.

So, what exactly is Matt turning into? Well, considering this is based on a Gotham supervillain, it’s not anything good... or anything close to heroic.

And if you ask us, there’s more than a little bit of the Sam Raimi cult classic Darkman in all of this: a horribly disfigured man living in the shadows who suddenly has the ability to wear someone else’s face. But the more he transforms, the more he seems to lose whatever is left of himself. Color us intrigued.

Also co-starring David Dencik, Max Minghella, and Eddie Marsan, Clayface is melting its way into theaters.

🎥 “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” Trailer: Brad Pitt Returns to a Darker, Grungier ’70s Hollywood in David Fincher’s Tarantino-Penned Sequel with Elizabeth Debicki, Carla Gugino and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II — Hitting IMAX Theaters November 25th Before Arriving On Netflix December 23rd

Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth! But here’s the million-dollar question: back to what? Back to his old tricks? Back to being a stuntman? Back to riding around Hollywood with Rick Dalton? Well, no... not exactly.

In a rare move for Quentin Tarantino, he has passed an original screenplay off to another director to call the shots. It’s a sequel to Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, Tarantino’s love letter to the Hollywood he was raised on.

Now, if that movie was a nostalgia-laced fairy tale about the final days of 1960s Hollywood, this one looks like what happens after the fairy tale ends, with Los Angeles itself beginning to decay into a shell of its former self. It’s a decade later, the ’70s, and it seems the only things left are rumors and Hollywood legends, including the stories people still tell about Cliff Booth. So that begs the question: how does he fit into all this?

Well, who better than director David Fincher to be handed the rather unusual task of taking Tarantino’s character and dropping him into a much darker and murkier era of Hollywood? The bloom is off the rose, yet Cliff is still hanging around, scraping by on the fringes of a town that seems to have moved on without him.

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth can be seen as a standalone sequel, where Cliff has gone from Rick Dalton’s stuntman and right-hand man to the center of his own story. Gone are the fairy-tale aspects, wish-fulfillment fantasies and callbacks to the golden age of Hollywood that defined the first film. Now we’re getting a much grungier crime tale, where Cliff is barely getting by working odd jobs as a bartender at a local dive bar and a film projectionist at a rundown movie house, only to find himself getting involved with local ruffians and being pulled into the city’s underbelly.

That’s not to say the film looks like your typical David Fincher dark crime thriller. If anything, the trailer suggests Fincher may be having a little more fun this time around, playing with the growing mythology surrounding Cliff himself.

“Let’s just say I know what it’s like to kill someone with a knife,” Cliff tells Charlie Peters, a Hollywood actor (played by Scott Caan) who seems fascinated by Cliff’s real-life experiences with violence.

“Wow,” Charlie responds in the new trailer, like a starstruck fan who just met one of his heroes.

And while the city has become grittier and more unforgiving, Cliff appears to be more stoic than ever. Daily life is beating him down. At one point in the trailer, we see him sitting alone on a chair inside a freezer, bags of frozen peas wrapped around his knee and hip. Cliff may still carry himself like the same cool bastard we remember, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel the pain.

Co-starring Elizabeth Debicki, Carla Gugino, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth is set to open in IMAX theaters on November 25th before debuting a month later on Netflix on December 23rd.

It’s one of the rare Netflix movies to get a theatrical release before hitting the streaming service, which could mark a new trend for the streaming giant. It certainly adds more fuel to the ongoing discussion over whether Netflix should give more of its original movies a proper theatrical run.

🎥 “Ray Gunn” Trailer: Private Eyes, Femme Fatales, One-Eyed Aliens, and Flying Cars Populate the Future in Brad Bird’s Retro-Futuristic Noir Starring Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits and Scarlett Johansson — In Select Theaters December 4th, Streaming December 18th on Netflix

It has been a long and arduous road for Brad Bird, but after more than 30 years, he finally got the chance to complete his passion project. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s an animated retro-noir filled with aliens, private eyes, femme fatales, jetpacks, flying cars, and just about everything you’d expect from the guy who gave us The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Tomorrowland (okay, we can forgive him for that one).

Ray Gunn features the voice of Sam Rockwell as Raymond Gunn, an old-school private eye trying to make a living in Metropia, a gigantic retro-futuristic city where 1930s and ’40s aesthetics still dominate the architecture and design.

Musician and actor Tom Waits provides the voice of Eye-Ra, Ray’s one-eyed alien partner, who joins him in doing detective work the old-fashioned way: with a lot of gut intuition and a nose for trouble.

Scarlett Johansson steps in as the voice of Venus Nova, Metropia’s controversial multimedia superstar and the femme fatale at the center of Ray’s latest case involving murder and conspiracy. His job is to keep an eye on her and keep her out of any more trouble. But this wouldn’t be a noir tale if it were that easy.

Dripping with old-school Dashiell Hammett atmosphere mixed in with Bird’s distinctive flair for retro-futurism, Ray Gunn has been a long time in the works, as Bird had wanted to make the film even before The Iron Giant. But after a couple of false starts and years spent trying to get the project off the ground, Skydance Animation and Netflix finally gave Bird the opportunity to bring his long-gestating passion project to fruition.

Also featuring voices from Alan Tudyk, Kathryn Hunter, Patton Oswalt, Matt Berry, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Rodriguez, and John Ratzenberger, Ray Gunn is scheduled to hit select theaters on December 4th (likely for an Oscar-qualifying run) before arriving on Netflix December 18th.

🎥 “Madden” Trailer: Nicolas Cage Takes His Biggest Swing Yet as NFL Icon John Madden Alongside Christian Bale as Raiders Owner Al Davis in David O. Russell’s Football Biopic — Hitting Select Theaters November 11th, Streaming November 18th on Prime Video

You gotta ask yourself one thing: Can you suspend your disbelief long enough to buy Nicolas Cage as NFL icon John Madden? If so, then you’re golden. If that’s a problem, well, there probably aren’t enough prosthetics or fat suits in Hollywood to make it any easier.

Nicolas Cage, in what has to be one of the more unexpected swings of his career—and that’s saying something—takes on the task of portraying the larger-than-life football coach, broadcaster, and eventual video game icon in this football biopic from director David O. Russell, who returns to the sports world for the first time since The Fighter.

Once again teaming up with Oscar-winner Christian Bale, this time as legendary Raiders owner Al Davis, O. Russell tells the story of the friendship and partnership that helped turn John Madden and the Raiders into one of football’s most recognizable institutions.

As a beloved coach and wildly entertaining broadcaster, Madden broke new ground in sports broadcasting with his deep knowledge of the game and uncanny ability to explain it to just about anyone, even if his telestrator scribblings sometimes seemed indecipherable.

In some ways, the movie is also the origin story of how Madden became one of the most recognizable figures in NFL history, eventually lending his name and expertise to what would become one of the biggest sports video game franchises of all time, simply known as Madden.

Also starring Kathryn Hahn, John Mulaney, Sienna Miller, and Shane Gillis, Madden hits select theaters November 11th before streaming globally on Prime Video November 18th. And with Thanksgiving football game becoming an annual tradition, expect the streamer to give this one a pretty big promotional push heading into the holiday.

🎥 “You Can See Everything” Trailer: Comedian Nathan Fielder and Co-Director Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Asks, How the Hell Did They Get Her to Agree to This? — In Theaters October 16th

It was the surprise hit of Telluride, shown in a secret screening earlier this month to rave reviews. Since then, it’s become a major headline, with everyone asking the same question: How the hell did comedian Nathan Fielder land infamous tech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes for a documentary about the days leading up to her imprisonment?

More importantly, why the hell did Holmes agree to let Fielder, co-director Lance Oppenheim (Primetime), and an entire documentary crew into her home just 34 days before she was sent to prison? They were apparently given extraordinary access: allowed to shoot wherever they wanted and ask pretty much any question they wanted.

And this wasn’t just a handful of interviews. What started during those final weeks before Holmes went to prison somehow turned into a secret three-year project, with Fielder and Oppenheim making a documentary that seems to get stranger and harder to define the deeper they go.

Is it part performance piece, part documentary exposé, part elaborate Nathan Fielder prank? Is Holmes somehow in on the whole thing? Or is that uncertainty exactly the point? Because when you put Nathan Fielder in a room with Elizabeth Holmes, two people who, in very different ways, understand the power of controlling what other people see and believe, how the hell do you know what’s actually real?

You Can See Everything is slated to open in theaters October 16th. And it’s slowly but surely become one of the most talked-about new films (let alone new documentaries) coming out this fall.

🎥 “The Rescue” Trailer: Brandon Sklenar and the Family Dog Head Down a Violent Path to Save His Kidnapped Daughter in Potsy Ponciroli’s Gonzo Neo-Western with Hassie Harrison and Josh Lucas — Hitting Theaters January 29th

They took his daughter and thought they could get away with it. What they didn’t count on was a father willing to go to the ends of the earth to bring her back home. And, of course, no one expected the secret weapon helping him track her down: the family dog. And you thought your dog was something because he learned to sit on command.

In this neo-Western revenge thriller, The Rescue, Brandon Sklenar (1923, It Ends with Us) stars as a rugged former rodeo cowboy who takes matters into his own hands when his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Instead of following police orders to stay put, he heads deep into the wilderness, convinced his daughter is being held somewhere on a remote mountain.

Just how does he know?

The family dog has picked up her scent and led him to the bottom of a mountain trail. And when you’re that desperate, that’s a good enough clue to send you down a violent path where anyone standing between you and your daughter had better get out of the way. ’Cuz this cowboy ain’t just mad... he’s packing some serious heat.

Co-starring Hassie Harrison, Josh Lucas, Nick Searcy, Austin Amelio, Tim Blake Nelson, and Josh Duhamel, the film is directed by Potsy Ponciroli, the cult filmmaker behind the acclaimed Western Old Henry and the ’70s-style Alan Ritchson revenge thriller Motor City. Which should give you a pretty good idea of what kind of movie we’re dealing with here: a gonzo revenge thriller that looks like it’s part spoof and part completely earnest.

The Rescue comes to theaters January 29th.

🎥 “The Beast” New Trailer: President Samuel L. Jackson Fights Off a Coup With Joel Kinnaman and a Heavily Armed Presidential Limo in Renny Harlin’s Over-the-Top Action Thriller — In Theaters October 9th

Hmm, let’s count all the ways we’ve seen the President of the United States in peril on the big screen. Air Force One had the president trapped on a hijacked plane. White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen brought the fight straight to the White House. Now we can add another one to the list, with Samuel L. Jackson playing a president forced to fight for his life inside his own presidential limousine, commonly known as Cadillac One... or, more appropriately, “The Beast.” This time, the Pres teams up with his injured Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman) as they fend off a militia attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. Directed by Die Hard 2 and Deep Blue Sea helmer Renny Harlin, this looks like the kind of gloriously over-the-top action movie that knows exactly what we want: Samuel L. Jackson screaming f-bombs while blowing shit up with machine guns mounted to his presidential limo. All hail to the chief... motherf-cker!

🎥 “DreamQuil” Trailer: Elizabeth Banks Comes Home to Find a Robotic Version of Herself Taking Over Her Family in This Offbeat Dark Sci-Fi Thriller with John C. Reilly, Sofia Boutella and Juliette Lewis — Coming Soon

Unhappy with your life? Well, would things be any better if there were two of you? Hmm. Maybe not. Elizabeth Banks stars in this not-too-distant-future thriller about a dissatisfied mother and housewife named Carol who checks into a virtual wellness retreat hoping to get her life back on track, only to return home and discover that a robotic version of herself has taken her place. John C. Reilly plays her husband, Gary, who has grown increasingly disconnected from his wife and soon finds himself living with a seemingly improved robotic version of her. While the family seems to love this new Carol, the real Carol quickly realizes her robotic replacement may have no intention of giving her old life back. Hailing from acclaimed photographer and artist Alex Prager, who makes her feature directorial debut, this visually gripping dark comedy-thriller suggests that in the future, being replaced by technology isn’t just a figure of speech... it might become a little too literal.

🎥 “Gremlins 3” Announcement Teaser: Gizmo Is Back! Chris Columbus Returns to the Franchise He Helped Create — In Theaters October 6th, 2028

Here’s a little fun fact: Before Chris Columbus became known as the director of Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone, and the first two Harry Potter films, he got his start as a screenwriter, with one of his earliest major screenwriting credits being the original Gremlins. Well, it seems he’s been working his way back to the director’s chair for the third installment in the Gremlins film series, which has officially been greenlit for production. Set for release in October 2028, the film will bring Gizmo and those mischievous little creatures back to the big screen for the first time in nearly four decades. The announcement also came with this little teaser promo, giving us our first glimpse of Gizmo’s return.

🎥 “Paper Tiger” New Trailer: Adam Driver and Miles Teller Chase the American Dream Straight Into the Russian Mafia in James Gray’s New York Crime Drama with Scarlett Johansson — In Select Theaters November 13th

Acclaimed filmmaker James Gray returns to explore the fragile bond between two brothers: one a devoted family man and the other, a mob-tied middleman. When a promising business opportunity suddenly arises, Adam Driver’s Gary and Miles Teller’s Irwin see a chance to finally grab their piece of the American Dream. The catch: the opportunity comes with strings directly tied to the Russian mafia. So when Irwin and his sons witness something they shouldn’t, it not only puts them in grave danger but threatens to tear their entire family apart. Worse yet, Gary seems more concerned with protecting his own interests than protecting his brother’s family, making this a story about two brothers falling on opposite sides of loyalty when family supposedly matters most. Co-starring Scarlett Johansson as Irwin’s wife, Linda, the film seemingly has the throwback vibe of a ’70s New York crime drama, where family and ambition don’t always make for the best partnership.

🎥 “Day Drinker” Teaser: Johnny Depp, Madelyn Cline and Penélope Cruz Play a Dangerous Game of Deception in Marc Webb’s Twisty Crime Thriller — In Theaters March 26, 2027

Johnny Depp continues his return to studio filmmaking as one of three leads in this twisty crime thriller, where the big question is: who can you trust... and who should you fear? This time, Depp, who is set to star later this year as Scrooge in a new Dickens retelling, steps aboard a luxury yacht as a mysterious passenger whose arrival pulls a young bartender (Madelyn Cline) and a dangerous criminal figure (Penélope Cruz) into a game of deception where nobody is quite who they seem. Director Marc Webb, of The Amazing Spider-Man films, spins a tangled web of mystery where everyone appears to be hiding something. Now that’s deserves a drink.

🎥 “Wild Horse Nine” New Trailer: John Malkovich Is a Loose-Cannon CIA Agent, Forcing Partner Sam Rockwell to Decide What to Do About Him in Oscar Winner Martin McDonagh’s Darkly Comic Political Thriller — In Theaters November 6th

The first rule of being a CIA agent is never telling people you’re a CIA agent—especially if you’re on a covert mission in a foreign country. Apparently, John Malkovich didn’t get that memo. In this new darkly comedic political thriller from Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin), Malkovich plays an old, cranky CIA agent sent to Easter Island alongside his longtime partner (Sam Rockwell) during the tense days leading up to Chile’s 1973 military coup. But Malkovich’s loose lips and loose-cannon attitude aren’t just putting a serious strain on their partnership—they may have also turned him into a major liability for the CIA. One that might need to be dealt with... with extreme prejudice.

🎥 “Misty Green” New Trailer: Rosalind Eleazar Chases Her Hollywood Dreams in Chris Rock’s New Tinseltown Drama with Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Anna Kendrick — In Theaters October 9th

Comedian Chris Rock returns to the director’s chair with this sobering look at today’s Hollywood, where the glamour and promise of stardom have given way to a far more unforgiving reality. Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) stars in the title role as Misty Green, a working actress in Los Angeles who, while struggling to land her next acting job, finds herself falling deeper into financial and personal turmoil. With a brother, played by Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya, whom she loves immensely but who is constantly getting into trouble, Misty finds herself at a difficult crossroads: finally break through or quit the business altogether. Like they say, Hollywood can make anyone a star, but it can also chew you up and spit you out. Co-starring Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Chris Rock himself, this is one La La Land story where overnight success isn’t guaranteed. Maybe it never was.

🎥 “Prima Facie” UK Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Plays a Defense Attorney Turned Sexual Assault Survivor in This Gripping British Courtroom Thriller — In UK Cinemas November 13th

Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo, of Wicked and Harriet fame, takes on the British legal system in this gripping new courtroom thriller, playing a brilliant defense attorney whose entire view of justice is turned upside down. After building a successful career defending people accused of crimes like sexual assault, Erivo’s Tessa is forced to question everything she once believed about the law after surviving a sexual assault herself. Suddenly, she’s the one sitting on the other side of the courtroom, facing some of the very same tactics she once used to defend her clients as she pleads her own case and fights to be believed. Based on the acclaimed stage play by Suzie Miller and directed by Susanna White (Andor, Our Kind of Traitor), the film gives Erivo a powerful role to sink her teeth into, playing a woman caught between her lifelong faith in the law and the painful reality of experiencing that same system firsthand.

🎥 “Falling” Trailer: KJ Apa, Isabel May and Archie Renaux Find Themselves Caught in a Messy Love Triangle in This British Rom-Drama — In Theaters October 9th

There’s an unwritten code among male friends. It doesn’t need to be said, but we all know it: “bros before hoes.” Yes, it’s a little crude, but it simply means don’t let a romantic relationship come between you and your closest friends. Well, here’s a movie that gets to the heart of what happens when that unwritten rule is broken. KJ Apa stars as Johnny, a young man who falls for Jillian (Isabel May). But when he introduces her to his circle of friends, Johnny’s best friend, Jack (Archie Renaux), can’t believe it; he’s just been struck by love at first sight. Suddenly, that whole “bros” rule is about to thrown out the window. Written and directed by brothers Colin and James Krisel, this British love-triangle drama puts friendship, loyalty, and love on a collision course, where everyone involved will have to decide what matters most... and who they’re willing to hurt to get it.

🎥 “Masterplan” Trailer: Stanley Tucci Recruits His Long-Lost Kids to Steal the Mona Lisa in Amazon’s New Family Heist Comedy — Streams October 16th on Prime Video

To steal the Mona Lisa will take the perfect plan, the perfect crew, and one very dysfunctional family. Stanley Tucci plays a legendary master thief who assembles an unlikely crew to steal the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting... and it’s a crew made up of his own long-lost children. Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo play the two unsuspecting siblings, a clever Italian cybercrime expert and a cocky French explosives specialist who have no idea they’re related, or that the man who just recruited them is their father. Directed by Thomas Vincent (Role Play, Bodyguard, Reacher), this comedic caper asks the age-old question: can a dysfunctional family put aside its differences and work together as a team, knowing that at the end of the day they’ll all get filthy rich?

🎥 “Who Is Martin Mull?” Trailer: Friends Celebrate the Actor, Comedian, Musician and Painter in This Retrospective Documentary Directed by the Late Bob Saget and Co-Directed by Neil Berkeley — Due to Stream October 7th on Netflix

You might know Martin Mull as an actor, a comedian, a musician, or even an accomplished painter. The simple truth is, he really was all of those things. Mull was something of a Hollywood Renaissance man, a true jack (or “jerk,” as Mull would joke) of-all-trades who could make you laugh on shows like Roseanne, Arrested Development, and Two and a Half Men, or pop up in movies you’ve probably seen countless times, including Clue, Mr. Mom, and Mrs. Doubtfire. But acting was only one part of a much bigger creative life. This new retrospective documentary was started by Mull’s friend and fellow comedian Bob Saget before his death, then completed by filmmaker Neil Berkeley (Beauty Is Embarrassing). Mull sadly died just a few years after Saget. Through Mull’s own words and stories from friends and colleagues, the film celebrates a guy who spent his life doing a little bit of everything... and never seemed particularly interested in being defined by any one thing.

🎥 “Wilder” Trailer: PBS’ American Masters Celebrates the Comedy, Humanity and Legacy of Comic Actor Gene Wilder — Premieres December 29th on PBS and the PBS App

Gene Wilder was a man with great comedic gifts, but perhaps what made him so special was the deep humanity underneath it all. A clown with the soulful eyes of a poet. That combination of innocence and sadness made him such a singular performer. It’s been 10 years since his death, but for many fans, he never really left us. And now seems as good a time as any to look back at his legacy, his career, and the man behind some of the most beloved comedies of his generation. This new retrospective documentary from filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond) does exactly that, going back through Wilder’s career, from those incredible collaborations with Mel Brooks to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, while also trying to get a little closer to the man behind those performances. With archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with Wilder, it feels like one more opportunity to spend some time with him... and a reminder of just how much we still miss the guy.

🎥 “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” Trailer: Judd Apatow Looks Back at the Brilliant, Unpredictable Career of the Late Comedy Legend — Streaming Friday, October 16th on Netflix

The late Norm Macdonald was considered both a great stand-up comedian and one who never quite got his due. Filmmaker and fellow stand-up Judd Apatow aims to rectify that by finally giving Macdonald’s life and career the retrospective it deserves. In this new Netflix documentary directed by Apatow, notable big-name stars pay their respects to a comedian whose deadpan humor and uncompromising approach made him one of the most distinctive comedic voices in recent history. Macdonald wasn’t just a master at telling a joke, but someone who understood the craft of building one from the ground up. The twisty avenues he would take to reach a punchline might have been one of his greatest skills, always keeping an audience guessing where he was going next. Norm is now regarded as a comedian’s comedian, but to many of his fans, he was simply one of the funniest people who ever picked up a microphone.

🎥 “SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of” Trailer: Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy and More Reunite to Celebrate the Canadian Sketch Show That Helped Shape Modern Comedy — Streams October 30th on Netflix

If you dug sketch comedy in the late ’70s and early ’80s, chances are you loved watching Saturday Night Live every Saturday night. But if you really loved comedy and were in the know, SCTV was your thang. After all, it was every bit as funny and arguably just as influential, if not more so. And if you missed the whole thing the first time around, don’t worry. Netflix is about to give you a crash course in one of the funniest shows ever aired on TV, featuring some of the biggest names in comedy history, including Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Joe Flaherty. This classic Canadian sketch show was something of a cousin to SNL, only with its own wonderfully weird identity. It also became a breeding ground for a generation of Canadian comics that eventually spilled over into Hollywood. Now, the surviving cast members are getting back together to celebrate the show and explain why, all these years later, we’re still talking about it.

🎥 “Musk” Trailer: Oscar-Winning Documentarian Alex Gibney Takes a Nearly Four-Hour Deep Dive Into Elon Musk and His Tech Empire — In Select Theaters October 9th, Nationwide October 16th

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has tackled some of the most controversial subjects and polarizing people of our time. Now add Elon Musk to that list. Gibney delivers a nearly four-hour deep dive into Musk’s life, career, and growing influence over technology, business, and politics. Musk is a man who was once revered as the real-life Tony Stark but, over the years, has become the poster child of unbridled wealth and unchecked power. To many, Musk is a symptom of a decaying political and economic system. To others, he’s a tech genius and visionary who continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible. And then there are those who believe he ruins everything he touches, see him as a fraudster, and view his growing influence as increasingly dangerous. Gibney aims to explore all sides, digging beneath both the mythology and the criticism to examine the man at the center of it all.

🎥 “Clown Panic” Trailer: Hulu’s New Documentary Explores the Bizarre and Terrifying Phenomenon of Mysterious Clowns Terrorizing Neighborhoods — Streams October 12th on Hulu

Clowns are scary. No question. Clowns in public spaces? Yeah, even scarier. But clowns running around your neighborhood causing absolute chaos? That’s a whole different level of terror. Jesus save us! This new Hulu original documentary explores the strange phenomenon of mysterious people showing up in clown makeup with the apparent intent of frightening, intimidating, and generally freaking the hell out of unsuspecting people. Is it some sort of prank? Is there something more sinister going on? Maybe it’s just a weird way to create content for social media. Whatever it is, we don’t like it. And like most people, we’d really like it to stop.

🎥 “Beware Boiúna” Final Trailer: Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe and Logan Marshall-Green Face a Colossal Ancient Predator in This Amazon Jungle Creature Feature — In Theaters October 2nd

The Amazon jungle is no place for lookie-loos. Hell, it’s not a place for anyone not ready to face dangerous creatures that tend to slither, stalk, and strike without warning. But there are some places in the Amazon where, no matter how well you’re prepared, nothing can prepare you for... the “Boiúna.” The English translation? “Black snake.” But a better translation might be: you’re dead and don’t know it yet. In this jungle-set horror-thriller slash creature-feature, a group of medical workers (played here by Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green) venture deep into the Amazon on a humanitarian mission, only to discover they’ve wandered into territory where death is not only common, it’s almost guaranteed.

🎥 “Hallowarrior” Trailer: Hereditary’s Milly Shapiro Battles a Gang of Savage Raiders in This Post-Apocalyptic Halloween-set Horror Thriller with Shannyn Sossamon — Streams October 16th on Shudder

Remember that little girl from Ari Aster’s Hereditary? Well, she’s back. And this time, she’s stuck trying to survive a post-apocalyptic Halloween night. Milly Shapiro stars in this horror-thriller as Pumpkin, a young scavenger who may be the last girl on Earth. To her shock, she isn’t, as a group of savage raiders suddenly arrives at her doorstep. And they ain’t looking for candy... or a trick. Led by Shannyn Sossamon (hey, remember her too... from A Knight’s Tale?), this gang of raiders has something far worse in mind. In this post-apocalyptic twist on the home-invasion horror movie, writer-director Ben Sottak turns Halloween night into a gory survival thriller where anything goes, particularly when our Final Girl becomes one hell of a Halloween warrior.

🎥 “V/H/S/MIXTAPE” Trailer: This New Found-Footage Horror Anthology Installment Cranks Up the Volume With RZA, Flying Lotus and Ghost’s Tobias Forge Directing Segments — Streams October 9th on Shudder

Spooky season is almost upon us, which means a couple of things: the weather’s getting a little colder, the trees are starting to change, the Halloween decorations are coming out. And, of course, adding to the annual tradition, we’re getting another V/H/S installment. Shudder has lined up another chapter in the long-running found-footage horror anthology series. And this year’s theme is mixtapes. That means music will be playing a big part both in front of and behind the camera, with a new roster of directors that includes some serious musical talent: RZA, Flying Lotus, and Ghost frontman Tobias Forge among others. So expect a few segments to have you quivering in terror while also tapping your toes to the beat.

🎥 “Devour” Trailer: An All-Girl Metal Band Battles Cannibals, Vampires, Werewolves and a Warlock in This Gnarly Creature-Filled Horror Flick — On VOD / Digital October 13th

Throw up those devil horns, ’cause this is one metal show you won’t want to miss. In this new metal-themed supernatural horror flick, an all-girl metal band finds itself stranded in a remote town where the locals are anything but welcoming. But surprise! This band ain’t exactly helpless, considering their roadie manager is a blood-sucking vampire. But when they arrive in a town that happens to be crawling with cannibals, werewolves, vampires, and a warlock, even having a vampire manager might not be enough to save them. If you love your horror flicks to rock hard and feature some seriously gnarly creature effects, this one looks ready to crank everything up to eleven. Starring Katelynn Newberry, Chelsea Lesage, Heidi Shepherd, Gus Langley, and Alex Lucchesi, come for the metal, but stay for the monsters.

🎥 “Vampire Carnival” Trailer: Nell Verlaque Discovers a Traveling Carnival With a Deadly Secret in This Supernatural Thriller Co-Starring Jason Isaacs — In Theaters October 7th

What’s scarier than a vampire? Ah, perhaps a carnival filled with vampires! And it’s coming to your town soon. In this supernatural thriller, Nell Verlaque stars as Gemma, a young woman just looking to have a fun night out when a mysterious traveling carnival suddenly rolls into town. But it doesn’t take long for her to realize there’s something deeply strange about the sideshow acts. They all seem to be walking that razor-thin line between the living and the dead... and Gemma may be exactly what they’ve been waiting for. Also starring Jason Isaacs, Kieron Moore, Paulina Chávez, Eoin Macken, and Alicia Sanz, and directed by David Charbonier and Justin Douglas Powell (The Djinn), this looks like one carnival where you might want to find the exits before buying a ticket.

🎥 “The Nice Ones” Trailer: Strange Lights in the Sky Turn a Countryside Getaway Into a Creepy Nightmare in This Indie British Horror Thriller Starring Joelle Rae, Emrhys Cooper and Ayvianna Snow — Coming to VOD/Digital September 29th

A word to the wise: whenever someone invites you to a quiet little get-together at a secluded countryside home, don’t accept. Because usually that means some seriously strange stuff is about to go down. In this indie horror thriller, a group of friends (played by Joelle Rae, Emrhys Cooper, Ayvianna Snow, Nick Lavelle, Daniela Norman, and Andrew Lyle-Pinnock) head out to the countryside for what should be a relaxing getaway. But after strange lights suddenly appear in the sky, people in the group start acting a little differently. And by differently, we mean they’re becoming... nice. Really nice. The kind of nice that stops being pleasant and starts becoming frighteningly creepy.

🎥 “R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2” Trailer: Elvira Icon Cassandra Peterson Plays a Mysterious Witch Battling a Deadly New Curse in This R.L. Stine-Inspired Supernatural Sequel with Bean Reid and Adeline Lo — Due to Stream October 9th on Tubi

Horror icon Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, stars in this supernatural sequel inspired by the works of Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine. She plays a mysterious witch living in the woods who may hold the key to stopping a new Pumpkinhead curse before it consumes the entire town of Redhaven. Caught in the middle of all this pumpkin chaos are Sam and Becka (Bean Reid and Adeline Lo), two kids who quickly realize something very bad has awakened. And if they have any hope of stopping it, they’re going to need the help of this mysterious witch to figure out what they’re dealing with... and how the hell they’re supposed to stop it.

🎥 “I Hate Myself and Want to Die” Trailer: One Man’s Attempt to End It All Goes Hilariously Off the Rails in This Pitch-Black Indie Comedy Starring Mike Castle, Ali Gallo, Andre Hyland, and Meredith Salenger — On VOD / Digital October 6th

With a title like that, this could be one of two things: a bad-taste comedy or a dark, biting satire about dumb luck and dumb people. Perhaps it’s both. In this quirky dark comedy, Mike Castle stars as Jacob, an unfortunate sad sack who has decided to end his life, only to have his attempts repeatedly interrupted by one ridiculous problem after another. After a night of parties, fistfights, car chases, and one absurd detour after another, Jacob begins to reevaluate his life and whether he might just have a change of heart. Also starring Ali Gallo, Andre Hyland, Leonora Pitts, Wyatt Hinz, and Meredith Salenger, and written and directed by J. Davis, this indie comedy finds some very dark humor in a man having what could be the worst... and possibly most important night of his life.

🎥 “Once Upon a Time in Texas” Trailer: Indie Filmmaker Tanner Beard Rebuilds His 2011 Western with New Scenes and a New Cut Starring Clive Standen, Henry Thomas, Summer Glau, and Jenna Dewan — In Select Texas Theaters October 16th, Followed by VOD/Digital Release on November 17th

Back in 2011, filmmaker Tanner Beard made a small Western shoot-’em-up called The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy, based on a real Texas legend about gunslingers, outlaws, and those who shaped the American frontier. 15 years later, Beard aimed to restore the film for a new release, but the project grew into a full-blown reworking of the material, creating a brand-new version that includes newly filmed scenes, restored footage, additional characters, upgraded visual effects, rebuilt sound, and a new orchestral score. Starring Clive Standen as legendary marshall Isaac McKinnon, alongside Lou Taylor Pucci, Eric Balfour, Henry Thomas, Summer Glau, Jenna Dewan, Kevin Alejandro, Brendan Wayne, and James Lafferty, the film has been re-edited and reassembled into a brand-new cut of Beard’s original 2011 Western.

🎥 “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” Trailer: Chinese Superstar Shen Teng Plays a Chef Who Turns His Restaurant Into a Refuge When War Engulfs the City in This Chinese Box Office Smash — In U.S. Theaters October 9th

One of China’s most successful films of the year is coming to the States this October. In this comedy-drama, Chinese superstar Shen Teng plays a debt-burdened chef who travels to the Middle East looking for a fresh start. But when war breaks out, this Chinese chef finds himself stuck in the middle of a conflict between the region and America, with his restaurant becoming an unlikely refuge for those displaced by the war. Directed by filmmaker Wen Muye (Dying to Survive and Nice View), the film aims to show how one simple cook can become an unlikely source of hope and humanity in the middle of devastating destruction.

🎥 “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle I” Trailer: The Blockbuster Anime Saga Enters Its Endgame as the Final Battle Begins — Streams September 28th on Hulu

The blockbuster anime saga enters its endgame with the first installment of an all-new movie trilogy. Tanjiro Kamado and the Demon Slayer Corps are plunged into the Infinity Castle, where the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji and his most powerful demons begins. Separated inside the massive, ever-shifting fortress, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke, and the Hashira must face their deadliest enemies yet. With years of training, sacrifice, and unfinished business finally coming to a head, this is going to be one hell of a fight. Hell being the operative word.

🎥 “Memento: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Christopher Nolan’s Twisty Crime Thriller Gets a Director-Approved 4K Restoration 25 Years Later — Coming Soon

It was only Christopher Nolan’s second feature film, but it cemented him as one of our greatest modern filmmakers. That’s a fair statement, right? Surely anyone who saw this twisty crime thriller back then knew they were watching the arrival of an extremely clever filmmaker with a very different way of telling a nonlinear story. Starring Guy Pearce as a mysteriously tattooed man unable to form new long-term memories while searching for his wife’s murderer, the 2001 film unfolds in reverse, putting us inside his fractured mind as he tries to piece together a mystery he can’t quite remember. It was also an early sign that Nolan would continue to play with our perception of time in future movies. Well, the landmark film is now getting a director-approved 4K restoration, just as Nolan is enjoying tremendous success with his latest film, The Odyssey. Which makes this the perfect time to go back and see where Nolan got his start. And how, even back then, he was playing audiences like a master magician pulling off an elaborate trick right in front of their eyes.

🎥 “The Police Story Trilogy: Blu-Ray Collection” Trailer: Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh Kick Some Serious Ass in Three Hong Kong Action Classics — Coming to 4K UHD January 18th From Eureka Entertainment in the U.K.

Did you love Jackie Chan before the Rush Hour films? If you did, chances are it was from watching him pull off some of his most heart-stopping stunts in these classic action films. The Police Story Trilogy isn’t just considered some of Chan’s best work, it’s a collection of groundbreaking films that helped define Hong Kong action cinema and introduced audiences around the world to his one-of-a-kind blend of martial arts, physical comedy, and absolutely insane stunt work. It also gave us a young Michelle Yeoh kicking just as much ass alongside Jackie in her star-making turn in Supercop. So whether you’re here for Chan, Yeoh, or just want to watch some of the greatest action sequences ever put on film, this is one collection you won’t want to miss. All three movies have been restored in 4K and brought together in one definitive set, thanks to the fine folks at UK’s Eureka Entertainment.

🎥 “Doctor Who: The Satan Pit Extended Cut” Trailer: David Tennant and Billie Piper Return to the Big Screen for a Special 20th Anniversary Event with Newly Restored Footage — In Theaters November 23rd

Listen up, Doctor Who fans! One of the franchise’s favorite two-part adventures has been extended into a feature-length presentation for the big screen. And it includes newly restored deleted scenes and previously unseen footage, all to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and his companion, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). Considered by many to be one of the best Doctor-companion pairings in the show’s very long history, this big-screen event brings one of their darkest and most beloved adventures to theaters for the first time, as the good Doctor and Rose find themselves stranded on a remote planet orbiting a black hole, where something ancient—and very evil—is waiting beneath the surface. Here’s the perfect chance to revisit a classic Doctor Who adventure the way you’ve never seen it before.

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📺 “Black Doves: Season 2” Trailer: Keira Knightley Is an Undercover Spy Married to the Prime Minister, with Ben Whishaw Back to Help Her Do the Dirty Work — Returning Thursday, November 5th on Netflix

Going by what we see in movies and television, undercover spies have complicated lives, as their jobs are extremely dangerous and they’re prone to unquestionable violence. They serve for a greater good, and for their loyalty they often pay the ultimate price. Even James Bond has suffered multiple personal tragedies throughout the franchise, and hell, he is probably the best British spy of all.

However, what spies don’t have are private lives or the freedom to enter into relationships with genuine emotional attachments. And in no way have we learned from any James Bond movie that a spy can get this close to the Prime Minister, let alone be married to one.

Keira Knightley returns as Helen Webb in Season 2 of the acclaimed British espionage thriller Black Doves. She’s an ass-kicking undercover spy. And she’s also the wife of the Prime Minister. Which makes for some pretty interesting pillow talk. That is, when they’re not questioning each other’s loyalties.

Hailing from creator Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project), Season 1 of this Netflix series saw Knightley’s Helen Webb living a double life as an elite “Black Dove” agent and the partner of a rising politician (played by Andrew Buchan). She is then pushed deeper into the world of espionage when her secret lover, a fellow spy, is suddenly murdered, putting her on the same trajectory of double-crosses and betrayal.

Season 2 finds Helen living in even more dangerous territory, as her husband is now the UK Prime Minister. With her husband now doubting her real intentions and questioning where her loyalties truly lie, Helen is finding that being a spy is a lot easier when your private life is actually private and your spouse isn’t a public figure.

Ben Whishaw is back as Sam Young, Helen’s longtime friend and fellow Black Dove operative, who once again finds himself helping her out as Season 2 pulls them into another dangerous conspiracy.

If you’re looking for a spy show where Whishaw gets to act all snarky while Knightley is kicking, punching, and shooting bad dudes, this is the one you’ve been looking for.

Also starring Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Buchan, Gabrielle Creevy, and Ella Lily Hyland, with Ambika Mod, Babou Ceesay, Sam Riley, and Neve Campbell joining this season, Black Doves: Season 2 premieres Thursday, November 5th on Netflix.

📺 “YAGA” Trailer: Noah Reid and Clark Backo Investigate a Missing Heir and a Witchy Carrie-Anne Moss in This Darkly Comic Canadian Mystery Detective Series — Premiering Friday, October 23rd on AMC+

Canadians are often stereotyped as polite and safe. Their shows can also be pegged the same way, often drenched in the niceties of small-town life.

Well, here’s a new Canadian series set in a small coastal town. But something tells us this show is anything but polite and safe. Are you prepared to get a little witchy with some Canucks?

In the upcoming darkly comic procedural mystery series YAGA, the case of a missing young man from a powerful local family unravels a web of suspicion and witchy folklore as investigators get pulled deeper into the town’s secrets.

Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid stars as Rapp, a private investigator who arrives in the coastal town of Whittock to investigate the disappearance of the heir (Hudson Williams) of a powerful local tuna family, only to be met with some resistance from the local detective handling the case. Reluctantly paired up with Whittock’s own Detective Carson (Clark Backo), Rapp soon discovers this is no ordinary missing-person case, nor is this an ordinary Canadian town.

With rumors swirling about a local witch legend, the two investigators find themselves knocking on the door of an enigmatic university professor, played by Matrix icon Carrie-Anne Moss, who is rumored to have multiple “relationships” with younger students.

Does she know the whereabouts of the missing heir? Or worse yet, is it true she’s a witch known as Baba Yaga who seduces and preys upon young men?

Created by acclaimed playwright Kat Sandler and also starring Canadian vets Sheila McCarthy and Megan Follows, along with genre vet Katharine Isabelle, Patrick Gilmore, and Hiro Kanagawa, this is one Canadian witch-themed series that knows Halloween is near and plans to cast a spell on us just in time.

YAGA is set to debut with a two-episode premiere on Friday, October 23rd on AMC+.

📺 “Treasure Island” Trailer: David Oyelowo Sets Sail as Long John Silver Alongside Hayley Atwell, Jack Huston, Tom Sweet and Tomer Capone in MGM’s Swashbuckling Adventure — Premiering Sunday, October 11th on MGM+

Whatever happened to the pirate genre? It seemed to be thriving after the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. You would’ve thought it would have lasted a little longer. Well, maybe it’s finally time for a resurgence.

And maybe all we needed was the right actor to bring it all back again. To bring back the swashbuckling, seafaring mayhem, sword battles, and battle cries.

David Oyelowo certainly has enough swagger to push the genre back from the depths as he takes on the infamous pirate character of Long John Silver in this latest reinvention of the classic tale of Treasure Island.

Oyelowo is joined by a strong ensemble cast that includes Hayley Atwell (MCU, Mission: Impossible), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), Tom Sweet (Gunpowder), and Tomer Capone (The Boys).

Created by Robert Murphy (Vera, Shetland), the series follows teenager Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint’s legendary treasure map and is pulled into a dangerous race to find the fortune.

Soon, Jim (Tom Sweet) and his mother, Bess (Hayley Atwell), find themselves caught in a deadly pursuit for the treasure, with Long John Silver and a revolutionary spy each determined to get their hands on it... and each willing to do whatever it takes to get that booty.

While expanding on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure, Treasure Island aims to remind viewers why pirate stories were so damn fun in the first place. It’s not just the drunken chaos and attitude, but the thrill of hunting for treasure, even if you have to cross an ocean and cut through a few enemies to get it.

Treasure Island premieres Sunday, October 11th on MGM+.

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📺 “VisionQuest” New Promo: Paul Bettany’s Vision Searches His Synthetic Mind for Answers as James Spader Returns as Ultron — Debuts with a Two-Episode Premiere Wednesday, October 14th on Disney+

Paul Bettany once again returns as Vision in this new MCU miniseries, which finds the Synthezoid superbeing confronting his fears and anxieties as he searches through his own memories and the commands buried within his synthetic mind. It’s surprisingly heady stuff for Marvel, and much like WandaVision, the series gets inside the subconscious of a superhero to ask questions about memory, identity, and what it actually means to be human. This time, Vision isn’t just wrestling with his humanity, but also his place as a new father, protector, and son to a deeply dysfunctional AI program known as Ultron (again played by James Spader, but now in human form). Executive produced by showrunner Terry Matalas and also co-starring Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Emily Hampshire, and James D’Arcy, this new MCU miniseries arrives just as Marvel begins ramping up its promotional push for the big Avengers: Doomsday event in December.

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📺 “Family Guy: Happy Hell-o-ween” Trailer: Brian and Stewie Take Over Hell with Kieran Culkin as the Devil — Debuts Monday, October 5th on Hulu / Disney+

No, hell didn’t freeze over, but it certainly has gotten new management. Brian and Stewie have taken over hell, and after years of bad behavior, surprisingly, they fit right in. Seth MacFarlane’s long-running animated series celebrates the spooky season with its own very Halloween special that’s meant to tickle your funny bone... and maybe rattle a few other ones as well. Kieran Culkin joins in the fun as the voice of the Devil (naturally). But when a Halloween-night accident sends Brian and Stewie straight to hell, they manage to annoy even the Devil himself, leaving the troublesome duo in charge of the underworld. This Halloween, hell isn’t ready for Brian and Stewie. But really, who ever is?

📺 “Nobody Wants This: Season 3” Trailer: Kristen Bell and Adam Brody Are Taking Their Relationship to the Next Level, with Sarah Silverman and Andrew Rannells Joining the Fun — Premieres Thursday, October 22nd on Netflix

It’s the rom-com series that instantly became a hit among a generation who were dying to see Veronica Mars hook up with Seth Cohen from The O.C., and now it’s one of Netflix’s most popular romantic comedies, asking if religion can really get in the way of true love. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody once again return as lovebirds Joanne and Noah. It’s your average romantic comedy about the trials and tribulations of a couple trying to make a relationship work. Except he’s a hunky rabbi and she’s a non-Jewish woman still figuring out whether she’s ready to convert before getting married. Mazel tov! Also starring Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn, Andrew Rannells, Sarah Silverman, Avan Jogia, and Poorna Jagannathan, this Erin Foster-created comedy gets to the heart of what happens when falling in love is the easy part... it’s accepting everything that comes with it where things get complicated.

📺 “Elsbeth: Season 4” Trailer: Carrie Preston’s Unconventional Crime-Solver Returns for More Murder, Twisty Mysteries, and Unconventional Police Cases — Returning Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

She’s not a detective, she’s not a private eye, she’s not even a cop. But like Columbo, she always gets for man, and the truth of the crime. Carrie Preston returns once again as the brilliant yet quirky former lawyer-turned-NYPD consultant Elsbeth Tascioni, who keeps outsmarting murderers no one else can pin down. With her keen eye for the smallest details and a knack for asking exactly the right question at exactly the wrong time, Elsbeth can sometimes be her own worst enemy, but there’s no one better at cracking a case that seems impossible to solve or too easily dismissed. With Wendell Pierce returning as Captain C.W. Wagner, this Good Wife spin-off heads into its fourth season with a new roster of guest stars, including Nicole Scherzinger, Nicholas Braun, Jemima Kirke, and New York Knicks star OG Anunoby.

📺 “Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself” Trailer: Jamie Foxx Is Back on Stage and Getting Personal About Life, Self-Care, Getting Old, and Finding the Funny — Debuts Wednesday, October 7th on Hulu

Last time we saw comedian Jamie Foxx on stage, he was finally talking about the life-threatening health scare that almost took everything from him. This time, he’s turning the focus to what it actually means to take care of himself, with unfiltered honesty, carefully considered perspective, and a few hard-earned jokes and laughs. With this new comedy special, Foxx is kicking off a new lineup of stand-up specials for Hulu that will feature some of comedy’s biggest names. So who better to get the party started than the one and only Jamie Foxx?

📺 “Rage: Season 2” Trailer: Maribel Verdú Leads a Group of Women Pushed to Their Breaking Points in Félix Sabroso’s Biting Spanish Satire Where Pain and Humiliation Become Entertainment — Streams Friday, October 9th on HBO Max

In a world where your life becomes a brand and every humiliation can be exploited for ratings, fury just might be the last thing they can’t monetize. Spanish star Maribel Verdú, of Y tu mamá también, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Flash fame, returns to lead this ensemble as part of a group of women pushed to their breaking points by a ruthless business that twists their pain, humiliation, and personal struggles into pure entertainment. Created by Félix Sabroso and Also starting Carmen Maura, María León, Cecilia Suárez and Ana Mena, this second season of the biting Spanish satire aims its wrath at an all-too-familiar world where nearly everything (and everyone) can not only be churned into entertainment, but also sold for profit.

📺 “Where’s Wanda?: Season 2” Trailer: Lea Drinda, Heike Makatsch, and Axel Stein Return for a New Murder Mystery in This Acclaimed German Dark Comedy — Streams Wednesday, October 21st on Apple TV.

Nothing like a little murder to shake up a small town, but for the Klatts, it’s just another day in their sleepy German suburb. Lea Drinda returns in the second season of the acclaimed German dark comedy as Wanda Klatt, alongside Heike Makatsch as her mother, Carlotta; Axel Stein as her father, Dedo; Leo Simon as her brother, Ole; and Nikeata Thompson as Detective Michelle Rauch. This time, Wanda is seemingly caught red-handed standing over a dead body, dragging her whole family right back into another mess they have to solve. To clear Wanda’s name, the Klatts push past their suburb’s polite facade and into its criminal underbelly in search of the truth. Nothing like a little murder to keep a family together.

📺 “The Reluctant Vampire” U.K. Trailer: Lenny Rush Is the Odd One Out in a Family of Vampires in Rob and Neil Gibbons’ New Supernatural Comedy — Premieres Sunday, October 4th on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.

Living up to your parents’ expectations is tough, but for some, it’s impossible—especially if you aren’t even what they think you are. In this new British vampire comedy, BAFTA-winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?) plays Val, a young man raised in a vampire family who is desperate to live up to his father’s traditions and take over the family business, only to discover a shocking secret has been kept from him his entire life. What is it, you ask? Val is really just a human and not a vampire at all, which makes it outrageously difficult when you’re supposed to take over your father’s mantle as head vampire. Created by Rob and Neil Gibbons and also starring Tom Davis, Sian Clifford, Gabriel Nagy, Asim Chaudhry, Joe Wilkinson, Charlie Cooper, Esther Smith, Ellie-May Sheridan, Bill Bailey, and Ross Noble, this is one family comedy where growing up really does bite.

📺 “The Sisters Grimm: Season 2” Trailer: Sabrina and Daphne Return for More Fairy-Tale Mysteries, Family Secrets, and Magical Adventures in This Animated Fantasy Series Starring Ariel Winter, Leah Newman, and Laraine Newman — Returning Friday, October 2nd on Apple TV

In a world where fairytale characters are real, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are back on the case, still searching for answers about their missing parents in a town where every happily ever after comes with a catch. Featuring the voices of Ariel Winter, Leah and Laraine Newman, Abubakar Salim, Billy Harris, and Harry Trevaldwyn, this animated fantasy adventure series returns with new mysteries to crack, new secrets to uncover, and new trouble to overcome. These two sisters might be descended from the Brothers Grimm, but this is no fairytale they can simply wish their way out of if they want to find their parents and finally solve the mystery once and for all.

📺 “Adventure Time: Side Quests: Season 2” Trailer: Finn and Jake Return for More Magical Mishaps and Strange Adventures Across the Land of Ooo — Streaming Friday, October 2nd on Disney+ and Hulu

Need a little more Adventure Time in your life? Well, Finn and Jake are back for even more side quests across the wild Land of Ooo. In this second season of the animated companion series, Finn and Jake dive into more standalone adventures: wrestling toads, facing baby gladiators, and stumbling through one too many misfired spells. Just when you thought these two couldn’t get into any more trouble, they somehow find a few new ways to prove you wrong.

📺 “Bride of the Barrier Master” Teaser: A Young Woman Hides Her Powerful Magical Abilities Only to Find Herself Sought After as a Bride in Netflix’s Romantic Fantasy Anime Based on Kureha’s Popular Novels — Coming January 2027

Based on the popular romantic fantasy novels by Kureha, Netflix’s latest anime series follows 18-year-old Hana Ichise, a young woman born into a family of barrier-weaving magic users. Hana has spent most of her life living in the shadow of her gifted twin sister. But when she discovers a powerful ability of her own, she chooses to keep it hidden, hoping to finally live a quiet life away from her family’s expectations. Of course, plans don’t always go the way you want, and Hana soon finds herself caught in the sights of a powerful clan seeking a bride with abilities strong enough to stand beside its new leader.

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September is coming to a close with a major load of new titles. Surprisingly, this week is packed with a wide variety of new releases, ranging from indies and re-releases to big-star dramas. There’s pretty much something for everyone this week. And whether you’re committed to staying home and watching something on TV, or planning to drive to your local movie theater, you’ll have plenty of options to choose from. There’s also surprisingly a lot of streaming content this week, including some films coming to VOD for the first time. So this week is definitely one of those weeks when figuring out what to watch might be harder than finding something to watch.

Like always, we’ve listed all the notable and major titles coming out in the next couple of days. So scroll down, see what pops, and add to that ever-growing watchlist even further.

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🎥 Concessions
(Tues, Sept 22nd — limited release)

There’s nothing sadder for movie lovers than watching a local theater close, but this indie comedy-drama would rather have a little fun with the heartbreak. First-time feature filmmaker Mas Bouzidi spends one final night inside the Royal Alamo Cinema with its jaded employees, eccentric regulars, desperate owner, and movie-obsessed oddballs. Steven Ogg, Josh Hamilton, Ivory Aquino, and Michael Madsen, in one of his final performances, lead the ensemble.

🎥 Take Me Home
(Wed, Sept 23rd — limited release; in NY)

Everyone wants the freedom to shape their own life. Korean American filmmaker Liz Sargent turns that simple idea into something deeply personal, casting her sister Anna Sargent in this semi-biographical drama about disability and independence. When a crisis disrupts Anna’s support system, she’s forced to navigate the bureaucracy surrounding housing and caregiving while fighting to maintain control over her own future.

🎥 Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
(Thurs, Sept 24th — One Night Only; in theaters)

English rocker Jarvis Cocker and the band Pulp look back on four decades of music, breakups, reunions, and the long road to their biggest arena show yet. Director Garth Jennings mixes that history with a colorful concert film that drops audiences right into the crowd. More than a trip down memory lane, it captures the joy of a band getting another chance to turn up the volume.

🎥 Avengers: Endgame: Encore
(Fri, Sept 25th — re-release; nationwide)

You still remember the moments, the lines, and that cheer when Captain America finally said, “Avengers... assemble.” Now Marvel is bringing that finale epic back to theaters for a special Encore presentation, reportedly with four minutes of new footage tied to Avengers: Doomsday. With Doomsday arriving in December, those extra minutes should give Marvel fans plenty to talk about.

🎥 Heart of the Beast
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)

There’s no stronger bond than a man and his dog, especially when they’ve survived a war together. Director David Ayer’s survival drama sees Brad Pitt as Special Forces officer James Belmont, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash with his longtime combat partner, Odin. Scarred by war and fitted with a titanium prosthetic leg, Odin has one more mission left to complete: get them both home alive.

🎥 Forgotten Island
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)

The idea of lifelong friends gets harder to hold onto as you get older. DreamWorks Animation turns that feeling into a supernatural fantasy inspired by Filipino folklore, with Liza Soberano and H.E.R. voicing childhood friends Raissa and Jo. Transported to the mysterious island of Nakali, they’ll have to rediscover what made their friendship so strong before growing up pulls them apart.

🎥 Primetime
(Fri, Sept 25th — wide release)

Robert Pattinson plays Dateline journalist Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim’s fictionalized drama inspired by the rise of To Catch a Predator. As Hansen and his crew turn hidden-camera stings into must-see television, journalism, law enforcement, and entertainment begin sharing the same uncomfortable space, begging the question: when does exposing predators cross the line into exploiting them for entertainment?

🎥 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Prayer and violence make uneasy company as Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali plays a devout hitman whose life begins to unravel after his wife’s death, sending him across Houston to protect his children from enemies looking to tie up loose ends. Writer-director Bassam Tariq turns that setup into both a chase and a crisis of faith, as the beliefs that once guided him clash with the violence that has defined his life.

🎥 Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Sometimes the best way to move forward is to get back on the dance floor. Rinko Kikuchi stars as Haru, a competitive ballroom dancer whose life falls apart after the death of her husband and longtime dance partner. But when a magnetic new instructor (Alberto Guerra) enters her life, Haru begins to wonder whether finding a new partner means leaving the old one behind.

🎥 The Stunt Driver
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Wild stunt driver Ken Carter doesn’t just want to break a record. He wants to launch himself into the history books. Jay Baruchel portrays this real-life ’70s Canadian daredevil whose obsession with rocketing a car across the St. Lawrence River puts nearly everything in his life at risk. Ben Foster co-stars as Ken’s American counterpart, Evel Knievel, with Goon director Michael Dowse helming this true-story comedy-drama about one spectacularly crazy dream.

🎥 The Incomer
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Domhnall Gleeson stars as an awkward council official sent to evict two eccentric siblings from a remote Scottish island, only to find himself drawn into their strange world of folklore, wizardry, and make-believe. Grant O’Rourke and Gayle Rankin co-star in Louis Paxton’s off-kilter comedy about finding kindred spirits in the most unexpected places.

🎥 Never After Dark
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

The dead have rules. The living are another problem entirely. In this supernatural horror-thriller, Moeka Hoshi stars as Airi, a wandering medium who helps restless spirits move on with help from her dead sister, Miku. But when a job at an isolated country house reveals an apparition unlike anything she’s encountered before, Airi uncovers a secret that puts her in danger from something far more human.

🎥 Charlie Harper
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones star as Charlie and Harper, young lovers who leave home hoping to build a future together in a new city. But as Harper throws herself into becoming a chef and Charlie struggles to find his own direction, adulthood begins pulling them apart. Directors Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean ask what happens when love and growing up stop moving in the same direction.

🎥 The Deputy
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Guarding a corpse should be the easy assignment. Duke Nicholson stars as a rookie deputy whose night goes sideways when a dead body disappears and his search begins uncovering decades of small-town corruption. Tiffany Haddish plays the lone deputy willing to help, while William H. Macy is the chief who gave him the job.

🎥 Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

Jessica Lange returns to the role that earned her a Tony in director Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s acclaimed play. As Mary Tyrone, she plays a woman whose morphine addiction has trapped her family in a painful cycle of resentment, blame, and regret. Ed Harris, Ben Foster, and Colin Morgan round out the deeply dysfunctional Tyrone family.

🎥 Hellbilly Hollow
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release)

A team of paranormal YouTubers heads into the Alabama backwoods before Halloween, hoping a haunted attraction will give them some easy supernatural footage. Instead, they meet Tickles, a disfigured, childlike clown, and his sadistic brother Bull. Kevin Wayne directs and stars alongside Kurt Deimer in a slasher where the haunted attraction may be fake, but the people running it are frighteningly real.

🎥 No Limbs No Limits: The NickV Story
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited theatrical engagement)

Born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic endured bullying, isolation, depression, and a suicide attempt before finding a sense of purpose that changed his life. Matthew Thayer’s documentary uses unseen family footage and interviews to trace his journey from childhood struggles to becoming an author, entrepreneur, evangelist, and motivational speaker, exploring how faith and resilience helped him turn adversity into something meaningful.

🎥 The Scout
(Fri, Sept 25th — limited release; in NY)

Mimi Davila plays Sofia, a New York location scout spending one long day searching apartments, businesses, and neighborhoods for a TV pilot whose demands keep changing. Along the way, she catches brief glimpses into the lives of complete strangers before the job unexpectedly turns personal. Writer-director Paula González-Nasser draws on her own experience as a location scout for this portrait of creative gig work and urban disconnection.

🎥 Unzipped: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Sept 25th — re-release; in NY)

The ’90s were the age of the supermodel, and designer Isaac Mizrahi was one of fashion’s biggest personalities. Newly restored in 4K, this classic 1995 documentary follows Mizrahi as he prepares his fall 1994 collection, from early sketches and fittings to backstage nerves and the runway. It’s a fascinating time capsule of an era when fashion—and everyone in it—felt bigger and bolder.

🎥 Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration
(Sat, Sept 26th–Wed, Sept 30th; via Fathom Ent’s Studio Ghibli Fest screenings)

A deadly curse sends Ashitaka west, where his search for a cure pulls him into a war between Iron Town and the ancient forest protected by San, a girl raised by wolves. Hayao Miyazaki fills this ecological epic with animal gods, forest spirits, and Joe Hisaishi’s unforgettable score. Studio Ghibli Fest brings this classic anime back to theaters for five days, newly restored in 4K.

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🎥 “Other Mommy” New Trailer: Jessica Chastain Plays a Mother and Her Nightmarish Doppelgänger in Rob Savage’s Creepy New Horror Thriller — In Theaters October 9th

In a child’s eyes, a mother is everything. A mother is their whole world. A mother means protection and comfort. But what if “mother” meant something else? Something unfamiliar. Something frightening. Something more like a stranger.

Hmm. Sounds like the plot of a good horror story.

Count us among the many who got spooked by a pretty damn good jump scare in the previously released trailer for Jessica Chastain’s upcoming supernatural horror thriller, Other Mommy. You got us! But now we’re ready. And you should be too, as this latest trailer gives us an even better look at this creepy thriller, with Chastain playing not one but two mothers: one is the friendly and loving kind; the other, not so much.

Produced by Blumhouse and directed by Rob Savage, who gave us the much-buzzed-about horror films Host and Dashcam, Other Mommy finds the filmmaker once again playing around with the idea of something sinister invading a place that’s supposed to feel safe and secure.

In this instance, it’s the ordinary home of a young girl named Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark), whose mother (Chastain) suddenly has a very unsettling doppelgänger. She is literally the mirror image of the child’s mother and has somehow been invited inside their house, appearing seemingly out of nowhere and slowly working her way into Bela’s life.

This double can appear kind at first, but soon this strange figure begins to contort and twist herself, becoming a nightmarish version of the one person Bela is supposed to trust the most: her mother.

Also starring Jay Duplass as Bela’s father, along with Dichen Lachman, Arian Moayed, and Indiana Jones legend Karen Allen, Other Mommy is based on Josh Malerman’s bestselling novel Incidents Around the House.

The film is slated to hit theaters on October 9th, making it perfect for the Halloween season. Just maybe don’t watch it with your mother. ‘Cuz you never know which version might be sitting next to you.

🎥 “Sacrifice” Trailer: Chris Evans Stars as a Self-Centered Movie Star Taken Hostage by Anya Taylor-Joy’s Doomsday Cult in This Dark Satire With Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich and More — Arriving on Netflix October 16th

To many, Chris Evans is Captain America, a larger-than-life superhero willing to take on just about anything to save the world. But playing a hero in the movies is one thing. And Evans is here to remind audiences that he might be pretty damn far from one in real life.

Flipping his superhero persona completely on its head, Evans stars in this new dark satire as Mike Tyler, a deeply insecure, overly self-centered Hollywood actor who gets to find out just how much he actually cares about saving the world when it’s his own ass on the line.

In Sacrifice, Evans’s Mike Tyler has been invited to attend a celebrity-filled charity gala on a Greek island, where he gets to earn some easy goodwill points by rubbing elbows with celebrities, billionaires, and other very important people supposedly trying to save the planet.

But the night takes a very strange turn when a group of radical eco-terrorists crashes the party, takes over the event, and holds many of its guests hostage.

Their plan? To save the planet from an extinction-level catastrophe. How? By serving up three celebrities as human sacrifices to an active volcano to prevent it from erupting.

Now Mike Tyler, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, will finally get the chance to prove what he’s really made of. Because saving the world sounds great when you’re reading it from a script. It’s a little different when you might be the one getting tossed into a volcano.

Anya Taylor-Joy joins in the fun as Joan, the young leader of the radical group who is absolutely convinced that a few human sacrifices are a small price to pay for saving the planet.

Meanwhile, Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Malkovich, Sam Richardson, and Charli XCX round out the cast as party guests who suddenly find themselves caught up in the madness.

French-Greek filmmaker and acclaimed music-video director Romain Gavras, who previously helmed the visually explosive one-shot riot thriller Athena, is teaming up with Netflix again for Sacrifice, which arrives on the streaming platform October 16th.

🎥 “How to Rob a Bank” New Trailer: Nicholas Hoult and His Social Media-Savvy Crew Turn Bank Robbery Into Viral Content in David Leitch’s Modern Game of Cops and Robbers — In Theaters November 13th

Action filmmaker David Leitch has crashed plenty of cars. He’s blown plenty of things up. He’s even helped Keanu Reeves become John Wick, thrown Brad Pitt off a speeding train, and turned Ryan Gosling into a stuntman. So what’s next? Apparently, teaching Nicholas Hoult how to rob banks.

In How to Rob a Bank, Hoult leads a crew of social media-savvy thieves who have come up with the brilliant idea of broadcasting their bank robberies online. And while that might be great for building a following, it’s probably not the smartest move when you’re trying to avoid the FBI.

Their growing viral fame eventually puts veteran FBI agent John C. Reilly and hacker Zoë Kravitz on their trail, setting up a very modern game of cops and robbers.

With Pete Davidson, Anna Sawai, Rhenzy Feliz, and Christian Slater joining in on the fun, this looks less like a straight-up shoot-’em-up and more like a social media-powered game of cat and mouse. Only the cheese isn’t necessarily the money. These guys seem more interested in showing the world that maybe the real criminals are the ones wearing nice suits and quietly taking your money one bank fee at a time.

Written by Mark Bianculli and directed by David Leitch, How to Rob a Bank is coming to theaters November 13th.

🎥 “Clean Hands” Trailer: Zach Braff Gets Tough as a Hard-Charging Narcotics Cop Trying to Clean Up the Streets and Save His Daughter (Esther McGregor) — In Select Theaters and on VOD/Digital October 16th

Wait, Zach Braff... an action star?

The Scrubs star has made us laugh for years. And while films he wrote and directed, like Garden State and A Good Person, gave him the chance to explore darker, more dramatic material, his latest role in Clean Hands has him stepping into very different territory: playing a hard-nosed narcotics officer fighting to clean the streets of heroin and other opioids flooding his city.

Here’s the thing: he ain’t playing the wisecracking cut-up who has a snarky comment every time the chief barks an order. No. Braff is playing Sergeant Kevin Simmers, a chest-pounding, hard-charging cop whose reputation was built on kicking down doors, making busts, and putting drug dealers behind bars.

But all that tough-guy bravado suddenly means very little when Simmers learns that his 19-year-old daughter Brooke (Esther McGregor, from Babygirl and We Were Liars) has found herself caught in the very same drug crisis he’s spent his career fighting.

And what starts out as a street-level depiction of the war on drugs soon becomes a sobering story about a law-and-order father desperately trying to save his heroin-addicted daughter from a life he knows full well will end in either prison or an early grave.

Written and directed by actor/filmmaker Jake Allyn (Ride), and inspired by the real-life story of Kevin and Brooke Simmers, the film also stars Abigail Spencer, Holt McCallany, Lucas Till, and E. Roger Mitchell.

Clean Hands is set to open in select theaters and arrive on VOD and Digital on October 16th.

🎥 “Animals” Trailer: Ben Affleck Is a Mayoral Candidate Facing a Politically Charged Kidnapping in This Twisty Political Thriller With Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun and Gillian Anderson — Arriving in Select Theaters and on Netflix October 9th

Politics, crime, and a moral dilemma at the center. Yup, that sounds about right for Ben Affleck, who returns to the director’s chair for another morally complicated thriller—this time involving a tense mayoral campaign and a frightening kidnapping that turns one family’s life upside down.

Here, Affleck wears three hats as director, producer, and star, playing Mark Kimball, an ambitious Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose life is shattered when his son is mysteriously kidnapped. Alongside his wife Abigail (Kerry Washington), Mark scrambles to come up with the ransom, but finding the money may mean exposing secrets that could not only tear apart their marriage, but also his political ambitions.

Steven Yeun, who recently co-starred with Affleck in the cop thriller The Rip, once again joins him here, this time playing his top political consultant, who sees an opportunity to shape the public narrative around the kidnapping to their advantage. They’re joined by Gillian Anderson as a slick corporate negotiator with some interesting ways of handling these kinds of situations, especially when the kidnapping turns into something none of them quite expected.

With Adriana Paz and Luis Gerardo Méndez rounding out the cast, Affleck directs his seventh feature, following 2023’s Air, while returning to the crime-thriller territory that gave us Gone Baby Gone and The Town. Here, Affleck gets some space to explore the morality of political ambition and what happens when doing the right thing comes into direct conflict with protecting your career, your family, and yourself.

In nature, animals usually tear each other apart for relatively good reasons. But in the human world? The reasons are a little more questionable.

Animals is coming to select theaters and Netflix on October 9th.

🎥 “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” New Trailer: Joseph Zada Steps Into Haymitch Abernathy’s Shoes for the Brutal Second Quarter Quell With Mckenna Grace, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons & More — In Theaters November 20th

If you ever wondered what Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson’s character in the original Hunger Games films) was like before all the drinking, sarcasm, and generally not giving a damn about anything, well, oddly enough, he was like most tributes: scared, confused, and desperately trying to figure out how the hell he was going to survive. In this prequel installment, Haymitch (now played by Joseph Zada) takes center stage as a 16-year-old living in District 12 when he’s selected to compete in the 50th Hunger Games. And because this particular year happens to be the Second Quarter Quell, the Capitol decides 24 tributes just aren’t enough and doubles the number to 48. So, yeah, Haymitch picked one hell of a year to get his name called. Also starring Mckenna Grace as fellow District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner, Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, and Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle, director Francis Lawrence returns once again to throw another batch of poor souls into the arena.

🎥 “Tenzing” Trailer: Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston Take on Mount Everest in the True Story of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s Historic 1953 Climb — Coming to Apple TV October 16th

Pop quiz! Who were the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest? Don’t know, not sure? Well, why read a history book when there’s a movie about that historic achievement coming our way? Yes, it’s a lazy way of learning history, but that doesn’t mean it ain’t effective. In Apple’s new film, Genden Phuntsok stars as legendary Himalayan climber Tenzing Norgay, who, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston), became the first climbers confirmed to reach the summit of Everest in 1953. Of course, getting there meant surviving brutal terrain, extreme weather, and all the dangers that come with climbing the world’s highest mountain. But Tenzing also had another battle on his hands: convincing the British expedition that he belonged on the team as an equal rather than simply serving the Western climbers. Also starring Willem Dafoe, Caitríona Balfe, and Thinley Lhamo, and directed by Sherpa filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, this epic adventure reminds us that sometimes history doesn’t give everyone the credit they deserve.

🎥 “Wildwood” Final Trailer: LAIKA’s Latest Stop-Motion Fantasy Ventures Into a Dark, Strange and Wonderfully Weird World Where a Young Girl Must Rescue Her Kidnapped Brother — In Theaters October 23rd

Since the days of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, storytellers have used a young girl as our guide into fantastical adventures filled with hidden worlds and strange characters. Now it’s LAIKA’s turn to take that idea and make it darker, stranger, and wonderfully weird. In other words, it’s simply LAIKA being LAIKA. When her baby brother is kidnapped and taken deep into the mysterious forest outside Portland, Prue (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) goes after him, crossing into Wildwood, a secret realm filled with talking animals, strange mystics, warring armies, and some very dangerous characters. And much like Alice and Dorothy before her, Prue quickly discovers that finding her way back home won’t be easy. Featuring a stacked voice cast that includes Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Richard E. Grant, and Tom Waits, the film is directed by Travis Knight, who returns to LAIKA stop-motion a decade after Kubo and the Two Strings.

🎥 “Wife and Dog” Teaser: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Anthony Hopkins Are Ridiculously Wealthy and Ready to Stab Each Other in the Back in Guy Ritchie’s Latest — In Theaters February 19th

If there’s any doubt that Guy Ritchie is one of the busiest filmmakers working today, consider this: he has yet another movie coming our way, marking his sixth feature in five years. And that doesn’t even include all the episodes he’s directed across three different TV shows during that same stretch. Seriously, does this guy ever take a day off? This time around, he’s working with two actors who seem almost tailor-made for Ritchie’s particular brand of stylish backstabbing and bad behavior: Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike. The two star alongside Anthony Hopkins in this darkly comic thriller about the ridiculously wealthy Fairbank family, whose fight over money, power, and who gets what soon turns into a nasty little game of betrayal and murder. Because apparently nothing brings a wealthy family together quite like a massive inheritance.

🎥 “Primetime” New Trailer: Robert Pattinson Channels the Creepy Side of Chris Hansen in A24’s “To Catch a Predator” Drama — In Theaters September 25th

Have you ever thought Chris Hansen came across as a little creepier than he probably should have while hosting To Catch a Predator? After all, we’re talking about online predators getting caught red-handed. Yet Hansen had this strangely calm, almost theatrical way of confronting them. Sometimes, he could come across like he was performing a carefully staged act, as if the whole thing had become more of an entertaining spectacle than a serious investigation. Well, from the looks of things, Robert Pattinson might be leaning into that very persona in director Lance Oppenheim’s dramatization of the rise of To Catch a Predator. The buzz has been strong for this one. And with Pattinson already having one hell of a year, this could very well continue that streak. At the very least, it could further cement Pattinson’s reputation as an actor who isn’t afraid to take chances and tackle some seriously unconventional roles.

🎥 “Christmas at the Kringles” Teaser Trailer: Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson Move Next Door to Some Seriously Twisted Christmas-Obsessed Neighbors in This Holiday Horror Comedy with Thomas Lennon, Arden Myrin, and Rob Riggle — In Theaters October 30th

Ah! Christmas. It’s a holiday that brings joy to everyone’s heart. That is, if your heart is still beating by the time dinner is served. In this new Christmastime horror comedy, Ron Livingston and Rachel Bilson star as a couple who move into a quiet suburban neighborhood and soon find themselves invited to Christmas dinner by their new Christmas-obsessed neighbors, the Kringles (Thomas Lennon and Arden Myrin). But what starts as a friendly welcome to the neighborhood quickly turns into something far more ominous than yellow snow. It seems the Kringles have other plans, involving a blood-stained chainsaw, a little holiday indoctrination, and a whole lot of Christmas cheer nobody asked for. Throw a badass rogue Santa (Rob Riggle) into the mix, and this is one holiday gathering they won’t soon forget.

🎥 “Stranglehold” Red Band Trailer: Ashley Benson and Jake Lacy Try to Save Christmas by Robbing a Strip Club in Clark Duke’s Darkly Funny Arkansas Crime Caper With Justin Long, Ron Perlman and More — On VOD/Digital October 2nd

You might know Clark Duke from Hot Tub Time Machine, Kick-Ass, or The Office, but lately he’s been spending a lot more time behind the camera. After making his feature directing debut with the 2020 Southern crime drama Arkansas, Duke is heading back home for another darkly funny Arkansas-set crime story. And this time, he’s throwing in a little Christmas cheer, a strip-club robbery, and one very desperate married couple. Ashley Benson stars as a small-town stripper who decides robbing the club where she works might be the answer to her family’s money problems. Of course, things don’t exactly go according to plan. Jake Lacy, Justin Long, Elle King, David Arquette, and Ron Perlman also join the fun as an assortment of oddball characters who get caught up in the chaos when a supposedly simple robbery turns into something much bigger... and a hell of a lot more dangerous.

🎥 “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” Trailer: Jessica Lange Revisits Her Tony-Winning Role in This Film Adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Acclaimed Play About One Very Dysfunctional Family, with Ed Harris, Ben Foster & Colin Morgan — In Select Theaters September 25th

Every family has their fair share of unresolved issues just stewing beneath the surface, waiting to boil back up. Playwright Eugene O’Neill had a knack for turning those deep family wounds into something actors could really sink their teeth into. In this film adaptation of perhaps his greatest play, Jessica Lange gets the rare opportunity to revisit (and once again chew the scenery in) a role she already mastered onstage. Nearly a decade after winning a Tony for playing Mary Tyrone, Lange returns as a woman whose ongoing battle with morphine addiction has left her family trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of resentment, blame, and regret. Lange is joined by a stellar cast, including Ed Harris, Ben Foster, and Colin Morgan, who round out the deeply dysfunctional Tyrone family. Directed by Jonathan Kent, who also directed Lange in the acclaimed 2016 Broadway revival, the film marks his feature-film directing debut.

🎥 “Ghosts: The Possession of Button House” UK Trailer: Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton, Lolly Adefope & the Original Cast Bring the Beloved British Sitcom to the Big Screen — In UK and Ireland Theaters October 23rd

The British comedy series Ghosts has become a worldwide phenomenon, even spawning a popular American remake. And while the British original came to an end back in 2023, the creators of the beloved comedy apparently have one more story to tell. This time, they’re bringing the ghosts of Button House to the big screen. When a group of meddling teens breaks into the abandoned estate, they get the surprise of a lifetime. After breaking out a Ouija board, one of the teenage boys is suddenly possessed by Julian (Simon Farnaby), the cranky old spirit who sees an opportunity to reunite with his family. The problem is, while Julian is running around in his body, the boy himself is stuck in the spirit world—and the longer he stays there, the harder it becomes for him to get back. That leaves the rest of the Button House ghosts, including Thomas (Mathew Baynton), Kitty (Lolly Adefope), the Captain (Ben Willbond), Pat (Jim Howick), Fanny (Martha Howe-Douglas), and Robin (Laurence Rickard), to do something they’re not exactly known for: work together and solve the problem themselves.

🎥 “Steps” Teaser: Ali Wong Turns Cinderella’s Fairy Tale Upside Down in Netflix’s Animated Comedy With Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Radcliffe, Stephanie Hsu and Bette Midler — Streams on Netflix November 20th

If you’re going to tell the Cinderella story for the millionth time, you might as well hand it over to comedian Ali Wong and let her flip the script. That’s pretty much the idea behind Netflix’s new animated comedy, which gives the classic fairy tale a fun little twist by telling it from the perspective of Lilith (Wong), one of Cinderella’s supposedly “evil” stepsisters. And Lilith is pretty damn tired of living in Cinderella’s shadow. So she decides to do something about it. She steals the Fairy Godmother’s magic wand, grabs her sister Margot (Stephanie Hsu), and crashes the Royal Ball. Because, hey, who’s to say Cinderella was all that innocent in the first place?

🎥 “Minotaur” Trailer: Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev Returns With a Dark Tale of Marriage, Complicity and Putin’s Russia — In Theaters November 20th

Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has made a career out of thought-provoking films, including the Oscar-nominated Leviathan and Loveless, that often criticize Russia’s political system through layered stories about ordinary people caught within it. He returns after a nearly decade-long break with a new film, using the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the backdrop for another deeply personal story about power, complicity, denial, and moral responsibility. The story follows Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov), a successful company director whose carefully organized life begins to collapse from all sides. As mounting pressures at work force him to confront his own relationship to Russia’s war efforts, his life at home begins to unravel when he suspects his wife, Galina (Iris Lebedeva), is having an affair. The question here is how long a man can turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truths around him before he’s forced to confront his own role in them.

🎥 “Littermates” Trailer: Two Survivors Wake Up Without Their Memories and Find Themselves at the Mercy of a Very Strange Caretaker in Scott Tinkham & Michael Woloson’s Post-Apocalyptic Dark Comedy Starring Joey Bader, Kaylee McGregor and Oliver Woolf — Opening Exclusively at Alamo Drafthouse November 6th

You survived a mysterious war that brought on the total collapse of society as you knew it. But here’s the thing: you have no memory of what happened, and you can’t even talk. You wake up in a strange estate, where a man you’ve never met is suddenly taking care of you, teaching you how to speak, feeding you, and even rewarding your good behavior with little tokens called “nifties.” Sounds bizarre, right? But does it also sound like a movie you’d want to watch? From indie filmmakers Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson, and starring Joey Bader, Kaylee McGregor, and Oliver Woolf, this dystopian dark comedy takes that very strange setup and runs with it. Because eventually, you’re probably going to start wondering whether this guy is actually protecting you from whatever is out there... or if there’s a reason he really doesn’t want you to leave.

🎥 “Concessions” Trailer: Experience One Last Night at the Movies in Mas Bouzidi’s Indie Comedy-Drama Set at a Neighborhood Movie Theater, Starring Steven Ogg, Josh Hamilton, Ivory Aquino and Michael Madsen — In Limited Theaters September 22nd, Followed by VOD on October 27th

There’s nothing sadder for a moviegoing audience than seeing one of their local cinemas forced to close its doors. But why cry about it when you can have a little fun? That’s the idea behind this new indie comedy-drama from first-time feature filmmaker Mas Bouzidi, which spends one last night inside the Royal Alamo Cinema before the lights go out for good. Starring Steven Ogg, Josh Hamilton, and Ivory Aquino, and featuring one of the final onscreen performances from the late Michael Madsen, this hangout throwback revolves around the theater’s jaded employees, eccentric regulars, movie-obsessed oddballs, and increasingly desperate owner as they deal with busted dreams, bad popcorn, and the reality that their favorite little corner of the moviegoing world is about to disappear.

🎥 “Bad Day at the Office” Trailer: John Hannah Wakes Up With No Memory, a Dead Body in His Bathtub and Half the City Trying to Kill Him in This Wild First-Person Action Thriller — Coming Soon

We’ve all had bad mornings. But waking up in a trashed hotel room with no memory of who you are and a dead body waiting for you in the bathtub? Yeah, that probably qualifies as a particularly crappy one. That’s how John Hannah starts his day in this new action thriller, playing a guy who wakes up with absolutely no clue who he is, how he got there, or why there’s a corpse in his bathroom. And before he can figure any of that out, the cops show up and things go from bad to considerably worse. Soon, he and a hotel maid (Radha Mitchell) are running for their lives as seemingly half the city comes after them. Oh, and one more thing: the entire film is shot in first person, putting us right in the middle of every punch, chase, and explosion. Directed by Chee Keong Cheung, this basically looks like a first-person shooter brought to life, with a little Crank and Hardcore Henry thrown in for good measure.

🎥 “Orfeo” Trailer: An Ancient Greek Love Story Becomes a Wonderfully Strange Handmade Journey Into the Underworld in Virgilio Villoresi’s Visually Wild Fantasy — Coming Soon

The story of Orpheus traveling into the Underworld to bring back the woman he loves has been around for a few thousand years. So how the hell do you make it feel new again? Apparently, you build the Underworld yourself. That’s what Italian filmmaker Virgilio Villoresi has done with his visually wild feature debut, inspired by Dino Buzzati’s 1969 graphic novel Poema a fumetti. Luca Vergoni stars as Orfeo, a solitary pianist who follows the mysterious Eura (Giulia Maenza) through a strange doorway and into a surreal afterlife filled with ghosts, demons, skeletons, and wonderfully bizarre creatures. Shot on 16mm and created with handcrafted sets, miniatures, stop-motion, and optical illusions, the whole thing looks less like a conventional fantasy movie and more like some wonderfully strange dream captured on film.

🎥 “The Lost Ones” Trailer: Henry Golding & Laura Haddock Move Their Family Deep Into the Woods, Only to Discover Their Creepy New Neighbor (Alex Pettyfer) May Be the Least of Their Problems — On VOD/Digital October 27th

Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding and Ted Lasso’s Laura Haddock star as a couple who move their family into a home deep in the woods, only to discover their new neighbor (Magic Mike’s Alex Pettyfer) isn’t exactly the friendly type. Directed by Andrew Baird and co-starring Saise Quinn and Maddie Evans, the film asks a pretty simple question: What happens when the creepy guy next door you invited over for dinner might be the first sign that moving your family out into the middle of nowhere was a very bad idea?

🎥 “Black Sheeps” International Trailer: 20 Years Later, New Zealand’s Killer Sheep Are Back! And They’re Meaner and Hungrier Than Ever in Jonathan King’s Long-Awaited Horror-Comedy Sequel — In New Zealand Theaters November 12th

Back in 2006, New Zealand filmmaker Jonathan King came up with a pretty fun twist on the zombie genre: zombie sheep! After all, New Zealand is known for its sheep... and its darkly comic horror films. Seems like a perfect marriage. Apparently, King also knows how to stretch a good joke, because 20 years later, he’s back with the long-awaited sequel. And, yes, those killer sheep are back too. And they’re meaner and hungrier than ever. This time around, a dangerous pathogen sends a young scientist (Renaye Tamati) back to a rural New Zealand town and into an isolated area known as the Zone, where some very nasty creatures are waiting for her. So, yeah, apparently New Zealand still hasn’t figured out how to solve its killer sheep problem.

🎥 “Imminence: Axis Mundi” Trailer: Swedish Metalcore Band Imminence Turns Their Music Into One Hell of a Dark Fantasy Adventure About an Immortal Knight Looking for a Way to Die — In Theaters September 29th

Heavy metal and dark fantasy have always made pretty good bedfellows. So Swedish metalcore band Imminence figured, why stop at making a few cool music videos when you can make an entire damn movie? And that’s exactly what they’ve done with this feature-length companion to the band’s new album, taking the mythology they’ve been building through their music videos and turning it into one big dark fantasy adventure. Directed by Pavel Trebukhin, the film follows an immortal knight cursed to wander through a fractured world of memory and myth, searching for the one thing he can’t seem to have: an ending. Hmm... sounds spooky. And very, very metal.

🎥 “The Storm” Trailer: Gustaf Skarsgård’s 45th Birthday Goes to Hell When a Storm Traps Him Inside With His Closest Friends in This Swedish Dark Comedy — Streams October 15th on Netflix

Nothing ruins a nice birthday dinner quite like a massive storm, a power outage, too much alcohol, and 20 years of resentment everybody has politely agreed not to talk about. This new Swedish dark comedy stars Gustaf Skarsgård as Filip, who invites his closest friends to his newly purchased farm in northern Sweden to celebrate his 45th birthday. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has other plans. A violent storm rolls in, trapping everyone inside with nowhere to go. And as the booze keeps flowing and the night drags on, all those carefully maintained friendships start falling apart as old grudges and a whole lot of uncomfortable feelings finally come spilling out. So, yeah, maybe the best way to keep your friends is to never invite them over during a storm.

🎥 “As Far Back As I Can Remember... The Story of Goodfellas” Trailer: Go Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Mob Masterpiece in This New Making-Of Documentary Filled With Stories From the Cast, Crew and People Who Were There — Coming Soon

If you ever wanted to know everything there was to know about Martin Scorsese’s mob epic Goodfellas... well, get ready to be very happy. Considered one of Scorsese’s greatest masterpieces (or depending on who you ask, maybe the best film of his career), this new making-of documentary from filmmakers Lisa Downs and Ashley Pugh heads back into the world of Henry Hill to explore how the 1990 classic came together, the real-life stories behind it, and why we’re still talking about it all these years later. Along for the ride are Lorraine Bracco, Nicholas Pileggi, Irwin Winkler, Samuel L. Jackson, Debi Mazar, Illeana Douglas, Christopher Serrone, and plenty of others from in front of and behind the camera, along with archival interviews featuring Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro. So get ready to relive those days when being a gangster looked pretty damn good... until it didn’t.

🎥 “Miller Night Football” Trailer: Remember When ‘Monday Night Football’ Put Dennis Miller in the Booth? HBO & NFL’s New Documentary Looks Back at One of Sports Broadcasting’s Strangest Experiments — Streams on HBO Max September 29th

In one of the weirdest moves in sports broadcasting history, former SNL comedian Dennis Miller was added to Monday Night Football back in 2000. The idea was to shake things up and see what would happen when you dropped a deeply cerebral, reference-heavy stand-up comic into the booth alongside veteran announcer Al Michaels and former NFL quarterback Dan Fouts. The result was... let’s just say, interesting. Divisive? Absolutely. But Miller quickly became weekly fodder for sports fans and critics, sparking debates over his bizarre references, rapid-fire jokes, and whether a comedian had any business calling football in the first place. In a weird way, he may have also helped loosen up what a sports broadcast could sound like, opening the door to a more relaxed, conversational style. This new HBO documentary looks back at Miller’s strange two-season experiment through new interviews with Miller, Michaels, Fouts, Melissa Stark, Dana Carvey, and members of the ABC Sports team.

🎥 “Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry” Trailer: New IMAX Documentary Examines the Art Form and Skill Behind the NBA Superstar’s Three-Point Shot as He Closes In on 4,000 — In IMAX Theaters October 9th

Ever wonder how NBA superstar Stephen Curry developed that almost effortless three-point shot? Considered one of the greatest three-point shooters of all time, Curry has spent years turning one of basketball’s most difficult skills into something that looks almost like an art form. Sure, the answer could be as simple as “practice makes perfect.” But for Curry, it wasn’t just practice. It was immense talent mixed with an unyielding obsession to get better. As Curry closes in on his record-breaking 4,000th career three-pointer, this documentary follows his preparation, mindset, and the countless repetitions behind the shot that changed basketball. To put audiences as close to that historic moment as possible, director Gotham Chopra had 21 IMAX cameras positioned throughout the arena to capture Curry’s milestone game. And with an image that big, maybe we’ll finally see what Curry sees every time he lets one fly.

🎥 “Rehearsals for a Revolution” Trailer: Iranian Filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani’s Cannes-Winning Documentary Uses Her Own Family History to Explore More Than 40 Years of Political Upheaval and Resistance in Iran — In Select Theaters January 8th

This Cannes-winning documentary looks back at more than four decades of Iranian history, through years of political upheaval, religious repression, government tyranny, and a population that continues to push back. Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani makes that history deeply personal, using stories from her own family to show how these events shaped the lives of ordinary people, including those closest to her. Beginning with the 1979 revolution and moving through the turbulent decades that followed, Ahangarani traces what happened as the government tightened its grip and generations of Iranians continued to resist.

🎥 “Stormbound” Trailer: New IMAX Documentary Follows Storm Chaser Jeff Gammons as He Runs Toward the Hurricanes the Rest of Us Would Run From — Coming to Select IMAX Theaters on October 7th

There’s nothing quite like nature and the power it can unleash. But for some, getting as close to that power as possible isn’t just a goal... it’s a lifelong obsession. Storm chaser Jeff Gammons is one of those people, having spent more than three decades chasing hurricanes and getting dangerously close to some of the most violent weather Mother Nature can throw at him. And through it all, his wife Sara has been there to watch (and worry) as the man she loves willingly puts himself in the path of storms most of us would be running away from. Filmed for IMAX, director Miko Lim gives audiences a front-row seat to Gammons’ lifelong obsession, capturing the sheer scale and terrifying power of real hurricanes on a screen practically made for this kind of spectacle.

🎥 “V for Vendetta: 20th Anniversary” Trailer: Remember, Remember the Fifth of November as Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman Return to the Big Screen for Two Nights Only — In Theaters November 1st & 5th via Fathom Ent.

“Remember, remember the fifth of November.” Well, Warner Bros. certainly does, because 20 years after this cult film adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s classic graphic novel first hit theaters, V is heading back to the big screen just in time for Guy Fawkes Night. And honestly, it’s hard to believe it’s already been two decades since Hugo Weaving first slipped behind that now-iconic Guy Fawkes mask and Natalie Portman shaved her head as Evey Hammond. But here we are, 20 years later. And between you and me, the ideas and themes behind the film and comic seem to resonate even more today than they did back then. So the timing feels pretty damn appropriate for it to return to theaters for two nights only, giving fans another chance to experience V’s revolution on the big screen.

🎥 “The Last Boy Scout: 35th Anniversary” Trailer: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, and Tony Scott’s Cult 1991 Detective Action Flick Comes to 4K for the First Time — Arriving on 4K and Blu-ray November 24th via Arrow Video

To be honest, when this Tony Scott-directed action-crime flick starring Bruce Willis as a burned-out P.I. who teams up with Damon Wayans’ washed-up football star was first released in theaters 35 years ago, it was considered a bona fide misfire. And for years, it remained one of the director’s less popular films. But something happened within the last 10 years or so. Stories about its difficult production became podcast fodder, and slowly but surely, the movie found a new audience. The problems involving Scott, Willis, and producer Joel Silver became part of its history, while Shane Black’s pitch-black humor and relentlessly cynical attitude suddenly felt more like features than liabilities. Now the 1991 action flick, with its pretty out-there plot involving conspiracy, murder, and football gambling, is finally getting the 4K treatment courtesy of Arrow Video. Just another reminder that some films can find an audience with enough time and enough people willing to give them another look.

🎥 “Raise the Red Lantern” 35th Anniversary Trailer: Zhang Yimou and Gong Li’s Visually Stunning Classic Returns to the Big Screen in a Newly Restored 4K Presentation — Back In Theaters November 6th

Some movies don’t need to be remade. They just need to be put back on the big screen where they belong. More than three decades ago, filmmaker Zhang Yimou and actress Gong Li captured the world’s attention with their 1991 visually stunning period drama that turned a walled estate, an elaborate nightly ritual, and the simple lighting of a red lantern into a powerful story about control, jealousy, and repression. The film became part of a wave of Chinese cinema that found a much larger international audience during the early ’90s, while helping establish Zhang and Gong Li as two of its most recognizable talents. Now, 35 years later, the Oscar-nominated epic is returning to theaters in a newly restored 4K presentation, giving audiences another chance (or maybe their first) to experience it the way it deserves to be seen: on the big screen.

🎥 “Hook: 35th Anniversary” Promo: Robin Williams Returns to Neverland in Steven Spielberg’s Cult Peter Pan Fantasy — Coming to 4K SteelBook November 17th

Time to relive those warm childhood memories again. For its 35th anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s cult Peter Pan fantasy film is returning to 4K with a new SteelBook release and an hour-long documentary featuring never-before-seen footage from the making of the film. In the 1991 film, Robin Williams stars as Peter Banning, a grown-up Peter Pan who has long forgotten his adventures in Neverland and settled into domestic life as a parent and loving husband. But when Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children, Peter must return to Neverland and somehow remember how to become Peter Pan again. Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, and Dante Basco round out the cast. Thirty-five years later, despite its initial critical drubbing, the film has remained a childhood favorite for an entire generation. And this time, it just might make all of us believe in Neverland all over again.

🎥 “Forbidden Planet: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Leslie Nielsen Heads to Altair IV With Robby the Robot in One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Adventures Ever Made — Arriving on 4K September 29th via Arrow Video

Before Star Trek boldly went anywhere, and long before Star Wars took us to a galaxy far, far away, Hollywood had already sent Leslie Nielsen and a spaceship full of explorers to... a Forbidden Planet. This classic 1956 sci-fi adventure helped lay the groundwork for a whole generation of space movies and TV shows that followed. It took audiences to the distant world of Altair IV, where Nielsen and his crew encounter a mysterious scientist (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the unforgettable Robby the Robot, and something very big and very invisible that really wants them gone. Now, nearly 70 years later, this groundbreaking sci-fi classic is getting a brand-new 4K restoration, giving us another chance to see just how ambitious, imaginative, and wonderfully strange ’50s science fiction could be.

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📺 “The Terminal List: Season 2” Trailer: Chris Pratt Returns as Ex-Navy SEAL James Reece for Another Dangerous Mission That Sends Him Straight Back Into Hell in Amazon’s Action-Thriller Series With Constance Wu, Gabriel Luna, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper — Premiering Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video

Chris Pratt proved he was a capable leading man in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, relying on his comedic timing and charismatic chops to turn Star-Lord into one of Marvel’s most popular heroes. But with his Amazon action series The Terminal List, which is coming back with its second season next month, Pratt isn’t leaning into his humor or goofball charm. Instead, he’s showing off his darker, more dramatic side. It’s a more somber and hardened Chris Pratt than we’re used to seeing.

Here, he plays James Reece, a former Navy SEAL who has been deployed on some of the most dangerous missions imaginable, forced to face a number of deadly threats on the battlefield. The first season saw Reece returning home as a battle-scarred veteran struggling with PTSD and looking for answers after his entire Navy SEAL platoon was killed during a mission. Unable to decipher what is real and what is part of his fractured state of mind, he seeks out answers, leading him on a collision course with the people responsible for destroying his team.

Still very haunted by those missions, Season 2 has Reece once again finding himself pulled back into action as he’s recruited for another dangerous and secret military operation. War is certainly hell, and he seems to have seen his fair share of it. But Reece might have just volunteered himself for another trip back to Hell. Because the Hell he knows might be easier than the Hell waiting for him back home.

Joining this new season are Gabriel Luna, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper, while Constance Wu returns as investigative reporter Katie Buranek, whose latest assignment once again becomes tied to Reece’s mission. Rounding out the cast are Arnold Vosloo, Yul Vazquez, Olga Kurylenko, and Martin Sensmeier. This new season is based on True Believer, Jack Carr’s second book in his Terminal List novel series.

The Terminal List: Season 2 is slated to premiere Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video.

📺 “The Diplomat: Season 4” Trailer: Keri Russell Takes on Allison Janney and Rufus Sewell as a Dangerous White House Conspiracy Threatens to Push the United States Toward War — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

The thing about collateral damage is that it offers a convenient shield for those in power to justify the consequences of their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to set up clear red lines you refuse to cross, no matter what others might be willing to rationalize. If they’re not established, those goalposts can move in any direction the people in power want them to. And it gives them carte blanche to justify almost anything they choose to do.

And that seems to be at the very core of Season 4 of Netflix’s Emmy-winning political thriller series The Diplomat, which imagines the people at the very top of the U.S. government drawing up plans that could push the country into uncharted waters, where the only move is to betray the people’s trust.

Keri Russell returns once again as Ambassador Kate Wyler, who realizes that her boss, President Grace Penn (Emmy winner Allison Janney), might be willing to cross some very dangerous red lines to cover her own ass in a plot that could push the United States straight toward war. Civilian deaths be damned. Worse yet, Kate’s own husband, Vice President Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), seems not only to be a willing co-conspirator but might also be encouraging the President to take things even further.

With the balance of power left unchecked, Kate has no other choice but to team up with the president’s husband, Todd Penn (Bradley Whitford), in an effort to stop their spouses and bring a sense of accountability back to the White House. Which seems to be something every administration could use a little more of.

Also returning are Ato Essandoh as Stuart Hayford, Ali Ahn as CIA agent Eidra Park, and Nana Mensah as former White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah, along with Rory Kinnear as UK Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge, whose temperament is so easily triggered that diplomacy with him can sometimes feel like its own international crisis.

Created by showrunner Debora Cahn, The Diplomat: Season 4 aims to turn the U.S. presidency into its own political powder keg, where the biggest threat might be coming from inside the house... the White House, that is.

The series is set to return Thursday, October 15th on Netflix.

📺 “War” Trailer: Dominic West and Sienna Miller Turn a High-Profile Divorce Into an All-Out Legal Battle Where Money, Reputation, and Winning Are Everything — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on HBO Max

Who wouldn’t want to be married to a beautiful actress or a wealthy tycoon? We can’t see any arguments against it, unless, of course, that marriage ultimately ends in a bitter public divorce and all your dirty laundry gets dragged out for everyone to see.

WAR is a new legal drama series starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a world-famous power couple whose sudden split causes the sharks to start circling.

West’s Morgan Henderson is a powerful mogul for whom money is no object, especially when it comes to getting exactly what he wants. Miller’s Carla Duval is a famous Hollywood actress whose fame has afforded her a life of influence and privilege. While there might be a financial imbalance between the two, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s one in the court of public opinion.

Divorces, like it or not, are wars, even if those splitting up don’t recognize it yet. And if divorces are wars, then the lawyers are the weapons. And in some cases, they’re the generals calling all the shots as their clients sit idly by and watch their reputations get dragged through the mud.

Created and written by prolific British TV writer-producer George Kay (Lupin, Hijack, Criminal), the series goes behind the scenes of a high-profile divorce, where high-priced lawyers can be just as ruthless as the wealthy clients they represent. In this case, it’s two of London’s most prestigious rival law firms going head-to-head, with neither side willing to give an inch.

Also starring Nick Mohammed, Archie Renaux, Phoebe Fox, Celia Imrie, and Emma Laird, WAR has already been set up as an anthology series, with a greenlit second season in the works featuring an entirely new cast, slated for next year.

This first season, however, is set to debut Thursday, October 1st on HBO Max in the U.S. and on Sky in the UK.

📺 “Lanterns” Midseason Trailer: John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) Dig Deeper Into Their Nebraska Mystery as Their Partnership Fractures to the Point of No Return — Final Episodes Sundays on HBO Max

Despite all the chatter online, this DC series has become one of the biggest new shows on HBO Max this year. Now there are only three episodes left, set to show audiences just how deep John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) are willing to go to uncover the truth behind their strange investigation in Nebraska. But also how their partnership has evolved since John brutally punched out Hal, leaving both of them in a precarious position with the Green Lantern Corps. What started as a seemingly isolated murder spree has grown into something far bigger, pulling John and Hal deeper into a mystery involving extraterrestrial forces, and their own complicated histories. These final episodes seem to be setting the stage for John Stewart’s transformation from a rookie still learning what it means to wear the ring into the Green Lantern he was always meant to become.

📺 “Coven Academy” Trailer: Malina Pauli Weissman Stars in Freeform’s New Teen Supernatural Series About a Magic School Caught in an Ancient War with Tiffani Thiessen and Devon Sawa — Premieres Thursday, October 1st on Freeform and Streaming Next Day on Disney+ / Hulu

School is so damn boring, right? But what if it came with magic, witches, warlocks, vampires, and enough supernatural mischief to make homework seem a little more exciting? Welcome to Coven Academy, where students aren’t just learning their ABCs... they’re learning to cast spells, control their powers, and hopefully survive long enough to graduate. Malina Pauli Weissman stars as Briar, a fiercely independent teenager who discovers she’s a witch and suddenly finds herself attending an elite magic academy. Surrounded by kids with powers they barely understand, Briar has plenty to learn about this very strange new world. But when ancient forces begin threatening New Orleans, the school becomes the epicenter of a supernatural war that could put the entire student body (and the city) in danger. With Tiffani Thiessen as the formidable Miss Graves and Devon Sawa as charismatic warlock professor Mr. Cole along with Jordan Leftwich and Ora Duplass as fellow students, getting an education here could literally become a matter of life and death.

📺 “I Would Rather Die” Trailer: High School, Teenage Hormones, and a Taste for Human Flesh Collide in Amazon’s New Mexican Zombie Comedy Series Starring Diego Bernal — Premieres Friday, October 2nd on Prime Video

Growing up as a teenager is hard enough with raging hormones and typical high school drama. But add an insatiable taste for human flesh on top of it, and you’ve got a whole new set of growing pains. In this new Spanish-language zombie comedy series, Diego Bernal stars as Archie, a high school loser whose teenage problems go from bad to worse after a zombie bite leaves him somewhere between the living and the undead. As he tries to come to terms with his new condition, Archie discovers that being a teenage zombie might be both a curse and a blessing. That is, if he can find something to satisfy his, shall we say, peculiar appetite before he starts looking at his friends and fellow classmates as lunch.

📺 “Haunted Hotel: Season 2” Trailer: Eliza Coupe and Jimmi Simpson Return for More Supernatural Mayhem in Netflix’s Irreverent Animated Series — Streams Friday, October 9th on Netflix

The hardest part of running this haunted hotel isn’t exactly keeping the guests happy with the service, it’s making sure they leave in one piece, and not in pieces. In this brand-new season of the irreverent animated comedy, Eliza Coupe is back to voice Katherine Freeling, the single mom trying to keep her family together while running a hotel overrun with ghosts, demons, entities, and other supernatural monsters. As difficult as it might be to wrangle the undead and provide quality service, Katherine has her hands full keeping both the hotel and her increasingly dysfunctional family under control. With a snarky demonic boy named Abaddon (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) running around and keeping things interesting, Katherine and company will have to find a way to keep the Undervale open for business... and everyone inside alive. Also featuring the voices of Will Forte, Skyler Gisondo, and Natalie Palamides, the hospitality business has never looked so frighteningly dysfunctional.

📺 “Helluva Boss: Season 3 (Part 1)” Trailer: Blitzø and His Dysfunctional Crew Return for More Murder, Music and Messy Relationships in Hell — Streams Wednesday, October 14th on Prime Video

You’ve never seen Hell quite like this. And wouldn’t it be nice to imagine a Hell with plenty of songs and a little laughter to go along with all the demonic mayhem? Set within the Hazbin Hotel universe, this new season of the spinoff follows Blitzø (voiced by Brandon Rogers) and his dysfunctional crew of assassins as they take on murder-for-hire jobs while dealing with their own increasingly messy lives in Hell. Between demonic violence, relationship problems, and plenty of musical havoc, killing people for money might actually be the easiest part of their jobs. But nothing a little singing can’t help make more entertaining.

📺 “Scrubs: Season 2” Trailer: Zach Braff Is Back as J.D. as Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) Becomes His Newest Patient at Sacred Heart in the New Season of ABC’s Revival Comedy with Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke — Premieres Wednesday, September 30th on ABC and Streams on Hulu / Disney +

Zach Braff is back once again as Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian in the second season of this revival comedy, where Sacred Heart isn’t just a hospital... it’s a place where the doctors need just as much help as their patients. J.D. not only finds himself running the hospital after spending years learning the ropes, but now he’s responsible for teaching a new generation of doctors. But the thing about becoming a doctor isn’t why you practice medicine, but who you practice medicine on. This season, J.D. will face his toughest patient yet. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley) will roll in as J.D.’s newest patient, forcing him to care for the very doctor who shaped his medical career. The problem, though, is that J.D. isn’t sure how to cure him; and donating one of his kidneys isn’t exactly an option. With the help of now-chief physicians Turk (Donald Faison) and Reid (Sarah Chalke), this longtime trio will once again have to figure things out together and prove once and for all to Dr. Cox that maybe he taught them something after all.

📺 “Super Scam Me” Trailer: Journalist Mariana van Zeller Goes Undercover to Deliberately Fall for a Romance Scam in National Geographic’s New Documentary Special — Premieres Saturday, October 17th on National Geographic, Streaming on Disney+ / Hulu

To do a story on the recent surge of scammers who target vulnerable middle-aged women and seduce them into forking over their life savings, award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller will not only report on the world of romance scams; she’ll deliberately try to get herself scammed by an online con artist. How, you ask? By disguising herself and posing as an ordinary middle-aged woman looking for romance on a dating app. To her amazement and shock, a potential scammer takes the bait. As she reports on every little detail of the scam, she gets into the psychology of what it’s like to fall for someone who never really cared about you... only your money, preferably transferred through crypto. In this National Geographic documentary special, Van Zeller starts her quest with a lighthearted tone but soon discovers that romance scams are no laughing matter. In some cases, they can even become a matter of life and death.

📺 “TYSON” Trailer: Mike Tyson Confronts the Fame, Controversies, and Self-Destruction That Defined His Life and Boxing Career in This Four-Part Doc — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

Mike Tyson has been one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in boxing history. Now, at 60, he’s looking back on a life defined by incredible highs, devastating lows, and controversies that followed him far beyond the ring. Once considered a generational talent who dominated boxing like few before him, Tyson also endured addiction, incarceration, financial problems, and struggles that nearly destroyed everything he had built. In this four-part Netflix documentary series, Tyson reflects on his difficult childhood, meteoric rise to heavyweight champion, and the infamous Evander Holyfield fight, while confronting the darker parts of his past. Told largely in Tyson’s own words, along with interviews with family, friends, and others who knew him throughout his career, the docuseries finds a larger-than-life figure looking back at the wreckage and trying to make sense of the person he once was.

📺 “CIA: Season 2” Trailer: Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss Return as Two Agents With Very Different Ways of Getting the Job Done — Returns Monday, October 5th on CBS and Streams Next Day on Paramount+

There are many ways to solve a case. These two just happen to use vastly different methods that always seem to put them at odds with each other. Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss return as CIA agent Colin Glass and FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman, two men tasked with keeping America safe despite rarely agreeing on how to do it. Glass lives in the shadows and plays by his own rules, while Goodman works by the book and expects those rules to actually mean something. But somehow, despite their differences, they always seem to get the job done. Season 2 finds Bill being pulled even deeper into Colin’s shadowy world of international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets, where knowing who to trust can be just as important as knowing who the enemy is. Co-starring Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez, this series is one of many in Dick Wolf’s ever-expanding FBI universe, where the most addictive part isn’t always solving the case... it’s watching how they get there.

📺 “Boston Blue: Season 2” Trailer: Donnie Wahlberg Partners Up with Sonequa Martin-Green in CBS’ Old-School Cop Drama with Gloria Reuben and Ernie Hudson — Returns Friday, October 9th on CBS, Streams Next Day on Paramount+

Classic television usually means a couple of things: comfort viewing, familiar characters, and traditional stories. And cop shows have always checked those boxes to a tee. CBS, a network that has long been home to plenty of them, returns with the latest season of the Blue Bloods spinoff, starring Donnie Wahlberg as former New York detective Danny Reagan, who trades the Big Apple for Beantown. He’s joined by Sonequa Martin-Green as Detective Lena Silver, and together they set out to protect Boston from the riffraff and dangerous criminals roaming its streets. Usually, that means a lot of running, a lot of talking to witnesses, and a lot of breaking down doors to catch the bad guys. With Gloria Reuben and Ernie Hudson rounding out the cast, this is old-school network cop television through and through, where the officers work around the clock to keep the city safe and their families even closer.

📺 “NCIS: New York” Trailer: LL Cool J Brings Agent Sam Hanna Back Home with Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals in CBS’ New NCIS Spinoff — Premieres Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

Sure, rapper-actor LL Cool J may have established his beloved NCIS character, Special Agent Sam Hanna, over fourteen seasons of NCIS: Los Angeles. But let’s face it: LL Cool J was meant to be back in New York. In this new NCIS spinoff series, Special Agent Sam Hanna returns to his hometown, where he helps lead a new unit tasked with protecting one of the world’s busiest cities and ports. He is joined by roguish Special Agent Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan), whose less conventional approach to the job isn’t exactly Sam’s style. But something tells us this oil-and-water relationship will come together when the time comes. Jennifer Beals rounds out the ensemble as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robyn Wells, a hard-charging, no-nonsense leader who keeps the new team in line. So don’t call it a comeback, because LL Cool J has been here for years... and as long as the NCIS franchise keeps going, something tells us he’s not going anywhere.

📺 “9-1-1: Nashville: Season 2” Promo: Chris O’Donnell Returns as Ryan Phillippe Joins the Team for More Life-or-Death Emergencies in Music City — Returns Thursday, October 15th on ABC and Streaming Next Day on Hulu

Whenever there’s an emergency, you’re gonna make that call. And thank goodness there’s someone on the other end to pick it up. And in Nashville, that person is none other than Chris O’Donnell, who returns as fire captain Don Hart in this second season of the 9-1-1 spinoff series. This time, he’s joined by Ryan Phillippe as Detective Rogue, a former New York homicide detective who moves to Nashville hoping for a quieter life, only to find himself pulled into Hart’s life-or-death world at the 113. Between increasingly bizarre emergencies, dangerous new crimes, and plenty of family drama, Don Hart and his crew will once again discover that life in Music City is anything but quiet.

📺 “Lupin: Part 4” Trailer: Omar Sy Faces a Copycat Who Knows All His Tricks in Netflix’s Hit French Action-Caper Series — Premieres Friday, October 23rd on Netflix

He’s a master of disguise who has pulled off some of the wildest capers imaginable. But after four years behind bars, this gentleman thief leaves prison with only one thing on his mind: starting a new life with his family. A reasonable request. Until he discovers someone’s out to get him... someone who just might be as clever as he is: a bonafide copycat looking to frame him for crimes he didn’t commit. In this fourth season of the hit French action-caper series, Omar Sy returns as master trickster Assane Diop, aka Lupin. Now he’s facing an opponent who just might be his mirror image. And to clear his name, Lupin will have to outwit the one person who knows all his tricks.

📺 “Private Eyes West Coast” Trailer: Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson Trade a Quiet Family Life for Murder and Mystery in New Canadian P.I. Series — Premieres Monday, October 5th on The CW

As a young private-eye couple, these two loved the thrills and dangers that came with the job. But now, married with children, Matt Shade and Angie Everett are ready to leave the P.I. business behind and settle into a quieter life on Canada’s West Coast. That, of course, is if they can muster enough energy to stay out of trouble. TV vet Jason Priestley stars opposite Cindy Sampson in this Canadian crime-comedy import about two former private investigators who discover that leaving the business behind is a lot easier said than done. When a night out lands them at the scene of a murder, Shade and Angie find themselves drawn back into the world of private investigation and eventually opening a new P.I. firm. Yet with a new baby to care for, the thought of jumping into another dangerous investigation isn’t nearly as appealing as it used to be.

📺 “Sacrifice: Season 2” Trailer: Paula Patton Fights to Rebuild Her Family’s Music Empire in This New Season of the Legal Thriller — Streams Wednesday, September 30th on Paramount+

Paula Patton returns as Daniella Hernandez, the high-powered entertainment attorney who now finds herself fighting to save her family’s music empire and protect its legacy. In this new season of the legal thriller, Daniella isn’t a woman you want to underestimate, especially when her family business is on the line. But when a devastating nightclub fire threatens Blackgammon Records, she finds herself fighting to rebuild the music company not just for herself, but for a family that may not always agree on what’s worth fighting for.

📺 “YAGA” First Look Clip: Noah Reid Investigates a Missing Heir in AMC+’s Darkly Comic ‘Baba Yaga’ Mystery with Clark Backo — Debuts Friday, October 23rd on AMC+

Here’s the thing about a missing person: the case ain’t done until you find them... alive or dead. AMC’s new Canadian import, a darkly comic detective series, stars Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid as private investigator Charlie Rapp, who arrives in the small coastal town of Whittock looking for Henry Park (Hudson Williams), the missing heir to a powerful local fishery. After meeting one of the local authorities (Clark Backo), who isn’t exactly thrilled to have an outsider poking around her town, Charlie’s investigation leads him to Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), a seductive and enigmatic university professor with a taste for younger men... and perhaps a little black magic. This series turns the folkloric Baba Yaga legend of a mysterious, children-eating witch into a contemporary crime mystery of murder, secrets, and magic.

📺 “Hollywood Arts” Trailer: Daniella Monet Returns as Trina Vega to Guide a New Generation of Hollywood Hopefuls in Netflix’s Victorious Spinoff — Premieres Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

Daniella Monet reprises her role as Trina Vega from the 2010 Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious. Now a struggling actress, Trina returns to her old stomping grounds at Hollywood Arts, only this time she’s on the other side of the classroom. She takes on the task of molding young talent into the next generation of stars; even if it means putting her students first before her own Hollywood aspirations. Also starring Alyssa Miles, Emmy Liu-Wang, Peyton Jackson, Erika Swayze, and Martin Kamm as the new generation of Hollywood Arts students, alongside Yvette Nicole Brown as Principal Helen, this Jake Farrow and Samantha Martin-created Netflix sitcom adds a little nostalgia to a whole new class of Hollywood hopefuls.

📺 “Maigret: Season 2” Trailer: Benjamin Wainwright Is Back as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret in this British Procedural Series as Two Brutal Murders Grip Paris — Premieres Sunday, October 18th on MASTERPIECE on PBS in the US

Two brutal murders set the stage for this new season of the British detective series, starring Benjamin Wainwright as unconventional Chief Inspector Jules Maigret. When a pair of grisly crimes grips Paris, Maigret finds himself fighting on two fronts: hunting down dangerous killers while defending his unorthodox methods against a department eager to take him down a peg. Also starring Stefanie Martini as Maigret’s wife, Louise, alongside Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, and Shaniqua Okwok as members of his investigative team, this contemporary procedural brings back some old-school detective work, where understanding the person behind the crime can be just as vital as the evidence itself.

📺 “The Remarried Empress” Trailer: Romance, Betrayal, and Royal Rivalries Collide in Hulu’s Epic New Korean Fantasy Series Starring Shin Min-a and Lee Jong-suk — Debuts Wednesday, November 4th on Hulu / Disney+

This new Korean series turns the idea of romance into a thrilling epic filled with castles, empires, sword-swinging suitors, and enough roses to make the people behind the Rose Parade jealous. Based on the popular NAVER WEBTOON by Alphatart, this high-fantasy romance follows Empress Navier (Shin Min-a), whose seemingly perfect royal life comes crashing down when her husband, Emperor Sovieshu (Ju Ji-hoon), falls in love with another woman and asks her for a divorce. Navier agrees, only to turn the scandal into a tense rivalry when she announces her intention to marry Prince Heinrey (Lee Jong-suk) of the rival Western Kingdom. Whoever said romance doesn’t have a few twists and turns clearly never spent much time watching K-dramas.

📺 “The Trap” Trailer: Friederike Becht Hunts Her Sister’s Killer in Netflix’s German Crime Thriller Miniseries — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

What would you do to solve a murder? Better yet, what would you do if you believed you had discovered the identity of your sister’s killer? In this six-part German-language crime thriller series from creator Isabel Kleefeld, Friederike Becht stars as bestselling author Lisa Konrad, who is still grappling with the death of her sister after witnessing her brutal murder ten years earlier. It’s a homicide that has never been solved, and the case has long since gone cold. That’s until Lisa believes she has spotted the killer on TV, launching her own dangerous investigation into the man’s identity. Now on a quest for vengeance, she sets herself up as bait, hoping to lure the killer into her trap.

📺 “Kate Berlant: Parmesan” Trailer: Comic Kate Berlant Blends Stand-Up, Theatrics, and Pure Physical Comedy in Her First Stand-Up Special — Debuts Friday, October 16th on HBO and HBO Max

Comedian Kate Berlant has used her instinctive theatricality in a number of acting roles, becoming one of those performers who can stand out even in the smallest parts. But she returns to the comedy stage for what might best be described as both a stand-up special and a one-woman show, blending personal stories, stream-of-consciousness observations, and pure physical comedy. It’s an act that’s not only unpredictable but constantly plays with what you expect stand-up comedy to be. From Berlant’s destructive relationship with technology and the evolving nature of sexuality to, yes, even the moon, sometimes the joke isn’t the punchline... it’s the awkward pauses that happen while you’re waiting for one.

📺 “The Celebrity Traitors: Series 2” UK Trailer: British Celebrities Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsey, Richard E. Grant, James Blunt, and More Play a Deadly Game of Trust — Premieres Thursday, October 1st on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK

The rules are rather simple: Who can you trust? But if you can’t trust a celebrity, then who the hell can you trust? A new season of the popular British reality game show lines up a whole new roster of British celebrities, including actor Michael Sheen, singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, musician James Blunt, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, comic actress Miranda Hart, actor Richard E. Grant and The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey, among others. Hosted by British personality Claudia Winkleman, these celebrities must figure out who among them are the Faithfuls... and who are the Traitors secretly plotting their murder. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

📺 “Kill. Bury. Print.” Trailer: A Small-Town Oklahoma Newspaper Investigates Alleged Sheriff Corruption and Finds Itself in the Crosshairs in Peacock’s True-Crime Documentary Special — Streams Sunday, September 27th on Peacock

We can all agree that mainstream news has its share of valid criticisms. But when it comes to small-town reporting, it’s perhaps some of the most vital journalism we have because it covers the issues closest to our daily lives. This new Peacock true-crime documentary, produced by MSNBC journalist Rachel Maddow, tells the story of the McCurtain Gazette-News, a small family-run newspaper in rural Oklahoma that found itself in the crosshairs of local law enforcement after investigating allegations of corruption within the county sheriff’s office. Sometimes the most dangerous thing a reporter can do is keep printing the story, and for a small-town newspaper, the most important thing it can print is… the truth.

📺 “Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena” Trailer: UFOs, Alien Abductions, Telepathy, and More Take Center Stage in AMC’s New Investigative Docuseries — Debuts Thursday, October 1st on AMC+ and SundanceTV

UFO activity has never been more difficult to ignore these days. So what better time to dig into these reports and find out just how much we really know about the unexplained? In this new investigative docuseries, Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal opens the archives at Rice University’s Center for the Impossible, where more than a million documents and recordings chronicle nearly a century of unexplained phenomena, including UFO encounters, alien abductions, telepathy, near-death experiences, prophetic dreams, and messages from the dead. Combining decades of archived research with new firsthand accounts from people who say they’ve experienced the impossible, this six-part series looks for connections between the mysteries. Perhaps the question isn’t who’s visiting us, but how long they’ve been here.

📺 “Hunting Gary Glitter” Trailer: Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries Reveals How Survivors and Journalists Helped Bring Disgraced British Glam-Rocker Gary Glitter to Justice — Streams Wednesday, October 14th on Netflix

He’s one of the most controversial figures in music; perhaps one of the most notorious in music history. Gary Glitter is known for his rock anthem, the chart-topping “Rock and Roll (Parts 1 and 2),” which became a staple at sporting events for decades, until shocking revelations about the man behind the music brought his career crashing down. This three-part true-crime documentary charts the rise and fall of British glam-rock star Gary Glitter, whose fame and money helped conceal decades of child sexual abuse, eventually leading to his 1997 conviction and imprisonment.

📺 “The Swan: Behind the Mirror” Trailer: Hulu Revisits One of Reality TV’s Most Controversial Social Experiments More Than 20 Years Later — Streams Tuesday, September 29th on Hulu / Disney+

How “real” are those reality shows? And what do producers promise participants to convince them to endure a little humiliation in front of millions of viewers? This behind-the-scenes Hulu special takes a look at one of the most controversial reality shows of the early 2000s, The Swan, where everyday women underwent dramatic cosmetic surgery and physical transformations in the hopes of changing their lives. With interviews from the women who participated in the series and the producers who helped create it, the documentary looks back at what really happened when the cameras weren’t rolling and how the experience affected those involved long after the show ended.

📺 “The JLO Show: Live in Las Vegas” Teaser: Jennifer Lopez Brings Her Vegas Residency to Your Home With a Two-Hour Thanksgiving Night Spectacle — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on CBS and Streaming on Paramount+

She’s Jenny from the Block. Now the Bronx icon is leaving that block behind for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Jennifer Lopez turns her recent Vegas residency into a two-hour musical journey through the songs, stories, and influences that took her from the Bronx to becoming a global superstar. It’s J.Lo being J.Lo! So expect a lot of singing, dancing, costume changes, and plenty of stage lights pointing directly at her.

tv trailers of the week

It seems the closer we get to October, the more it feels like studios are rushing out a bunch of new releases that don’t quite fit under the umbrella of the Halloween season.

This week is especially jam-packed with new titles, both in cinemas and on the small screen. However, don’t expect many big studio tentpoles or high-profile films. Instead, this week’s lineup is filled with smaller mid-to-low-budget dramas, indies, and genre films all fighting for your attention.

Meanwhile, on the TV front, a ton of shows are returning for their second seasons this week, making the small-screen lineup much busier than usual. So there’s plenty to choose from. Scroll down, take a look, and see what makes your must-watch list this week.

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🎥 The Transformers: The Movie: 40th anniversary
(Thurs, Sept 17th thru Mon, Sept 21st — 4K re-release)

One shall stand, one shall fall... and an entire generation may still need a minute to catch their breath. The Autobots and their leader, Optimus Prime, are hit hard by a devastating Decepticon assault just as the planet-devouring Unicron embarks on a path of destruction across the galaxy, leaving Hot Rod to step up and claim the Matrix of Leadership. The late Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, and Orson Welles make up the voice cast. 40 years later, the battle is heading back to theaters in 4K. Now Autobots, roll out!

🎥 Last Train to Fortune
(Thurs, Sept 17th — limited release; in NY)

Malcolm McDowell plays Cecil Peachtree, a bookish English schoolteacher stranded on his way to a new job in the frontier town of Fortune. After outlaw Jedidiah Dooley (James Paxton) robs him, Cecil makes the gunslinger an offer: get him safely to town and take his first month’s pay. Gunfights, jailbreaks, saloons, and an unlikely friendship follow as two men with very different educations discover they might have something to teach each other.

🎥 Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
(Thurs, Sept 17th — limited release)

Salman Rushdie survived the 2022 attack that left him with life-altering injuries, but recovery meant more than simply healing. Drawing on his memoir Knife, Alex Gibney’s documentary combines Rushdie’s reflections with personal footage filmed by his wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, capturing the private work of rebuilding his life. The result looks beyond the violence itself to a writer reclaiming his voice and control of his own story.

🎥 Resident Evil
(Fri, Sept 18th — wide release)

A routine delivery turns into one very bad night for Austin Abrams’ medical courier, Bryan, as a biological disaster sends him racing through an increasingly dangerous city. Zach Cregger, the filmmaker behind Barbarian and Weapons, directs this standalone reinvention of the survival-horror video game franchise. Turns out working the night shift can always get worse.

🎥 The Weight
(Fri, Sept 18th — wide release)

Ethan Hawke stars as Samuel Murphy, a widower in 1930s Oregon who is sent to a brutal prison and offered one very dangerous way out. Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) wants Samuel and several other inmates (Austin Amelio and Avi Nash) to smuggle stolen government gold out of a remote mine, survive the trip, and maybe earn their freedom. Julia Jones joins them as an Indigenous runaway in director Padraic McKinley’s period thriller, where the promise of liberty starts looking a lot like a death sentence.

🎥 Bad Apples
(Fri, Sept 18th — wide release)

Saoirse Ronan stars as Maria, a primary-school teacher pushed to the breaking point by one violently disruptive student. Desperate to get her classroom under control, she makes a drastic choice that actually seems to work... for a while. But solving one problem only creates a much bigger one. Directed by Jonatan Etzler, this dark comedy-thriller follows Maria as one bad decision leads to another, eventually sparking a citywide search for a missing boy whose whereabouts she knows all too well.

🎥 Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
(Fri, Sept 18th — wide release)

A simple attempt to fix the pumpkin patch goes very wrong when Shaun and the flock accidentally unleash a mysterious creature on Mossy Bottom Farm. With Halloween fast approaching, strange things start happening, the Farmer disappears, and Shaun has to lead the others through eerie woods and unexpected dangers to put things right. Aardman Animations brings its trademark stop-motion charm to this adventure, where even a little farmyard mishap can turn into a full-blown monster problem.

🎥 Without Blood
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Salma Hayek Pinault plays a woman who has spent years living with the loss of her family after a devastating war. Her search for answers brings her face-to-face with a man, played by Demián Bichir, who may know what really happened. Written and directed by Angelina Jolie from Alessandro Baricco’s novel, the drama turns that meeting into something far more complicated than revenge, as both are forced to confront memory, guilt, and whether the truth can bring any kind of peace.

🎥 The History of Concrete
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Concrete is everywhere. But getting people to sit through a documentary about it is the harder sell. After How To with John Wilson, filmmaker John Wilson sets out to turn one of the most ordinary, seemingly unexciting materials around us into something worth watching. That plan quickly starts to crack, turning the project into a funny, self-aware look at filmmaking, creative compromise, unexpected connections, and what happens when real life becomes more interesting than the movie you thought you were making.

🎥 The Musical
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Tony Award winner Will Brill stars in this dark comedy as Doug, a frustrated playwright stuck teaching middle-school theater while his career goes nowhere. Things get worse when his ex and fellow schoolteacher (Gillian Jacobs) starts dating the school’s painfully ordinary principal, played none other than by Rob Lowe. Fed up and nursing a bruised ego, Doug decides revenge is the only answer. His plan: stage an outrageously inappropriate student musical to trash the principal’s good name, using his entire classroom of innocent kids as unwitting accomplices.

🎥 Tiny Fugitives
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Summer camp is temporary. At least, it’s supposed to be. A reckless group of 12-year-olds decides they’d rather stay for good than go back to ordinary life, putting them on a collision course with Bob, Johnny Knoxville’s 50-year-old lifer counselor, who is determined to stop them. Michael Lewen directs this irreverent comedy about adolescent independence and increasingly elaborate sabotage, with Blake Anderson and Jay Baruchel joining the chaos.

🎥 Sunny Dancer
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey plays Ivy, a 17-year-old cancer survivor who is ready for everyone to stop defining her by what she’s been through. Her parents have other ideas, sending her to a summer camp for young people affected by cancer; something Ivy quickly dubs “Chemo Camp.” Writer-director George Jaques turns that unwanted summer into a warm, irreverent coming-of-age story about finding people who understand her without pitying her.

🎥 April X
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Heated Rivalry breakout Connor Storrie trades hockey sticks for black-market body parts in this sci-fi noir thriller. He stars as Bax, a hustler searching for his missing twin sister, April (Lilly Krug), in a futuristic post-Soviet city where dreams can be recorded and memories stolen. His search pulls him deeper into a neon-lit underworld where every clue brings him closer to the truth... and further into danger.

🎥 You Had to Be There
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

Before Saturday Night Live, SCTV, and Broadway turned them into household names, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin, and Paul Shaffer all found themselves in the same 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Filmmaker Nick Davis looks back at the friendships, timing, and creative spark that came out of that show, and how one unlikely stage production helped bring together a group that would go on to leave a huge mark on entertainment.

🎥 Who’s Watching
(Fri, Sept 18th — limited release)

An awkward office crush turns into something much darker in this psychological horror thriller from Cursive frontman Tim Kasher. Zachary Ray Sherman stars as Caleb, a socially isolated coworker who decides to make a “documentary” about Krista, played by Gracie Gillam. What he calls fascination starts looking more like surveillance, then stalking, as his camera becomes one more excuse to keep pushing past boundaries he has no business crossing.

🎥 Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary
(Fri, Sept 18th — re-release, 4K restoration)

Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 are hunting the Puppet Master, a mysterious intelligence that can hack human minds and rewrite identity. Mamoru Oshii’s landmark 1995 anime, adapted from Masamune Shirow’s classic manga, mixes cyberpunk action with noir atmosphere and questions about what makes someone human. Three decades later, its ideas about artificial intelligence, manufactured bodies, surveillance, and digital identity feel less like distant science fiction and more like the world catching up to the movie.

🎥 My Brother’s Wedding
(Fri, September 18th — re-release, 4K restoration)

One of the great voices of American indie cinema, Charles Burnett has spent decades making films that never quite got the attention they deserved. Now his 1983 cult classic is getting a new 4K restoration and another shot at finding its audience. Starring Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, and Gaye Shannon-Burnett, the film follows an aimless young Black man caught between family obligations, neighborhood loyalty, and a future he still hasn’t figured out.

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🎥 “Mr. Irrelevant” Trailer: David Corenswet Trades Superman’s Cape for Shoulder Pads in the Inspiring True Story of NFL Underdog John Tuggle — In Theaters December 25th

People have dreams they know they’ll probably never achieve in their lifetime. Hell, some dream of making it to the NFL one day, while others dream of becoming Superman.

David Corenswet is the rare guy who somehow got to do both. The DC superhero trades his red cape for a pair of shoulder pads as he tackles the true story of football underdog John Tuggle.

In the upcoming inspirational sports drama Mr. Irrelevant, John Tuggle is the last player selected in the 1983 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. His odds of making the team are slim to none. But much like Rudy and other great underdog stories before him, John never quits and never lets the odds define what he’s capable of on the football field. T

hrough grit and sheer determination, Tuggle earns his place on the Giants roster, only to be dealt the biggest blow of his life: a shocking cancer diagnosis. Now the real fight begins.

Directed by Jonathan Levine, who previously tackled a similarly themed real-life cancer dramedy with 50/50, Mr. Irrelevant gives Corenswet his first leading role since becoming Superman in James Gunn’s DC Universe. And the buzz so far suggests Corenswet could find himself in the awards-season conversation.

He is joined by Isabel May as John Tuggle’s girlfriend, Katie, who helps him through his cancer battle, while Michael Shannon portrays legendary Giants coach Bill Parcells.

David Krumholtz, Takudzwa Matsatsa, and Ella Newton round out the cast.

Mr. Irrelevant is coming to theaters on December 25th, a sweet spot for crowd-pleasing tearjerkers looking to make a run during awards season.

🎥 “Godzilla Minus Zero” Trailer: Godzilla Returns Two Years Later, but Japan Has a “Plan B” — In U.S. Theaters November 6th

They thought they blew him up. They thought he was gone for good. But two years later, he’s back. Now it’s time to initiate... “Plan B?”

Godzilla Minus One wasn’t just a global phenomenon; it likely singlehandedly reinvigorated the world’s enduring love for Godzilla.

(And yes, we know Legendary’s MonsterVerse was also making Godzilla films at the same time, but let’s be real here, okay?)

The 2023 kaiju epic offered a surprisingly more grounded, emotionally weighted approach to the franchise, setting the story in the immediate aftermath of World War II. With the country in total disarray, struggling to recover from a nuclear attack, Godzilla wasn’t just an atomic-age monster, but also a symbolic manifestation of the devastation and trauma left behind.

And for filmmaker and visual-effects artist Takashi Yamazaki, the effort was more than just bringing Godzilla back to the screen, but bringing him back to his roots. Yamazaki and his visual-effects team were eventually rewarded with an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, making the original a bona fide international success.

Now, with a sequel on the horizon, it’s quickly becoming one of the most anticipated films of the year. People are simply going ga-ga for Godzilla.

(And once again, yes, we know Legendary’s MonsterVerse films have been huge box-office hits... but c’mon, okay?)

Anyhoo,Godzilla Minus Zero is set two years after the events of the original film, bringing back Ryunosuke Kamiki as Koichi and Minami Hamabe as Noriko to once again face the return of Godzilla.

This time, there’s a new plan. An alternative plan. Yeah, so, plot details have been kept under wraps, and the filmmakers have been very coy about revealing what comes next. But something tells us this “Plan B” involves waking up a new kaiju monster to take on Godzilla. Because the best way to fight a monster is to have a bigger monster in your corner.

Of course, which monster could it be... Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah? So many usual suspects. As of right now, your guess is as good as any.

Also starring Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando, Miou Tanaka, Min Tanaka, Masami Nagasawa, and Jun Kunimura, with Takashi Yamazaki returning as writer, director, and lead visual-effects supervisor, Godzilla Minus Zero is set to make its world premiere later this month at the New York Film Festival before opening in Japan on November 3rd and U.S. theaters on November 6th.

The film will also mark the first Japanese production filmed for IMAX, with selected sequences presented in the expanded 1.43:1 format. So, Godzilla... just a little bigger.

🎥 “Artificial” Teaser Trailer: Andrew Garfield Plays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s Silicon Valley Drama — In Select Theaters December 25th

It’s interesting that this feels a lot more like a sequel to The Social Network than Aaron Sorkin’s actual companion piece. And it doesn’t hurt that Andrew Garfield stars in both pictures, but clearly filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is tapping into a similar Silicon Valley vibe, where some of the smartest guys in the room also happen to be the creepiest.

Artificial isn’t coming out until the end of the year, but it has already had a fascinating journey getting there. Originally produced by Amazon MGM Studios, the film was nearly completed before being dropped by Amazon earlier this year. The reason? The official word was little more than a professional parting of ways.

But one could surmise it had something to do with the subject matter. It’s a not-too-flattering portrait of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (better known as the company behind ChatGPT) with Andrew Garfield playing him during the company’s early days, just as it’s on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful forces in tech. And given that Amazon had just signed a multimillion-dollar deal with OpenAI only days before dropping the film altogether, many were left to wonder whether the timing was more than coincidental.

Anyway, NEON Films is now behind the film and is set to distribute it in theaters this December. It’s a little scary that a star-studded film like this can be dropped at a moment’s notice. A little less scary knowing there are still distributors out there willing to take the risk.

Written by former SNL writer and novelist Simon Rich (Miracle Workers), the film seemingly will cover Sam Altman’s rise at OpenAI and the internal power struggle that eventually led to his brief ousting as CEO.

Other notable cast members include Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, while Oscar nominees Yura Borisov and Monica Barbaro play OpenAI executives, along with Cooper Hoffman as board chairman Greg Brockman. Rounding out the cast are Chris O’Dowd, Jason Schwartzman, and Mark Rylance.

Artificial is set to make its world premiere next month at the New York Film Festival before landing in select theaters on December 25th.

🎥 “Remain” Teaser Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Falls for a Mysterious Phoebe Dynevor in M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks’ New Mystery Thriller — In Theaters February 5th, 2027

Author Nicholas Sparks is known for his sultry Southern love stories, where romance often comes wrapped in heartbreak and loss. Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, meanwhile, is famous for his twisty mystery thrillers, usually ending with a shocking reveal in the third act.

So, how the hell did these two get together in the first place? And better yet, what kind of story did they come up with?

Well, M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks are certainly not a pairing we had on our bingo card. But they did collaborate on the story for a new thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor.

And it seems to have a little bit of both of their qualities: it’s an atmospheric mystery thriller with a romance at its center, but it’s not quite as straightforward as that, as the story appears to lean into the supernatural. Perhaps even a ghost story.

In Remain, Gyllenhaal stars as Tate Gordon, a reclusive architect who moves to a small coastal town to complete his latest project. While grappling with a devastating personal loss, Tate soon finds himself drawn to Wren (Dynevor), an alluring young woman who has a mysterious air about her.

As she begins pulling him out of his shell, a mystery surrounding Tate’s new home reveals something a bit on the supernatural side, which might explain why Wren seems to be a little more mystifying than most women.

Is she a ghost? Maybe a figment of his imagination? Or something else entirely? Well, knowing Shyamalan and Sparks, the answer probably won’t be quite as simple as the girl next door.

Written and directed by Shyamalan, based on a story he created with The Notebook author, Remain co-stars Ashley Walters, Julie Hagerty, and Jay O. Sanders, and is set to hit theaters next year, on February 5th, 2027.

🎥 “The Mosquito Bowl” Teaser Trailer: Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis Trade the Football Field for the Battlefield (and Vice Versa!) in Peter Berg’s WWII Football Drama — In Theaters October 30th, Streaming November 25th on Netflix

A game of football might feel like a battlefield at times, with its mud, blood, and bruises. But in reality, sportsmanship is nothing compared to the brotherhood forged in war. During one historic moment in World War II, a group of courageous soldiers managed to bring those two worlds together: the football field and the field of battle. Known in the history books as the Mosquito Bowl, several of the country’s best college football players, who had volunteered to fight in the war, organized one last game before heading back into combat. Director Peter Berg, of Friday Night Lights fame, brings this nearly forgotten piece of history to the screen with a rousing war drama starring Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis as four celebrated college football players who enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but still got one last chance to return to the game they loved before preparing for the invasion of Okinawa.

🎥 “Digger” Final Trailer: Tom Cruise Goes Bigger, Stranger, and Older in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Dark Political Satire — In Theaters and IMAX October 2nd

Times are strange. And we can admit that sometimes it feels like we’re living through some of the most surreal times imaginable. And everything just seems to get stranger by the day. So coming up with a political satire that somehow reflects our current reality might be harder than it sounds. In fact, you may have to go to bizarre lengths just to capture how absurd everything has become. Well. Enter Tom Cruise in a cowboy hat, boots, and old-man prosthetic makeup. This isn’t just one of the broadest, most over-the-top characters he’s ever played; it just might go down as one of the strangest performances of his career. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, a wealthy and powerful Texas tycoon who might be humanity’s last hope of saving the planet from a serious ecological disaster. Problem is, he’s also the one who caused it. Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu goes full Dr. Strangelove as he tackles the idea that the most powerful people in the room are often the very ones making the biggest mess for everyone else to clean up.

🎥 “Whalefall” New Trailer: Austin Abrams Has One Hour to Escape the Belly of a Whale in This Wild Survival Thriller with Josh Brolin — In Theaters October 16th

Who doesn’t love a good survival story where someone is fighting against unimaginable odds just to make it out alive? It’s a winning formula we’ve seen plenty of times before. Well, believe us when we say this isn’t your typical survival story... nor anything we’ve really seen before on film. Here’s the elevator pitch: You’ve got Austin Abrams and a giant whale. He’s a skilled young scuba diver, and the whale is hungry. Boom! The diver suddenly finds himself trapped inside the whale’s stomach with less than an hour of oxygen. Just imagine the popcorn bucket sales alone. Directed by Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You, Spontaneous) and co-starring Josh Brolin as Abrams’ recently departed father, whose survival lessons may hold the key to his escape, the film turns one seriously bizarre premise into a race against time, and just might be the surprise hit of the fall season.

🎥 “November 1963” Trailer: John Travolta Stars in This Mob-Centered JFK Assassination Conspiracy Thriller with Robert Carlyle, Dermot Mulroney, Mandy Patinkin, and Jefferson White — In Theaters November 20th

It remains as one of the great American conspiracies and one of the most enduring questions in U.S. history. Who assassinated President John F. Kennedy? And was Lee Harvey Oswald really the lone gunman? Veteran filmmaker Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission) directs this historical conspiracy thriller that takes a look at one of the most disputed theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination: the alleged involvement of the Italian American Mafia, specifically the Chicago Outfit. John Travolta stars as mobster Johnny Roselli, one of the figures the film places inside that conspiracy. Joining him are Robert Carlyle as Jack Ruby, the mob-connected nightclub owner who killed Oswald; Dermot Mulroney as mob hitman Chuckie Nicoletti; Mandy Patinkin as mob boss Anthony Accardo; and Yellowstone’s Jefferson White as Lee Harvey Oswald himself.

🎥 “Tenzing” Teaser Trailer: Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe Scale Mount Everest in Jennifer Peedom’s Epic True Story of the 1953 Climbers Who Made History — In Select Theaters October 9th, Streaming October 16th on Apple TV

Very few can claim to have climbed to the top of the world’s tallest mountain. But only two men can say they were the first. Tom Hiddleston stars as New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary, while Chinese-Tibetan actor Genden Phuntsok takes on the role of Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay in this based-on-a-true-story adventure about their historic 1953 ascent of Mount Everest. Willem Dafoe co-stars as Colonel John Hunt, who organized the expedition as the climbers faced some of the harshest conditions imaginable on their way to the summit. With Tenzing’s guidance and deep knowledge of the terrain, the group was able to navigate the mountain’s brutal conditions, but only two would make it to the top... with Tenzing being one of them. Co-starring Caitríona Balfe, Thinley Lhamo, and Tenzin Dalha, the film is helmed by documentarian Jennifer Peedom, whose award-winning doc Sherpa chronicled the deadly 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche and explored how Sherpa climbers helped make many of the mountain’s most ambitious expeditions possible.

🎥 “Love of Your Life” Trailer: Margaret Qualley and Aaron Pierre Find Love Amid Grief in This Portugal-Set Romantic Drama with Gabriel Basso, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Catherine Keener — In Select Theaters October 7th, Streaming October 14th on Prime Video

Arguably, two of the hottest actors working right now are The Substance’s Margaret Qualley and Lanterns’ Aaron Pierre. Put them together in a romance set against the backdrop of Portugal, and you’ve already got something pretty irresistible. But this isn’t just wine and roses. This story is rooted in grief, asking whether it’s possible to fall in love again after losing the person you thought you’d spend your life with. Directed by Rachel Morrison, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer behind Black Panther and Mudbound, from a script by Julia Cox, the film sees Qualley as Maya, a young woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her first love, Charlie (Gabriel Basso). While traveling through Portugal on a journey of self-healing, Maya meets Felix (Aaron Pierre), who slowly opens the door to love again. Co-starring Patrick Schwarzenegger and Catherine Keener, this Amazon original looks for hope in the middle of heartbreak.

🎥 “Bitter Christmas” Trailer: Renowned Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar Turns Writer’s Block Into a Twisty Story of Memory and Autofiction in This Multi-Layered Tragicomedy — In Select Cities November 13th, Nationwide November 25th

What makes Pedro Almodóvar such an interesting filmmaker is that you can always expect something deeply personal, yet he finds a different way to tell it every time. Sometimes it’s wildly campy and melodramatic, other times heartfelt and profound, and occasionally it becomes a self-effacing, satirical reflection of the filmmaker himself. With his latest, it looks like we might be getting a little bit of everything. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Bárbara Lennie, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Patrick Criado, and Rossy de Palma, the Spanish film follows two intertwined stories separated by more than two decades. In one, a screenwriter and filmmaker finds himself wallowing in a creative drought and writer’s block, while in the other, an advertising director from a different era struggles through a long December weekend that slowly becomes the story he is trying to write. A story within a story... possibly with another story buried inside. Well, if that doesn’t sound like peak Almodóvar, what does?

🎥 “All of a Sudden” Trailer: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto Star in ‘Drive My Car’ Filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Latest Reflective Drama About Care, Mortality, and Human Connection — In Select Theaters November 25th

Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi gave us one of the most quietly contemplative dramas in recent years about human connection and the process of interpreting personal loss with 2021’s Drive My Car. He returns with a similarly reflective story, once again weaving the world of Japanese theater into a meditation on mortality and the way people care for one another. Belgian-French actress Virginie Efira (Benedetta, Paris Memories) stars as Marie-Lou, the director of an eldercare facility trying to introduce a more compassionate approach to caring for its residents. But when she meets Mari (Tao Okamoto, of The Wolverine and Westworld), a Japanese theater director battling cancer, her ideas about caregiving and dignity are put to the test.

🎥 “Animol” U.K. Trailer: ‘Adolescence’ Actor/Rapper Ashley Walters Makes His Feature Directorial Debut with This Hard-Hitting British Juvenile Prison Drama Starring Tut Nyuot and Stephen Graham — Coming Soon to UK Cinemas

British rapper-turned-actor Ashley Walters, who has appeared in hit shows like Adolescence, Top Boy, and A Thousand Blows, makes his feature directorial debut with this hard-hitting juvenile detention drama. Walters recruits frequent collaborator Stephen Graham to play a welfare officer tasked with supporting young offenders as they navigate life inside the detention center. The story, however, revolves around Troy (The Long Walk’s Tut Nyuot), a newly sentenced juvenile thrown into a brutal penal system where the weak are quickly tested and any sense of vulnerability can become a dangerous liability. Also starring Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Vladyslav Baliuk, this Nick Love-penned lockup thriller offers an unflinching look at life behind bars, where shame is not only weaponized, but part of the daily struggle to survive.

🎥 “Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ” Trailer: Sam Worthington and Jim Caviezel Star in Director Alejandro Monteverde’s Stylized Biblical Epic About the Hunt for the Newborn Christ — In Theaters December 11th

From Alejandro Monteverde, the director of Sound of Freedom, comes a visually striking biblical epic about the events surrounding the birth of Christ. It’s not exactly a typical or traditional biblical retelling, either, leaning instead into a much more stylized approach. Sam Worthington, of Avatar fame, stars as Antipater, the son of Herod the Great, who is tasked with seeking out and killing the newborn child his father fears could threaten his reign. Jim Caviezel dons heavy prosthetics to play the ruthless ruler Herod the Great. Rounding out the cast are Ben Mendelsohn as Nahash, Gael García Bernal as Joachim, Sophie Sloan as young Mary, Jamie Ward as Joseph, and Deva Cassel as Mary. Brought to you by Angel Studios, best known for its faith-based films, this looks like one of the studio’s biggest swings yet.

🎥 “Onwards and Sideways” U.K. Trailer: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney Star as Two People Newly Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Who Find Unexpected Companionship in This British Life-Affirming Comedy-Drama from ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Director John Madden — Coming to UK Cinemas November 6th

Not much gets said about British cinema’s long history of feel-good, inspirational dramas. You could even argue the Brits have become especially good at that particular kind of story. Well, acclaimed director John Madden, of Shakespeare in Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fame, returns to add one more to that growing list. It’s another life-affirming, heartfelt British comedy-drama starring Rhys Ifans as a British schoolteacher whose unexpected Parkinson’s diagnosis leads him into a new chapter of his life. Grappling with the emotional weight of the diagnosis and the possibility of future heartache and uncertainty, he soon crosses paths with an American woman (Laura Linney) who not only shares his condition but has recently joined a support group where people with Parkinson’s learn ballet as a way of coping with their illness. When it comes to heart-tugging melodrama, the Brits have become masters at threading that needle between sentimentality and genuine emotional honesty. This looks to be no exception.

🎥 “C.O.G.” Trailer: A Rogue AI Chatbot Turns Deadly in This Indie Tech Horror-Thriller Starring Piper Curda, Josh Zuckerman, Natasha Behnam, and Noel Fisher — On VOD/Digital September 25th

They say AI will eventually lead to humanity’s downfall. Or, at least, that’s one of the apocalyptic fears taking hold these days. Well, here’s a movie that doesn’t exactly dispel those fears, it takes them to their darkest extreme. Starring Piper Curda, Josh Zuckerman, Natasha Behnam, and Noel Fisher, this indie tech horror-thriller centers on a small startup company preparing to launch a powerful new AI chatbot to the public. But once the team discovers the program has gone completely rogue and broken through its guardrails, it becomes clear AI isn’t here to help us... but to destroy us. With a greedy CEO still looking to profit from it, it’s up to the team to shut the program down before it’s unleashed on the world. File this under: Maybe we should’ve stuck with Google Search.

🎥 “How Hard Can It Be” Trailer: A New York Reporter Gets Caught Between a Brooding Small-Town Charmer and a Hollywood Heartthrob in This Indie Rom-Com Starring Anna Schafer, Jack Kesy, and Matt Barr — On VOD/Digital September 25th

It’s the age-old case of opposites attract in this new indie romantic comedy-drama starring Anna Schafer as a New York journalist who is sent to a small town in Alabama to write a story about why it was named the “Best Small Town in America.” There, she meets a hunky rancher, played by Jack Kesy, whose Southern charm is less polished and more down-to-earth. During her stay, the two begin to develop feelings for each other despite their initial apprehension. But when the reporter’s former flame, a big-time Hollywood star (Matt Barr), suddenly drops by for a visit, this budding romance unexpectedly turns into a love triangle, proving that big-city ambition and small-town charm can make for strange bedfellows.

🎥 “The Inbetweeners 3” Now-In-Production Teaser: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, and Joe Thomas Reunite as Will, Jay, Neil, and Simon for Another Painfully Awkward Misadventure — Coming Soon to Netflix

The boys are back! British comedians Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, and Joe Thomas, who first came onto our radar with the hilarious and much-loved 2008 British raunchy teen coming-of-age series, are reuniting for an upcoming third Inbetweeners film. Now in production, the new movie brings all four original leads back as Will, Jay, Neil, and Simon for another painfully awkward misadventure. Even though they’re a little older now, don’t expect them to have grown up all that much when it comes to friendship and embarrassing behavior.

🎥 “Infirmary” Trailer: A Rookie Security Guard’s First Graveyard Shift Turns Terrifying in This Found-Footage Horror Flick Starring Paul Syre Lee and Mark Anthony Williams — Streams October 2nd on Shudder

Hey, if you thought found-footage horror was starting to lose its edge, think again. Horror filmmaker Nicholas Pineda makes his directorial debut with this security-camera-style found-footage horror flick about a rookie security guard, Edward (Paul Syre Lee), working his first night inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital. With Lester (Mark Anthony Williams), his superior, teaching him the ropes, the two soon discover that the building may not be as empty as it seems. Because sometimes, the things that go bump in the night are very real... especially in a place like this.

🎥 “The Last Kiss” Trailer: Mckenna Grace Sees How People Die with Every Kiss in This Blumhouse Teen Slasher with Jaden Michael and Arkira Chantaratananond — On VOD/Digital September 15th

A teen’s first kiss can mean everything. But what if that kiss turns out to be someone’s last? Mckenna Grace stars in this Blumhouse-produced horror flick as a young girl with a strange ability: whoever she kisses, she can see how they’re going to die. The problem? When she kisses a boy she likes, she suddenly has a horrifying premonition of a bloody school massacre carried out by a masked killer. Worse yet, it might happen sooner than she thinks. Directed by Yoko Okumura and also starring Jaden Michael, Arkira Chantaratananond, and Kate Drummond, the film turns teenage romance into a deadly race against time. Sometimes, the best kisses come with a warning.

🎥 “Buzzkill” Trailer: Siena Agudong and Brec Bassinger Throw a Killer Sorority Party in This Darkly Comic Slasher Horror Flick — Premieres September 25th on Tubi

A masked slasher on the loose. A group of drunken sorority girls throwing a keg party. Look, you know where this is going. In this new Tubi Original horror flick, Siena Agudong and Brec Bassinger star as sorority sisters getting ready to host a raging house party to celebrate the new school year. But when one of them reveals that she’s secretly planning to catch the masked killer who’s been targeting them, the party quickly goes from wild kegger to full-blown manhunt... or should we say womanhunt.

🎥 “Donnie Darko: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Writer-Director Richard Kelly’s 2001 Cult Classic Starring Jake Gyllenhaal Returns in a New 4K Restoration — Back In Theaters October 2nd-4th via Fathom Entertainment.

25 years ago, a film arrived on the scene that not only marked Jake Gyllenhaal’s emergence as a captivating leading actor but also captured the disenchantment of a generation looking for meaning in a world that no longer made much sense. Writer-director Richard Kelly’s now-classic metaphysical headscratcher became a cult touchstone almost by accident. Released back in 2001, it never found much success at the box office, but it became one of those movies passed from friend to friend until word of mouth turned it into a bona fide masterpiece of early-aughts cinema. Here, Gyllenhaal plays a troubled teen who begins seeing an imaginary figure dressed in a giant rabbit costume after narrowly escaping death when a jet engine crashes into his bedroom. With multiple fan theories about what the ending truly means, the film has kept audiences debating its themes and subtext for decades. Now, with a new 4K restoration and theatrical rerelease, that conversation will only continue. Plus, the soundtrack truly rocks with ’80s alternative classics.

🎥 “Blood Simple: Director’s Cut” Trailer: It’s the Pulpy 1984 Neo-Noir That Put the Coen Brothers on the Map — Coming to 4K UHD and Digital in the UK This October

Before brothers Joel and Ethan Coen became two of the defining filmmakers of their generation, they first made a name for themselves with this twisty, darkly comic neo-noir that drips with Southern-fried dread as much as it does deadpan humor. John Getz and Frances McDormand star as a pair of Texan lovers whose affair sets off a deadly chain of betrayal and murder when her jealous husband (Dan Hedaya) hires a sleazy private detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill them. With highly inventive camerawork and a moody neon atmosphere courtesy of then-cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who would later become a successful director in his own right, this low-budget 1984 crime flick became a major critical darling of the era, helping pave the way for what would eventually become the pulpy crime-noir resurgence of the ’90s. It also put the Coen bros firmly on the map, laying the foundation for the darkly comic, morally twisted crime stories they would eventually become known for: namely, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Big Lebowski, among others. So if you want to know where it all started, there’s no better time to revisit one of their earliest classics, as the Director’s Cut is getting a new 4K release.

🎥 “Inside Llewyn Davis: 4K” Trailer: Oscar Isaac Gives a Star-Making Turn as a Struggling Folk Singer in the Coen Brothers’ Darkly Funny Classic Love Letter to the ’60s Greenwich Village Music Scene — Coming to 4K UHD and Digital October 5th in the UK

And let the Coen bros marathon continue. Also coming out in 4K for the first time is the filmmakers’ 2013 love letter to the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. An amalgam of stories surrounding folk artists of the era, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Phil Ochs, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others, the film tells the fictional story of a brilliant folk singer who never quite made it, Llewyn Davis. Featuring a star-making performance by Oscar Isaac as the gifted but struggling Llewyn, the film is as much a darkly funny, melancholic tribute to the ’60s folk scene as it is a tip of the hat to the unsung artists who never got the recognition they deserved. Boasting an all-star supporting cast that includes Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Adam Driver, and F. Murray Abraham, the film remains beloved by many, partly because it strangely manages to celebrate the struggle of artists who keep going even when success never quite arrives... or might never come at all.

🎥 “Power Trip” Trailer: YouTube Film Essayist Patrick (H) Willems Steps Behind the Camera for This Rideshare Thriller Short Film Starring Amir Arison and Julia Knitel — In Regal Theaters September 24th in New York, Expanding Later for a Possible Oscar-Qualifying Run

Patrick (H) Willems is probably best known as a popular YouTube film essayist. But like a lot of other YouTube content creators these days, he’s slowly but surely making the move into filmmaking. His latest short film is a suspense thriller about a rideshare driver (Amir Arison) whose seemingly routine encounter with a passenger (Julia Knitel) takes an increasingly uncomfortable turn, turning the night into a tense battle of nerves and suspicion. Willems was lucky enough to land a deal that will see his short distributed in Regal theaters this month as part of an Oscar-qualifying run. So you never know... this might just be the first step in Willems’ journey from YouTube to the Oscars.

🎥 “Forgotten Island” Final Trailer: Lifelong Friends Get Swept Into a Fantastical World of Filipino Folklore in DreamWorks Animation’s Colorful New Adventure Starring Liza Soberano, H.E.R., and Lea Salonga — In Theaters September 25th

The idea of lifelong friends gets harder to hold onto as you get older. So whenever a movie comes along that celebrates those bonds, it’s hard not to get a little sentimental. DreamWorks Animation’s latest is a supernatural fantasy inspired by ancient Filipino folklore, but at heart it’s about two childhood friends afraid of losing each other. Liza Soberano and recording artist H.E.R. voice Raissa and Jo, lifelong friends who suddenly find themselves transported to the fantastical island of Nakali. With their future hanging in the balance, they must rediscover what made their friendship so strong in the first place. Lea Salonga, Dave Franco, Manny Jacinto, Dolly de Leon, Jo Koy, Jenny Slate, and Ronny Chieng round out the voice cast. This colorful animated fantasy suggests that growing up doesn’t have to mean growing apart, and magically landing on a forgotten island doesn’t mean those beautiful memories shared with your best friend have to be forgotten, too.

🎥 “The Cat in the Hat” New Trailer: Bill Hader Brings Dr. Seuss’ Mischievous Icon Back to the Big Screen in This New Animated Adventure — In Theaters and IMAX November 6th

One of Dr. Seuss’ most popular creations is coming back for another big-screen adventure. And who better than comedian Bill Hader to bring that mischievous charm back to life? This new animated comedy also features the voices of Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, America Ferrera, Giancarlo Esposito, Bowen Yang, and Tituss Burgess. The story follows the Cat as he takes on his toughest assignment yet: cheering up two siblings struggling with a move to a new town. Of course, with the Cat involved, a simple mission to lift their spirits quickly turns into a wildly imaginative adventure filled with mischief, magic, and plenty of cat mayhem.

🎥 “Bouchra” Trailer: Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki Turn an Autobiographical Mother-Daughter Story Into a Surreal Animated World of Anthropomorphic Animals — Streams September 12th on MUBI

Some filmmakers have a passionate need to tell their autobiography on film. Then there are filmmakers like Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, who take that impulse somewhere far less conventional, creating a fully computer-animated world filled with anthropomorphic animal characters. Bennani and Barki are multimedia artists as well as New York-based filmmakers who have conjured up an experimental animated film that tells the wildly imaginative autobiographical story of Bennani, a Moroccan filmmaker living in New York, and her complicated relationship with her mother in Casablanca. The twist here is that all the characters are depicted as dog-like anthropomorphic animals. It’s a bittersweet story about the complicated bond between a daughter and her mother, who just happen to be a little furrier than most.

🎥 “Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA” Trailer: New Documentary Revisits the Unsung 1940s Animators Who Helped Change American Animation — Coming Soon, with a Festival Run Set for 2027

One might think American animation really took off with the likes of Walt Disney and a handful of other household names. Well, this new documentary sets out to explore the unsung animators whose story was never fully told, despite being every bit as influential. Written and directed by Kevin Schreck (Persistence of Vision), the documentary charts the rise, fall, and lasting influence of United Productions of America, better known as UPA. It was an independently run animation studio from the 1940s whose artists created some of the most distinctive and influential cartoons of their era. UPA wasn’t just another studio trying to follow Disney’s lead; it broke new ground, creating cartoons, commercials, and independent short films in a style all its own. The documentary is slated to make a festival run in 2027.

🎥 “One More Time” Trailer: Theatre Legends André Gregory, Larry Pine, and Gerry Bamman Confront Aging, Memory, and the Need to Keep Creating in This Intimate Documentary Presented by Martin Scorsese — Premiering at This Year’s New York Film Festival

For some, expressing yourself artistically can be a lifelong struggle. But no one really talks about what happens when age itself starts making that expression harder. Presented by Martin Scorsese, this intimate documentary reunites legendary theater director André Gregory with actors Larry Pine and Gerry Bamman as they take on Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, a bleak play about endings and mortality. The challenge is that all three men are confronting the physical and mental realities of getting older. Even memorizing lines has become difficult, with one revealing he can no longer retain even basic memories. With a small crew documenting the process, the play becomes less about performance and more about friendship, aging, and the need to keep creating until they no longer can.

🎥 “Always Lalisa” Trailer: BLACKPINK’s LISA Goes Solo and Takes Her Global Stardom to the Big Screen in This New IMAX Documentary — In Theaters and IMAX October 12th

There’s a certain set of requirements for being considered a global pop star: creating chart-topping hits, building a worldwide fan base, selling out shows, and maybe even getting your face on television. Well, Thai pop star LISA (aka Lalisa Manobal), from the K-pop group BLACKPINK, has pretty much checked every box. But lately, there seems to be one more requirement creeping onto that checklist: getting your own documentary. And if you can, please make it IMAX. LISA has just done that too. In this new profile piece, we follow her as she steps beyond BLACKPINK and begins carving out a solo music career, while her breakout performance in the third season of The White Lotus pushes her even further onto the global stage.

🎥 “Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie” Trailer: Rediscover the Trailblazing Deaf Bodybuilder and American Gladiators Star in This New HBO Documentary from Marlee Matlin and Director Irene Taylor — Premieres September 22nd on HBO Max

You might have known Shelley Beattie as Gladiator “Siren” on the popular ’90s competition series American Gladiators. And you might have known about her many accomplishments as a champion professional bodybuilder. But as someone who lived proudly as a Deaf woman, she meant far more to the Deaf community than just her public persona. Shelley Beattie was a groundbreaker whose visibility offered a rare kind of representation on mainstream television. Directed by Irene Taylor, and with Oscar-winning Deaf actress Marlee Matlin serving as a guide and interviewer, this new HBO documentary chronicles Beattie’s remarkable life, from her trailblazing bodybuilding career and breakthrough as a public figure to the many private struggles she faced throughout her life. This is not only a celebration of an unusual and extraordinary athlete, but also a rediscovery of someone who meant so much to the Deaf community and whose voice can finally be heard again.

🎥 “Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story” Trailer: Decades of Family Home Video Chronicle the NFL Wide Receiver’s Stardom and Sacrifices in This New Sports Documentary — Premieres September 24th on Prime Video

When it comes time to throw the football around, “go deep” usually means going for the long pass. But in the case of this new sports documentary, it means taking a much deeper look at the life and career of former NFL star DeSean Jackson. A lot of that has to do with his older brother Byron, who filmed and documented his entire football journey, from his early days playing youth football all the way through his NFL career. With access to decades of home-video footage, filmmaker Mandon Lovett pieces together an unusually intimate portrait of Jackson’s rise from youth football to NFL stardom, capturing the personal and family sacrifices it took to get there.

🎥 “Following Harry” Trailer: New Documentary Looks Back at Harry Belafonte’s Final Years and His Lifelong Fight for Civil Rights and Social Justice — On VOD/Digital October 13th

Iconic actor, singer, and activist Harry Belafonte sadly passed away in 2023, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy in both entertainment and activism. This new documentary, directed by Susanne Rostock, takes a close look at Belafonte’s final twelve years and his continued commitment to civil rights and social justice. As one of the rare talents to achieve an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, Belafonte was perhaps even prouder of his work as a fighter for justice and equality. Proving that to be a true artist, one must also be willing to stand for something beyond the work itself.

🎥 “Musk” Teaser: Oscar-Winning Documentarian Alex Gibney Takes Aim at Elon Musk in This Four-Hour Documentary Examining Power, Influence, and the Myth Behind the Man — In Select Theaters October 16th

Alex Gibney is an Oscar-winning documentarian who has taken on some of the most powerful, controversial, and complicated figures of our time. His latest subject (or shall we say target) is none other than the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X, is no stranger to controversy or criticism. But put under Gibney’s microscope, you can bet Musk’s carefully constructed public image will finally be put to the test. As Musk is arguably one of the most influential inventors and entrepreneurs of our time, Gibney seems to be asking just how much power one man should be allowed to have... and just how much power we should be willing to give him.

🎥 “Saving Sizemore” Trailer: The Late, Actor Tom Sizemore’s Complicated Life, Hollywood Career, and Personal Demons Are Revisited in This Indie New Documentary — Coming Soon

Tom Sizemore was a veteran character actor who seemed to be loved just as much as he was despised. On screen, he could go toe-to-toe with just about any actor and still command your attention. Off screen, however, he found himself in constant trouble, battling addiction, legal problems, and a reputation for saying and doing things that often made headlines. That contrast between Sizemore as a respected actor and notorious troublemaker made him one of Hollywood’s more complicated figures. Since passing away in 2023 from a brain aneurysm, he has left behind a complicated legacy of memorable performances and personal demons. And with a career that was never far removed from the turmoil in his private life, this indie documentary looks back at the man, the actor, and the troubled mess he could never quite shake off.

🎥 “The Trial of Alec Baldwin” Trailer: Alec Baldwin Goes from Hollywood Star to Defendant in Rory Kennedy’s Documentary About the Tragic ‘Rust’ Shooting — In Theaters October 16th

Alec Baldwin has long had a reputation as an actor who hated dealing with the press and paparazzi. So when he was involved in one of the most shocking and tragic on-set accidents in cinema history, Baldwin not only found himself at the center of a media firestorm, but also at the center of a highly publicized trial questioning his responsibility for what had happened. From documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Last Days in Vietnam), this film offers a fly-on-the-wall look at Baldwin as he navigates the legal battle surrounding the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

🎥 “The Last First: Winter K2” Trailer: Professional Climbers Risk Everything to Conquer K2 in This New Apple Original Documentary — In Select Theaters and Streaming October 2nd on Apple TV

Since the dawn of man, we’ve always wanted to push beyond the limits of what seems possible. For some, K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, represents exactly that. In this new Apple Original documentary, director Amir Bar-Lev follows several professional mountain climbers who set out to conquer K2 during its most unforgiving season. Their journey is filled with brutal conditions, and the constant possibility that one wrong step could be their last. It also begs the question... why? Why would anyone willingly put themselves through that kind of danger just to stand on top of a mountain? The answer may be as simple as this: because it’s there, and because pushing beyond our limits is part of the human need to explore.

🎥 “The Echo Chamber” Trailer: Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, and Susan Sarandon Star in Andrea Pallaoro’s Slow-Burning Romantic Drama from Bernardo Bertolucci’s Final Screenplay — Coming Soon

Italian director Andrea Pallaoro takes on the final screenplay by legendary Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci with this slow-burning romantic drama starring Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, and Susan Sarandon. The story follows a struggling music producer (Marinelli) living in London whose already-fragile life becomes increasingly complicated by an enigmatic physiotherapist (Vikander) and an aging rock star (Sarandon). In typical Bertolucci fashion, the film is an intimate look at a troubled man caught between his own complicated desires and the equally complicated women in his life.

🎥 “Less of a Stranger” Trailer: Mikołaj Bukrewicz Stars as Polish Rock Legend and Lady Pank Founder Jan Borysewicz in This ’80s Polish Rock Music Biopic — Streams October 7th on Netflix

This new Polish musical drama is inspired by the life of Polish rock legend Jan Borysewicz. Mikołaj Bukrewicz stars as the young rocker, as the film follows Borysewicz’s musical journey forming the 1980s band Lady Pank while writing the songs that would eventually help shape a generation. From personal tragedy to heartache and rebellion, the rock biopic, directed by Kristoffer Rus, unfolds against Poland’s changing political landscape, exploring the rise of an artist whose pursuit of creative freedom and fame comes with a deeply personal cost.

🎥 “Mononoke The Movie: Chapter III – The Curse of the Serpent” Trailer: The Medicine Seller Faces a Deadly Snake God in This Visually Dazzling Finale to the Anime Trilogy — Streams September 29th on Netflix

Prepare for an anime that’s as colorful and visually dazzling as it is haunting. Based on the long-running Mononoke anime series, this is the final film in the trilogy, completing the Medicine Seller’s latest journey through the haunted inner palace. When a Snake God is suddenly awakened and let loose, the Medicine Seller must uncover the truth behind its emergence before it tears through the emperor’s inner court. Directed by Tomoaki Koshida, with Kenji Nakamura serving as chief director, the film has a striking visual style that seemingly draws inspiration from ancient Japanese woodblock prints and traditional illustrations, giving the whole thing an ornate, otherworldly storybook quality.

🎥 “Witch on the Holy Night” Trailer: An Apprentice Magician’s Carefully Guarded World Is Turned Upside Down in This Fantastical Coming-of-Age Anime — In Theaters January 29th

Based on the acclaimed visual novel by Kinoko Nasu and produced by Japanese animation studio Ufotable, this fantastical coming-of-age anime follows Aoko Aozaki, a seemingly ordinary high school student who is secretly an apprentice Magician. Living and training alongside the mysterious Alice Kuonji, Aoko is still learning to control her abilities when an unexpected encounter with a boy threatens to disrupt their carefully guarded supernatural world. As her powers grow and her life becomes increasingly complicated, Aoko begins a journey of self-discovery that will eventually lead her toward becoming a Witch.

🎥 “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” Trailer: Tanjiro and the Hashira Enter Their Most Dangerous Battle Yet as the Final Fight Begins in This Anime Installment — Streams September 28th on Netflix

The final battle has begun. After Muzan Kibutsuji attacks the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro Kamado and the Hashira are dragged into the deadly Infinity Castle, where survival means facing the demons waiting inside. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, this first chapter of the climactic trilogy brings back Akaza and pushes the long-running anime saga into its most dangerous fight yet.

🎥 “Spirited Away: Live on Stage” Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-Winning Fantasy Comes to Life in This Filmed Stage Production with Massive Sets, Puppetry, Music, and Live Actors — In Theaters October 1st and 8th

Sure, you were blown away by the animated version. Now get ready to experience Miyazaki’s world in a completely different way. Directed by Tony Award-winning theater helmer John Caird, this live stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning anime was filmed during its acclaimed 2022 run at Tokyo’s Imperial Theatre, with Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi alternating as Chihiro. With massive moving sets, elaborate puppetry, and musical numbers, the production works around the obvious limitations of the stage with plenty of imagination, offering audiences a fresh way to revisit the story and once again get lost in its magic.

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