Trailer Blitz! The Sun Never Sets, Bad Apples, The Fox, Mutiny and More
🎥 Here’s a list of films coming to screens soon!
🎥 “The Sun Never Sets” Trailer: Dakota Fanning Reconsiders Love, Timing, and the Life She Thought She Wanted in Joe Swanberg’s Intimate Romantic Drama Co-starring Jake Johnson and Cory Michael Smith — Hitting Select Theaters August 28th, Expanding September 4th
There comes a point in adulthood when the future we once imagined begins to feel less like a promise and more like a question. Are we still moving toward the life we actually want, or simply following a plan that made sense years ago?
That uncertainty sits at the heart of The Sun Never Sets, the new romantic drama from writer-director Joe Swanberg, known for Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas, starring Dakota Fanning in what looks like her most naturalistic, grounded performance yet as Wendy, a woman forced to reconsider her relationship and the direction of her life.
Wendy had once imagined starting a family with her boyfriend Jack, played here by New Girl’s Jake Johnson. He is older, divorced, and already has children of his own, but the two appeared ready to build something together. That changes when Jack asks for space, leaving Wendy to confront what their relationship has become and whether their futures still fit together.
During the separation, Wendy reconnects with her former flame Chuck, played by Saturday Night’s Cory Michael Smith. What begins as a return to something familiar gradually develops into an emotionally complicated love triangle, pulling her between the relationship she was building and the life she may have left behind.
Swanberg, considered one of the key figures of the 2000s mumblecore movement, once again appears less interested in easy romantic answers than in the uncomfortable gap between what people say they want and what they are emotionally prepared to choose.
The film itself also offers a platform for Fanning to make a deliberate shift, emphasizing how much she has grown as an actor. Gone is the little kid actor we all knew and loved. This, perhaps, marks the beginning of an entirely new stage in Fanning’s career; one we’re certainly eager to keep our eyes on.
Debby Ryan, Anna Konkle, Lamorne Morris, and Karley Sciortino round out the ensemble. The Sun Never Sets is set to open in select theaters on August 28th before expanding nationwide on September 4th.
🎥 “Bad Apples” International Trailer: Saoirse Ronan Makes One Very Bad Decision as a Schoolteacher Pushed to Her Breaking Point in This Twisted Satire — Arriving in UK Cinemas September 18th
The big fear surrounding Gen Alpha is that growing up in the era of COVID, smartphones, and social media has turned them into a generation that is more isolated, overstimulated, and far more disconnected from the world around them than previous generations. These kids may be harder to reach, quicker to lash out, and more prone to violent outbursts. Now, that’s the fear, and we’ll need more years of data before we can fully understand what kind of generation they will become. But if you want a movie to ease those concerns... well, this ain’t it.
Bad Apples not only highlights the difficulties of reaching and teaching these kids, but also the emotional toll carried by the adults whose job it is to keep trying, even as they are pushed past their breaking point.
In this darkly satirical British thriller, Saoirse Ronan stars as Maria, a primary-school teacher worn down by one violently disruptive pupil: ten-year-old Danny, whose idea of classroom participation usually involves fits, threats, screaming, and plenty of violent outbursts.
Pushed to her limits, Maria makes a desperate decision that changes the course of both her life and Danny’s. Cut to a few days later, and her small-town community is in a panic as Danny’s whereabouts remain unknown. With the entire town searching for the missing kid, Maria is left carrying a very dark secret; one that could destroy her life if it ever comes out.
The question becomes: how do you keep your whole town from discovering that you’ve locked the school’s worst student in your basement without anyone becoming suspicious? From there, it becomes a cascading series of increasingly bad decisions for Maria, who only wanted some peace and quiet but instead created a full-blown nightmare of her own making.
Directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonatan Etzler (One More Time) from a screenplay by Jess O’Kane, based on Rasmus Lindgren’s Swedish novel De Oönskade, the film also co-stars Eddie Waller, Jacob Anderson, Rakie Ayola, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, and Kerry Howard.
This dark satire turns a school problem into a moral trap, where one teacher’s desperate act sets off a chain of consequences she can no longer control. It also gives Saoirse Ronan a rich playground to shine as a woman unraveling under the weight of guilt, fear, and her own increasingly impossible choices.
Following its world premiere at TIFF last year, where it received mostly positive reviews, Bad Apples is due to be released in UK cinemas on September 18th. As of yet, there is no official U.S. release date.
🎥 “The Fox” International Trailer: Jai Courtney Makes a Bad Magical Bargain with Olivia Colman’s Talking Fox — In Australian Cinemas October 29th
Don’t know what’s in the water down there, but Australian movies have always had a dark and twisted sense of humor, even in their most straightforward dramas. But when they really let go of the reins and allow that Aussie weirdness to run wild, things can get downright unhinged.
Case in point: The Fox, a twisted, F-bomb-laden dark fantasy satire featuring Olivia Colman as the voice of a puppet-controlled talking fox. And if that’s not enough to sell you, Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill is here too, voicing a vulgar magpie. Because nothing says Down Under quite like a couple of foul-mouthed talking animals causing absolute chaos while the humans around them somehow manage to be even more screwed up.
The strong ensemble of familiar Aussie actors is led by Jai Courtney as Nick, the wealthy heir to a rural estate who discovers that his fiancée, Kori, played by Emily Browning, has been unfaithful. Heartbroken and desperate for a fix, Nick takes relationship advice from Colman’s talking fox, which is obviously where his problems begin to get much, much stranger.
Nick is told that a magical hole in the woods can transform his cheating fiancée into the woman he always wanted her to be. The thing is, he learns this from a talking fox, sending his reality from emotionally messy to completely unhinged, where logic and common sense no longer seem to mean much of anything.
Also co-starring Justified’s Damon Herriman, The Boys’ Claudia Doumit, Superman’s Zlatko Burić, and The Lord of the Rings’ Miranda Otto, the film marks the feature debut of Aussie filmmaker Dario Russo, who may not be a household name yet but clearly knows how to make an entrance.
Russo is best known for co-creating the ’50s spy spoof web series Danger 5 and directing the viral parody short Italian Spiderman. After screening at SXSW and the Sydney Film Festival earlier this year, and picking up a few festival awards along the way, The Fox looks ready to find its audience. For those who like their comedies twisted, feral, and completely off the leash, this might be exactly your kind of weird.
The Fox comes to Australian cinemas on October 29th. As of yet, there’s no official U.S. release date.
🎥 “Mutiny” New Trailer: Jason Statham Turns a Cargo Ship Into a Floating Battlefield in This New Action-Packed Thriller With Annabelle Wallis — Hitting Theaters August 21st
Hey, look. It’s a new Jason Statham action movie. That can only mean a few things: he’s going to kick a lot of ass, the bad guys are going to get their just desserts, and he’s going to grunt and scowl his way through the whole thing. Hey, it’s not like we’re complaining or anything. Statham is that kind of old-school action star who knows his audience quite well. More importantly, he has no interest in pretending they came for anything else.
In Statham’s latest bone-crushing, fist-throwing, bad-guy-killing action thriller Mutiny, he takes on the role of Cole Reed, a former London cop now working as the trusted security man for a billionaire. But when his boss is suddenly murdered, Reed is framed for the crime and forced to go on the run. With nowhere else to turn, he boards a cargo ship, which might sound like he has backed himself into a corner. But for Statham, it just means the bad guys are trapped on a boat with him. And he isn’t stopping until he clears his name and sends every last one of them overboard.
Add an international human-smuggling operation into the mix, turning the ship into a floating battlefield. Bring in Annabelle Wallis as a mysterious passenger who may know more than she’s letting on but could also become Reed’s unlikely ally. “You need to trust me,” he tells her; right before she starts stabbing bad guys.
And pow! It’s all the ingredients of one hopped-up, high-seas Jason Statham brawler aimed at giving his fans exactly what they came for. And even if they didn’t, there are probably two and three more Statham movies coming down the pike. Because at this point, he isn’t just one of the last legitimate action stars we have... he’s also one of the busiest.
Also co-starring Roland Møller and Adrian Lester, Mutiny is directed by French genre filmmaker Jean-François Richet, known for such hard-edged crime thrillers as the Assault on Precinct 13 remake, Blood Father, and Plane.
Subtlety probably isn’t what anyone comes to a Jason Statham movie for. They come for the broken bones, the flying fists, the high body count, and the cold satisfaction of watching bad guys get exactly what’s coming to them... either on land or at sea.
Mutiny is coming to theaters August 21st.
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🎥 “Manhunter: The Final Cut” 4K Restoration Trailer: Michael Mann’s Genre-Defining Crime Thriller Returns to Theaters for Its 40th Anniversary — In Select U.S. Theaters July 24th
Before Anthony Hopkins scared the living hell out of audiences with his unforgettable turn as Hannibal Lecter, there was Brian Cox, of Succession fame, who first brought the character to the screen in Michael Mann’s dark 1986 detective classic. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the cult film returns in Mann’s definitive director’s cut, newly restored in 4K under his supervision. Based on Thomas Harris’s novel Red Dragon (Harris would later write its more famous sequel, The Silence of the Lambs), the film stars William Petersen as retired FBI profiler Will Graham, a man pulled back into the field to track down a serial killer targeting entire families according to the lunar cycle. To understand the murderer, Graham must once again consult the imprisoned Hannibal “Lecktor,” played by Cox, and reopen the darkest corners of his own mind. With a chilling performance from the late Tom Noonan as the Tooth Fairy killer, alongside Joan Allen and Stephen Lang, Mann’s psychological crime thriller became the first screen adaptation of Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and remains one of the coldest, most visually striking serial-killer films ever made. Hopkins might have made Hannibal a household name, but Mann and Cox gave audiences their first glimpse of the monster.
🎥 “Godzilla Minus Zero” Teaser: Oscar-Winning VFX Artist and Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki Sends the Shikishima Family Into a New Postwar Calamity — Arriving in U.S. Theaters November 6th
You want to talk about big stars with a long franchise history? Well, there’s no one bigger or more enduring than Godzilla. A follow-up to the Oscar-winning global smash Godzilla Minus One, which proved a small, dedicated team of artists could challenge any studio-backed Hollywood blockbuster, this highly anticipated sequel is set in 1949, two years after the events of the original film. This time shot for IMAX, Oscar-winning visual-effects artist and filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki brings Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe back as the Shikishima family faces another devastating calamity in a Japan still trying to rebuild. Official details are keeping the new threat close to the chest, but the emotional terrain is already clear: survival leaves scars, and giant monsters tend to have a way of finding them. Postwar recovery was never going to be simple. Not with Godzilla still roaming around, ready to remind everyone that the nightmare may be far from over.
🎥 “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” New Korean Promo: Tom Holland’s Peter Parker Awakens With Stronger Powers and an Even Greater Threat — In Theaters July 31st
Peter Parker may have been forgotten, but Spider-Man is just getting started. Tom Holland returns as the web-slinger, living alone in a New York City where no one remembers his name and devoting himself entirely to fighting crime. But as his powers dangerously evolve and an unseen enemy emerges, this Destin Daniel Cretton-directed chapter pushes Peter beyond his limits, where being stronger may not be enough to save the city... or himself.
🎥 “Nightborn” Trailer: Rupert Grint and Seidi Haarla Face New-Parent Terror in Hanna Bergholm’s Finnish Forest Horror Film — Premiering July 31st on Shudder
Nothing says family bliss like an isolated childhood home in the woods and a newborn no one quite understands. Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star as Saga and Jon, a couple chasing the dream of a perfect family, only for their move into the Finnish forest to expose cracks in their marriage, and something far more disturbing about their baby. Directed and co-written by Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, who previously gave us Hatching, this eerie maternal horror story turns domestic anxiety into something cold, quiet, and deeply wrong. Parenthood already changes everything; this time, it may change what counts as human.
🎥 “Buddy” Teaser: ‘Too Many Cooks’ Creator Casper Kelly Turns a Cheerful Kids’ Show Into a Dark, Surreal Nightmare — In Theaters August 28th
The sing-along is over, kids. From Casper Kelly, the creator of the smash viral short Too Many Cooks, this horror-dark comedy traps children inside the bright, forced happiness of a 1990s-style TV show, where an orange unicorn host keeps everyone smiling until one girl refuses to follow the script. Delaney Quinn, Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon and Patton Oswalt star in a strange little nightmare where children’s programming devolves into a pastel-colored prison where overly cheerful conformity becomes its own form of torture.
🎥 “The Gentleman Thief” Trailer: John Travolta Attempts One Last Impossible Heist in Director Randall Emmett and Writer Chris Sivertson’s Third Crime Caper — On VOD/Digital July 28th and in Select Theaters July 31st
Would you believe John Travolta has already starred as master thief Mason Goddard in two previously indie heist thrillers? Well, he’s back for one more score in this third installment, following Cash Out and High Rollers. This time, Mason is lured out of retirement to steal a priceless painting, only to discover the job is part of a deadly trap orchestrated by a ruthless kingpin. With Lukas Haas and Quavo returning alongside Sam Asghari and DJ Khaled, Mason must rely on every trick he has left to escape with the artwork... and his life. Travolta may be the ultimate gentleman thief, but this job requires a little less gentleman and a lot more thief if he hopes to survive one more score.
🎥 “Resident Evil” Featurette: Zach Cregger Talks About the Popular Video Game That Inspired His New Survival-Horror Take — Hitting Theaters September 18th
In this SYFY featurette, Zach Cregger explores the video game influences behind his upcoming take on the Resident Evil franchise, teasing an adaptation shaped by the series’ tension, dread, and creature-filled paranoia. Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser star in the new film from the director of Weapons. The monsters may be familiar, but Cregger is leading this nightmare down a new path through the dark.
🎥 “Forelock” Trailer: David Krumholtz and Caleb Alexander Smith Chase One Strange Hair-Brained Hustle Across Los Angeles in This Offbeat Indie Comedy — Now Available Exclusively on the Letterboxd Video Store
Two men. One mysterious lock of hair. Seventy-two Los Angeles suburbs. Not exactly an easy journey for a superhero impersonator and a down-on-his-luck drifter. David Krumholtz executive produces and stars in writer-director-actor Caleb Alexander Smith’s offbeat L.A. comedy about a schlubby hustler (Krumholtz) and a superhero street performer (Smith) who team up for a bizarre search through the underbelly of Hollywood. While hunting for one suspiciously important lock of hair, this unlikely duo stumbles into crooked schemes, mistaken identities, and one full-blown existential detour. Because in Los Angeles, finding what you’re looking for usually means getting completely lost first.
🎥 “Above & Below” Trailer: Laura Marano Is Trapped Between Armed Hijackers and a Circling Shark in This Ocean Survival Thriller with Antonio Banderas — In Theaters July 29th
A dream diving vacation becomes a fight for survival when a group of friends is hijacked at sea and forced beneath the surface. With only minutes of oxygen, armed criminals waiting above and an apex predator circling below, there may be nowhere left to escape in this ocean-set survival thriller starring singer-actress Laura Marano alongside Antonio Banderas. When danger is coming from both above and below the water, survival could mean choosing which threat to face first... and when to risk everything for the surface.
🎥 “Warriors of the Wasteland” Trailer: A Vengeful Warrior Tears Through the Nuclear-Scarred Balkans in Serbian Filmmaker Nemanja Ćeranić’s Post-Apocalyptic Action Saga — On VOD and Digital July 7th
In the wasteland, bullets talk louder than the law, and sometimes revenge is the only justice left. Set in the nuclear-scarred West Balkans, this post-apocalyptic action tale follows a young warrior whose family is slaughtered by a deranged warlord, sending him roaring across the ruins with only a blade, a motorcycle, and revenge keeping him alive. In other words, think Mad Max with a distinctly Balkan nightmare running through its veins. Directed by Serbian filmmaker Nemanja Ćeranić and starring Igor Benčina, Isidora Simijonović, Sergej Trifunović, Marta Bjelica, and Jovo Maksić, this dystopian action thriller rides through radioactive cults, hallucinations, and the legend of the peaceful “Grain People.” Civilization is down to its last scraps, and apparently subtlety went up in the first mushroom cloud.
🎥 “Legend of the White Dragon” Trailer: Power Rangers’ Jason David Frank Steps Out of the Shadows for One Final Heroic Battle in This Action-Fantasy Thriller — In Theaters August 28th
When the city is in desperate need, heroes can’t stay hidden forever. The late actor/mixed martial artist Jason David Frank, of Power Rangers fame, stars as Erik Reed, a fugitive warrior forced to clear his name while trying to reunite with his family. Directed by Aaron Schoenke and Sean Schoenke, with Aaron Schoenke, Jason Faunt, Rachele Brooke Smith, Michael Madsen, Andrew Bachelor, David Ramsey, and Mark Dacascos joining the fight, this action-fantasy adventure gives Frank one last dragon-sized showdown where redemption may prove to be his greatest battle.
🎥 “SOULM8TE” New Trailer: Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl Turn AI Companionship Into a Deadly Obsession in This Sci-Fi Horror — Arriving On VOD/Digital August 1st
Artificial intelligence was supposed to cure loneliness, not weaponize it. Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl star in this sci-fi horror thriller about a grieving engineer who tests a powerful tech company’s advanced AI companion and attempts to transform her into a truly sentient soulmate. But once she begins developing desires of her own, his experiment spirals into precision-engineered violence. Directed by You Are Not My Mother filmmaker Kate Dolan, this techno-nightmare asks what happens when grief programs love... and love refuses to follow instructions.
🎥 “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” Trailer: Aang Searches for an Ancient Power in a New Avatar Universe Adventure — Premiering July 25th on Paramount+
Peace is never as finished as everyone hopes. Based on the animated series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this new Avatar universe story follows Aang as he discovers an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With his friends by his side, he sets off on a global quest to find it before it falls into the wrong hands and threatens the fragile peace they fought to protect. Saving the world once was hard enough; preserving it may be the real test.
🎥 “Mob Psycho 100” 10th Anniversary Trailer: Crunchyroll Brings Mob’s Psychic Coming-of-Age Chaos to the Big Screen — In Theaters July 20th for One Day Event via Crunchyroll
Middle school is hard enough before your emotions can level a city. Crunchyroll Anime Nights celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mob Psycho 100 with a big-screen selection of fan-chosen episodes tracing Mob’s journey as an eighth grader with overwhelming psychic powers and one very relatable desire to be normal. Between exorcisms, bottled-up feelings, and the threat of hitting 100 percent, this anniversary event turns emotional repression into supernatural spectacle. Growing up was never supposed to be this explosive.
🎥 “Butterfly” International Trailer: Renate Reinsve and Helene Bjørneby Star as Estranged Sisters Reuniting After Their Mother’s Mysterious Death in Itonje Søimer Guttormsen’s Norwegian Drama — Coming Soon
Some families leave behind memories. Others leave unfinished business. Oscar-nominee Renate Reinsve and Helene Bjørneby star as estranged half-sisters Lily and Diana, who return to Gran Canaria after the sudden and mysterious death of their mother. Forced back to the island where they grew up, the pair must confront old wounds and the strange spiritual world their mother built far from its tourist-friendly surface. Directed by Itonje Søimer Guttormsen, this Norwegian mystical family drama asks whether grief can bring two sisters back together... or pull them even further apart.
🎥 “& Sons” International Trailer: Bill Nighy Calls His Estranged Family Home for One Very Complicated Goodbye — Arrives In UK Cinemas August 21st
Family reunions are hard enough without a deathbed secret. Bill Nighy stars as Andrew Dyer, a reclusive literary giant who summons his estranged sons because he believes he is dying, only to reveal something that pulls his former wife and decades of resentment back into the room. Directed by Pablo Trapero from Sarah Polley’s adaptation of David Gilbert’s novel, and co-starring George MacKay, Noah Jupe, Johnny Flynn, Imelda Staunton, and Dominic West, this dark family comedy asks whether one impossible confession can repair what years of silence broke.
🎥 “Someone’s Daughter” Trailer: Pascale Bussières and François Arnaud Are Stranded in the Canadian Wilderness as a Lawyer Begins to Fear the Man She Once Defended — Coming Soon
A lawyer’s job is to defend her client. Surviving him was never part of the agreement. Pascale Bussières stars as Sam, a criminal defense attorney who is kidnapped and abandoned on a remote island alongside Paul, the former client she once cleared of sexual assault charges, played by Heated Rivalry’s François Arnaud. As they fight their way through the unforgiving Canadian wilderness, Paul’s increasingly disturbing behavior forces Sam to question whether she helped an innocent man walk free... or protected someone capable of unimaginable violence. Directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld, this Canadian survival thriller turns professional doubt into a terrifying choice no lawyer should ever have to make.
🎥 “Elize: Shadows of a Woman” Trailer: Betrayal, Jealousy, and Violence Tear Through a Marriage in This Brazilian Fictional True-Crime Drama Inspired by the Shocking Case of Elize Matsunaga — Premiering July 22nd on Netflix
Some marriages don’t merely fall apart. They break violently... and take everything down with them. Brazilian-Portuguese actress Lorena Comparato stars in this fictionalized retelling inspired by the shocking true-life case of Elize Matsunaga, following a former escort whose wealthy marriage becomes poisoned by infidelity and jealousy. This Netflix psychological thriller turns one of Brazil’s most notorious crimes into a dark portrait of betrayal pushed past the point of no return. Because once trust is gone, love can spoil beyond recognition.
🎥 “Masterplan” Teaser: Stanley Tucci, Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo Make the Heist of the Century a Family Business in Upcoming Crime Flick — Premieres October 16th on Prime Video
Every great robbery needs a plan. This one apparently needs relatives. Stanley Tucci, Simona Tabasco and Victor Belmondo star in this heist comedy-drama about a family joining forces to pull off the robbery of the century. But when blood ties become part of the plan, loyalty could prove to be either their greatest advantage or the mistake that brings everything crashing down. Crime may run in the family, but that doesn’t mean teamwork does.
🎥 “Plucked” Trailer: Divorce Plans Turn a Gilded Age Dinner Party Into a Night of Jealousy, Secrets, and Revenge — In Select Theaters November 13th; On VOD/Digital on February 12th, 2027
Divorce was already complicated before someone set the table. Katie Vincent stars as Katherine Greene, a woman determined to leave her emotionally unstable husband, only for that decision to erupt during a carefully staged dinner party designed to preserve appearances. Catherine Curtin, J. Anthony Crane, Susan Gallagher, Jared Canfield, and Bryant Carroll join the increasingly volatile evening as buried secrets, wounded pride, and revenge take over. Co-written and co-directed by Vincent and Usher Morgan, this Gilded Age dark comedy proves that once the knives come out, dinner is the least of anyone’s problems.
🎥 “The Boy from Below” Trailer: A Video Store Clerk Faces a Slasher Night Straight Out of the Movies in This New Horror Flick Starring Jack Norman, Spooky Madison, and Dee Wallace — On VOD/Digital August 11th
Halloween night, 1997: the rentals are not the only thing getting returned bloody. Directed by Tory Jones, this new slasher horror follows a video store clerk forced to survive when a masked killer starts bringing horror movies to life and picking off her friends one by one. Jack Norman, Spooky Madison, Dee Wallace, Felissa Rose, Chaney Morrow, Tommy Lee Wallace, and Richie Ramone star in this retro nightmare built for anyone who ever knew the horror aisle too well. Be kind, rewind, and maybe lock the door.
🎥 “Feed” Trailer: An Ancient Vampire Wakes Up Hungry in Writer-Director Marco van Belle’s Indie Horror — Coming to U.S. Theaters in August
Dinner is served... and nobody wants to be on the menu. Written and directed by Marco van Belle, this vampire horror film unleashes an ancient bloodsucker whose awakening turns survival into a nightmare of teeth, terror, and dwindling options. With Grace Collender, Clinton Liberty, Daisy Jelley, Niamh Hogan, Rhys Mannion, and Oskar Smith in the ensemble, this indie supernatural chiller keeps its threat simple, old, and very hungry. Once the feeding starts, getting out alive becomes less of a plan and more of a prayer.
🎥 “Gator Face” Teaser: A Florida Vacation Becomes an Alligator-Fueled Nightmare in This New Swampy Horror Flick — On VOD/Digital September 15th
The Sunshine State gets very toothy. Directed by Padraig Reynolds, this horror film follows a group of friends whose Florida vacation turns into a blood-soaked fight through the swamps when a savage cult begins feeding victims to alligators in the name of an ancient reptilian god. Starring Amariah Dionne, Tabitha Brownstone, Scot Scurlock, and Nikolas Kolasinski, the film turns getaway horror into a full-blown gator sermon. In these waters, faith bites back.
🎥 “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Texas Chain Saw Day Trailer: Tobe Hooper’s Horror Landmark Returns for a One-Night 4K Theatrical Event — In U.S. Theaters August 18th
The saw is back where it belongs: on a huge screen and far too close for comfort. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic returns for a one-night 4K theatrical event, bringing Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Paul A. Partain, and Edwin Neal back into one of cinema’s most sunbaked nightmares. Five young travelers, one rural Texas house, and Leatherface waiting inside. Road trips rarely get this loud... or bloody!
🎥 “Falling Down” 4K Trailer: Michael Douglas Snaps His Way Across Los Angeles in Joel Schumacher’s Darkly Comic Urban Rage Thriller — Coming to Limited Edition 4K UHD July 21st via Arrow Video
When this Joel Schumacher-directed thriller was released back in 1993, it was met with tepid reviews. More than three decades later, the film is now considered one of the great ’90s thrillers, tapping into a simmering rage that still cuts uncomfortably close today. Michael Douglas stars as William Foster, an ordinary-looking L.A. commuter whose boiling frustration spills into a violent cross-city odyssey, while Robert Duvall’s retiring detective tries to make sense of the chaos before Foster reaches his final stop. The film was, and still is, a cracked mirror of America’s deepening discontent and the anger of an entitled man convinced the world has moved on without him. Sound familiar?
🎥 “The Sacrifice: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Final Film Returns to Cinemas for Its 40th Anniversary — In UK and Ireland Cinemas July 31st
You might have stumbled upon the countless online video essays on the great films of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky... and there’s a reason for that. His films (Stalker, Solaris, Mirror, etc.) are ripe for endless interpretation and philosophical unpacking. Tarkovsky’s final feature, however, has received a 4K restoration, bringing his brand of stark, introspective, dream-like contemplative cinema back to UK cinemas this summer. The 1986 film, completed shortly before Tarkovsky’s death at 54, follows Alexander, played by Swedish actor Erland Josephson, as a birthday gathering is shattered by the threat of nuclear catastrophe. With Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, and Guðrún Gísladóttir co-starring, this apocalyptic chamber drama remains one of the filmmaker’s most haunting final statements, wrestling with faith, fear, sacrifice, and the terrifying possibility of the end. Which is, frankly, very much why Tarkovsky remains so endlessly studied and admired decades after his death.
🎥 “Hide and Go Shriek” 4K Restoration Trailer: An After-Hours Graduation Party Becomes a Deadly Game of Hide-and-Seek in This Newly Restored Trashy 1988 Cult Slasher — Coming Soon to 4K UHD and Blu-ray from Terror Vision
The store is closed, but the killing has just begun. Eight teenagers sneak into a furniture store for an all-night graduation party, only for their game of hide-and-seek to turn deadly when an unseen killer begins stalking them through the darkened showrooms. Directed by Skip Schoolnik and starring Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, George Thomas and Sean Kanan, this 1988 slasher returns uncut in a new 4K scan. Some games end when everyone is found. This one ends when no one is left.
🎥 “Welcome II the Terrordome” 4K Restoration Trailer: Ngozi Onwurah’s Radical Afrofuturist Dystopia Returns to the Big Screen — In Select Theaters July 31st, via Janus Films
Ngozi Onwurah’s fiercely confrontational 1995 feature imagines a near-future Britain where Black residents have been pushed into a segregated slum known as the Terrordome, and the death of a young boy threatens to ignite years of buried rage. Blending dystopian science fiction, political fury and the legacy of slavery, the film connects personal grief with systemic violence in a vision that now feels even more urgent. More than thirty years later, Onwurah’s first feature returns in 4K as both a landmark and a warning that the future is never as distant as we like to think.
🎥 “The Pornographers” 4K Restoration Trailer: Shōhei Imamura’s Landmark 1966 Satire Exposes the Seedy Underside of Japan’s Postwar Boom — Coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray August 24th in the UK
Business is booming, and so are the hypocrisies. Shōichi Ozawa stars as Subuyan, a former Buddhist monk turned underground erotic filmmaker juggling relentless production, yakuza pressure and an increasingly volatile home life with his widowed partner and her children. Adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka’s novel, Shōhei Imamura’s darkly comic satire turns one man’s seedy enterprise into a grotesque reflection of postwar prosperity, where every appetite becomes another commodity waiting to be sold.
🎥 “My Grandfather Charles Manson” Trailer: A Filmmaker’s Search for Her Family History Uncovers a Shocking Connection to One of America’s Most Infamous Killers — Premiering July 22nd on Hulu and Disney+
Filmmaker Sophia Maddox’s search for the grandfather she never knew leads to the discovery that Charles Manson may be part of her biological family, pulling her into a maze of genetic evidence, disputed histories and unreliable narrators. Co-directed with Alexandra Orton, this true-crime documentary follows Maddox as the investigation strains her relationship with her father and forces both of them to reconsider what identity, inheritance and family really mean.
🎥 “The Last Picture Shows” Trailer: A Documentary Road Trip Explores the Vanishing World of America’s Small-Town Movie Theaters — In Select Theaters Now, Coming to New York August 7th and Los Angeles August 21st
Every empty marquee holds a memory, and every vacant theater seat represents a story that no longer lingers. This new indie documentary journeys through the American West in search of what remains of the small-town movie theater, once a gathering place, a local landmark, and a shared portal into bigger dreams. The film looks for traces of a vanishing ritual, when cinema was not just something people watched, but somewhere they went together. A love letter to the local cinemas still standing, the movie communities that built their lives around them, and the fading glow of a moviegoing tradition that once brought entire towns together for a shared experience.
🎥 “An Eye for an Eye” Trailer: A Son Races to Save His Mother from Execution in This Gripping Courtroom Documentary — In Theaters and on Jolt.Film August 14th
Justice has a price, and here it is measured in blood money. This documentary follows Tahereh, a woman who killed her abusive husband in self-defense and now faces execution unless her family can pay the Diya demanded by her abuser’s relatives. Directed by Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari, the film follows her son Mohsen through private negotiations, legal pressure, and a desperate search for outside help in a system shaped by patriarchal values and religious law, where “an eye for an eye” is not merely an expression... it can determine who lives and who dies.
🎥 “American Doctor” Trailer: A Searing New Documentary Follows Three U.S. Physicians Returning From the Devastation of Gaza — In Select Theaters August 14th
A medical oath does not end at the hospital door. Poh Si Teng’s vérité documentary follows Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa as they volunteer in Gaza’s besieged hospitals, confront mass casualties and devastated infrastructure, then return to the United States carrying the weight of what they witnessed. After premiering at Sundance, this documentary turns frontline care into a story of conscience, memory, and public responsibility.
🎥 “CardBound” Trailer: This Indie Documentary Charts a Global Search for Pokémon’s First Official Trading Card — Available July 10th on Prime Video, Plex and YouTube
Every collection has a beginning. Finding the real one is another story. Directed by Jacob Zanghi, this feature documentary follows a worldwide investigation into the origins of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, moving through rare artifacts, disputed histories and the collectors determined to separate fact from legend. Featuring Logan Paul, Deep Pocket Monster, Duke Dennis and Noah Lyles, the search eventually uncovers a previously unknown card that could challenge what fans have long accepted as Pokémon’s first official release.
