🎥 “Union County” Trailer: Will Poulter Fights for Sobriety and Second Chances in Adam Meeks’ Ohio-Set Recovery Drama with Noah Centineo — Hitting Select Theaters August 14th

The term “world building” gets thrown around a lot in cinema these days, usually as shorthand for any movie that sets up a larger universe, mythology, or franchise structure. But world building doesn’t necessarily have to mean fantasies, far-off planets, or sprawling comic-book universes. Sometimes it can just mean placing actors into real environments and letting them move through them like they actually belong there.

Sometimes the most fascinating “world building” we see in films comes from the little towns, neighborhoods, backroads, diners, bars, and half-forgotten corners of everyday life that don’t usually get treated like cinematic destinations. A movie can really evolve into a fully lived-in world once the actors disappear into the minutiae of ordinary behavior: the small glances, daily routines, arguments, inside jokes, and local customs that make a place feel more concrete than fabricated.

That seems to be the vibe of the upcoming film Union County, a small-town drama starring Will Poulter in what looks like a transformative performance as Cody Parsons, an Ohio man recovering from drug addiction and trying to find his footing after completing a court-mandated rehabilitation program.

Touching on America’s ongoing opioid addiction crisis, the film is written and directed by Ohio-born filmmaker Adam Meeks, making his feature debut after a string of acclaimed short films, including one also titled Union County.

Poulter is joined by Noah Centineo as his brother, Jack Parsons, with both young men navigating sobriety, family pressure, and the long road back from a crisis that has left deep scars across their community.

Featuring many local Ohioans in supporting roles, the film appears to be reaching for a grounded sense of place rather than a polished version of small-town life. And judging by the trailer, it looks less interested in turning addiction into a headline than in capturing the daily texture of recovery. The diners, roads, homes, meetings, silences, and small conversations all become part of a kind of world building that feels quietly welcome.

Annette Deao co-stars as a tireless counselor helping guide Cody toward a sober future, while Elise Kibler, Emily Meade, and Danny Wolohan round out the cast.

Union County opens in select theaters August 14th.

Poulter has always been an actor we have kept an eye on since the days of the ridiculous road comedy We’re the Millers, but between his recent turn in the final season of The Bear and now this, he seems to be entering a more interesting stretch of his career. And now our eyes are locked in, because Union County looks like the kind of grounded character drama that could give him room to show just how much he can do with a nuanced performance stripped down to the bone.

🎥 “Hershey” Trailer: Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario Build a Chocolate Empire in This Biographical Period Drama About Hershey Founder Milton S. Hershey — In Theaters November 25th

If you haven’t heard by now, the United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend. And nothing says America quite like Hershey, one of the country’s most recognizable brands. So, of course, it’s getting its own movie, which feels very American in its own right. ’Cuz turning a sugary product into big-screen entertainment might be as American as apple pie, baseball, and selling us a dream with a wrapper around it.

Cue the fireworks, people.

In this upcoming biographical drama Hershey, Finn Wittrock stars as Milton S. Hershey, the confectioner who failed more than once before building one of the most recognizable brands in American history. Alexandra Daddario also stars as Catherine “Kitty” Hershey, Milton’s wife and closest ally, in a story that appears to be less interested in chocolate as a product than in the pressure, persistence, and private cost behind the name.

Set around the turn of the 20th century, the film follows Milton as he tries to make chocolate something more than a luxury item. Before Hershey becomes the brand everyone knows, there are failed ventures, family expectations, business rivals, and the constant threat that one more bad decision could melt the whole thing down.

Directed by Mark Waters, best known for Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, and The Spiderwick Chronicles, the film puts a glossy studio-comedy veteran behind a different kind of American origin story. This one has reinvention, branding, marriage, money, idealism, and, naturally... chocolate!

The supporting cast includes Alan Ruck as Henry Hershey, Richard Kind as Joseph Royer, David Costabile as Tobias Thornhill, Heléne Yorke as Margaret, Michael Moreland Milligan as Lebbie, and Francesca Faridany as Veronica “Fanny” Hershey.

Hershey is scheduled to open in theaters November 25th. Come for the chocolate-covered curiosity, but stay for the story of a man who turned failure, ambition, and a very serious sweet tooth into an American institution.

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🎥 “Pan’s Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: Guillermo del Toro’s Groundbreaking Dark Fairy-Tale Masterpiece Returns to Theaters in 4K and 3D for Its 20th Anniversary — Back In Theaters and in 3D October 9th

Relive the magic and the terror as Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning 2006 dark fairy tale returns to theaters this October for its 20th anniversary. A defining work that cemented del Toro as a true visionary, this Spanish-language period fantasy is set in 1944 Spain, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and follows a young girl (Ivana Baquero) who escapes the cruelty of her fascist stepfather (Sergi López) through a hidden labyrinth and a series of dangerous magical trials. Celebrated for its incredible creature work, make-up effects, and production design, the film still stands as one of del Toro’s signature achievements: a horror-fantasy masterpiece that crawled under your skin and stayed there. This anniversary release brings the film back to theaters in a new 4K restoration, presented in 3D.

🎥 “Akira: 4K Restoration” Re-Release Trailer: Katsuhiro Otomo’s Cyberpunk Anime Landmark Roars Back Into Theaters — Returning September 4th

Neo-Tokyo is calling, and the future still looks dangerous. Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark anime classic returns to theaters in 4K, bringing Kaneda, Tetsuo, and one of cinema’s most influential cyberpunk nightmares back to the big screen. After a crash pulls Tetsuo into a military experiment and awakens a terrifying new power, Kaneda’s rescue mission spirals into madness, rebellion, and city-shaking destruction. Some masterpieces don’t age. This one just keeps reminding us animation can hit like a bomb.

🎥 “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” Meet Haymitch Promo: Joseph Zada Steps Into the Arena as Panem’s Future Survivor — In Theaters and IMAX November 20th

Before Haymitch Abernathy became District 12’s sharp-tongued mentor, he was just another tribute walking into Panem’s favorite nightmare. Joseph Zada stars in this franchise prequel, which revisits the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, 24 years before Katniss Everdeen’s story begins. With the odds doubled and the Capitol’s spectacle machine already in full swing, this chapter turns a familiar survivor’s origin story into something crueler, younger, and far less certain.

🎥 “The Odyssey” New Promo and IMAX Featurette: Christopher Nolan Brings Homer’s Mythic Epic to IMAX on a Massive New Scale — In Theaters July 17th

The long road home just got a much bigger canvas. Christopher Nolan brings Homer’s foundational saga to the screen as a globe-spanning mythic action epic shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, following Odysseus through gods, monsters, war, temptation, and the brutal pull of destiny. Matt Damon leads a powerhouse cast that includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron. For diehard Nolan fans, this has been marked on the calendar since it was announced... and it’s not hard to see why.

🎥 “Dead Souls” Trailer: Repo Man Filmmaker Alex Cox Takes One Final Ride Into the Weird West With This Offbeat Spaghetti Western Satire — In Select Theaters Now, Expanding to Other Cities Throughout July

Legendary cult filmmaker Alex Cox, best known for ’80s classics like Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, heads west for his supposed final directorial effort, capping off a film career built on punk energy, political bite, and offbeat genre detours. Seemingly an ode to classic spaghetti westerns, Cox also stars as Strindler, a mysterious drifter collecting the names of dead Mexican laborers in an 1890 border town, where his strange mission quickly draws suspicion from locals, cowhands, outlaws, and officials. Loosely adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel of the same name, this offbeat western satire turns greed into a crooked American ledger. It’s a fitting swan song for a filmmaker who has always preferred the margins to the mainstream.

🎥 “The Stunt Driver” Teaser Trailer: Jay Baruchel Takes on Ken Carter’s Wild Rocket-Car Dream in Michael Dowse’s True Canadian Underdog Story — Opening in Canadian Theatres September 25th

Sometimes the road to glory needs a ramp. Jay Baruchel stars as Ken Carter, the Canadian stunt-driving legend determined to silence the doubters by launching a rocket car across the St. Lawrence River. Written and directed by Michael Dowse (Fubar, Goon, Take Me Home Tonight), with Ben Foster and Ed Helms riding shotgun in the madness, this mid-’70s underdog tale turns one impossible jump into a battle against fear, failure, and gravity itself.

🎥 “Don’t Look Back In Anger” Teaser: Oasis Returns to the Big Screen with Backstage Access to Their Rock ’n’ Roll Comeback — In Cinemas and IMAX This September

Some reunions come with guitars. Others come with decades of baggage. This documentary takes fans behind the scenes of Oasis’ long-awaited return, promising backstage access to the band’s highly anticipated rock ’n’ roll comeback. Built around the return of one of Britain’s defining bands, the film turns nostalgia, tension, and stadium-sized catharsis into a big-screen event. For Oasis fans, looking back was never really optional.

🎥 “Big Baby” Trailer: A Screenwriter’s Imagination Births a Masked Killer When His New Horror Script Starts Coming True in This Twisty Slasher Film From Spider One — On VOD/Digital August 7th

A new slasher horror executive produced by Cher? Well, if you beeeeelieve in life after love, then you can believe Cher and Chaz Bono have lent their support as executive producers on this new indie slasher thriller from Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One (who also just happens to be Rob Zombie’s brother... horror runs in the family). The rocker-turned-filmmaker returns with his fourth feature, a twisty genre chiller about a writer’s block-plagued screenwriter, played by Brandon Scott, whose disturbing visions of a baby-masked killer begin feeding his latest horror script. But when the murders he imagined start happening for real, his life spirals fast, putting his own loved ones in danger. Also starring Krsy Fox, this looks like a nasty little horror tale about what happens when the monster in your head becomes all too real.

🎥 “Ice Cream Man” New Trailer: Eli Roth Turns a Summer Treat Into Small-Town Horror in His Latest Chiller — In Theaters August 7th

The iceman cometh ... and he ain’t bringing sprinkles. The neighborhood ice cream man has always had horror potential; Eli Roth just decided to make it literal. Written, directed, and co-produced by Roth, this horror romp follows an idyllic summer town as a mysterious vendor starts serving children sweet treats with horrifying consequences. Ari Millen stars as the unsettling figure at the center of it all, turning soft serve into a source of childhood terror.

🎥 “Unholy Night” Teaser Trailer: An Italian Family Christmas Gets Crashed by Killer Revenants in Michael Gabriele’s Holiday Horror Comedy — World Premiering at This Year’s Fantasia

Deck the halls... and hide the bodies. Marc Bendavid stars as Gino, whose traditional Italian family Christmas Eve goes full holiday hell when his long-dead grandmother returns and starts turning dinner into a bloodbath. Written and directed by Michael Gabriele, with Shailene Garnett, Ellen David, Toni Ellwand, and Celia Owen co-starring, this Canadian yuletide horror comedy turns family dysfunction into an undead neighborhood problem. Some relatives bring gifts for Christmas. These ones bring undead mayhem.

🎥 “You’re Dead to Me” Trailer: Senior Year Turns Deadly When a Slasher Crashes Prom Weekend in This New High School Horror Thriller — On VOD/Digital July 7th

Skipping prom for a weekend party sounds like teenage freedom until someone turns up brutally murdered. Directed by Juan Pablo Arias Munoz, this new slasher horror follows three high school seniors trying to enjoy one last escape from parents, school, and responsibility while a serial killer stalks the edges of their future. With Jessica Belkin, Siena Agudong, Ella Anderson, Johanna Braddy, and Denise Richards starring, this gives graduation year one hell of a final exam.

🎥 “The Run” Trailer: Callan Mulvey Smuggles Hope Through a Fertility-Crisis Wasteland in New Dystopian Thriller — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital August 7th

Aussie actor Callan Mulvey (Batman v Superman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) stars in this dystopian thriller as an aging smuggler trying to finish one last run through a post-pandemic world wrecked by a global fertility crisis. But when a runaway teenager and her baby become the target of ruthless criminals, survival turns into a brutal test of loyalty, morality, and what is still worth protecting. Co-starring Charlotte Maggi and Felix Cameron, this delivery job quickly turns into a fight for the future.

🎥 “Jimmy” New Trailer: KJ Apa Portrays Jimmy Stewart in Upcoming Biopic About the Actor’s Life-Changing Return From World War II — In Theaters November 6th

Before George Bailey found his way back to Bedford Falls, Jimmy Stewart had to find his way back to himself. KJ Apa stars in this true story about the beloved actor’s life-changing turn from Hollywood stardom to World War II service, trading an Academy Award win for combat missions over Europe as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot. After returning home broken and disheartened, Stewart’s path leads to It’s a Wonderful Life and the role that would help define his legacy ... and also renew his faith in the work itself.

🎥 “The Isolate Thief” New Trailer: Mackenzie Foy Guards Stolen Gold From Sean Bean’s Outlaws in This Civil War-Era Western — In Theaters July 10th

Cold weather, stolen gold, and Sean Bean on the warpath? That’s a bad day at the outpost. Mackenzie Foy stars in this Civil War-era Western as a young woman left to guard a remote Union Army outpost when a stash of stolen gold suddenly makes her the target of a vicious outlaw gang. With Odeya Rush, Jack Kesy, Ty Simpkins, Martin Sensmeier, Joe Pantoliano, and Sean Bean rounding out the cast, the film turns one frozen shelter into a deadly game of traps, nerve, and survival. In the middle of war, keeping your head may be worth more than the gold.

🎥 “On a String” Trailer: Writer-Director-Star Isabel Hagen Navigates Odd Gigs, Stranger Lives, and New York’s Classical Music Scene in This Offbeat Indie With Dylan Baker and Eric Bogosian — In Select Theaters September 11th

The freelance musician life already sounds exhausting before strangers start turning every gig into a personal detour. Written, directed by, and starring Isabel Hagen, this offbeat indie follows a Juilliard-trained musician working her way through New York City’s classical scene while living in her oddball family’s apartment. With Dylan Baker, Eric Bogosian, Frederick Weller, and Jamie Lee rounding out the cast, this looks like a sharp, character-driven comedy about art, work, family, and the strange places a paycheck can take you.

🎥 “Gypsy 83: The Director’s Cut” Trailer: Sara Rue and Birkett Turton Hit the Road for Stevie Nicks Salvation in Todd Stephens’ 4K-Restored 2001 Cult Indie Favorite — Opening August 14th at the Quad in NYC and August 21st at the Nuart in Los Angeles

Black eyeliner, big dreams, and a little Stevie Nicks devotion can take you a long way. Sara Rue and Birkett Turton star as Gypsy and Clive, two Sandusky misfits who flee small-town misery for New York’s “Night of 1000 Stevies,” chasing performance, belonging, and the hope that somewhere out there, their people are waiting. Todd Stephens’ queer outsider road movie returns as a 25th anniversary Director’s Cut, restored in 4K and expanded with over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage. Sometimes coming of age means getting in the car, turning up The Cure, and finding your witchy little corner of the world.

🎥 “Splash City” Trailer: Two Brothers Fight for Survival on the Streets of San Francisco in This Crime Thriller Starring Reed Shannon and Zach Sowers — In Select Theaters July 20th

Brotherhood gets tested when the streets start pulling them apart. Juju and Slim are two brothers trying to survive in San Francisco, only to find themselves heading down opposite paths. Basketball offers one of them a possible way out, while the other is drawn deeper into a world of smash-and-grab robberies. Directed by Alex Ferrufino and Gilbert Anthony Milam Jr. and starring Reed Shannon, Zach Sowers, TJ Atoms, and Hazel Green, this crime thriller looks at loyalty, betrayal, and the kind of street pressure that can swallow a family whole and leave nothing but damage behind.

🎥 “Les Misérables” Teaser Trailer: Vincent Lindon Stars as Jean Valjean in This French Epic New Take on Victor Hugo’s Classic — In French Cinemas October 14th

Redemption rarely arrives quietly, especially in revolutionary France. French star Vincent Lindon (Titane, The Quiet Son) takes on the iconic role of Jean Valjean, a man hardened by 19 years in prison who tries to rebuild his life under a new identity, only to be pulled back into danger after promising the dying Fantine that he will protect her daughter Cosette. Directed by Fred Cavayé and co-starring Tahar Rahim, Camille Cottin, Benjamin Lavernhe, Noémie Merlant, Vassili Schneider, Megan Northam, Marie Colomb, and Louis Peres, this sweeping adaptation sends Hugo’s tale of justice, mercy, and sacrifice back into the streets.

🎥 “Robert Richardson: The White Devil” Trailer: New Film-Lover Documentary Explores the Visionary Eye of Celebrated Cinematographer Robert Richardson — Coming Soon

Some artists don’t just light a scene. They chase the impossible until it finally looks real. Directed by Jana Hojdová, this feature documentary turns its lens on celebrated cinematographer Robert Richardson, exploring a life built around cinema, obsession, and the nerve it takes to follow a dream no one else can quite see. Featuring Richardson alongside Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Kate Hudson, and more, the film looks at the passion behind the image. Every great shot starts with a cinematographer willing to see what isn’t there yet. And Richardson might be one of the rare ones who can see it clearly before the rest of us even know where to look.

🎥 “A Toxic Love Story” Trailer: Netflix’s New True Crime Doc Digs Into a Twisted Suburban Scandal Where Victim and Villain Keep Shifting — Premiering July 22nd on Netflix

A threatening email scandal, an arrest, and a glamorous California suburb are only the starting points here. Directed by Alexandra Lacey, this Netflix true-crime documentary examines a case involving a husband, his new wife, and his ex-wife, where the truth gets buried under deception, betrayal, and competing versions of victimhood. The deeper the investigation goes, the less certain anyone looks innocent.

🎥 “Black Chariot: Restoration” Trailer: Robert L. Goodwin’s Long-Underseen 1971 Independent Film Returns in 4K, Featuring Bernie Casey’s Lead Acting Debut — In Select Theaters July 10th

Some films don’t disappear because they lack power; sometimes they simply never get the audience they deserved. Written, produced, and directed by Robert L. Goodwin, this nearly forgotten 1971 independent film stars legendary football player-turned-blaxploitation icon Bernie Casey in his lead acting debut. He plays a drifter pulled into a story of social awakening, underground resistance, and fractured American memory. Now restored in 4K by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, this long-underseen film finally gets a new path back to the screen.

🎥 “The Abominable Snowman: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Peter Cushing Goes Looking for the Yeti in Hammer’s Long-Overdue Restoration of Its 1957 Himalayas Horror Classic — Available to Pre-Order from Hammer Films

Iconic actor Peter Cushing stars in this chilly Hammer fantasy-horror tale as Dr. Rollason, a scientist whose Himalayan expedition crosses paths with another team far more interested in exploiting the legendary Yeti than understanding it. Directed by Val Guest and written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, this 4K restoration brings one of Hammer’s moodiest, most quietly thoughtful creature features back into sharper view.

🎥 “The Passion of the Christ” Re-release Trailer: Mel Gibson’s Biblical Epic Returns to Theaters in 4K with a Sneak Peek at the Follow-Up — In Theaters September 10th thru 17th

Mel Gibson’s 2004 biblical epic comes back to theaters newly remastered in 4K, revisiting Jim Caviezel’s portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth through his trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. The event will also include a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One, linking one landmark faith-based film to its long-awaited continuation.

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🎥 “The Weight” Trailer: Ethan Hawke Takes on a Deadly Gold-Smuggling Mission in This Hard-Bitten Period Thriller with Russell Crowe — Hitting Theaters September 18th

Ethan Hawke has quietly aged out of the ’90s slacker persona he was once known for and into something far more interesting these days. Sure, he may have first caught our attention playing sensitive, restless young men in films like Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Training Day, and the Before Sunrise trilogy, but at 55, he has matured into one of the most compelling actors still taking major swings on screen.

With an uncanny ability to jump from one genre to the next, Hawke is stepping into a new leading-man era, one defined less by youthful angst and more by simmering, weathered intensity. Now, that’s not a slight about him getting older, but an acknowledgment of how his screen presence has deepened with time.

Hawke takes the lead in the new period thriller The Weight, which appears to draw from the same hard-bitten tradition as classic neo-westerns like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with a dose of the existential pressure found in The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin’s American remake, Sorcerer.

Meaning it’s a story of hard-pressed men whose nerves, morals, and survival skills are pushed to the limit after they’re handed an impossible mission with high stakes and almost no margin for error. And with Hawke in the lead, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in Blue Moon, the film gives him another chance to prove he’s more than just Maya Hawke’s dad. He might just be our generation’s Gary Cooper.

Here, Hawke stars as Samuel Murphy, a widower in 1930s Oregon who is torn away from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison. There, Warden Clancy, played by Russell Crowe, offers Samuel and several other inmates a dangerous proposition: smuggle stolen government gold out of a remote mine, survive the job, and earn a shot at freedom. Of course, it’s the kind of deal too good to pass up, but signing on may also mean signing their own death warrants.

The cast also includes Julia Jones (Wind River) as Anna, a headstrong Indigenous runaway who joins Samuel and the prisoners on the journey, along with Austin Amelio (Everybody Wants Some!!) and Avi Nash (Silo) as roughneck prisoners turned smugglers.

Padraic McKinley makes his feature directorial debut after working as an editor on projects like The Good Lord Bird and The Loudest Voice.

Following its world premiere earlier this year at Sundance, where it earned rave reviews, The Weight is now due to open in theaters September 18th.

🎥 “Motor City” Trailer: Alan Ritchson Tears Through 1970s Detroit on a Full-Throttle Revenge Mission in This Raucous Action Thriller with Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, and Pablo Schreiber — In Theaters July 24th

There’s no delicate way to say this: Alan Ritchson is built like the human equivalent of a Mack truck. So no matter what dire scenario he’s thrown into, we can’t help but think: yeah, he’s almost cartoonishly equipped to survive it.

That massive frame has served him well in his breakout turn on Amazon’s action series Reacher, and it looks like it will come in just as handy in Motor City, a 1970s-set grindhouse revenge thriller where Ritchson gets unjustly thrown in prison, only to come out with a major score to settle.

Detroit is known for its steel and its muscle cars. Well, Alan Ritchson is here to remind everyone that he fits right in ’cuz the man basically looks like he rolled off the assembly line with dents already included. And from the look of things in this new trailer, he’s prepared to run through a brick wall to get back what was taken from him.

Set against the hard-rock backdrop of 1970s Detroit, Motor City sees Ritchson as John Miller, a working-class bruiser whose life gets knocked sideways after he falls for a local waitress played by Shailene Woodley. The problem is, she also happens to be the unrequited obsession of a ruthless Detroit gangster, played here by Ben Foster, looking quite smarmy and devious.

With plans to take John out of the picture, this gangster has him raided by police, framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and thrown into prison while the life he knew gets ripped away from him. Worse still, John’s girl seems to believe the lies, leaving him not only framed and imprisoned, but completely cut off from the one person he loves.

But once John is finally free, or perhaps breaks his way out, he’s not looking for closure, healing, or some noble second chance. He wants full-blown payback, and judging by this new trailer, he plans to collect it with pure Motor City fury. Anyone foolish enough to stand in his way is probably getting folded like a lawn chair.

Also co-starring Pablo Schreiber and Lionel Boyce, the film is directed by Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry) from a Black List script by Chad St. John (Replicas). Motor City is scheduled to open in theaters July 24th.

Come for the metal-crunching revenge mayhem, but stay for Ritchson turning 1970s Detroit into his own personal demolition derby. Hell yeah!

🎥 “Late Fame” Trailer: Willem Dafoe Gets Rediscovered as a Forgotten Poet Facing an Unexpected Second Act with Greta Lee — Hitting Theaters August 7th

What is fame, really?

Well, for a young artist, it can seem pretty straightforward: becoming successful at something you love doing, whether that means earning money, respect, recognition, or simply proving you were right to chase it in the first place.

But for an older artist, fame becomes a little more complicated. It’s no longer just about being seen. It’s about what that attention costs, what it takes away, and whether the thing you once wanted still feels worth having once you finally get it. An older person is also more skeptical, more bruised by experience, and probably more aware that fame doesn’t fix everything. Sometimes it just gives your problems better lighting.

In Late Fame, Willem Dafoe stars as Ed Saxberger, a once-promising New York poet whose work barely made a ripple when it first appeared. Decades later, his forgotten poems are suddenly rediscovered by a younger generation of artists, turning him into an unlikely literary figure among a group of eager, eccentric creatives.

Now seen as one of the last living connections to a fabled old beat-poet era, Ed finds himself both flattered and deeply unsure of what any of this attention actually means. Do they truly believe his poems deserve rediscovery, or are they simply fascinated by the novelty of a forgotten relic from a cooler, vanished literary scene?

Greta Lee co-stars as Gloria, a free-spirited actress and admirer whose charming presence adds another layer of temptation and uncertainty to Ed’s late-in-life revival, as he begins to wonder whether this sudden attention is a second chance or just another letdown waiting to happen.

Edmund Donovan, Jake Lacy, and Clark Johnson also star.

Kent Jones, the filmmaker behind Diane and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, directs, while the screenplay comes from Samy Burch, whose Oscar-nominated script for May December showed a sharp eye for performance, self-deception, and the messy stories people tell about themselves.

For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, newfound recognition may be less a victory lap than a strange second audition. After all, being rediscovered is one thing. Believing it is another.

Late Fame opens in theaters August 7th.

🎥 “Practical Magic 2” Trailer: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman Bring the Owens Sisters Back for Another Round of Love, Magic, and Family Trouble with Joey King and Maisie Williams as the Next Generation — Arriving In Theaters September 11th

To break a family curse, sometimes you have to go back to where the magic first began. And for the Owens women, that means digging into old secrets, dark family history, and a few powers that have been waiting to come out.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back as Sally and Gillian Owens in Practical Magic 2, the long-awaited sequel to the beloved 1998 romantic fantasy. It’s been nearly three decades since we last saw the Owens sisters dealing with love, loss, small-town suspicion, and the very inconvenient problem of being witches in a family haunted by a curse that puts any man they love in danger.

This time, the story moves toward the next generation. Sally’s daughters, Kylie and Antonia, played by The Kissing Booth’s Joey King and Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams, begin uncovering long-buried family secrets that may point to the truth behind the curse that has followed the Owens women for generations.

Before long, the family is pulled beyond their familiar Massachusetts home and into the United Kingdom, where they start tracing the origins of their magical bloodline. But finding the source of the curse also means confronting the dark magic that started it all, and breaking that cycle may demand a much bigger sacrifice than anyone expected.

The stakes feel even more personal now that Kylie has found someone she truly cares about, played by Blue Beetle’s Xolo Maridueña. If the Owens family curse has taught us anything, it’s that love rarely arrives without a price.

Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest also return as the eccentric Owens aunts, with Lee Pace joining the cast as a charming dark arts historian.

Acclaimed Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, who previously worked with Bullock on Bird Box and Kidman on HBO’s The Undoing, is helming from a script by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett, and Kelly Marcel, based on characters from Alice Hoffman’s best-selling 1995 novel.

So yes, witches are very much back in season. And this time, the Owens women are going to prove some witches don’t just cast spells... they break them too. Practical Magic 2 opens in theaters September 11th.

🎥 “Sense and Sensibility” Trailer: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles Navigate Love, Loss, and Family Duty in Jane Austen’s Classic Tale — Coming to Theaters October 16th

At this point, Jane Austen’s novels might as well be viewed as their own IP franchise universe. Every few years, her work gets dusted off, reimagined, modernized, remixed, or handed a fresh set of bonnets for a new generation.

But for an older generation, Sense and Sensibility may still be tied to Ang Lee’s beloved 1995 adaptation, starring Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, and Hugh Grant. But now there’s a new version on the way, bringing Austen’s classic story of heartbreak, social pressure, family duty, and carefully restrained longing back to the big screen.

And here’s the thing: Austen never really gets old. Her stories endure because the themes and emotional dynamics still work. Love, money, class, reputation, bad timing, and terrible suitors with excellent manners remain painfully recognizable.

This new Sense and Sensibility stars Twisters’ Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood, the eldest Dashwood sister whose quiet strength and emotional restraint are tested after her family’s fortunes collapse. Following the death of their father, the Dashwood women are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of a distant relative in Devon.

Elinor and her younger sister Marianne, played by Esmé Creed-Miles from Prime’s Hanna, must navigate love, heartbreak, and disappointment in very different ways. Elinor keeps everything carefully contained, while Marianne feels every wound out loud, giving Austen her classic clash between sisterly restraint and resentment.

The cast also includes Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, 1917’s George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Urchin’s Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings, and The Testament of Ann Lee’s Stacy Martin as Fanny Dashwood.

English filmmaker Georgia Oakley, who made her feature debut with the acclaimed 2022 indie Blue Jean, directs from an adapted screenplay by newcomer Diana Reid.

Sense and Sensibility is scheduled to open in theaters October 16th.

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🎥 “Forgotten Island” Trailer: Two Lifelong Friends Enter a Magical Filipino Folklore World in DreamWorks’ New Animated Adventure Starring H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco and Lea Salonga — Coming to Theaters September 25th

Growing up together is one thing. Trying to survive a magical island before your entire friendship gets erased is another. In this DreamWorks Animation adventure, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer H.E.R. and Filipino American actress Liza Soberano voice Jo and Raissa, high school graduates whose final night together turns into a portal-hopping journey through Nakali, a fantastical island filled with creatures from Filipino mythology. Joined by Dave Franco’s well-meaning weredog Raww, the pair must confront the feared Manananggal, voiced by Filipina icon Lea Salonga, while racing to get home before they forget why they were fighting so hard to stay together in the first place. Sometimes, being friends means refusing to let the best parts of growing up together disappear.

🎥 “Charlie Harper” Trailer: Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson Question Whether Love Is Enough in This Modern Romance — Only in Theaters September 25th

What happens when the person you love is also the person you may have to outgrow? Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson star as Charlie and Harper, two people whose deep connection keeps pulling them back together, even as life begins pushing them in different directions. But their relationship is tested by ambition, identity, and the slow, painful changes that come with figuring out who you are. Directed by Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean, and written by Dean, this modern romance follows a couple caught between intimacy and independence, where staying together may be just as hard as letting go. Love can feel permanent until change becomes the thing neither person can outrun.

🎥 “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” Teaser Trailer: Mahershala Ali’s Religious Hitman Faces a Crisis of Faith and Family in Filmmaker Bassam Tariq’s Houston-Set Thriller — Hitting Select Theaters September 25th, Everywhere in October

Prayer and violence make for uneasy company. Mahershala Ali stars as a devout hitman whose world unravels after his wife’s death, forcing him into a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children. Writer-director Bassam Tariq keeps the pressure on a man being hunted from the outside and hollowed out from within, while John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Tramell Tillman, and Tiffany Boone help fill out the storm around him. In this thriller, the hardest fight may not be against the people coming for him, but the beliefs falling apart inside him.

🎥 “Remake” Trailer: Documentarian Ross McElwee Rebuilds a Life, a Film, and a Father-Son Story From Decades of Personal Footage — Hitting Select Theaters July 10th

Some movies become family albums. Some become unfinished conversations. Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee turns forty years of personal filmmaking into this deeply reflective documentary about his son Adrian, who grew up inside his father’s films, picked up a camera himself, and later died from a fentanyl overdose. As McElwee revisits Adrian’s final years through the footage he left behind, the stalled fictional adaptation of Sherman’s March becomes part of a larger meditation on grief, memory, and what the camera can never fully hold. This is a remake in the truest sense: not of a movie, but of how a father learns to live with what remains.

🎥 “WHAM! 10 Days In China” Trailer: New Retrospective Documentary Revisits How George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley Took Western Pop Into China — In Cinemas Worldwide July 28th

Pop history rarely comes with this much political noise. Directed by Mike Christie, this documentary revisits WHAM!’s landmark 1985 trip to China, where George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley became the first Western pop act to perform in the country with concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou. Built from newly restored, newly digitized, and never-before-seen archive footage, along with firsthand interviews, the film looks at the cultural collision of East and West, music and politics, and two young stars stepping onto a much larger world stage. Forty years later, those ten days still play like a tour story that became part pop spectacle, part cultural time capsule.

🎥 “Los Vampires” Trailer: Henry Ian Cusick and Thomas Kretschmann Turn the Making of Spanish Dracula Into a Murderous Hollywood Nightmare — World Premiering at Fantasia 2026

Hollywood’s graveyard shift gets more than it bargained for. Set in 1930, this period horror film fictionalizes the making of George Melford’s Spanish-language Dracula, which was famously shot at night on the same Universal sets after the English-language version wrapped for the day. The story follows a Spanish actor hired for the nocturnal production and forced to imitate the daytime performance of the English-speaking star, turning a strange bit of studio efficiency into a simmering rivalry. But as tensions rise between the two performers, a string of murders begins stalking the soundstage. Written and directed by Craig Mitchell, with Lost’s Henry Ian Cusick and King Kong’s Thomas Kretschmann leading a cast that includes Daniela Couso, Jefferson Mays, Oscar Nuñez, and Jorge Diaz, this offbeat vampire chiller suggests the darkest performance may be happening offscreen.

🎥 “Evil Dead Burn” New Trailer: The Deadites Crash a Family Reunion From Hell in Sébastien Vaniček’s Savage New Franchise Chapter — Coming to Theaters July 10th

Grief comes home, and something rotten answers the door. After her husband’s death, Alice (Souheila Yacoub) retreats to his family’s secluded house, where mourning turns into survival when her in-laws begin transforming into Deadites. Produced by franchise veterans Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, with Bruce Campbell among the executive producers, this family reunion does not just go wrong. It goes straight to hell. French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček (Infested) takes the reins, proving the dead still know how to make a house feel very, very crowded.

🎥 “The Outer Threat” Trailer: An Astrophysicist’s Alien Discovery Turns Into a Paranoid Fight for Survival in This Sci-Fi Thriller Starring Mark O’Brien, Constance Wu, and William Fichtner — On VOD/Digital July 10th

The truth is out there, but that doesn’t mean anyone is ready to survive it. This sci-fi thriller stars Mark O’Brien as Daniel, an astrophysicist who discovers evidence of alien life and alerts his team, only to find himself and his family hunted by a mysterious pursuer. Written and directed by William Woods, and also starring Constance Wu and William Fichtner, the film turns first contact into a tense escape story where cosmic discovery may be indistinguishable from paranoia. Sometimes looking to the stars only makes the danger feel a little closer than anyone wants to admit.

🎥 “The Souffleur” Teaser: Willem Dafoe Fights to Save a Vanishing Vienna Hotel in Gastón Solnicki’s Dark Comedy — Coming Soon to Kino Film Collection

Willem Dafoe checks into a losing battle against time, money, and modern development in this dark comedy from writer-director Gastón Solnicki. Dafoe stars as Lucius, the longtime manager of an iconic Vienna hotel who learns the building has been sold to a developer planning to tear it down and remake it. With help from his daughter and a small circle of employees, Lucius launches a strange crusade of detours, espionage, and paranoid resistance to protect the life he has built. Some people fight for property; Lucius seems to be fighting for a whole disappearing world.

🎥 “Batman: Knightfall Trilogy” Trailer: Bane Breaks the Bat in DC’s Three-Part Animated Movie Event — Coming Soon

The Bat is about to meet his breaking point. Anson Mount voices Bruce Wayne/Batman in this animated adaptation of the legendary DC comic book saga, as Bane unleashes Arkham Asylum’s entire Rogue’s Gallery and pushes Gotham’s exhausted protector into a battle he may not be able to win. With Michael Mando as Bane and Pablo Schreiber as Jean-Paul Valley/Azrael, the first chapter sets the stage for a brutal test of body, mind, and legacy. Gotham has plenty of villains, but this time, Batman’s greatest enemy may be fatigue itself. Batman has survived monsters, madmen, and murderers. Bane’s plan is to make him survive all of them at once.

🎥 “Wet Hot American Summer: 25th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: David Wain’s Cult Camp Comedy Returns for One More Absurd Last Day at Camp Firewood — Back in Theaters August 14th

Camp Firewood is open again, and subtlety is still not on the activity schedule. David Wain’s 2001 satirical comedy returns to theaters for its 25th anniversary, bringing back the last day of summer camp, the big talent show, messy romance, and one very inconvenient chunk of NASA’s Skylab hurtling toward Earth. Co-written by Wain and Michael Showalter, the cult favorite packs an absurdly stacked ensemble including Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Molly Shannon, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Ian Black, and Showalter, among others. Some summer seasons fade, but this one just keeps getting wetter... eww.

🎥 “Ghosts: The Possession of Button House” Trailer: The Beloved BBC Sitcom Haunts the Big Screen in a Feature-Length Halloween Adventure — Arriving in UK Cinemas October 23rd

Button House is heading from television to theaters, which feels only right for a place already crowded with unfinished business. The beloved BBC comedy series, which sparked a popular American remake on CBS, will make its big-screen debut as a feature-length family adventure, bringing back stars, writers, and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond. Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie, and Kiell Smith-Bynoe also return for this big-screen haunting, as the ghosts get one more chance to make a supernatural mess of things. Some homes are hard to leave, especially when the residents are already dead.

🎥 “Ken Russell’s The Devils” Teaser: One of Cinema’s Most Controversial Masterpieces Returns Uncut and Restored in 4K — Hitting Theaters October 16th

Once deemed one of the most controversial films in history, Ken Russell’s infamous 1971 masterpiece is finally returning in the form he always wanted audiences to see. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, this epic story of obsession, corruption, faith, and power has long stood as one of cinema’s most provocative works, even drawing condemnation from the Vatican. Assembled from the original camera negative and guided by Russell’s privately constructed 2004 edit, this new 4K restoration presents The Devils uncut, unfiltered, and back on the big screen. Some films are rediscovered; this one feels like it has been waiting to be released from the vault. So grab those bibles and prepare for one hell of a restoration.

🎥 “Mars Attacks! 30th Anniversary” Promos: Tim Burton’s Bonkers ’90s Alien-Invasion Spoof Gets Newly Remastered in 4K — Arriving on Digital 4K and 4K UHD Blu-ray Tuesday, August 11th

Ack! Ack! Ack! Tim Burton’s gleefully absurd 1996 alien-invasion comedy is getting the 4K treatment just in time for its 30th anniversary, with the newly remastered film arriving on Digital 4K and Blu-ray this summer. Featuring a stacked all-star cast that can rival any MCU ensemble, Mars Attacks! stars Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States, desperately failing to protect Earth from a full-blown intergalactic crisis. Some movies age gracefully; this one still feels like it came blasting in from another planet. File this under one of Burton’s most underrated gems, now ready to fry our brains all over again in glorious 4K.

🎥 “The Magic Faraway Tree” New Trailer: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, and Nicola Coughlan Enter a Storybook World of Family Magic — In U.S. Theaters August 21st

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy head to the countryside for a family reset with a very enchanted surprise. They star as Polly and Tim, parents whose children discover a magical tree that leads to extraordinary residents and fantastical lands beyond imagination. With Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan also starring, this family adventure turns Enid Blyton’s classic children’s book series into a reminder that the best escapes are the ones the whole family can take together.

🎥 “Momo and the Time Thieves” International Trailer: A Young Orphan Takes on Time-Stealing Villains in Signature’s Family Fantasy Adventure Starring Alexa Goodall and Martin Freeman — In U.K. Cinemas August 14th

The clock is ticking, and Martin Freeman may know why. Based on the 1973 children’s book by Michael Ende, this family fantasy stars Alexa Goodall as Momo, an orphan whose gift for listening becomes vital when an international corporation steals time from everyone around her. With Araloyin Oshunremi as her best friend Gino and Freeman as Master Hora, the story sends Momo into a race where saving the day means giving people back the moments that make life matter.

🎥 “Sia: Nostalgic For The Present - 10th Anniversary” Trailer: Sia’s Cinematic 2016 Stage Spectacle Graces the Big Screen for a Limited Anniversary Run — In Theaters July 23rd

Sia’s 2016 stage experience gets a big-screen return with this remastered concert film co-directed by Sia and Daniel Askill. Built around vocals, choreography, and cinematic performance, the film features Maddie Ziegler, Nicholas Lanzisera, Stephanie Mincone, and Wyatt Rocker, with appearances from Paul Dano, Gaby Hoffman, Ben Mendelsohn, Tig Notaro, and Kristen Wiig. With Ryan Heffington’s choreography shaping the movement, this looks less like a standard concert film and more like a full visual performance piece built around one of pop’s most distinctive catalogs.

🎥 “Mustache” Trailer: A Pakistani-American Teen Faces Public School, Puberty, and One Very Unwanted Mustache in This Late-’90s Coming-of-Age Comedy — On VOD/Digital July 31st

Middle school is hard enough without your face betraying you. Atharv Verma stars as Ilyas, a 13-year-old Pakistani-American kid in late-’90s Northern California whose life is thrown into chaos when his parents pull him from Islamic private school and send him into the terrifying wilds of public school. With his awkward prepubescent mustache making him even more self-conscious, Ilyas cooks up a plan to get back to his old life, only to discover that fitting in may be less important than growing into himself. Co-starring Rizwan Manji, Meesha Shafi, Ayana Manji, Alicia Silverstone, and Hasan Minhaj, this coming-of-age comedy turns one kid’s grooming crisis into a funny, tender lesson in self-acceptance.

🎥 “The Floaters” Trailer: Jackie Tohn Stars as A Struggling Musician Returning to Jewish Summer Camp in This Underdog Comedy From Director Rachel Israel — In Select Theaters July 10th

Camp rivalries, old friendships, and last-resort employment all come together in this summer-camp comedy. GLOW’s Jackie Tohn stars a struggling musician who takes a job from her overachieving best friend, helping supervise a group of misfit campers at the Jewish summer camp where they grew up. With the camp’s future on the line and a longtime rival waiting across the field, this looks like the kind of scrappy ensemble comedy where saving the summer means getting everyone to stop fighting long enough to care.

🎥 “Visitation” Trailer: Legendary German Filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff Turns a Berlin Lakeshore House Into a Witness to Germany’s Troubled History — In German Cinemas October 15th

A house can hold more than memories. Written and directed by 87-year-old Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, of The Tin Drum fame, this century-spanning historical drama follows a lakeshore home near Berlin as generations pass through its walls during Nazism, war, Soviet occupation, German reunification, and the arrival of a new era. Starring Detlev Buck, Susanne Wolff, Stella Denis-Winkler, Lars Eidinger, and Martina Gedeck, the film follows twelve lives searching for peace and belonging while history keeps leaving its mark. Some homes don’t just survive history; they absorb it.

🎥 “Battle of Oslo” Trailer: Colonel Birger Eriksen Makes the Call That Changed Norway’s Wartime History — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital July 3rd

History can turn on one impossible order. Directed by Daniel Fahre, this Norwegian historical war thriller revisits April 9, 1940, as German warships close in on Oslo and Colonel Birger Eriksen commands the undermanned Oscarsborg Fortress. Led by Bjørn Sundquist, with Jon Øigarden, Øystein Røger, Axel Bøyum, Fridtjov Såheim, and Odin Waage in the cast, the film shifts between the Battle of Drøbak Sound and the 1946 military inquiry that forced Eriksen to defend the decision that sank the Blücher.

🎥 “The Samurai and the Prisoner” Trailer: Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa Turns a Castle Siege Into a Feudal Murder Mystery Starring Masahiro Motoki — Opening in U.S. Theaters July 31st

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) takes the samurai film into shadowy mystery territory. Set inside a besieged castle, the film follows Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) as his rebellion against Nobunaga Oda (Bando Shingo) gives way to fear, betrayal, and a string of crimes within his own court. With Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant strategist locked in the dungeon, becoming his uneasy ally, this historical thriller turns wartime strategy into a deadly game of trust.

🎥 “The Debt Collector” Trailer: Nadech Kugimiya Fights to Repay the Sins of His Past in Netflix’s Thai Action Thriller — Premiering July 23rd on Netflix

Some debts come with interest. Some come with blood. Nadech Kugimiya stars as Num, a former debt collector whose prison sentence, terminal illness, and guilty conscience leave him trying to escape the violence that once defined him. But when he is pulled back into Thailand’s brutal illegal lending underworld, one final rescue mission forces him to confront the victims, scars, and moral debts he can no longer outrun. Directed by Surapong Ploensang and co-starring DAOU Pittaya Saechua, this Thai action thriller turns every punch into a payment past due.

🎥 “Kill Trip” Trailer: Festival-Goers Take the Wrong Ride Toward a Road-Trip Nightmare — On VOD/Digital July 17th

The road to Austin takes a very bad detour. A group of carefree festival-goers hitch a ride toward what should be the best weekend of their lives, only to realize they have trusted the wrong stranger. As bodies vanish and the group begins to shrink, survival turns into a desperate fight against something lurking just out of sight. Starring Tate Christensen, Diletta Guglielmi, Stelio Savante, and Corin Nemec, this road-trip horror thriller makes one thing clear: the path to paradise can get bumpy real fast.

🎥 “Cruel Hands” Trailer: A Mother and Son Are Trapped Between an Abusive Husband and a Raging Bushfire in Al Kalyk’s Survival Thriller Starring Mavournee Hazel — On VOD/Digital July 24th

There are some homes you run from, and some nightmares that refuse to stay behind. Directed by Al Kalyk, this survival thriller follows a mother (Mavournee Hazel) and her young son as they flee an abusive husband and seek refuge in an isolated farmhouse, only to realize safety is still out of reach. With a raging bushfire closing in and their pursuer drawing near, escape becomes a brutal test of courage, instinct, and how far a mother will go to protect her child.

🎥 “Golden Kamuy: The Abashiri Prison Raid” Trailer: Sugimoto and Asirpa Break Into Japan’s Most Dangerous Prison in Netflix’s Live-Action Manga Adventure — Streaming July 13th on Netflix

An ironclad prison, hundreds of criminals, and one hidden treasure map tattooed across dangerous men. This live-action action film continues Netflix’s Golden Kamuy saga as Saichi Sugimoto and Asirpa push deeper into the hunt for stolen Ainu gold, leading them toward the heavily guarded Abashiri Prison. Starring Kento Yamazaki, Anna Yamada, Gordon Maeda, Yūma Yamoto, and Asuka Kudo, the film adapts the manga’s iconic prison arc into a high-stakes raid where getting inside may be the easy part. In this treasure hunt, every scar could point the way to a war.

🎥 “EVANGELION:DEATH (TRUE)² & REBIRTH” Re-release Trailer: Hideaki Anno’s Landmark Anime Film Returns to Theaters for Evangelion’s 30th Anniversary — In Theatres July 21st

The end was never going to be simple. Hideaki Anno’s original film adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion returns to theaters as part of the Evangelion 30th Movie Fest, bringing together EVANGELION:DEATH, a compilation of the TV anime’s first 24 episodes, and EVANGELION:REBIRTH, an early portion of the alternate ending that would become “Air.” First released in Japan in 1997, this theatrical turning point revisits the fractured minds, apocalyptic pressure, and unresolved questions that made the series a landmark.

🎥 “The Ribbon Hero” Trailer: Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight Gets a Modern Anime Reimagining — Streaming August 8th on Netflix

A classic hero is being redrawn for a new generation. Inspired by Osamu Tezuka’s 1953 manga Princess Knight, this anime feature follows Princess Sapphire as she rises from loss and trauma to become the Ribbon Hero after the monstrous Nergal devastates her kingdom. Directed by Yuki Igarashi, with production from TWIN ENGINE and animation by OUTLINE, the film reimagines Sapphire’s fight to protect her new home from the same dark fate. Destiny may be harsh, but this heroine clearly has no plans to bow to it.

🎥 “The Bay” Trailer: Francesca Eastwood and Dani Oliveros Star as Two Best Friends Fighting to Survive Shark-Infested Waters in This Shark Thriller — Coming July 17th on VOD/Digital

A destination wedding in Thailand takes a deadly turn in this survival thriller from writer-director Phil Volken. Francesca Eastwood and Dani Oliveros star as Emma and Lani, two best friends whose tour boat sinks in the middle of a tiger shark sanctuary, leaving them stranded in waters where every move could draw something closer. It’s a lean shark-attack setup built around panic, friendship, and the very bad realization that the shore is not nearly close enough.

🎥 “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez” Trailer: David Alvarado’s Documentary Celebrates the Father of Chicano Theater and the Filmmaker Behind ‘Zoot Suit’ and ‘La Bamba’ — Opening July 17th at NY’s Film Forum; Other Cities to Follow

Written and directed by David Alvarado, this documentary chronicles the life and career of Luis Valdez, the playwright and filmmaker who brought Chicano stories from the farm fields of Delano to Broadway and Hollywood. Narrated by Edward James Olmos, who starred in Valdez’s landmark Zoot Suit and its 1981 film adaptation, the film traces the founding of El Teatro Campesino alongside the United Farm Workers, as well as the creation of Zoot Suit and La Bamba. It’s a portrait of an artist whose work became inseparable from a larger cultural movement that changed the American stage.

🎥 “Never Stop Chasing” Trailer: Storm Chaser Reed Timmer Drives Straight Into the World’s Most Violent Tornadoes in This New Documentary — Coming to Theaters August 21st

For most people, severe weather means taking shelter. For Reed Timmer, it means driving the armored Dominator 3 straight into the path of the world’s most violent tornadoes. This documentary follows the storm-chasing legend and his crew as they hit the road in their souped-up truck to pursue extreme weather while confronting the danger, obsession, friendship, and human cost left behind in the storm’s wake. Chasing tornadoes may look like a thrill ride, but it’s a job meant for those crazy enough to run toward the danger everyone else is trying to escape.

📺 “The Real Wolf of Wall Street” Trailer: Paramount+ Doc Revisits Jordan Belfort’s Chaos Through the People Who Survived It — Streaming July 14th on Paramount+

The legend was loud. The damage was louder. This Paramount+ Original documentary looks past the Hollywood myth of Jordan Belfort to revisit the real money, real parties, and real victims left behind. Told through the people who lived through the chaos and survived the fallout, it digs into the story behind the swagger. The wolf got the spotlight; now the consequences get the floor.

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🎥 “The Room Returns” Trailer: Bob Odenkirk Steps Into Tommy Wiseau’s Cult Movie Disaster-Piece for a Charity Remake Shot in One Day — Screening June 26th at LA’s Hollywood Forever

Tommy Wiseau’s so-called disaster-piece The Room is the gift that keeps on giving. After its strange rise to cult fame in the early aughts, when it was embraced as one of the most notoriously terrible films ever made, this cinematic monstrosity somehow keeps finding new ways to crawl back into the spotlight.

To be totally frank, we thought The Room phenomenon had run its course after 2017’s The Disaster Artist, the acclaimed James Franco comedy that told the stranger-than-fiction story behind the movie’s bizarre making. Like most so-bad-it’s-good sensations, there’s usually an expiration date, when the cultural peak starts tipping into overexposure and the joke begins to lose its charge.

So we thought The Room might have finally hit that wall.

But here comes The Room Returns, another Room-related project arriving completely out of left field, reminding us that Tommy Wiseau’s baffling little universe isn’t gone, nor forgotten. It is still very much alive, still mutating, and still finding strange new ways to pull us back in.

Instead of James Franco doing a dead-on Tommy Wiseau impression in The Disaster Artist — although these days, Franco and Wiseau might be more similar than we initially thought — we now have Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk bringing his own dramatic chops to Wiseau’s tortured leading-man role, Johnny, in a green-screen-shot tribute to the 2003 cult oddity.

And before you ask whether Odenkirk has lost his marbles by agreeing to star in what is essentially a remake of a film many still consider one of the worst in cinema history, there is a perfectly good reason behind it: the whole thing was done for charity.

Produced through Acting For a Cause, an all-volunteer organization, The Room Returns reimagines Wiseau’s original melodrama by flipping the mythology of the first film on its head. The 2003 movie famously burned through a reported $6 million and stretched across months of shooting with mostly unknown actors. This version was filmed in under 12 hours, on virtually no budget, with no rehearsal, teleprompters guiding the cast, and green screens standing in for the original locations.

Which, honestly, might be the most Room-appropriate way to remake The Room.

The cast includes Bob Odenkirk as Johnny, alongside Bella Heathcote as Lisa, Kate Siegel as Claudette, Arturo Castro as Steven, Rivkah Reyes as Susan, Cameron Kasky as Denny, and director Brando Crawford as Mark.

Mike Flanagan, the filmmaker behind The Life of Chuck, Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House, is also involved as an executive producer. He also jumps in front of camera, co-starring as Peter. Room original cast member Greg Sestero who played Mark in the original is also back, this time playing Chris R.

The idea here isn’t to “fix” The Room, because that would defeat the entire point. The original film’s strange power has always come from its total lack of self-consciousness. It is a movie built from baffling creative choices, mismatched performances, unexplained football tossing, rooftop confrontations, and dialogue that seems to have been translated from human emotion into something only Tommy Wiseau fully understands.

Following sold-out screenings in Chicago and New York City, The Room Returns will have its Los Angeles premiere on June 26th at Hollywood Forever.

Tickets are available through actingforacause.org, with proceeds benefiting amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and Blue Collaborative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting independent artists.

So, no, The Room still has not gone away. It has simply found another strange doorway back into our lives. And this time, Bob Odenkirk is standing there in front of a green screen, ready to tell Lisa that she is tearing him apart.

🎥 “Sour Party” Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Presents a Low-Budget Slacker Comedy About Two Broke Thirtysomethings Chasing Quick Cash Across Los Angeles with Samantha Westervelt and Amanda Drexton — On VOD/Digital and DCP+ July 24th

Steven Soderbergh is not only the kind of filmmaker who likes to play by his own rules, but every so often, he lends his name to smaller, stranger projects that could use a little extra spotlight.

We imagine it’s not only out of generosity, but also from an understanding that a healthy indie film system is necessary to keep movies weird, scrappy, and original. Especially at a time when Hollywood rarely makes room for risk unless someone can attach a franchise logo to it.

And while Sour Party sounds, on paper, like a fairly typical slacker indie comedy about two financially struggling thirtysomethings scrounging around Los Angeles for quick cash, its release path is something we haven’t really come across before.

The film is being released globally on all platforms on July 24th, with a concurrent rollout on DCP+, a next-generation Web3 streaming platform from Decentralized Pictures. The organization describes itself as a nonprofit created to support emerging independent filmmakers through funding, mentorship, and community-driven discovery. Roman Coppola is one of its founders, with Sofia Coppola serving on the board of directors.

Apparently, Sour Party was one of the selected films awarded funding by Decentralized Pictures to help complete post-production, including the final mix, music licensing, and legal fees.

So, yes, the movie itself may be about broke people trying to collect money, but its real-world path to release also comes with its own very tale of life imitating art.

Written and directed by husband-and-wife filmmaking team The Drextons (filmmaker Michael A. Drexton and actress Amanda Drexton), Sour Party marks the couple’s feature debut. The film was shot independently around Los Angeles on an initial $64,000 budget, which feels very much in line with its scrappy L.A. punk energy.

The film stars Samantha Westervelt (who also co-wrote the original story with The Drextons) as Gwen and Amanda Drexton as James, two broke, self-absorbed thirtysomethings barely scraping by in Los Angeles. After Gwen realizes she forgot her older sister’s baby shower, she decides she needs a proper registry gift to save face. So she and James make a list of people they believe owe them money and head across the city, turning a desperate cash grab into a messy tour through old grudges and not-so-great judgments.

Reggie Watts and Corey Feldman co-star, playing some of the fascinating characters you find in Los Angeles.

Soderbergh, who later signed on to present the film, described Sour Party as his “favorite kind of indie film success story.” In a press kit statement, he adds, “A group of artists creating their own opportunity instead of waiting for one to present itself. That kind of indomitable spirit infuses every aspect of this movie, and I also believe the world needs more comedies!”

Whether DCP+ becomes a meaningful new route for indie filmmakers remains to be seen, but the idea behind it is interesting. And we are all for new, interesting ways of getting films to consumers that buck the traditional system.

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🎥 “Mister Whatever” Trailer: John Mulaney Turns His New Stand-Up Tour Into a Spot-On Oscar-Bait Spoof — On Tour Nationwide

Some trailers are built to sell movies. Others are built to trick us, just long enough, into thinking John Mulaney has made a prestige drama about a man losing his grip on reality. This sharply designed spoof hits every familiar awards-season beat: the solemn dramatic energy, the unraveling protagonist, the tasteful emotional dread, before revealing itself as a sly promo for Mulaney’s nationwide stand-up tour, Mister Whatever. Honestly, if this is Mulaney’s secret audition tape to host the Oscars, we’re listening. And you’ve got our vote.

🎥 “The End of Oak Street” New Promo: Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor Face Suburban Cosmic Terror in David Robert Mitchell’s High-Concept Dinosaur Thriller — In Theaters August 14th

A quiet street gets transported to the edge of the world... and maybe even back to the Jurassic age. After a mysterious cosmic event rips a suburban neighborhood out of ordinary life and drops it somewhere unknown, the Platt family must stay together long enough to understand what happened and survive whatever is now waiting beyond their front doors. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery star as a family trapped inside an impossible new reality, while writer-director David Robert Mitchell, of It Follows fame, steers this high-concept mystery toward eerie suburban unease, where dinosaurs are no longer trapped in history books... they’re staring right at you.

🎥 “Minions & Monsters” Extended ‘Cyclops’ Look: The Minions Go Full Monster-Movie Mayhem in Illumination’s New Big-Screen Adventure — In Theaters Wednesday, July 1st

The Minions were probably always one bad idea away from making their own monster movie. This new Illumination adventure sends the banana-loving troublemakers into Hollywood mode as they set out to find the perfect creature for their kaiju-sized production, which naturally turns into a globe-trotting mess of slapstick, gibberish, and monster-sized accidents.

🎥 “De Gaulle: Resistance & Liberté” Trailer: Simon Abkarian Leads Antonin Baudry’s Two-Part WWII Epic About Legendary French General Charles de Gaulle’s Fight for Free France — In French Theaters June 3rd (Part One) and June 26th (Part Two)

France falls, history closes in, and one unknown general refuses to accept defeat. Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale, Persepolis) stars as Charles de Gaulle in Antonin Baudry’s two-part WWII saga, which follows the future French leader as he flees to London in 1940 and tries to convince the world that the battle for France is not over. With Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill, Campbell Scott as Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a cast that includes Niels Schneider, Thierry Lhermitte, and Karim Leklou, this sweeping two-film historical epic turns resistance into a gamble built on nerve, conviction, and the stubborn belief that freedom can still find a way forward.

🎥 “Color Book” Trailer: A Widowed Father and His Special-Needs Son Make Their Way Across Atlanta for a First Baseball Game in David Fortune’s Festival-Winning Feature Debut, Starring William Catlett and Jeremiah Alexander Daniels — Coming to Netflix June 19th

Parenthood does not pause for grief. After losing his wife, a devoted father (William Catlett) tries to raise his son with Down syndrome (Jeremiah Alexander Daniels), hoping to give him the simple joy of attending his first baseball game. But as their trip across Atlanta begins to stretch and fray, the journey becomes something deeper: a test of patience, memory, and quiet resilience. Filmmaker David Fortune’s debut feature, born from AT&T’s Untold Stories competition, keeps its focus on the everyday tenderness between a father and child, captured in stark black and white. Sometimes a simple trip can carry the weight of an entire life, especially when love is the only thing keeping the road ahead from falling apart.

🎥 “Summer’s Last Resort” Trailer: A Teen’s Plan to Save Her Mom Turns Into a Luxury Vacation Meltdown in This Mother-Daughter Comedy Starring Violet McGraw, Sophia Bush and Jerry O’Connell — Premiering July 3rd on Tubi

Family vacations are tricky enough before someone starts sabotaging the itinerary. This Tubi comedy follows a teen, played by M3GAN’s Violet McGraw, who becomes determined to stop her mother (Sofia Bush) from falling into another bad relationship, only to accidentally send their luxury getaway off the rails. Also starring Jerry O’Connell and directed by Wynonna Earp actress Melanie Scrofano, the film taps into the messy, well-meaning panic of trying to rescue someone who never asked for saving... even if the one doing the rescuing may have a point.

🎥 “Heartstopper Forever” Trailer: Nick and Charlie Face Love, Distance, and Growing Up in Alice Oseman’s Feature-Length ‘Heartstopper’ Finale Starring Joe Locke and Kit Connor — Premiering July 17th on Netflix

First love is facing its final exam. Netflix’s queer teen romance series, based on creator Alice Oseman’s beloved webcomic, ran for three seasons before closing out with this feature-length finale. Joe Locke and Kit Connor return as Charlie and Nick, who now find themselves preparing for the next stage of their lives and their relationship. As Nick gets ready to leave for university and Charlie begins to find a stronger sense of independence at school, the distance ahead starts pressing on a bond that has always felt safe, tender, and hard-won. Yasmin Finney, Will Gao, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell, Tobie Donovan, and Rhea Norwood also return as the Truham-Higgs circle faces its own bittersweet growing pains. Charlie and Nick may believe in forever, but adulthood has a way of stress-testing even the most tender love story.

🎥 “Steal Away” Trailer: Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson Form an Obsessive Bond in Clement Virgo’s New Drama — In Theatres July 17th

Fascination has a way of turning dangerous before anyone knows what to call it. Written and directed by Clement Virgo (Brother), this indie drama stars Angourie Rice as a teenager whose life begins to shift after her family takes in a refugee played by Mallori Johnson. What starts as curiosity soon deepens into desire, jealousy, and a troubling urge to slip into someone else’s story.

🎥 “The Salt Path” Trailer: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs Walk 630 Miles Toward Hope in Marianne Elliott’s Moving Survival Drama — In U.S. Theaters August 28th

Losing a home can break a person, but this drama follows two people trying to walk their way back to themselves. The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson and The White Lotus’ Jason Isaacs star as a husband and wife who are forced from their home and make the impulsive decision to trek 630 miles along England’s rugged South West Coast. Directed by Marianne Elliott, this looks like the kind of journey where every blister, storm, and quiet stretch of coastline becomes part of a larger search for dignity, endurance, and whatever “home” means after it’s gone.

🎥 “Dreams in Nightmares” Trailer: Writer-Director Shatara Michelle Ford Sends Three Queer Black Women Across the Midwest in This New Tender Road Movie — In Theaters August 21st

The road movie gets a tender, uneasy reworking from Test Pattern filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford. Denée Benton stars as Z, who, joined by her two closest friends, heads across the Midwest after a layoff to find a friend who has vanished off the grid. Co-starring Mars Storm Rucker, Dezi Bing, Sasha Compère, and Jasmin Savoy Brown, this expansive indie drama turns one search into a larger fight for love, identity, belonging, and self-determination.

🎥 “Crossing” Trailer: A Desperate River Escape Becomes a Wartime Story of Devotion and Sacrifice in This Chinese Historical Epic Starring Liu Ye — In U.S. Theaters July 10th

Survival can come down to a single crossing. Set during a massive wartime encirclement, this Chinese historical drama follows the Red Army as it attempts a strategic river escape with 400,000 troops closing in around them. Liu Ye stars in a story where an old soldier bound by a sacred vow and a homeless orphan are brought together by duty and sacrifice.

🎥 “Big Baby” Teaser: A Horror Writer’s New Script Starts Looking Disturbingly Real in This Masked-Slasher Chiller From Powerman 5000 Frontman Spider One — On VOD/Digital August 7th

Writer’s block is bad enough before your own nightmare starts picking up a body count. This indie horror film follows Adam, a successful screenwriter whose dreams of a baby-masked killer inspire a new script, only for the line between fiction and reality to begin falling apart. Written and directed by rocker-turned-horror filmmaker Spider One, of the band Powerman 5000, and starring Krsy Fox, Brandon Scott, and Kate Freund, this looks like a nasty little genre riff about what happens when the monster in your head leaps from the page into your own world.

🎥 “Son of Sara” Trailer: A Pregnant Woman’s Dinner Invitation Turns Into a Bloody Descent Into Madness in Houston Bone’s New Horror Thriller Starring Chloe Van Landschoot — On VOD/Digital July 31st

Pregnancy horror tends to work best when the body already feels like a haunted house, and this one appears ready to push that fear into something even more deranged. Chloe Van Landschoot stars as a pregnant woman plagued by strange urges and disturbing visions, only to accept a dinner invitation that sends the night spiraling into blood-soaked madness. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Houston Bone and co-starring Tymika Tafari and Garrett Hnatiuk, this horror film looks like a nasty little trip where motherhood, paranoia, and violence all sit down at the same table.

🎥 “The Wave (aka La ola)” Trailer: Filmmaker Sebastián Lelio Turns Chile’s Feminist Student Uprising Into a Defiant Musical Drama Starring Daniela López — Opening in Select LA Theaters June 26th, Expanding to Other Cities Later

Acclaimed filmmaker Sebastián Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman) returns to the emotional terrain of identity, public pressure, and personal autonomy with this Chilean musical drama about a quiet music student drawn into a feminist uprising on her university campus. Daniela López stars as Julia, a reserved student whose decision to speak out pulls her into a growing movement confronting harassment, abuse, and institutional silence. As private pain becomes public resistance, this politically charged drama understands that finding your voice can also mean realizing you are never alone.

🎥 “23 000 Lives” Trailer: Young Activists Risk Everything to Rescue Refugees at Sea in This True-Story-Inspired German Drama — Premieres July 17th on Netflix

Doing the right thing sounds simple until law, politics, and human lives all crash into the same impossible choice. Inspired by a true story, this German drama follows a group of young people who set sail across the Mediterranean to rescue refugees in distress, only to find their beliefs about justice pushed to the limit. Directed by Markus Goller and starring Louis Hofmann, Maria Dragus, Trevor Magaya, and Mala Emde, this tense moral drama asks what one person can change when looking away is no longer an option.

🎥 “Unidentified” Trailer: Haifaa Al Mansour’s Saudi Murder Mystery Follows a Woman Searching for a Nameless Victim — In Select City Theaters June 19th

Evil really can hide in plain sight. Mila Al Zahrani stars as Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced true-crime obsessive still grieving a child of her own when the body of an unidentified teenage girl is discovered in the desert. As the case risks fading into silence, Noelle becomes determined to give the girl a name and uncover the truth behind her death. Written and directed by Wadjda filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour, this gripping Saudi murder mystery turns unsolved loss into a quiet act of defiance.

🎥 “Kill Code” Trailer: A Cyber-Enhanced Fugitive Fights an AI Combat Program in This Sci-Fi Action Thriller Starring Franzi Schissler, Harvey Keitel, Tyrese Gibson, and Frank Grillo — On VOD/Digital July 24th

The future of law and order looks less like justice and more like a deathmatch. Harvey Keitel, Tyrese Gibson, and Frank Grillo star in this sci-fi action thriller set in a world where an AI-powered system turns criminals into combatants for public punishment. But when cyber-enhanced operative Elera (Franzi Schissler) discovers the program is growing beyond its creators’ control, she joins a rogue resistance and races to bring down the AI’s mainframe before the system decides everyone is guilty.

🎥 “Beyond Belief” Trailer: A Teenage Rocker Hears a Mysterious Voice Pulling Him Toward Faith in This ’80s-Set Indie Drama Starring Carson Lueders — In Theaters August 28th

Big dreams get complicated when something bigger starts calling. Set in the 1980s, this faith-driven coming-of-age drama follows Andy (Carson Lueders), a teenage rocker chasing music stardom while carrying the grief of losing his father. But when a mysterious voice tells him to run, Andy’s path shifts from ambition to belief, forcing him to question the future he wants and the life he may be meant to live.

🎥 “Robotica” New Trailer: Charles Band’s Android-Revenge Thriller Sends a Sex-Bot on a Violent Payback Mission — Streaming This Summer

A sex-bot breaks free from her programming, and the men who treated her like property suddenly have a serious hardware problem. Lilly Bell stars in this sci-fi revenge thriller as an android pushed past obedience after repeated abuse by her male overlords. Once she snaps awake, submission turns into violent payback, with legendary B-movie filmmaker and Full Moon Features co-founder Charles Band steering the whole thing into sleazy, grindhouse-flavored exploitation territory. This is revenge with circuitry, and mercy was never part of the code.

🎥 “Queerpanorama” Trailer: A Nameless Young Man Moves Through Desire, Roleplay, and Shifting Identity in Writer-Director Jun Li’s Black-and-White Queer Portrait — Out Now on VOD/Digital

This is not a love story so much as a study of performance. A young gay man moves through a series of erotic encounters, taking on traces of each partner’s life until the line between connection and imitation starts to blur. Written and directed by Jun Li, this black-and-white queer drama uses sex, awkwardness, and shifting roles to explore how identity can be borrowed, tested, and discarded.

🎥 “The Truthers” Trailer: A Daughter Returns Home to Her Father’s Growing Conspiracy Obsession in This Spanish Thriller Starring Stéphanie Magnin — Premieres July 24th on Netflix

Coming home should bring answers, not more reasons to be afraid. This Spanish thriller follows Ruth (Stéphanie Magnin) as she reunites with her erratic father after her mother’s sudden death, only to suspect his strange behavior may be tied to something hidden inside the family home. Directed by Roger Gual and co-starring Jose Coronado, this Netflix import pulls grief, paranoia, and family suspicion into one claustrophobic mystery where the deeper Ruth digs, the less certain she becomes about what she really came home to find.

🎥 “A Sad and Beautiful World” Trailer: Childhood Sweethearts Reconnect Across Decades in Cyril Aris’ Lebanese Romantic Drama — In Select U.S. Theaters July 24th

From Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris, this romantic comedy-drama follows Nino and Yasmina, childhood sweethearts whose lives keep circling back to each other as Lebanon changes around them. Spanning decades of love, heartbreak, family, and the question of whether to stay or leave, this looks like a sweeping love story where the biggest question is not just who you love, but where you belong.

🎥 “The Marching Band” Trailer: Long-Lost Brothers Find an Unlikely Second Chance Through Music in Emmanuel Courcol’s French Crowdpleaser — Coming to New York August 21st

Family has a funny way of arriving off-key in this French drama about a celebrated orchestra conductor who discovers the brother he never knew he had. After learning his long-lost sibling is a school cafeteria worker who happens to play trombone in a local marching band, the conductor uses music to bridge the distance between them. Starring Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin as the separated siblings, filmmaker Emmanuel Courcol tells a warm story about the strange notes that can still bring people together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gatto arrives exclusively in theaters March 5th, 2027.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ice Cream Man arrives in theaters August 7th.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spa Weekend opens in theaters August 21st.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jimmy opens exclusively in theaters November 6th.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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🎥 “Wildwood” Teaser Trailer: LAIKA Ventures Into a Darkly Magical Hidden Forest in Travis Knight’s Forthcoming Stop-Motion Fantasy — Arriving In Theaters October 23rd

There are places you don’t go. Which, in movie language, usually means somebody is absolutely going there.

And in Wildwood, the upcoming stop-motion fantasy from LAIKA, that forbidden place just happens to be a dangerous hidden forest near Portland, filled with secrets, strange creatures, and a whole winged kingdom waiting beyond the trees.

Directed by LAIKA co-founder Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee) and based on the bestselling children’s novel of the same name by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, Wildwood follows Prue McKeel (voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee, of Disney Channel’s Andi Mack), a young girl whose life changes when her infant brother Mac is kidnapped by crows and carried into the mysterious wilderness known as the Impassable Wilderness. Determined to save him, Prue ventures into this hidden world with her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), only to discover that the forest is much bigger, stranger, and more politically tangled than either of them expected.

This isn’t just a simple rescue mission. The teaser points toward a sweeping dark-fantasy adventure about love, loss, sacrifice, and the kind of courage it takes to step into the unknown when turning back is no longer an option. Along the way, Prue and Curtis are pulled into the Avian Principality, a winged realm shaped by power struggles, secrets, and a mysterious woman named Alexandra, voiced by Carey Mulligan.

The stacked voice cast also includes Mahershala Ali, Jemaine Clement, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Richard E. Grant, Rob Delaney, and more.

Chris Butler, who previously wrote and directed LAIKA’s ParaNorman and Missing Link, wrote the film’s adapted screenplay. And with Knight back in the director’s chair after Kubo and the Two Strings, Wildwood looks to be another handcrafted swing from a studio that has built its reputation on tactile worlds, eerie beauty, offbeat adventures, and frame-by-frame stop-motion magic.

Wildwood is slated to open in theaters October 23rd.

🎥 “The Rivals of Amziah King” Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Rules the Ruthless Honey Game in Andrew Patterson’s Backwoods Oklahoma Crime Thriller — Hitting Theaters August 14th

There are plenty of crime thrillers about drugs, guns, money, and power. But honey? Now that’s one sticky business. And the more you stir the pot, the more likely you are to get stung.

Matthew McConaughey heads deep into rural Oklahoma in The Rivals of Amziah King, the new crime thriller from writer-director Andrew Patterson, the filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed low-budget UFO gem The Vast of Night. And judging by the trailer, Patterson is once again building a strange little world where genre expectations get bent into something more offbeat, more musical, and maybe a whole lot meaner than expected.

McConaughey stars as Amziah King, a charismatic, bluegrass-loving beekeeper who runs the best honey-making operation in town while surrounding himself with a ragtag band of musically gifted misfits. He’s got the charm, the swagger, and the apparatus to turn his beekeeping empire into something big. But in this corner of Oklahoma, the honey trade isn’t exactly sweet... and there are plenty of rivals swarming around, waiting for their time to strike.

Things take a more personal turn when Amziah’s estranged foster daughter Kateri, played by newcomer Angelina LookingGlass, unexpectedly returns after a devastating loss. For Amziah, her arrival offers a rare chance to rebuild a broken bond and maybe turn his honey operation into something resembling a family business.

Of course, this is a crime thriller, which means family healing can only last so long before somebody starts threatening the whole hive. And when the situation turns ugly, Kateri will be forced to find her own inner strength and seek justice within a system built to protect the powerful.

Joining McConaughey and LookingGlass is a strong ensemble that includes Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, and Tony Revolori, with the legendary Kurt Russell taking on the role of a powerful bigwig who sets his sights on Amziah’s honey empire and clearly isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to get what he wants.

Making his highly anticipated follow-up to The Vast of Night, writer-director Andrew Patterson burst onto the scene as a rising indie filmmaker working outside of Hollywood. As someone who formed his own production company in Oklahoma City, producing sports commercials for the local basketball team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, it seems Patterson has moved on to bigger things while keeping his Oklahoma roots firmly intact.

The Rivals of Amziah King is scheduled to open in theaters August 14th.

🎥 “72 Hours” Trailer: Kevin Hart Crashes a Miami Bachelor Party From Hell in Tim Story’s New Netflix Comedy — Premiering July 24th on Netflix

Kevin Hart has spent plenty of time getting roasted, mocked, chased, punched, and generally humiliated for our entertainment. But in the upcoming Netflix comedy 72 Hours, he may have finally found his most dangerous opponent yet: a bachelor party full of twentysomethings! And worse, he kind of asked for it.

Directed by Tim Story, the filmmaker behind Barbershop, Think Like a Man, and Hart’s Ride Along movies, 72 Hours stars Hart as a 40-year-old executive whose career is wobbling just enough to make one very bad idea sound like a good one. After he’s accidentally added to a bachelor party group chat, he decides to crash the weekend and prove he can still hang with the younger crowd. Big mistake. Huge!

The trailer lays out three days of Miami-fueled anarchy, with Hart’s character getting dragged into a weekend packed with yacht parties, party buses, drugs, run-ins with the law, cartel trouble, and enough bad decisions to make anyone over 40 start rethinking every life choice that led them there.

Hart leads the cast alongside SNL cast member Marcello Hernández, Scream’s Mason Gooding, comedian Kam Patterson, and Please Don’t Destroy member Ben Marshall as the younger party crew. The ensemble also includes Severance’s Zach Cherry, Better Call Saul’s Michael Mando, comedian Mike Epps, recent Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor, and legendary actor Andy Garcia.

Working from a script penned by Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows, along with Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Tim Story directs as well as produces alongside Hart.

So, yes, Kevin Hart, Miami, bachelor parties, cops, drug dealers, and 20-something hijinxs may sound like a random assortment of words. But in 72 Hours, they’re basically the whole itinerary.

72 Hours is slated to debut July 24th only on Netflix.

🎥 “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” Teaser: Rinko Kikuchi Hits the Dance Floor in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Sundance-Winning Ballroom Drama — Coming to Theaters This Fall

Grief, rhythm, and second chances take the floor in this Sundance-winning Tokyo-set ballroom dance flick from writer-director Josef Kubota Wladyka. Rinko Kikuchi, of Babel and Pacific Rim fame, stars as Haru, a competitive dancer whose life with her longtime partner is upended by tragedy, sending her into isolation until friends slowly pull her back into the dance studio. But when a new instructor, a Cuban dancer (Alberto Guerra), stirs up unexpected feelings, Haru must decide whether she’s ready to move again, on the dance floor and in life.

🎥 “Backrooms” New Promo: Viral YouTube Horror Creator Kane Parsons Turns His Creepy Online Nightmare Into a Big-Screen Chiller with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve — Hitting Theaters May 29th

The office has never looked less inviting. Based on Kane Parsons’ viral lo-fi creepypasta shorts, this unsettling horror film follows a troubled man who believes he has discovered a secret dimension filled with endless empty corridors, dead-eyed conference rooms, and exits that don’t seem to exist. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in Parsons’ feature debut, where one man’s impossible discovery pulls his therapist into the same reality-bending maze.

🎥 “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Practical Production Promo: Watch How They Made Tom Holland Swing with Practical Stunts — Hitting Theaters July 31st

Peter Parker is truly on his own this time. Set four years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, this new chapter finds Peter living as a full-time Spider-Man in a New York that no longer knows his name, fighting crime while carrying the weight of a life erased from everyone he loves. Watch as director Destin Daniel Cretton and star Tom Holland break down the practical stunts and effects that went into making this next big-screen adventure, which pushes Peter into darker, lonelier territory.

🎥 “The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford” Trailer: Peter Mullan Plays a Grieving Tour Guide Losing His Grip on History in Seán Dunn’s Offbeat Scottish Dark Comedy — Coming to Theaters June 12th via MUBI

The past has a funny way of refusing to stay in the gift shop. Peter Mullan stars as Kenneth, a grieving Scottish tour guide devoted to preserving the legacy of Sir Douglas Weatherford, an eighteenth-century inventor and philosopher who remains the pride of his small village. But when a fantasy TV series rolls into town and starts stealing the spotlight from local history, Kenneth’s fragile sense of purpose begins to crack. Written and directed by Seán Dunn, this darkly funny character study turns one man’s historical obsession into a strange, melancholy battle between myth, memory, and modern life.

🎥 “Bitter Christmas” Teaser: Acclaimed Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar Returns With a Meta Drama About Autofiction, Creative Drought, and Stories Within Stories — Premiering at Cannes 2026

Reality and fiction start blurring in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, a layered drama that moves between two timelines and two intertwined acts of creation. In 2004, Elsa (played by Bárbara Lennie), an advertising director, spends a long December weekend with her boyfriend and friends, while in 2026, Raúl (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a screenwriter and director, begins writing what may be her story... or some disguised version of his own. As creative drought gives way to autofiction, this reflective drama aims to dig into inspiration, intimacy, and the messy business of turning real life into art.

🎥 “Finding Emily” U.S. Trailer: Angourie Rice & Spike Fearn Turn a Wrong Number Into a Campus-Wide Rom-Com Frenzy — Coming to U.S. Theaters August 28th

Love has a funny way of dialing the wrong number. Spike Fearn stars as Owen, a lovesick musician who accidentally texts the wrong girl and teams up with Sami, a driven psychology student (played by Angourie Rice) to track down the dream girl he thinks got away. Directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, this charming British rom-com turns one messy mix-up into a campus-wide search for love, only to suggest the real connection may have been standing next to him the whole time.

🎥 “The Magic Faraway Tree” U.S. Trailer: Claire Foy & Andrew Garfield Discover a Magical World Above the Clouds in This British Fantasy Adventure — In U.S. Theaters August 21st

Sometimes the best escape isn’t a vacation. It’s a tree. Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield star in this British fantasy comedy adventure as parents who move their family to the English countryside, only for their children to discover a magical tree that leads to ever-changing lands above the clouds. Adapted by Paddington 2 writer Simon Farnaby and directed by Ben Gregor, this Enid Blyton adaptation looks ready to blend storybook wonder, cheeky British charm, and enough whimsical weirdness to make climbing trees feel like a very reasonable life choice.

🎥 “Broken Land” Trailer: David Morse Plays a Reclusive Texas Rancher Pulled Into a Border Crisis in This Texas Thriller — Arriving on VOD/Digital June 12th

A quiet ranch becomes the center of a moral reckoning in this rural Texas drama-thriller from director J.T. Walker. Veteran character actor David Morse stars as Carson Tidwell, a rancher who wants nothing more than to be left alone until he accidentally shoots a pregnant migrant worker (Jaklyn Bejarano) crossing his land. As he tries to protect her from his estranged Border Patrol agent son (Bill Heck), an unlikely bond begins to form between two wounded people searching for a way forward.

🎥 “Chum” Trailer: Alice Eve’s Dream Destination Wedding Turns Into Shark-Infested Chaos — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital June 5th

Something borrowed, something blue, something circling beneath the water. Alice Eve stars in this Malta-set survival thriller, where a destination wedding spirals into blood-soaked chaos after a shark attack and a sinister fisherman trap the wedding party between open water and human danger. Directed by Jonathan Zuck and co-starring Eric Michael Cole, Elle Haymond, Sarah Siadat, Johnny Gaffney, Lisa Yaro, and Jim Klock, this toothy thriller turns cold feet into the least of the newlyweds’ problems.

🎥 “Models vs Werewolves” Trailer: Full Moon’s Horror Comedy Sends Self-Obsessed Influencers Into a Furry Fight for Survival — Streaming Summer 2026

A weekend getaway turns into a full-moon nightmare in this campy horror comedy from director Danny Draven and Full Moon producer Charles Band. Sara Moliski, Rebecca Stoughton, Alexa Reddy, Sophie Swiszcz, Hanna Hueston, and Bela Mraz star as image-obsessed influencers who head for the countryside, only to find themselves hunted by bloodthirsty shapeshifters. With The Howling legend Dee Wallace joining the fun, this beastly little chiller looks ready to give “going viral” a whole new bite.

🎥 “The Grim Rapper” Trailer: A Murdered Hip-Hop Icon Returns From the Dead for Supernatural Revenge in Full Moon’s New Horror Flick — Premiering This Summer

Death can’t stop the beat in this supernatural revenge chiller, as murdered rap icon D.A. Mann rises from the grave three decades after making a dark pact with an Aztec blood demon. After a ruthless record label executive tries to profit from his unreleased music, the resurrected rapper comes back swinging, hunting down the people who betrayed him while chasing one last chance to see his true love. Featuring Chuey Martinez, Kemo The Blaxican, Ernie C. of Body Count, and Volume 10, this bloody hip-hop horror tale looks ready to drop the mic... and a few bodies.

🎥 “The Curse” Trailer: A Moroccan Student’s Parisian Nightmare Spirals Into Psychological Horror — On VOD/Digital June 2nd

A fresh start becomes a waking nightmare in this chilling psychological horror about isolation, trauma, and the terrors that refuse to die. Lina El Arabi stars as Yara, a young Moroccan student in Paris whose agoraphobia keeps her trapped inside her apartment as fragments of her past begin bleeding into terrifying visions. Directed by Abel Danan and co-starring Ouidad Elma, Sairi Salma, and Souad Labsy, this eerie chiller turns one woman’s unraveling mind into a haunted room with no easy way out.

🎥 “Karma” Teaser: Marion Cotillard Runs From Her Past in Guillaume Canet’s French Mystery Drama with Denis Menochet & Leonardo Sbaraglia — Premiering at Cannes 2026

Some pasts don’t stay buried, especially when a missing child brings every old secret back to the surface. Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard stars as Jeanne, a French woman trying to rebuild her life in northern Spain with Daniel, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia, until the mysterious disappearance of her six-year-old godson turns her into the prime suspect. Directed by Guillaume Canet and co-starring Denis Menochet, this tense French drama follows Jeanne as she flees to the community that shaped her, while the man who loves her races to find her before the police do.

🎥 “Ocean’s Eleven” 25th Anniversary Trailer: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts Return to the Big Screen for Steven Soderbergh’s Slick Vegas Heist Classic — In Theaters June 21st & 24th via Fathom Entertainment

Some heists age like fine wine. Steven Soderbergh’s cool, sharp, and impossibly stylish casino caper returns next month to theaters for its 25th anniversary, with George Clooney’s Danny Ocean stepping out of prison and straight into one of the most elaborate robbery plans Las Vegas has ever seen. With Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts rounding out the star-stacked ensemble, this big-screen rerelease brings back the charm, the suits, the swagger, and the question that never gets old: is Danny after the money, the girl, or both?

🎥 “Tekkonkinkreet” Re-Release Trailer: Cult Anime Classic Returns to Theaters for a Visually Wild Big-Screen 4K Remaster Re-Release — Back In Theaters May 31st & June 1st

Treasure Town is crumbling, but Black and White aren’t giving it up without a fight. Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s acclaimed manga, Michael Arias’ visually explosive anime follows two orphaned street kids trying to protect their city from gangsters, yakuza, alien assassins, and the darker forces pulling at their own bond. Newly remastered in 4K, this STUDIO4°C cult favorite brings its strange, kinetic, and deeply emotional tale of brotherhood back to the big screen.

🎥 “Your Fault: London” Trailer: Noah and Nick’s Romance Faces Its Toughest Test Yet in the Sequel to ‘My Fault: London’ Starring Asha Banks & Matthew Broome — Premiering June 17th on Prime Video

Love was the easy part. After the explosive events of My Fault: London, Noah and Nick (played by Asha Banks and Matthew Broome) return stronger, closer, and more committed than ever, only to discover that holding onto love can be messier than finding it. As Noah heads to Oxford and Nick gets pulled deeper into work, new faces, old insecurities, and rising jealousy begin testing the bond they thought was unbreakable. Now, with passion flaring and trust wearing thin, this romantic sequel asks whether true love can survive real life getting in the way.

🎥 “Poldi” Trailer: German Football Legend Lukas Podolski Looks Back on His Remarkable Career in Netflix’s New Sports Documentary — Premiering June 4th on Netflix

The left foot became famous, but the man behind it became something bigger. This Netflix documentary follows Lukas Podolski near the end of his football career, tracing his journey from street footballer and son of Polish immigrants to World Cup champion and beloved Cologne icon. Still playing professionally in Poland while building a second act as a businessman, “Prince Poldi” looks back on the game, the grind, and the legacy of one of Germany’s most authentic football stars.

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🎥 “Minions & Monsters” Final Trailer: The Yellow Chaos Machines Go Full Kaiju in Illumination’s Latest Animated Franchise Adventure — Hitting Theaters July 1st

This summer is already shaping up to be crowded with family-friendly films, from the latest Toy Story installment to the live-action Moana movie. There will be plenty to choose from when it comes to big-screen entertainment for the whole family.

But one film that might not be getting enough attention just yet is Minions & Monsters, the seventh overall entry in the Despicable Me franchise and the third Minions movie that will almost certainly turn into another summer blockbuster. And honestly, we’re still not entirely sure why the Minions have become such a massive animated phenomenon, especially since the franchise has always leaned more into silliness and nonsense than polished animated storytelling.

Still, we can’t deny there’s something weirdly effective about that formula, especially since slapstick buffoonery has always played around the world, no matter the language barrier.

This time, Minions & Monsters takes the gang into full monster-movie mode. Hollywood comes calling, and the Minions somehow decide they’re ready to make their own kaiju-sized feature film. Naturally, that means heading out into the world to find the perfect monster to star in their epic production.

Of course, these are the Minions we’re talking about, so the mission quickly spirals into total cartoon disorder. Their global monster hunt unleashes pratfalls, gibberish, weaponized cuteness, and enough slapstick mayhem to make the whole thing feel less like a film shoot and more like a disaster movie happening in real time.

Pierre Coffin, who directed the first three Despicable Me films and the original Minions, returns to direct and once again provides the Minions’ signature gibberish voices. The screenplay comes from Brian Lynch and Coffin, with Illumination founder Chris Meledandri producing.

More than a decade later, the Minions remain everywhere, with the franchise earning more than $5.6 billion worldwide. Why have they lasted this long? That’s still a mystery we haven’t quite cracked. But maybe the answer is simple: people really like watching these little Twinkie-looking weirdos cause trouble. And now they’re taking that trouble straight into monster-movie territory.

Minions & Monsters opens in theaters July 1st.

🎥 “Maddie’s Secret” Trailer: John Early Goes Full Women-in-Peril Melodrama in His Absurdist Directorial Debut with Kate Berlant, Eric Rahill, Claudia O’Doherty, Conner O’Malley & Vanessa Bayer — In Theaters June 19th

There has always been a long history of comedians working in drag, from the golden TV days of Milton Berle and Flip Wilson to the blockbuster comedy era of Robin Williams, Martin Lawrence, and Tyler Perry. Maybe the art of drag allows a performer to push a character further, heightening the physicality, exaggerating the persona, and letting the audience know right away that nothing they’re about to see should be taken too seriously.

Well, comedian John Early, of Search Party fame, is the latest performer to take drag for a spin in Maddie’s Secret, an absurdist spoof of the recent wave of women-in-peril mystery thrillers like The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window, and A Simple Favor. Only this time, the woman at the center of the mystery has plenty of secrets and very little self-awareness about what kind of mess she’s actually in.

Written and directed by Early, the film stars him as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher whose life takes a bizarre turn when she suddenly leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food-content creation company. On the surface, everything looks almost aggressively picturesque: an adoring husband, a loyal best friend, and apparently enough woman-owned, ethically sourced chili crisp to stock a boutique pantry.

But as Maddie’s professional life starts to heat up, the pressure begins to crack open something darker from her past. What looks like a glossy workplace success story quickly starts bending into melodrama, satire, and full-blown psychological unraveling.

Early is joined by Eric Rahill as Maddie’s devoted husband and Kate Berlant as her ride-or-die best friend, with Claudia O’Doherty, Conner O’Malley, Vanessa Bayer, Chris Bauer, and Kristen Johnston rounding out the cast. That lineup alone suggests the film won’t be playing its thriller beats straight, even if Maddie herself seems convinced she’s trapped in the most serious drama ever made.

Marking Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, Maddie’s Secret appears to be aiming for a very specific comic sweet spot: part food-media satire, part melodramatic identity crisis, part unhinged mystery thriller send-up. Think candlelit confessions, emotional spirals, and one woman’s desperate need to keep her curated life from going completely off the rails.

Maddie’s Secret opens in theaters June 19th.

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🎥 “Obsession” Film Clips: Horror Filmmaker Curry Barker Turns One Bad Wish Into a Nightmare of Love, Longing, and Fatal Attraction — In Theaters May 15th

As one of the most buzzed-about horror films of the summer, first-time feature filmmaker Curry Barker may have just found his big breakout moment, emerging as the latest online creator to make the leap from viral shorts to Hollywood features. Critics who caught the film’s premiere at TIFF last November have already been buzzing about Barker’s feature debut, helping turn it into one of those indie horror sensations that builds momentum through pure word of mouth. Some have also pointed to the star-making performance of Inde Navarrette, the woman at the center of the film’s increasingly twisted romantic nightmare. Check out a pair of clips, offering a look at the kind of unhinged, emotionally volatile performance from Navarrette that appears to be fueling much of the film’s early buzz.

🎥 “The Mandalorian and Grogu” New Promos: The Star Wars Franchise Returns to the Big Screen, Going Back to Its Space-Western and Alien-Monster Roots — In Theaters May 22nd

Check out a new batch of promos for this big-screen continuation of The Mandalorian, featuring the return of Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin, aka Mando, as he and his tiny Force-sensitive companion Grogu track down Imperial holdouts across a lawless galaxy still crawling with warlords, bounty targets, and familiar underworld trouble. Directed by Jon Favreau, this new Star Wars adventure looks ready to trade saga-sized mythology for pulpy space-western fun, practical creature work, and one very marketable found family.

🎥 “The Voices of Our Mother” Trailer: Filmmaker/Actor Mark O’Brien Turns a Family Health Scare Into a Supernatural Horror Thriller About Inherited Evil — Premiering June 19th on Shudder

Family reunions are already stressful enough before the matriarch starts showing signs of something far more sinister than illness. Written and directed by Ready or Not star Mark O’Brien, this supernatural horror thriller follows Harriet Scaflen (Sheila McCarthy), whose sudden health crisis brings her four estranged children back home, only for old resentments and buried secrets to claw their way back up. With Georgina Reilly, Carolina Bartczak, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, and O’Brien co-starring, this haunted-family chiller turns caregiving into a nightmare where blood ties may be the very thing that feeds the evil inside this creepy matriarch.

🎥 “Sunny Dancer” Trailer: Bella Ramsey Finds Friendship, First Love, and Summer-Camp Antics in This Coming-of-Age British Comedy — In UK Cinemas August 14th

Cancer recovery is hard enough without your parents packing you off to “chemo camp” for the summer. The Last of Us’ Bella Ramsey stars in this coming-of-age British comedy as 17-year-old Ivy, who arrives expecting the worst and instead finds friendship, romance, and a gloriously awkward group of teen misfits who turn a dreaded summer into something unforgettable. Written and directed by George Jaques, with Daniel Quinn-Toye, Neil Patrick Harris, James Norton, and Jessica Gunning rounding out the cast, this heartfelt teen cancer comedy looks ready to find humor, tenderness, and a little sunshine in the messiest places.

🎥 “Reckless” Trailer: Scott Adkins Races the Cops for His Cut of an Old Heist in This Darkly Comic British Action Thriller with Vinnie Jones & Nicole Deon — Arriving In Theaters and on VOD/Digital May 22nd

English action star Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4, The Rip) shows off his comedic chops as well as his bone-crunching action skills in this darkly comic British action thriller, playing a former convict trying to stay one step ahead of the law while chasing down his share of an old heist. With Vinnie Jones and Nicole Deon joining the trouble, director Elliott Montello sends Adkins barreling through a crooked second chance where freedom may be the hardest thing to steal.

🎥 “This Tempting Madness” Trailer: Simone Ashley Searches for the Truth After a Coma Shatters Her Memory in This Twisty Psychological Mystery-Thriller with Suraj Sharma & Austin Stowell — Arriving in Theaters and VOD/Digital June 12th

Memory can be a dangerous thing when it comes back in pieces. Simone Ashley (The Devil Wears Prada 2, Bridgerton) stars in this psychological British mystery-thriller as a severely battered woman who awakens from a coma with no clear memory of what happened and one terrifying problem: her husband (played by Austin Stowell) has vanished. With Suraj Sharma also starring and Jennifer E. Montgomery directing, this twisty puzzle turns love, guilt, and fear into a waking nightmare where reality may be the first thing to fade away.

🎥 “She’s the He” Trailer: Two Best Friends Fake a Coming-Out Before One Discovers the Truth in Siobhan McCarthy’s Queer Coming-of-Age Comedy — In Theaters June 5th

Coming out is complicated enough without accidentally getting there through a terrible plan. Written and directed by Siobhan McCarthy, this queer coming-of-age comedy follows Ethan (Misha Osherovich) and Alex (Nico Carney), two best friends who pose as trans women to shut down rumors about their sexuality, only for Ethan to realize the joke has uncovered something real. With Suzanne Cryer, Malia Pyles, Mark Indelicato, Emmett Preciado, Tatiana Ringsby, Kyle Butenhoff, Emma Orr, and Aparna Nancherla rounding out the cast, this sharp-edged high school comedy turns a wildly bad idea into a messy, heartfelt story of friendship, identity, and figuring yourself out before graduation.

🎥 “Find Your Friends” Trailer: Bella Thorne, Helena Howard, Chloe Cherry, Sophia Ali & Zión Moreno Take a Joshua Tree Trip That Turns Hostile in This Desert-set Horror Thriller — Streaming June 12th on Shudder

A girls’ weekend in Joshua Tree sounds relaxing, until the locals start acting like they’d rather bury the welcome mat. Written and directed by Izabel Pakzad, this desert-set horror thriller follows Amber and her four best friends as they escape the L.A. bubble for a weekend of partying, only to discover they’ve wandered into very unfriendly territory. Starring Bella Thorne, Chloe Cherry, Helena Howard, Sophia Ali, and Zión Moreno, this getaway-gone-wrong chiller turns vacation mode into survival mode fast.

🎥 “Penny Lane Is Dead” Trailer: Graduation Night Spirals Into Beach-House Bloodshed in Mia’Kate Russell’s 1986-Set Australian Horror Comedy — Coming to Australian Cinemas July 23rd

The summer of 1986 is about to get messy, bloody, and very poorly supervised. Bailey Spalding stars in this Australian dark comedy horror thriller as Penny Lane, a 17-year-old celebrating graduation and university acceptance with her friends at her family’s beach house, only for the party to go sideways when her troubled cousin Kat crashes the night. Directed by Mia’Kate Russell and co-starring Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn, Tahlee Fereday, Alexandra Jensen, Ben O’Toole, and Steve Le Marquand, this retro beach-house nightmare turns teen celebration into prank-gone-wrong mayhem with a body count waiting in the wings.

🎥 “Camp” Trailer: Grief, Witchcraft, and Female Friendship Twist Into a Cursed Summer in Avalon Fast’s New Horror Flick Starring Zola Grimmer — Coming to Theaters June 26th

Some summer camps are built for healing. Others seem designed to reopen every wound. Written and directed by Avalon Fast, this haunting new horror drama follows Emily (Zola Grimmer), a young woman carrying a traumatic past who finds refuge as a camp counselor, only to be pulled into a strange world of modern witchcraft, impossible redemption, and cursed cycles that refuse to die.

🎥 “Time and Water” Trailer: Icelandic Poet Andri Snær Magnason Builds a Cinematic Time Capsule in National Geographic’s Glacial Climate Documentary — In Theaters May 29th

As Iceland’s glaciers melt, poet and author Andri Snær Magnason turns memory into an act of preservation. From Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love), this National Geographic documentary blends family archives, old photographs, traditional songs, and folktales into a deeply personal reflection on home, inheritance, and a world changing faster than we can hold onto it. Part climate meditation, part love letter to a disappearing landscape, this is a film about what we leave behind when the ground beneath us won’t stop shifting.

🎥 “Cookie Queens” Trailer: Girl Scout Cookie Season Gets the Coming-of-Age Documentary Treatment from Filmmaker Alysa Nahmias — In Theaters August 7th

Thin Mints, big dreams, and a whole lot of pressure. Directed and produced by Alysa Nahmias, this coming-of-age documentary follows four young women competing to become top Girl Scout Cookie sellers while navigating the joys, tensions, and expectations baked into one of America’s most familiar traditions. With Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, executive producing under Archewell Productions, this sweet-but-sharp look at girlhood suggests cookie season is about much more than knocking on doors and moving boxes.

🎥 “Kyle Larson vs. The Double” Trailer: NASCAR Champion Kyle Larson Chases Racing History in Amazon’s Behind-the-Scenes Documentary — Premieres May 21st on Prime Video

Kyle Larson isn’t exactly the kind of driver who eases off the gas when things get difficult. This new Amazon documentary follows the Hendrick Motorsports star as he attempts “The Double,” the punishing same-day challenge of racing the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600, a 1,100-mile test only a handful of drivers have ever dared to tackle. From the 230-mph pressure of Indy to the brutal endurance grind in Charlotte, this behind-the-scenes look captures Larson chasing history and proving that some racing dreams require more than just speed.

🎥 “Another World” Trailer: A Soul Keeper Battles Rage, Regret, and Spirit-Realm Destruction in This Hong Kong Animation Fantasy — In Theaters June 5th via GKIDS Films

Guiding souls is one thing. Saving one from total annihilation is another. Hong Kong animator Tommy Ng Kai Chung makes his feature directorial debut with this dark animated fairytale, following Gudo, a Soul Keeper who befriends a young girl named Yuri after her untimely death leaves her cursed with unresolved rage and regret. Based on Naka Saijo’s novel Sennenki, this visually striking animated fantasy turns forgiveness, grief, and reconciliation into a dangerous journey where one wounded soul could bring ruin to both the human world and the spirit realm.

🎥 “The Most Precious of Cargoes” Trailer: Michel Hazanavicius Turns a Wartime Fable Into a Haunting Animated Tale of Survival — In U.S. Theaters July 11th

From Oscar-winning The Artist filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, this animated wartime drama follows a poor woodcutter’s wife who rescues a baby girl thrown from a train passing through the forest, changing the lives of everyone connected to the child’s survival. Adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 novel, this haunting fable looks at war through the lens of innocence, cruelty, and compassion, where one tiny life reveals the worst and best humanity has to offer.

🎥 “Animals in War” Trailer: Sean Penn Appears in This Ukrainian Anthology Film Told Through the Eyes of Animals Caught in Wartime — Hitting VOD/Digital June 26th

War stories don’t get much more haunting than this. This Ukrainian anthology film brings together seven short stories from Ukrainian and international artists, each centered on animals suffering through the devastation of the war in Ukraine. Featuring Sean Penn, Andrey Isaenko, Olga Korotyayeva, and Maryna Koshkina, and directed by Sviatoslav Kostiuk, Andriy Lidagovskiy, Alexei Mamedov, Ivan Sautkin, Yuliya Shashkova, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, and Maksym Tuzov, this sobering drama looks at survival, cruelty, and compassion from a perspective rarely placed at the center of war cinema.

🎥 “The Champion” Trailer: Warsaw Boxing Champion Teddy Pietrzykowski Fights for Survival and Defiance in This Polish Auschwitz Drama Starring Piotr Witkowski — Arriving On VOD/Digital May 26th

Every punch becomes an act of survival in this harrowing wartime drama. Polish actor Piotr Witkowski stars as Teddy Pietrzykowski, the Warsaw boxing champion and one of the first prisoners sent to Auschwitz, where he is forced to fight for the entertainment of Nazi officers. Directed by Maciej Barczewski and co-starring Rafał Zawierucha, Marcin Czarnik, and Jan Szydłowski, this true-story-inspired drama turns the boxing ring into a brutal battleground where each victory gives fellow prisoners something their captors can’t control: hope.

🎥 “Promised Sky” Trailer: Erige Sehiri’s Tender Migrant Drama Follows Four Women Building a Makeshift Family in Tunisia — Opens in NY Theaters June 12th

Home becomes something fragile, necessary, and fiercely protected in this French-Tunisian-Qatari drama from director Erige Sehiri. Aïssa Maïga stars as Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist who opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women, each carrying her own hopes, losses, and impossible choices. With Laetitia Ky and Debora Lobe Naney co-starring, this moving story of displacement, survival, and connection finds grace in the bonds formed when the world gives people nowhere else to turn.

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🎥 “O Horizon” Trailer: Maria Bakalova Reconnects With Her Late Father Through AI in Madeleine Sackler’s Darkly Comic Tech Fable with David Strathairn — Hitting Theaters June 12th

Technology can be a blessing and a curse. Sure, it can make life easier, faster, and maybe even a little less lonely. But what happens when it starts offering something much bigger (and much messier) than convenience? Like, say, the chance to keep talking to someone you’ve lost, like a parent, only to have them continue scolding you like one too.

That’s the emotionally loaded question sitting at the center of O Horizon, a new darkly comic tech fable starring Academy Award nominees Maria Bakalova, of Borat 2 and Bodies Bodies Bodies fame, and veteran character actor David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck and the Bourne films).

Here, Bakalova plays Abby, a young neuroscientist trying to balance a promising career, a new romance, and the recent death of her father, played by Strathairn. But when a new technology gives her the ability to speak with him again through an AI-generated voice avatar, grief suddenly gets a software update... and a phone number.

On paper, the idea sounds comforting. Who wouldn’t want one more phone conversation with a loved one? But the trailer seems to be tapping into the stranger, thornier side of that fantasy. Because if an AI version of someone we loved can still offer advice, comfort, and connection, what happens when it also starts questioning our choices, stepping over personal boundaries, or worst yet, refusing to let us move on?

That’s where O Horizon appears to find its sweet spot, treating the technology less as a cold sci-fi gimmick and more as an emotional complication that comes with speaking to a digital echo of someone who’s gone.

Written and directed by Madeleine Sackler, whose past work includes the HBO prison drama O.G. and the acclaimed education documentary The Lottery, the film appears to walk that uneasy line between whether technology should be allowed to recreate someone through personal data and whether opening that door is a good idea at all.

The cast also includes Adam Pally and Maggie Grace, along with Avi Nash, Paulina Porizkova, and singer-songwriter Aimee Mann.

O Horizon opens in theaters June 12th.

🎥 “Marty, Life Is Short” Trailer: Martin Short Looks Back on Five Decades of Big Laughs, Wild Characters, and Comedy Gold — Premiering May 12th on Netflix

Sometimes we take our favorite comedians for granted. We see them as joke machines, forever ready to make us laugh with silly pratfalls, mugging buffoonery, riffing jabs, or funny faces on command. Their job is simply to entertain us. Yet once the bit is over, we move on to the next person.

But lately, there’s been a wave of documentaries looking back at beloved comedy legends with a little more care and affection. From John Candy to Steve Martin to Paul Reubens to Stiller & Meara, these portraits have reminded us that the funniest people in the room often carry whole worlds behind the jokes and gags. Clowns they may be, but real people they most certainly are.

And it’s so nice to see Martin Short finally getting his flowers while he’s still here to enjoy them.

The new Netflix documentary Marty, Life Is Short takes an intimate look at one of comedy’s quickest-minded goofballs, tracing Short’s more than five-decade career through never-before-seen archival footage, personal material, and interviews with friends and collaborators.

Short, of course, has been making people laugh for generations, from his breakout work on SCTV and Saturday Night Live to scene-stealing film roles, Broadway triumphs, and his recent Emmy-nominated run opposite Steve Martin and Selena Gomez on Only Murders in the Building. He’s one of those performers who can go big, weird, silly, and strangely precise all at once.

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind The Big Chill, Body Heat, and The Accidental Tourist, the documentary seems less interested in packaging Short as a nostalgia act and more focused on how his comedy mind works. Because Martin Short has never been just “funny.” He’s fast, inventive, fearless, and often just one wig, accent, or deeply committed facial expression away from turning a normal moment into a belly laugh. Short might be his name, but big laughs have always been his game.

Marty, Life Is Short is slated to premiere May 12th on Netflix.

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🎥 “Boy George & Culture Club” Trailer: Documentarian Alison Ellwood Chronicles the Chaos, Charisma, and Candy-Colored Pop Legacy of ’80s Hitmakers Behind the Pop Classics “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” — Coming Soon

After digging into the tangled history of The Eagles, the trailblazing rise of The Go-Go’s, and the singular voice of Cyndi Lauper, documentarian Alison Ellwood is heading back to the ’80s for another pop-music deep dive. This new documentary tells the story of Culture Club through Boy George, Jon Moss, Mikey Craig, and Roy Hay, tracing the band’s rise from the UK’s New Romantic scene to global fame, internal turmoil, addiction struggles, and complicated romance within the group. Consider it a stylish, messy, music-soaked portrait of a band whose look was unforgettable and whose story was anything but simple.

🎥 “Giant” U.S. Trailer: Amir El-Masry Becomes ’90s Boxing Champ Prince Naseem Hamed in This British Underdog Boxing Drama Produced by Sylvester Stallone and Co-Starring Pierce Brosnan — Hitting U.S. Theaters May 22nd

If Rocky taught us anything, it’s that you should never count out the underdogs... especially if they have a wicked left hook. Amir El-Masry stars as British-Yemeni boxing legend Prince “Naz” Hamed, the flashy, fearless fighter who rose from Sheffield kid with a dream to one of the most electric boxers of the 1990s. Directed by Rowan Athale and produced by Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, with Pierce Brosnan taking on the role of tough-love trainer Brendan Ingle, this boxing drama steps into the ring with a true story about belief, showmanship, and finding greatness in the most unexpected corner.

🎥 “Signal One” Trailer: Isabelle Fuhrman Joins Dennis Quaid’s Secret Cosmic Project in Jonathan Sobol’s Sci-Fi Mystery with David Thewlis & Josh Hutcherson — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital June 5th

The truth may be out there, but cracking it open comes with a few serious risks. Orphan’s Isabelle Fuhrman stars as a brilliant scientist recruited by a charismatic tech billionaire (played by Dennis Quaid) to join a secret project that could change humanity’s place in the universe. Written and directed by Jonathan Sobol and co-starring David Thewlis and Josh Hutcherson as a fellow young scientist chasing the possibility of extraterrestrial life, this sci-fi mystery turns one world-shaking discovery into a dangerous leap into the unknown. Call it a giant step for mankind, assuming mankind survives the landing.

🎥 “Seven Snipers” Trailer: Radha Mitchell and Tim Roth Face Off in This Tense Aussie Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital June 5th

It’s sniper versus sniper in this tense Aussie action thriller, where the one with the sharper scope gets to walk away. Radha Mitchell stars as a retired elite sniper living quietly with her daughter (Annabel Wolfe) in the remote Australian countryside, until a ruthless sharpshooter from her past, played by a menacing Tim Roth, comes looking for retribution. Directed by Sandra Sciberras and co-starring Ioan Gruffudd and Ryan Kwanten, this locked-and-loaded revenge thriller turns one mother’s quiet life into a long-range fight for survival. In this game, missing the target isn’t an option, especially if the target is coming for your family.

🎥 “Finnegan’s Foursome” Trailer: Edward Burns and Brian D’Arcy James Tee Off on Family Grudges in This Ireland-Set Golf Comedy — On VOD/Digital June 19th

Family baggage meets the back nine in this warmhearted sports comedy from writer-director Edward Burns. Burns and Brian D’Arcy James star as rival brothers who drag their adult children to Ireland to fulfill their late father’s final wish: scattering his ashes on the coastal golf course he loved. With Erica Hernandez, Brian Muller, and Ian McElhinney rounding out the cast, this family getaway turns old grudges, bad swings, and comic misadventures into a reminder that forgiveness sometimes takes a full round.

🎥 “Masters of the Universe” Featurettes: Go Behind the Scenes of Travis Knight’s Live-Action He-Man Reboot Starring Nicholas Galitzine — In Theaters June 5th

By the power of Grayskull, ’80s fantasy is taking another swing at the big screen. Nicholas Galitzine stars as Prince Adam, reimagined as an Earth-raised hero who returns to Eternia after reclaiming his legendary Power Sword and discovering his destiny as He-Man. Directed by Travis Knight and co-starring Idris Elba, Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, Alison Brie, Morena Baccarin, and Kristen Wiig, this live-action fantasy reboot goes behind the scenes with a batch of featurettes exploring the handcrafted worlds, larger-than-life characters, and sword-swinging spectacle bringing Eternia back to life.

🎥 “Wildwood” Behind-the-Scenes Featurette: LAIKA Reveals the Handmade Magic Behind Its Soaring Stop-Motion Fantasy — Arriving In Theaters October 23th

Take a look at this behind-the-scenes featurette for LAIKA’s upcoming stop-motion fantasy. Directed by Travis Knight and based on the bestselling novel by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis, Wildwood opens up the Avian Principality, a winged realm built through handcrafted sets, intricate design, and frame-by-frame animation.

🎥 “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” 35th Anniversary Trailer: James Cameron’s Sci-Fi Action Classic Returns to Theaters — Re-Releasing May 22nd via Rialto Pictures

Say “hasta la vista” to your normal moviegoing plans. James Cameron’s landmark sci-fi action sequel returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary, bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed cyborg protector back into the fight alongside Linda Hamilton’s battle-hardened Sarah Connor and Edward Furlong’s young John Connor. With Robert Patrick’s liquid-metal T-1000 still ranking among cinema’s great nightmare machines, this big-screen comeback is a reminder that some sequels don’t just age well... they come back stronger.

🎥 “Is God Is” New Trailer: Kara Young & Mallori Johnson Hunt Down the Father (Sterling K. Brown) Who Broke Them in Aleshea Harris’ Fierce Adaptation of Her Award-Winning Play — Coming to Theaters May 15th

Revenge runs hot, but sisterhood burns hotter. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson star as twin sisters who set out across harsh terrain to confront the abusive father who shattered their childhood. Written and directed by Aleshea Harris, adapting her own award-winning play, and co-starring Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander, Mykelti Williamson, and Sterling K. Brown as “the monster,” this fierce revenge saga asks what happens when justice starts feeding the fire.

🎥 “Pitfall” Trailer: Richard Harmon Falls Into a Spike-Filled Nightmare in James Kondelik’s Survival Horror Thriller with Alexandra Essoe and Randy Couture — In Theaters May 29th

One wrong step turns the great outdoors into a nerve-shredding trap. Final Destination: Bloodlines actor Richard Harmon stars as a young man who gets separated from his friends in the woods, only to tumble into a 10-foot-deep pit lined with spikes and realize his fall was no accident. Directed by James Kondelik and co-starring Alexandra Essoe and Randy Couture, this survival horror thriller digs into the terrifying question of what happens when escape is above you, pain is below you, and someone wanted you there.

🎥 “Badland Rising” Trailer: Jake Ryan Hits the Road and Fights for Survival in This Gritty Australian Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital June 12th

One long drive home turns into a full-throttle nightmare in this gritty action thriller. Taekwondo-trained Australian action star Jake Ryan plays an ordinary dude whose 19-hour road trip takes a violent detour when two unhinged criminals begin hunting him down. Also starring Nathan Phillips, Steve Mouzakis, and Hannah Levien, this road-bound nightmare puts survival in the fast lane, proving that the open road isn’t always the safest way home.

🎥 “The Battle for Castle Itter” Trailer: U.S. Troops and French Prisoners Unite Against SS Forces in This WWII Siege Thriller — Streaming May 1st on TUBI

A prison castle, a rescue mission, and one wildly unlikely last stand. This WWII thriller follows a ragtag unit of U.S. soldiers who clash with the French elites they were sent to save, only to realize their real enemy is closing in fast. Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt and starring Aleksandar Trmcic, Daniel Grogan, Frano Lasic, Boris Lukman, and Laurent Rouy, this battle-tested siege story turns wartime tension into a fight for survival where nobody gets out by standing alone.

🎥 “The Crash” Trailer: Netflix’s True-Crime Documentary Turns a Deadly Car Wreck Into a Shocking Murder Investigation — Premieres May 15th on Netflix

A horrific crash becomes something far more sinister in this true-crime documentary. After a teen slams her car into a brick building at 100 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend and his friend, investigators begin picking through the wreckage and questioning whether this was really an accident. What starts as a tragedy soon shifts into a murder case, where the only survivor may also be the key to what really happened.

🎥 “The Murder of Rachel Nickell” Trailer: Netflix Revisits the Shocking Wimbledon Common Killing in This True-Crime Documentary — Premieres June 4th on Netflix

A brutal crime in broad daylight becomes the center of a yearslong search for justice in this chilling true-crime documentary. This Netflix original examines the murder of young mother Rachel Nickell, who was killed on London’s Wimbledon Common in front of her toddler, and the long, troubling investigation that followed. It’s a grim case where horror, grief, and unanswered questions stretch far beyond the crime scene.

🎥 “Ask E. Jean” Trailer: This Documentary Profiles Trailblazing Advice Columnist E. Jean Carroll, the Woman Who Beat Donald Trump in Court... Twice! — Opening in Select Cities May 21st

Truth, wit, and one hell of a backbone drive this documentary portrait of E. Jean Carroll, the trailblazing journalist, author, and beloved advice columnist whose life story is anything but ordinary. Directed by Ivy Meeropol, the film traces Carroll’s rise from Miss Cheerleader USA to gonzo media force, breaking barriers at Esquire, Playboy, and Outside before taking on Donald Trump in court (twice) and winning. It’s a story about the kind of fearless persistence that refuses to be silenced no matter who’s trying to shut it down.

🎥 “U.S. Against The World: Four Years With the Men’s National Soccer Team” Trailer: HBO’s New Docuseries Follows Team USA’s Road to the World Cup — Premieres May 12th on HBO Max

The world’s biggest stage is coming home, and Team USA is under the microscope. This new HBO docuseries follows four years with the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team as players, coaches, and fans look toward a World Cup moment with plenty of pressure, promise, and national pride riding on it. It’s a behind-the-scenes sports story about preparation, expectation, and what happens when the beautiful game comes with a very American-sized spotlight.

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🎥 “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” Teaser: Zoey Deutch Sets Out to Sleep With Jon Hamm to Save Her Relationship in David Wain’s Wild Celebrity Hall Pass Comedy — In Theaters July 10th

Every couple has probably had some version of the “celebrity hall pass” conversation. You know, that silly little relationship joke where each person names the famous crush they’d be allowed to spend one consequence-free night with if the impossible somehow became possible.

Harmless, right? Well, only until the joke stops being a fantasy and starts sounding more like a mission statement.

That’s the very funny, very dangerous setup behind Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, a new comedy from director David Wain, the comedian and filmmaker behind Wet Hot American Summer and Role Models. Co-written by Wain and Ken Marino, the film takes a dumb relationship joke and pushes it to its most chaotic, absurd extreme.

Zoey Deutch stars as Gail Daughtry, a small-town hairdresser engaged to her devoted high school sweetheart, Tom. But her comfortable life gets knocked sideways when a trip to a book signing somehow leads to Tom meeting... and sleeping with his own “celebrity pass.”

Not exactly the kind of autograph Gail had in mind.

Reeling from the betrayal, Gail impulsively joins her friend Otto (played by Miles Gutierrez-Riley) on a trip to Los Angeles, where things only get stranger. After a psychic (Kerri Kenney-Silver) convinces her that the only way to save her impending marriage is to “even the scales” with her own celebrity pass, Gail sets her sights on one man: Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. Apparently, Hamm might be the only way to save her marriage — which is either deeply romantic or a terrible idea with excellent celebrity casting.

From there, the film turns into a full-blown Tinseltown scavenger hunt, with Gail and Otto teaming up with a talent agency assistant, a paparazzo, and actor John Slattery as they chase the elusive Hamm through the wacky and weird underbelly of Los Angeles.

The cast is stacked with familiar faces, including Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Ben Wang, Sabrina Impacciatore, Joe Lo Truglio, Tobie Windham, Mather Zickel, Matthew Jayson Cwern, Thomas Lennon, Fred Melamed, Michael Cassidy, Michael Ian Black, Richard Kind, and Zac Oyama.

With Wain and Marino behind the script, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass sounds like the kind of comedy that starts with one ridiculous “what if” and keeps sprinting until reality has completely left the building.

The film is scheduled to screen at the Tribeca Festival on June 10th before opening in theaters July 10th. So maybe think twice before sharing your celebrity hall pass out loud. You never know when your spouse might be taking notes.

🎥 “Savage House” U.S. Trailer: Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant Chase Status, Survival, and Bloodshed in This Darkly Comic Period Satire — In Theaters June 5th

Some families try to climb the social ladder with grace. Others do it with duels, decadence, and enough bad decisions to turn the family estate into a full-blown madhouse. That appears to be the wonderfully wicked setup behind Savage House, a new black comedy period satire set in 18th-century England, where disease is spreading, political unrest is brewing, and polite society is doing what it does best: pretending everything is perfectly fine while quietly sharpening the knives.

Richard E. Grant stars as Sir Chauncey Savage, with Claire Foy as Lady Savage, an ambitious aristocratic couple determined to improve their social standing no matter how ugly things get. And yes, with a family name like Savage, subtlety was apparently never invited to dinner.

Set against the backdrop of a massive pox outbreak and the Jacobite uprising, the film follows the Savages as their blind pursuit of wealth and comfort spirals into a pressure cooker of vanity, manners, schemes, and bloodshed. Outside the gates, England is rattled by illness and rebellion. Inside the house, the ruling class is doing a pretty spectacular job of destroying itself.

Written and directed by Peter Glanz, who previously wrote and directed the indie rom-com The Longest Week and recently contributed to the screenplay for Captain America: Brave New World, the film boasts a strong supporting ensemble, including Jack Farthing, Bel Powley, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Vicki Pepperdine, Richard McCabe, and Pip Torrens.

Part powdered-wig costume piece, part upper-class absurdity where fine manners can barely hide the societal rot, Savage House is slated to open in theaters June 5th. Sometimes when the world outside is falling apart, the rich can still find a way to make things worse indoors.

🎥 “Leviticus” Trailer: Two Australian Teenagers Face First Love and a Shape-Shifting Entity in Writer-Director Adrian Chiarella’s Supernatural Horror Thriller — In Theaters June 19th

Young love is hard enough when you’re attracted to someone you’re not sure you’re allowed to want. But add a mysterious, malicious spirit into the mix, and teenage desire suddenly becomes a whole lot more complicated... and a whole lot more dangerous.

Coming off a strong debut at Sundance earlier this year, Leviticus has been lauded by critics for blending a tender queer coming-of-age tale of two Australian boys secretly falling love with each other with the eeriness and dread of supernatural horror.

Hailing from writer-director Adrian Chiarella, making his feature debut, the film follows Naim and Ryan, two teenage boys whose growing attraction to each other is complicated by something far more terrifying than awkward glances, buried feelings, or the fear of being outed. A violent entity begins hunting them, taking the form of the person they desire most: each other.

Which means the very thing pulling them closer may also be the thing trying to destroy them.

Newcomers Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen star as Naim and Ryan, placing the film’s emotional core on two young characters caught between longing and survival. The cast also includes Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska as Naim’s mother, along with Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie, Nicholas Hope, and Edwina Wren.

Written and directed by Chiarella, Leviticus sounds like the kind of horror film where the monster isn’t just lurking in the shadows, but feeding off the scariest parts of adolescence, perhaps highlighting the very feelings of adolescence that seem the most dangerous: desire, shame, fear, and the terrifying idea of being truly seen.

Acquired by NEON, Leviticus is slated to open in theaters June 19th.

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🎥 “The Birthday Party” U.S. Trailer: Willem Dafoe Throws a Mediterranean Family Bash Where Wealth, Power, and Betrayal Boil Over — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital June 5th

This 1970s-set drama stars Willem Dafoe as Marcos Timoleon, a wealthy Greek tycoon throwing an extravagant birthday party for his daughter Sofia, played by Vic Carmen Sonne, on a secluded Mediterranean island. But beneath all the luxury, music, and seaside decadence, Marcos is quietly plotting a decision that could shape Sofia’s future; whether she wants it or not. Directed and co-written by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, and based on Panos Karnezis’ novel, the film also stars Joe Cole, Emma Suárez, and Carlos Cuevas. Consider this your invitation to the party of the year... just don’t expect everyone to leave smiling.

🎥 “Mortal Kombat II” Characters Reveal Promo: Karl Urban Enters the Arena as Johnny Cage in the Bone-Crunching Action Sequel — In Theaters May 8th

The tournament is getting a major ego boost. This blood-soaked sequel brings Karl Urban into the rebooted franchise as Johnny Cage, a washed-up Hollywood action star whose big-screen bravado gets tested when he’s thrown into a very real world of supernatural warriors, deadly rivalries, and bone-cracking combat. Meet some of the new characters coming to this new sequel, where the roster gets bigger, the battles get bloodier, and the fatalities look ready to level up.

🎥 “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” Sneak Peek Clip: Mando and Grogu Hit the Road in Jon Favreau’s Big-Screen Star Wars Adventure — In Theaters May 22nd

Mando is coming in hot. This new sneak peek clip from Jon Favreau’s upcoming Star Wars flick drops us into an action scene with Din Djarin behind the controls of a landspeeder, a bounty in tow, and trouble closing in fast. With enemies on his tail, he calls on his little green partner for some backup, because sometimes even the galaxy’s coolest bounty hunter needs a tiny Force-powered assist. The road to the big screen apparently comes with plenty of blaster fire.

🎥 “Top Gun” and “Top Gun: Maverick” Re-release Trailer: Tom Cruise Takes Flight Again as Both High-Flying Blockbusters Return to IMAX — Back in IMAX May 13th for One Week Only

Feel the need all over again. This special IMAX double feature brings Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick back to the big screen, pairing Tony Scott’s 1986 fighter-pilot classic with Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 legacy sequel for one full-throttle theatrical ride. Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell goes from cocky hotshot chasing glory at the Navy’s elite flight school to battle-tested aviator confronting his past while training a new generation for an impossible mission. Two films, one big screen, and enough jet-fueled nostalgia to rattle the cockpit. It’s time to be Tom’s wingman all over again.

🎥 “Shrek” 25th Anniversary Trailer: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow Return to the Swamp in DreamWorks Animation’s Fairy-Tale Classic — Back In Theaters May 15th

We’re taking it back to the swamp. DreamWorks Animation’s Oscar-winning comedy classic returns to theaters for its 25th anniversary, bringing back Mike Myers as the grumpy ogre who just wants a little peace, Eddie Murphy as his motor-mouthed new best friend Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, and John Lithgow as the tiny tyrant Lord Farquaad. What starts as a simple mission to clear out Shrek’s swamp turns into a twisted fairy-tale rescue full of dragons, bad deals, unlikely friendship, and ogre-sized feelings. Some classics age like fine wine; this one ages like onions.

🎥 “The Last Viking” Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Go Searching for Missing Loot in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Offbeat Danish Crime Comedy — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital May 29th

Family reunions are always tricky, especially when there’s buried robbery money involved. This offbeat Danish crime comedy stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Anker, a recently released convict who sets out to recover the loot he stashed years earlier, only to discover that his oddly eccentric brother Manfred, played by Mads Mikkelsen (going against type), can no longer remember where it is. Written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, of Riders of Justice, the film turns a desperate treasure hunt into a chaotic, darkly funny journey between two brothers still digging through the wreckage of their past. Sometimes the real score isn’t the buried loot but whatever sibling damage gets unearthed along the way.

🎥 “Saccharine” Trailer: Midori Francis Swallows a Dangerous Weight-Loss Craze in Natalie Erika James’ Supernatural Horror Flick with Danielle Macdonald & Madeleine Madden — In Theaters May 22nd

Some diet trends take things to grave extremes. This Australian supernatural horror film stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Midori Francis as Hana, a lovelorn medical student who falls into an obscure weight-loss craze that involves eating human ashes... only to find herself haunted by the ghost of the person she’s consuming. Written and directed by Relic and Apartment 7A filmmaker Natalie Erika James, the film co-stars Danielle Macdonald, Madeleine Madden, Robert Taylor, and Showko Showfukutei. Talk about eating your feelings. Who knew the path to self-improvement could come with this much supernatural indigestion.

🎥 “Mexico 86” Trailer: Diego Luna Schemes His Way Toward World Cup Glory in Gabriel Ripstein’s Darkly Comic Sports Satire — Premiering June 5th on Netflix

Mexico never won the World Cup, so someone found another way to score. This darkly comic sports satire stars Narcos: Mexico and Andor star Diego Luna as Martín de la Torre, a man whose wild climb to the top helped turn Mexico into the first country to host the World Cup twice. Written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Gabriel Ripstein (Chronic, 600 Miles), the film turns the road to 1986 into a story of audacity, ambition, national pride, and some very creative rule-bending.

🎥 “Hungry” Trailer: Madison Davenport Faces a Ravenous Hippo in James Nunn’s Bayou-Set Survival Thriller — On VOD/Digital June 23rd

Tourist traps don’t get much nastier than this. This bayou-set survival thriller follows a group of sightseers whose off-the-path boat tour turns into a fight for their lives against a very hungry, very territorial hippopotamus. Madison Davenport leads the cast alongside Tracey Bonner, Joaquim de Almeida, Michel Curiel, Jim Meskimen, Samantha Coughlan, Olivia Bernstone, and River Codack, with writer-director James Nunn at the helm. Forget gators... this swamp has bigger problems.

🎥 “Speed Demon” Trailer: Katie Cassidy & William H. Macy Battle Possessed Passengers on a Runaway Train in This Exorcism Thriller — In Theaters, On VOD/Digital May 31st

All aboard the nightmare express! This supernatural thriller stars Katie Cassidy and William H. Macy as Sister Lu and Father Novak, two passengers on a train from Montreal to New York City who find themselves trapped when the demon Asmodeus takes over and turns the ride into a rolling house of horrors. Directed by Jon Keeyes and written by Domenico Salvaggio, the film sends Sister Lu into a crisis of faith as she fights to survive possessed passengers and perform the first exorcism ever done by a nun. Choo-choo! Next stop: eternal damnation.

🎥 “Broad Trip” Trailer: Sophia Bush Hits the Road with Lauren Holly to Stop a Very Questionable Wedding in Roku’s Mother-Daughter Comedy with Steve Guttenberg — Streaming Free May 8th on The Roku Channel

Every road trip has its detours, especially when the destination is stopping your mom from marrying some guy she just met. This comedy stars Sophia Bush as Alice, a buttoned-up daughter who plans a bachelorette road trip with her free-spirited mother Jeanie, played by Lauren Holly, hoping to pump the brakes on her whirlwind romance with Steve Guttenberg’s mystery man. Directed by Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe and written by Chelsea Davison, the film turns one messy road trip into a chance for old wounds, bad decisions, and mother-daughter bonding to ride shotgun.

🎥 “Neglected” Trailer: Josh Duhamel Races to Save His Buried-Alive Son in David Lipper’s Serial Killer Thriller with Dylan Sprouse — In Theaters May 8th

Retirement is going to have to wait. This action thriller stars Josh Duhamel as a detective whose final days on the job turn into a waking nightmare when a blood-soaked teenager, played by Dylan Sprouse, walks into his precinct with a horrifying ultimatum: solve a string of gruesome murders, or his kidnapped son runs out of air. Directed by David Lipper and co-written by Lipper and Adam G. Levine, the film also stars Til Schweiger, Elena Sanchez, Jeremy and Jason London. Nothing says “one last case” like being forced to beat the clock while your kid is buried alive.

🎥 “Affection” Trailer: Jessica Rothe Gets Trapped in a Memory-Resetting Nightmare in BT Meza’s Psychological Horror Film — In Theaters May 8th

This psychological horror film stars Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe as Ellie, a woman suffering from a mysterious condition that keeps resetting her mind, trapping her in a terrifying loop with a man, played by Joseph Cross, who claims to be her husband. Written and directed by BT Meza, the film turns domestic uncertainty into a waking nightmare where every answer risks disappearing before she can hold onto it.

🎥 “Night of the Living Dead” Trailer: Kill Bill’s Vivica A. Fox Leads a New Remake of Romero’s Zombie Horror Classic with Brittany Underwood, Dee Wallace & the Late Robert Carradine — Coming Soon

More than half a century later, and the dead keep coming, hungry as ever and apparently still terrible houseguests. This new modern remake of George Romero’s 1968 horror classic follows a small group of survivors trapped together as a worldwide zombie outbreak turns the living into lunch and the dead into an unstoppable threat. Directed by B-movie helmer Christopher Ray, the indie film stars Vivica A. Fox, Brittany Underwood, Dee Wallace, the late Robert Carradine (in one of his final roles), Miko Hughes, Zack Ward, Rob Van Dam, and Adam Huss. Some classics never die... they just keep coming back for more. And we keep opening the door.

🎥 “Hijacked” Trailer: A Ride-Share Abduction Turns Into a Deadly Family Rescue in This New Tense Thriller — Premieres April 24th on TUBI

Wrong car. Wrong driver. Very wrong night. This Tubi thriller follows a father racing to save his influencer daughter and their loved ones after a ride-share pickup turns into a nightmare at the hands of a deranged driver. Directed by Chris Stokes, the film stars Tremayne Norris, Chrissy Stokes, Ken Lawson, and Lateria Hope. Five stars? Not likely.

🎥 “TRAD” International Trailer: A Gifted Fiddle Player Hits the Road Across Ireland in Irish Filmmaker Lance Daly’s Musical Coming-of-Age Adventure — In Irish Cinemas May 8th

Some journeys are best played by ear. This Irish musical drama stars Megan Nic Fhionnghaile as Shóna McAnally, a gifted young fiddle player who leaves home with her younger brother Mickey to join a troupe of wandering musicians. Written, directed, and produced by acclaimed Irish filmmaker Lance Daly (Kisses, Black ‘47), the Galway Film Fleadh Audience Award winner turns one cross-country adventure into a story of music, romance, independence, and finding your own rhythm. Consider it a road movie with strings attached.

🎥 “Jinsei” Trailer: Ryuya Suzuki’s Hand-Drawn Anime Odyssey Follows One Life Across a Century of Pop Stardom and Reinvention — Opens June 5th at New York’s IFC Center; In Theaters Nationwide June 12th

A life can take many forms, and this hand-drawn anime swings for the full century. Written, directed, edited, and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki, this ambitious Japanese animated feature follows a hero voiced by rapper ACE COOL as he moves through different names, identities, and eras; becoming a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and eventually something close to an oracle. What begins with a chance encounter and a dream of superstardom turns into a sprawling search for destiny and whatever comes after fame.

🎥 “Hearts of Darkness: The Art of Eleanor Coppola” Blu-Ray Trailer: Coppola’s Legendary ‘Apocalypse Now’ Making-of Documentary Gets a 4K Collector’s Edition — Available May 19th on Lionsgate Limited

Some productions become legendary because everything goes right. This one became legendary because almost nothing did. This 4K Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition revisits Eleanor Coppola’s extraordinary behind-the-scenes video diary-slash-documentary on the chaotic making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, capturing the storms, breakdowns, health scares, political unrest, and private anxieties that nearly swallowed the Vietnam War epic whole. With rare footage, candid interviews, and Coppola’s own secretly taped conversations, the film remains a fascinating portrait of artistic obsession at its most brilliant and terrifying. Turns out the making of Apocalypse Now was its own kind of war movie... and Francis’s beloved wife, Eleanor, was there to record every unforgettable moment.

🎥 “Strictly Ballroom” 4K Restoration Trailer: Baz Luhrmann’s Dazzling 1992 Feature Debut Returns Fully Restored — Arriving in UK & Irish Cinemas and on Digital June 12th

Before Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!, Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann kicked up the glitter back in early ‘90s with this wildly theatrical ballroom fairytale. This new 4K restoration brings his feature debut back to the screen, following Paul Mercurio as Scott Hastings, a rule-breaking dancer who scandalizes the ballroom establishment with his own rebellious moves. When he partners with Fran, played by Tara Morice, an overlooked beginner with more promise than anyone expects, the film turns sequins, sweat, and stubborn self-expression into pure cinematic sparkle.

🎥 “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” Trailer: Diego Céspedes’ Cannes-Winning Debut Turns a Remote Chilean Mining Town Into a Haunting Tale of Fear and Persecution — Streaming May 15th on MUBI

Fear has a way of inventing its own monsters. Set in Chile in 1982, this haunting drama follows eleven-year-old Lidia as she grows up in a remote mining town among a queer family of performers, only to watch paranoia spread when a mysterious illness is rumored to pass through a single gaze between men. Written and directed by Diego Céspedes, the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner turns superstition, stigma, and survival into a deeply personal coming-of-age story. Sometimes the most dangerous thing in town isn’t the myth, but the people willing to believe it.

🎥 “My Dearest Señorita” Trailer: Elisabeth Martínez Embarks on a Journey of Identity and Self-Discovery in Fernando González Molina’s 1970s-Set Spanish Intersex Drama — Premiering May 1st on Netflix

A sheltered life cracks open in this Spanish period drama set against the shifting social climate of 1970s Spain. Newcomer Elisabeth Martínez stars as Adela, an only child in Pamplona whose quiet life with her conservative parents is upended by a life-changing discovery: she is intersex. The revelation pushes her beyond the boundaries of the world she has always known, sending her to Madrid in search of identity, love, and the freedom to finally define herself. Directed by Fernando González Molina and written by Alana S. Portero, the film also stars Anna Castillo, Paco León, Lola Rodríguez, and Manu Ríos. Some journeys begin when the life you were handed no longer fits in one box.

🎥 “Unidentified” Trailer: A True-Crime Obsession Pulls Mila Al Zahrani Into a Desert Murder Mystery from ‘Wadjda’ Filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour — Only in Theaters This Summer

This gripping Saudi murder mystery stars Mila Al Zahrani as Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced true-crime obsessive still grieving a devastating loss when the body of an unidentified teenage girl is discovered in the desert. With no one coming forward to claim her, Noelle becomes determined to uncover who the girl was and why her death is already being pushed toward cold-case oblivion. Written and directed by Wadjda filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour, the film turns one woman’s search for answers into a tense portrait of grief, justice, and a society quietly shifting beneath her feet.

🎥 “The Python Hunt” Trailer: Amateur Snake Hunters Chase Slithering Glory in Xander Robin’s Everglades Competition Documentary — Opens May 8th in NY; Expands to More Cities May 15th

Snake hunting is apparently a team sport in Florida. This documentary follows the annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades, where an eclectic group of amateur hunters spends ten grueling nights battling brutal terrain, nocturnal creatures, and whatever personal demons drove them into the swamp in the first place. Directed by Xander Robin, the film turns an environmental crisis into a strange, sweaty, and darkly funny portrait of obsession, ego, and ecological desperation. Call it conservation with fangs.

🎥 “The Kids Are Not Alright” Trailer: Survivors Expose the Troubled Teen Industry in Mikaela Shwer’s Urgent Documentary — On VOD/Digital May 5th

When justice fails, survivors are left to fight for themselves. This powerful documentary takes a hard look at the Troubled Teen Industry, a network of for-profit institutions that claim to reform youth while leaving generations of families to confront the damage of institutional abuse. Filmed over nine years, director Mikaela Shwer follows Liz Ianelli, Cadilina DeVille, and Cynthia Clark Harvey as they reclaim their voices, push for accountability, and demand that a system built on silence finally answer for itself.

🎥 “Flag Day” Trailer: A Small Michigan Town Hosts America’s Largest Flag Day Parade in a Verité Portrait of Community, Tradition, and Division — In Theaters June 16th

Patriotism gets personal in this observational documentary set in Three Oaks, Michigan, home to the nation’s largest Flag Day parade. Filmed in a verité style, the film follows veterans, local business owners, marching bands, volunteers, and townspeople as they prepare for a weekend ritual that celebrates American identity while revealing the tensions underneath it.

🎥 “Buffalo Kids” Trailer: Two Orphaned Irish Siblings Take a Cross-Country Train Ride in This Animated Adventure About Friendship, Family, and Finding Home — Streaming April 30th on Prime Video with Wonder Project Subscription

This animated family film follows two orphaned Irish siblings who arrive in New York City in 1886 before setting off on a daring journey across America aboard a transcontinental train. Along the way, they find an unexpected friend, face heroes and villains, and discover that family isn’t always where you start... it’s who shows up when the road gets rough. Sometimes finding home means crossing the whole country to get there.

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🎥 “The Mandalorian and Grogu” Final Trailer: Pedro Pascal’s Mando Hunts Imperial Remnants in Jon Favreau’s Big-Screen Star Wars Adventure Packed with Crime Lords, Alien Creatures, and Bounty Targets — Opening in Theaters May 22nd

It’s been a long time since a galaxy far, far away has lit up the big screen. Nearly seven years, to be exact, since The Rise of Skywalker closed out the Skywalker saga and left the franchise in a bit of a holding pattern. Projects were announced, reshuffled, and quietly shelved, leaving fans to wonder what the theatrical future of Star Wars might actually look like.

Now comes The Mandalorian and Grogu, a big-screen extension of one of the franchise’s most successful modern chapters, and one that seems more than happy to lean into its pulpy, back-to-basics roots. This corner of the galaxy plays like a full-blown space western, complete with gunslingers, crime syndicates, lawless frontiers, and, of course, a colorful array of alien creatures—some cute and some that look downright intimidating.

Pedro Pascal returns as Din Djarin, the lone bounty hunter navigating the fractured aftermath of the Empire’s fall. While the regime may have fallen, its remnants still linger in the shadows, scattered across a galaxy now ruled by power vacuums and opportunistic warlords. Tasked with tracking down these Imperial holdouts, Mando also carries a more personal mission: guiding Grogu, his Force-sensitive foundling, toward a future that feels anything but certain.

Genre legend Sigourney Weaver enters the Star Wars family, playing Ward, a former Rebel pilot turned New Republic colonel who’s assembling a list of war criminals still clinging to the Empire’s fading influence. For her, this isn’t revenge... it’s a calculated effort to prevent any chance of an Imperial resurgence.

With a deck of bad guys at hand, Mando agrees to bring in some of her most wanted, including names like Rotta the Hutt, Jabba’s heir to his criminal empire. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White takes on the role via motion-capture performance. Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese has also been tapped to voice a four-armed Ardennian vendor whose mouth talks as fast as his hands.

Filmmaker Jon Favreau has rounded up an eclectic cast for his first directed feature since The Lion King, working from a script co-written with Mandalorian co-creator Dave Filoni and blending practical artistry with modern computer effects... a result that feels both new and nostalgic. Together, Favreau and Filoni are steering this project toward something intentionally stripped back, perhaps a return to the scrappy, space-western tone that first made the Star Wars trilogy so iconic.

The real question is whether that approach is enough to reignite the old theatrical spark as the Star Wars franchise looks to make a big return next month.

The Mandalorian and Grogu arrives in theaters May 22nd.

🎥 “The Dog Stars” Trailer: Jacob Elordi and His Dog Navigate a Stark Post-Apocalyptic World in Ridley Scott’s New Survival Drama with Josh Brolin & Margaret Qualley — In Theaters August 28th

Here’s a thought: the popularity surrounding the post-apocalyptic genre likely comes from the uneasy feeling that our world is always teetering on the edge. One bad day, one wrong move, and everything we take for granted could collapse. These stories don’t just imagine the end, they force us to consider how we’d behave when societal structure dissolves and survival becomes the only rule left standing. And let’s be honest, when there’s a dog involved, the emotional weight hits even harder.

That brings us to The Dog Stars, the latest feature from legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott, who, at 88, continues to move with the kind of momentum most filmmakers half his age would struggle to match. After delivering back-to-back large-scale spectacles like Gladiator II and Napoleon, Scott appears to be shifting gears here, trading massive battlefields for something quieter, more introspective, and far more intimate.

Based on Peter Heller’s 2012 novel, the story drops us into a post-pandemic Colorado, where most of the population has been wiped out. Recent Oscar nominee Jacob Elordi, of Frankenstein and Euphoria fame, stars as a solitary survivor living in an abandoned airplane hangar alongside his dog, keeping watch over what’s left of a fractured world. His days are defined by seclusion and routine flights in his old Cessna plane with his dog, broken only when a mysterious radio transmission cuts through his fragile sense of stability, hinting that there may be something worth exploring. It leads to his decision to search for the source of the signal, which could lead to much needed hope or his utter undoing.

Elordi is backed by a strong ensemble that includes Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Benedict Wong, Guy Pearce, and Allison Janney, all playing survivors he encounters along the way. Qualley portrays a fellow survivor who forms a tentative bond with Elordi’s character, while Brolin plays a hardened, cynical gunman guarding his own territory, convinced the world we once knew is gone for good.

Adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), the film poses a question: in a world that feels so hopeless, can hope endure, or is it just another lie we tell ourselves to survive?

The Dog Stars is slated to open in theaters everywhere August 28th.

🎥 “Street Fighter” Trailer: Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo Face Off as Ryu and Ken in a Nostalgia-Fueled Action Fest Based on the Iconic Video Game — Opening in Theaters October 16th

The recent success of the Mortal Kombat reboot makes one thing clear: audiences are eager to see these old favorite video games brought to the big screen; ideally in a way that stays faithful while still delivering something fresh and cinematic.

And despite the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, which really was more of a cult curiosity than anything else, fans of the classic video game Street Fighter have been waiting for decades for a proper adaptation. Well, a new Street Fighter film is on the horizon, and it just might be something fans have been hoping for. If nothing else, it just might evoke those nostalgic childhood memories of spending hours glued to the arcade cabinet, quarters lined up and ready.

The new Street Fighter reboot doesn’t seem to completely ditch the fun, as there’s still plenty of that playful comedic energy baked into this presentation, suggesting this version knows exactly what it is: a nostalgia-fueled retro action fest where style, spectacle, and over-the-top showdowns take center stage.

The story centers on Ryu (played by Andrew Koji, from Snake Eyes and Bullet Train) and Ken Masters (a bulked-up Noah Centineo), former allies whose bond has fractured over time. Their uneasy reunion comes through Chun-Li (Callina Liang, of Presence), who pulls them into the World Warrior Tournament; a globe-spanning fight circuit that feels less like a competition and more like a proving ground. What starts as a test of skill quickly opens into something bigger, with a conspiracy bubbling beneath the surface and forcing these fighters to confront more than just each other.

Kitao Sakurai, best known for directing the prank-driven comedy Bad Trip, sits in the director’s chair, working from a script by Dalan Musson (Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Captain America: Brave New World). Together, they seem to be aiming for something that blends stylized fights with just enough personality to keep things lively and not overly serious.

With the main cast focused on Koji as Ryu, Centineo as Ken, and Liang as Chun-Li, from there it’s a mix of actors, fighters, and personalities stepping into iconic roles: rapper 50 Cent takes on boxer Balrog, David Dastmalchian plays the egotistical dictator M. Bison, while WWE stars Roman Reigns is Akuma and Cody Rhodes plays Guile. Meanwhile, Jason Momoa proves he is having a hell of a year as he gets to embody fan-favorite fighter Blanka. Rounding out the cast are Andrew Schulz, Eric André, Vidyut Jammwal, and Orville Peck, among others.

Whether this version finally cracks the code for video game adaptations is still an open question. What’s for sure, though, is this one’s ready to throw down. Time to pick your fighter.

Street Fighter is set to hit theaters October 16th.

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🎥 “As Deep As The Grave” First Look Teaser: A Pioneering Archaeologist Unearths Ancient Navajo Secrets in This 1920s-era Historical Adventure Featuring a Controversial AI-Generated Val Kilmer Performance — Coming Soon

Actor Val Kilmer may have passed a little over a year ago, but he’s still pushing boundaries. His estate has signed off on the use of his likeness for this historical archaeological drama based on the true story of Ann Axtell Morris, North America’s first female archaeologist. With Kilmer appearing despite never filming a single scene before his death, the project signals a new chapter in digital performance; one that’s bound to stir debate on both sides.

In this sweeping historical adventure from writer-director Coerte Voorhees, Abigail Lawrie stars as the pioneering archaeologist venturing into the American Southwest, where discovery, ambition, and cultural tension intertwine following a groundbreaking desert excavation with the Navajo. Also starring Tom Felton as Ann’s husband Earl H. Morris, alongside Abigail Breslin, Tatanka Means, Finn Jones, and Wes Studi, the film features an AI-generated performance of Val Kilmer as a local priest; an inclusion that, for some, may feel as unsettling as it is groundbreaking. File this under: cinema’s new ethical gray area where technology moves faster than anyone can fully process it.

🎥 “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War” Trailer: John Krasinski Is Pulled Back Into the Field as a Global Terror Plot Unravels Across Europe and the Middle East in Amazon’s New Spy Thriller with Wendell Pierce & Michael Kelly — Premiering May 20th on Prime Video

No CIA operation is ever clean nor contained unless it becomes less of a warning and more of a guarantee in this globe-trotting spy thriller where one analyst’s hunch triggers a chain reaction no one can control. John Krasinski returns as Jack Ryan, the CIA analyst-turned-field operative who can’t seem to stay behind a desk, pulled back into the fire after uncovering a trail of suspicious financial activity that points to something far bigger. As the hunt stretches across Europe and the Middle East, familiar faces like Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, and Betty Gabriel rejoin the mission, while new players (including Sienna Miller) add more uncertainty to an already volatile situation. Directed by Andrew Bernstein, this high-stakes feature-length continuation of Amazon’s Jack Ryan series turns a simple hunch into a race against a coordinated attack. Walking away was never really an option... but this time, it might cost more than Jack’s willing to give.

🎥 “Ladies First” Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Wakes Up in a Gender-Flipped World Opposite Rosamund Pike in This Sharp Social Satire — Premiering May 22nd on Netflix

Sacha Baron Cohen, long known for pushing boundaries with fearless, shape-shifting comedy, steps into a world where the joke flips on him. This high-concept satire follows a smug ad executive who wakes up in a parallel society where women hold all the power, forcing him to navigate a reality that no longer caters to his ego. As he clashes with a sharp, no-nonsense colleague (Rosamund Pike), the rules of status, ambition, and attraction are completely rewritten. Directed by Thea Sharrock (Wicked Little Letters, Me Before You), also co-starring Fiona Shaw, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Richard E. Grant and Kathryn Hunter, this comedy leans into discomfort and absurdity to expose how fragile the old playbook really is. In a world turned upside down, the punchline might be him.

🎥 “The Wizard of the Kremlin” U.S. Trailer: Jude Law’s Vladimir Putin Rises to Power as Paul Dano’s Spin Doctor Orchestrates a Ruthless Political Machine in This Political Thriller From Acclaimed French Filmmaker Olivier Assayas — In Theaters May 15th

Power doesn’t just rise, it’s carefully scripted. In the case of Vladimir Putin, it’s a story shaped behind closed doors. In this icy political drama from Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Carlos), a soft-spoken Russian filmmaker (played by Paul Dano) finds himself pulled into the inner circle of an emerging KGB strongman, Putin (Jude Law), where image, manipulation, and control become the real weapons of war. As Law’s calculating leader tightens his grip, Dano’s unlikely strategist helps shape a regime built on illusion, ambition, and fear... until the cost of control spirals into something far more dangerous; one where the world itself becomes the stage.

🎥 “Colony” Trailer: Gianna Jun Trapped Inside a Sealed Biotech Facility as a Mutating Virus Unleashes Chaos in This New Korean Zombie Thriller From ‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho — In Theaters August 28th

No way out. No time to think. This high-intensity Korean zombie thriller drops a group of survivors inside a locked-down biotech facility where a rapidly evolving virus turns a conference into a full-blown nightmare. Gianna Jun leads alongside Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, and Shin Hyun-been as alliances form and fracture while the infected mutate into something far more terrifying than expected. From Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho, this claustrophobic survival story turns containment into a ticking clock where every second counts... and every mistake makes things worse.

🎥 “Labyrinth” New Trailer: A Teen Influencer Gets Trapped Inside Her Own Phone as a Viral Doppelgänger in This New Sci-Fi Anime From ‘Macross’ Creator Shoji Kawamori — Arriving In U.S. Theaters May 10th & 11th

Shoji Kawamori, the mind behind Macross and The Vision of Escaflowne, dives headfirst into digital chaos with this anime sci-fi adventure about identity, internet fame, and the cost of going viral. When a shy teen is replaced by a slick online alter ego bent on turning humanity into mindless content consumers, she’s forced to fight back from inside the very device that trapped her.

🎥 “The Wolf and the Lamb” Trailer: A Frontier Schoolteacher (Cassandra Scerbo) Hunts for Her Missing Son as Supernatural Terror Creeps Into a Fractured Western Town with Zach McGowan & Adrianne Palicki — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital April 24th

Something’s not right in this dusty frontier town… and it’s spreading fast. This supernatural western thriller follows a grieving schoolteacher (Cassandra Scerbo) whose search for her missing son pulls her into a spiral of paranoia, folklore, and faith as the people around her begin to unravel. Also starring Zach McGowan, Adrianne Palicki, and Eric Nelsen, and directed by Michael Schilf, suspicion turns neighbor against neighbor as reality starts to slip, asking how far someone will go when belief and fear begin to look the same.

🎥 “Spaceballs: The New One” Announcement Video: Comedy Legend Mel Brooks Is Set to Return to a Galaxy Far, Far Away As He Reveal Sequel Title — In Theaters April 23, 2027

The Schwartz is strong again. Nearly four decades after the original spoof took aim at Star Wars, this long-awaited sequel will be blasting off with a whole new era of franchises to skewer. Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, and Daphne Zuniga are set to return as Lone Starr, Dark Helmet, and Queen Vespa, now joined by Lewis Pullman as Starr and Vespa’s son. Directed by Josh Greenbaum, with Josh Gad co-starring and sharing writing duties, this comedy revival aims to take on everything from legacy sequels to CGI overload... because in today’s Hollywood, the jokes practically write themselves. Watch Mel Brooks as he returns to the world of Spaceballs with a title announcement that fittingly pokes fun at sequel culture itself.

🎥 “Stolen Kingdom” Trailer: Inside Disney World’s Underground Theft Scene as a $500K Animatronic Heist Unravels a Hidden Subculture — In Theaters May 21st; On VOD/Digital June 16th

The happiest place on Earth... with a not-so-happy underbelly. This wild documentary dives into the strange, secretive world of Disney park superfans, urban explorers, and rule-breakers, all circling around the bizarre disappearance of a high-value animatronic. Through candid interviews and jaw-dropping confessions, the film peels back the curtain on a subculture where obsession blurs into trespassing, theft, and something darker. What starts as curiosity turns into a full-blown mystery; one that reveals just how far some are willing to go to claim a piece of the magic... and how many are willing to pay for it on the black market.

🎥 “Come What May” Trailer: The Late, Great Stand-up Comic Ralphie May in a Raw, Unfiltered Portrait of Fame, Addiction, and Legacy — Nationwide Theatrical Roadshow Begins April 28th

Big laughs, bigger demons. This intimate documentary traces the meteoric rise of a larger-than-life stand-up force who turned raw honesty into arena-filling comedy, only to find the same excess fueling his success pulling him apart behind the scenes. From breakout fame on Last Comic Standing to a relentless touring grind, the spotlight never dimmed, even as the personal toll kept mounting. Featuring candid interviews and unseen footage, this deeply human portrait captures a performer who could command any room, but couldn’t always outrun his personal demons.

🎥 “Broken Rhythm: Bruce Lee’s Game of Death” Trailer: A Deep Dive Into the Myth, Footage, and Unfinished Vision Behind Bruce Lee’s Most Enigmatic Film — Screening June 3rd at NYC Independent Film Festival

Fragments of a legend, finally put back under the microscope. This revealing documentary revisits the unfinished martial arts opus Bruce Lee left behind, peeling back the mystique to explore the filmmaker he was becoming beyond the icon audiences thought they knew. Featuring voices like Dan Inosanto, Ji Han Jae, and biographer Matthew Polly, the doc traces how a bold, multi-layered vision was reshaped into something far more conventional after Lee’s death. Drawing from rare archival material and firsthand accounts, this introspective deep dive uncovers a more ambitious, philosophical artist chasing something bigger than action stardom.

🎥 “Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)” Trailer: Pop Star Billie Eilish Joins Forces with Oscar-winning Filmmaker James Cameron to Turn a Global Tour Into an Immersive 3D Concert Experience — Coming to 3D Theaters May 8th

Lights up... and glasses on. This electrifying concert film drops us into the middle of a sold-out global tour, where one of music’s defining voices transforms arena shows into a full-blown cinematic spectacle. Co-directed by Billie Eilish herself along with 3D maestro James Cameron, the experience leans into cutting-edge 3D to pull audiences onto the stage and behind the scenes of a massive production. It’s part concert, part visual immersion, built to feel less like watching a show and more like being swallowed by it.

🎥 “Steal This Story, Please!” Trailer: Veteran Democracy Now! Journalist Amy Goodman Takes on Power, Media, and the Fight for Truth in This Timely Documentary About the Fight of Independent Voices — Now Playing in Select Theaters; Expanding Throughout April

Truth doesn’t come easy, and it rarely comes quietly. Amy Goodman might be one of the few American journalists over the last 30 years to play by her own rules in pursuit of it. This indie documentary traces her decades-long career as a relentless reporter pushing past soldiers, politicians, and corporate gatekeepers to cover the stories others won’t touch. From global conflict zones to the daily chaos of an independent news operation, the mission stays the same: give a voice to the unheard. Filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin pull back the curtain on a career built on asking hard questions, even when the answers come with consequences. In a media landscape shaped by power and pressure, the real story may be who’s still willing to chase it.

🎥 “Moss & Freud” International Trailer: Ellie Bamber Transforms into ’90s Supermodel Kate Moss Opposite Derek Jacobi as Legendary Painter Lucian Freud in This Intimate British Biopic — Coming Soon

Ellie Bamber, known for starring in Disney’s Willow sequel series, trades fantasy for fashion as she portrays ‘90s supermodel icon Kate Moss in this intimate biographical drama. Opposite her, veteran actor Derek Jacobi portrays legendary British painter Lucian Freud, drawing from the true story of Moss sitting for a portrait during a turbulent period in her life. Written and directed by James Lucas, of the Oscar-winning short The Phone Call, this character-driven drama explores the delicate push and pull between artist and subject as their months-long collaboration becomes increasingly revealing and deeply personal.

🎥 “AGON” Trailer: Three Elite Athletes Push Mind and Body to the Limit in This Experimental Sports Drama From Filmmaker Giulio Bertelli — Streaming April 24th on MUBI

Competition isn’t just physical... it’s psychological. This visually striking, documentary-style experimental film follows three elite athletes as they prepare for the fictional Ludoj 2024 Summer Games, navigating injury, pressure, and the relentless pursuit of perfection. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Giulio Bertelli, this immersive portrait turns sport into something more abstract and intense, where performance is shaped as much by the world around them as the battles within.

🎥 “Thinestra” Trailer: A Woman’s Weight-Loss Nightmare Takes on a Life of Its Own in This Body Horror Thriller — Available on VOD/Digital Now

Be careful what you shed... it just might come back hungry. This gnarly body horror tale follows a young woman who takes a mysterious weight-loss drug, only to see her discarded flesh return as a violent, bloodthirsty doppelgänger. Directed by Nathan Hertz and starring Michelle Macedo and Melissa Macedo, this twisted nightmare turns body image anxiety into something disturbingly literal... and deadly.

🎥 “My Best Friend’s Dead” Trailer: A Grieving Woman’s Dark Secret Unleashes Chaos in This Supernatural Horror Starring Caitlin Duffy & Anna Shields — On VOD/Digital May 26th

Starring Caitlin Duffy and Anna Shields, this eerie horror thriller follows a reclusive young woman whose attempt to resurrect her murdered best friend spirals into something far more sinister, as men begin disappearing and a deadly presence stalks her quiet town. Directed by Bruce Wemple, this twisted chiller blends grief and obsession into a supernatural nightmare where the dead don’t stay buried... and neither do the consequences.

🎥 “Sick Puppy” Trailer: A Devoted Wife Crosses the Line to Protect Her Serial Killer Husband in This Twisted Thriller Starring Natasha Calis — On VOD/Digital May 22nd

Love can make monsters of us all. This dark psychological thriller follows a woman whose loyalty is pushed to disturbing extremes when her serial killer husband tries to leave his past behind, only for her to spiral into violence to keep their life intact. Written and directed by Jay Reid and starring Natasha Calis and Dylan Taylor, this unsettling story flips the script on devotion, obsession, and who’s really the danger.

🎥 “Blood Lines” Trailer: An Indigenous Woman Navigates Love and Family Reconciliation in Gail Maurice’s Intimate Canadian Romantic Drama — In Theaters June 26th

This intimate Canadian drama follows Beatrice, a Two-Spirit Métis Indigenous woman (Dana Solomon) whose world begins to shift when a newcomer searching for her biological roots enters her life, stirring both romance and unresolved family wounds. Written, directed, and co-starring Gail Maurice, this grounded story leans into connection and the courage it takes to face the past.

🎥 “The Currents” Trailer: An Argentine Designer’s Life Begins to Unravel After a Mysterious Breakdown Abroad In This Psychological Drama Starring Isabel Aimé González Sola — Opening May 29th in New York

This quietly unsettling psychological drama follows a successful designer (Isabel Aimé González Sola) who returns home after a near-fatal impulse in Switzerland, only to find herself drifting away from her family, career, and sense of self. Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler, this atmospheric portrait leans into the eerie pull of a past that can sometimes resurface without warning.

🎥 “Jaunt” Trailer: A Chance Encounter Sparks a Soul-Searching Road Trip Along the California Coast In This Romantic Dramedy Starring Blake Worrell & Emanuela Boisbouvier — On VOD/Digital April 21st

Sometimes the road knows where you’re going before you do. This soulful romantic dramedy follows a washed-up photographer and a free-spirited traveler whose impulsive trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco turns into something far more personal, as hidden truths and raw emotions begin to surface. Directed by Alexi Papalexopoulos and starring Blake Worrell and Emanuela Boisbouvier, this intimate journey explores the secrets that can either bring us closer or pull everything apart.

🎥 “Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World” Trailer: American Masters Celebrates the Life and Legacy of the Beloved Poet — Premiering August 25th on PBS and PBS App

Featuring voices like Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, and Steve Buscemi, this reflective PBS documentary traces the journey of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, whose work on nature, beauty, and love left a lasting imprint across generations. A life shaped by solitude, yet shared with millions through words, Oliver emerges as a poet whose quiet observations continue to echo loudly today.

🎥 “Louder Than Guns” Trailer: This Documentary Follows Musician Ketch Secor and Journalist David Greene as They Try to Spark Conversations on Gun Reform Across America — Opening in Select Theaters Throughout May

After tragedy strikes, the real challenge becomes talking about it. This timely documentary follows musician Ketch Secor and journalist David Greene as they travel across the country, using music and open dialogue to confront America’s deep divides over gun violence. Moving from concert halls to barbershops, this grounded, people-first portrait shows how listening... really listening might be the only way forward.

🎥 “Nine Little Indians” Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio-Produced Documentary Confronts a Family’s Fight for Justice After Boarding School Abuse — Premiering May 27th at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center

Some histories need to be unearthed in order to heal. This harrowing documentary follows the nine Charbonneau sisters as they seek long-overdue accountability for the abuse they endured in the American Indian boarding school system. Directed by Shannon Kring and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, the doc weaves personal testimony with an ongoing search for truth, revealing a legacy of trauma that still demands recognition and justice.

🎥 “Rafa” Trailer: Tennis Icon Rafael Nadal Reflects on His Legacy and His Final Season in This New Sports Documentary — Premiering May 29th on Netflix

This intimate sports documentary follows tennis icon Rafael Nadal as he looks back on a career built on relentless grit, historic victories, and the physical toll of staying at the top. As his final season unfolds, the question isn’t just how he’ll be remembered... but how he chooses to say goodbye.

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🎥 “Mutiny” Trailer: Jason Statham Goes Full-Throttle Revenge Mode on the High Seas in This Gritty Action Thriller — In Theaters August 21st

There are some actors who, after breaking out in a certain genre, feel the need to shake things up and chase something completely different. Then there’s Jason Statham. He’s an actor who is perfectly locked into what he does best, and fully aware of what his audience wants from him. And what they want is usually simple: a lot of fist throwings, leg kickings and beating up a bunch of scumbags who deserve to have their heads kicked in.

In the upcoming action thriller Mutiny, Statham gives the people what they want: bone-breaking fights and a lot of gritted teeth as he demands revenge. Here he plays Cole Reed, a former London cop but now the loyal hired hand who watches his billionaire boss get murdered... only to be framed for the crime himself. With nowhere else to turn, Reed boards a cargo ship to set out on a one-man mission to clear his name and get revenge on whoever set him up.

From there, things begin to spiral. What starts as a straightforward revenge play quickly opens up into something much bigger, as Reed uncovers an international human smuggling operation. Now the deeper he gets, the more dangerous the waters become; turning this ship into a floating battlefield where Reed is a one-man wrecking crew.

Joining Statham is Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester, all orbiting a story that leans hard into a gritty, stripped-down action-driven brawlfest, a type of genre that Statham has practically made his own.

Directed by French action helmer Jean-François Richet, known for directing gritty crime actioners including the Assault on Precinct 13 remake, Mesrine, Blood Father and just recently Plane, Mutiny could land somewhere between a tight revenge thriller and a full-blown conspiracy ride where justice is served cold and with a right hook.

One thing seems certain: subtlety isn’t the goal here... payback is. And Statham has no problem delivering it with icy precision. Mutiny hits theaters August 21st.

🎥 “Mortal Kombat II” New Trailer: Karl Urban’s Washed-Up Johnny Cage Gets Pulled Into a Brutal Fight Tournament in This Blood-Soaked Video Game Sequel — In Theaters May 15th

People love video games. People love violent action flicks. And people love ’90s nostalgia. So when something lands right in the middle of that sweet spot, it’s hard not to pay attention. This is one of those movies that knows exactly what buttons it’s pressing... and isn’t shy about mashing all of them.

With Mortal Kombat II, the rebooted franchise leans even harder into what made it a phenomenon in the first place: bone-crunching fights, supernatural powers, and the kind of over-the-top energy that practically demands you shout “Finish Him!” at the screen.

But this time, the story takes a clever turn. At the center is Johnny Cage, a Hollywood action star who isn’t exactly at the top of his game. He’s a relic of a bygone era, a guy clinging to past glory while being thrown headfirst into a situation where bravado alone won’t cut it.

Karl Urban steps into the role, bringing that signature mix of swagger and bite he’s been honing as Billy Butcher on The Boys. Here, he gets to fully embrace the ego, the attitude, and the inevitable reality check that comes with stepping into a fight that’s very, very real.

Simon McQuoid, the director of the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot, returns, building on what he started, only this time with a much bigger roster and a clear intent to go harder as Cage becomes the new protagonist leading the underworldly mayhem.

Familiar faces like Tadanobu Asano’s Lord Raiden, Jessica McNamee’s Sonya Blade, Hiroyuki Sanada’s Scorpion, Josh Lawson’s Kano, Mehcad Brooks’ Jax, Ludi Lin’s Liu Kang, and Chin Han’s Shang Tsung are back, alongside Joe Taslim as Bi-Han/Noob Saibot, Max Huang as Kung Lao, and Lewis Tan as Cole Young.

Meanwhile, new fighters entering the arena include Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Tati Gabrielle as Jade, Martyn Ford as Shao Kahn, and Damon Herriman as Quan Chi, giving this sequel a stacked lineup that feels closer to the games fans grew up with.

With Moon Knight writer Jeremy Slater on scripting duties, the sequel looks bigger, louder, and far more confident in embracing that Mortal Kombat ethos. It’s just enough to break out that old PS controller.

Mortal Kombat II is set to crash into theaters May 15th.

🎥 “Couples Weekend” Trailer: Josh Gad & Alexandria Daddario Get Snowed In With Cheating Partners in This Tense Cabin Comedy with Daveed Diggs & Ashley Park — In Theaters May 8th

It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt... like catching your significant other in a not-so-subtle love tryst with someone else. That kind of mood shift doesn’t exactly make for a relaxing weekend getaway. Yet, it’s perhaps a great set-up for a comedy where love becomes an uncomfortable game with no winners.

In the upcoming ensemble dramedy Couples Weekend, Josh Gad and Alexandria Daddario play two friends who discover their respective partners (Daveed Diggs and Ashley Park) have been cheating on them during what was supposed to be a cozy New Year’s retreat. What follows is less romantic escape and more emotional freefall as they try to figure out whether to salvage the weekend... or confront their partners with what they saw.

Now stranded in a snowed-in cabin as a blizzard rages outside, the four find themselves with nowhere to go and no way to avoid the fallout. Things take an even stranger turn when the truth starts to crack everyone open, turning already fragile tensions into full-blown confrontations as secrets spill to the surface with explosive consequences.

Written and directed by TV writer-helmer Nora Kirkpatrick (The Goldbergs, Daisy Jones & The Six), the film leans into that pressure-cooker setup, where the walls feel tighter by the minute and every conversation threatens to explode. The colder it gets outside, the messier things become inside, as resentment, attraction, and bad decisions all start bubbling to the surface. One thing seems certain: no one’s leaving this cabin the same way they walked in.

Co-starring Kevin Pollak, Couples Weekend arrives in theaters May 8th. Bring a friend you can trust and a partner you probably shouldn’t.

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🎥 “Mabel” Trailer: Judy Greer Guides a Young Outsider Finding Her Voice in This Heartfelt Coming-of-Age Drama with Lexi Perkel & Christine Ko — In Select Theaters April 17th and On VOD/Digital April 21st

Growing up takes patience... and a good mentor to teach you about botany! This heartfelt coming-of-age story follows a socially withdrawn girl (Lexi Perkel) who finds unexpected purpose after sneaking into a high school botany class led by an inspiring substitute teacher (Judy Greer). Also starring Christine Ko, and directed by Nicholas Ma (Leap of Faith), this quiet, character-driven journey shows just how curiosity, connection, and self-discovery can spark the biggest changes in a person’s life. Even if that journey starts in the most unexpected place... like a classroom and a substitute teacher with a passion for plants.

🎥 “Trainspotting” 30th Anniversary Trailer: Danny Boyle’s Iconic ’90s Cult Classic Returns in a Gritty 4K Restoration — Back in Theaters June 5th

Choose life... or don’t. This electric ’90s classic drops back into the chaotic world of Mark Renton and his self-destructive circle of mates, where drugs, friendship, and survival blur into one relentless spiral. Featuring breakout performances from Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, and Robert Carlyle, director Danny Boyle’s kinetic, drug-addled dark comedy still hits like a jolt to the system decades later. Some habits die hard but some films never lose their edge... even 30 years later.

🎥 “Legally Blonde: 25th Anniversary” Re-release Trailer: Reese Witherspoon’s Iconic 2001 Comedy Returns to Theaters — on Sun, May 24th & on Wed, May 27th

Reese Witherspoon’s beloved comedy classic follows Elle Woods as she trades California glam for Harvard Law, determined to win back her ex and prove she’s more than meets the eye. With charm and confidence, Elle overcomes a fish-out-of-water situation and turns it into a sharp, feel-good underdog tale about defying expectations. Turns out, the best revenge isn’t getting him back... it’s proving everyone wrong.

🎥 “Dune: Part Three” New Promo: Timothée Chalamet Returns for Denis Villeneuve’s Epic Finale as Paul Atreides Faces the Cost of Power — In Theaters and IMAX December 18th

Destiny comes with a price. This sweeping sci-fi epic continues the saga of Paul Atreides as his rise to power begins to unravel under the weight of prophecy, politics, and the consequences of his own legend. Timothée Chalamet leads the charge alongside Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Robert Pattinson, Anya Taylor-Joy and Jason Momoa, among others, with director Denis Villeneuve bringing the trilogy to a close in a large-scale final chapter built for IMAX. Watch it on the biggest screen possible.

🎥 “The Mandalorian and Grogu” Behind-the-Scenes Look: Jon Favreau and Pedro Pascal Tease New Creatures and Droids in This Big-Screen Star Wars Adventure — In Theaters May 22nd

The galaxy keeps getting bigger. This behind-the-scenes look highlights the next chapter for Din Djarin and Grogu as they navigate a post-Empire landscape filled with scattered warlords and rising threats. Pedro Pascal returns as the legendary Mandalorian, joined by Sigourney Weaver, with director Jon Favreau pulling back the curtain on the film’s new creatures, droids, and expanding world.

🎥 “Mother Mary” New Behind-the-Scenes Look: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel Step Into David Lowery’s Enigmatic Pop Drama — In Select Theaters April 17th, Nationwide April 24th

Fame takes on a life of its own. This behind-the-scenes look steps inside a mysterious pop star-driven drama where Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel lead a stacked ensemble, with filmmaker David Lowery shaping a story that feels as elusive as it is emotionally charged. Not everything seen on stage tells the full story behind it. And sometimes it takes a certain performance to reveal who you really are.

🎥 “Exit 8” Final Trailer: A Man Trapped in an Endless Subway Must Follow One Rule to Escape This Mind-Bending Japanese Horror Flick — Now Playing in Theaters

Based on the viral game by KOTAKE CREATE, this eerie psychological thriller from director Genki Kawamura follows a man (Kazunari Ninomiya) navigating an endless, sterile subway corridor where the only way out is to spot what doesn’t belong, turning repetition into dread as every overlooked detail resets the nightmare. Miss something... and you’re back where you began. One wrong move and you must start over. But one mistake too many might mean you never leave.

🎥 “The Butcher’s Blade” Trailer: Justice Cuts Both Ways as a Framed Officer Turns Reluctant Enforcer in Liu Wenpu’s Gritty Martial Arts Thriller — On VOD/Digital May 12th

Starring Chinese actor Liu Fengchao, this action thriller follows a principled constable forced into the shadows after being framed for a massive financial fraud, pushing him into the ranks of a covert squad that serves only those who can pay. Caught between clearing his name and compromising everything he once stood for, he’s pulled deeper into a world where loyalty is bought and truth comes at a cost. Sometimes the only way to prove your innocence is to fight like the guilty.

🎥 “An Enemy Within” Trailer: A Groom (William Moseley) Is Forced Into a Deadly Midnight Choice in This Wedding Night-Set Horror Thriller — On VOD/Digital May 15th

Till death do us part hits a little early. This dark action thriller follows a groom who receives a chilling ultimatum on his wedding night: kill his new father-in-law before midnight or watch his bride die. William Moseley, from The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, leads a tense, ticking-clock nightmare as secrets unravel and loyalties shift inside a powerful family hiding more than it lets on. By the time the truth comes out, the real threat may already be inside the room.

🎥 “Scared to Death” Trailer: Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley Lead a Séance Gone Wrong in Paul Boyd’s High-Voltage Horror-Comedy — On VOD/Digital May 5th

Some research projects come with consequences. This horror-comedy follows a group of filmmakers who head to an abandoned orphanage to stage a séance, only to find themselves trapped as supernatural forces begin to break loose. Horror vets Lin Shaye (Insidious) and Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects) lead an eclectic ensemble, with director Paul Boyd blending haunted-house chills and irreverent humor into a chaotic, effects-driven ride where the line between performance and reality quickly evaporates.

🎥 “Frankie, Maniac Woman” Trailer: An Aspiring Singer (Dina Silva) Spirals Toward a Violent Breaking Point in This Gritty Psychological Horror Thriller — In Select Theaters April 24th

Pressure builds until it explodes. This raw psychological horror-thriller follows an aspiring singer-songwriter navigating the brutal realities of trauma, misogyny, and an image-obsessed music industry. Dina Silva co-writes and stars as a woman pushed to the edge, with Traumatika filmmaker Pierre Tsigaridis directing a horrific story that turns personal struggle into violent release.

🎥 “The Bearded Girl” Trailer: A Young Circus Performer Breaks from Family Tradition in This Quirky Coming-of-Age Tale Starring Anwen O’Driscoll & Jessica Paré — Coming out in Canada April 25th

Some legacies are harder to shake than others. Anwen O’Driscoll stars in this offbeat coming-of-age tale as Cleo, a young woman born into a long line of bearded circus performers. As she begins to question the life laid out for her, her controlling mother (Mad Men’s Jessica Paré) grapples with losing hold of the daughter meant to carry on their Bearded Lady family tradition. Directed by indie Canadian filmmaker Jody Wilson, the film explores identity, independence, and what it takes to step outside the role you were born into. Sometimes growing up means choosing your own path instead of following someone else’s.

🎥 “The Gentleman” Trailer: Ron Perlman Hunts for Brutal Revenge in Gabriel Beristain’s Gritty Action Thriller — On VOD/Digital April 14th

Ron Perlman stars in this hard-edged revenge thriller as a former elite soldier living in isolation until the one person he confides in is brutally taken from him. While tapping back into his lethal past, he sets off a violent chain reaction as a troubled detective and a ruthless hitman close in from opposite sides. Directed by acclaimed Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Beristain (whose camera work includes Blade II, Black Widow, The Beekeeper) and co-starring Megan Montaner, Hovik Keuchkerian, and Natti Natasha, this simmering manhunt builds toward a collision where the past comes calling... not before a final, brutal reckoning.

🎥 “Kangaroo Island” U.S. Trailer: Rebecca Breeds Returns Home to Face Family Secrets in This Breakout Australian Drama — Opening in Select U.S. Theaters April 24th

Going home might be the toughest move of all. This heartfelt drama, already a breakout hit in Australia, follows a struggling actress drawn back to her estranged father on the rugged shores of Kangaroo Island, where old wounds and family tensions rise to the surface. Rebecca Breeds stars alongside Adelaide Clemens and Erik Thomson in a story that blends humor with emotional honesty, set against a striking natural backdrop. Sometimes the only way to mend what’s broken is to face it head-on.

🎥 “Animal Farm” Final Trailer: Seth Rogen Leads an All-Star Voice Cast in Andy Serkis’ Animated George Orwell Adaptation Where Power Corrupts Absolutely — Hitting Theaters May 1st

Power shifts fast when the animals take control. Based on the classic Orwell novel, this animated political fable follows a group of farm animals who overthrow their human owner and attempt to build an equal society, only to watch it slowly twist into something they never saw coming. Seth Rogen voices the cunning pig who rises to rule, with Gaten Matarazzo and Kieran Culkin caught in the growing web of propaganda and control, while Andy Serkis directs with a sharp eye on how revolutions unravel when power goes unchecked.

🎥 Philip Hartman’s “No Picnic” Trailer: A Wandering East Village Drifter Searches for Meaning in This Gritty ’80s Indie Gem Celebrating its 40th Anniversary — 4K Restoration Screens at New York’s Film Forum April 17th

This nearly forgotten black-and-white ’80s indie gem follows a down-and-out jukebox operator wandering the pre-gentrified East Village, chasing the faint trace of a woman who may or may not be real. David Brisbin leads the search with quiet melancholy, while early turns from Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán flicker through the city’s dive bars, punk shows and crumbling streets. Shot in stark, evocative imagery, this scrappy 1986 Sundance breakout from filmmaker Philip Hartman captures a time, a place, and a feeling of what New York once was. A new 4K restoration aims to bring that vanished world back into focus for the film’s 40th anniversary.

🎥 “Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy” Trailer: New BBC Documentary Takes A Deep Dive into the King of Pop’s Genius, Controversy, and Complicated Legacy — Streaming April 8th on BBC iPlayer

This new Michael Jackson documentary traces the rise of the child prodigy who became a global pop icon, while unpacking the brilliance, scrutiny, and controversies that followed him at every stage. Through the highs of musical innovation and the weight of public trials, it examines how one of the most influential artists ever remains as debated as he is celebrated.

🎥 “Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool” Trailer: Country Star Lainey Wilson Balances Fame, Grit, and Staying True to Herself in This New Documentary — Debuting April 22nd on Netflix

Fame doesn’t mean losing your roots. This Netflix original documentary tracks breakout country star Lainey Wilson at a turning point, navigating the pressures of success while holding tight to the voice that got her there. Following her on the road and behind the scenes, it captures the grind, the spotlight, and the personal stakes of staying authentic in a fast-moving industry.

🎥 “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man” Trailer: A Music Industry Insider Reflects on a Life Alongside Legends from The Beatles to Laurel Canyon — In Select Theaters June 19th

Some careers don’t just follow history but help shape it. And Peter Asher might have been one of those unsung heroes who helped define the music industry into what it is today. This documentary traces the life of this pop star turned record producer turned manager whose path crossed with icons like Paul McCartney, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt. Moving from Swinging London to the California singer-songwriter boom, the doc explores Asher’s unconventional music career and his numerous collaborations that helped define generations of music.

🎥 “My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders” Trailer: A Daughter’s Shocking Accusations Unravel a Small Town in This New True-Crime Doc — Streaming April 28th on Paramount+

What if the monster everyone feared... was your own father? This chilling true-crime documentary follows a woman’s explosive claims that her father committed a series of murders, forcing his own children into a nightmare of silence and complicity. As investigators dig deeper, long-buried rumors begin to surface, turning a quiet town into the center of a national investigation.

🎥 “American Agitators” Trailer: A Powerful Documentary Traces the Legacy of Organizer Fred Ross Sr. and the Fight for Social Justice — Opening in Select Theaters, NYC’s Quad Cinema May 1st

Change starts with action. This inspiring documentary explores the life and legacy of Fred Ross Sr., a pioneering community organizer whose work helped shape major civil rights victories and grassroots movements across decades. From the Dust Bowl era to modern labor fights, the film, narrated by activist, playwright, and filmmaker Luis Valdez (La Bamba), connects past struggles to present-day activism, showing how organizing and persistence can drive real change.

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🎥 “Over Your Dead Body” New Trailer: Samara Weaving and Jason Segel Plot Each Other’s Demise in This Twisted Dark Comedy — Arriving in Theaters April 24th

We bet there are a number of people out there who dream about marrying Samara Weaving or Jason Segel since they seem to be some of the most charming actors working in Hollywood today. But their latest film might have those fans second guessing that idea, as it seems marriage comes with a body count and a whole lot of bandages.

In this upcoming darkly comic thriller Over Your Dead Body, the Ready or Not star plays a fiery woman stuck in a deeply unhappy marriage with Segel’s deceptively mild-mannered husband. As they decide to take a prearranged romantic weekend to a remote cabin in hopes of rekindling their relationship, they both discover something shocking and disturbing: they have each secretly planned to kill each other before the weekend is over.

With the revelation comes a tense cabin standoff where the two get locked into a deadly game of one-upmanship as things go from bad to completely off the rails, when a few unexpected guests arrive, turning a private grudge match into an unpredictable disaster.

Directed by Lonely Island comedian and former SNL writer Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, MacGruber), this remake of the Norwegian cult hit Onde Dager (aka The Trip) asks just how far an unhappy married couple can take the whole “till death do us part” thing before it turns into a very real murder plot.

Leaning into sharp tonal swings between violence and absurdity, the script comes from sketch comedy duo/screenwriters Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher (aka BriTANicK), who recently made their feature directorial debut with Hulu’s trippy stoner comedy Pizza Movie.

Joining Weaving and Segel is a supporting cast that includes Juliette Lewis and Paul Guilfoyle, with Timothy Olyphant as a contract killer who finds himself entangled in the couple’s twisted weekend of betrayal and bloodshed.

Over Your Dead Body is coming to theaters April 24th. Witness a marriage dissolution like no other.

🎥 “Mother Mary” New Trailer: Anne Hathaway Transforms into a Mega Pop Star in David Lowery’s Genre-Bending Fever Dream — Opening in Select Theaters April 17th; Expanding Wide April 24th

Anne Hathaway, the pop diva?

The Devil Wears Prada star is getting the chance to tap into her inner diva, starring as a chart-topping icon in the visually striking, genre-blending pop star drama Mother Mary from writer-director David Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story).

Hathaway, who is already stacking a major year with two highly anticipated summer releases, The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, dives headfirst into full pop icon mode as a Lady Gaga–meets–Taylor Swift hybrid. For the role, she not only had to learn full stage routines, but also teamed up with Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX, who provided the film’s original songs.

Here, Hathaway is “Mother Mary,” a larger-than-life recording artist who abruptly abandons her world tour during a mid-meltdown, only to disappear into rural Germany. There, she reconnects with her estranged former best friend and costume designer, Sam, played by I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel. What starts as a creative collaboration quickly turns into something far more charged, as old wounds resurface and personal tensions rise when Mary asks Sam to design a custom-made dress; one that could define everything she is and everything she wants to become. Little does she know, the dress itself will take on a life of its own, possibly consuming her in the process.

Part pop music melodrama, part fever dream, writer-director David Lowery might have whipped up something as mesmerizing as it is unhinged. Whether it plays as a bold artist reinvention or a surreal detour, one thing is clear: this isn’t your typical rise-and-fall music story.

Co-starring Hunter Schafer, FKA twigs, Kaia Gerber, Atheena Frizzell, and Jessica Brown Findlay, Mother Mary opens in select theaters April 17th before expanding wide on April 24th.

🎥 “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” Trailer: A Missing Girl Returns from a 3,000-Year-Old Tomb in This Chilling New Take on the Classic Universal Monster Starring Jack Reynor & Laia Costa — Coming to Theaters April 17th

The mummy is a classic cinematic horror archetype that has been creeping out audiences since the early days of the “talkies.” But what makes it such an enduring theme is how people have continued to be fascinated with death itself. And these resurrected, linen-wrapped monsters seem to reflect not only our fear of our mortality, but what happens if someone could come back from the grave.

Now, enter Irish horror filmmaker Lee Cronin. After proving with Evil Dead Rise that he can bring fresh blood to a franchise, Cronin now takes on one of Universal’s most iconic screen monsters, The Mummy. And it seems he’s taking a sharper, nastier approach, tapping into why the mummy concept was ever frightening to begin with, while also giving it a more modern edge.

Fellow Irishman Jack Reynor (Midsommar) stars as a journalist whose life is upended when his young daughter, who has been missing for eight years and presumed dead, is inexplicably discovered inside a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus. She returns home looking the same age she was when she vanished all those years ago. Pale skin, hollow stares, and a presence that suggests this isn’t exactly the same girl they once knew. Worse yet, whoever... or whatever; this is might not entirely be human.

Spanish actress Laia Costa co-stars as Jack’s wife and the girl’s mother, unable to grapple with what has come back into their lives. Even though they both want to believe it’s really their daughter, they can’t help but notice that something feels deeply off... possibly even a new thirst for human blood. Yikes!

Co-starring May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Verónica Falcón, and produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, James Wan’s Atomic Monster, and New Line Cinema, this new take signals a continued push toward darker reinventions of classic monsters, following the success of The Invisible Man and Wolf Man.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens in theaters April 17th.

🎥 “The Breadwinner” New Trailer: Comic Nate Bargatze Takes on Stay-at-Home Dad Duties in This Father-Out-of-His-Depth Comedy with Mandy Moore — In Theaters March 13th

Stand-up comic Nate Bargatze has been selling out shows for years, becoming one of the most popular and relatable comedians working today. Now he takes his affable stage persona to the big screen as he follows the path of many comedians before him by giving acting a shot.

In the upcoming comedy The Breadwinner, Bargatze makes his feature acting debut as Nate Wilcox, a husband and father whose life gets flipped overnight when his wife Katie (played by This Is Us’s Mandy Moore) lands a game-changing deal on Shark Tank. With her business career taking off and pulling her away from home, Nate is left to manage the household and raise their three daughters on his own... something he is, to put it mildly, not equipped to handle.

Drawing on his own stand-up act as a struggling, ill-prepared parent, the film has Bargatze reexamining the idea of a stay-at-home dad and what it means in today’s world, where the pressure to juggle work and family can throw even the most put-together person off balance.

Directed by Eric Appel, the helmer behind one of the most absurd and wildly entertaining biopics in recent memory, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and working from a script co-written by Bargatze and Dan Lagana, the film appears to be less about big, outrageous gags and more about the quiet panic of trying to keep everything from falling apart.

Featuring a strong supporting cast that includes Colin Jost, Zach Cherry, Martin Herlihy, and Kate Berlant, with Kumail Nanjiani and Will Forte popping in along the way, The Breadwinner might be a throwback to Mr. Mom, but with a more modern, self-aware spin on parenting and partnership.

The Breadwinner hits theaters March 13th.

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🎥 “Swapped” Trailer: Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple Trade Feathers and Fur in a Wild Animated Body-Swap Adventure — Premieres May 1st on Netflix

A body-swap comedy goes full wilderness survival. Recent Oscar-winner Michael B. Jordan voices Ollie, a tiny sea otter–like woodland creature who suddenly finds himself in the body of a regal bird, while Ivy (voiced by Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple) is left navigating life in Ollie’s fur-covered form. Directed by Nathan Greno (Tangled), this animated adventure throws natural enemies into a shared crisis where teamwork becomes the only way forward. With additional voices from Tracy Morgan and Cedric the Entertainer, and Jordan also serving as a producer, sometimes the only way to survive is to live someone else’s life... literally.

🎥 “The Mandalorian and Grogu” Promo: Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver... and Grogu Reflect on Bringing Star Wars Back to the Big Screen — Only in Theaters and IMAX May 22nd

Filmmaker Jon Favreau sits down with his stars Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver and Grogu for a table conversation about bringing the lone Mandalorian gunslinger and his Force-sensitive companion to the big screen, as they try to chase that original Star Wars spark. This big-screen return aims to remind us why we fell in love with the Star Wars universe in the first place—something that just might be more about feeling than spectacle.

🎥 “Weekend At The End Of The World” Trailer: Two Hapless Friends Accidentally Trigger the Apocalypse in This Mind-Bending Indie Comedy Starring Clay Elliott & Cameron Fife alongside Thomas Lennon & Troian Bellisario — On VOD/Digital April 20th

Get rich quick, end the world faster. Two well-meaning doofuses hole up in a remote cabin chasing an easy payday, only to accidentally crack open a portal to a reality-warping darkness. Now, with time running out and chaos creeping in, they’re forced to dive headfirst into the unknown to stop what they started. Starring Clay Elliott and Cameron Fife alongside Thomas Lennon and Troian Bellisario, this mind-bending indie comedy from director Gille Klabin turns a weekend getaway into a fight to keep existence intact.

🎥 “Wasteman” U.S. Trailer: ‘The Long Walk’ Breakout David Jonsson Fights for Redemption Opposite a Volatile Tom Blyth in This Gritty British Prison Thriller — Arriving in U.S. Theaters April 17th

You might not know David Jonsson’s name yet, but his recent turns in Rye Lane, Alien: Romulus, and The Long Walk have marked him as one to watch. After breaking out on HBO’s Industry, he continues to shift gears with a gritty British prison drama. Here, Jonsson plays Taylor, an inmate nearing parole and clinging to the hope of rebuilding his life after losing years with his son. But that fragile future is threatened when a volatile new cellmate, Dee (Tom Blyth, of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), arrives and pulls him back into the prison’s violent hierarchy. Directed by Cal McMau in his feature debut, the film pictures a brutal, unforgiving system where survival often comes at the cost of redemption.

🎥 “Modern Whore” Trailer: Former Sex Worker–Turned–Memoirist Andrea Werhun Confronts Stigma and Reclaims Her Story in This Audacious Hybrid Documentary Produced by Oscar-Winning ‘Anora’ Filmmaker Sean Baker — On VOD/Digital May 1st

Canadian writer and former sex worker Andrea Werhun steps into her own past, portraying different chapters of her journey through sex work with brazen honesty and sharp wit. Directed by Nicole Bazuin and produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker, this hybrid documentary blends humor and heartbreak while pushing back against familiar narratives. Each story reveals a different truth, challenging stigma and perception.

🎥 “Highlander: 40th Anniversary” Trailer: The Immortal Classic Returns to UK Cinemas, Blu-ray and 4K for Its Milestone Celebration — Re-released in UK Theaters May 4th

There can be only one… and it’s coming back on the big screen in the UK. Turning 40 this year, Highlander returns with a new restoration for theaters and Blu-ray. This fantasy action classic follows an immortal warrior (Christopher Lambert) locked in centuries-spanning combat, leading to a final showdown in modern-day New York. Featuring notable performances from Sean Connery and Clancy Brown, and directed by Russell Mulcahy, the 1986 film remains a cult staple built on atmosphere and attitude, blending mythology, swordplay, and plenty of ’80s rock-fueled energy. Immortality has its perks... until it all comes down to one last fight. Revisit the classic before the long-awaited remake arrives.

🎥 “#SKYKING” Trailer: The True Story of a Stolen Plane Turns Into a Tense, Real-Time Documentary Thriller — Premieres Tues, April 14th on Hulu

Seventy minutes. One stolen plane. A story that still feels unreal. This true-crime documentary dives into the 2018 incident where a ground service agent took off in a commercial aircraft, sparking a nationwide emergency. Through never-before-heard audio and intimate interviews, the doc reconstructs a surreal and tragic chain of events.

🎥 “Jerry West: The Logo” Trailer: The Man Behind the NBA’s Most Iconic Silhouette Confronts Legacy and Personal Struggles in Kenya Barris’ Basketball Documentary — Premieres Thurs, April 16th on Prime Video

Greatness comes with a cost... it’s just how much you’re willing to pay. Directed by Kenya Barris, this sports documentary follows NBA legend Jerry West as he reflects on a lifetime of championships, legacy-defining decisions, and the relentless drive that made him the silhouette of the league itself. Featuring candid interviews with icons like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Shaquille O’Neal, the film peels back the myth to reveal a man grappling with depression, fractured relationships, and a perfectionism that never let him rest.

🎥 “The Heartbreak Kid: Becoming Shawn Michaels” Trailer: WWE Legend Shawn Michaels Gets a Candid, Behind-the-Scenes Spotlight — Streaming Mon, April 13th on Peacock

This Peacock original documentary follows legendary professional wrestler Shawn Michaels from his rise to superstardom to the personal struggles that nearly derailed everything. With unprecedented access, the doc explores both the showmanship and the reality behind one of WWE’s most influential figures. It also tracks his evolution into a mentor shaping the next generation.

🎥 “Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe” New U.S. Trailer: Jackie Chan Protects a “Chosen One” Panda in This Action-Packed Family Fantasy Sequel — In Theaters April 17th

Cute, cuddly... and somehow the chosen one. Legendary action star Jackie Chan trades city streets for a hidden world of myth and magic in this action-packed family sequel. He plays the unlikely protector of a lovable panda mistaken for a prophesied savior, thrust into a land of ancient tribes and mystical warriors. As rival forces close in to exploit the legend, keeping the cuddly “chosen one” safe turns into a full-blown kung fu adventure. With Li Ma and Shan Qiao joining the fun, this playful fantasy proves destiny might be written—but it still needs a few well-timed punches.

🎥 “$POSITIONS” Trailer: A Crypto Gamble Sends a Blue-Collar Dreamer Spiraling in Writer-Director Brandon Daley’s Anxiety-Fueled Dark Comedy — Arriving On VOD/Digital May 12th

Fortune favors the reckless... until it doesn’t. This anxiety-spiking dark comedy tracks a blue-collar dreamer (Michael Kunicki) who thinks he’s cracked the code on crypto, only to spiral into delusion as quick wins turn into devastating losses. As his obsession burns through his relationships—including his girlfriend, his vulnerable brother (Vinny Kress), and his struggling cousin—the line between ambition and self-destruction disappears fast. Written and directed by Brandon Daley, this jittery debut rides the highs and crashes of modern get-rich thinking, where chasing the next spike might cost everything.

🎥 “Up the Catalogue” Trailer: Endless Sales and Creeping Madness Overtake a Surreal 24/7 Shopping Channel in This Darkly Comic British Satire Starring Lyndsey Marshal & Morgana Robinson — Arriving on VOD/Digital April 14th

Sell more, smile wider, don’t break. Inside a bizarre 24/7 shopping network where the cameras never cut, a tightly wound presenter (Lyndsey Marshal) begins to unravel as the products get stranger and the pressure mounts. When a polished new rival (Morgana Robinson) enters the spotlight, the line between performance and reality starts to blur in unsettling ways. This darkly comic British satire turns nonstop consumerism into a psychological maze with no clear exit.

🎥 “Noah Kahan: Out of Body” Trailer: The Breakout Singer-Songwriter Heads Home to Vermont in a Candid Documentary About Fame and Finding Balance — Premieres Mon, April 13th on Netflix

After a breakout rise to global success, chart-topping singer-songwriter Noah Kahan retreats to his Vermont roots, searching for clarity amid the pressure to keep it all going. Surrounded by family and grounded by his own sharp self-awareness, he begins to question what success actually means in this candid documentary that trades the spotlight for something more personal. Fame might hit fast, but it’s what comes after that really lingers.

🎥 “Special Ops Rent-A-Cop” Trailer: Michael Jai White Fights Off a Hit Squad While Chaperoning Seniors Gone Wild in This Action-Comedy — Available on VOD/Digital April 14th

Michael Jai White signs up for rent-a-cop duty as a battle-scarred Special Forces veteran forced to babysit a busload of rowdy seniors on a trip to Atlantic City. But what starts as a humiliating gig turns dangerous fast when an old enemy sends a clueless kill squad to take him out mid-journey. With Billy Zane, Chuck Liddell, Jim O’Heir, and Colleen Camp along for the chaotic ride, this action-comedy turns a senior tour into a rolling battleground.

🎥 “The Last One for the Road” Trailer: Two Washed-Up Crooks Chase One Last Score Across Italy’s Boozy Backroads in Francesco Sossai’s Italian Road Caper — Opening in Select Theaters May 1st

A couple of small-time hustlers hit the road chasing a comeback that’s long overdue. Filippo Scotti and Sergio Romano play a pair of aging schemers whose glory days are far behind them, until an old partner resurfaces with promises of buried riches. Directed by Francesco Sossai, this scruffy caper drifts through roadside taverns, drunken detours, and conversations about a world that’s leaving them behind.

🎥 “Orphan” U.K. Trailer: Acclaimed Hungarian Filmmaker László Nemes Explores Post-War Trauma Through a Young Boy’s Search for His Father in This Historical Drama — In Cinemas May (UK, Ireland & Europe), via MUBI

A young boy’s search opens a window into a nation still reeling. Set in the aftermath of Hungary’s 1956 uprising, this historical drama follows the boy’s attempt to piece together loss, survival, and the truth about his missing father. Writer-director László Nemes, of Son of Saul fame, brings a quiet, haunting intimacy to post-war life. As personal discovery runs headlong into political unrest, each revelation cuts a little deeper. Some answers bring closure... others only deepen the silence.

🎥 “Two Pianos” U.S. Trailer: A Virtuoso Pianist Gets Pulled Back Into a Complicated Past in Arnaud Desplechin’s French Romantic Drama Starring François Civil, Charlotte Rampling & Nadia Tereszkiewicz — Opening in Theaters May 1st

In this intimate French romantic drama from writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (Kings and Queen, My Golden Days), a globe-trotting pianist (François Civil) returns to the French city of Lyon for one final performance with his demanding former teacher (Charlotte Rampling), only to find himself pulled back into the orbit of a volatile ex (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who refuses to stay in the past. Old passions resurface, loyalties tested, and emotional rhythms begin to clash in ways no rehearsal could prepare him for. This psychologically charged love story plays like a piece of chamber music where every note carries the weight of unfinished business.

🎥 “PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie” Trailer: The Pups Crash Into a Dinosaur-Filled Island Adventure — In Theaters August 14th

Big adventure, bigger teeth. In this animated adventure based on PAW Patrol, a group of rescue pups is stranded on a dinosaur-packed island following a violent storm. With guidance from a battle-tested dino expert, they face a landscape filled with towering threats. But when a reckless move unleashes a volcanic eruption, their mission becomes a desperate fight to protect the island before everything is wiped out.

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🎥 “Rosebush Pruning” Trailer: Jamie Bell Brings His Girlfriend (Elle Fanning) Home to His Twisted Wealthy Family in This Dark Satirical Thriller From the Writer of ‘Dogtooth’, Also Starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough & Tracy Letts — Coming Soon

Families should give one comfort and protection. But from the mind of Efthimis Filippou, the acclaimed Greek screenwriter behind the eerily warped films Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a family isn’t something to cherish... it’s something to escape. ‘Cause some families come with problems, but this one comes with nightmares.

Rosebush Pruning is a new darkly satirical family thriller featuring a stellar ensemble that includes Jamie Bell, Elle Fanning, Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Lukas Gage, and Tracy Letts as members of a twisted family that feels more like a ticking time bomb than a warm, comfortable home.

Here, Bell plays the black sheep of the family, someone who’s long kept his distance from his spoiled, tightly wound siblings and his wealthy, egotistical father (played here by Letts), a man known for his sharp tongue and biting remarks. But when he brings home his new girlfriend (played by Fanning), what should be a simple, pleasant family dinner quickly spirals into something far more chaotic and twisted.

Just beneath the family’s polished veneer, resentment simmers, egos clash, and long-buried tensions start to surface during what should be a routine gathering. But as the night stretches on, it becomes clear this isn’t just another awkward reunion... it’s a night they’ll never forget.

Loosely inspired by Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 Italian satirical film Fists in the Pocket, about a man’s murder plot to free his “normal” brother from the burden of their dysfunctional family, the film is directed by acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz (Futuro Beach, Firebrand), working from an adapted screenplay by Efthimis Filippou, the frequent collaborator of Yorgos Lanthimos.

Given Filippou’s track record—co-writing Dogtooth (2009) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), while also contributing to Alps (2011), The Lobster (2015), and Kinds of Kindness (2024)—there’s an expectation of discomfort baked right into the premise. This looks like a family satire that doesn’t just poke at dysfunction but sits in it, letting the tension simmer and daring everyone to crack first.

Also co-starring Pamela Anderson and Elena Anaya, Rosebush Pruning is expected to be released in theaters via MUBI, the same offbeat arthouse label behind The Substance, Die My Love, and this year’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. So expect nothing short of something deeply unsettling and impossible to look away from.

🎥 “The Furious” Trailer: Xie Miao and Joe Taslim Unleash Bone-Crunching Mayhem in a Relentless Martial Arts Revenge Thriller — Coming to Theaters May 29th

Anyone who grew up on Jackie Chan’s films and the hard-hitting action wave of the 1990s has been waiting for a return to this kind of raw, bone-crunching, no-frills filmmaking where stunt work once again takes center stage. Sure, we’ve seen a few exciting throwbacks like The Raid films and the John Wick franchise, but they haven’t fully tapped into that same raw intensity of watching professional martial artists truly cut loose and deliver the kind of visceral thrills that push audiences to those “oh shit” moments.

A big part of the appeal is watching highly skilled fighters go at it as if there’s no safety net in place, where every punch and kick feels ferocious and just a little out of control. It’s like the camera is catching lightning in a bottle, capturing these jaw-dropping action sequences that seem to defy gravity and ignore any sense of restraint. That’s the rush.

Well, The Furious is an upcoming martial arts revenge thriller that is not only aptly titled, but will likely have longtime action film junkies on their feet on sheer adrenaline as the hits keep coming. That is, if this trailer is any indication, as it has certainly gotten us pumped up and baring our teeth with anticipation.

Chinese martial artist Xie Miao (aka Mo Tse) and Indonesian martial artist Joe Taslim (of The Raid and Mortal Kombat) join forces to deliver a relentless, hard-hitting showcase of pure martial arts mayhem in this Hong Kong fightfest where the only way justice is served is with bruised fists and plenty of broken bones.

The setup is simple and brutal. After his young daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network, Wang Wei (Xie Miao) turns to the police for help... and gets nothing but corruption and indifference in return. So he takes matters into his own hands. What follows is a full-throttle descent into the underworld, where every lead comes with a body count.

Wei’s only real ally is Navin (Joe Taslim), a relentless journalist who is also searching for his missing wife. Together, they form an uneasy partnership fueled by grief, anger, and a shared need for answers. And as expected, things don’t just escalate... they explode to levels of all-out carnage.

Japanese-born Hong Kong action choreographer–turned–filmmaker Kenji Tanigaki takes the helm, leaning fully into unforgiving fight sequences while staying rooted in the long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema where physicality and practical stunt work are at the heart of every exhilarating moment.

Already picking up plenty of buzz since making the festival circuit last year, including strong showings at TIFF and the Sitges Film Festival, The Furious is set to blow the doors off when it punches its way into theaters May 29th. Come for the brutal beatdowns, but stay for the damage it delivers… ’cuz we’re sure it won’t pull a single punch.

🎥 “Heads or Tails” Trailer: John C. Reilly Plays Legendary Gunslinger Buffalo Bill as He Brings His Wild West Tour to Italy in This Spaghetti Western Throwback — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital April 10th

Ah, the Old West. The myths, the legends, the landscapes, and the gunslingers; it’s all been covered in countless classic American films before. But the Western genre has a reach that stretches far beyond the American frontier.

For instance, the Italian Western, sometimes referred to as Spaghetti Westerns, has its own long tradition of reshaping the genre, layering in a distinct sense of style, heightened violence, and operatic flair. In many ways, the newest takes on the Western have been directly inspired by that 1960s and ’70s wave. And it seems this latest film not only continues that reinvention, but proudly wears its Spaghetti Western influences on its sleeve.

Shot on location in Lazio and Tuscany, Heads or Tails is not only an offbeat Spaghetti Western throwback, complete with a dusty, painterly aesthetic that recalls the pulp shoot-’em-up worlds of Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone, but also flips the mythology of the American Old West on its head.

Here, the film finds legendary gunslinger Buffalo Bill (played by none other than John C. Reilly) traveling to Italy with his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West stage tour, selling the American cowboy myth to paying crowds; only for reality to come crashing in before long.

The story kicks off when Rosa (played by French actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz), trapped in a brutal marriage to a ruthless landowner, sees a chance to escape after a rodeo turns violently out of control. On the run, she crosses paths with Santino (Italian actor Alessandro Borghi), a local cowboy known for humiliating his American counterparts. In no time, the two find themselves wanted, with a price on Santino’s head. And with Buffalo Bill in town, who better to hunt them down than the man selling the myth himself? The question is, is he really as great as he claims to be?

Directed and co-written by the filmmaking duo of Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (The Tale of King Crab), this feels less like a traditional American Western and more like a meditation on how myths are built and sold... and what happens when someone refuses to play along.

Heads or Tails is slated to arrive in theaters and on VOD/Digital April 10th.

🎥 “Faces of Death” New Trailer: Barbie Ferreira Plays a Content Moderator Pulled Into a Twisted World of Real or Staged Horror — In Theaters April 10th

In the age of social media and endless uncensored video feeds, it seems we are more and more exposed to all the horrors this world has to offer. It raises the question of whether we’ve become desensitized to graphic violence. Well, How to Blow Up a Pipeline filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber and writer-producer Isa Mazzei are diving headfirst into that taboo subject, exploring just how much we can stomach… and how much we still haven’t seen.

In the upcoming horror film Faces of Death, Barbie Ferreira stars as a content moderator, someone tasked with filtering the worst of the internet before it reaches everyone else. But when she starts uncovering videos that mirror the original shock videotape series Faces of Death—only cleaner, more deliberate, and possibly real—the job turns into a twisted test of what is forbidden, what is real, and what is ignored for users’ consumption.

The deeper she digs, the harder it is to tell if she’s watching fiction, imitation, or something unfolding in real time. And perhaps the truth is even more terrifying than she imagined.

Also starring Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX, the film is a remake of sorts, reimagined from the notorious Faces of Death tapes of the late ’70s and ’80s, which featured unedited news footage and videos of deaths, accidents, and graphic violence. For a certain older generation, the tapes were passed around and whispered about like urban legends, even as some of the content was later revealed to have been staged and manipulated.

Back then, the fear came from not knowing what you were watching. Now, it seems it might come from realizing you can’t look away, no matter how hard you try to scroll it off your For You page.

Faces of Death hits theaters April 10th.

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🎥 “I Swear” New U.S. Trailer: Robert Aramayo Delivers a Raw Performance as a Young Man Battling Tourette Syndrome in This 1980s True-Story Drama — In U.S. Theaters April 24th

Sometimes the hardest part of a disorder isn’t the symptoms… it’s the lack of awareness and having to live in a world that refuses to understand. Set in 1980s Britain, young teen John Davidson, living with a severe form of Tourette syndrome, struggles through adolescence as involuntary outbursts turn everyday life into a constant battle. Robert Aramayo (from HBO’s Game of Thrones and Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings) delivers a stunning performance as John grows into a tic-addled man trying to find his place in a community that won’t make room for him. Saddled with uncontrollable outbursts and spontaneous swearing, John fights misunderstanding and stigma to change how people see him, and to finally be heard on his own terms.

Winner of Best Actor at the recent BAFTAs, this moving true-story drama from writer-director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned) sets out to prove that understanding begins with listening and acceptance starts with judging a person by what they do, not what they can’t control.

🎥 “Pressure” International Trailer: Brendan Fraser’s Eisenhower Faces a D-Day Decision as Andrew Scott’s Meteorologist Races Against a Deadly Storm for the Right Forecast — In Theaters May 29th

The most important invasion in history came down to a weather forecast; one that could make… or break the mission entirely. In the days leading up to D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to decide when to strike as volatile storm systems threatened to wipe out the operation before it even began.

In this based-on-a-true-story WWII drama, Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser stars as Eisenhower facing a ticking-clock decision, with Andrew Scott as the brilliant British army meteorologist James Stagg, who fights to prove his predictions are correct despite pressure from Eisenhower’s advisors to move sooner. With Kerry Condon co-starring as Eisenhower’s secretary Kay Summersby and Damian Lewis as senior British Army commander Bernard Montgomery, and Hotel Mumbai director Anthony Maras at the helm, this is the part of the war some might never have known… the call that could have changed everything.

🎥 “Stop! That! Train!” Trailer: RuPaul Plays the President as a Runaway Train Heads Into a Stormaganza in This Campy Disaster Spoof — In Theaters June 12th

All aboard! RuPaul is in the house… the White House, that is. In this wildly campy disaster movie spoof, iconic drag queen RuPaul takes on the role of Madam U.S. President Gagwell, who oversees a catastrophic event in the making: a runaway high-speed train heading straight into a big-ass storm… the Stormaganza! With little, if anything, to stop the train from derailing, it will be up to two train stewardesses, Tess and DeeDee (drag queens Ginger Minj and Jujubee), to keep the passengers at ease while the President and her team scramble to stop a full-blown disaster.

Directed with full camp and flair by Adam Shankman (Hairspray, Rock of Ages), expect plenty of cameos from some of the most flamboyant personalities working today, including Charo, Rachel Bloom, Joel McHale, Riki Lindhome, Drew Droege, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Guy Branum, Chris Parnell, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as herself, among others. It’s gonna be a wild, over-the-top rescue mission where saving the train is only half the show.

🎥 “Deep Water” Trailer: Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley Star as Pilots Who Crash Into Shark-Infested Waters in Renny Harlin’s Plane Crash Thriller — In Theaters May 1st

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley face their worst nightmare at 30,000 feet in the skies, only to confront another at sea level. Directed by action maestro Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2), Eckhart and Kingsley star as two airline pilots who find themselves on a doomed transpacific flight, forced into an emergency ocean landing. As terrifying as the danger in the sky seemed, nothing compares to what awaits the survivors once they hit the ocean water. What began as a fight to survive a mid-air disaster quickly turns into a battle to stay alive in shark-infested waters. And you thought you had a bad day.

🎥 “Mārama” Trailer: A Journey from New Zealand to Victorian England Unleashes a Dark Story of Heritage and Vengeance in Taratoa Stappard’s Gothic Period Thriller with Ariana Osborne & Toby Stephens — In Theaters April 17th

A young Māori woman struggles to hold onto her identity while living in Victorian-era England, far from the land and ancestry that define her in this Gothic period thriller. Newcomer Ariana Osborne delivers a haunting breakout performance as a 1850s woman who uncovers her horrific colonial heritage, pushing her into a confrontation that could finally set things right or burn it all down. Toby Stephens stars as the Englishman at the center of her pain as New Zealand-born, London-based filmmaker Taratoa Stappard taps into cultural exile and ancestral trauma for a chilling tale of reckoning and revenge.

🎥 “Forge” Trailer: Kelly Marie Tran and Brandon Soo Hoo Run a High-Stakes Art Forgery Ring in Jing Ai Ng’s Stylish Miami Crime Caper — In Select Theaters May 15th in LA and May 22nd in NY

Kelly Marie Tran and Brandon Soo Hoo step into the art world’s underbelly in this slick Miami crime caper. They play siblings running a forgery ring until a disgraced millionaire pulls them into a high-stakes scheme crafting counterfeit masterpieces. As an FBI agent closes in, their operation starts to crack in Jing Ai Ng’s stylish thriller, where the biggest risk just might be getting caught believing your own lie.

🎥 “Drifter” Teaser: Fast & Furious Star Sung Kang Writes, Directs, and Stars as a Haunted Racer Forced to Find Connection in This Gritty Drifting Drama — Coming Soon

Some drivers race to win; others can outrun the past. In a forgotten desert town, a solitary racetrack janitor with a gift for drifting gets one shot at a pro competition under a new mentor, but raw talent alone won’t save him. Fast & Furious star Sung Kang writes, directs, and stars in this gritty character-driven drama, where control isn’t just about handling the wheel of a car… it’s about letting yourself learn to trust the people around you.

🎥 “Bridesmaids: 15th Anniversary” Trailer: Relive the Laughs as Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph & Melissa McCarthy’s Iconic Comedy Returns to the Big Screen — In Theaters April 17th

Weddings bring out the best (and the absolute worst) in people. When a down-on-her-luck woman (Kristen Wiig) is asked to be maid of honor for her best friend (Maya Rudolph), the road to the big day turns into a no-holds-barred showdown of friendship, jealousy, and questionable decisions. Director Paul Feig’s female-led comedy classic celebrates its 15th anniversary by heading back to theaters. Now revisit this wildly irreverent laugh riot that turns sisterhood into a full-blown battleground of rivalry and total meltdown. Known for featuring breakout performances from Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne, it also delivers some of the most quotable comedy moments of the 2010s.

🎥 “Jerry Maguire: 30th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise’s Classic Romance and Redemption Story Hits the Big Screen Again — In Select Theaters April 12th, 14th & 15th

Show me the money... again! Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise’s iconic 1996 film about a high-powered sports agent whose crisis of conscience forces him to start over with one loyal football client (Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr.) returns to theaters for its 30th anniversary. Revisit the cultural touchstone as Renée Zellweger’s single mother/staff assistant Dorothy Boyd falls for not only Jerry Maguire, but also his dream of doing business with heart. You complete me. Now see it where it belongs... on the big screen.

🎥 “Cave of Forgotten Dreams: 15th Anniversary” Trailer: Werner Herzog’s Mesmerizing Cave Documentary Returns with a Stunning 6K Restoration — In Theaters April 24th with IMAX Screenings on April 15th & 19th

Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog explored one of humanity’s oldest galleries with his mesmerizing, award-winning documentary. Now, 15 years after its original release, the film returns with an eye-popping 6K restoration. Granted rare access to the sealed Chauvet Cave, the film captures prehistoric artwork that has remained untouched for over 30,000 years. Using specially designed cameras and a minimal crew, Herzog transforms fragile preservation into a cinematic experience unlike any other. Revisit the IMAX experience and witness a world that has waited millennia to be seen.

🎥 “Brothers Under Fire” Trailer: Kiefer Sutherland Leads Soldiers Into a Cartel War After a Wedding Trip Turns Deadly — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital April 17th

Kiefer Sutherland steps back into command in this cartel-fueled action thriller. Here, the 24 star plays a battle-hardened captain whose squad’s trip to Mexico spirals into utter chaos when a ruthless cartel turns a local wedding night celebration into a fight for survival. Omar Chaparro and Laura Osma join the desperate fight as brothers-in-arms become brothers under attack. Now, with the cartel closing in from all sides, staying alive means turning a weekend leave into all-out war where every quick decision matters, and no one gets left behind.

🎥 “Humint” Trailer: Rival Korean Agents Face Off in a High-Stakes Spy Thriller from the Director of The Berlin File — Premiering March 31st on Netflix

Two spies. One city. A South Korean intelligence agent tracking a drug syndicate in Vladivostok, Russia finds his mission colliding with a North Korean operative chasing a breach on his side of the border. Zo In-sung and Park Jeong-min square off in this tense espionage thriller from writer-director Ryoo Seung-wan, of The Berlin File, The Battleship Island, and Escape from Mogadishu fame. In a game built on secrets, survival means knowing when to betray... and when not to.

🎥 “Ballistic” Trailer: Lena Headey Seeks Revenge After Discovering She Made the Bullet That Killed Her Son — In Theaters and On Demand April 17th

Game of Thrones star Lena Headey trades power for fury in this raw revenge thriller. She plays a grieving mother who discovers the bullet that killed her son was made at the factory where she works, setting her on a relentless path toward the truth. As the trail leads deeper into corruption, grief turns into burning rage and action. Some wounds don’t heal, they just demand justice.

🎥 “Hive” Trailer: MCU Star Xochitl Gomez Plays a Babysitter Pulled Into a Sinister Nightmare in Felipe Vargas’ Psychological Horror-Thriller — Premieres April 17th on TUBI

MCU star Xochitl Gomez (aka America Chavez) trades in superpowers for sheer survival as she plays an ill-fated teen babysitter in this eerie psychological chiller from writer-director Felipe Vargas (Rosario), based on his short film. Here, Gomez plays an anxiety-riddled teen who loses the child she’s babysitting, leading her into a playground where nothing feels right and reality begins to slip into something disturbingly sinister. Perhaps next time you accept a babysitting job, make sure the kids are... just kids.

🎥 “Labyrinth” Trailer: A Viral Video Traps a Teen Inside Her Phone as a Digital Doppelganger Takes Over Her Life in Shoji Kawamori’s Anime Sci-Fi Adventure — In Theaters May 10 & 11 via GKIDS

Fame comes fast… and so does the fallout. After an embarrassing video goes viral, a teen finds herself trapped inside her phone while a slick alter ego takes over her life and starts plotting something far more sinister in this high-energy anime adventure. Renowned anime filmmaker Shoji Kawamori brings his signature blend of music and sci-fi to this wild animated ride about identity in the digital age. Sometimes your biggest competition is… you.

🎥 “Infiltrate” Trailer: Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen Plays a Blackmailed Agent Forced to Kill to Save Her Husband in This Gritty Crime Thriller — On VOD/Digital April 10th

A badge won’t save her… only blood will. Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen stars in this gritty indie spy thriller as a relentless government agent forced to assassinate criminals to save her kidnapped husband. Forced into a deadly bargain she can’t refuse, and with every hit pulling her deeper into a web of corruption, she must decide how far she’s willing to go before there’s nothing left to save.

🎥 “A Love Like This” Trailer: Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayes MacArthur Navigate Love, Lies, and Second Chances in This Malibu-Set Indie Romance Dramedy — On VOD/Digital April 3rd

Sometimes love isn’t the problem... it’s everything that comes with it. Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayes MacArthur star as a couple escaping to a Malibu beach house for a long weekend, hoping to reconnect. But buried secrets and unresolved choices quickly surface as they navigate the push and pull of doubt, devotion, and second chances in this indie romance dramedy from director John Asher. Sometimes love just needs a jumpstart... and a boombox to seal the deal.

🎥 “The Whistler” Trailer: Diane Guerrero and Juan Pablo Raba Confront Grief and a Spirit-Summoning Cult on a Remote Venezuelan Farm — In Theaters April 17th

In this supernatural chiller, Colombian-American actors Diane Guerrero (from DC’s Doom Patrol) and Juan Pablo Raba (from Netflix’s Narcos) star as an emotionally shattered couple who, while grieving the loss of their young daughter, inherits a remote Venezuelan farm. Hoping the distance might quiet the pain, they set off to start over, only to find themselves entangled with a mysterious cult that claims it can summon spirits from beyond. The question is, are they reaching for closure... or opening a door that should’ve stayed shut?

🎥 “PH-1” Trailer: A Rising Politician Watches His Reputation Collapse in This Hostage Thriller Directed by and Starring Mark Kassen — In Select Theaters April 10th and on VOD/Digital May 8th

A reputation can collapse faster than the truth can catch up. When a rising politician is held hostage inside his own penthouse, he’s forced to watch his life unravel in real time as media narratives spin out of control. Mark Kassen directs and stars in this contained thriller, where every second tightens the grip of misinformation and paranoia. In a world driven by perception, the real question isn’t who’s watching... it’s who’s pulling the strings.

🎥 “Broken Bird” Trailer: Rebecca Calder Plays a Lonely Mortician Whose Search for Love Turns Disturbingly Intimate in This Gothic Psychological Horror — In Theaters April 24th

Loneliness twists into something darker in this haunting psychological horror starring Rebecca Calder (The Conjuring: Last Rites) as a quiet mortician searching for love and belonging, only to find her desires taking a disturbingly intimate turn as grief and obsession begin to blur. From director Joanne Mitchell comes a chilling descent where tenderness transforms into something unsettling and grotesque. Some connections come at a cost.

🎥 “The Dark Wizard” Trailer: New Documentary Offers a Raw Portrait of Legendary, Controversial Free Climber Dean Potter — Premieres April 14th on HBO MAX

Some legends don’t play it safe... they push right to the edge. This gripping documentary follows the life of groundbreaking and controversial free climber Dean Potter as he chases impossible feats across rock faces, highlines, and open air. From directors Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen, the film captures both the awe of his achievements and the cost of living without limits, where the higher he climbed, the greater the risk became.

🎥 “A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough” Trailer: Renowned Natural Historian Revisits a Lifelong Bond with a Remarkable Gorilla Family in This New Wildlife Doc — Premieres April 17th on Netflix

A lifetime with one gorilla, seen through the eyes of David Attenborough. The legendary British natural historian revisits his first encounter with a baby gorilla named Pablo, tracing his journey from fragile beginnings to dominant silverback in this intimate wildlife documentary that’s sure to leave a lasting impression for gorilla enthusiasts everywhere. Following Pablo’s legacy through his descendants today, the film captures never-before-seen behavior, turning one gorilla’s life into a moving reflection on survival, family, and hope. A story decades in the making, told with rare access and quiet awe.

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🎥 “Wild Horse Nine” Trailer: Sam Rockwell & John Malkovich Play Bickering CIA Operatives on the Brink of Disaster in Martin McDonagh’s Darkly Comic 1970s Thriller — In Theaters November 6th

Writer-director Martin McDonagh may have perfected the anti-buddy comedy with acclaimed films like In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin. These stories focus on two completely mismatched yet miserable sad sacks who can’t help but bicker at each other but also can’t seem to function without one another. It’s a yin and yang of resentment and co-dependency.

McDonagh, who gave us the darkly comic Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri—which earned both Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell Oscar trophies for their performances—is back with Rockwell for the third time, following their first collaboration on Seven Psychopaths. This time, the British-born Irish filmmaker pairs Rockwell with the equally compelling John Malkovich as he once again tackles his go-to theme of throwing two deeply incompatible men into a shared predicament they can’t escape.

This time, the setting is Easter Island, just days before the 1973 Chilean coup that overthrew socialist President Salvador Allende; a military takeover in which the CIA was deeply involved. Rockwell and Malkovich play veteran CIA operatives Chris and Lee, longtime partners sent on what seems like a regular assignment.

Their cover: two ordinary American tourists taking in the sights, but in reality they’re overseeing a covert operation that’s anything but routine.

The problem: Malkovich’s Lee has a big freakin’ mouth and erratic behavior that constantly drives Rockwell’s Chris up the wall. And if Lee ain’t careful, this little operation of theirs just might go from routine to catastrophic in a hurry.

Steve Buscemi co-stars as the CIA bureau chief in Washington, D.C., who’s been getting reports that Lee may be losing control, acting increasingly unpredictable. If so, Chris will have to decide where his loyalties really lie. ’Cause this just might be Lee’s last assignment... period.

Joining the core cast are iconic musician-actor Tom Waits and Emmy-winner Parker Posey, with Chilean actress Mariana di Girolamo (Ema) and Argentine actress Ailín Salas playing two rebellious Chilean students who suspect Chris and Lee aren’t exactly who they claim to be. And with Lee more obnoxious than ever, already claiming their country is going to get f-cked... well, things are bound to spiral fast. Soon, car crashes and gunfights become normal occurrences on Easter Island.

Wild Horse Nine arrives in theaters November 6th. And from the looks of things, it just might be an awards contender, though it’s far too early to call.

🎥 “Balls Up” Red Band Trailer: Mark Wahlberg & Paul Walter Hauser Get Into a World of Trouble After Pitching the World‘s Most Ridiculous Condom in Peter Farrelly‘s New Action Comedy — Premiering April 15th on Prime Video

Back in the mid-1970s, there was a marketing phenomenon known as The Pet Rock. It was a completely useless novelty toy that exploded onto the market like a rocket and became a bestseller largely due to how it was packaged and marketed. Ever since, the Pet Rock has stood as proof that with the right pitch, you can sell anything to anyone, even a literal rock in a box with fancy packaging.

Now picture this: a condom. But not just any ole condom; one that protects the entire package — testicles included. It’s called the Balls Up, and with the right pitch man, it just might score a lucrative World Cup Brazil sponsorship deal. And who knows, it just might turn out to be the greatest marketing miracle since a rock in a box made someone a millionaire. The question now, who would be the guy to pitch it? Well, Mark Wahlberg just might be exactly that guy for the job.

At least that’s the ridiculously funny premise behind the new raunchy action-comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as Brad and Elijah, a pair of ad executives who swing for the fences with the boldest pitch of their careers. And while Hauser’s Elijah is the wizard behind the Balls Up, Wahlberg’s Brad is the magnetic pitch man who just might have landed one of the biggest deals of his career: to have the Balls Up be the official condom for one of the biggest sporting events on the planet: the upcoming World Cup in Brazil. It’s audacious. It’s utterly ridiculous. And somehow, they actually pull it off.

But here’s where things get messy. After celebrating their unlikely win with a drunken night out in Brazil, Brad and Elijah accidentally ignite an international scandal that puts targets on their backs after they accidentally ruin the Brazilian soccer team’s chances of advancing to the championship. Suddenly, these two numbskulls are forced to scramble across South America, dodging furious soccer fans, dangerous criminals, and power-hungry officials who all want a piece of them.

Their mission? Salvage their careers, fix the PR disaster, and somehow make it home in one piece. That is, if they survive their little run-in with a notorious international drug runner played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Peter Farrelly, the director who helped define the raunchy comedy genre in the ‘90s and early 2000s and then pivoted to win an Oscar with Green Book, returns to his comfort zone directing this gleefully unhinged comedy. The script comes from Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, the duo behind the Deadpool and Zombieland franchises. So expect nothing short of gloriously bonkers shenanigans from start to finish.

Joining Wahlberg and Hauser is a stacked cast that includes Benjamin Bratt, Eva De Dominici, Daniela Melchior, Molly Shannon, and Eric André.

Balls Up premieres April 15th exclusively on Prime Video. It’s rated R, which should surprise absolutely no one.

🎥 “Outcome” Trailer: Keanu Reeves Plays a Hollywood Star Facing Cancellation in Jonah Hill’s New Comedy with Cameron Diaz & Matt Bomer — Premieres April 10th on Apple TV

Keanu Reeves might go down in history as one of the most likable movie stars Hollywood has ever seen. We can’t think of anyone who doesn’t love Keanu Reeves. His favorability rating is through the roof, and every behind-the-scenes story that manages to sneak out only makes him more beloved.

For instance, there’s the story of Reeves giving up a generous portion of his back-end profit points (reportedly around $75 million) to the special effects and costume design teams behind The Matrix sequels, because he believed they were more deserving and the true heroes of the franchise. It’s a true story. What a cool guy, right?

Which brings us to Keanu Reeves’ latest comedy, where he plays someone not all that different from himself: a big, famous Hollywood star. There is one key difference, though… he’s on the verge of getting canceled if he doesn’t get his life in order, come clean, and ask for forgiveness. The catch? He’s not entirely sure what he did wrong, considering his memory is still a bit hazy after a five-year drug-fueled spiral.

Outcome is the latest feature film directed and co-written by actor-comedian Jonah Hill, following his previous directorial efforts, the 2022 documentary Stutz and the 2018 coming-of-age drama Mid90s. Here, Hill returns to his comedy roots, leaning into the irony of casting one of Hollywood’s most beloved figures as one of its most problematic.

Reeves stars as Reef Hawk, a beloved Hollywood icon who, after a five-year hiatus (secretly recovering from a heroin addiction), is ready to make a comeback. But when a mysterious video surfaces, it threatens not only to derail his career but to completely destroy any chance of him ever working in the industry again.

Hill, sporting a bushy beard and a shaved head, co-stars as Reef’s crisis lawyer Ira, who has assembled a crisis-management team of top PR experts to handle the fallout. The problem is, what exactly did Reef Hawk do that was so damaging? But more importantly, is his apology even worth anything if he hasn’t done the real work to truly atone for it?

Featuring an all-star supporting cast that includes Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer as Reef’s ride-or-die friends, while Martin Scorsese, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood Jr., Kaia Gerber, and Ivy Wolk round out the ensemble.

Outcome is slated to premiere April 10th exclusively on Apple TV.

🎥 “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War” Teaser Trailer: John Krasinski Returns as the World Edges Toward Catastrophe in Amazon’s Upcoming Standalone Movie — Premiering May 20th on Prime Video

There’s a version of the Jack Ryan story that ends with him safely behind a desk, possibly after a long and distinguished career of examining and analyzing intelligence briefs and handing over the tougher assessments to someone with more field miles and fewer reasons to go looking for trouble.

Ghost War is not that version.

The CIA’s most reluctant field operative is back. And this time, it’s for “an all-new major movie event.” So, strapped in — because if Jack Ryan’s on the job, that could only mean one thing: the world is on the brink of yet another catastrophe and the CIA can’t help but meddle into exactly the kind of mess Ryan swore he was done with.

John Krasinski returns as CIA Agent Jack Ryan in this upcoming standalone film, a feature-length continuation of the popular Amazon series that ran for four seasons based on the best-selling spy novels by Tom Clancy.

Here, Krasinski’s Ryan has stumbled onto a suspicious cluster of bank transfers. What starts as an analyst’s hunch quickly pulls him out of Langley and into something far more dangerous. The trail leads across Europe and the Middle East, threading toward a rising terrorist figurehead planning a massive coordinated attack on the United States, with allies already set in motion.

Ryan didn’t go looking for this. He never does. But that doesn’t mean trouble stops looking for him... and it’s not like walking away when lives are on the line is something he’s ever been any good at.

Wendell Pierce returns as well, again playing James Greer, the CIA deputy director and Ryan’s closest ally and handler, a man who always seems to know more than he’s saying. Michael Kelly is also back as Mike November, now operating as a private security contractor after his Venezuela days... which means he’s either the most useful person in the room or the most complicated. Betty Gabriel also reprises her role as CIA director Elizabeth Wright, with Sienna Miller joining the cast in a role yet to be detailed.

Emmy-nominated TV helmer Andrew Bernstein directs from a screenplay by Aaron Rabin and John Krasinski, based on a story Krasinski developed with producer Noah Oppenheim.

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War is set to premiere May 20th on Prime Video.

Also check out this week’s new trailers:

🎥 “Beast” Trailer: Daniel MacPherson’s Ex-MMA Fighter Steps Back Into the Cage for a Brutal Last Stand with Russell Crowe in His Corner — Hitting Theaters April 10th

Some fights aren’t about winning the belt... it’s about fighting for something bigger than yourself. Aussie actor Daniel MacPherson stars as a once-feared MMA champion pulled back into the cage when his younger brother is put in danger and used as leverage. What starts as a desperate attempt to protect his family turns into a brutal climb through a world he barely escaped, as he faces a ruthless reigning title-holder determined to destroy whatever legacy remains. Reuniting with the hardened trainer who once built him (played by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe), he prepares for one last fight where the stakes aren’t fame or glory, but survival. Luke Hemsworth co-stars as a ruthless fight promoter, with Tyler Atkins directing. This stark MMA drama proves the fight isn’t just in the cage... it’s in everything a fighter stands to lose.

🎥 “Busboys” Trailer: David Spade & Theo Von Turn Waiting Tables Into Total Chaos in Jonah Feingold’s Buddy Comedy — In Theaters April 17th

Sometimes the worst career choices make for the best comedy setups. David Spade teams up with Theo Von as a pair of clueless friends who think becoming waiters will magically fix their lives. For a brief moment, it almost seems like they might be onto something, but as expected, things spiral fast. With zero awareness, skill, or common sense, they leave a trail of wreckage behind them—from botched orders to full-blown restaurant meltdowns. Joining Spade and Von are Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee, and Kirk Fox, with Jonah Feingold (At Midnight, 31 Candles) directing this fast, loose, and unapologetically ridiculous ride where the only thing getting served consistently is disaster.

🎥 “Savage House” International Trailer: Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant Descend Into Decadence and Chaos in This Darkly Comic Period Satire — Coming to UK Cinemas in June

Decadence turns savage. In 18th-century England, amid a pox outbreak and political unrest, an ambitious aristocratic couple chases status and survival with reckless abandon. Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant star in this darkly comic period satire as their pursuit of a better life spirals into absurdity, excess, and bloodshed. Directed by Peter Glanz, this biting tale of class and power proves that privilege can be just as dangerous as the chaos outside the gates.

🎥 “The Sonic the Hedgehog 4” Title Reveal Teaser: Everyone’s Favorite Blue Blur Is Set to Return for a Fourth Time — In Theaters March 19, 2027

Speed is back on the clock. This high-energy sequel revs up for another globe-trotting adventure as the world’s fastest hero faces new threats and unexpected alliances that push his powers (and patience) to the limit. Ben Schwartz returns to voice the iconic blue blur, joined by a stacked ensemble including Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, and Kristen Bell as Amy Rose, along with Ben Kingsley and Nick Offerman. With Jeff Fowler back in the director’s chair, the next chapter promises bigger stakes, faster action, and a showdown that won’t slow down anytime soon.

🎥 “The Highest Stakes” Trailer: Seth Green, Dylan Walsh, Charlie Weber & Kevin Dillon Enter a Deadly Poker Game Where the Buy-In Is Survival — On VOD/Digital April 14th

The cards are dealt. But the game isn’t what it seems. Five strangers arrive at a luxurious hotel expecting a high-stakes poker showdown, only to find themselves trapped in a deadly contest in this twisty dark comedic thriller starring Seth Green, Kevin Dillon, Charlie Weber, and Dylan Walsh. With every hand played, they move closer to a truth none of them are ready to face. This is one poker game where folding might be the only way out… if it were an option, that is.

🎥 “Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition” Trailer: Heavy Metal Icons Reflect on Five Decades of Music, Legacy, and Global Fandom in This Archive-Fueled Documentary — In Theaters May 7th

From smoky East London pubs to packed global stadiums. This high-voltage documentary pulls from deep archive access and candid reflections, capturing the evolution of a band that built its five-decade legacy on heavy metal spectacle and an unbreakable bond with fans. Featuring appearances from Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich, and Chuck D, along with animated glimpses of its iconic mascot, the story blends myth and memory into one roaring journey. Some bands fade… but Iron Maiden has forged a movement that refuses to stop rocking. So stick up those devil horns and bang your head for a doc that begs you to scream… loud.

🎥 “Mad Bills To Pay” Trailer: A Bronx Hustler’s Carefree Summer Spirals Into Young Love and Hard Truths in Joel Alfonso Vargas’ Gritty Film Debut — In Theaters April 17th in NY and May 1st in LA

In the Dominican community of the Bronx, a carefree hustler spends his days selling bootleg cocktails and chasing fleeting thrills, until his world shifts when his girlfriend moves into his crowded family apartment. Newcomers Juan Collado and Destiny Checo star in this raw, lived-in portrait from writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas, where young love collides with real-life pressure in tight quarters. Because summer moves fast, but growing up in New York might feel like it hits all at once.

🎥 “Blue Heron” Trailer: A Family’s Fresh Start Unravels in Canadian Filmmaker Sophy Romvari’s Semi-Autobiographical Coming-of-Age Drama Set in the 1990s — In Theaters April 17th

For her feature film debut, Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari draws from her own childhood to create a quiet, memory-soaked coming-of-age drama set during a hazy late-1990s summer on Vancouver Island. Starring Eylul Guven and Edik Beddoes, this intimate semi-autobiographical portrait follows a young girl navigating her Hungarian immigrant family’s fresh start in a new country as her older brother’s increasingly volatile behavior begins to unravel their new home with tension and unease. What begins as a hopeful new chapter slowly gives way to a family in crisis, where childhood clarity meets the quiet weight of unspoken truths.

🎥 “Amrum” Trailer: Diane Kruger Navigates War’s Final Days on a Remote Island in Filmmaker Fatih Akin’s WWII Drama — In U.S. Theaters April 17th

Diane Kruger reunites with In the Fade filmmaker Fatih Akin as a quietly defiant neighbor on a remote North Sea island in the final days of World War II, where a young boy (Jasper Billerbeck) clings to hopes of his father’s return. As his devout mother (Laura Tonke) struggles with Germany’s impending defeat, the boy’s world begins to shift, confronting a devastating truth that quietly reshapes everything he thought he knew. Also starring Matthias Schweighöfer, the film sets out to capture the fragile moment when innocence gives way to reality.

🎥 “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom” Trailer: Aardman’s Lovable Flock Faces a Wild Halloween Creature in This Stop-Motion Family Adventure — In U.S. Theaters September 18th

Halloween at Mossy Bottom Farm takes a chaotic turn when Shaun attempts to fix a ruined pumpkin patch with a little mad-scientist flair, only to unleash something far bigger than expected. From Aardman Studios and directors Steve Cox and Matthew Walker, this stop-motion animated romp turns farmyard mischief into a monster-sized adventure. As the Farmer mysteriously disappears and a strange beast begins stalking the woods, Shaun and the rest of the flock scramble to restore order before things spiral completely out of control. Now that’s baaaaa-d news for everyone involved.

🎥 “The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson” Trailer: A Rising Pro Cyclist’s Life and Shocking Murder Explored in This New True-Crime Documentary — Premieres April 3rd on Netflix

A fiercely driven young cyclist channels her ambition into rising through the ranks, building a life defined by discipline and quiet determination. That trajectory is shattered when a shocking act of violence cuts her story short, leaving her family and loved ones to grapple with an unthinkable loss. Through intimate accounts from those closest to pro cyclist Moriah Wilson, the emotional fallout reveals a life far richer than the headlines ever suggested. This true-crime documentary traces not just a tragedy, but the lasting imprint of love, grief, and how resilience can take shape in the wake of unimaginable loss.

🎥 “BTS: The Return” Trailer: Global Superstars Step Back Into the Spotlight for This Intimate Comeback Documentary — Premieres March 27th on Netflix

Seven voices. One global spotlight waiting to reignite. In this intimate behind-the-scenes documentary, the world’s biggest pop group steps back into the studio, navigating uncertainty, creative pressure, and the weight of expectation while chasing the spark that brought them together. RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook open the doors on a deeply personal chapter, capturing moments of doubt, laughter, and rediscovery as they prepare for a massive return. Witness the comeback taking shape in real time as BTS reminds fans why their music still connects across borders, languages, and generations.

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🎥 “Desert Warrior” Trailer: Anthony Mackie Plays a Legendary Desert Bandit Protecting a Runaway Princess from Ben Kingsley’s Ruthless Emperor in Director Rupert Wyatt’s Historical Action Epic with Aiysha Hart & Sharlto Copley — Coming to Theaters April 24th

Empires rise and empires fall. But what you have to remember is that empires sometimes become so powerful that they forget even the smallest resistance can bring them to their knees.

Anthony Mackie trades in his shield and wings for something a little breezy and loose-fitting as he stars as a legendary Arabian bandit taking on a mighty army to protect a runaway princess in the action-packed historical adventure epic Desert Warrior.

Hailing from Rise of the Planet of the Apes filmmaker Rupert Wyatt and set in the Arabian Peninsula during the volatile seventh-century expansion of the Persian Empire, the film follows a young princess (played by Aiysha Hart, from Mogul Mowgli and TV’s A Discovery of Witches) forced to abandon palace life and survive in the unforgiving desert after defying a ruthless emperor determined to dominate the region. Her only hope lies in forming an unlikely alliance with a legendary desert bandit (Mackie) who has made a name for himself resisting imperial rule.

A throwback to the classic sweeping desert spectacle with a reluctant hero at its center, Mackie aims to prove that no matter the setting, he’s got the charisma and courage to lead the charge against Sir Ben Kingsley, who takes on the role of Emperor Kisra, a powerful ruler determined to crush any resistance to his expanding empire.

South African actor Sharlto Copley, of District 9 fame, co-stars as a mercenary tasked with hunting down Mackie’s elusive bandit, only to realize he may be the one leader capable of uniting the region’s long-feuding tribes in a shared fight to topple the invading empire.

Also co-starring Ghassan Massoud, Sami Bouajila, Lamis Ammar, Géza Röhrig, and Numan Acar, Desert Warrior is set to hit theaters April 24th.

🎥 “Thrash” Trailer: Djimon Hounsou Battles Storm-Flooded Streets and Hungry Sharks in Tommy Wirkola’s Hurricane-Fueled Survival Thriller — Premiering April 10th on Netflix

If Jaws taught us anything, it’s that the real terror of the water isn’t drowning... it’s what might already be swimming beneath the surface, waiting for its next meal. Which makes us wonder: what happens when a massive flood turns an entire town into shark-infested waters? Well... if your first thought was that sounds like one hell of a movie, you’re in luck. One is on the way, and it’s arriving soon.

Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, the genre-loving director behind the cult Nazi zombie splatterfest Dead Snow, its gleefully outrageous sequel Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, and the recent Santa Claus action hit Violent Night, has really sunk his teeth into this one. It’s a new Netflix original called Thrash. Yup! It’s a shark-infested survival horror thriller set in a coastal town that has just been hit by a monstrous Category 5 hurricane. As the storm breaks through the city’s barriers, streets are suddenly flooded, buildings demolished, and much of the town left underwater. But the survivors soon discover the nightmare has only just begun, as the real threat isn’t the rising water levels... it’s what’s now swimming in them: blood-hungry sharks!

Djimon Hounsou leads this action-packed thriller as a local boat captain who takes to the rising waters in search of stranded residents. Among those trapped in the disaster is a young pregnant woman, played by Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, who finds herself stuck in her car as the hurricane rips through the city and the floodwaters begin swallowing the streets.

Helping coordinate the desperate rescue effort is the captain’s daughter (played by Whitney Peak), who joins her father aboard their small boat as they navigate debris-filled waters and search for survivors scattered across the drowned town. But with sharks circling the flooded neighborhoods, every rescue attempt becomes a high-stakes gamble.

The cast also includes Matt Nable, Stacy Clausen, and Alyla Browne, rounding out a group of survivors trying to stay alive in a city where the streets have turned into feeding grounds for these jagged-toothed predators. Just when you thought a hurricane was the worst thing a coastal town could face... along comes the shark-infested flood to prove otherwise.

Thrash premieres April 10th on Netflix.

🎥 “Our Hero, Balthazar” Trailer: Jaeden Martell Plays a Privileged Teen Whose Online Activism Spirals Into a Dangerous Road Trip in Oscar Boyson’s Dark Social Satire Thriller with Asa Butterfield — In Theaters March 27th

We live in times of both rampant anonymous internet trolls and performative online crusaders. And the thing they have in common is a desperate need to be seen, heard, and validated.

Our Hero, Balthazar, a razor-sharp social satire thriller that pokes at online clout-chasing and the intoxicating rush of performative activism, while also examining youth rapidly slipping into apathy and moral confusion, just might be one of the most provocative films of the year. It also feels especially timely as social media has become a dominant form of communication among younger generations navigating identity, outrage, and validation in the digital age. In other words, the kids aren’t all right.

Jaeden Martell (IT, IT Chapter Two) stars as Balthazar, a privileged and socially awkward New York teenager who begins posting passionate pro-gun-control videos online, hoping to impress a politically engaged classmate while quietly enjoying the glow of moral superiority. But when an anonymous internet troll starts mocking him at every turn, Balthazar’s digital crusade quickly mutates into obsession.

Convinced the troll—a gun-obsessed teen named Solomon, played by Sex Education star Asa Butterfield—might be planning something far more dangerous, Balthazar does what any impulsive, overconfident internet activist might do: he travels to Texas to confront the supposed threat himself.

What he finds isn’t exactly the villain he imagined. In some ways Solomon fits the profile Balthazar constructed in his head; in others, he’s just another lonely teenager navigating anger, confusion, and a complicated home life. The two teens form an uneasy bond as their strange journey edges toward something far more volatile than either of them expected.

The film also co-stars Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov, Noah Centineo, and Becky Ann Baker, with Avan Jogia playing a local men’s rights activist.

Filmmaker Oscar Boyson (known for producing indie standouts like Uncut Gems and Good Time) makes his feature directorial debut here. Co-written with journalist and author Ricky Camilleri, the film premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, where it drew attention for its provocative mix of satire and social commentary examining internet culture and modern masculinity.

Our Hero, Balthazar arrives in theaters March 27th.

🎥 “Fuze” U.S. Trailer: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Races to Disarm a WWII Bomb While Theo James Plots a Diamond Heist in David Mackenzie’s London Crime Thriller — In Theaters April 24th

Every so often a thriller comes along that builds its tension around a simple but nerve-rattling question: what happens when the entire city is forced to stop... and someone decides that’s the perfect moment to strike?

That’s the ticking-clock setup behind Fuze, a new British action thriller from Hell or High Water filmmaker David Mackenzie, who once again returns to morally tangled crime territory; only this time with a bomb buried beneath modern London and a heist quietly unfolding in its shadow.

The story kicks off when an unexploded World War II bomb is discovered beneath a busy construction site, triggering a massive emergency response and forcing authorities to evacuate large parts of the city. But while the city focuses on the looming threat beneath the pavement, another plan begins to unfold above it: a daring diamond heist unfolding in plain sight.

28 Years Later star Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a member of the military bomb disposal unit tasked with safely defusing the decades-old explosive before it turns the city of London into a disaster zone. At the same time, Theo James (of The Monkey and The White Lotus: Season 2) plays a cool-headed diamond smuggler who sees the mass evacuation not as a crisis but as the perfect cover for a meticulously planned heist.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) co-stars as the city’s chief metro superintendent manning the emergency response from command headquarters, while rounding out the cast are Sam Worthington, Honor Swinton Byrne, Saffron Hocking, and Elham Ehsas.

While all of London might be holding its collective breath over a bomb that could explode at any moment, the last thing anyone expects is a second fuse quietly burning somewhere else, where the timing is just as critical... and the consequences just as explosive.

Fuze is slated to explode into U.S. theaters April 24th.

Also check out this week’s new trailers:

🎥 “Remarkably Bright Creatures” Teaser: Sally Field Befriends a Brilliant Octopus in This Heartfelt Mystery Based on Shelby Van Pelt’s Bestselling Novel — Debuting May 8th on Netflix

Sometimes the most unlikely friendships come in all shapes and sizes... and even across species. Oscar-winner Sally Field stars as Tova, a quiet, lonely widow working night shifts at a Pacific Northwest aquarium who forms an unusual connection with an observant giant Pacific octopus that seems to understand more than anyone suspects. Voiced by Alfred Molina as Marcellus, the octopus becomes the empathetic and perceptive eight-legged observer quietly watching the human world unfold around him. But when Marcellus crosses paths with Tova, he may hold the key to uncovering a long-buried mystery that could change her life forever. Also starring Lewis Pullman and directed by Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing), this emotionally resonant mystery-drama is based on the bestselling novel by Shelby Van Pelt, which showed that friends can sometimes appear in the most unexpected forms... and sometimes with more than four limbs.

🎥 “You’re Dating A Narcissist!” Trailer: Marisa Tomei Plays a Protective Psychologist Racing to Stop Her Daughter’s Wedding in This Relationship Comedy with Sherry Cola and Ciara Bravo — Hitting Theaters March 27th

One overprotective mother. One suspicious fiancé. And a cross-country mission that might make things worse. Marisa Tomei stars as a sharp-tongued relationship expert who believes she can spot narcissists a mile away. That’s until her daughter (Ciara Bravo) suddenly falls head over heels and announces a wedding to a guy (Marco Pigossi) who just might be a textbook narcissist. Joined by her loyal best friend (Sherry Cola), she rushes to Los Angeles to expose the groom before the vows are exchanged, only to discover that diagnosing love is a lot messier when family is involved.

🎥 “Mile End Kicks” Trailer: Barbie Ferreira Gets Tangled in a Montreal Indie Rock Love Triangle in Chandler Levack’s Music-Scene Rom-Com — In Theaters April 17th

Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack made her feature debut with the little-seen but widely praised indie dramedy I Like Movies, which tapped into not only her love for film but also her teenage days working at a video rental store. She returns with her follow-up film using that same autobiographical spark, this time drawing from her early years navigating the indie music scene in Montreal.

Barbie Ferreira, of Euphoria and Bob Trevino Likes It fame, stars as an aspiring music critic who moves to Montreal hoping to write a book about Alanis Morissette’s breakthrough album Jagged Little Pill. Instead, she finds herself pulled into the orbit of an up-and-coming rock band, eventually becoming romantically tangled with two of its members at the same time. Devon Bostick and Stanley Simons co-star as the musicians complicating her plans, turning professional ambition into emotional confusion. ’Cuz the heart may know what it wants, but the person it chooses isn’t always the right one… or the only one.

🎥 “Roommates” Trailer: Sadie Sandler and Chloe East Turn Dorm Life Into a Passive-Aggressive Cold War in Happy Madison’s Campus Comedy — Debuts April 17th on Netflix

College roommates are supposed to share space, not start a silent war. Sadie Sandler, daughter of Adam Sandler, caught the acting bug appearing in several of her father’s comedies, but after breaking out in the Netflix hit You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, it might finally be her time to take the main lead in this campus comedy produced by Happy Madison. She stars opposite Chloe East of The Fabelmans and Heretic as her much cooler and confident college roommate. As a hopeful freshman, Sadie’s budding friendship slowly unravels into a passive-aggressive showdown fought through dorm politics, subtle digs, and mounting resentment. With Sarah Sherman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, Storm Reid, and Adam Sandler rounding out the cast, this college comedy suggests surviving the school years might start with surviving your own roommate’s mood swings. Filmmaker Chandler Levack (I Like Movies), who also has Mile End Kicks (look above) arriving this year, directs.

🎥 “Whisper of the Heart” & “The Secret World of Arrietty” Re-Release Trailers: GKIDS Brings Two Studio Ghibli Classics Back to IMAX in New 4K Remasters for One-Night Events — April 21st & May 19th

GKIDS continues its relationship with IMAX as it prepares to bring two beloved titles from Studio Ghibli’s celebrated catalog back to theaters in stunning 4K presentations.

First, Yoshifumi Kondo’s Whisper of the Heart, based from a screenplay and storyboards by anime legend Hayao Miyazaki, returns Tuesday, April 21st for a one-night event, revisiting the heartfelt 1995 coming-of-age tale about a book-loving schoolgirl discovering her creative voice after meeting a boy determined to chase his own dreams.

Then on Tuesday, May 19th, Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s The Secret World of Arrietty, also written by Miyazaki, invites audiences back into its hidden world beneath the floorboards, where a tiny “Borrower” forms an unlikely friendship with a lonely boy. Both anime classics will screen in IMAX in newly restored 4K versions, presented in the original Japanese with English subtitles as well as the English dub.

🎥 “Everyone Is Lying to You for Money” Trailer: Ben McKenzie Investigates Crypto’s Culture of Hype, Scams, and Speculation in This Eye-Opening Documentary — Hitting Select Theaters April 17th

Ben McKenzie is an actor, author, and holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and economics. He also stepped away from acting for a time to become a vocal critic of the cryptocurrency industry, calling it nothing short of a Ponzi scheme. And for that we salute him. Sadly, his warnings and investigations—including the book Easy Money—have done little to curtail the industry’s relentless hype and speculation.

So, the next reasonable step? Make a documentary. McKenzie’s directorial debut examines a financial system built more on belief than proof, as he turns himself into a reporter digging into the explosive rise of cryptocurrency and the culture of hype, misinformation, and speculation that helped fuel it. Through interviews with experts and a closer look at major industry collapses, the film reveals how crypto became one of the most aggressively marketed financial products of the modern era... which raises the question of who actually benefits if the market collapses and ordinary investors are left holding the bag.

🎥 “One Spoon of Chocolate” Trailer: Shameik Moore and RJ Cyler Uncover a Dark Small-Town Conspiracy in RZA’s Stylish Action Thriller Presented by Quentin Tarantino — In Theaters May 1st

Wu-Tang Clan co-founder and rapper RZA returns with his third feature as a director. Working from his own script and presented by fellow Kill Bill collaborator Quentin Tarantino, RZA ratchets up the tension in this stylish, sharply satirical action thriller starring Shameik Moore and RJ Cyler. When a former soldier and ex-con (Moore) arrives in a small town hoping to start over, he quickly learns that trouble travels faster than redemption. After clashing with a local gang and uncovering the mysterious disappearance of young men (including his own cousin), he finds himself hunted by criminals, crooked lawmen, and a community with secrets worth killing for. Co-starring Paris Jackson, Michael Harney, Rockmond Dunbar, Jason Isbell, and Blair Underwood, this revenge-driven thriller reminds us that every town has secrets... but this one may be hiding something much darker than most.

🎥 “Pizza Movie” Trailer: Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo and The Goldbergs’ Sean Giambrone Chase a Simple Slice That Turns Into a Mind-Bending, Acid-Dripped Night in This College Slacker Comedy — Debuting April 3rd on Hulu and Disney+

Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo swaps Hawkins for campus madness in this trippy college slacker comedy. He and The Goldbergs star Sean Giambrone play two college roommates whose late-night pizza run spirals into a surreal odyssey of hallucinations, strange encounters, and life-altering misadventures after a dose of experimental drugs sends the night wildly off course. With Lulu Wilson, Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Sarah Sherman joining the mayhem, comedians-turned-filmmakers Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher (the duo known as BriTANicK) steer the story into absurd territory. By the time the sun comes up, this acid-dripped romp suggests the strangest college lessons might happen far from the classroom... and sometimes on the way to grab a slice.

🎥 “LifeHack” Trailer: Teen Hackers Target a Crypto Billionaire in This Screenlife Cyber-Heist Thriller Produced by Timur Bekmambetov & Michael Fassbender — Hitting Theaters May 15th

One daring hack. One furious billionaire. And a digital prank that spirals into a very real threat. Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov and Irish actor Michael Fassbender make an unlikely pairing as executive producers of this cyber-heist thriller told entirely through computer and mobile screens. Irish filmmaker Ronan Corrigan makes his feature debut with this true-events-inspired story about a group of tech-savvy friends who target a notorious crypto tycoon by exploiting his daughter’s overshared social media life. What begins as a bedroom stunt soon turns into the heist of a lifetime... until the billionaire’s daughter calls with a chilling ultimatum. Suddenly, the game isn’t virtual anymore, and sometimes online activity leads to very real offline consequences.

🎥 “Sniper: No Nation” Trailer: Chad Michael Collins and Tom Berenger Return for an Off-the-Books Rescue Mission in the Tenth Chapter of the Long-Running Action Franchise — On VOD/Digital (and DVD) April 7th

The Sniper franchise has quietly been a mainstay of the direct-to-video market for decades. Now ten films deep, this latest installment arrives with some added weight as the Becketts return, with Chad Michael Collins and Ryan Robbins reuniting with original franchise lead Tom Berenger. When the U.S. government disavows the Global Response & Intelligence Team after a covert operation sparks an international scandal, ace sniper Brandon Beckett (Collins) suddenly finds himself hunted by the country he once served. With his allies captured and facing execution, Brandon reunites with his legendary father (Berenger) and a small band of rebels for a desperate rescue mission behind enemy lines. Directed by cinematographer Trevor Calverley, this action sequel throws the Beckett legacy back into the crosshairs for a fight with no backup and no mercy... which is exactly the kind of fight they’re built for.

🎥 “13 Days 13 Nights” Trailer: French Star Roschdy Zem Leads a Desperate Embassy Evacuation During the Fall of Kabul in Martin Bourboulon’s True-Story War Drama — In U.S. Theaters and on VOD/Digital March 27th

It’s Kabul, August 2021. The entire city teeters on the edge as the Taliban close in and foreign forces prepare to withdraw. Inside the French embassy, hundreds of civilians are suddenly stranded while the streets outside descend into total pandemonium. A small French security unit must evacuate more than 500 people trapped inside the last Western embassy still operating in the capital in this tense political thriller from The Three Musketeers filmmaker Martin Bourboulon. French-Moroccan actor Roschdy Zem stars as Commandant Mohamed Bida, leading the perilous mission through streets unraveling into chaos, where every mile forward means gambling with hundreds of lives.

🎥 “Rise of the Conqueror” Trailer: Turco-Mongol Ruler Timur Barlas (Christian Mortensen) Battles to Unite a Fractured Central Asia in This Epic Historical War Drama — Arriving on VOD/Digital April 14th

A shattered empire leaves Central Asia divided and desperate for order. In the wake of the Mongol Empire’s collapse, a battle-hardened warrior begins forging his own path to power across the fractured steppes. Christian Mortensen stars as Timur Barlas, the ambitious leader determined to unite rival factions through strategy and conquest. Directed by Jacob Schwarz, this sweeping historical war drama transforms a turbulent chapter of history into an epic story of how ambition and warfare give rise to a new empire.

🎥 “He Bled Neon” Teaser: Joe Cole Gets Pulled Into Las Vegas’ Neon-Lit Criminal Underworld in Drew Kirsch’s Stylish Action Thriller with Rita Ora, Josh Holloway & Marshawn Lynch — Premiering at This Year’s SXSW

Music video director Drew Kirsch makes his feature film debut with this neon-soaked crime thriller set in the darker corners of Las Vegas. When a grieving brother arrives in the city for a funeral, he quickly finds himself pulled into a violent criminal underworld tied to the mystery of his sibling’s death. Joe Cole leads the cast as the man searching for answers, joined by Rita Ora, Marshawn Lynch, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Paul Wesley, and Josh Holloway.

🎥 “Michael” New Promo: Jaafar Jackson Steps Into the Shoes of the King of Pop in Antoine Fuqua’s Sweeping Musical Biopic with Colman Domingo — In Theaters April 24th

This sweeping musical biopic traces the rise of Michael Jackson, the once-in-a-generation performer who evolved from the standout voice of the Jackson Five into the global phenomenon determined to redefine what it means to be the biggest entertainer in the world. Michael’s own nephew Jaafar Jackson steps into the role of the legendary pop icon, joined by Colman Domingo as the formidable family patriarch and Nia Long as the devoted matriarch guiding the young star through fame’s earliest pressures. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, this behind-the-scenes portrait tries to understand what shaped Michael into the cultural legend he became... and what it might have cost him along the way.

🎥 “The Devil Wears Prada 2” New Promo: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt & Stanley Tucci Return to the Cutthroat World of Runway Magazine Nearly 20 Years Later — Coming to Theaters May 1st

Nearly two decades after ruling the fashion world, the icy halls of Runway magazine are about to feel familiar again. Meryl Streep returns as the formidable Miranda Priestly, with Anne Hathaway returning as former assistant-turned-magazine editor Andy Sachs, alongside Emily Blunt as sharp-tongued fashion executive Emily Charlton and Stanley Tucci as Runway’s loyal art director Nigel Kipling. With director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna also back behind the scenes, this glossy comedy sequel revisits a world where ambition is fierce, loyalty is optional, and the right outfit can still change everything.

🎥 “The Drama” Featurette: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s Wedding Week Unravels in Kristoffer Borgli’s Dark Romantic Comedy — In Theaters April 3rd

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in this dark romantic comedy from A24 as an engaged couple whose seemingly perfect relationship begins to fracture just days before their wedding. When unsettling truths about one partner surface, their carefully mapped-out future spins into disarray, fueled by insecurity and a growing sense that neither of them truly knows the other. Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli and produced by Ari Aster, this sharp-edged relationship comedy explores how quickly love can combust when one partner accidentally lights the fuse.

🎥 “Agent Zero” Trailer: Marine Vacth Resurrects a Ruthless Past in This French Revenge Thriller Set in Morocco — On VOD/Digital March 13th

French actress Marine Vacth stars in this revenge-driven action thriller from Sympathy for the Devil director Guillaume de Fontenay. Playing a former intelligence operative trying to bury her violent past, her quiet life shatters when her boyfriend is gunned down and left in a coma. Forced back into the brutal world she escaped, she sets out to hunt down those responsible with cold precision and zero mercy.

🎥 “Flavia” International Trailer: Young Chemistry Prodigy (Molly Belle Wright) Turns Amateur Sleuth After a Dead Body Appears at Her Family’s Crumbling Manor in This 1950s-Era British Mystery Adventure with Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce & Toby Jones — Arriving April 4th on UK’s Sky Cinema & NOW

A dead body at a crumbling English manor sparks a mystery no one seems eager to solve. When her father confesses to the crime, an eleven-year-old chemistry prodigy refuses to believe the case is closed and launches her own investigation. Molly Belle Wright leads this British family adventure as the fiercely curious young sleuth, with Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce, and Toby Jones surrounding her with a gallery of suspicious adults. Directed by Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day helmer Bharat Nalluri, this playful 1950s kid-detective mystery suggests sometimes the smartest people in the room isn’t the adults.

🎥 “The Three Urns” International Trailer: Ciarán Hinds Sets Out on a Soul-Searching Journey Across Ireland in This Whimsical Road Drama with Olga Kurylenko, Stephen Dillane & Stephen Fry — In Irish Cinemas April 17th

A grieving widower sets off on a quiet journey home, only to find the road filled with unexpected company. In this whimsical Irish road tale, Ciarán Hinds plays a man returning to Ireland after years in France following the death of his wife, encountering an eclectic cast of strangers along the way. From wandering priests and horse traders to mystic gatherings and traveling artists, each stop adds another layer to a journey shaped by memory, loss, and renewal. Written and directed by filmmaker John-Paul Davidson and Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, this gentle character piece turns a pilgrimage into a moving search for connection and meaning.

🎥 “Untold: Chess Mates” Trailer: Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann’s Controversial Rivalry Sparks a Global Chess Scandal in This New Netflix Sports Documentary — Premiering April 7th on Netflix

One shocking upset. One furious world champion. And a scandal that rocked the quiet world of elite chess. This new Netflix sports documentary charts the explosive allegations of cheating that ignite a global debate across the chess community following the 2022 Sinquefield Cup where rising star Hans Niemann defeated Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in a stunning victory. As Niemann fights to repair his reputation and climb back through the ranks, the rivalry builds toward a tense rematch with the game’s most dominant champion. Sometimes the real battle isn’t just on the board... it’s over the future of the game and how players can be trusted.

🎥 “Just Sing” Trailer: SoCal VoCals Chase A Cappella Glory in This Inspiring Musical Documentary About Friendship, Competition, and Finding Your Voice — In Select Theaters (NY & LA) April 24th

For one ambitious group of college singers, the pursuit of harmony comes with a ticking clock. As members of the celebrated SoCal VoCals gear up for their final shot at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, graduation looms and the pressure to deliver their best performance yet begins to mount in this heartwarming musical documentary. Directors Angelique Molina and Abraham Troen follow the group through demanding rehearsals, personal challenges, and the bonds that form between voices chasing the same dream.

🎥 “Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)” Trailer: This Searing Indie Documentary Explores a Land Rights Murder Trial and the Colonial Legacy Behind It — Opening May 1st in New York with Other Cities to Follow

A murder in a remote community becomes the starting point for a much larger story. As a courtroom trial unfolds, the lives of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar and the Chuschagasta people come into focus, revealing a long struggle over land and identity. This searing indie documentary exposes how centuries of colonial land seizure still echo through modern conflicts across Latin America. Acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel brings a sweeping perspective to the tragedy, turning a single trial into a powerful reflection on justice and history.

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🎥 “Project Hail Mary” Final International Trailer: Ryan Gosling Becomes Earth’s Last Hope and Teams with a Rock-Like Alien in Phil Lord & Christopher Miller’s Much-Buzzed-About Space Adventure — Hitting Theaters March 20th

Saving the world was never supposed to fall to a middle-school science teacher from Cleveland. But then again, who could have expected the sun to start dying so fast? That’s the gist behind Ryan Gosling’s latest sci-fi adventure Project Hail Mary, which is already generating plenty of buzz. And it just might be the next big space adventure audiences have been waiting for.

After all, it hails from directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who brought us the animated blockbusters Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and is based on the best-selling novel by author Andy Weir, of The Martian fame, adapted by The Martian scribe Drew Goddard. So the film certainly has the pedigree to make it something special.

Set to open nationwide on March 20th, the film sees Gosling as Ryland Grace, an unassuming middle-school science teacher from Cleveland who suddenly finds himself tasked with saving the entire planet. Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: the sun is dying, and Earth is running out of time. With no other viable options, a global coalition recruits Ryland for a last-ditch mission into deep space, hoping his brilliant mind for molecular biology and knack for unconventional problem-solving might deliver the impossible.

Launched alone on a desperate interstellar journey built on educated guesses and blind hope, Ryland’s mission quickly becomes even stranger. After a mishap leaves him waking up among the stars with fragmented memories, he soon realizes he’s not quite as alone as he thought. Out there in the vastness of space, he encounters a peculiar alien lifeform made of rock, whom he fittingly names Rocky. Clearly intelligent and apparently sent on a similar mission of cosmic importance, the unlikely pair begin working together to solve a problem that threatens not just Earth, but possibly the entire universe. Suddenly, this Hail Mary pass has slightly better odds.

Co-starring Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest) as the steely government official who recruits Ryland for the impossible task, along with The Bear’s Lionel Boyce, Industry’s Ken Leung, and This Is Us’ Milana Vayntrub rounding out the cast, Project Hail Mary just might be one of next year’s most exciting sci-fi spectacles.

🎥 “Mermaid” Trailer: Johnny Pemberton Stars as a Down-and-Out Floridian Hiding a Mythical Sea Creature in This Darkly Quirky Comedy — Hitting Select Theaters April 8th

Do you love mermaid movies where a clueless human stumbles into a chance encounter with a mythical sea creature? Well, you’re in luck! There’s a new film on the horizon that might scratch that itch. Just don’t expect something like Splash. This one swims in darker, weirder waters and is likely headed in a very different direction.

The upcoming film Mermaid is a dark, offbeat comedy starring Johnny Pemberton (from the Amazon video game–based series Fallout) as Doug, a socially awkward, down-on-the-dumps Floridian whose life has completely unraveled with no clear path forward.

Divorced, broke, and freshly fired from his job tending the aquarium at a local strip club, Doug finds himself spiraling toward rock bottom. One day, he takes his boat out into the Gulf, ready to end the misery. But once in the middle of the ocean, he discovers something impossible; something he believes is an injured mermaid barely clinging to life, which changes his entire trajectory. Now Doug’s on a mission to protect his discovery, despite it looking like a mummified corpse he just fished out of the sea.

Written and directed by Tyler Cornack, the filmmaker behind the cult oddity Butt Boy and the anthology horror comedy Tiny Cinema, Mermaid takes the sideshow mythology and spins it on its head with a dark comedic twist. It asks: what if you stumbled across a mythical creature that looked less like a fantasy and more like something pulled from a dusty roadside attraction? Would you still believe it was real, even if you were drug-addled and spacing out at the time?

Joining Pemberton is a top-notch supporting cast that includes Robert Patrick, Kirk Fox, Kevin Nealon, Kevin Dunn, Tom Arnold, Julia Valentine Larson, and Avery Potemri.

Mermaid is set to hit select theaters on April 8th.

🎥 “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice” Trailer: Vince Vaughn Faces His Future Self in This Time-Bending Action-Comedy with James Marsden & Eiza González — Premiering March 27th on Hulu/Disney+

Rarely have we seen anyone keep up with the fast wit of Vince Vaughn, but perhaps the wisecracking Wedding Crashers actor, known for his lightning-fast quips and banter, has finally met someone who can match his speed. And it just so happens to be... well, himself. A future version of himself, that is. Literally from the future. Vaughn plays Nick, a man confronted by a future version of himself—a time-traveling criminal who’s come back to take down his present-day self in order to avoid a doomed timeline, one where he meets his end because of his own foolish decisions.

James Marsden is along for the ride as Mike, Nick’s lovable dimwitted partner who can’t quite decide whether any of this is real... and worse yet, doesn’t quite know the word chloroform, referring to it only as “the wet rag thing” as they attempt to keep the other Nick incapacitated while future Nick takes charge of his own destiny. It makes for a pretty irresistible comic pairing. They’re just two guys way over their heads, arguing about semantics while the fate of their entire future hangs in the balance.

Eiza González rounds out the crew as Alice. And together, this gloriously mismatched trio goes by the only title that could possibly make sense of all this time-altering buffoonery: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.

Written and directed by BenDavid Grabinski, who previously helmed the dark romantic comedy Happily and co-created the acclaimed Netflix animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, this new R-rated action-comedy has Vaughn pulling double duty as both the present-day and future Nick: an ill-fated yet sharply dressed gangster who stumbles upon a time-travel machine and seizes the opportunity to rewrite some wrongs.

With the help of his partners Mike and Alice, Nick tries to course-correct the chain of events that lead to his demise, including stopping a cannibal assassin (played by Barry’s Stephen Root) sent specifically to kill them—which, all things considered, feels like a pretty reasonable thing to want to prevent. What begins as a desperate self-preservation scheme soon spirals into the kind of gloriously chaotic caper where the plan was never really the plan, and the only way out is through a version of yourself you’re not entirely sure you trust.

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is slated to make its world premiere next week at SXSW before arriving exclusively on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on March 27th.

🎥 “Scary Movie” Trailer: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and the Wayans Brothers Are Back to Roast Modern Horror Hits Like Sinners, Weapons, M3GAN, Smile, Terrifier and More — Hitting Theaters June 5th

Some popular horror franchises promise a final chapter... a final showdown to close things out once and for all. The Scary Movie series, on the other hand, promises the exact opposite. Even after nearly 13 years away, as long as horror movies keep multiplying, this franchise will keep coming back to slice them up.

Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall reunite as Shorty, Ray, Cindy, and Brenda, the quartet who turned slasher panic into punchlines back in 2000. Now the Core Four find themselves staring down a brand-new wave of horror trends in this long-awaited Scary Movie sequel, taking sharp jabs at everything from endless reboots and remakes to elevated horror and legacy sequels. And nothing is off the table, so expect some of your favorite horror franchises to land squarely in their crosshairs.

This new installment wastes no time sharpening its knives for the genre’s most recognizable tropes and newer horror hits like Sinners, Get Out, Smile, Weapons, M3GAN, Terrifier, and The Substance, among countless other references. Every sacred cow gets dragged onto the chopping block, kicking and screaming. And any horror franchise brave enough to slap the words “final chapter” on a poster... well, you know it will likely be the first target.

It’s been 26 years since the original Scary Movie burst onto the scene, turning horror trends into belly laughs and launching the movie careers of Anna Faris and Regina Hall. Now they’re back for another round of gleeful slasher genre mayhem. If the Scream franchise can rise from near extinction, why not this one too? Let the roasting begin.

Directed by Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House, Fifty Shades of Black), the film features a supporting cast that mixes familiar faces with fresh victims of the joke. Alongside the returning quartet are Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, Dave Sheridan, and Lochlyn Munro, with Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Sydney Park, and more joining the fun.

So, in other words, the knives are out again… and this time they’re pointed at every horror trend of the past twenty years. Scary Movie hits theaters June 5th.

🎥 “Vidiots” Trailer: Watch This Promotional Video for One of L.A.’s Most Beloved Nonprofit Video Stores and Community Film Hubs

Who says trailers need to be reserved only for upcoming attractions? And who says a beloved L.A. video rental store couldn’t use one to highlight everything it has to offer? Check out this playful promo for Vidiots, a one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and anyone curious about cinema. Founded in the mid-1980s, this nonprofit video store has evolved into a communal gathering place in Los Angeles, hosting film screenings, programs, and workshops. Featuring comedians and actors Jessica Williams, Ify Nwadiwe, and Noah Segan, the preview gets to the heart of why this video store isn’t just about rentals... it’s about keeping movie culture alive.

🎥 “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel” Trailer: Flea and Anthony Kiedis Reflect on the Band’s Early LA Punk-Funk Days and the Lasting Legacy of Guitarist Hillel Slovak — Premiering March 20th on Netflix

Some bands are built on talent. Others are built on friendship. This music documentary revisits the chaotic early days of a scrappy Los Angeles funk-punk band as two lifelong friends—Flea and Anthony Kiedis—look back at the brotherhood that shaped their lives and sound. At the heart of it all is their original guitarist, the late Hillel Slovak, whose influence helped forge the band’s signature blend of funk grooves and punk attitude. Directed by Ben Feldman, the film blends unseen archival footage, journal entries, and emotional interviews with musicians like Jack Irons, Alain Johannes, and George Clinton. Decades later, the music lives on... but so does the friendship that started it.

🎥 “Lorne” Trailer: Documentarian Morgan Neville Explores the Life and Legacy of SNL Architect Lorne Michaels Through the Voices of Comedy’s Biggest Stars — Hitting Theaters April 17th

SNL honcho Lorne Michaels has spent decades shaping the voices of American comedy; now the spotlight finally turns on him as the man and vision behind one of TV’s greatest comedy institutions. In this revealing documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, a generation of comedic performers—including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, and Conan O’Brien—reflect on the quiet architect behind their rise. Through archival footage and candid interviews, the film traces how a soft-spoken producer transformed a late-night sketch show into a pop-cultural phenomenon. Sometimes the most influential voice is the one working behind the scenes... and rarely stepping in front of the camera.

🎥 “I Swear” U.S. Trailer: Robert Aramayo Battles Tourette Syndrome in Kirk Jones’ True-Story Drama Set in 1980s Scotland — Coming to U.S. Theaters April 24th

Recent BAFTA winner Robert Aramayo takes on a raw, transformative role in this true-story drama, starring as John Davidson, a young Scotsman whose severe and rare form of Tourette syndrome (causing him to involuntarily shout horrible obscenities) turns daily life into an unpredictable battlefield as he struggles through adolescence in 1980s Scotland. Maxine Peake portrays his fiercely protective mother, while Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan appear as figures who challenge and guide him along the way. As stigma and misunderstanding become constant obstacles, the fight becomes less about controlling the disorder and more about embracing it and refusing to hide your own voice. The film was unfortunately caught in the middle of a recent BAFTA controversy, which seems to suggest that a story about understanding such a disorder is needed now more than ever.

🎥 “Silent Friend” Trailer: Tony Leung Chiu-wai Searches for Meaning Beneath a Centuries-Old Ginkgo Tree in Ildikó Enyedi’s Poetic Multi-Generational Poetic Drama with Léa Seydoux — Hitting Theaters May 8th

Renowned Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai (In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express) steps into another contemplative, grief-shadowed role in this quietly poetic drama from acclaimed Hungarian writer-director Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul). He plays a neuroscientist struggling to reconnect with the world around him as his life intersects with others across generations in a German botanical garden watched over by a centuries-old ginkgo tree. Léa Seydoux, Luna Wedler, Sylvester Groth, and Martin Wuttke portray figures whose stories unfold across different eras, revealing how human lives echo through time. As past and present intertwine beneath the same branches, personal loss and curiosity begin to reshape the characters’ understanding of nature and themselves. Nature, silent as it is, may be our only companion in a world that feels so fleeting.

🎥 “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” Featurette: Samara Weaving’s Survivor Faces Another Deadly Family Game in the Darkly Comic Horror Sequel — Hitting Theaters March 20th

Surviving once doesn’t mean the nightmare is over. Samara Weaving returns as Grace, the lone survivor of a deadly ritual game played by her sadistic, wealthy in-laws. When another powerful family tied to the sinister tradition emerges, she’s dragged into a new life-or-death contest. This time alongside her sister (Kathryn Newton), a reluctant and hopeless new contestant. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood, and Shawn Hatosy co-star in this darkly comic horror sequel where the hunt begins again with even deadlier stakes. Check out this behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming film.

🎥 “Preschool” Trailer: Josh Duhamel Sparks a Petty War Between Rival Parents Fighting for One Elite School Spot — Arriving On VOD/Digital March 17th

Josh Duhamel directs and stars in this British-set parental comedy about how getting a child into the best preschool might result in all-out war. Duhamel plays a fiercely competitive father who spirals into an increasingly absurd rivalry with another dad (Michael Socha, Toxic Town, This Is England) as both fight to secure a coveted spot for their children at an elite preschool. Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor) and Charity Wakefield (The Great) play their exasperated wives as the two men embark on a full-on game of one-upmanship that quickly escalates into relentless sabotage. They say a child’s education is everything... but apparently so is winning.

🎥 “Feel My Voice” Trailer: A Teen With a Gift for Singing Faces a Heart-Tugging Choice Between Her Deaf Family and Her Own Dreams in This Italian Remake — Debuting April 3rd on Netflix

A voice can unite a family… or quietly pull it apart. In this heartfelt Italian dramedy, a teenage girl (Sarah Toscano) grows up as the only hearing member of a deaf household, serving as a bridge between two very different worlds. When she discovers a gift for singing, the possibility of a life beyond her small family circle suddenly feels within reach. But chasing that dream threatens to strain the close bond she shares with her protective mother (Serena Rossi). This new film is a remake of the acclaimed 2014 French-Belgian coming-of-age story La Famille Bélier, which later inspired the 2021 Oscar-winning American drama CODA.

🎥 “John Woo’s The Killer: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Chow Yun-Fat Stars as a Remorseful Hitman in Woo’s Legendary Gun-Fu Classic — Back in U.S. Theaters on April 5, 6 & 8

Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo didn’t just direct action films, he rewrote the rules. One of his greatest ’90s action classics is set to return to theaters with a newly restored 4K presentation this April. Chow Yun-Fat, one of Woo’s frequent leading men, stars as a professional hitman who accidentally blinds a nightclub singer during a job and vows to make amends. Taking one last contract to fund her surgery, he finds himself hunted by both ruthless employers and a relentless detective (Danny Lee). As loyalties blur and bullets fly, Woo’s operatic gunplay turns the criminal underworld into a stage for honor, sacrifice, and redemption. Some action movies fire bullets... this one fires poetry in slow motion. Now a new generation can witness the film that helped redefine action cinema.

🎥 “Mexicali” Trailer: Martial Artist Bren Foster Stars as a Retired Special-Forces Soldier Forced Back Into Action When a Ruthless Cartel Targets His Farm in This Gritty Throwback Actioner with Tania Raymonde — Arriving March 13th on VOD/Digital

Peaceful lives rarely stay that way near the border. In this gritty throwback to the action films of the ’80s and ’90s, a former special-forces operative (Aussie martial artist Bren Foster) tries to live quietly as an avocado farmer in a dusty town outside Mexicali. But when cartel enforcers threaten his family and land, the past he tried to bury comes roaring back. With his fiancée (Tania Raymonde) and friends caught in the crossfire, he must unleash the skills he swore he’d never use again.

🎥 “Pinocchio Unstrung” Trailer: Richard Brake’s Geppetto Unleashes a Killer Puppet in the Latest Public-Domain Horror from the Twisted Childhood Universe — Coming Soon

A childhood fairy tale takes a bloody turn in this slasher reimagining of the classic Pinocchio legend, the latest entry in filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s Twisted Childhood Universe, following Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Bambi: The Reckoning. Genre veteran Richard Brake stars as Geppetto, who introduces his grandson James (Cameron Bell) to a magical wooden puppet boy named Pinocchio. But the creation soon develops a dangerously warped sense of right and wrong. After hearing stories about good and evil, the puppet begins violently eliminating anyone he believes is “bad,” turning their quiet town into a nightmare. Horror icon Robert Englund lends his voice as the Cricket in this gory fantasy twist made possible by the public domain.

🎥 “DRAGN” Trailer: Office Colleagues Become Prey When a Deadly AI Drone Hijacks Their Corporate Retreat in This New Sci-Fi Survival Thriller — Arriving On VOD/Digital March 17th

Corporate retreats rarely end well in movies. But add an AI-powered drone to the mix and you’ve got a nightmare waiting to happen. This sci-fi survival thriller drops a group of office colleagues into a remote forest where a flying AI war machine is on the loose, turning their company trip into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. James Paxton, Lilly Krug, Alice Pagani, Franz Drameh, and Carlos Bardem play coworkers forced to improvise and stay alive as the deadly AI drone stalks them through the wilderness. Directed by Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring, Hannibal Rising), the film asks what happens when the technology we trust suddenly decides we’re the target... and need eliminating.

🎥 “1000 Women in Horror” Trailer: New Shudder Documentary Reflects on Women’s Impact in Horror Cinema, Exploring the Unsung Voices Behind the Genre — Premiering March 20th on Shudder

Horror history has always had more women behind it than most people realize. This documentary explores how female filmmakers, writers, editors, and producers have shaped the genre from cinema’s earliest days to today. Featuring interviews with more than eighty voices—including Roxanne Benjamin, Akela Cooper, Mary Harron, Roseanne Liang, and Nikyatu Jusu, among others—the film examines both creative influence and industry barriers. Directed by Donna Davies and written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, it celebrates the pioneers who helped define horror’s past while pointing toward the genre’s future.

🎥 “The Travel Companion” Trailer: Struggling Filmmaker Fears Losing His Free Flights When His Best Friend Finds Love in This Offbeat Buddy Comedy Starring Tristan Turner & Anthony Oberbeck — Opening in NY April 10th; Expanding April 17th

Friendship gets complicated when ambition and jealousy collide in all the wrong ways in this offbeat buddy comedy from first-time feature filmmakers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis. Simon (Tristan Turner), a struggling documentary filmmaker, depends on his roommate and best friend Bruce’s (Anthony Oberbeck) airline job for the free flights that keep his passion project alive. But when Bruce begins dating a talented filmmaker named Beatrice (Naomi Asa), Simon becomes convinced his creative lifeline is about to vanish... because sometimes the fastest way to derail a friendship is adding ambition and envy to the mix.

🎥 “Think of England” Trailer: A Ragtag Film Crew Is Sent to a Remote Island for a Very Unusual Wartime Assignment in Richard Hawkins’ New WWII Film Starring Jack Bandeira, Natalie Quarry & John McCrea — Coming Soon

War can breed strange assignments. In this off-kilter British wartime drama set in 1943, a ragtag group of unlikely collaborators are sent to a remote island with a secret government mission: produce pornographic films designed to boost the morale of British soldiers fighting overseas. The peculiar troupe—ranging from an Etonian major to a war-damaged movie star—quickly find their week-long assignment unraveling into clashing personalities and stress-induced tensions. Written and directed by Richard Hawkins and starring Jack Bandeira, Natalie Quarry, and John McCrea, the film suggests that even the strangest wartime propaganda can reveal uncomfortable truths about morality, duty, and love for country.

🎥 “Underland” Trailer: Sandra Hüller Narrates a Deep Dive into the Hidden Worlds Beneath Our Planet in This Immersive Documentary About Earth’s Underground Realms — In Select Theaters March 27th

Beneath the surface lies a world few ever see. Based on Robert Macfarlane’s acclaimed book, this documentary journeys underground as narrator Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) introduces explorers and scientists venturing into caves, burial chambers, melting glaciers, and Canada’s SNOLAB observatory. Directed by Robert Petit, the film blends striking cinematography and immersive sound design with poetic reflection. Sometimes the deepest discoveries about our planet are found far below our feet.

🎥 “Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom” Trailer: Netflix’s New Sports Documentary Revisits the NBA Star’s Near-Fatal 2015 Overdose and Road to Recovery — Premiering March 31st on Netflix

This latest entry in Netflix’s Untold series revisits the shocking 2015 overdose of former NBA champion Lamar Odom at a Nevada brothel; an incident that nearly cost him his life and stunned the sports world. Through candid interviews with Odom himself, along with ex-wife Khloé Kardashian and others close to the story, the doc retraces his rise to basketball stardom, the pressures of celebrity, and the addiction that nearly destroyed him. Directed by journalist Ryan Duffy, this looks back at one of sports’ most publicized downfalls while charting Odom’s long and difficult road toward recovery.

🎥 “Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait” Trailer: Amazon’s New Sports Documentary Chronicles Golf Star’s Decade-Long Quest for the Career Grand Slam — Premiering March 30th on Prime Video

The road to golf immortality can take years to complete. This Amazon sports documentary follows Rory McIlroy’s decade-long pursuit of one of golf’s most elusive achievements: winning the Masters to secure the career Grand Slam. Through personal narration and never-before-seen footage, McIlroy reflects on the pressure, heartbreak, and near-misses that defined his long wait at Augusta National. The doc charts the highs and lows of that journey, culminating in McIlroy’s long-awaited triumph at the 2025 Masters.

🎥 “Meal Ticket” Trailer: Amazon’s New Basketball Documentary Celebrates the McDonald’s All American Games and the High School Showcase That Launched NBA Legends — Premiering March 19th on Prime Video

This new Amazon basketball documentary explores the 45-year legacy of the McDonald’s All American Games, the high school showcase that helped launch the careers of stars like Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Candace Parker. Featuring interviews with former participants including Blake Griffin, Grant Hill, Patrick Ewing, Dominique Wilkins, and Breanna Stewart, the film examines how the event became a proving ground for future legends while continuing to shape basketball’s next generation.

🎥 “The Stranger” U.S. Trailer: Benjamin Voisin Plays Camus’ Emotionally Detached Antihero in François Ozon’s Stark Literary Adaptation — In Select U.S. Theaters April 3rd

Acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Frantz) adapts Albert Camus’ existential classic into a stark drama set in 1930s Algiers. Benjamin Voisin plays Meursault, a detached office clerk whose indifference to life—and death—draws society’s scrutiny after a violent incident. Rebecca Marder and Pierre Lottin co-star alongside Swann Arlaud and Denis Lavant. As the trial unfolds, the courtroom judges not only the crime but the unsettling calm of the man who committed it, turning the case into a meditation on alienation and morality.

🎥 “53 Sundays” Trailer: Three Siblings Face Family Chaos While Deciding Their Father’s Fate in Filmmaker Cesc Gay’s Spanish Dramedy — Premiering March 27th on Netflix

A family meeting spirals into something far more revealing in this comedy-drama from Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay. Three adult siblings gather to figure out what to do about their increasingly unpredictable 86-year-old father, but the conversation quickly erupts into a day of confessions, old grudges, and long-buried truths. Starring Carmen Machi, Javier Cámara, Javier Gutiérrez, and Alexandra Jiménez, this lighthearted Spanish film mines sharp humor from sibling bickering while revealing the stubborn affection still hidden just beneath all the turmoil.

🎥 “My Dearest Señorita” Teaser: An Intersex Woman (Elisabeth Martínez) Embarks on a Journey of Identity and Self-Discovery in Fernando González Molina’s 1970s-Set Spanish Drama — Premiering May 1st on Netflix

A sheltered life cracks open in this Spanish period drama set in the shifting social climate of 1970s Spain. Adela (Elisabeth Martínez), an only child in Pamplona, lives quietly with her conservative parents until a life-changing discovery reveals she is intersex. The revelation pushes her beyond the boundaries of her small world and sends her on a journey to Madrid in search of identity and love. Directed by Fernando González Molina, the film traces one woman’s awakening amid a country beginning to change.

🎥 “Trial of Hein” International Trailer: A Man’s Return to His Island Village Sparks Suspicion and a Community Trial in Kai Stänicke’s German Mystery Drama Starring Paul Boche — Coming Soon

A man’s homecoming sparks suspicion in this German drama from writer-director Kai Stänicke. After fourteen years away, Hein (Paul Boche) returns to the tiny island village he once called home, but the locals question whether he is truly who he claims to be. As the community puts him on trial, long-buried memories of a drowned boy resurface. Also starring Stephanie Amarell, Emilia Schüle, Philip Froissant, and Jeanette Hain, the film explores identity, memory, and how belonging to a community can come at a heavy cost.

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🎥 “In a Violent Nature 2” Teaser Trailer: Johnny’s Rampage Reignites at a Remote Summer Camp in This POV Slasher Horror Sequel — Coming Soon

Has anyone ever stopped to consider what a menacing masked psycho with a large, rusty stabbing weapon might actually be seeing when he’s out there doing his dastardly deeds? Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, what have you. Has anyone ever wondered what that would look like through their eyes? What would it feel like to be the one doing the stalking instead of the screaming?

Well, special effects artist Chris Nash set out to answer that age-old question back in 2024 with his ultra-gory splatter film In a Violent Nature, which has since become an instant cult classic. Nash shot an entire horror movie from the slasher’s point of view, much in the vein of a first-person shooter video game. The result flipped the slasher formula on its blood-soaked head, locking us, the audience, behind the eyes of a silent, lumbering killer named Johnny, forcing us to march through the woods at his pace and witness the blood-splattering terror from his perspective.

It was a divisive film, to say the least, as some felt the slow, methodical pacing drained the slasher genre of its usual jolts and thrills, while others saw it as a bold, almost experimental reinvention of a tried-and-true formula. But hey, it felt like a one-off experiment. A curiosity. A gnarly little art-house slasher that did its thing and moved on. There’s no way that would come back with a sequel, right?

Ahhh, got you, sucker. Johnny’s back! And like all slasher films that came before, you can’t really stop the bloodstained mayhem. It just keeps going and going. Bury it, burn it, pretend it’s over... doesn’t matter. The nightmare never really ended.

In a Violent Nature 2 drags its silent slasher back into the forest, this time steering his slow, inevitable rampage toward a summer camp already primed for bad decisions. Directed by Nathaniel Wilson, with Chris Nash stepping aside to serve as writer and producer, the sequel once again plants us at ground level, where every snapped twig and heavy footstep feels less like a jump scare and more like a countdown.

Ry Barrett returns once again embodying the killer Johnny, alongside a fresh roster of new victims... er, cast members Lucas Nguyen, Olivia Scriven, Laurie Babin, Fionn Laird, Donald MacLean Jr., and Evan Marsh.

In a Violent Nature 2 will be coming soon. But knowing Johnny’s lumbering pace, he might take his sweet time getting here... and honestly, that’s half the dread.

🎥 “Faces of Death” Trailer: A Content Moderator Spirals Into a Disturbing Mystery in Filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber’s Algorithm-Era Reimagining of the Infamous Shock Franchise Starring Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery — Hitting Theaters April 10th

This might be hard to imagine, but there was a time when simply uttering the words “Faces of Death” conjured sweat-pouring panic and nerve-jingling terror. Anyone who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s remembers how those infamous VHS tapes felt like forbidden relics. They were whispered about on playgrounds, passed around at sleepovers, and treated like contraband you weren’t supposed to see but absolutely had to.

They weren’t just movies. They were urban legends in plastic clamshell cases. The kind of thing someone’s older cousin claimed to own. The kind of tape you’d pop into the VCR with one eye half-covered, bracing yourself for something you might never be able to unsee. In an era before the internet flattened shock value into a daily scroll, the mystique alone was enough. Was it real? Was it staged? Did it even matter? What mattered was the feeling… that queasy, heart-thumping sense that you were crossing a line just by pressing play.

Now fast forward 30 or 40 years, and by today’s standards, that kind of grotesque imagery isn’t considered forbidden or even particularly taboo anymore. We carry it around in our pockets like nothing. It’s just a scroll away from some of the most disturbing, real-world horrors imaginable. Unfiltered. Stripped of context. Served up between soda ads and silly dance challenges. Perhaps it’s the perfect time to revisit the Faces of Death franchise. Not to examine how those tapes changed, but how we have.

From filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber and producer-writer Isa Mazzei, following their incendiary How to Blow Up a Pipeline, this Faces of Death reimagining drags that old “is it real or staged?” anxiety into the algorithm age, where the horror doesn’t just live on screen — it spreads like a contagion. While the original tapes were clippings of raw news footage of accidents and murders (some real, some staged), this new horror redo appears to probe something far more insidious: our addiction to such imagery itself.

Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria, Bob Trevino Likes It) stars as a content moderator for a major video platform who stumbles across what look like reenactments of murders from the original cult shocker — only this time the line feels thinner, the stakes sharper. As the videos multiply and doubt creeps in, she’s forced to determine whether she’s watching performance art, a twisted homage… or violence unfolding in real time.

With Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Josie Totah (The Buccaneers), Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), and pop star Charli XCX rounding out the ensemble, this contemporary take isn’t about grainy bootlegs anymore. It’s about viral feeds, weaponized misinformation, and the terrifying reality that once something is uploaded, it never truly disappears.

Faces of Death arrives in theaters April 10th.

🎥 “The Christophers” Trailer: Ian McKellen Plays a Reclusive Pop Art Painter Targeted by a Hired Forger in Steven Soderbergh’s New Art-World Dramedy with Michaela Coel — Opening in Select Theaters April 10th

Steven Soderbergh once claimed he was planning to retire from filmmaking about ten years ago. Since then, he has somehow morphed into one of the most prolific directors working today. He’s back again this year with his third feature film in two years and roughly his eleventh movie in the past decade alone. So Soderbergh just might have a different definition of retirement than the rest of us.

Soderbergh has certainly found that sweet spot of working with top-tier talent while still operating mostly independently and frequently collaborating with the same screenwriters. In this latest film, he once again teams up with writer Ed Solomon, following their 2021 crime thriller No Sudden Move as well as the twisty miniseries Full Circle and Mosaic.

In The Christophers, legendary actor Ian McKellen stars as Julian Sklar, a once-celebrated figure of London’s 1960s and ’70s pop art scene who hasn’t touched a canvas in decades and hasn’t seen a paycheck in years. Enter his estranged children, played by comedian James Corden and Baby Reindeer breakout Jessica Gunning, who see eight unfinished paintings in deep storage not as art, but as opportunity.

Their solution is Lori, a sharp art restorer and former forger played by I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel, hired to pose as an assistant and secretly complete the buried canvases so they can later be “discovered” after Julian’s death.

It’s a plan built on deception, ego, and a ticking clock no one wants to acknowledge. With Soderbergh behind the camera and Solomon behind the script, this looks less like a simple con and more like a sharp character study about the uncomfortable question of who really owns an artist’s legacy when the paint has dried but the bills haven’t.

The Christophers is slated to open in select theaters on April 10th.

🎥 “Marc by Sofia” Trailer: Sofia Coppola Turns the Camera on Longtime Friend and Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs in Her First Documentary — Hitting Theaters March 27th

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola is known for creating intimate personal dramas that feel deeply revealing, yet still allow her to lean into the safety and space of fiction. Coppola never felt like someone entirely comfortable with the spotlight herself, which might explain why her films so often linger on characters caught between who they are and who the world expects them to be.

But for her first nonfiction feature, the Lost in Translation director appears to be stepping out from behind that veil, opening herself up as she turns the camera toward someone she has known for over three decades: fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

In Marc by Sofia, Sofia Coppola places herself inside the frame of this intimate documentary about her friend, whose relationship with the filmmaker seems to blur the line between collaborator and confidant, making the portrait feel less like a detached profile and more like a conversation they’ve been having ever since they first met. With shared influences and shared passions, drawing from the same cultural touchstones, this doc plays less like a formal chronicle and more like two friends opening the doors and letting audiences eavesdrop on a creative dialogue that’s been unfolding for decades. And who knew casting a film is so close to setting a runway; both are about instinct, silhouette, and finding the right face to define the entire mood.

When a filmmaker known for mood and interiority turns her lens on a designer who helped define modern luxury, the result feels less like a career retrospective and more like a dialogue between two artists. And sometimes, that’s where the real story lives.

Marc by Sofia is hitting theaters March 27th. Come for the fashion, but stay for the friendship.

Also check out this week’s new trailers:

🎥 “Backrooms” Teaser: From Online Phenomenon to Theatrical Nightmare, 20-Year-Old YouTuber Kane Parsons Expands His Viral Creepypasta Horror Universe for the Big Screen — Arriving in Theaters May 29th

Some doors don’t lead to rooms. They lead to nowhere... and more questions. Directed by 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons, who expands his viral creepypasta-turned-web series into an A24 feature, this unnerving experimental horror thriller follows a therapist who steps into a vast, otherworldly labyrinth to find her missing patient. Featuring an impressive cast for a first-timer, including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia, and Mark Duplass, the film transforms internet-born dread into a feature-scale descent where the scariest thing isn’t what’s hiding in the maze... it’s how endless it feels.

🎥 “The Thing Expanded” Trailer: Kurt Russell and John Carpenter Revisit the Ultimate Horror Classic in This Deep-Dive Companion Documentary — Available to Purchase March 24th

From CREATORVC, the team behind In Search of Darkness I, II and III and the Aliens Expanded making-of documentaries, this ultimate companion deep dive revisits John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror landmark The Thing, with Kurt Russell, Carpenter, Keith David, and surviving cast members unpacking the paranoia that made it immortal. Through extensive new interviews, meticulously curated archival footage, and an obsessive eye for detail, the film dissects how groundbreaking practical effects, isolation, and creeping suspicion fused into a classic that still dares viewers to guess who’s human… and who never was. Decades later, that mystery still lingers, and this time, every frame is under the microscope in search of the truth buried in the ice.

🎥 “Stand By Me: 40th Anniversary” Trailer: Rob Reiner’s Beloved Coming-of-Age Classic Returns to the Big Screen For One Week — Back in Select Theaters March 27th

Four kids. One rumor. A walk that lasts a lifetime. Directed by the late Rob Reiner and adapted from Stephen King’s “The Body,” this enduring coming-of-age drama tracks Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern as a simple quest for a missing body turns into a defining passage out of childhood. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell bring raw honesty to a story that understands how bravado masks grief and how friendship can feel like the only steady ground in a shifting world. This classic film captures that fragile line between boyhood and adulthood through friendship, loss, and a summer that won’t come again, yet somehow feels timeless every time we return to it.

🎥 “RAD: 40th Anniversary (RAD40)” Trailer: The Cult ‘80s BMX Classic Returns in 4K for a Two-Night Theatrical Celebration — In Theaters March 22nd & 24th

Big hair, bigger air. Directed by Hal Needham, this remastered cult BMX classic follows Cru Jones, a small-town BMX rider with a shot at glory as he chases the infamous Helltrack and a $100,000 prize that could change everything. Starring Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, and Ray Walston, the film captures the pure, neon-lit rush of ’80s underdog ambition where winning isn’t just about trophies... it’s about proving you belong on the starting line.

🎥 “Kiki’s Delivery Service” Re-Release Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Studio Ghibli Classic Soars Back Into IMAX in a New 4K Remaster — In IMAX Theaters March 13th

Growing up is hard. Learning to fly solo is harder. This adored Studio Ghibli fantasy follows a young witch-in-training who sets out on her own and builds a delivery service in a charming coastal city. Written and directed by legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki, the 4K IMAX remaster highlights the film’s timeless artistry and heartfelt coming-of-age spirit.

🎥 “Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters” Trailer: Charles Dance Narrates the Definitive Documentary on the Studio That Redefined Horror Cinema — Available on Blu-ray May 11th

Before horror turned slick and self-aware, it bled in rich Technicolor. Narrated by Charles Dance, this acclaimed feature-length documentary traces the rise of Hammer Films, the British studio that reimagined Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Gothic imagination for a new generation. Through rare footage and revealing interviews with Barbara Shelley, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, and admirers like John Carpenter, John Landis, and Tim Burton, the film resurrects a company that didn’t just follow trends... it created new nightmares for a whole new generation of moviegoers!

🎥 “The Serpent’s Skin” Trailer: Love, Insecurity, and a Hungry Demon Collide in Horror Filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s Lesbian Supernatural Tale — Arriving in Theaters March 27th and VOD/Digital April 21st

New town. New love. New nightmare. Written and directed by Australian horror filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay, this supernatural romance tracks Anna’s escape from a suffocating, transphobic hometown into the arms of Gen, a magnetic goth tattoo artist who offers both passion and possibility. But when a demonic force they accidentally awaken begins feeding on those around them, desire turns dangerous, and the couple must untangle fear, trauma, and self-doubt before the thing stalking their circle tears them apart.

🎥 “Billy Idol Should Be Dead” Trailer: From Prototypical Punk to MTV-Era Superstar, Filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund Tracks This Blond-Haired Rock Icon Who Refuses to Expire — Arriving in Select Theaters Throughout March

Punk wasn’t built for longevity, but some rebels refuse to burn out. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker/music video helmer Jonas Åkerlund (Lords of Chaos), this feature-length documentary traces Billy Idol’s journey from snarling punk provocateur to MTV-era global superstar, charting a career that should have imploded long ago. Through rare archival footage and candid interviews, the indie doc reveals how chaos, addiction, and reinvention shaped a survivor who’s still selling out arenas nearly fifty years later.

🎥 “Let It Die Here” Trailer: Music Icon Linda Perry Looks Back, Looks Inward, and Rewrites Her Own Story in Don Hardy’s Revealing Documentary — Opening in Select Theaters May 8th

The hat. The voice. The songs that helped define a generation. Directed by Don Hardy, this revealing portrait follows famed singer, songwriter, and record producer Linda Perry from her days belting out “What’s Up” with 4 Non-Blondes to crafting era-defining hits for artists like Christina Aguilera, Pink, Celine Dion, and Dolly Parton. But the real drama unfolds offstage, where career highs give way to personal reckoning and the kind of life-altering choices that can’t be drowned out by another chart-topper.

🎥 “Eraserheads: Combo on the Run” Trailer: This Award-Winning Documentary Charts the Rise, Breakup, and Record-Breaking Reunion of the Philippines’ Most Influential Rock Band — Opens in Select U.S. Theaters April 24th

Four college kids. A country learning how to breathe again. Directed and produced by Maria Diane Ventura, this sweeping music documentary follows the Philippines’ most culturally seismic band from their 1989 formation at UP Diliman through superstardom, fracture, and a reunion that drew nearly 250,000 fans hungry to feel something together. The film moves between the mechanics of staging a mammoth comeback and the fragile bonds behind it, revealing how art can outlast ego, politics, and time.

🎥 “Hamlet” U.S. Trailer: Riz Ahmed Returns Home to a Family Empire Poisoned by Secrets in Aneil Karia’s Contemporary London Reimagining of Shakespeare’s Tragedy — In U.S. Theaters April 10th

A father dead. A mother remarried. A son unraveling. In this bold London-set reinvention of Hamlet, Riz Ahmed steps into the role of a grieving heir navigating a British South Asian family empire steeped in secrets, suspicion, and shifting alliances. Directed by Aneil Karia and featuring Art Malik, Joe Alwyn, Timothy Spall, Morfydd Clark, and Sheeba Chaddha, the film reinterprets Shakespeare’s tragedy through a contemporary cultural lens, asking whether vengeance offers justice... or only deepens the fracture at the heart of a family already coming apart.

🎥 “500 Miles” International Trailer: Roman Griffin Davis and Dexter Sol Ansell Embark on a Runaway Journey Across Ireland in Morgan Matthews’ Heartfelt Road-Trip Drama with Bill Nighy & Maisie Williams — Coming Soon

Two brothers. One runaway plan. What could possibly go wrong? Directed by Morgan Matthews (A Brilliant Young Mind), this sweeping road drama follows Finn and Charlie, played by Jojo Rabbit’s Roman Griffin Davis and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms breakout Dexter Sol Ansell, as they flee a fractured home in Yorkshire and set their sights on Ireland’s Dingle, County Kerry, hoping to reunite with the grandfather (Bill Nighy) their parents refuse to face. Along the way, a free-spirited busker played by Maisie Williams becomes their unlikely guide, turning a reckless escape into a moving celebration of resilience, forgiveness, and the stubborn belief that even the most divided families can still find their way home.

🎥 “Mr. Burton” U.S. Trailer: Toby Jones Stars as the Teacher Who Helped Transform a Young Working-Class Welsh Dreamer (Harry Lawtey) into the Legendary Actor Richard Burton in This Stirring British Biopic — In U.S. Theaters and on VOD/Digital March 20th

Greatness rarely announces itself; it’s shaped, coached, and sometimes renamed. In this inspirational British biopic, Harry Lawtey plays a young Richard Jenkins, later known as Richard Burton, the unrefined Welsh miner’s son whose theatrical ambitions draw the attention of schoolteacher Philip Burton, portrayed by Toby Jones, who becomes both mentor and adoptive father in an effort to guide him toward Oxford and the stage. Directed by Marc Evans and co-starring Lesley Manville, this drama traces the making of a legend... and the cost of stepping into a name the world will never let you outgrow.

🎥 “Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere” Trailer: Journalist Louis Theroux Steps Inside the Rise of Red-Pill Culture and Ultra-Masculine Influencers in This Provocative Netflix Investigative Documentary — Streaming March 11th on Netflix

Rage finds easy footing online, especially when it’s packaged as empowerment. In his first Netflix feature-length documentary, journalist Louis Theroux uses his unassuming charm to step inside the manosphere, traveling from Miami to Marbella to confront influencers like Myron Gaines and Sneako whose hardline messaging is reshaping how young men define masculinity and power. With trademark patience and sharp wit, Theroux probes “red-pill” ideology and the culture fueling it, questioning how much of this movement is feeding the algorithm... and how much the algorithm is feeding it back.

🎥 “Bank of Dave 2” Trailer: Rory Kinnear Returns as Dave Fishwick Taking on Ruthless Payday Lenders in This Feel-Good British Sequel — On VOD/Digital March 13th

Feel-good underdog stories are one thing; taking on an entire payday empire is another. In this sequel to the 2023 British dramedy, Rory Kinnear returns as Dave Fishwick, the real-life small-town hero who sets his sights on ruthless lenders scamming Brits nationwide, teaming up with new allies and leveraging his unexpected celebrity to expose a corrupt American loan shark. With Rob Delaney, Hugh Bonneville, and Chrissy Metz along for the ride, this crusade goes viral, crosses the Atlantic, and proves that fighting back doesn’t come without a bill of its own.

🎥 “Newborn” Trailer: David Oyelowo Emerges from Solitary Confinement Into a World That Feels Just as Isolated in Nate Parker’s Psychological Drama — Exclusively at AMC Theaters April 10th

Freedom can feel like another cell. Written and directed by Nate Parker (of The Birth of a Nation fame), this psychological drama stars David Oyelowo as Chris Newborn, a man released after seven years in solitary confinement only to find a world that has grown just as distant and self-isolating. As he struggles to reconnect with family and reclaim a sense of self, reintegration becomes a battle fought not in prison walls, but inside his own mind.

🎥 “Refuge” Trailer: A Fishing Trip Reunion Turns Deadly in Writer-Director Anton Sigurdsson’s Tense Missing-Child Thriller — Arriving On VOD/Digital March 27th

This psychological thriller centers on four former friends (Adam Sinclair, Donald Paul, Adam Dorsey, and Christopher Dietrick) who reunite for a fishing trip that spirals into paranoia after a father accuses one of them of involvement in his daughter’s disappearance. Written and directed by Anton Sigurdsson, it turns friendship into a tense pressure cooker where the question isn’t who’s lying... but who’s capable of something far worse.

🎥 “Golden” Trailer: Brian Austin Green Plays a Master Counterfeiter Caught Between Killers and Cops in Nick Leisure’s Crime Thriller — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital March 20th

Brian Austin Green stars in this high-stakes crime thriller as a master counterfeiter who’s forced to outmaneuver ruthless criminals and determined law enforcement after his skills attract the wrong attention. Written and directed by Nick Leisure and co-starring Glenn Plummer, Massi Furlan, and Alena Savostikova, it builds toward one final heist where every promise is suspect and walking away clean may no longer be an option.

🎥 “Gonzaga: The Slipper Still Fits” Trailer: This New College Basketball Documentary Chronicles Gonzaga’s Rise from Overlooked Underdog to Perennial March Contender — Streaming March 6th on TUBI

Against the odds of major conference dominance, a tiny Jesuit school in Spokane builds a basketball empire on patience, loyalty, and belief. Guided by coach Mark Few and illuminated by voices including Chet Holmgren, Jalen Suggs, Adam Morrison, Andrew Nembhard, Drew Timme, Domantas Sabonis, John Stockton, Steve Kerr, and Steph Curry, director David Check chronicles Gonzaga’s rise from overlooked hopeful to perennial contender with 27 straight NCAA Tournament appearances. What begins as a Cinderella tale becomes a testament to culture, continuity, and earned greatness.

🎥 “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea” Trailer: Rimuru and Tempest Face a New Threat Amid Sun, Sea, and Secrets in This Feature-Length Anime Epic — Arriving in Theaters May 1st

Peace never lasts long in a world stitched together by monsters, magic, and uneasy treaties. When Rimuru Tempest accepts an invitation from the Celestial Emperor Elmesia to relax on a secluded island in the elven nation of Thalion, a mysterious woman named Yura interrupts the calm, turning a diplomatic getaway into something far more volatile. What begins as a sunlit escape soon spirals into a fresh crisis that could unsettle Tempest’s fragile alliances in this vibrant anime fantasy inspired by Fuse’s popular light novel series.

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🎥 “Over Your Dead Body” Trailer: Samara Weaving and Jason Segel Plot Each Other’s Demise in Director Jorma Taccone’s Darkly Comic Marriage-on-the-Rocks Thriller — Hitting Theaters April 24th

Nothing says “marriage counseling” like a weekend getaway where both spouses intend to exact a murder plan.

Samara Weaving and Jason Segel star in this darkly comic thriller as a deeply dysfunctional couple retreating to a remote cabin under the guise of reconnecting, all while privately plotting to eliminate each other. Before either can pull the trigger, a pair of unexpected visitors crash the party, turning their carefully laid schemes into something far more chaotic (and far more complicated) than either of them bargained for. They say love can make you do crazy things, but they never warn you about what happens when the love runs out and all that’s left is resentment and a weekend bag packed with something far more dangerous than clean socks.

Over Your Dead Body is the American remake of the 2021 Norwegian cult dark comedy-thriller Onde Dager (aka The Trip) from Violent Night director Tommy Wirkola, which starred Aksel Hennie and Noomi Rapace as the doomed couple. This version, however, hails from Lonely Island comedian Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, MacGruber), who directs from an adapted script by Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, the comedic sketch duo behind BriTANicK.

Co-starring Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, and Paul Guilfoyle, Over Your Dead Body is slated to make its world premiere next month at SXSW ahead of its theatrical release on April 24th. Watch it with someone you love... just maybe not someone you’re currently plotting against. Just to be safe.

🎥 “A Prayer for the Dying” Teaser Trailer: Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly Confront Plague and Wildfire in Dara Van Dusen’s Stark Frontier Drama — Premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival

When they say life in the Old West was nearly insufferable, believe it... because out there, survival wasn’t a lifestyle choice, it was a daily coin toss on who got to live and who got buried before sundown.

Based on Stewart O’Nan’s historical novel, A Prayer for the Dying is a stark depiction of 1870s America, where building a new life on the frontier meant gambling everything against forces you couldn’t see, couldn’t control, and almost certainly couldn’t outrun.

Set in the small 1870s Scandinavian emigrant community of Friendship, Wisconsin, British actor Johnny Flynn (The Outfit, Emma., Netflix’s Ripley) stars as Jacob Hansen, a Civil War survivor chasing the promise of peace on American soil. What he finds instead is a town under siege: first by a deadly epidemic sweeping the region, then by a relentless wildfire, each disaster testing a man’s faith just as fiercely as his resolve.

The always reliable and always fascinating John C. Reilly co-stars as the town’s lone doctor, who soon finds himself overwhelmed by the sheer scale of disease spreading like a wildfire. He is forced to choose between compassion and containment as the sickness becomes too much for one man to handle. And with quarantine mandated, the town is cut off from the outside world, left to fend for itself as fear, faith, and desperation begin to spread just as fast as the infection itself.

Serving as sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, Flynn’s Jacob becomes the last line of defense between order and collapse, forcing him to make life-and-death decisions that ripple through his family and neighbors. But something tells us he, too, will soon be buckling under the weight of it all. Because when a man is asked to hold a town together, it’s only a matter of time before the cracks begin to show. And as townsfolk start leaving on their own, risking both infection and exposure, the fragile idea of community begins to splinter under pressure.

Produced by the team behind Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World, New York-born Norwegian filmmaker Dara Van Dusen makes her explosive feature debut as writer-director of this stark period piece that looks as unforgiving as its subject matter. The film just made its world premiere last week at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Best First Feature Award. As of yet, there’s no official release date.

🎥 “Our Hero, Balthazar” Teaser Trailer: Jaeden Martell Heads to Texas to Confront a Possible Mass Shooter in Oscar Boyson’s Sharp Social Satire with Asa Butterfield — Coming to Theaters This Spring

There’s nothing more risky than a teenager convinced he’s the hero of his own story.

In Our Hero, Balthazar, a razor-sharp social satire that skewers online virtue, clout-chasing, and the intoxicating rush of performative activism, Jaeden Martell (IT: Chapter One, IT: Chapter Two) stars as Balthazar, a wealthy, self-styled crusader who posts fiery pro-gun-control videos to impress his high school crush, and maybe rack up a little moral superiority along the way.

But when an anonymous troll starts mocking him at every turn, Balthazar’s digital crusade spirals into obsession. Convinced the troll — a gun-obsessed teen named Solomon, played by Sex Education breakout Asa Butterfield — is a potential mass shooter in the making, Balthazar does what any impulsive, overconfident internet activist might do: he heads to Texas to confront the threat himself.

What he finds isn’t exactly the cartoon villain he imagined. In some ways, Solomon fits the profile Balthazar built in his head. In others, he’s just another lonely kid performing for an audience of none. Oddly, the two teens form a peculiar, uneasy bond that blurs the lines between paranoia and projection, righteousness and recklessness. The result looks less like a traditional thriller and more like a cringe-inducing character study about how badly we want to be seen as the “good guy,” yet fail to recognize when we’ve quietly become the self-righteous douchebag we swore we’d never be.

Indie producer Oscar Boyson — the creative force behind volatile, anxiety-fueled gems like Good Time and Uncut Gems — makes his feature directorial debut here. And from the looks of things, he’s channeling that same nerve-jangling energy into a timely portrait of modern America, where outrage travels fast and self-awareness lags behind, asking how far someone will go to prove they’re the hero of their own feed.

Our Hero, Balthazar will be coming to theaters this spring.

Also check out this week’s new trailers:

🎥 “The Yeti” Trailer: Jim Cummings and Brittany Allen Lead a Rescue Mission Into Snow-Choked Alaska Where a Towering Beast Stalks the Night in This Retro 1940s Monster Movie — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital April 10th

There are things that go bump in the night… and then there are nights when the bumps answer back with a bone-rattling roar. This retro 1940s-set monster throwback drops Jim Cummings, Brittany Allen, Eric Nelson, William Sadler, and Corbin Bernsen into the snow-choked wilds of northern Alaska, where a missing oil tycoon and a famed adventurer have vanished without a trace. A hand-picked rescue team pushes into the whiteout determined to bring them home, only to realize they’ve crossed into the hunting grounds of a towering, bloodthirsty beast. Directed by William Pisciotta and Gene Gallerano, this practical-effects creature feature leans into old-school pulp terror, favoring snarling latex and shadowy dread over digital polish. Out here, the cold isn’t the real killer. It’s the thing breathing just beyond the treeline.

🎥 “Beast” Teaser Trailer: Daniel MacPherson Returns to the Cage as a Fallen MMA Champ with Russell Crowe in His Corner in This Brutal Comeback Story — In Theaters April 10th

A comeback fight becomes a last stand when a disgraced MMA legend is forced back into the cage to protect his own blood. After years in exile, a once-feared champion (played by Aussie actor Daniel MacPherson, of Land of Bad) returns when his younger brother is threatened, dragging him into a world he swore he’d left behind. Reuniting with the hardened trainer who built him, played here by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, he prepares for one final bout against a ruthless reigning title-holder determined to crush what’s left of his name. With Luke Hemsworth, Kelly Gale, Amy Shark, and Bren Foster rounding out the cast, this bruising fight thriller strips the stakes bare as the ring becomes a path to either redemption or total ruin.

🎥 “She Dances” Trailer: Steve Zahn & Audrey Zahn Share the Screen as a Divorced Dad and Teen Competitive Dancer Confront Years of Distance in This Road Trip Father-Daughter Drama Co-starring Ethan Hawke & Mackenzie Ziegler — In Theaters March 27th

Steve Zahn steps into deeply personal territory, starring opposite his real-life daughter Audrey Zahn in this intimate father-daughter drama. Zahn plays a divorced father struggling to reconnect with his teenage daughter on the road to her final regional dance competition, where unresolved grief and years of distance have torn their relationship apart. As the pressure of the Young Miss Southeast Finals builds, their strained bond is tested in ways neither choreography nor pep talks can fix. What begins as a simple trip turns into an emotional reckoning, where backstage chatter and spotlight pressure amplify everything left unsaid. With Ethan Hawke, Sonequa Martin-Green, Mackenzie Ziegler, and Rosemarie DeWitt rounding out the cast, actor Rick Gomez makes his feature directorial debut, co-penning the script with Zahn for this heartfelt coming-of-age drama that suggests healing doesn’t arrive with applause, but in the quiet, unguarded moments between two people learning how to be a family again.

🎥 “Fantasy Life” Trailer: Matthew Shear Writes, Directs, and Stars as an Anxious Babysitter Who Falls for Amanda Peet in This Neurotic New York Rom-Com — Opens in NY March 27th and Nationwide April 3rd

Love gets complicated fast when anxiety and proximity share the same house. In this New York-set romantic comedy, Matthew Shear, who also writes and directs, stars as a spiraling law school dropout who lands a babysitting gig for his psychiatrist’s grandchildren and promptly falls for their mother, an actress in a strained marriage played by Amanda Peet. As Alessandro Nivola enters the mix as the touring-rock-star husband and the summer shifts to Martha’s Vineyard under one crowded roof, this SXSW Audience Award winner turns neurotic longing into emotional risk, where desire doesn’t just threaten a marriage… it threatens the fragile stability everyone is pretending to maintain.

🎥 “Slanted” Trailer: Shirley Chen Undergoes a Shocking Transformation in Amy Wang’s Socially Charged Body-Horror Thriller with Mckenna Grace — In Theaters March 13th

High school popularity becomes a brutal science experiment when a desperate teen decides her face is the problem in this body-horror/body-switching thriller from writer-director Amy Wang. Shirley Chen (Dìdi) stars as Chinese-American overachiever Joan Huang, who signs up for a shadowy cosmetic clinic promising to make people of color appear white, only to wake up in the body of a blonde classmate portrayed by Mckenna Grace (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Ghostbusters: Afterlife). What begins as a calculated bid for prom queen spirals into a dangerous unraveling as friendships shift, identity fractures, and the cost of reinvention becomes too much. This isn’t about fitting in... it’s about what disappears when you finally do, raising the larger question of who gets to decide what is considered beautiful and socially acceptable.

🎥 “The Gates” Trailer: James Van Der Beek’s Final Film Performance Looms Over This Tense Gated Community Thriller Starring Mason Gooding — In Theaters March 13th

A nighttime road trip slams into nightmare territory when three friends stumble onto a murder inside a pristine gated community. Mason Gooding, Algee Smith, and Keith Powers play the unlucky eyewitnesses of a woman’s murder who find themselves locked in, hunted by residents eager to pin the crime on them and erase the evidence. As tension rises and fear sets in, the hunt tightens under the watchful eye of an unhinged local pastor portrayed by the late James Van Der Beek in his final film performance before his passing this February from colorectal cancer. Written and directed by indie filmmaker John Burr (Muse), this suburban thriller pushes its central trio into a pressure cooker of terror and mistrust. The question isn’t just who did it... it’s who can make it out alive and live long enough to see dawn.

🎥 “Bodycam” Trailer: Two Officers Try to Cover Up an Accidental Shooting Only for Their Cameras to Capture Something Far More Sinister in This New Found-Footage Horror Thriller — Premieres March 13th on Shudder

A not-so-routine domestic dispute spirals into a terrifying nightmare when two responding officers pull the trigger and make a choice that could end their careers. Jaime M. Callica and Sean Rogerson star as a pair of patrol cops who decide the real threat isn’t the accidental shooting they just committed, but the public fallout that would follow, so they attempt to bury the truth before it surfaces. But as they manipulate evidence and lean on silence, their body cameras begin capturing something they can’t explain. Directed by Brandon Christensen (of Night of the Reaper), this found-footage horror thriller turns police procedure into a paranoia trap, and as the cover-up deepens, it becomes clear that someone—or something—has been watching all along.

🎥 “Is God Is” Trailer: Two Sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) Embark on a Quest for Revenge in Aleshea Harris’ Adaptation of Her Award-Winning Play — In Theaters May 15th

Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play sisters driven across unforgiving terrain to confront the parent who shattered their childhood, forcing them to reckon with pain that never healed. As the past tightens its grip and each confrontation cuts deeper, revenge becomes both compass and curse. Co-starring Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander, Mykelti Williamson, and Sterling K. Brown, this revenge saga escalates with operatic fury. Written and directed by Aleshea Harris, adapting her own award-winning play, it asks how far justice can go before it turns into something else entirely.

🎥 “The Mummy Returns: 25th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz’s Beloved Swashbuckling Horror Franchise Rises Again on the Big Screen — Back In Theaters March 27th

Returning to the big screen after 25 years, this franchise sequel from director Stephen Sommers reunites Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz as wisecracking adventurer Rick O’Connell and whip-smart scholar Evelyn, once again facing the wrath of an ancient Egyptian priest with a serious grudge against the living. The second chapter in this now-beloved pulpy monster saga doubled down on spectacle and supernatural mayhem, proving that some curses (and some blockbusters) never stay buried for long.

🎥 “Tommy” IMAX Re-Release Trailer: The Who’s Cult 1975 Rock Opera Featuring Roger Daltrey, Elton John, and Tina Turner Returns to the Big Screen — In IMAX for a Limited Engagement March 17th–18th

In this ‘70s operatic fever dream, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey stars as the pinball-wizard prodigy whose childhood trauma renders him deaf, dumb, and blind, only to transform him into a cult icon in a world hungry for meaning. Directed by Ken Russell and fueled by Pete Townshend’s thunderous rock music, with unforgettable turns from Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, and Jack Nicholson, this maximalist cult classic turns spectacle into spiritual upheaval… loud, strange, and never simple.

🎥 “A Magnificent Life” Trailer: ‘The Triplets of Belleville’ Director Sylvain Chomet Reimagines French Auteur Marcel Pagnol’s Life in This Genre-Bending Animated Portrait — In Select Theaters March 27th

In this animated biopic, aging French novelist and auteur Marcel Pagnol is confronted by a miraculous visitor from his own past, as the young boy he once was begins guiding him through forgotten memories and buried doubts just as his confidence starts to falter. Directed by Sylvain Chomet, the visionary animator behind The Triplets of Belleville, this reflective drama turns nostalgia into personal reckoning, forcing the celebrated writer-filmmaker to decide whether memory can restore the creative spark… or quietly confirm that time has already moved on without him.

🎥 “Rose” Trailer: Sandra Hüller Stars as a Scarred Stranger Hiding a Shocking Secret in Filmmaker Markus Schleinzer’s Black-and-White Thirty Years’ War Historical Drama — Debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival

War makes strangers of everyone. In this stark black-and-white historical drama set during the Thirty Years’ War, acclaimed German actress Sandra Hüller, of Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest, plays a scarred drifter who arrives in a secluded Protestant village claiming to be a former soldier and the rightful heir to an abandoned farm, armed with paperwork and a quiet resolve that slowly wins over suspicious locals. Directed by Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer, this Berlin premiere traces a deception built on reinvention and survival, where the truth threatens to unravel everything Rose has fought to become.

🎥 “Mother’s Baby” Trailer: A New Mother’s Joy Turns to Fear and Doubt in This New Pregnancy Horror Thriller Starring Marie Leuenberger & Claes Bang — In Select Theaters and on VOD/Digital March 6th

A long-awaited birth gives way to something far more unsettling in this psychological pregnancy horror thriller. German actress Marie Leuenberger (The Divine Order) stars as a 40-year-old conductor who finally conceives after fertility treatment at a clinic run by the enigmatic Dr. Vilfort, played by Danish actor Claes Bang (TV’s Dracula, The Northman). But when complications during delivery separate her from her newborn without explanation, the reunion feels wrong... cold, distant, unfamiliar. As doubt gnaws at her new motherly instincts, postpartum fear gives way to a far more disturbing possibility in this slow-burn maternal chiller.

🎥 “Papa Bear” Trailer: A Young Girl Must Protect Her Dad After He Mysteriously Transforms Into a Giant Bear in This Russian Family Adventure Comedy — In Select U.S. Theaters and on VOD/Digital April 3rd

A quiet weekend in the woods turns magical when an exhausted father suddenly finds himself transformed into a very real, very large bear. When mischievous 11-year-old Masha (Eva Smirnova) realizes the fur-covered creature growling beside her is actually her dad (Boris Dergachev), she must hide him from a rifle-toting local hunter before their family getaway spirals into a full-blown wildlife crisis in director Maks Maksimov’s Russian family adventure comedy, dubbed in English.

🎥 “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” Trailer: A Father-to-Be Confronts the AI Boom in This Urgent Documentary from the Oscar-Winning Team Behind Navalny — In Theaters March 27th

The future doesn’t wait for us to feel ready. In this urgent documentary, a father-to-be sets out to make sense of the AI frenzy reshaping the world, chasing clarity through experts, skeptics, and the noise of a technology evolving faster than our guardrails. From the Oscar-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny, this hand-made feature turns anxiety into inquiry, asking what kind of world we’re building for the next generation... and whether optimism can survive what we unleash.

🎥 “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” Trailer: This HBO Doc Takes a 15-Year Look Back at the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Near Meltdown That Shook Japan — Streaming March 10th on HBO MAX

In this HBO documentary, survivors and firsthand witnesses revisit the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a near meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, confronting the fear and confusion that followed in real time. Directed by Matteo Gagliardi and built from footage captured between 2011 and 2015, this 15-year look back turns catastrophe into national reflection, asking what was learned, what was buried, and what still lingers long after the headlines faded.

🎥 “Young Washington” Sneak Peek: William Franklyn-Miller Steps Into the Boots of America’s First Leader in Jon Erwin’s Revolutionary War Origin Story with Andy Serkis — Coming to Theaters July 3rd

In this sweeping historical epic, newcomer William Franklyn-Miller steps into the boots of a young George Washington, tracing the formative war and wilderness trials that hardened him long before he ever led a nation.

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