Trailer Blitz! The Uprising, The Runner and More
🎥 Here’s a list of films coming to screens soon!
🎥 “The Uprising” Trailer: Andrew Garfield Sparks a Peasant Rebellion Against King Richard II in Paul Greengrass’ Medieval Epic with Woody Norman, Jamie Bell, Katherine Waterston, and Cosmo Jarvis — Hitting Theaters September 11th
Who says Ridley Scott is the only filmmaker willing to offer us sprawling medieval epics?
Paul Greengrass, mostly known for his intense shaky-cam thrillers like United 93, Captain Phillips, and the Jason Bourne films, turns his attention to 14th-century England for what looks like his most ambitious production yet. With a story that seems primed for Ridley Scott, Greengrass seemingly adds a level of ground-level urgency, depicting a time in England’s history when one man finally decides he has had enough of the king’s iron grip.
Andrew Garfield takes on the lead role of Wat Tyler, an impoverished man who ends up leading the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt after facing years of crushing taxes, brutal inequality, and royal oppression, proving that you can only push someone so far before they finally push back with enough fury that others begin pushing back alongside them.
Mud, fire, charging soldiers, and furious crowds fill the film’s first trailer, showcasing an intensely personal rebellion against a young king who might be too sequestered to fully understand how much his reign has pushed the country toward revolt.
Woody Norman, from Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, co-stars as King Richard II, a sheltered and overly privileged young monarch seemingly oblivious to the suffering spreading beyond his palace walls, yet soon forced to hear the people’s “rage” as it comes crashing toward his throne.
Also co-starring are Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Sky Yang, Shōgun’s Cosmo Jarvis, and Fantastic Beasts’ Katherine Waterston, while Greengrass not only directs but also writes this historical epic, harkening back to the classic large-scale period dramas of old Hollywood.
Garfield appears well suited to playing Wat Tyler, who was neither a polished military hero nor a born political leader, but a desperate peasant whose righteous anger was felt by thousands, igniting a rebellion that felt both deeply personal and historically inevitable. After all, the monarchy might have had the money, but Tyler had the many.
The Uprising is due to open in theaters September 11th.
🎥 “The Runner” Trailer: Gal Gadot Races Across London to Save Her Kidnapped Son in Kevin Macdonald’s Real-Time Thriller — Premiering September 2nd on Prime Video
Imagine getting a phone call from a mysterious number. You answer it and soon hear an ominous voice on the other end, threatening to kill your son unless you follow their commands. Then they send images of him bound and unconscious, proving they’re not bluffing. What would you do... what could you do when they order you to kill someone or face the unthinkable?
That’s the tense, nerve-rattling setup of this new real-time thriller, which sees Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot thrown into fight-or-flight mode after picking up the worst phone call of her life.
In Amazon’s new original film The Runner, Gadot stars as Maia, a high-powered lawyer whose ordinary morning run through London becomes a desperate race for survival when an anonymous caller reveals that her son has been kidnapped. To keep him alive, she must remain on foot, follow a series of increasingly dangerous commands, and murder one of the clients she represents.
Stopping is not an option. Calling the police could get her son killed. And every crowded street, Underground tunnel, and surveillance camera becomes another way for the kidnapper to watch her movements and tighten their control.
As Maia races across the city, she must figure out why she was chosen, what her client has to do with the abduction, and whether there is any way to turn the situation against the person pulling the strings.
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, and The Mauritanian, the film looks ready to combine documentary-style camera work (provided by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle) with the pressure of a ticking-clock psychological thriller written by Mark Gibson.
Damian Lewis, Alfred Enoch, Aaron Gill, and Millicent Wong round out the cast.
The Runner begins streaming worldwide September 2nd on Prime Video. Don’t forget to wear something comfortable... ’cuz this just might leave you sweating with every step.
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🎥 “Olmo” Trailer: A New Mexico Teen Chases One Night of Freedom From Family Duty in Fernando Eimbcke’s Heartfelt Coming-of-Age Drama From the Producers of ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Minari’ — In Theaters August 7th
No matter where you grow up, the struggles of adolescence can feel strikingly universal, especially when family responsibility clashes with the need to discover who you are. Newcomer Aivan Uttapa stars as Olmo, a 14-year-old Mexican American kid living in 1979 New Mexico who would rather spend time with his best friend and impress the girl next door than care for his bedridden father, played by Amores Perros actor Gustavo Sánchez Parra. When Nina (Melanie Frometa) invites him to a party on the night he has been left in charge of his father’s care, his attempt to escape sets off a chain of mischief, frustration, and painful consequences. From acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (Duck Season) and co-starring Rosa Armendariz and Andrea Suárez Paz, this coming-of-age comedy-drama finds that the home Olmo is desperate to leave may also be the place where he finally begins to understand himself.
🎥 “The Unknown” International Trailer: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Co-writer Arthur Harari Turns Obsession Into an Identity Crisis in His Body-Switching Psychological Thriller Starring Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider — Opening August 26th in France
Arthur Harari, the Oscar-nominated French filmmaker who co-wrote Anatomy of a Fall, is back to test our grip on reality in this new body-switching thriller where identity becomes impossible to trust. Niels Schneider plays a nearly 40-year-old photographer who becomes fixated on a mysterious woman, played by Léa Seydoux, at a wild party, follows her into the night, and wakes hours later inside her body. Meanwhile, she wakes up inside his, sending both of them into a disorienting struggle to reclaim their lives before the boundaries between memory, desire, and self completely break down. Writer-director Harari aims to turn identity into one destabilizing psychological puzzle where losing yourself isn’t merely a metaphor... it’s the entire problem.
🎥 “Spa Weekend” New Trailer: Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris Turn Self-Care Into Total Chaos — In Theaters August 21st
Relaxation is nice, but bad decisions make better stories. Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris star as lifelong friends who head to a luxury spa after careers, relationships, families, and everyday exhaustion push their bond into the background. Written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, this comedy sends self-care straight into midlife mayhem. The massage may be optional; the meltdown is clearly included.
🎥 “Rubberhead: The Life and Monsters of Steve Johnson” Trailer: Hollywood’s Practical-FX Maverick Looks Back on the Creatures, Chaos, and Self-Destruction Behind His Career — World Premiering July 23rd at Fantasia
Every great monster leaves a few scars on its maker. Director Nick Taylor profiles Steve Johnson, the fiercely driven special-effects artist whose creatures and techniques helped shape the practical-FX glory days of horror and science fiction. Through outrageous Hollywood stories and candid reflections on ambition, addiction, divorce, and self-sabotage, the documentary traces both the breakthroughs that made Johnson a legend and the personal damage left in their wake. Featuring John Landis, Linnea Quigley, Tom Holland, and Bill Corso, this funny, moving portrait suggests that the most difficult creature Johnson ever faced was the one in the mirror.
🎥 “Don’t Move” Trailer: Lyndsy Fonseca Leads a Church Retreat Into a Vibration-Hunting Spider’s Web in Maclain Nelson’s Ozarks Creature Feature — In Theaters September 11th
In this forest, one wrong step gets you eaten, as every footstep sounds the dinner bell. Lyndsy Fonseca (of Hot Tub Time Machine, Kick-Ass) stars as Megan, whose church group retreat veers into a remote stretch of the Ozarks where something hidden inside a maze of webs begins picking them off. As panic and suspicion turn toward the group’s resident troublemaker, Megan discovers the real killer is a prehistoric arachnid that tracks its prey through vibration. Directed by Maclain Nelson and co-starring Tom Cavanagh and Rob Riggle, this creature feature makes silence essential and standing still a matter of survival.
🎥 “Decorado” Trailer: Spanish Animator Alberto Vázquez Expands His Surreal Short Into This Darkly Comic Animated Fable About a Paranoid Mouse Searching for the Truth Behind His Artificial World — On Digital July 2026 via Shout! Studios
Spanish animator and illustrator Alberto Vázquez turns a seemingly ordinary city into a cheerful-looking prison in this darkly comic animated fable about corporate control and manufactured reality. Arnold, an unemployed middle-aged mouse trapped in a collapsing marriage and dead-end existence, becomes convinced that the world around him is nothing more than a set. When his best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, Arnold’s paranoia leads him toward A.L.M.A., a monolithic corporation whose influence reaches into every corner of daily life. Expanding his 2016 short, Vázquez blends cute cartoon imagery, social satire, and existential dread into a bleakly funny search for freedom itself.
🎥 “Gandahar: 4K Restoration” Trailer: ‘Fantastic Planet’ Director René Laloux’s Surreal Sci-Fi Cult Classic Returns to Theaters with Time Travel, Mutants, and an Army of Men of Metal — In Theaters August 28th via Janus Films
Legendary French animator René Laloux’s final feature follows Sylvain, an inexperienced warrior sent to uncover why a merciless army of automata is turning Gandahar’s people to stone. His search leads him to the Deformed, mutants abandoned after failed experiments, and to Metamorphis, a colossal living brain whose connection to the invasion stretches across centuries. With Philippe Caza’s surreal designs and Gabriel Yared’s score, this restored science-fantasy odyssey turns ecological collapse, political guilt, and time travel into one strange warning about the future waiting inside yesterday’s mistakes.
🎥 “Jaws Explored” Trailer: CreatorVC Takes a Scene-by-Scene Bite Out of Steven Spielberg’s Shark Classic In New Crowdfunded Docuseries — Pre-Order Campaign Closes August 9th via Site: JawsExplored.Com
We’re gonna need a bigger analysis. CreatorVC, the team behind the making-of docuseries In Search of Darkness, Aliens Expanded, and The Thing Expanded, is back with another crowdfunded documentary project. This time, they’re diving deep into Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws, promising a scene-by-scene look at the 1975 landmark, its craft, and its still-rippling legacy. Built as a collector-focused release with a Blu-ray, companion book, and supporter campaign, this film-analysis documentary treats the blockbuster like a living, breathing movie object. Fifty years later, the shark still has plenty left beneath the surface.
🎥 “Train to Busan” 10th Anniversary Trailer: Yeon Sang-ho’s Modern Zombie Classic Speeds Back Into Theaters in 4K — Returning August 14th via Well Go USA
The commute from hell is back on schedule as one of the great modern zombie thrillers speeds into theaters this summer. Gong Yoo stars as a work-obsessed father escorting his young daughter to the South Korean city of Busan when a rapidly spreading outbreak turns their train into a sealed corridor of panic, sacrifice, and flesh-hungry chaos. With Jung Yu-mi, Don Lee, Choi Woo-shik, An So-hee, Kim Eui-sung, and Kim Su-an among the passengers fighting from car to car, filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 horror breakout remains as much an emotional survival drama as a relentless creature feature. Ten years later, this ride still has no safe stop. All aboard! Next stop: Busan. Assuming the passengers don’t get eaten along the way.
🎥 “La La Land: 10th Anniversary” Trailer: Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Chase Love, Jazz, and Hollywood Dreams in Damien Chazelle’s Modern Musical Classic — Returning to Theaters August 16th
In Los Angeles, every dream comes with choreography. And sometimes, every love story risks missing a step. Emma Stone stars as Mia, an aspiring actress worn down by failed auditions, while Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian, a stubborn jazz pianist determined to build something of his own. Their romance rises alongside their ambitions, turning chance encounters, late-night dances, and creative hunger into a love story tested by success itself. Returning in Dolby for its 10th anniversary, Damien Chazelle’s bittersweet musical still knows the hardest part of chasing a dream is deciding what (or who) you are willing to leave behind.
🎥 “Sing Street” 10th Anniversary Trailer: A Wannabe Teen Rock Star Starts a Band, Chases a Crush, and Finds His Voice in John Carney’s Crowd-Pleasing ’80s Dublin Coming-of-Age Gem — Coming to 4K for the First Time, August 11th via Lionsgate Limited
The quickest way to impress a girl is to start a band. The real challenge is getting everyone to agree on what kind of song they’re supposed to play. From musician-turned-filmmaker John Carney, best known for Once, comes one of his most personal and accomplished films: a 1980s Dublin coming-of-age story about finding your voice before the world decides who you are. Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a 4K release this summer, the 2016 film follows Conor, a 14-year-old dealing with family strain and a punishing new school who forms a band to catch the attention of aspiring model Raphina. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Lucy Boynton lead the cast, with Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Aidan Gillen rounding out this music-driven crowd-pleaser about escape, reinvention, teenage nerve, and ’80s pop dreams. Sometimes the only way forward is to turn up the volume, hit the gas, and drive it like you stole it.
🎥 “The Fifth Element” Re-Release Trailer: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman Bring Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Spectacle Back to Theaters — Screening July 26th and 27th via Fathom Entertainment
The future has never looked this loud, this strange, or this gloriously overdesigned. Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi action-adventure is beaming back into theaters this month, reminding viewers that sometimes saving the universe requires less restraint and a lot more orange hair. Bruce Willis stars as cab driver Korben Dallas, who is pulled into a cosmic fight for survival after Milla Jovovich’s Leeloo, the living fifth element, crashes into his life and becomes the key to stopping an ancient destructive force. With memorable supporting turns from Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm, Besson’s cult sci-fi spectacle returns for a two-day theatrical re-release featuring an exclusive introduction by Leonard Maltin. When the universe needs saving, sometimes the hero comes with a taxi meter.
🎥 “Troy” 4K Trailer: Revisit Brad Pitt and Eric Bana’s Ferocious Battle in Wolfgang Petersen’s Star-Studded 2004 Sword-and-Sandal Epic — Arriving on Limited Edition 4K UHD August 18th via Arrow Video
All of a sudden, classic sword-and-sandal epics with all-star casts are back in fashion. Maybe it is time to revisit one that slipped through the sands of time and is now getting a well-earned 4K resurrection. Brad Pitt stars as the volatile warrior Achilles, whose pride and defiance make him both Greece’s greatest weapon and its most dangerous liability after Orlando Bloom’s Paris escapes Sparta with Diane Kruger’s Helen. With Eric Bana’s Hector defending Troy against an invading army led by Brian Cox’s Agamemnon, Wolfgang Petersen’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad turns love, vengeance, and wounded egos into a massive war where even legends bleed. The 2004 epic may not have received its full due at the time, but two decades later, its scale, cast, and old-school spectacle are ready for another rewatch.
🎥 “The People vs. Larry Flynt: 30th Anniversary” Trailer: Woody Harrelson Takes Bad Taste All the Way to the Supreme Court in Miloš Forman’s 1996 Free-Speech Drama with Courtney Love and Edward Norton — Coming to Limited Edition 4K UHD August 4th via Arrow Video
Sometimes the clearest test of free speech is whether we are willing to protect the people we would rather silence. Woody Harrelson stars as Larry Flynt, the strip-club owner who turns Hustler into a publishing empire and himself into a walking legal provocation. With Courtney Love as Althea Leasure and Edward Norton as attorney Alan Isaacman, Miloš Forman’s unruly biographical drama follows Flynt through obscenity trials, an assassination attempt, and a landmark Supreme Court battle over whether the First Amendment also belongs to the offensive, vulgar, and impossible to ignore. Thirty years later, the argument still has teeth.
🎥 “Billy Liar” 4K Restoration Trailer: John Schlesinger’s 1963 British New Wave Classic Lets Tom Courtenay Dream His Way Out of Dead-End Reality — Opening August 14th at NY’s Film Forum
Fantasy is cheaper than freedom, at least for Billy Fisher. Tom Courtenay stars as a provincial undertaker’s clerk whose imagined heroics keep crashing into his job, family, and romantic entanglements in John Schlesinger’s 1963 sharp British New Wave comedy-drama. With Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, and Mona Washbourne rounding out the cast, this new 4K restoration brings Billy’s restless daydreams back to the big screen.
🎥 “Our Effed Up World” Teaser: A Grieving Teen and Her Queer Friend Group Face an Alien Appetite in Alice Maio Mackay’s Campy Sci-Fi Horror — World Premiering July 18th at Fantasia
The world was already broken before something hungry fell from the sky. Sara Thompson leads Alice Maio Mackay’s queer sci-fi horror as Sheri, a young woman mourning her grandmother when a mysterious entity crash-lands in the woods and develops an appetite big enough to consume everything around it. Produced by cult filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow), this handmade genre mash-up asks what happens when surviving your feelings is only the warm-up for surviving the apocalypse.
🎥 “Ferine” Teaser Trailer: Carolyn Bracken Gives Into Primal Instinct in Andrea Corsini’s Italian Horror Drama — Premiering in Fantasia’s 2026 International Competition
Civilization has teeth, and Irene is starting to feel hers. Irish actress Carolyn Bracken stars as a wealthy art collector whose life cracks open when an uncontrollable animalistic drive pushes her toward destruction, transformation, and a dangerous bond with Dama, played by Australian vet Caroline Goodall. Written and directed by Andrea Corsini, with music by legendary Italian composer Pino Donaggio (Blow Out, Don’t Look Now), this horror drama turns wealth, appetite, and predator instinct into something feral. Polished surfaces can only hide the claws for so long.
🎥 “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” International Trailer: Anders Danielsen Lie Plays the Jazz Great at a Breaking Point in Grant Gee’s Berlinale-Winning Biopic — In U.K. Theaters September 11th
Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, of The Worst Person in the World, stars as famed jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans in the days after believing he has finally found his sound with the perfect trio, only for bassist Scott LaFaro to die in a car crash ten days after their landmark Village Vanguard recordings. As grief, addiction, and creative paralysis pull Evans away from the piano, Grant Gee’s fiction debut turns one suspended chapter into a fractured portrait of an artist unsure whether he can ever play again. With Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, Valene Kane, Katie McGrath, and Barry Ward rounding out the cast, this music drama asks what happens when tragedy silences the very thing that made you feel alive.
🎥 “Tony” First Look Promo: Dominic Sessa Plays a Young Anthony Bourdain in Matt Johnson’s A24 Biographical Drama — Opening August 7th in Select Theaters, Nationwide August 21st
Long before Anthony Bourdain became a voice the world wanted to follow, he was just another cook trying to survive the kitchen. Dominic Sessa stars as a young Bourdain in Matt Johnson’s A24 drama, tracing an early restaurant-world chapter before fame turned him into a writer, traveler, and cultural force. With Emilia Jones, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommer, Stavros Halkias, Leo Woodall, and Antonio Banderas rounding out the cast, the film digs into the ambition, exhaustion, and restless curiosity taking shape behind the public persona. Every legend starts somewhere. This one starts in the heat of the kitchen. Watch this new behind-the-scenes promo for an early look at Sessa stepping into the role of the man who would become one of food culture’s most unmistakable figures.
🎥 “The Peril at Pincer Point” Trailer: An Inept Sound Recordist Chases a Career Break Into a Fogbound Island of Nautical Prophecy and Absurd Danger in This SXSW-winning Micro-Budget Oddity — Coming Soon
The worst place to fake confidence is an island that appears to know you are faking it. Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine’s micro-budget comedy-mystery follows an inept sound recordist who travels to the spectral shores of Pincer Point hoping to prove himself, only to stumble into nautical prophecy, local folklore, and a problem far beyond his professional skill set. Starring Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, and Murray Zev Cohen, this SXSW prize winner turns one badly planned assignment into a strange voyage where amateur ambition quickly runs aground.
🎥 “Filipiñana” Trailer: A Teenage Caddy Enters a Manila Country Club Where Privilege, Silence, and Decay Hide Beneath the Perfect Lawn in Rafael Manuel’s Sundance-Winning Debut — In Select Theaters August 28th
Paradise looks different when you are the one paid to maintain it. Rafael Manuel’s Sundance-winning debut follows Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines who takes a job at an exclusive country club outside Manila, where every smile, chore, and patch of grass reflects a rigid social order. Executive produced by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin) and shot by Xenia Patricia (100 Nights of Hero), this quietly unsettling drama turns a manicured resort into a study of class, control, and the damage hidden beneath polished surfaces. At this club, the rough may be the only honest ground left.
🎥 “Julian” Trailer: Fleur Pierets’ Marriage-Equality Journey Becomes a Tender Queer Love Story — Opening August 7th in New York
Love becomes a vow, then a mission. Inspired by Fleur Pierets’ book, Cato Kusters’ drama follows Fleur and Julian as their romance grows into a plan to marry in every country where two women are legally allowed to do so. Nina Meurisse and Laurence Roothooft star in a story that turns private devotion into a public act of visibility, defiance, and hope. Sometimes saying “I do” once is not enough.
🎥 “Paper Flowers” Trailer: Kapil Talwalkar Faces a Life-Altering Cancer Diagnosis in Mahesh Pailoor’s True-Story Drama About Love, Family, and Gratitude — In Theaters August 21st
Kapil Talwalkar stars as Shalin Shah, a 22-year-old USC graduate whose plans for the future are shattered by a diagnosis of rare, aggressive cancer. As treatment, family tensions, and the fear of lost time close in, Shalin begins reshaping his remaining days around love, purpose, and gratitude rather than despair. Inspired by Shah’s viral essay “Thank You, Cancer” and co-starring Olivia Liang, Karan Soni, Faran Tahir, Meera Simhan, and Tom Everett Scott, Mahesh Pailoor’s biographical drama looks beyond illness to the people transformed by the way one young man chose to live.
🎥 “Dead Janitors Club” Trailer: Felix Merback and Jake Busey Scrub Blood for Quick Cash in This Grimy Horror-Crime Comedy — In Select U.S. Theaters and on VOD/Digital August 28th
Crime doesn’t clean itself. Felix Merback stars as Jeff, a broke porn shop worker who takes a cash-heavy job with a shady crime-scene cleanup company operating outside the law. At first, it looks like an escape from minimum-wage misery: scrub the floors, bag the evidence, keep quiet, get paid. But as Jeff and the crew face messier clients and dangerous jobs, the line between cleaning up after crimes and becoming part of them begins to vanish. Directed by Kenny Gage and Devon Downs, and co-starring Jake Busey, Gary Busey, Brianna Gage, and Jake Holley, this horror-crime comedy turns custodial work into a body-stacking side hustle where every paycheck leaves a stain that will not scrub out.
🎥 “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” Digital Release Promo: Din Djarin and Grogu Bring Their Big-Screen Adventure Home — Available on VOD/Digital July 21st, 4K Ultra HD August 25th
The clan of two is heading home, but not quietly. Jon Favreau brings Din Djarin and Grogu from the Disney+ galaxy to a theatrical Star Wars adventure, extending their post-Empire journey with Pedro Pascal back under the helmet. With Sigourney Weaver and Jeremy Allen White joining the cast, this home-release trailer marks the film’s jump to digital and physical formats after its big-screen run.
🎥 “LifeHack” New Trailer: Online Friends Swipe From the Ultra-Rich and Click Their Way Into a Crypto Heist Nightmare — Available August 4th on VOD/Digital
Easy money always comes with terrible terms and conditions. This screenlife heist thriller follows four online friends who discover a talent for stealing from the ultra-rich, only to target the wrong crypto empire and get blackmailed into one impossible digital job. Directed by Ronan Corrigan and starring Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, James Scholz, Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed-Miles, and Steve Oram, the film turns every keystroke into a pressure point. One wrong click, and the hack becomes the trap.
🎥 “Lars Shrike Walks the Night” Trailer: Kelsey Grammer Searches for His Identity Across a Fractured Desert Reality in Gary Walkow’s Indie Sci-Fi Mystery — On VOD/Digital July 24th
A name is not much help when the rest of your identity is missing. Kelsey Grammer stars as Lars Shrike, a man who wakes in a hostile desert knowing only that he has escaped and that the name belongs to him. As memory, hallucination, and imagined mythology begin to bleed together, his search for answers becomes less about where he came from and more about whether any version of reality can be trusted. Written and directed by Gary Walkow and co-starring David Clennon, Christine Lin, and Kati Schwartz, this indie sci-fi mystery turns one man’s lost past into a long walk through the dark.
🎥 “Due West” Trailer: Adrianne Palicki Crosses West Texas in Search of Urgent Medical Care in This Indie Road Thriller — Coming to VOD/Digital July 28th via Cineverse
Adrianne Palicki stars as a small-town woman who borrows money from her estranged brother and drives across West Texas in search of urgent medical care, only for a breakdown to leave her stranded and dependent on strangers. As help, danger, and pressure begin to blur together, a local preacher enters the picture and her legal options start disappearing one by one. Directed by Evan Miller and co-starring Henry Thomas, Matt Lauria, Odette Annable, Ciara Bravo, and Austin Nichols, this stripped-down road drama turns a desperate journey into a test of how far someone will go when the system leaves no safe way forward.
🎥 “Atlas King” Trailer: Michael Bisping Returns Home to Fight Old Debts and New Violence in This Indie Action Thriller with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sarah Wayne Callies — Available August 21st on VOD/Digital
Michael Bisping stars as Atlas King, an MMA legend drawn back to his hometown after a funeral, only to find crime boss Clay Emerson tightening his grip on the place he left behind. With Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Wayne Callies, and George Finn in the mix, this action thriller throws old loyalties, underground fighting, and unfinished business into the same bruising cage.
🎥 “Turning Point” Trailer: A Botched Home Invasion Traps Two Thieves with a Man Midway Through a Zombie Transformation in This Indie Horror Flick Starring Jillian Lee Garner and DJ Qualls — On VOD/Digital August 25th
Breaking into the wrong house is bad enough. Breaking into one where the homeowner is turning into a zombie is worse. Jillian Lee Garner stars as Margot, who finds herself trapped with her partner in crime as their simple heist mutates into a close-quarters fight for survival. Their only possible lifeline is Casper, a bizarre neighbor played by DJ Qualls, whose knowledge of the undead may be as useful as the last traces of humanity still flickering inside their stalker. Written and directed by Joshua Wagner and co-starring Mike Apple, Shane Brady, Lydia Hearst, and Sanchita Malik, this home-invasion thriller gives “getting out alive” a whole new meaning.
🎥 “Lion Fist” Teaser: A Wrongfully Imprisoned Martial Artist Enters a Brutal Tournament to Save His Son in This Indie Action Thriller Starring Mathis Landwehr — On VOD/Digital September 15th
Freedom is only the first fight. Mathis Landwehr stars as Joe, a martial artist released after four years of wrongful imprisonment who returns home to learn that his son needs an operation he cannot afford. With $100,000 on the line, he enters a ruthless tournament and trains under Grandmaster Wu, only to discover that his opponents are willing to break far more than the rules.
🎥 “I Know Where You Live” Trailer: Apryl Jones Fights Back When a Toxic Romance Turns Into a Home-Invasion Nightmare — Premiering July 24th on Tubi
The red flags don’t stop at the front door. Apryl Jones stars as Sarah, a woman who thinks she has found the right man until his behavior turns controlling, threatening, and terrifyingly intimate. Directed by Chris Stokes and co-starring Oshea Russell, Addie Richardson, Michael Toland, Candi Marie, Michael Franklin, Ebony N. Mayo, and Justus Pickett, this Tubi thriller turns a breakup into a fight for survival where home is no longer the safest place to hide.
🎥 “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again?” Teaser: The Original Couples Reunite as a New Generation Walks Into the Same Relationship Drama — Premiering September 9th on Netflix
Tyler Perry reunites Terry, Dianne (Sharon Leal), Marcus (Michael Jai White), Angela (Tasha Smith), Sheila (Jill Scott), Mike (Richard T. Jones), and Troy (Lamman Rucker) for a destination wedding in Lake Como, where Marcus and Angela’s daughter prepares to marry while the older generation watches familiar mistakes begin all over again. With Taraji P. Henson joining the ensemble as the groom’s formidable mother in this sequel, the celebration quickly becomes a reckoning with old resentments, unfinished business, and the examples these couples passed down.
🎥 “Hanging by a Wire” Trailer: Eight Passengers Dangle Above a Himalayan Ravine as Rescuers Race Against a Failing Cable — In Theaters August 28th
Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s survival documentary revisits the 2023 Battagram cable-car disaster, when eight passengers, including six schoolboys, were left hanging above a ravine after a wire snapped. Built from firsthand accounts, news footage, drone imagery, and reenactments, the film follows local rescuers and officials improvising under enormous pressure while the world watches live.
🎥 “Time and Water” Trailer: Filmmaker Sara Dosa Turns Iceland’s Melting Glaciers Into a Meditation on Memory, Family, and Climate Loss — Premiering July 31st on National Geographic via Hulu/Disney+
Some losses move slowly enough that we almost miss them. Directed by Sara Dosa, this National Geographic documentary follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason as vanishing glaciers and family memory merge into one intimate time capsule. Using archives, landscape, and personal grief, the film turns climate change into a story of inheritance: what we keep, what disappears, and what the next generation may never touch. Water remembers, even when we don’t.
🎥 “Schindler Space Architect” Trailer: Meryl Streep Narrates a Documentary on Architect Rudolph M. Schindler and the Shape of California Modernism — In Theaters and on PBS SoCal July 10th
Some houses change how we understand the space around us. Valentina B. Ganeva’s documentary examines Austrian-born architect Rudolph M. Schindler, tracing his “Space Architecture” philosophy, his ties to Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, and his role in shaping California’s indoor-outdoor modernist identity. Narrated by Meryl Streep, with voiceover work from Udo Kier, Xander Berkeley, and Blake Lindsley, the film brings Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Wolf Prix, and Thom Mayne into the conversation. Sometimes architecture becomes biography when the walls start telling us how to live.
🎥 “A Child of My Own” Trailer: A Desperate Lie Spirals Into a True-Crime Scandal in Maite Alberdi’s Netflix Docudrama — Premiering August 13th on Netflix
Motherhood becomes a pressure cooker in this unsettling true-crime docudrama. After repeated miscarriages and mounting pressure from her in-laws, Alejandra fakes a pregnancy, only to find herself trapped inside a lie that keeps demanding more from her. Directed by Oscar-nominated Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi, this Netflix release revisits a shocking 2009 Mexican scandal with grief, deception, and social expectation all tightening at once.
🎥 “Twiggy” Trailer: Actress/Filmmaker Sadie Frost Chronicles How a Working-Class London Teen Became the Face of the Swinging ‘60s and Changed Fashion Forever — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital September 22nd
Before “it-girl” became a cultural category, Twiggy helped invent the look. Actress and filmmaker Sadie Frost traces how a working-class London teenager became one of the defining faces of the 1960s, reshaping fashion, beauty, and British pop culture before she had even turned 17. Blending rare archival footage with new interviews featuring Paul McCartney, Dustin Hoffman, Brooke Shields, and Twiggy herself, this documentary looks beyond the famous lashes and cropped hair to the wit, ambition, and unlikely longevity behind the image.
🎥 “Jebediah: Are We OK?” Trailer: Australia’s Alt-Rock Mainstays Look Back on Three Decades of Music, Friendship, and Growing Pains — World Premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2026
Rock bands grow up, even when the songs stay young. Arlo Dean Cook’s music documentary follows beloved Australian alt-rock band Jebediah from high school beginnings and late-’90s breakthrough energy into the harder realities of adulthood, endurance, and staying together. Built from archival and home-movie footage, with perspectives from Tim Rogers, Phil Jamieson, and Janet English, the film looks at what fame gives, what it takes, and how friendship survives when the tour never really ends.
🎥 “Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter” Trailer: Tennis Icon Novak Djokovic Refuses to Surrender in Jason Hehir’s Sports Documentary — Streaming August 20th on Prime Video
Greatness gets harder to hold once time becomes the toughest opponent on the court. Directed by Jason Hehir, this feature-length documentary follows tennis icon Novak Djokovic through behind-the-scenes access, career reflection, and the stubborn competitive fire driving one of tennis’s defining champions into the late stages of his career. This portrait looks beyond the trophy case to the pressure, sacrifice, and relentless self-belief required to keep chasing history when every match carries the weight of legacy. Winter may have arrived, but this wolf still has teeth.
🎥 “cocoon – One Summer of Girlhood” Trailer: Two Schoolgirls Cling to Friendship as War Invades Their Island in Yukimitsu Ina’s Animated Historical Drama — In Theaters September 4th via GKIDS
Girlhood becomes the last safe place when war reaches the shore. Marika Ito and Hikari Mitsushima voice San and Mayu, two students at an all-girls school whose quiet island life is shattered when they are ordered into a cave hospital to care for wounded soldiers. As death and brutality close in, their friendship becomes the only refuge left from a world determined to take their innocence first. Based on Machiko Kyo’s manga and marking Yukimitsu Ina’s feature debut, this haunting animated drama turns one summer of girlhood into a devastating plea for peace.
And finally.... Oh! What a great time to be a Studio Ghibli fan, as four of the animation studio’s most beloved fantasy and drama classics return to theaters this summer and fall through Fathom Ent’s Studio Ghibli Fest:
Goro Miyazaki’s Tales from Earthsea returns for its 20th anniversary, following Archmage Sparrowhawk and Prince Arren across a realm where dragons, dark magic, and a collapsing natural order signal that the world is losing its balance.
— Screening Sat, August 8th and Mon, August 10th via Fathom Entertainment
Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday marks 35 years with Taeko revisiting childhood memories, first crushes, and family tensions during a countryside trip that forces her to reconsider the adult life she has built.
— Screening Sun, August 9th and Tues, August 11th via Fathom Entertainment
Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky celebrates its 40th anniversary with Pazu and Sheeta racing toward the legendary floating city of Laputa while pirates, soldiers, and government agents close in on the power hidden inside Sheeta’s crystal.
— Screening Sat, August 22nd through Wed, August 26th via Fathom Entertainment
Then Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke brings its sweeping conflict between Iron Town and the ancient forest spirits back to the big screen, with cursed warrior Ashitaka caught between human survival and nature’s fury.
— Screening Sat, September 26th through Wed, September 30th via Fathom Entertainment
From floating castles and childhood memories to wounded kingdoms and forests at war, Studio Ghibli Fest offers four very different reminders of why these films continue to feel timeless.
For more information on Studio Ghibli Fest, surf on over to www.fathomentertainment.com
