📺 “The Pitt: Season 3” Teaser: Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby Returns From Sabbatical for Another Intense Shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in HBO’s Emmy-Winning Medical Series with Sepideh Moafi, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, and More — Premiering January 2027 on HBO Max

Robby returns!

Last season of the Emmy Award-winning medical series The Pitt was building toward Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch’s much-needed three-month sabbatical: a cross-country bike ride that had many worried he might never return. After years of difficult cases and carrying the emotional weight of the ER, it wasn’t hard to wonder whether Robby might finally be done with his job at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.

But if there’s no Robby, there’s no show, right? Some fans might disagree, but Noah Wyle is the heart and soul of The Pitt.

So, Season 3 brings us another intense day in the ER; a familiar rhythm for the HBO series, where life-or-death decisions are made in seconds, often with no time to second-guess them. It’s also another first day back on the job, this time with Robby returning from his sabbatical, echoing last season’s return of Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) from rehab.

“Try not to kill anyone today,” Dr. Santos (Isa Briones) sarcastically tells Dr. Whitaker (Gerran Howell) in the first teaser trailer for Season 3. “Yeah, you too,” Whitaker quickly shoots back before the two bump fists and head out of the locker room to start their workday.

That little exchange is a good example of the gallows humor and close-knit camaraderie between the doctors and nurses who somehow keep each other going through some seriously intense shifts. And while Season 3’s plot is still mostly under wraps, viewers can expect more tough ER cases, difficult decisions, and plenty of friction (friendly or not) between staff members.

One relationship to keep an eye on is Robby’s workplace dynamic with Dr. Al-Hashimi (played by newly Emmy-nominated Sepideh Moafi), especially after where last season’s finale left things between them. Ooooh, fireworks are brewing.

Executive produced by showrunner R. Scott Gemmill, with Wyle also serving as a writer and producer, the series is coming off five Emmy Award wins, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor for Wyle, Outstanding Supporting Actress for Katherine LaNasa as Nurse Evans, and Outstanding Guest Actor for Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Abbot. The show also recently picked up a whopping 25 Emmy nominations for Season 2, including nods across all the major acting categories.

Okay, The Pitt might have a reputation for being your parents’ or co-worker’s favorite show, but we say: what’s wrong with that? And if you’re not already watching, why aren’t you? Season 3 isn’t just another long shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center; it’s also another chance for you to hop on board. It’s set to debut in January 2027 on HBO Max.

📺 “The Diplomat: Season 4” Teaser: Keri Russell Scrambles to Keep the Peace as Allison Janney and Rufus Sewell Push the U.S. Toward War in Netflix’s Award-Winning Political Thriller — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

A diplomat’s job is to keep relations between their country and foreign governments running as smoothly as possible. That means a lot of state dinners, cocktail parties, and diplomatic conferences. Sounds boring, right? Well, you haven’t seen what Keri Russell’s Kate Wyler has had to deal with over the past three seasons of this award-winning Netflix series.

Aside from preventing a global crisis from getting worse, dealing with a U.S. president’s surprise deadly heart attack, and a vice president’s own illegal scheme, Kate’s diplomatic duties have been anything but routine. What’s even worse, her own estranged husband, former diplomat Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), has only made matters more complicated, especially now that he’s the new vice president to a morally compromised U.S. president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), and has become caught up in her dangerous political scheme to push the country toward war.

For political junkies out there who love watching smart people do terrible things to keep the scales of power balanced, this show is for you. For TV watchers who like to see an unbelievably complicated marriage where both partners teeter between codependency and chaotic self-destruction, this show is for you, too. And for those who just want to see Keri Russell do some of the best acting of her career as a woman trying to hold together international peace while her own marriage keeps sabotaging her efforts while also falling into some sort of emotional free fall, this show is for you as well.

Created and executive produced by Debora Cahn (The West Wing, Homeland), the series co-stars Bradley Whitford as First Gentleman Todd Penn, along with Ato Essandoh as Deputy Chief Stuart Hayford, Ali Ahn as former CIA London Station Chief Eidra Park, Nana Mensah as former White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah, and Rory Kinnear as hot-tempered U.K. Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge.

Season 4 of The Diplomat will have Kate facing her most dangerous political crisis yet, as Grace and Hal’s alliance in the White House forces her to present a united front with First Gentleman Todd Penn, even as both of their marriages threaten to muddle everything. Can they stonewall their respective spouses’ political operations before the U.S. government is pushed into a military conflict with Russia? Or do they play good little political spouses and fall in line?

The Diplomat: Season 4 is due to premiere Thursday, October 15 on Netflix.

📺 “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” Trailer: Ella Beatty Takes on America’s Most Infamous Axe-Murder Mystery in Ryan Murphy’s True-Crime Anthology with Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, and Vicky Krieps — Premiering Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

We, meaning society at large, have always been fascinated by the darker side of human nature. It’s in our stories. It’s in our books, movies, and TV shows. True crime is a relatively new genre label thrown around to describe dark stories rooted in real crimes, real victims, and the people accused of committing them. But our fascination with true crime dates back long before the label itself.

And the shocking true story of Lizzie Borden has captivated our imagination for more than a century because it goes against everything we imagine a respectable 19th-century woman was supposed to be. Women of that era have often been portrayed as proper, restrained, and socially oppressed, but rarely as women suspected of such brutal violence.

Ryan Murphy, not necessarily a man known for bringing nuance to sensational true-crime stories, has now set his sights on Lizzie Borden for the next season of Netflix’s horror-tinged Monster anthology series. With previous seasons revolving around infamous figures like Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein, Lizzie becomes the anthology’s first female subject.

Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) stars as the infamous Lizzie Borden, with the new season revisiting the 1892 murders that turned her into one of America’s most enduring true-crime figures and folk legends, even inspiring that creepy nursery rhyme that has kept her name alive for generations.

Joining Beatty is returning Monster star Charlie Hunnam, fresh off his Emmy-nominated performance as Ed Gein last season, this time playing Lizzie’s father, Andrew Borden. They’re joined by Rebecca Hall as Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby Borden; Billie Lourd as her sister, Emma Borden; and Jessica Barden as stage actress Nance O’Neil, who was rumored to have had a romantic relationship with Lizzie later in life.

Ryan Murphy regular Sarah Paulson will also have a role this season, while returning Monster actress Vicky Krieps plays Lizzie’s Irish live-in maid, Bridget Sullivan, who appears to serve as something of the show’s sympathetic narrator.

Created and executive produced by Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Max Winkler directing the first episode, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is due to premiere Thursday, September 17th on Netflix.

📺 “The Drop: A Snowfall Saga” Trailer: Gail Bean and Isaiah John Return as Wanda and Leon as They Enter the ’90s West Coast Rap Game in FX’s “Snowfall” Spinoff — Premiering Tuesday, September 8th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Snowfall was one of the last projects filmmaker John Singleton worked on before his untimely death in 2019. And in many ways, it felt like a return to the world of his earlier films, particularly Boyz n the Hood, bringing him back to the streets and neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles.

Only this time, the story was set in the early 1980s during the rise of the crack cocaine epidemic. It followed the growing drug trade through South Central Los Angeles through the eyes of one clever teenager (played by Damson Idris), who would go on to become one of the biggest cocaine suppliers on the West Coast.

After running for six seasons, several of them produced after Singleton’s death, Snowfall became a ratings favorite and a major hit for FX. It also helped launch the career of Damson Idris, who became one of the show’s breakout stars. And while it never got much Emmy love, fans loved it. Really, who needs awards when you’ve got a loyal fanbase, right? Which is probably why the world of Snowfall is coming back next month with a spinoff series.

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga brings back Gail Bean and Isaiah John as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, picking up their story in 1990s Los Angeles as the fallout from the crack epidemic gives way to the rise of West Coast rap.

The couple, once deeply tied to the drug empire at the center of Snowfall, are now trying to build very different lives for themselves. This time, Wanda and Leon are taking some of the skills they learned in the drug game and applying them to a new hustle. Wanda starts building a crew of rap artists and music collaborators, while Leon tries to keep them from getting pulled back into the world they escaped.

Asante Blackk (When They See Us, This Is Us) takes on the role of Lamar Kinsey, a local South Central L.A. rap producer and DJ who just might have what it takes to make some real noise. He’s soon pulled into Wanda’s plans as she tries to turn that talent into something bigger.

’90s gangsta rap, West Coast culture, and the pressure of surviving the L.A. streets all feel like territory Snowfall was built to explore. We imagine fans are already marking their calendars.

Created and developed by Malcolm Spellman (Empire, Hip Hop Uncovered, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), with Snowfall executive producers Dave Andron and Thomas Schlamme also aboard, the FX series co-stars Peyton Alex Smith, Simmie “Buddy” Sims III, and Brandon Mychal Smith.

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga premieres Tuesday, September 8th on FX and Hulu / Disney+.

📺 “The Terminal List: Season 2” Teaser: Chris Pratt’s James Reece Returns for a Dangerous New Mission in Amazon’s Military Espionage Thriller with Constance Wu and Gabriel Luna — Premieres Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video

Chris Pratt like you’ve never seen him before. He’s emotionally confused and perhaps psychologically damaged. A sad Pratt just might be a dangerous Pratt. You know that happy-go-lucky spirit that tends to shine through his performances? Well, it’s pretty much gone as Pratt returns as former Navy SEAL James Reece, a man being pulled even deeper into the dangerous world of covert warfare. Season 2 of the hit Amazon series has Reece moving beyond his personal war of revenge and into a much larger world of espionage, recruited for a mission tailor-made for his skills… but maybe not for his state of mind. Co-starring Tom Hopper as Raife Hastings and Constance Wu returning as journalist Katie Buranek, with Gabriel Luna, Dar Salim, Luke Hemsworth, Olga Kurylenko, and more joining the Season 2 ensemble, Pratt’s James Reece now finds himself in a much murkier world, where figuring out who to trust might be just as important as knowing when to pull the trigger.

📺 “Line of Fire” Trailer: Peter Krause and Hope Davis Lead a Family of Federal Agents Hunting a Rogue Assassin in NBC’s New Crime Drama from ‘Quantico’ Creator Josh Safran — Airing Monday, September 21st on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

Some folks have a family business to live up to. For the Hollingsworths, the family business could get them killed. In this new NBC crime drama from Quantico creator Josh Safran, nearly everyone in the Hollingsworth family carries a badge, just not for the same agency. Their careers stretch across the FBI, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, and Department of Justice, which makes things complicated when a murder case grows into a deadly conspiracy. Peter Krause stars as Secret Service supervisor Mike Hollingsworth, with Hope Davis as U.S. Marshal Jane Hollingsworth. Their children include a federal investigator (played by Kat Cunning), a DOJ analyst (Tommy O’Brien), and the president’s daughter’s personal security guard and secret lover (Taylor Bloom). When a rogue assassin is on the loose and killing government agents, all those separate badges and departments suddenly have to work together. But catching the person behind it means trusting one another, and that could be a problem if someone in the family is hiding something. Either way, family dinners are about to get even more uncomfortable.

📺 “A Different World” Trailer: Dwayne and Whitley’s Daughter Takes on Hillman College in Netflix’s Next-Generation Revival Starring Maleah Joi Moon Along with Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, and More — Debuts Thursday, September 24th on Netflix

It’s been nearly 40 years since TV viewers were first introduced to a whole different world at Hillman College. Now, the landmark sitcom is back with a modern revival. And if you thought Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) were a couple of young campus mavericks, just wait until you meet their daughter. Maleah Joi Moon leads the ensemble as Dwayne and Whitley’s free-spirited youngest daughter, Deborah Wayne, who arrives at Hillman determined to make a name for herself beyond her parents’ legacy. Alongside a new class of Hillman students, Deborah navigates friendship, romance, ambition, and the pressure of living up to a family name deeply rooted in the school’s history. Executive produced by Felicia Pride and Debbie Allen, who also directs episodes, the series also stars Alijah Kai Haggins, Cornell Young IV, Jordan Aaron Hall, Kennedi Reece, Chibuikem Uche, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, and Norman Nixon Jr. Just remember, at Hillman, education might come first, but figuring out who you are is still part of the curriculum.

📺 “Slow Horses: Season 6” Trailer: Gary Oldman’s Slough House Misfits Are on the Run in Apple’s Acclaimed British Spy Series with Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th on Apple TV

In a world where TV shows can take years between seasons, and streaming originals regularly hit a low ceiling when it comes to longevity, along comes an Apple original series that somehow bucks both trends. Gary Oldman returns for (get this) Season 6 of the award-winning British spy series, once again leading Slough House’s wonderfully dysfunctional band of disgraced MI5 agents. A regular Emmy contender, Oldman gets another chance to sink his teeth into Jackson Lamb, the always disheveled, sharp-tongued spymaster who somehow manages to stay a few steps ahead of everyone else despite his uncouth appearance. This time around, Lamb and his misfit crew, including Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, and Christopher Chung, find themselves on the run after Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) pulls them into a dangerous game of retaliation and revenge. When England is in trouble, you don’t call James Bond... you call Slough House, the guys MI5 would rather forget but always seem to need when things go sideways.

📺 “The Creep Tapes: Season 3” Trailer: Mark Duplass’ Peachfuzz Returns for Six More Deeply Uncomfortable Tapes — Streams Tuesday, September 15th on Shudder and AMC+

Peachfuzz might be a weird-sounding name for a serial killer, but somehow Mark Duplass makes it work. After the cult success of the found-footage films, Peachfuzz is back for another season of the franchise’s small-screen incarnation. Duplass plays a seemingly socially awkward loner who places ads looking for videographers. The catch is that he’s secretly a serial killer, and the people who agree to film him soon realize they’ve signed up for much more than a simple camera job. Season 3 of the Shudder original series gives Peachfuzz a new roster of unsuspecting victims, including Rekha Shankar, Chris Gethard, Kate Siegel, Nic Hamilton, Elliott Fulham, Ora Duplass, and more. Six tapes in total, which means six more deeply uncomfortable encounters where picking up a camera is probably the first mistake.

📺 “Golden Axe” Trailer: SEGA’s Classic Fantasy Video Game Gets an Adult Animated Makeover with Liam McIntyre, Lisa Gilroy, Matthew Rhys, and Danny Pudi — Premieres Wednesday, September 16th on Paramount+

Based on SEGA’s iconic 1989 sword-and-sorcery fantasy beat-’em-up video game, where three warriors battle their way across Yuria to defeat the evil giant Death Adder, this animated comedy series takes a more playful approach to the original adventure. It turns its battle-tested heroes into one seriously dysfunctional questing party and adds an eager but painfully inexperienced adventurer to the mix. Featuring the voices of Liam McIntyre (Spartacus) as Ax Battler, Lisa Gilroy (Interior Chinatown) as Tyris Flare, Matthew Rhys (Widow’s Bay) as Gilius Thunderhead, and Danny Pudi (Community) as overeager newcomer Hampton Squib, this new adult animated comedy from Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan and American Dad! writer-producer Joe Chandler asks a pretty simple question: what happens when saving the world means surviving your own party first?

📺 “Best Medicine: Season 2” Trailer: Josh Charles’ Brilliant but Blood-Phobic Small-Town Doctor Returns for a New Season of FOX’s Comedy Series with Abigail Spencer and Annie Potts — Returning Tuesday, September 22nd on FOX, Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

He’s a brilliant doctor with one hell of a bedside manner. Dr. Martin Best (Josh Charles) traded his prestigious Boston surgical career for life as a general practitioner in a small East Coast fishing town where everyone knows your name... and maybe a few of your secrets. Despite his high intelligence and ability to diagnose even the hardest-to-detect illnesses, Martin has one slight problem: he faints at the sight of blood. A big no-no for any doctor, especially a former surgeon, and if word gets out, there goes his medical license. Based on the British series and also starring Abigail Spencer, Annie Potts, Josh Segarra, and Cree, the new season finds Charles turning up both Martin’s awkward charm and cranky disposition as he tackles stranger cases, strained relationships, and a town increasingly curious about whether its brilliant but difficult doctor plans to stay or pack his bags for good.

📺 “NCIS: New York” Teaser: LL Cool J Brings Sam Hanna to the Big Apple Alongside Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals — Airing Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

If you’d told us one of the dopest rappers of the ’80s and ’90s would reinvent himself as a longtime TV actor in one of television’s longest-running franchises, we would’ve said, “Yeah, we know... Ice-T.” But LL Cool J would’ve been a pretty good answer, too. That’s right, the man who gave us “Mama Said Knock You Out” and “Going Back to Cali” is now headlining another NCIS spinoff, bringing his character Sam Hanna from Los Angeles to the streets of New York. LL Cool J (that’s James Todd Smith for those in the know) proves that natural charisma can take you a long way—from hip-hop stages to a decades-long run as one of TV’s most dependable action stars. Also starring Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals, and led by showrunner Byron Balasco, this new NCIS series takes the franchise to the Big Apple with a brand-new field office dealing with some very New York-sized problems.

📺 “Scrubs (Revival): Season 2” Teaser: Zach Braff and Donald Faison Return to Sacred Heart for More Medical Mayhem — Airing Wednesday, September 30th on ABC; Streaming on Hulu / Disney+

No one wants their doctors acting like a bunch of overgrown children... unless, of course, they work at Sacred Heart and those doctors are J.D. and Turk. In that case, let the tomfoolery begin. Zach Braff and Donald Faison return as the longtime friends face another round of younger interns, changing hospital pressures, and the kind of personal complications medicine can’t fix with a chart. Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, and John C. McGinley are also back as the revival keeps one foot in the old Sacred Heart while making room for a new generation of doctors... where years of experience still don’t guarantee maturity.

📺 “Hollywood Arts” Teaser: Daniella Monet Returns as Trina Vega, Trading Student Life for Substitute Teaching in the “Victorious” Spinoff Series — Streams Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

Hollywood Arts is back in session, and somehow Trina Vega is now the adult in the room. Former Nickelodeon star Daniella Monet returns to her Victorious role as Trina heads back to her old performing-arts school, this time as a substitute teacher who’s still waiting for her own big break. But as she helps a new group of students chase their dreams, she starts to realize she might actually be pretty good at this teaching thing. With Yvette Nicole Brown back as Principal Helen and a whole new class of ambitious young performers, Trina may finally find her place at Hollywood Arts... just not the one she expected.

📺 “The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza” First Look Trailer: Comedian Jordan Mendoza Turns His Worst Fears Into Adult Swim’s New Surreal Horror-Comedy Series — Coming Soon

Sketch comedian Jordan Mendoza is a very scared man, and his subconscious knows exactly how to use that against him. In Adult Swim’s surreal quarter-hour comedy, Mendoza plays a version of himself as he tumbles through bizarre dreamscapes where everyday anxieties turn into horror-movie scenarios, unsettling images, and punch lines. Mendoza is a one-man show as he creates, directs, executive produces, and stars in this surrealist horror-comedy series, where fear becomes the fuel for every bizarre new sketch. If sleep is supposed to offer an escape, Mendoza’s nightmares have other plans.

📺 “Made in Korea: Season 2” Trailer: Hyun Bin Rises Through the KCIA as a New Rival Threatens His Hold on Power in Hulu’s Korean Thriller Series — Premieres September 9th on Hulu / Disney+

The Korean political thriller is back for a second season, jumping nine years ahead as Baek Kitae (Hyun Bin) rises through the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and gets closer to the center of power. But the higher he climbs, the more dangerous the opposition becomes, with a powerful new rival threatening everything he has built and prosecutor Jang Keon-young (Jung Woo-sung) still standing in his way. As Korea’s 1970s political struggles intensify, Kitae’s criminal ambitions and official authority become increasingly difficult to separate. Power has gotten him this far; now comes the harder part—holding onto it.

📺 “Dalliance” Trailer: Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell Shake Up a Lifetime of Love and Marriage in Paramount’s Australian Ensemble Drama — Streams Thursday, August 27th on Paramount+

One spark can shake up a lifetime of relationships in this Australian import. Aussie icon Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) stars as retired cameraman Billy, who unexpectedly connects with chef Dani (Heather Mitchell), setting off a chain reaction through their close-knit Sydney circle of friends in their 60s. As marriages crack, old wounds reopen, and new relationships take hold, everyone is forced to reconsider the choices that got them here. This six-part Paramount+ drama proves that desire, regret, and second chances don’t necessarily disappear with age. Sometimes, those things only get messier as we get older.

📺 “Vigil: Series 3” Trailer: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie Head to the Arctic for an Increasingly Complicated Murder Investigation — Streams Sunday, August 30th in the U.K. on BBC iPlayer

At the edge of the Arctic, the weather isn’t the only thing that’s ice-cold. Sometimes, an investigation can turn just as cold as the climate. Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie return as DCI Amy Silva and DI Kirsten Longacre in this twisty British crime thriller, with their latest case taking them deep into the unforgiving polar region. Sent to a remote research station after a member of a covert British special-forces mission is shot dead, the duo finds themselves in the middle of an increasingly complicated murder investigation. With extreme conditions limiting movement and trust in short supply, the detectives must piece together what happened before the killing and determine whether the station’s scientific work is somehow connected to the murder.

📺 “Ludwig: Season 2” Trailer: David Mitchell Returns to Crack Impossible Crimes While Searching for His Missing Twin — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on BritBox in U.S.

A missing twin is one puzzle John “Ludwig” Taylor still can’t solve. Now officially working as a Crime Scene Consultant for Cambridge Police, the brilliant but socially awkward puzzle-setter takes on seemingly impossible crimes while quietly continuing the search for his missing brother James with sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin). David Mitchell returns as Ludwig, with Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington, Mark Bonnar, Sian Clifford, and more joining the mix as his police work starts getting uncomfortably close to the mystery he’s not supposed to be investigating. Solving murders may come naturally to Ludwig, but finding his brother remains the one answer he just can’t crack.

📺 “The Traitors: New Blood” Trailer: Alan Cumming Opens the Castle to a New Group of Everyday Americans Ready to Lie, Scheme, and Betray — Premieres Thursday, September 17th on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

It’s the game where lying isn’t a vice... it’s a virtue. Alan Cumming returns as the castle’s impeccably dressed host, welcoming a new group of everyday Americans into a game where contestants must figure out who among them is secretly working against the group. After becoming an online phenomenon—and likely a favorite among your reality-TV-obsessed family and friends—the series is back to put a fresh group of players through the same rigorous game of trust, deception, and betrayal. And with a host who seems born for theatrical mischief, Cumming makes every accusation, banishment, and betrayal part of the fun.

📺 “Graveyard: Season 3” Trailer: Birce Akalay Reunites Her Team for Another Harrowing Case in Netflix’s Turkish Crime Series — Arrives Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Netflix’s Turkish crime series returns for Season 3 as Commissioner Önem Özülkü (Birce Akalay) and her specialized team are brought back together after being disbanded. A disturbing new case puts them back on the job, uncovering fresh files, buried truths, and old wounds as they once again investigate crimes involving violence against women. With institutional resistance mounting and the case taking a personal toll, the search for justice becomes as much about what’s been hidden as what they can actually prove.

📺 “One Hundred Years of Solitude: Grand Finale” Trailer: Netflix’s Spanish-Language Family Saga Comes to an End with a Feature-Length Final Chapter — Streams Wednesday, August 26th on Netflix

Macondo is running out of time. Netflix’s Spanish-language adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s landmark novel has unfolded across 16 episodes, and now the Buendía family is facing the final turn of a curse that has followed seven generations through love, war, memory, and loss. Claudio Cataño and Marleyda Soto lead the ensemble as the town’s tangled history moves toward the prophecy buried deep within its foundations, with Laura Mora directing the final chapter. The series now comes to a close with a practically feature-length finale, where oblivion may prove to be the Buendía family’s final inheritance.

Netflix Unveils Its Latest Anime Originals: Watch the New Trailers!

Netflix is mostly known for being the home of some very popular original streaming shows and movies, some leaning into prestigious dramas, mainstream crowd-pleasers, and hugely popular reality shows. But for those who aren’t necessarily into the anime genre, you might not even realize that Netflix has slowly but surely become a major platform for anime lovers. The streaming giant recently announced its latest upcoming slate of anime originals at this week’s Anime NYC, and we quickly run down their trailers for you below.

📺 “Blue Eye Samurai: Season 2” Teaser: Mizu Takes Her Revenge Beyond Japan and Into London — Coming January 2027 on Netflix

The Emmy-winning samurai anime returns as Mizu (Maya Erskine) takes her revenge beyond Japan and into London, hunting the remaining men tied to her birth while facing new allies, old enemies, and demons she can’t cut down. Back in Edo, Akemi (Brenda Song), Taigen (Darren Barnet), and Ringo (Masi Oka) forge their own paths as Mizu discovers leaving Japan doesn’t mean escaping her past.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Teaser: A Washed-Up Edgerunner and Vengeful Netrunner Cross Paths in a New Standalone Night City Story — Premieres Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

In this second season of the cyberpunk anime, washed-up edgerunner Weak (Kentaro Tone) searches for purpose after losing the chrome that made him a legend, while netrunner D (Koki Uchiyama) hunts the killer who destroyed her clan. Their paths cross with filmmaker Roman Carax and survivor Talia, pulling them into a story where revenge, legacy, and spectacle are impossible to separate.

📺 “Bass X Machina” Teaser: Brian Tyree Henry Becomes Judge, Jury, and Executioner in LeSean Thomas’ Steampunk Western — Premieres Tuesday, November 3rd on Netflix

In a lawless steampunk West filled with outlaws, machines, and supernatural horrors, Bass (Brian Tyree Henry) is forced to become judge, jury, and executioner to protect his family. But as the violence escalates, every victory threatens to push his loved ones further away. Created by animator LeSean Thomas (Yasuke, Cannon Busters), this animated western asks how far a father can go before protection becomes something else.

📺 “Fool Night” Teaser + Featurette: A Young Man Weighs Becoming a Plant to Survive a Dying World in Netflix’s Dystopian Anime — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

In a future of permanent winter, humanity survives by transforming dying people into plants that produce oxygen. For impoverished Toshiro Kamiya (Koki Uchiyama), Transfloration offers money for his family and an escape from a life he can barely afford. But accepting it means giving up his body, forcing him to decide what his life is worth to a society that values what he can become.

📺 “Sakamoto Days: Season 2” Character Trailer: Taro Sakamoto Goes Undercover at Assassin School as the Netflix Anime Returns — Coming January 2027

Retired assassin Taro Sakamoto is going back to school. Disguised as his wife Aoi, Sakamoto infiltrates the JCC academy as a student teacher while Shin poses as a student, hoping to uncover information. But between dangerous recruits, veteran assassins, old friends, and an attack on ORDER members in Kyoto, this semester may reveal more about Sakamoto’s past than he ever bargained for again.

📺 “LEGO One Piece” Trailer: Usopp Retells the Straw Hats’ Greatest Adventures Brick by Brick in Netflix’s Two-Part Animated Special — Streaming Tuesday, September 29th on Netflix

In this two-part LEGO special, Usopp (voiced by Jacob Romero) catches new recruit Chopper up on the Straw Hats’ adventures, retelling Luffy, Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and his own journey from the East Blue into the Grand Line. With pirates, monsters, and plenty of exaggeration, their greatest hits get rebuilt brick by brick in LEGO form.

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🎥 “Whalefall” New Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Swallowed Whole by a Sperm Whale in Brian Duffield’s Survival Thriller with Josh Brolin — Hitting Theaters October 16th

You’ve heard that old expression about being trapped inside the “belly of the beast.” It has biblical roots in the story of Jonah, who once found himself swallowed whole by a “great fish.” But these are just tales of old, meant to teach us a lesson; a metaphor for perseverance and faith. It’s not something anyone expects to experience literally.

But what if someone actually made a movie about being swallowed by, say, a whale? Well, someone did. And judging by the new full-length trailer, it could turn out to be one of the year’s more unexpected movie surprises.

Since the release of its teaser trailer a couple of months back, Whalefall has been generating a lot of online buzz, as it looks quite epic and will likely have people on the edge of their seats... and perhaps rethinking the ocean altogether.

After all, the ocean remains one of the last great unexplored frontiers. And few creatures have fascinated us quite like whales—real-life giant monsters. We’ve spent years fearing snakes, rats, spiders, bats, and sharks. Now Whalefall looks ready to add whales to the list.

Starring Austin Abrams, of Euphoria, Weapons, and the soon-to-be Resident Evil reboot, alongside his Weapons co-star Josh Brolin, the film is a survival drama-thriller about a young diver named Jay Gardiner (Abrams), who accidentally gets gulped up by a massive sperm whale, and now he has only 60 minutes of air left. Brolin plays Jay’s late father, Mitt Gardiner, whose hard-earned lessons may become the key to his son’s own survival as he reaches back to the things his father once taught him. We’re guessing, however, that surviving inside a whale’s belly was never one of those lessons.

Directed by Brian Duffield, the filmmaker behind the cult hits Spontaneous and No One Will Save You, and working from a script he co-wrote with Daniel Kraus, author of the novel on which the film is based, Whalefall also co-stars Elisabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, and Emily Rudd.

If you ever thought being eaten by a whale might be the most horrifying thing imaginable, well, this film seems determined to prove that surviving the ordeal might be even worse. And yes! Sperm whales are known for eating squid and small fish. But then again, that didn’t stop Pinocchio from ending up inside one.

Whalefall is due to wash ashore in theaters on October 16th.

🎥 “California Schemin” Trailer: James McAvoy Co-Stars and Directs the True Story of Two Scottish Rappers Who Fooled the Music Industry by Pretending to Be American, Starring Séamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley — In U.S. Theaters October 9th

Here’s a question to ponder: Say you get to live out your lifelong dream. But in order to do it, you also have to live a lie. Could you do it? Could you keep it up, knowing one slip-up could expose the whole damn thing?

Scottish actor James McAvoy makes his feature directorial debut with California Schemin’, a hip-hop dramedy based on a true story about just how far you’d go to make your dream come true. Imagine something like Milli Vanilli, but if they did all their own rapping and were only lying about where they came from.

Starring Séamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley, the film tells the incredible true story of Silibil N’ Brains, two rising rappers who, in the early 2000s, were on the verge of their big break. The problem? They were actually a couple of Scots pretending to be American, complete with fake California accents and a made-up backstory explaining why they were living in Scotland.

In a genre built on authenticity, Silibil N’ Brains—aka Gavin Bain (McLean Ross) and Billy Boyd (Bottomley)—were building their entire music career on a fabrication, convinced that if people knew they were Scottish rappers, they wouldn’t be taken seriously. The thing is, it worked. It worked almost too well, as they found themselves on the verge of signing a record deal, going on a global tour, and performing alongside other artists. But sometimes a lie takes on a life of its own. That’s when keeping the story straight becomes harder than telling the truth.

Also starring Lucy Halliday and Rebekah Murrell, with McAvoy appearing as record-label boss Anthony Reid, California Schemin’ dramatizes a story previously featured in Jeanie Finlay’s 2013 documentary The Great Hip Hop Hoax.

The film already opened in the UK earlier this year and is now set to hit U.S. theaters beginning October 9th, with further expansion on October 16th and 23rd.

🎥 “Ghost Soldier” Trailer: Jim Caviezel Goes to War Against Corporate Land Grabbers in William Eubank’s Old-School Action Thriller — Arriving In Theaters November 6th

What are the core elements of a good Western? Well, you gotta have a hero who doesn’t say much. He’s fighting for something worth protecting. And when trouble comes looking for him, he doesn’t back down or run away. Throw in some ruthless land grabbers and a good old-fashioned fight over who gets to call the land their own.

So, how do you bring that into a modern setting? Easy. No more horses. No more cowboy hats or six-shooters. Make the hero a former Special Forces soldier and swap the Old West arsenal for tactical gear and high-tech weaponry. Hell yeah!

That’s basically the setup for this new Jim Caviezel action thriller, Ghost Soldier, which feels like an old-school Western dropped into the modern day. There’s a little ’80s action-movie attitude in there too. You know the kind, where the bad guys are just plain bad, and the good guys can be even worse when someone deserves what’s coming to them.

Caviezel stars as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Special Forces soldier and advanced weapons developer who has withdrawn from the world and settled into a quiet, off-the-grid life in his Wyoming hometown. But when a powerful foreign corporation moves in and tries to seize his neighbors’ land, Fitz decides it’s time to come out of retirement. Which means asking these corporate goons to leave the property immediately... and making damn sure they don’t come back, in a very Steven Seagal kind of way.

Of course, it wouldn’t be an action movie without some pushback and a whole lot of retaliation. So, cue the high-tech weaponry, serious gunfights, and Fitz showing these guys exactly why picking a fight with him was a very bad idea.

Co-starring Garret Dillahunt, Carlos Gómez, Olivia Thirlby, Beau Knapp, and Shea Whigham, the film is the latest from director William Eubank, the filmmaker behind the cult sci-fi horror flick Underwater and the military action-thriller Land of Bad. He’s also known for his 2014 Sundance breakout hit The Signal.

Ghost Soldier seems to be tapping right into Eubank’s fondness for tactical hardware, while also showing plenty of love for the kind of old-school action flicks that once had names like Stallone and Schwarzenegger up on the marquee.

The film is slated to hit theaters November 6th.

🎥 “Wildwood” New Trailer: A Teenage Girl Enters a Hidden Forest to Rescue Her Baby Brother in LAIKA’s New Stop-Motion Fantasy Adventure From Director Travis Knight — Coming to Theaters October 23rd

Okay, we’re going to admit it. That new He-Man movie was surprisingly awesome. And maybe it didn’t deserve all that hate... nor the box-office beating it took this summer. But here’s the most impressive part: the same creative team behind Masters of the Universe was also working on this new LAIKA joint. Now that’s a pretty impressive one-two punch, if you ask us.

Director Travis Knight and screenwriter Chris Butler, who just worked together on bringing He-Man to the big screen, are now turning their attention to something completely different: a dark, handcrafted stop-motion fantasy adventure that looks ready to tug at the heartstrings just as much as it dazzles the eyes. And given their track record (they’re also the team behind Kubo and the Two Strings and ParaNorman, two of LAIKA’s most beloved films), this new stop-motion adventure could turn out to be something pretty special when it arrives this October.

Wildwood is a fairy tale-like fantasy that follows Prue McKeel, a tenacious teenage girl who witnesses a murder of crows snatch her baby brother and carry him deep into the forest. With her classmate Curtis along for the journey, she sets off into a hidden magical world filled with talking animals, warring factions, bandits, and ancient powers—all while trying to find her brother and bring him home.

The story is based on Colin Meloy’s beloved fantasy novel, adapted for the screen by Butler. And like most LAIKA films, the voice cast features an impressive roster, including Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits, and Richard E. Grant.

Knight took a lot of heat for directing the live-action Masters of the Universe, which has sadly turned into one of the summer’s biggest box-office bombs. But Wildwood looks like a reminder that stop-motion fantasy is still very much his home turf, and maybe just what he needs to get back on his feet.

Wildwood opens in theaters October 23rd.

🎥 “Club Kid” Trailer: I Love LA’s Jordan Firstman Becomes an Unexpected Dad in A24’s Queer Party-Kid Dramedy with Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva and Reggie Absolom— In Theaters November 6th

Jordan Firstman, who you might have seen in comedy series like FX’s English Teacher and HBO’s I Love LA, makes his biggest leap yet with Club Kid, his feature directorial debut. The film has been generating plenty of buzz since premiering at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. And Firstman didn’t just direct it; he wrote and stars in it too.

Firstman plays Peter, a washed-up New York party promoter whose life still revolves around late nights, drugs, and chasing the next big party. But everything takes a sharp left turn when a 10-year-old boy suddenly shows up claiming to be the son he never knew he had. Now forced to deal with the responsibilities of being both an adult and a parent, Peter has to reevaluate his life while making room for someone who suddenly depends on him.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean giving up everything that made his old life fun. Peter tries to figure out a way to balance the party life he knows with the responsibilities of suddenly being a dad to a kid who, at times, seems more grown-up than he is.

Also starring Reggie Absolom as Peter’s son, alongside Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Colleen Camp, this queer-friendly party-kid dramedy is about what happens when growing up finally hits you like a bucket of cold water to the face. Suddenly, all the things that once felt exciting and carefree start looking a little different when someone else is counting on you to be the adult in the room.

Club Kid was acquired by A24 and will open in theaters on November 6th.

🎥 “Without Blood” Trailer: Salma Hayek Pinault Confronts a Painful Past in Angelina Jolie’s Intimate Adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s Wartime Novel with Demián Bichir — In Theaters September 18th

Salma Hayek Pinault and Angelina Jolie!

These two powerhouse women have come together. But if you’re expecting something glamorous or larger-than-life, think again. Instead, they’ve teamed up for something far more intimate, somber, and emotionally bruising.

Jolie is back in the director’s chair for her fifth feature, Without Blood, adapting Alessandro Baricco’s novel into an emotionally charged drama starring Hayek Pinault as Nina, a woman driven by revenge after losing her family during a devastating war years ago.

Also starring Demián Bichir and Juan Minujín, the film unfolds across decades, as the trauma of war and the loss of Nina’s family fuel her lifelong search for answers and resolution.

“Revenge is the drug that allows us to fight,” Nina says in the film’s trailer. She’s sitting across from a man (Bichir) from her traumatic past, someone she believes holds the answers to what happened to her family all those years ago.

Told through what appears to be flashbacks and a present-day confrontation, Nina slowly pieces together the events that shattered her family and the role this man may have played in them. It’s revenge she wants, but something tells us the truth may not give her the satisfaction she’s been searching for.

Jolie also wrote the adapted screenplay, based on the acclaimed 2002 short novel Senza sangue (aka Without Blood) by Italian author Alessandro Baricco (Novecento). The book tells a fictional story about a wartime massacre in an undisclosed Latin country during a brutal conflict. Many years later, an older Nina sits face-to-face with a man connected to the tragedy, forcing them both to confront the past.

Judging from the footage, this certainly feels like a role we haven’t seen Salma Hayek Pinault tackle in quite some time; perhaps not since her Oscar-nominated performance in Frida.

Without Blood is coming to theaters September 18th.

It’s the middle of August, and you’d think by now the movie and TV slate would be starting to wind down. But nope. There’s still quite a bit left on the calendar, with a surprisingly wide variety of things to choose from.

And while some of the summer’s biggest movies are still making waves at the box office… for instance, the latest Spider-Man movie seems unstoppable at the moment, while Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is still drawing huge box office numbers, there are plenty of new releases coming in this weekend hoping to make a dent of their own, and maybe even take the top spot.

TV, meanwhile, seems to be taking a little bit of a breather this week, with only a handful of new shows arriving. So if you’ve been meaning to catch up on something, this might be a good week to do it.

And like always, we’ve rounded up most of the major releases coming over the next few days, whether they’re hitting theaters, streaming, VOD, or TV. So scroll down and take a look. We’re sure there’s something here that’ll catch your eye.

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• 🎦 Streaming This Week

• ✅ On VOD This Week

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🎥 Your Letter
(Mon, Aug 17th — Crunchyroll Anime Nights theatrical event)

After defending a classmate and becoming the target of bullies, So-ri transfers to a quiet countryside school, where she discovers a letter left in her desk by Ho-yeon, the student who sat there before her. Adapted by director Kim Yong-hwan from Hyeon A Cho’s webtoon, this South Korean animated coming-of-age story follows a trail of letters that leads So-ri beyond isolation and toward unexpected friendship and a fresh start ahead.

🎥 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Texas Chain Saw Day
(Tues, Aug 18th — one-night theatrical rerelease)

August 18 belongs to Leatherface. Dark Sky Films and Fathom Entertainment are bringing Tobe Hooper’s restored horror landmark back to theaters nationwide for “Texas Chain Saw Day,” commemorating the date the film’s story begins in 1973. Five young travelers crossing rural Texas stumble into the home of a cannibalistic family, where an encounter with the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface turns an ordinary weekend trip into a nightmare of epic proportions.

🎥 Insidious: Out of the Further
(Fri, Aug 21st — wide release)

Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a young mother who discovers she can enter the purgatorial realm that has haunted the Insidious universe. The problem? She can also bring its inhabitants back with her. Once the demons understand what she can do, Gemma and her daughter become the center of a new demonic invasion. With Lin Shaye returning as paranormal investigator Elise Rainier, escaping The Further just became the easy part. It’s now about keeping what’s inside it from escaping into our world.

🎥 Mutiny
(Fri, Aug 21st — wide release)

Jason Statham on a cargo ship full of bad guys is pretty much the whole sales pitch. Here, Statham stars as a former London cop working security for a billionaire who is framed after his boss is murdered, sending him on the run and straight into an international conspiracy. Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester co-star, with Plane director Jean-François Richet behind the camera. What starts as a mission to clear his name quickly turns the ship into a floating battlefield, giving Statham plenty of room to do what Statham does best: kick ass and take names!

🎥 Spa Weekend
(Fri, Aug 21st — wide release)

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 to the breaking point. This raunchy midlife comedy turns a weekend of self-care into some seriously overdue fun. The facials and massage may be optional; the meltdown is clearly included.

🎥 Hot Spot
(Fri, Aug 21st — wide release)

In this AI dystopian thriller, Polish actor Andrzej Konopka stars as a private investigator whose latest case pulls him into a larger conspiracy involving citywide surveillance and an AI system that may be distorting more than the truth. Directed by cult Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure), with Noomi Rapace co-starring as a mysterious refugee labeled a “cyber witch” for a strange ability that may offer hope to a rising rebellion. It’s a cyberpunk mystery filtered through an ’80s retro-tinged fever dream where technology is all-consuming as well as impossible to trust.

🎥 Tony
(Fri, Aug 21st — expands wide)

Before Anthony Bourdain became a culinary icon, he was merely a 19-year-old aspiring writer searching for direction. Dominic Sessa stars in Matt Johnson’s 1976-set origin story, which sends the young Tony to Provincetown for a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant. Hired by a commanding chef (Antonio Banderas), he is pulled into the frantic, profane, and seductive world of professional kitchens, where pressure, precision, and hard work begin reshaping his own ambitions. What starts as seasonal work quickly becomes the spark that changes the course of his life.

🎥 It Ends
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release)

One wrong turn can sometimes last forever. In this existential horror thriller, Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Mitchell Cole play four recent college graduates whose late-night food run lands them on an endless two-lane road, where the surrounding woods hide otherworldly threats. They soon realize they’re trapped on a road to nowhere... one that may never end.

🎥 The Magic Faraway Tree
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release)

Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield star as parents who move their family to the English countryside, where their young children discover a magical tree leading to ever-changing worlds above the clouds. Each climb brings new wonders, dangers, and storybook surprises, turning a family adventure into an extraordinary journey to places where anything can happen. Based on Enid Blyton’s beloved children’s books, this whimsical fantasy asks what happens when imagination becomes a place you can actually visit.

🎥 Dreams in Nightmares
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release)

Denée Benton stars as Z, whose life takes an unexpected turn after a layoff sends her across the Midwest in search of a friend who has vanished off the grid. Joined by her two closest friends, the trip becomes something larger than a search for answers. Co-starring Mars Storm Rucker, Dezi Bing, Sasha Compère, and Jasmin Savoy Brown, writer-director Shatara Michelle Ford’s tender road movie follows Z as she confronts love, identity, belonging, and what it means to truly live on her own terms.

🎥 Paper Flowers
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release)

Based on Shalin Shah’s true life story and his viral essay “Thank You, Cancer,” this life-affirming drama stars Kapil Talwalkar as Shalin, a 22-year-old USC graduate whose promising future is upended by a diagnosis of rare, aggressive cancer. As illness reshapes his relationships with family, friends, and his girlfriend, Shalin begins searching for meaning in the time he has left. Also starring Olivia Liang, Karan Soni, Faran Tahir, and Meera Simhan, director Mahesh Pailoor’s biographical drama finds purpose in gratitude, love, and the choices we make in a time of great uncertainty.

🎥 Blood Shine
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release; in select theaters)

David Call stars as troubled horror filmmaker Brighton, whose retreat to upstate New York takes a terrifying turn when he encounters Clara (played by Emily Bennett, who also co-wrote and co-directed with partner Justin Brooks), a religious zealot convinced that suffering can transform him into a god. Taken captive and subjected to sadistic rituals, Brighton is forced into a brutal test of faith where pain is treated as a pathway to divine transformation.

🎥 Bury the Devil
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release, in select theaters)

Shot in real time as a single continuous take, horror filmmaker Adam O’Brien sets the stage for a nighttime nightmare as a hospice nurse (Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez) begins her overnight shift at an isolated old house, where a dementia patient (Dawn Ford) starts behaving in frighteningly unfamiliar ways. Trapped inside as a demonic presence seeps through the cracks of the home, the caregiver must determine what is real, who can be trusted, and whether either of them will survive until morning.

🎥 Never Stop Chasing
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release)

Storm chaser Reed Timmer makes a living driving toward the weather everyone else is trying to escape. With his crew and the armored Dominator 3 truck, he pursues some of the world’s most violent tornadoes, getting as close as possible. The documentary looks beyond the adrenaline and spectacle to the obsession, friendships, danger, and human cost behind storm chasing, turning each pursuit into an intimate portrait of the people willing to risk everything for one more look inside the storm.

🎥 The Last Picture Shows
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release; in L.A.)

Small-town movie theaters are becoming a rare breed these days. This indie documentary travels from one surviving cinema house to another, looking at the theaters that once served as gathering places, local landmarks, and shared venues for movie-loving communities. Now, mostly empty marquees and vacant seats tell one side of the story, while the owners and communities still fighting to keep the lights on tell the other. This road-trip love letter looks back at a time when going to the movies meant more than watching a film... it meant experiencing something together.

🎥 The Marching Band
(Fri, Aug 21st — limited release; in N.Y.)

Music becomes common ground between two brothers who never knew each other existed. Benjamin Lavernhe stars as a celebrated orchestra conductor who discovers his long-lost sibling (Pierre Lottin) is a school cafeteria worker and trombonist in a local marching band. Emmanuel Courcol directs this French comedy-drama about two very different lives brought together by an unexpected family connection, with music giving them a way to bridge the years they lost.

🎥 Castle in the Sky: 40th Anniversary
(Sat, August 22nd thru Wed, August 26th — via Fathom Entertainment screenings)

Hayao Miyazaki’s animated adventure returns for its 40th anniversary, with Pazu and Sheeta racing toward the legendary floating city of Laputa while pirates, soldiers, and government agents pursue them. At the center of it all is Sheeta’s crystal and the power hidden within it.

🎦 Streaming This Week
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🎦 Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing
(Wed, Aug 19th — premiering on Netflix)

Following the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, filmmaker Rory Kennedy returns to the aviation giant she investigated in Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. With producing partner Mark Bailey, Kennedy brings forward new voices from inside the company alongside footage and testimony examining allegations around manufacturing culture, cost-cutting, and weakened quality control. This updated investigation asks what has changed since the earlier film, and whether meaningful accountability has followed.

🎦 Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter
(Thurs, Aug 20th — premiering on Prime Video)

Amid recent health concerns, tennis legend Novak Djokovic steps into the spotlight away from the court in this feature-length sports documentary from director Jason Hehir. Built around behind-the-scenes access, the film looks at Djokovic’s career, legacy, and the competitive drive that continues to define the later stage of his time in professional tennis.

🎦 We Are Pat
(Thurs, Aug 20th — streaming on Peacock)

Some punchlines don’t age well, but sometimes the joke changes with the times. Director Rowan Haber revisits Saturday Night Live’s “It’s Pat” through today’s conversations around gender, comedy, queer identity, and representation. Featuring Julia Sweeney, the SNL comedian behind the iconic character, alongside a lineup of comics and cultural voices, this Tribeca Films documentary turns a familiar pop-culture oddity into a sharper look at how comedy evolves.

🎦 Passenger
(Thurs, Aug 20th — streaming on Paramount+)

The open road turns into a dead-end nightmare in this supernatural horror thriller from horror director André Øvredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell star as a van-life couple whose dream getaway spirals after they witness a deadly roadside accident and find themselves stalked by a demonic presence that refuses to let them outrun it. Melissa Leo co-stars as a fellow traveler who knows the road hides something far worse than bad directions.

🎦 My Husband’s Sister
(Fri, Aug 21st — premiering on Tubi)

Mikhail Keize stars as Liam, a reformed con artist whose second chance begins to collapse when a murderous figure from his past targets the woman who helped him start over. With Marcia Harvey, Joyce Glenn, and Tina Fears co-starring, this Tubi Original turns a household into a dangerous web of hidden identities and old crimes... and a suspenseful fight over whether one’s past can ever really let go.

🎦 Mother Mary
(Fri, Aug 21st — streaming on HBO Max)

Anne Hathaway stars as a pop icon in freefall who retreats to a rural German farmhouse to reunite with her estranged friend and costume designer (Michaela Coel) to create a dress meant to mark a bold comeback. But as old wounds reopen and the creative process turns combative, visually inventive filmmaker David Lowery shapes this surreal, music-laced drama into a psychological unraveling where identity, ego, and art become impossible to separate.

🎦 She Dances
(Fri, Aug 21st — streaming on Peacock)

Steve Zahn hits the road with his real-life daughter Audrey Zahn in this emotional family dramedy about a divorced father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter on the way to a regional dance competition. Directed by actor Rick Gomez from a script co-written with Zahn, the film co-stars Ethan Hawke, Mackenzie Ziegler, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Sometimes the hardest road trip is the one where the real destination is forgiveness.

🎦 Rosebush Pruning
(Fri, Aug 21st — streaming on MUBI)

Jamie Bell stars as the estranged black sheep of a wealthy, dysfunctional family (Callum Turner, Riley Keough, and Lukas Gage) who returns home with his new girlfriend (Elle Fanning). What begins as an uneasy family dinner quickly becomes a pressure cooker of buried resentment, manipulation, and psychological chaos. With Tracy Letts as the domineering, sharp-tongued patriarch, this homecoming makes family feel less like a warm hug and more like a knife in the back. Loosely inspired by Marco Bellocchio’s Fists in the Pocket, director Karim Aïnouz (Firebrand) and The Lobster co-writer Efthimis Filippou turn family dysfunction into a warning that sometimes the people closest to you can do the most damage.

🎦 I Swear
(Sat, Aug 22nd — streaming on Netflix)

BAFTA winner Robert Aramayo delivers a raw, transformative performance in this award-winning true-story drama, playing John Davidson, a young Scotsman whose severe Tourette syndrome turns everyday life into an unpredictable battle as he comes of age in 1980s Scotland. With Maxine Peake as his fiercely protective guardian and supporting turns from Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan, the struggle shifts from suppression to self-acceptance, pushing him to embrace his voice rather than hide it.

🎦 The Christophers
(Sat, Aug 22nd — streaming on Hulu)

A reclusive pop art painter (Ian McKellen) becomes the centerpiece of a quiet con when his estranged children enlist a skilled restorer (Michaela Coel) to secretly finish his abandoned paintings before passing them off as rediscovered works. Reuniting director Steven Soderbergh with writer Ed Solomon, this art-world drama turns questions of legacy and authorship into a sly, ticking-clock scheme where the truth may be the most valuable forgery of all.

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✅ Toy Story 5
(Tues, Aug 18th — on VOD/Digital)

The toys are back, and this time the enemy may be progress itself. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the rest of Bonnie’s toys find themselves facing Lilypad, a cheerful Wi-Fi-enabled smart tablet that instantly grabs Bonnie’s total attention. Directed by Pixar vet Andrew Stanton, with Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack returning alongside Greta Lee, Melissa Villaseñor, Craig Robinson, Conan O’Brien, and others in the voice cast, Pixar’s latest sequel once again turns a child’s playroom into a bitter battlefield of relevance, where sometimes the toy with the most wear and tear still has the most heart.

✅ Rose of Nevada
(Tues, Aug 18th — on VOD/Digital)

A vanished fishing boat returns from nowhere, and that’s only the beginning of the problem. Callum Turner and George MacKay star as desperate men who take jobs aboard a vessel that mysteriously reappears decades after disappearing at sea. Writer-director Mark Jenkin’s eerie maritime thriller pushes its crew into a time-bending mystery where memory, fate, and folklore start pulling in the same dangerous direction.

✅ Horsegirls
(Tues, Aug 18th — on VOD/Digital)

Lillian Carrier stars as Margarita, a 22-year-old woman with autism who finds freedom in the wonderfully specific world of hobbyhorsing. As her mother’s illness returns, that passion becomes more than an escape... it becomes a declaration of independence. Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Lauren Meyering, this heartfelt debut turns an unlikely arena into a moving story about family, self-determination, and letting go.

✅ Yellow Eyes
(Tues, Aug 18th — on VOD/Digital)

Michael Kunicki stars as Brad, whose discovery of a strange cursed idol leaves him increasingly under the grip of a sinister entity while the people around him struggle to understand what is happening. Directed by Jesse Korman and produced by Joe Swanberg, this supernatural horror thriller builds its threat around demonic possession and the fear that whatever Brad has uncovered may already be consuming him.

✅ The Kung Fu Kid
(Tues, Aug 18th — on VOD/Digital)

In this animated martial-arts comedy, a rural teenager heads to Shanghai with more than a trophy on the line. Hoping to pay his father’s medical debt with the winnings, he joins a local kung fu gym and enters Shanghai Fight Night, where elite competitors bring fighting styles from around the world into the ring. The film turns its underdog tournament into a clash between modern fighting styles and Chinese martial-arts tradition, where discipline, technique, and heart may still count for something.

✅ Atlas King
(Fri, Aug 21st — on VOD/Digital)

Michael Bisping stars as Atlas King, an MMA legend who returns home for his best friend’s funeral and finds the town controlled by local crime boss Clay Emerson (Cuba Gooding Jr.). When his friend’s son Tommy is pulled into underground fighting and a heist, Atlas is forced back into the violent world he thought he had escaped. This indie action thriller suggests that no matter how many fights you win, the biggest fight might be the one waiting for you back home.

✅ Blood Shine
(Fri, Aug 21st — on VOD/Digital)

David Call stars as troubled horror filmmaker Brighton, whose retreat to upstate New York takes a terrifying turn when he encounters Clara (played by Emily Bennett, who also co-wrote and co-directed with partner Justin Brooks), a religious zealot convinced that suffering can transform him into a god. Taken captive and subjected to sadistic rituals, Brighton is forced into a brutal test of faith where pain is treated as a pathway to divine transformation.

✅ Bury the Devil
(Fri, Aug 21st — on VOD/Digital)

Shot in real time as a single continuous take, horror filmmaker Adam O’Brien sets the stage for a nighttime nightmare as a hospice nurse (Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez) begins her overnight shift at an isolated old house, where a dementia patient (Dawn Ford) starts behaving in frighteningly unfamiliar ways. Trapped inside as a demonic presence seeps through the cracks of the home, the caregiver must determine what is real, who can be trusted, and whether either of them will survive until morning.

✅ Peter Asher: Everywhere Man
(Fri, Aug 21st — on VOD/Digital)

Some music careers happen center stage, while others quietly shape everything around them. This documentary looks back at the life and career of Peter Asher, from his early pop-music days to his influential work as a producer and manager. With Paul McCartney, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt among the film’s voices, it traces a career woven through several major chapters of music history.

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📺 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 18
(Mon, Aug 17th — on FXX / Hulu)

If you were looking for maturity at Paddy’s Pub, you’ve come to the wrong place. Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Dee, and Frank return for another season of selfish schemes involving inheritance, automation, conspiracy theories, sobriety culture, school, and a Renaissance Faire. With Charlie Day, Rob Mac, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito back in action, Season 18 proves that after nearly two decades, the Gang remains impressively committed to learning absolutely nothing from experience… or each other.

📺 Average Joe: Season 2
(Wed, Aug 19th — on Paramount+)

Deon Cole returns as Joe Washington, a Philly plumber whose attempt to reclaim a normal life ends when a new Russian-mob threat puts his family in danger. Reuniting with his crew, Joe is forced to follow a trail from Pittsburgh to Cape Town, where family secrets and dangerous enemies await. With Katlego Lebogang and Hakeem Kae-Kazim joining the action, Season 2 sends an “Average Joe“ back into extraordinary trouble, where every move leads to another bad situation.

📺 Lion
(Wed, Aug 19th — on National Geographic; Next Day on Disney+ / Hulu)

From executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, this National Geographic nature documentary special follows Kio, a lion cub growing from vulnerable youth into a contender for leadership. Filmed over four years, Kio experiences loss, exile, and family bonds as fierce rivals test his endurance and instinct, resulting in a coming-of-age story shaped by the uncertainty of the wild. With Oscar-winner Hans Zimmer contributing to the score, Kio’s journey becomes the real-life making of a king.

📺 Outer Banks: Season 5 (Final Season)
(Thurs, Aug 20th — on Netflix)

One last treasure hunt begins with a debt the Pogues cannot leave unpaid. Reeling from a personal tragedy, John B (Chase Stokes), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), Kiara (Madison Bailey), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) chase revenge, redemption, and a stolen artifact that could change their fortunes. With rivals circling closer, the friends form an uneasy alliance with Rafe (Drew Starkey). Season 5, the final season, sends the Pogues into one last race for a future they’ve always fought to claim.

📺 Blood Sacrifice
(Thurs, Aug 20th — on Netflix)

When two Swedish police officers are lured to an empty house in the Stockholm archipelago and murdered, local law enforcement becomes the target of a calculated killing campaign. Investigator Thomas (Jakob Oftebro) is forced to work with Alfred (Peter Andersson), his estranged father and former detective, as they race to identify the killer before another officer becomes the next victim. Created by Hijack creator George Kay and directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, this five-part Swedish thriller turns a murder investigation into a ticking-clock race where old family wounds may be as dangerous as the killer they’re hunting.

📺 Conan O’Brien Must Go: Season 3
(Fri, Aug 21st — on HBO / HBO Max)

In this new four-episode third season of his hit travel show, Conan O’Brien resumes his unorthodox international outreach with four new countries to visit and apparently no plans to preserve his dignity. Each trip begins with a fan connection from his podcast before expanding into improvised encounters with local culture, food, and customs. Conan is less a travel guide than a willing participant in making himself the butt of the joke. A clown, if you will, with a heavily stamped passport.

📺 Stillwater: Season 5
(Fri, Aug 21st — on Apple TV)

Stillwater, the wise panda, returns alongside siblings Karl, Addy, and Michael for five new heartfelt stories about everyday frustrations, fears, and feelings that can seem enormous from a child’s point of view. Based on Jon J. Muth’s Zen books, this animated series uses patient questions and gentle humor to show how a little mindfulness can create space between feeling something and reacting to it.

📺 The Dynasty: UConn Huskies
(Fri, Aug 21st — on Apple TV)

Twelve national championships do not just happen by accident. This three-part sports docuseries traces four decades of UConn women’s basketball under legendary head coach Geno Auriemma, using archival footage and voices from generations of players, coaches, rivals, and alumni to chart the program’s rise from overlooked contender to college basketball powerhouse. Featuring Sue Bird, Paige Bueckers, Rebecca Lobo, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart, and Diana Taurasi, the series offers a firsthand look at the players who helped build a dynasty.

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🎥 “Just Play Dead” Trailer: Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Green Plot Against Each Other in Director Martin Campbell’s Twisty Neo-Noir Crime Thriller — In Select Theaters August 28th, and on VOD/Digital September 1st

There was a story Samuel L. Jackson once revealed years ago that in almost every movie he agrees to do, he first puts together the look of his character, starting with the wig and hairstyle, then perhaps the clothing next. Well, in his latest film, those choices definitely stand out because he’s made some pretty bold ones with this character.

In the new darkly comic, twisty crime thriller Just Play Dead, the Pulp Fiction star re-teams with director Martin Campbell, having previously worked with him on the assassin thriller The Protégé, and plays Jack Wolfe, a wealthy criminal mastermind plotting to fake his own death for a $30 million insurance payout.

The plan, if successful, will require the help of Jack’s estranged wife, Nora (played by Eva Green), who will get a cut of the money for her trouble. She’ll also have to draw an unsuspecting mark into their scheme and seduce him to help sell her husband’s fake death.

The problem is, Nora has a better idea: kill Jack for real, frame her lover (Jason Fernández) for the murder, and keep the fortune all for herself. Bingo, bango!

Also co-starring María Pedraza and Eoin Macken and written by Dan Gordon, the film feels like a throwback to the kind of shamelessly sleazy neo-noir thrillers where double-crosses, a little pulp, and a few outrageous wigs go a long way.

Just Play Dead is due to open in select theaters August 28th before arriving on VOD and digital September 1st.

🎥 “Animals” Teaser Trailer: A Kidnapping Plot Threatens Ben Affleck’s Political Campaign and Family in Netflix’s Thriller with Kerry Washington — In Select Theaters and on Netflix October 9th

Anyone who follows a political campaign closely knows politics is personal. And does it get any more personal than having your child kidnapped and held for ransom?

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this new Netflix political thriller, Animals, playing Mark Kimball, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate in a hotly contested race whose carefully managed campaign is thrown into crisis when his son suddenly goes missing and is later revealed to have been kidnapped for ransom. With Kerry Washington playing his wife, Abigail, the couple are forced into a desperate race to assemble the ransom while trying to figure out who is behind the kidnapping.

Meanwhile, Mark’s trusted political adviser (Steven Yeun) is scrambling behind the scenes to keep the campaign from unraveling as the kidnapping plot threatens to turn a private crisis into a very public media disaster. They say there’s no such thing as bad press, but this is one story the campaign wouldn’t be able to spin its way out of once word gets out.

Taking place over one harrowing night, Gillian Anderson joins the fray as a very discreet consultant whose expertise in dealing with such crises makes her exactly the kind of person Mark and Abigail need, especially when some decisions require acting quickly, quietly, and with extreme discretion.

Co-starring Adriana Paz, Luis Gerardo Méndez, and Ray Fisher, the film marks Affleck’s latest project for Netflix and his production company, Artists Equity, following their previous collaboration, The Rip, the gritty cop thriller that became a huge hit for the streamer back in January.

Animals is scheduled to open in select theaters and also stream on Netflix October 9th.

🎥 “Rolling Loud: The Movie” Trailer: Owen Wilson Loses His Son in the Middle of the Massive Hip-Hop Festival in Jeremy Garelick’s New Comedy — In Theaters October 2nd

We’re living in a strange world when movies are being made as commercials for productions and brands. But we never would have imagined that live concert events themselves would be turned into feature films too.

Rolling Loud is mostly known as a massive hip-hop music festival where some of the biggest rap artists and thousands of fans come together for one very loud weekend. Now, apparently, it’s also the setting for a new comedy starring Owen Wilson. Go figure!

Written and directed by Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding Ringer, Murder Mystery 2), Wilson stars as a cautious father who sneaks his 13-year-old son into Rolling Loud in hopes of reconnecting with him. As his attempts to be the “cool dad” quickly backfire, things go from bad to worse when he loses his son somewhere in the massive festival crowd.

He’s soon forced to navigate mosh pits, restricted backstage areas, and a parade of eccentric strangers (played by Matt Rife, Christine Ko, Henry Winkler, Sexyy Red, and Ty Dolla $ign) as he desperately tries to track the kid down before the night is over. Sometimes your job as a parent is simply making sure your kid gets home in one piece... even if it means diving headfirst into the world’s loudest concert to find him.

Rolling Loud is coming to theaters October 2nd.

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🎥 “Heart of the Beast” New Trailer: Brad Pitt and His Combat Dog Fight to Survive the Alaskan Wilderness in David Ayer’s Survival Thriller — In Theaters September 25th

There is no stronger bond than that between a man and his dog. But when a man and his dog share the same scars of war, that bond becomes unbreakable. In director David Ayer’s new canine survival drama, Brad Pitt stars as Special Forces officer James Belmont, who finds himself stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash with only his dog Odin by his side. Odin isn’t your average dog... he is James’s longtime combat partner, having survived the horrors of war alongside him and bearing the scars to prove it, including a missing leg now replaced by a titanium prosthetic. But just when they thought they were done with life-or-death operations, it seems they have one more mission to complete. And the objective is still the same: survive and come home together. Also co-starring J.K. Simmons, the film sets out to prove that sometimes the will to live is greater when you have a loyal partner there to keep you moving.

🎥 “By Any Means” Final Trailer: Mark Wahlberg’s Mafia Enforcer Joins Forces with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s FBI Agent in Elegance Bratton’s 1960s Civil Rights Thriller — Coming to Theaters September 4th

Sometimes you have to play hardball. And when you’re dealing with people who don’t play by the rules, sometimes you have to play by theirs. In this new historical crime drama based on true events, Mark Wahlberg, with some noticeable prosthetic makeup, plays notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa, who is recruited to work alongside a young Black FBI agent (played by Emmy-nominated Wonder Man star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) investigating the murders of civil-rights leaders in 1960s Mississippi. It’s a pairing no one saw coming, as the FBI turns to a man whose methods are anything but by the book. Directed by The Inspection filmmaker Elegance Bratton, the film dramatizes a particularly dark chapter in America’s history, when civil-rights leaders were being targeted and killed for their activism. And the only way to seek justice meant operating outside the law. You know what they say: you can’t fight fire with fire... but you can sure as hell fight dirty.

🎥 “Beware Boiúna” Trailer: A Colossal Snake Hunts Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green Through the Amazon in Mike P. Nelson’s Jungle Horror — In Theaters October 2nd

Show of hands: who here loves giant snake thrillers? To be fair, there aren’t exactly a ton of them, with maybe the classic ’90s cheesefest Anaconda ranking as one of the genre’s most memorable standouts. But we say it’s about time the giant-snake thriller slithered back into the conversation. Well, here’s one that just might have enough bite to satisfy our craving. Starring Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green, this new jungle horror follows a group of medical workers on a mission deep into the Amazon. Things take a deadly turn when they awaken Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator that quickly reminds them who really rules the jungle. Directed by genre helmer Mike P. Nelson (The Domestics, V/H/S/85), the film reminds us that giant snakes aren’t only terrifying; they also make one hell of a movie monster. Throw in a few questionable Cajun accents, and you’ve got yourself one gloriously pulpy creature feature.

🎥 “The Musical” Trailer: Will Brill Turns a Middle-School Play Into an Elaborate Revenge Scheme Against Rob Lowe in This Dark Comedy with Gillian Jacobs — In Theaters September 18th

Revenge is a dish best served cold... and served with help from some middle-school kids. Will Brill, the Tony Award-winning actor from the Broadway breakout Stereophonic, stars as Doug Leibowitz, a frustrated playwright stuck teaching middle-school drama to a bunch of snot-nosed kids while still dreaming of making it in New York. When he learns that his ex-girlfriend Abigail (Gillian Jacobs) is seeing the school’s obnoxiously sunny principal, Brady (Rob Lowe)—who also happens to be his number-one rival—Doug sets out to use the school musical as the ultimate act of revenge. Using his class of rug rats as his little evil helpers, Doug secretly stages the most inappropriate school play imaginable in hopes of bringing Brady down. Written by Alexander Heller and directed by actress Giselle Bonilla, this darkly comic teacher-revenge caper turns petty jealousy into a full-blown midlife meltdown in which the children become unwitting accomplices to one man’s increasingly unhinged payback scheme.

🎥 “Idiots” Final Trailer: Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Take a Rehab Transport Job From Hell in Macon Blair’s Dark Road Comedy — In Theaters August 28th

The job is relatively simple: transport one wealthy, troubled teenager to rehab. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, apparently. In this dark road comedy from writer-director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, The Toxic Avenger), Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. play two down-on-their-luck drivers hired to deliver a rich, drug-addicted social media influencer (Mason Thames) to a rehab facility for a mandatory stay. Problem is, on the way there, their unruly passenger manages to attract exactly the kind of trouble that can turn a seemingly straightforward road trip into a series of increasingly disastrous detours. Co-starring Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage as some of the oddball characters they encounter along the way, the film shows a side of America where every roadside stop reveals another seedy corner just waiting to make things worse.

🎥 “Ken Russell’s The Devils: 4K Restoration” Trailer: The Controversial 1971 Religious Horror Classic Returns in Russell’s Definitive Version Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave — In Theaters October 16th for One Week Only

For decades, it was banned in several countries and publicly condemned by the Vatican, earning a reputation as one of the most controversial films of its era. But can we get an amen here? ’Cause it just might be a damn miracle. This 1971 cult classic is finally returning in a definitive 4K restoration, assembled from the original camera negative and guided by writer-director Ken Russell’s privately constructed 2004 edit. Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, this psychedelic historical horror plunges into religion, politics, sexual repression, and institutional power. Reed plays a charismatic 17th-century Catholic priest whose defiance puts him in the crosshairs of those seeking control of Loudun. The result is a surrealist collision of religious hysteria, accusations of demonic possession, and ruthless political manipulation. Denounced for its provocative religious imagery, sexuality, and blasphemous excess, the film became nearly as infamous for the controversy surrounding it. Now fans can see the closest version yet to Russell’s original cut.

🎥 “Made” 25th Anniversary Trailer: Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn’s Cult 2001 Crime Flick Gets the 4K SteelBook Treatment — Available 4K UHD on September 15th

Before he was the man behind The Mandalorian, The Jungle Book, and Iron Man, Jon Favreau made his feature directing debut on a much smaller scale. He also brought his best pal Vince Vaughn along for the ride, five years after the pair broke through with Swingers, the ’90s indie hangout comedy Favreau wrote that helped launch both of their careers. Favreau followed Swingers with his 2001 directorial debut, reuniting with Vaughn for another story about two friends whose personalities have a way of getting them into trouble. Twenty-five years later, that debut is getting the 4K UHD SteelBook treatment, bringing the boys back for another go-round. In this offbeat crime caper, Favreau and Vaughn play Bobby and Ricky, a pair of longtime friends and low-level criminals whose trip to New York for a seemingly simple money-laundering job quickly becomes anything but. Working for local crime boss Max (Peter Falk), Bobby knows the assignment calls for discretion, while Ricky seems determined to act like he’s starring in his own gangster movie, turning a simple job into a comedy of bruised egos and bad decisions. Perhaps it’s time to get Made all over again.

🎥 “Ueck” Trailer: New Documentary Offers One Final Look at Bob Uecker, the Voice, Wit, and Larger-Than-Life Personality Known as “Mr. Baseball” — Expands to Theaters Throughout August

Bob Uecker was one of those rare baseball personalities who truly crossed over into pop culture. To many, he was the undeniably funny baseball announcer with a dry, self-deprecating wit. But to those raised in the ’80s, he was the wisecracking dad on the beloved sitcom Mr. Belvedere. He was certainly a one-of-a-kind talent. He was certainly a one-of-a-kind talent. And in this new documentary, we get one final look at the man who was more than just the voice behind the microphone. Filmed over the final three years of Uecker’s life, co-directors Steve Farr and Michael T. Vollmann trace his unlikely journey from backup catcher to broadcaster, actor, and beloved “Mr. Baseball.” As sports become more commercialized and less personal, Uecker might be one of the last baseball personalities who feels truly larger than the game.

🎥 “Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly” Trailer: Rachael “Raygun” Gunn Revisits Her Viral Olympic Moment and Tells Her Side of the Story — Streams September 1st on Netflix

She became one of the most discussed Olympians of the 2024 Paris Games... but not for the best of reasons. Rachael “Raygun” Gunn is a competitive break dancer with a distinctive style. There’s no question about that. The question was whether she belonged on the Olympic stage. In this new Netflix sports documentary, the latest installment in its ongoing Untold series, the Australian academic and competitive breaker revisits her unlikely road to Paris and the viral backlash that followed. Mocked relentlessly online as clips of her unconventional dance routine spread around the world, Raygun now gets the chance to tell her side of the story. Going viral made Raygun one of the most recognizable Olympians of the Paris Games, but recognition isn’t the same as knowing the real story.

🎥 “Sunny Dancer” U.S. Trailer: Bella Ramsey Heads to “Chemo Camp” in George Jaques’ Irreverent Coming-of-Age Dramedy with Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Gunning, and James Norton — In U.S. Theaters September 18th

The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey gets to put her survival skills to use in a very different kind of coming-of-age story. In this irreverent dramedy, Ramsey plays Ivy, a 17-year-old cancer survivor who wants nothing more than to get back to being a normal teenager. But her parents have other plans: a summer at a camp for teenagers affected by cancer, a place Ivy quickly dismisses as “Chemo Camp.” But as much as she resists the forced fun and therapeutic bonding, Ivy soon finds herself connecting with a group of fellow misfits who understand exactly what she’s trying to leave behind. Written and directed by George Jaques, with Neil Patrick Harris co-starring as camp leader Patrick alongside Jessica Gunning and James Norton, the film suggests anyone can survive the hard part, but figuring out how to live afterward may be the real challenge.

🎥 “Big Girls Don’t Cry” U.S. Trailer: Newcomer Ani Palmer Chases Adulthood and Acceptance in Jane Campion-Produced New Zealand Coming-of-Age Drama From Writer-Director Paloma Schneideman — In U.S. Select Theaters October 9th

Fourteen is old enough to want everything adulthood promises. And young enough to have no idea what any of it costs. In this New Zealand coming-of-age drama executive produced by Oscar-winner Jane Campion, newcomer Ani Palmer stars as Sid, a 14-year-old growing up in rural New Zealand during the summer of 2006 and desperate to prove she’s ready for the grown-up world. After hanging out with a group of older girls whose confidence she envies, Sid begins testing the limits of friendship, sex, identity, and rebellion in hopes of earning a place among them. Co-starring Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor, the film marks writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s feature debut with a story that gets to the heart of how badly young people want to belong before they’ve figured out who they are.

🎥 “Down the Arm of God” International Trailer: Caleb Landry Jones Stars as a Texas Pastor Fighting to Help the Unhoused in Director Peter Brunner’s Homelessness Drama — Coming Soon

Caleb Landry Jones has never been afraid of playing characters pushed to the edge, nor of taking on films that venture into uncomfortable territory. In his latest, he stars (as well as co-writes with director Peter Brunner) as a young Texas pastor whose attempt to help local unhoused people through a brutal winter puts him at odds with his own congregation. Inspired by true events, co-starring India Marie Cross, Nick Stahl, and Mena Suvari, and produced by Luc Besson, the film aims to explore the uneasy divide between those willing to help and those unwilling to act. The homelessness problem isn’t just a personal one... it’s a communal one. And everyone has a role in deciding how we deal with it.

🎥 “Drawn Together” Trailer: Ester Expósito and Hugo Diego García Blur the Line Between Protection and Desire in Amazon’s Romantic Thriller Based on Mercedes Ron’s Best-Seller — Streams September 9th on Prime Video

She has money, independence, and a carefully glamorous New York life until a kidnapping leaves her questioning everything she thought she knew. In this film adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s best-selling romantic thriller novel Marfil, Ester Expósito (from the Netflix series Elite) stars as Marfil Cortés, a wealthy young Spanish heiress living in New York. When her powerful father assigns the enigmatic Sebastian Moore (Hugo Diego García) as her personal bodyguard, Marfil’s refusal to be controlled clashes with his determination to keep her safe. However, their growing attraction to each other is complicated by escalating threats that bring them both together and apart. Directed by Sky Rojo helmer Óscar Pedraza, the film aims to mix slow-burn romance with a dangerous game of desire and hidden motives.

🎥 “Take Me Home” Trailer: Liz Sargent Directs Her Sister Anna in an Intimate Drama About Disability, Independence, and Family — Opening September 23rd in New York and October 7th in Los Angeles

Everyone wants what most people take for granted: the freedom to shape their own life in the way they see fit. From Korean American filmmaker Liz Sargent and starring her own sister, Anna Sargent, this intimate semi-biographical drama, based on the filmmaker’s own short film, explores the difficult line between protection and independence. When Anna experiences a family crisis that disrupts the disability support she depends on, she finds herself struggling with the bureaucracy meant to help during crises involving housing, finances, and caregiving. The film, winner of the 2025 AT&T Untold Stories program, asks whether love alone can overcome the structural barriers standing in the way.

🎥 “Penny Lane Is Dead” Trailer: A Beach House Party Turns Gory in Mia’Kate Russell’s Darkly Comic Australian Horror Flick — Streaming August 28th on Shudder

It was supposed to be a wild get-together with the gals. But one bad idea was about to ruin the fun in a hurry. In this new darkly comic Australian horror flick from hair & makeup artist-turned-filmmaker Mia’Kate Russell, a group of friends heads to an isolated beach house for a celebration that quickly spirals out of control after a prank goes horribly wrong. Drug-laced cupcakes kick off a night that quickly turns from reckless fun to bloody mayhem when some uninvited guests decide to crash the party and turn everything up to 11... including the bloodshed. Starring Alexandra Jensen, Ben O’Toole, and Steve Le Marquand, this Shudder exclusive reminds us that it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt... or bludgeoned beyond recognition.

🎥 “Gator Face” Trailer: A Gator-Faced Maniac Stalks a Group of Friends Through the Florida Swamps in This New Indie Slasher — On VOD/Digital September 15th

A man with a gator on his face stalks a group of young people with an old, rusty axe. Enough said. You know the deal. It’s another slasher horror pulling from familiar genre tropes, with shades of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, and plenty of others. Starring Tabitha Brownstone, Amariah Dionne and Nikolas Kolasinski, the indie film follows a group of friends whose Florida vacation takes a gruesome turn when they become stranded in a remote swamp controlled by a violent cult. Stuck in a Florida swamp? Can only mean one thing: beware of gators! More specifically, beware of a gator-faced maniac with an axe... and the cult he belongs to.

🎥 “Yellow Eyes” Trailer: A Mysterious Idol Unleashes a Sinister Force in Jesse Korman’s Supernatural Horror Flick Produced by Joe Swanberg — On VOD/Digital August 18th

Filmmaker Joe Swanberg isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think supernatural horror. But the mumblecore veteran is lending his services as a producer for this new horror flick from musician/director Jesse Korman, where a mysterious idol brings evil to whoever comes under its influence. Starring Michael Kunicki, Nena Martins, Margo O’Connell, and DeVaughn Loman, the film follows Brad (Kunicki) as the idol begins to alter his behavior and perception, leaving those around him to wonder whether what’s happening is psychological, supernatural, or something far worse. If we’ve learned anything from horror movies, mysterious idols are usually best left exactly where you found them.

🎥 “Hollow Trees” Trailer: A Shape-Shifting Creature Stalks Survivors in Cathal Fitzpatrick’s Post-Dystopian Irish Horror Starring Tom Kerrisk — Coming Soon

There are indie horror films, and then there are indie Irish horror films. The difference? Other than the gorgeous scenery, Irish chillers tend to come steeped in the uneasy feeling that something is lurking just out of sight. In this new post-dystopian chiller, that feeling gets even worse when the thing hiding in the shadows can look human. From writer-director Cathal Fitzpatrick, Tom Kerrisk stars as Kent, one of two survivors scraping by in a shattered postwar landscape where food, shelter, and safety are only part of the problem. But when Kent encounters a creature capable of imitating human beings, survival suddenly depends on knowing whether the figure standing near distance is actually who they appear to be. Winner of Best Independent Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh, this stripped-down creature feature proves the scariest thing in a broken world may be the unknown face peeking back from the darkness.

🎥 “Dark Hollow” Trailer: A Young Mother Hunts a Monster That Emerges from an Appalachian Coal Mine in Daniel Byers’ Creature Feature — Out on VOD/Digital September 4th

When a horrifying creature rises from an Appalachian coal mine, a young mother is forced to stop running and start hunting. Writer-director Daniel Byers turns mine shafts, backwoods terrain, and an abandoned coal-mining community into hostile ground as this mysterious threat moves closer to her home. This creature feature flips the chase, sending its heroine toward the darkness below; because sometimes protecting what matters means confronting the terror buried beneath your own backyard.

🎥 “Gentle Monster” Trailer: Léa Seydoux Questions How Well She Knows Her Husband in Marie Kreutzer’s Psychological French Drama — In Select Theaters October 30th and Streaming November 18th on Netflix

Whoa, that’s a ’90s flashback we didn’t see coming. French actress Léa Seydoux offers her own version of Charles & Eddie’s 1992 one-hit wonder “Would I Lie to You?” in this first footage from Corsage filmmaker Marie Kreutzer’s new film. The James Bond star is seen sitting at a piano, singing the song as she plays. Here in this new French psychological drama, also starring Laurence Rupp, Jella Haase, and Catherine Deneuve, Seydoux plays Lucy Weiss, a concert pianist who moves her family to the countryside after her husband suffers from severe burnout. What follows is a brutal wake-up call when police raid their new home before dawn and take Philip into custody over an unspeakable accusation. With her husband under suspicion and their young son caught in the fallout, Lucy is forced to come to the unsettling realization that Philip may not be the man she thought she knew.

🎥 “Winter of the Crow” International Trailer: Lesley Manville Witnesses a Secret Police Murder as Martial Law Descends on 1981 Poland in Kasia Adamik’s Political Thriller — In UK Theaters October 16th

Warsaw, 1981: one photograph turns an ordinary visitor into a hunted witness. Lesley Manville stars as British psychiatry professor Joan Andrews, who arrives just as martial law descends on Poland and secretly captures photo evidence of a student’s murder by the secret police. Directed by Polish filmmaker Kasia Adamik and inspired by Olga Tokarczuk’s short story, this tense political thriller follows Joan through a city where survival is determined by who she can trust, and whether she’s willing to risk everything to expose what she saw.

🎥 “Dear You” Trailer: A Debt-Ridden Grandson Uncovers a Family Legacy of Love and Sacrifice in Lan Hongchun’s Moving Teochew-Language Chinese Drama — In U.S. Theaters September 4th

While drowning in debt, a young Chinese man (Zheng Runqi) travels from China’s Chaoshan region to Thailand searching for the grandfather he believes abandoned his family years ago. Instead of finding the financial lifeline he expected, a trail of letters reveals a lifetime of sacrifice hidden behind his grandfather’s absence. Chinese filmmaker Lan Hongchun turns one desperate journey into a moving family drama about migration, devotion, and what inheritance truly means. Sometimes discovering a forgotten connection to your family’s past can be worth more than anything money could ever buy.

🎥 “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Again?” Trailer: Netflix Sequel Reunites Tyler Perry, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Jill Scott, and More for Another Trip Down the Aisle — Streaming September 9th on Netflix

In this sequel to Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, Tyler Perry reunites the ensemble (Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Jill Scott, Lamman Rucker, Richard T. Jones, and Sharon Leal) as Marcus and Angela’s daughter prepares to marry, bringing longtime friends together for a wedding that exposes unresolved family tensions and lessons passed down without anyone noticing. As the next generation mirrors the marriages they grew up watching, the parents are forced to confront what changed, what didn’t, and why.

🎥 “Black Zombie” Trailer: New Historical Horror Documentary Examines the Zombie Genre’s Roots in Colonial Haiti and Its Transformation into Modern Horror — In Theaters September 11th

When it comes to zombies, most people know the genre. But many may not know the history or the roots behind it. In this new historical horror documentary, filmmaker Maya Annik Bedward digs into the zombie’s origins in colonial Haiti, tracing how a symbol of enslavement eventually became one of horror cinema’s most recognizable monsters. What started as a symbolic metaphor for a person stripped of their freedom and will was eventually transformed by Hollywood into something entirely different. So, the next time you turn on a new zombie movie or zombie show, remember these flesh-eating monsters have an untold history rooted in something far more real than one might have imagined.

🎥 “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie” Trailer: Oscar-Winning Documentarian Alex Gibney Chronicles The Satanic Verses Author Salman Rushdie’s Recovery After the 2022 Attack That Nearly Took His Life — Coming to Theaters September 17th

He had a fatwa hanging over his head, but it didn’t stop him from writing about the things that mattered to him. Salman Rushdie is a world-renowned author who knows what it means to live under threat. This new documentary from Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) chronicles Rushdie’s recovery after the 2022 attack that nearly took his life. After decades of living under threat following the fatwa issued over The Satanic Verses, Rushdie now reflects on the violence, recovery, and determination to keep writing.

🎥 “André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever” Trailer: New Documentary Celebrates the Vogue Trailblazer’s Bigger-Than-Life Style, Influence, and Legacy — In Theaters and On VOD/Digital October 9th

Fashion trailblazer and Vogue editor André Leon Talley pioneered the way for greater inclusion in an industry that didn’t always make room for people who looked like him or came from backgrounds like his. Directors Zach Stafford and Clay Haskell trace the trailblazing editor’s nearly five-decade influence through unseen footage and interviews with Vogue honcho Anna Wintour, fashion designers Tom Ford and Diane von Furstenberg, and others. From the segregated South to Vogue’s front desk, Talley’s life became a testament to style, ambition, his bigger-than-life personality, and the power of being completely and unapologetically yourself.

🎥 “Sentient” Trailer: Investigative Documentary Examines the Ethical Cost of Animal Testing in the Name of Scientific Progress — Coming Soon

Veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones follows primatologist-turned-advocate Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel into the largely hidden world of laboratory animal research, examining the ethical cost of experimentation on both animals and the people who perform it. Drawing on testimony, evidence, and conflicting perspectives, this investigative documentary asks how much suffering we are willing to accept in the name of scientific progress.

🎥 “Spirited Away: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-Winning Fantasy Returns to Theaters for Studio Ghibli Fest 2026 — October 17th–21st Via Fathom Entertainment

Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning anime fantasy returns to theaters as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2026, following a ten-year-old girl forced to work in Yubaba’s magical bathhouse after her parents are transformed into pigs. With help from Haku and unlikely friends, Chihiro must remember who she is, and find the courage to make it home again. Relive the magic of this beloved classic, introduce it to a new generation, or simply get lost in Miyazaki’s spirit world all over again.

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This year was especially exciting because the big rumor heading into the weekend was that Disney would finally reveal the new X-Men cast. And for the most part, that turned out to be true. We didn’t get the entire lineup, but several new names were announced, including a few genuine surprises in Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm, while confirming previously rumored names like Kit Connor as Scott Summers, Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier, and Samara Weaving as Emma Frost. Adam Driver was another big name announced this weekend, joining the new X-Men cast as its latest villain: Nathaniel Milbury, better known as Mr. Sinister.

More details from the X-Men panel can be found over at Marvel.com.

So while much of the talk was centered on X-Men, plenty of Marvel fans were also wondering about Avengers: Doomsday, the massive MCU crossover event arriving later this year in December. Would we be getting a new preview? And what about Lucasfilm and Star Wars? What does Disney+ have coming down the pipeline? Will we be seeing new trailers for that?

Well, the short answer is... yes!

Disney dropped a number of new trailers and previews online from D23, and we’ve rounded them all up below in case you weren’t able to keep up with everything. So take a looksee!

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🎥 “Avengers: Doomsday” D23 Special Look: Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom Faces Reed Richards as the Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men Unite — Hitting Theaters December 18th

We don’t know about you, but we were pretty disappointed with the last Avengers: Doomsday trailer, as it didn’t necessarily conjure up much of anything for us. And we weren’t alone with that sentiment, as a lot of fans online have expressed similar feelings. Well, word must have gotten back to Marvel, because this new special look from D23 really amps up the emotion and, more importantly, the excitement for a movie that’s already shaping up to be absolutely massive, even if the buzz online has been a little less than enthusiastic and hypercritical. The MCU really needs a big win, and after the super-successful box office performance of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the studio is coming into this one with a lot of momentum.

Featuring practically every superhero team in the MCU, including some we haven’t seen in quite a while, Doomsday is bringing together the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Wakanda, and veteran X-Men for one massive multiversal showdown. They’re all there to face off against Doctor Doom, the existential threat pulling these very different worlds toward the same point of destruction. Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. returns to the MCU to take on the role of Doom, the movie’s big bad, who appears to have some connection to the Fantastic Four’s universe. In one particularly tense scene in the new trailer, Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) confronts Doom and pleads with him to stop whatever he’s doing. We’re still not getting too much from Doom himself, although this may be our best look at the character so far.

Boasting a who’s who of MCU talent, led by Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, and countless others, and marking the return of Infinity War and Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo, Avengers: Doomsday is set to hit theaters on December 18th.

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📺 “VisionQuest” Trailer: Paul Bettany’s Vision Faces His Past, James Spader’s Ultron and Some Unexpected Daddy Issues — Premiering Wednesday, October 14th on Disney+

Another big reveal this D23 weekend was the first footage from VisionQuest, the highly anticipated WandaVision spinoff series featuring Paul Bettany returning as everyone’s lovable synthezoid, Vision.

When we last saw Vision, he had been rebuilt and was left searching for a sense of purpose beyond the memories and commands embedded in his synthetic mind. And whereas WandaVision explored the inner, conflicted mind of Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, this new MCU series appears to be doing something similar, as it also dives into Vision’s own internal struggle with identity and, dare we say... daddy issues.

That’s right! James Spader is back not only as the voice of Ultron, but also as the human embodiment (a rather shaggy, bearded one) of the brilliant but flawed master AI program that essentially gave birth to what would become Vision. There had been rumors that Spader would be returning, and now this trailer confirms it.

But the question is: why is Ultron back? Is he merely a data fragment, a lingering echo within Vision’s reconstructed mind, or something far more complex... perhaps a reassembled consciousness there to mentor Vision in his own journey of fatherhood?

Yes, believe it or not, it seems Vision will have to learn to be a father to Thomas Shepard (played by Ruaridh Mollica), a mysterious young man who may have a deeper connection to the family he thought he had lost.

Also co-starring Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Emily Hampshire, and James D’Arcy, the series comes from showrunner Terry Matalas, whose credits include 12 Monkeys and Star Trek: Picard Season 3.

VisionQuest is scheduled to premiere Wednesday, October 14th, exclusively on Disney+.

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📺 “Ahsoka: Season 2” Teaser Trailer: Rosario Dawson Returns as Ahsoka as Hayden Christensen’s Anakin and Lars Mikkelsen’s Thrawn Reenter the Fight — Premiering Wednesday, January 20, 2027 on Disney+

It can’t be a D23 event without some Star Wars love, right? Enter Rosario Dawson, looking badass and swinging a lightsaber!

This year, Lucasfilm delivered with the first look at Ahsoka: Season 2, which won’t be arriving until early 2027. But despite it being an early preview, it certainly doesn’t skimp on the footage, as it reveals Hayden Christensen will be back as Anakin Skywalker in Force ghost form. He will once again confront his former Padawan with a few unfinished lessons as Dawson’s Ahsoka finds herself stranded far from home while Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) begins rallying the remnants of the Empire.

Dawson also seemed like the perfect casting choice to play an older Ahsoka, carrying the character’s strength and quiet confidence into live action. And while, if you asked us, the first season (apart from a few standout episodes) felt like a missed opportunity to fully flesh out the character, it really does seem like Season 2 just might be the one that finally gets there. Fingers crossed the producers and writers behind the show figured out how to give Ahsoka the depth and character development that felt a little lacking the first time around.

Also returning for Season 2 are Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati, and Ariana Greenblatt as young Ahsoka Tano.

Meanwhile, Game of Thrones actor Rory McCann will be taking over the role of fallen Jedi Baylan Skoll, who was originally played by Ray Stevenson, who sadly passed away following the completion of the first season.

Created by Dave Filoni and drawing from characters and storylines from his beloved animated Star Wars series, Ahsoka: Season 2 arrives Wednesday, January 20th, exclusively on Disney+.

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📺 “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3” Trailer: Walker Scobell Faces the Titan’s Curse as Percy’s Latest Quest Uncovers a Prophecy That Could Doom Olympus — Premiering Friday, November 20th on Disney+

On the Disney+ front, D23 showed off the full trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3, giving fans their first extended look at the show’s adaptation of Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse.

Walker Scobell is back as the titular demigod Percy Jackson, who finds himself embarking on his most urgent quest yet after Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries) is captured by the forces of Kronos. Like most Percy Jackson adventures, this one also has him setting out on a perilous rescue mission with Grover (Aryan Simhadri), only to find himself caught up in a much larger conflict involving a chained goddess, the Titan’s curse, and a prophecy that could determine the fate of Olympus.

So, it seems Percy just can’t catch a break. For once, you’d think he could just have a normal school year without any godly crisis getting in the way.

Also starring Tamara Smart, Charlie Bushnell, Ming-Na Wen, and Andra Day, and executive produced by Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz, and others, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3 is coming to Disney+ on November 20th.

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🎥 “The Bluey Movie” Teaser: Bluey, Bingo, Bandit and Chilli Take Their Family Adventures to the Big Screen — In Theaters August 6th, 2027

Just to prove that D23 isn’t all about superheroes and Jedi, there’s pretty much something for everyone. A Bluey movie is coming! So, parents and their cartoon-loving children, rejoice.

Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, and Chilli are getting the big-screen treatment in their first feature-length adventure, with series creator Joe Brumm writing and directing. If you thought TV screens could barely contain all that Heeler family energy, just wait until Bluey and company are blown up to theater-sized proportions.

The film will also make the jump to CG animation, bringing the familiar world of the series to life as the story expands from its seven-minute roots into a full-length theatrical experience. A red balloon will be involved somehow, but know this: whatever adventure awaits, families will likely be turning out in droves.

The family-friendly animated series, which originated in Australia and has run for over 50 seven-minute-long episodes, has become a worldwide phenomenon, turning ordinary parents into hardcore Bluey-heads right alongside their children.

The film will be coming out in theaters on August 6, 2027.

Word to the wise: if you have any friends with kids, you may want to pass this trailer along now and prepare yourself for an earful about how Bluey is basically the biggest thing in their household.

For those who weren’t able to make it to D23 this year—well, count us among you. We were watching everything trickle in from afar, scrolling through the feeds, following the updates, and hitting refresh like everyone else.

But along the way, we also came across a collection of videos posted by various YouTube channels that give us a look at the event straight from the audience. So we gathered a few of them here. So, check them out below.

📺 “MobLand: Season 2” Trailer: Tom Hardy Gets Caught in the Middle of a Fractured Crime Family in Hit British Gangster Series with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — Premiering Friday, September 18th on Paramount+

MobLand may have been built as a Tom Hardy vehicle, giving the actor plenty of room to unleash that familiar ferocious intensity inside a slick British gangster world. But the show’s real secret weapon might be Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who seem to be having an absolute blast. Playing against type, Brosnan and Mirren are Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, a married pair of mob bosses with questionable judgment and matching violent streaks. And when they feel even slightly threatened, they don’t exactly respond with restraint. In fact, their severe lack of self-control is why their entire empire is on the verge of collapsing to rubble.

Season 2 finds the Harrigans facing trouble from all sides as rising rivals begin circling their criminal dynasty, forcing Conrad and Maeve to put on a united front while tensions inside the family threaten to tear everything apart. Tom Hardy’s Harry Da Souza, a loyal foot soldier and fix-it man, is stuck in the middle, trying to keep the family’s problems contained while cleaning up their perpetual messes, which tend to involve plenty of dead bodies and escalating internal power struggles.

It’s nothing Harry hasn’t seen before, but working for the Harrigans isn’t a 9-to-5 job... it’s an all-consuming headache. And if his bosses keep making increasingly reckless decisions, he’ll soon realize that keeping them out of danger might be an impossible task. The sharks are circling, alliances are fracturing, and war is knocking at the door. Though instead of tap, tap, tap... it’s more like rat-a-tat-tat!

Also returning to Season 2 are Paddy Considine as Conrad and Maeve’s level-headed son Kevin Harrigan, Joanne Froggatt as Harry’s long-suffering wife Jan Da Souza, Anson Boon as Conrad and Maeve’s psychopathic, good-for-nothing grandson Eddie Harrigan, Mandeep Dhillon as Conrad’s illegitimate daughter Seraphina Harrigan, Janet McTeer as rival Kat McAllister, and Toby Jones as crooked detective Colin Tattersall.

Lara Pulver, Jasmine Jobson, and Teddie Allen are also returning, while Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond are joining the cast of this new season.

Created by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy, Gunpowder, The Day of the Jackal), the series is executive produced by Bennett, Guy Ritchie, Tom Hardy, and others, with Ritchie also directing a number of episodes, including Season 2’s opener.

MobLand has been a critical and ratings hit for Paramount+, despite rumors of on-set arguments between Hardy and producers. Nevertheless, the series will come roaring back Friday, September 18th on the streaming platform.

📺 “Neagley” Trailer: Maria Sten Steps Out on Her Own as Hard-Nosed Gumshoe Frances Neagley in Amazon’s ‘Reacher’ Spinoff Series with Alan Ritchson — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th on Prime Video

Just when you think Jack Reacher couldn’t get any bigger, think again! Sure, the dude has muscles on his muscles, and he’s built like a brick wall that somehow learned to strut from city to city. But we’re not talking about his physicality... we’re talking about his universe. Because believe it or not, the Reacher world is expanding.

Reacher’s close friend and trusted ally, Frances Neagley, is getting her own spinoff series. And if you ever thought, “Couldn’t this show use a little feminine perspective without losing its hard-hitting edge?” Well, this is exactly that moment you have been waiting for.

Danish actress Maria Sten, who spent three seasons guest-starring on Reacher, returns as ex-military investigator Frances Neagley, now working as a private eye in Chicago. But when the suspicious death of a close friend sends her looking for answers in the Windy City, she uncovers a larger conspiracy someone is determined to keep buried forever.

And as Reacher fans know all too well, whenever someone is murdered and cops start looking the other way, it can only mean one thing: someone needs to rattle the cage to see what shakes loose. And if Reacher ain’t there to do it, Neagley is more than ready to take on that fight herself.

Executive produced by co-showrunners Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton, along with Reacher author Lee Child, Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, and Lisa Kussner, the series also stars Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Jasper Jones, Matthew Del Negro, and Damon Herriman, with Alan Ritchson making a guest appearance as Jack Reacher.

Reacher may be dropping in for a visit, but make no mistake, Neagley is the one steering this ship. And from the looks of things, she suffers no fools, especially ones looking to test her patience. The new series is due to premiere Wednesday, September 16th on Prime Video.

📺 “Chad Powers: Season 2” Trailer: Glen Powell’s Disguised Quarterback Tries to Keep His Double Life From Falling Apart in Hulu’s Football Comedy — Premieres Thursday, September 3rd on Hulu / Disney +

Imagine if Ted Lasso and Mrs. Doubtfire had a baby. It would be Chad Powers. Now, that little metaphor works both as a literal mashup and a surprisingly accurate description of the show’s entire ridiculous premise.

Because, you see, it relies on the same kind of suspension of disbelief as Mrs. Doubtfire: somehow nobody recognizes the guy underneath all that prosthetic makeup, while still carrying the feel-good underdog DNA of Ted Lasso. Plus, in some weird metaphysical universe where Lasso and Doubtfire somehow managed to have a baby, you have to admit... it might look an awful lot like Chad Powers.

Glen Powell returns for Season 2 of his football comedy as disgraced quarterback Russ Holliday, whose fake alter ego has somehow gone from desperate second-chance disguise to bona fide college football superstar.

For those who haven’t kept up with the show, the premise is rather simple: a fallen and disgraced football star tries to stage a comeback by disguising himself as the socially awkward but surprisingly gifted Chad Powers and earning a spot on the struggling South Georgia Catfish. Now, keeping up the lie while leading his team to the playoffs becomes harder as coaches and teammates begin to suspect there’s more to their superstar quarterback than meets the eye.

Season 2 continues Chad’s struggles to keep his secret intact while the man behind the makeup, Russ Holliday (Powell), begins to favor his alter ego over the disgraced man he used to be. But something tells us the façade is all heading toward a breaking point, where this house of cards could come crashing down around both of them.

Created by Glen Powell and Michael Waldron (of Loki fame) and based on Eli Manning’s undercover prank segment from ESPN’s Eli’s Places (which, come to think of it, gives us yet another Ted Lasso connection), the series also sees the return of Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, and Frankie Rodriguez as Danny.

Chad Powers: Season 2 is slated to premiere September 3rd, with all six episodes dropping on Hulu / Disney+.

📺 “American Hostage” Trailer: Jon Hamm Faces a Live-On-Air Hostage Crisis in This True-Crime Thriller Series with Giovanni Ribisi — Premieres Sunday, September 20th on MGM+

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant kicked off this year with Dead Man’s Wire, the stranger-than-fiction true story of a 1977 hostage situation that held a media storm in Indianapolis captive for more than three days. Didn’t catch that one? Well, good news: the same bizarre story is getting another go-around, this time as an eight-part TV series starring Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. But instead of putting the hostage-taker at the center of the story, Hamm plays Fred Heckman, the real-life local radio reporter who suddenly found himself in the middle of an increasingly volatile three-day standoff.

In the upcoming limited series American Hostage, Giovanni Ribisi stars opposite Hamm as Tony Kiritsis, a frustrated homeowner who takes mortgage executive Dick Hall (played by Kristoffer Polaha) hostage with a shotgun rigged to a dead man’s switch, demanding to be interviewed live on Heckman’s radio program. Tony wants to tell his side of the story: how a failed real-estate deal left him facing foreclosure and convinced that Hall’s mortgage company had deliberately sabotaged him. Soon, word gets out to the local news, and Tony is quickly hailed as both a folk hero and a dangerous vigilante by the media and the public.

Meanwhile, Heckman (Hamm) isn’t just covering the story as an ordinary radio journalist—he’s becoming part of it. With police and hostage negotiators working around the clock to keep Kiritsis from escalating the situation any further, Heckman finds himself torn between reporting the truth and doing what feels morally right.

The bigger question? When does reporting on a story start to blur into total participation? And at what point does telling the truth start to change the story itself when the person telling it is directly involved? These seem to be the questions the series is most interested in exploring, which gives it a noticeably different angle from Gus Van Sant’s film.

Created and co-showrun by Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The Night Agent) and Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs), the series also stars Mireille Enos, William Jackson Harper, Jonathan Tucker, and Kat Cunning, with Adam Arkin and Nina Lopez-Corrado directing and executive producing.

American Hostage will have a two-episode premiere on Sunday, September 20th on MGM+.

📺 “A Tale of Two Cities” Trailer: Kit Harington Trades Westeros for the French Revolution in This New Four-Part Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Classic With Mirren Mack and François Civil — Premiering Sunday, September 6th on MGM+

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”

To be fair, for many of us who first encountered those famous opening words in school, their meaning likely went right over our heads. These days, though, that sentiment feels more relevant than ever. From George R.R. Martin to Charles Dickens, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington moves from one sprawling world of power, politics, and bloodshed to another in this new four-part adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel about lives caught in the growing fury of the French Revolution. Harington stars as Sydney Carton, a brilliant but erratic 18th-century lawyer drawn into the tangled affairs of Lucie Manette (Mirren Mack, of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) and accused French émigré Charles Darnay (François Civil, of Beating Hearts). As Lucie searches for the father she thought she had lost forever, she, Sydney, and Charles find themselves caught in a knotty triangle of love, respect, and sacrifice, just as revolution begins to erupt in Paris. Created and written by Daniel West (Gunpowder, Top Boy) and directed by Richard Clark (Outlander, Doctor Who), the limited series turns Dickens’s familiar tale into an intimate story of how living through great times can often mean surviving the worst of them.

📺 “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” Teaser: Ella Beatty Takes Up the Axe as Lizzie Borden in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix True-Crime Anthology with Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall — Debuting Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

Just when you thought Ryan Murphy had run out of American true-crime folk-horror tales to revisit, here comes another swing of the axe, so to speak. Sure, you’ve heard that famous twisted nursery rhyme before, and maybe even know the story behind the trial, but this time Lizzie Borden gets the full Ryan Murphy treatment as she becomes the latest subject of his and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology. Starring Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) as the notorious accused axe murderer, the series heads back to 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts, where the brutal deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden turned Lizzie into one of America’s most enduring true-crime legends. Charlie Hunnam, coming off an Emmy-nominated performance as serial killer Ed Gein, joins Rebecca Hall as Lizzie’s father and stepmother, while Billie Lourd, Vicky Krieps, Jessica Barden, and Sarah Paulson round out the cast. The rhyme may end with 41 whacks, but Murphy and Brennan seem far more interested in everything that made the story so infamous in the first place. And in their hands, you better believe Lizzie Borden’s story is going to get... dare we say, pretty blunt.

📺 “American Horror Story: Season 13 (AHS 13)” Teaser: Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk Bring Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, and Kathy Bates Back as the Anthology Digs Into Its Own Past — Premiering Thursday, September 24th on FX, via Hulu / Disney+

If you had told us a horror anthology series from Ryan Murphy would last more than a decade, we probably would’ve had our doubts. But here we are! Another year. Another new season... and another reason to lose a little sleep. Like always, this new installment starts from scratch while bringing back some familiar faces for an all-new horror story that reaches deep into the anthology’s canon. Season 13 will draw on earlier seasons, including Murder House, Coven, Hotel, and Apocalypse, with returning performers and fan-favorite characters coming back as well. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, and Emma Roberts are among the familiar faces returning, with Ariana Grande joining the ensemble for this latest trip into the AHS universe. After twelve seasons of screams, it looks like the past is finally coming back to haunt everyone.

📺 “Last Seen” Trailer: Patrick Brammall Chases a Voice He Believes Is His Missing Daughter in Apple TV’s Six-Part Australian Thriller with Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell — Streaming Wednesday, September 9th on Apple TV

When you call emergency services, your best hope is a dispatcher trained to hear every tiny detail. But what if one of those details happens to be a voice and a name he thought he’d never hear again? In this new thriller series, Australian actor Patrick Brammall (Colin from Accounts) stars as a former detective turned police dispatcher who picks up an emergency call from a distressed young woman and becomes convinced she is his long-lost daughter, who vanished eleven years earlier. The mystery behind the caller’s identity sends him back into the case that destroyed his family, forcing him to risk his job, his judgment, and whatever is left of his broken family’s peace for a glimmer of impossible hope. Co-starring Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell, and based on Ryan David Jahn’s novel The Dispatcher, this new Aussie import asks how far a parent would go for one more chance to bring a lost child home.

📺 “The Paper: Season 2” Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson Chases a New Journalistic Goal in Greg Daniels and Michael Koman’s ‘Office’ Spinoff with Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei & Oscar Nuñez — Premiering Wednesday, September 9th on Peacock

Reporting on the news isn’t just about getting the story right. Sometimes it’s about surviving the people sitting three desks away. Domhnall Gleeson returns as Ned Sampson, the well-meaning editor of the Toledo Truth-Teller, where a recent sweep at the Ohio Journalism Awards has given his scrappy newsroom a little more confidence than it probably knows what to do with. This Office spinoff from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman heads into Season 2 with Ned searching for a new journalistic crusade, only to set his sights on a powerful local private club while putting the paper’s hard-earned comeback at risk. Joining Gleeson are Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Ramona Young, and returning Office alum Oscar Nuñez as the cameras keep rolling on a small-town newsroom that may be covering local stories, but still has more than enough drama of its own... especially during hurricane season.

📺 “Crew Girl” Trailer: Miku Martineau Rocks the Boat to Fight for Her Future in Netflix’s New Coming-of-Age Rowing Drama — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Netflix

Moving to a new school is never easy for a teenager. Moving into one where your sports career and your future both need rebuilding is an entirely different challenge. In this new coming-of-age Netflix series, Miku Martineau (Kate, Star Trek: Section 31) stars as Teagan, a gifted young rower who, after a public scandal involving her father’s shady business practices leaves him on the run, transfers to a local prep school with no girls’ team, forcing her to take the only seat available: coxswain for a boys’ varsity crew. To get back on the water, she’ll have to win over a boat full of ego-inflated boys who aren’t exactly eager to follow the new girl’s lead. Also co-starring Mad Men’s Jessica Paré, along with Sam Braun, Kyle Clark, and Thomas Cadrot, this Vivian Lin-created teen drama steers prep-school pressure, family fallout, and competitive rowing toward one question: can Teagan make the team move as one before the boat, along with her whole future, sinks with it?

📺 “Coven Academy” Teaser: Teenage Witches Take On Growing Pains, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Forces in This New Supernatural Coming-of-Age Series Starring Malina Pauli Weissman and Tiffani Thiessen — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on Freeform, Disney+ / Hulu

Every teenager has growing pains, but when those teenagers are witches, well... those growing pains tend to come with spells, secrets, and a little supernatural trouble. In this new supernatural coming-of-age series, Malina Pauli Weissman (from Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Saved by the Bell icon Tiffani Thiessen star in a story about three teenage witches-in-training who must learn to control their unpredictable powers while protecting New Orleans from dangerous ancient forces. You know the story! Young teens with powers are basically young teens with hormones: unpredictable, emotional, and occasionally explosive. Throw in a little witchiness, forbidden love, and supernatural danger, and you’ve got a coming-of-age series built for the Halloween season. Co-starring Malachi Barton, Louis Thresher, and Jordan Leftwich, and created by Tim Federle (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series), sometimes all a teen has to do is work a little magic.

📺 “Adults: Season 2” Trailer: Five Roommates Keep Failing Their Way Through Adulthood in FX’s Ensemble Comedy with Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele — Returns Thursday, August 27th on FXX and Hulu / Disney+

Adulthood is hard. Especially for a group of roommates who can barely keep their own lives together, let alone each other’s. In the second season of this Nick Kroll-produced comedy series, Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Issa (Amita Rao), and Anton (Owen Thiele) are back under one roof, still trying to figure out jobs, relationships, loyalty, and that whole capital-R Responsibility thing. While they may be getting older, actually growing up remains very much a work in progress. Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, being an adult isn’t exactly something this group has mastered yet, but that doesn’t stop them from trying.

📺 “The Perfect Lie” Trailer: Loes Haverkort Joins a Wealthy Dining Club Where Secrets Turn Deadly in Netflix’s Dutch Psychological Thriller Series — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Netflix

In this new Dutch psychological thriller series based on Saskia Noort’s bestseller, the perfect dinner party only works if everyone knows which secrets stay off the table. After moving her family to a well-to-do neighborhood in Bergen, Karen (Loes Haverkort) is welcomed into an exclusive circle of wealthy couples whose extravagant dinners belong to a carefully refined social world built on status and silence. But when a villa burns and a friend (Edwin Jonker) dies, that easygoing intimacy begins to crack, sending Karen after answers that expose adultery, jealousy, financial schemes, and loyalties strong enough to protect... and kill for. Sometimes the most dangerous lie is the one everybody agrees to keep.

📺 “Mousetrap” Trailer: A Desperate Writer Has His Identity Stolen and Turns to a Ruthless Loan Shark for Help in Netflix’s New Korean Thriller Series Starring Ryu Jun-yeol and Sul Kyung-gu — Premiering Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Money can be lost. Status can disappear. But the most precious thing a person owns is their identity. And once that’s taken, what exactly is left? In this new Korean psychological crime thriller series, a reclusive novelist (Ryu Jun-yeol) discovers that a mysterious figure known as the Rat has stolen his identity and taken control of his life. In an attempt to reclaim it, the writer turns to the ruthless loan shark (Sul Kyung-gu) who once hunted him over money, forming an unlikely alliance to track down the man who replaced him. Created by Kim Hong-sun and Lee Jae-gon and based on Ludvico’s webtoon Field Mouse, this thriller suggests that sometimes, to catch a rat, you have to step into the trap yourself.

📺 “Four Hands, Two Sonatas” Trailer: Song Kang and Lee Jun-young Turn Piano Rivalry Into Something Deeper in This Korean Coming-of-Age Drama — Streams Saturday, August 29th on Netflix

Two pianists. One keyboard. And enough ambition to burn through every note. In this new Korean coming-of-age series, Song Kang and Lee Jun-young play two young musicians from opposite worlds whose rivalry at an elite music school slowly gives way to friendship and something neither of them was quite prepared for. Written by Shin Yi-won and directed by Park Hyun-suk (Stranger 2, Song of the Bandits), the series reminds us that a little competition can bring out the best and worst in us. But once two musicians start playing in sync, no matter what brought them there, music becomes the main thing holding them together.

📺 “Death of the Pastor’s Wife” Trailer: The Troubling Marriage and Shocking Death of Mica Miller Are Examined in Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Documentary Series — Premiering Wednesday, August 26th on Netflix

Marriage is supposed to be about love, companionship, and maybe even a little happily ever after. Well, Netflix is about to ruin that lovely idea with another chilling true-crime story about a marriage that went horribly wrong. In this new three-part true-crime documentary series, directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Mike Gasparro examine the life and death of Mica Miller, whose marriage to Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller became the focus of troubling allegations. Through firsthand accounts and previously unseen footage, friends and family begin piecing together the circumstances that surrounded Mica’s life before her shocking death. What they find only raises more questions than answers, pushing them to look closer at what was happening behind closed doors.

📺 “Tea with Judi Dench” Trailer: Judi Dench Sits Down with Close Friend Ian McKellen for Tea and Stories — Premiering Monday, August 31st on SKY in the U.K.

We can’t think of anyone better than Judi Dench to sit down and share a cup of tea with. And when she’s sharing that tea with one of her closest friends, like Sir Ian McKellen, you know the conversation will be well worth your time. In this new British television special, Dench and McKellen sit down for a spot of tea and have a nice chat about six decades onstage, Shakespeare, fame, stage fright, success, failure, and the insecurities they never quite get over. It’s just two close friends spinning tales, trading memories, and reflecting on lives spent in the spotlight. Now who’s up for a little tea time with Dench?

📺 “Ludwig: Series 2” Trailer: David Mitchell Returns to Crack an Impossible Murder Case While Chasing the Mystery of His Missing Twin — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the U.K.

If you need to solve a murder, call the police. But if you need to solve a murder that looks more like a puzzle, call Ludwig. British comedian David Mitchell, of Peep Show fame, returns as master puzzle-setter John “Ludwig” Taylor, who’s now officially working as a crime-scene consultant for the Cambridge Police Authority. But when his identical twin brother remains missing, Ludwig finds himself juggling impossible murder cases with the one mystery he still can’t solve. Also co-starring Anna Maxwell Martin, Dipo Ola, Ralph Ineson, Karl Pilkington, Mark Bonnar, and Sian Clifford, the second season gives Ludwig plenty of new suspects, secrets, and impossible clues to untangle.

📺 “Stillwater: Season 5” Trailer: Apple TV’s Peabody-Winning Panda Returns with More Gentle Lessons, Big Feelings, and a Little Humor — Debuts Friday, August 21st on Apple TV

It’s the Peabody-winning children’s show that proves sometimes the best way to work through a problem is to slow down and have a little fun. In this new fifth season, Stillwater the panda returns, once again helping siblings Karl, Addy, and Michael navigate the everyday frustrations and feelings that can seem pretty enormous when you’re a kid. Based on Jon J Muth’s bestselling Zen book series, this animated Apple TV favorite uses earnest stories and a little humor to remind us that sometimes changing how you look at a problem can make all the difference.

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🎥 “Verity” Trailer: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson & Josh Hartnett Get Tangled in This Tawdry Psychological Thriller Based on Colleen Hoover’s Bestselling Novel — In Theaters October 2nd

The surprise box office success of last year’s The Housemaid proved there’s a pretty sizable audience out there for shamelessly trashy thrillers about two women entering the same beautiful home and quickly realizing there probably isn’t enough room for both of them.

Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried turned domestic routine into a twisted game of psychological warfare, and audiences clearly enjoyed watching them go at it. Meanwhile, perhaps to a lesser degree, the recent The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake took another swing at that same familiar setup: an outsider steps into someone else’s family, gets a little too comfortable, and before long the home becomes a battleground. Because in these kinds of thrillers, letting the wrong person through the front door is usually just the first bad decision of many.

Now Verity looks ready to join that particular club. You know, the tawdry psychological-thriller club, only this time with Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and Josh Hartnett adding a nice layer of psychosexual tension to the whole thing.

Only Johnson isn’t here to clean the house or watch the kids. She’s stepping into the home of a woman who, at least on the surface, doesn’t appear capable of putting up much of a fight.

Anne Hathaway, who certainly seems game to get down and dirty in this genre, plays the other woman in this scenario. And judging by the trailer, she may be the most dangerous person in the house despite being a world-famous novelist who, after a recent accident, has been left nearly paralyzed and unable to speak or move on her own.

Johnson plays a ghostwriter who has been brought in by the publisher to find out why Hathaway’s character hasn’t finished her book and, if possible, write the remaining pages before the impending deadline. It’s a job that requires Johnson to study the author’s writing voice, dig through her private notes, and poke around in her personal life, including getting a little too close to Hathaway’s husband, played here by Josh Hartnett.

Obviously, trying to step into someone else’s identity can blur a few boundaries. But what happens when you start becoming a little too comfortable living their life? And what happens when the woman you’re slowly becoming turns out to be someone you probably should have been running from in the first place?

Judging from the footage, that may be exactly what this film is going for, with Hathaway’s character seemingly manipulating Johnson, pulling her deeper into secrets she never wanted uncovered.

And we wouldn’t blame you if you think this is all some kind of twisted psychosexual game Hathaway’s character is playing, because judging by the trailer, that may be exactly what’s going on.

And just a quick note: Hathaway has turned 2026 into one hell of a year for her career, coming off The Devil Wears Prada sequel and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. But what really stands out is how willing she’s been to take on some pretty audacious roles. No two characters she’s played this year feel remotely the same. And this might be one of the strangest characters Hathaway has taken on this year. And remember, it’s the same year that also includes Mother Mary.

Based on the bestselling novel by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover, Verity is directed by Michael Showalter, the comedian-turned-filmmaker behind The Big Sick and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The script comes from TV writer-producer Nick Antosca, whose credits include The Act, Channel Zero, and the recent Cape Fear remake series.

The film is due to arrive in theaters October 2nd.

🎥 “Paper Tiger” Teaser Trailer: Adam Driver and Miles Teller Walk Into Trouble in James Gray’s Throwback New York Crime Drama with Scarlett Johansson — In Select Theaters November 13th, Nationwide November 20th

Anyone with an inkling of filmmaker James Gray’s work knows that New York City is his signature setting. It’s his north star. His home base. Gray began his career with gritty New York crime dramas, starting with his impressive 1994 debut, Little Odessa, set within the Russian-Jewish community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He followed it with films like The Yards and We Own the Night, once again exploring New York crime, local law enforcement, and the families caught in the middle.

Gray, much like many New York-born filmmakers, has his own point of view on what the city means to him. And like all great New York filmmakers, no two perspectives are exactly the same. Martin Scorsese’s New York isn’t Woody Allen’s New York. Spike Lee’s Brooklyn isn’t Sidney Lumet’s Manhattan. Each filmmaker sees the city through their own experiences, families, and memories.

For Gray, New York has often been a deeply personal place, less a postcard version of the city than a collection of neighborhoods and communities where family history, ambition, loyalty, and regret all seem to live on the same block.

And likely because he was raised on 1970s cinema, Gray seems to have a strong affinity for that era. It’s an influence that runs throughout his filmography, from the atmosphere and deliberate ’70s-style pacing to morally complicated characters who constantly toe the line between right and wrong.

And while Gray has stepped outside that world with films like the historical explorer drama The Lost City of Z and the Brad Pitt–starring astronaut thriller Ad Astra, he returned home for something personal with his semi-autobiographical 2022 drama Armageddon Time. Once again set in New York, it offered a fascinating exploration of privilege between two historically marginalized yet very different families, set against the social divides of early-1980s New York.

Now, with Paper Tiger, it feels like Gray has come full circle. He’s back in familiar territory with a throwback early 1980s New York crime story that feels like a mix of classic Lumet, the grittiness of Scorsese, and the kind of morally murky character drama that Gray has been drawn to since the beginning of his career.

Starring Miles Teller, Adam Driver, and Scarlett Johansson, Paper Tiger centers on two brothers pursuing what seems like a promising opportunity, only to be drawn into something far more dangerous than either of them expected.

Here, Driver and Teller play Gary and Irwin Pearl. Gary is a well-connected former police detective running around the city with his fingers in various schemes. His ties to the Russian mafia may have inadvertently put both him and his family in serious danger. Meanwhile, Irwin is an engineer and family man who lives with his wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson) and their two sons. Struggling to get by, he never fully realizes just how much trouble his brother’s connections could bring to their doorstep, let alone how quickly Gary’s problems could become his own.

Two brothers, one city, and one deal that could cost them everything. In other words, it’s classic James Gray.

Written and directed by Gray, Paper Tiger is set to premiere next month at New York Film Festival before landing in select theaters November 13th, followed by a nationwide rollout on November 20th.

🎥 “Josephine” Trailer: Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan Fight to Protect Their Daughter in Beth de Araújo’s Sundance-Winning Drama — In Theaters November 20th

Protecting an innocent child isn’t just a parent’s duty; it’s an entire society’s responsibility to keep them safe. At least, that’s the general consensus, right?

This new film starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan will explore what happens when that sense of responsibility begins to break down. When parents face one of their greatest fears, yet must also contend with a whole system meant to protect their child that instead begins to work against them.

In the upcoming thought-provoking drama Josephine, Tatum and Chan star as the loving parents of an eight-year-old girl who becomes the sole witness to a brutal crime. While playing in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Josephine (played by newcomer Mason Reeves in her acting debut) witnesses a savage act of violence while hiding behind a tree.

When she tells her parents what happened, they do what any parent would do: report it to the proper authorities. But as the process of seeking justice begins to drag on, Josephine starts to unravel under the weight of what she saw.

First, the trauma begins to take a toll on Josephine and her parents. Then comes an even harder question: what exactly did she see, and how much of it can she still remember clearly? As her account comes under greater scrutiny, the pressure only builds on a family already struggling to keep it together.

Written and directed by Beth de Araújo, following up her acclaimed debut thriller Soft & Quiet, Josephine premiered earlier this year to rave reviews at Sundance, where it was awarded both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.

The film is already being touted as one of the year’s best, with Mason Reeves’ debut performance earning particular praise. And judging from the trailer, it certainly looks like an intense and emotionally raw experience. It will likely be a stomach-turning ordeal for any parent who has ever worried about being unable to protect their child from the ugliness of the world.

Josephine is arriving in theaters November 20th.

August is in full effect, and while the summer movie season may be winding down, this week is surprisingly packed with new releases. Some big, some small, and plenty in between. Unlike the last couple of weeks, there’s actually a little bit of everything arriving over the next few days.

Television, meanwhile, is taking a bit of a breather. That doesn’t mean there aren’t a few big-ticket shows worth checking out, but for once, the movies are doing most of the heavy lifting.

So, like always, we’ve rounded up most of the major releases coming this week, both on the big screen and the small. And we won’t judge you if you have no idea what’s coming out. At this point, with new movies and shows dropping across every platform imaginable, keeping track of the release calendar can feel like a full-time job.

That’s where we come in. We’ve sorted through the pile and put together a handy list of what’s arriving over the next several days. So scroll down and enjoy!

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🎥 KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS
(Wed, Aug 12th — limited theatrical screenings)

KATSEYE pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to become a global pop group. Following the members from the pressure cooker of Dream Academy through viral success, chart milestones, personal setbacks, and plenty of sacrifices along the way, the documentary shows there’s a lot more happening behind the scenes than the polished performances suggest. Mixing intimate interviews and unseen footage with videos from their EYEKONS fan community, the film captures everything that went into shaping KATSEYE’s rise.

🎥 The End of Oak Street
(Fri, Aug 14th — wide release)

There goes the neighborhood! But to where is the real question? Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as parents who are suddenly forced to hold their family together after a cosmic event rips their once-familiar neighborhood out of suburbia and drops it into a strange prehistoric world. Written and directed by It Follows filmmaker David Robert Mitchell, this sci-fi mystery turns ordinary suburbia into hostile prehistoric terrain, where roaming dinosaurs are now part of the neighborhood.

🎥 The Rivals of Amziah King
(Fri, Aug 14th — wide release)

Things are about to get sticky in rural Oklahoma. Matthew McConaughey stars as Amziah King, a bluegrass-loving beekeeper running a successful honey operation with a ragtag group of misfits. Things get complicated when his estranged foster daughter Kateri (Angelina LookingGlass) returns after a devastating loss, giving the two a chance to repair their relationship, while a dangerous local bigwig (Kurt Russell) looks to muscle in on Amziah’s business. Written and directed by The Vast of Night’s Andrew Patterson, this mixes family, bluegrass, and beekeeping with a fight over who gets to control the hive.

🎥 The Wrong Girls
(Fri, Aug 14th — wide release)

There are the right people for the job, and then there are Frankie and Molly. Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat star as two bong-loving best friends whose latest get-rich scheme goes completely sideways after they swallow an entire vial of an experimental psychedelic drug instead of selling it. Now they may have developed telepathic powers, their cats can talk, and some very dangerous people want what they’ve got. Written and directed by Dylan Meyer and also starring LaKeith Stanfield, Kate McKinnon, Geena Davis, with Seth Rogen lending his voice to one of the cats, this wild stoner comedy suggests that sometimes getting high isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

🎥 PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
(Fri, Aug 14th — wide release)

The PAW Patrol pups are going prehistoric. After a mysterious storm sends their ship crashing onto an uncharted island, the team finds itself surrounded by dinosaurs. There they meet Rex, a dino-savvy pup who knows the island well. But when Mayor Humdinger starts mining for natural resources and accidentally wakes a dormant volcano, the pups must stop him and save the island before their latest adventure ends in extinction.

🎥 The Brink of War
(Fri, Aug 14th — wide release)

The Cold War was at a breaking point and one false move could have changed everything. Jeff Daniels stars as President Ronald Reagan opposite Jared Harris as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the two attempt to negotiate a deal to reduce their nuclear arsenals. With U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz (J.K. Simmons) caught in the pressure, this historical drama revisits a moment when a single meeting could move the world toward peace, or dangerously close to catastrophe.

🎥 Six: The Musical Live!
(Fri, Aug 14th — One Night Only Theatrical Event)

The Tony Award-winning musical turns Tudor history into a full-blown pop concert, and now it’s becoming a one-night-only theatrical event. Captured live at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, this filmed performance reunites the six original West End Queens as the wives of Henry VIII step out of his shadow and take center stage to tell their side of the story with powerhouse vocals, sharp humor, and plenty of attitude.

🎥 Nimrods
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release)

Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman, and Ryan Foust star as three high school friends and bandmates who think they’ve landed the gig of a lifetime: opening for Green Day on New Year’s Eve. The only problem? It’s all an elaborate prank. Hitting the road for Los Angeles armed with guitars and big dreams, they find themselves chasing a rock-star fantasy that quickly becomes one bad decision after another. Written and directed by Lee Kirk and also starring Mckenna Grace and Jenna Fischer, this coming-of-age rock comedy features Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool appearing as themselves.

🎥 Union County
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release)

Recovery is only the beginning of a long road. Will Poulter stars as Cody Parsons, an Ohio man trying to put his life back together after completing a court-mandated rehab program. Recovering from drug addiction, Cody is left to face the much harder challenge of staying sober and figuring out what comes next. Noah Centineo co-stars as his brother Jack, who is also fighting his own share of personal demons. Written and directed by Adam Meeks, this grounded indie drama focuses on the everyday struggle of recovery rather than turning addiction into another salacious headline.

🎥 All Night Wrong
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release)

Some first dates end with an awkward goodbye. This one comes with a stolen car, a backpack full of cash, and a bloodied body in the trunk. Zach Cherry and Maria Bakalova star as two online strangers whose hookup turns into a night of increasingly bad decisions after they wind up with a car belonging to someone dangerous. Calling the police isn’t an option, and surviving the night may be the closest either gets to a happy ending.

🎥 American Doctor
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; in select theaters)

Three American doctors from Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian backgrounds enter Gaza with the same goal: save lives. Director Poh Si Teng’s vérité documentary follows them inside besieged hospitals, where devastated infrastructure and mass casualties turn even basic medical care into an enormous challenge. But what they witness doesn’t stay behind when they return home. Back in the United States, the doctors take their experiences into the media and the halls of Congress, speaking out for the patients and colleagues they left behind as medicine and politics become increasingly difficult to separate.

🎥 An Eye for an Eye
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; via Jolt.Film)

Tahereh killed her abusive husband in self-defense. Now her life depends on whether her family can raise the money demanded by his relatives. Directors Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari follow her son Mohsen as he races to secure the Diya and the forgiveness that could stop his mother’s execution. Through private negotiations and legal pressure, the documentary examines a system shaped by patriarchal values and religious law, where money can ultimately determine who lives and who dies.

🎥 Elijah Peel
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release)

Robert Malcolm Cumming stars as Elijah Peel, a fading rock star whose years of addiction and excess catch up with him after a heart attack nearly kills him. Forced to face the damage left behind, Elijah begins searching for a second chance. Inspired by a true story, this drama follows his path toward faith, healing, and forgiveness, as a friendship helps him find a reason to keep going when giving up might have been easier.

🎥 Train to Busan: 10th Anniversary
(Fri, Aug 14th — re-release)

All aboard for one of the wildest train rides in modern zombie cinema. Yeon Sang-ho’s now-classic horror thriller traps a father and daughter on a speeding train as a zombie outbreak tears across South Korea, turning every carriage into another fight to stay alive. Starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Don Lee, and Kim Su-an, this 10th anniversary 4K theatrical re-release brings all the panic, momentum, and heartbreak back to the big screen. Just remember to fasten your seat belt... if you can find one.

🎥 Your Name: 10th Anniversary
(Fri, Aug 14th — re-release)

Body-swapping is complicated enough without discovering your connection might be written in the stars. This beloved 2016 anime romance returns in a new 4K remaster for its 10th anniversary. Rural teenager Mitsuha and Tokyo student Taki begin waking up in each other’s bodies, but when the switching suddenly stops, Taki goes looking for her and discovers their strange bond may be tied to something much bigger.

🎥 Wet Hot American Summer: 25th Anniversary
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; re-release)

David Wain’s 2001 cult comedy returns to theaters for its 25th anniversary, reminding audiences just how ridiculously chaotic the last day of summer camp can get. Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Molly Shannon, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, and more make up the stacked ensemble as romances fall apart, a talent show approaches, and NASA’s Skylab threatens to come crashing down. After two and a half decades, it’s still one of the strangest and funniest ways to say goodbye to summer.

🎥 Mysterious Skin: 4K Remaster
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; re-release)

Gregg Araki’s acclaimed adaptation of Scott Heim’s novel returns to theaters in a new 4K restoration. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet star as Neil and Brian, two young men whose lives have gone in very different directions since childhood. While Neil has become reckless and emotionally distant, Brian believes he was abducted by a UFO. When their paths cross again, buried memories begin to surface, forcing both to confront the painful truth connecting their pasts.

🎥 Gypsy 83: The Director’s Cut
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; in NY’s Quad)

Todd Stephens’ 2001 queer goth road movie is heading back to theaters in a newly restored 4K director’s cut. Sara Rue and Birkett Turton star as Gypsy and Clive, two Ohio misfits who hit the road for New York’s Stevie Nicks-themed festival, “Night of 1000 Stevies,” hoping to find a place where they actually belong. Expanded with more than 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage, this 25th anniversary release is a coming-of-age road trip fueled by black eyeliner, big dreams, The Cure, and a whole lot of Stevie Nicks.

🎥 Billy Liar: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Aug 14th — limited release; in NY’s Film Forum)

Fantasy is cheaper than freedom, at least for Billy Fisher. Directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man), this 1963 British New Wave classic returns in a new 4K restoration. Tom Courtenay stars in the title role as a young undertaker’s clerk who spends most of his time escaping into elaborate daydreams, even as his job, family, and increasingly tangled love life keep dragging him back to reality. Also starring Julie Christie, this sharp comedy-drama gives Billy’s restless imagination another chance to run wild on the big screen.

🎥 Point Break: 35th Anniversary
(Sun, Aug 16th & Wed, Aug 19th — re-release)

Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action classic returns to theaters in restored 4K, with Keanu Reeves starring as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who goes undercover among Southern California surfers while hunting the masked bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents. Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi pulls Johnny deeper into a world of freedom, danger, and “pure adrenaline,” turning a simple investigation into something far more personal. Thirty-five years later, the rush still hits like a tidal wave.

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🎥 “Primetime” Trailer: Robert Pattinson Steps Into the Uncomfortable World of Dateline Host Chris Hansen in This New True-Crime Drama About the Rise of the Hidden-Camera Sting Series ‘To Catch a Predator’ — Hitting Theaters September 25th

Robert Pattinson is having a hell of a year. He kicked off 2026 with the thought-provoking relationship drama The Drama, starring opposite Zendaya as a couple rethinking their wedding after a devastating revelation. He then shared the screen with her again, among many other big-name stars, in Christopher Nolan’s summer epic The Odyssey. Pattinson is also set to reunite with Zendaya one more time later this year in the highly anticipated Dune: Part Three.

But in one of the rare Pattinson projects this year without Zendaya in the credits, he’s stepping into a very different kind of spotlight. Which is good, because we were beginning to think these two had become a package deal.

In Primetime, Pattinson plays Chris Hansen (yes, that Chris Hansen!) in a drama inspired by the rise of the Dateline program To Catch a Predator, where hidden cameras, police stings, television ethics, and the hunger for appointment viewing all get tangled up in one very uncomfortable broadcast machine.

Directed by Lance Oppenheim, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed documentary Some Kind of Heaven, the film seems to examine how true crime, reality television, and law enforcement can become a messy combination that may start with good intentions but eventually turns justice into something made for the cameras. It raises the question: Where is the line between watching online predators face consequences and turning that deeply disturbing, awkward confrontation into primetime entertainment?

Also co-starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers, Matthew Maher, and Bokeem Woodbine, Primetime looks to give Pattinson one more unconventional role in a year already full of big swings. And judging from what he’s done already, he seems right at home taking the strangest possible parts and still finding new ways to surprise us.

Primetime is set to open in theaters September 25th.

🎥 “Insidious: Out of the Further” Final Trailer: A Young Mother Opens the Door to The Further in Blumhouse’s Latest Supernatural Horror Sequel Starring Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, and Lin Shaye — Arriving in Theaters August 21st

To be totally honest, when we think of successful horror franchises, Insidious might not be the first one that comes to mind. But five movies in, this franchise has quietly become one of Blumhouse’s most reliable horror film series in its catalog. And if you think about it, it makes sense, since every family has an innate fear of an unseen force that could possibly harm the people closest to them.

Now, with Insidious: Out of the Further, the franchise is opening the door one more time. Only in this case, The Further may not be where the living get trapped. It may be where the dead finally find their way out. And that could only mean one thing: home is about to become the scariest place to hide.

Starring Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and franchise regular Lin Shaye as spiritual medium Elise Rainier, Insidious: Out of the Further follows a young mother who discovers she can travel into The Further, only to realize she can also bring its demons back with her. While raising her young daughter in the house where she grew up, Gemma’s connection to the spirit realm turns from a terrifying gift to an open invitation, as the evil inside The Further begins looking for a way into the living world.

Horror filmmaker Jacob Chase, who previously turned his short film Larry into the 2020 supernatural thriller Come Play, writes and directs this new installment, seemingly bringing his brand of creepy childhood terror into the Insidious universe.

So, if you’re looking for a good little scare with plenty of the franchise’s signature jump scares this month, this one might do the trick as the film heads into the tail end of summer, turning those last warm nights into something a little more... shall we say, insidious.

Produced by franchise creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, along with Jason Blum, Insidious: Out of the Further opens August 21st.

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🎥 “Sacrifice” International Trailer: Chris Evans Gets Chosen for Human Sacrifice in Romain Gavras’ Darkly Satirical Eco-Hostage Caper Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, and Charli XCX, — Coming Soon

Chris Evans has a reputation for being one of those rare Hollywood stars who doesn’t seem too full of himself, which makes this a pretty perfect bit of casting, since he plays a world-famous actor very much trapped inside his own bloated ego. In this new darkly satirical hostage caper, Evans stars as Mike Tyler, a big-time movie star attending a glamorous charity gala when a radical eco-terrorist group, led by Anya Taylor-Joy, storms the event and selects him as one of three human sacrifices meant to save the planet. Directed by music-video veteran Romain Gavras, following up his much-underseen French riot thriller Athena, his latest feature turns celebrity vanity, billionaire excess, and apocalyptic belief into one very chaotic night. Also starring Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel, Ambika Mod, Sam Richardson, John Malkovich, and Charli XCX, the film suggests that saving the world may require a little “sacrifice,” so why not choose the people already acting like they own it?

🎥 “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” Trailer: John Turturro Plays a Veteran Pickpocket Caught in a Cashless City in Noah Segan’s New York Crime Flick with Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tatiana Maslany — In NY and LA October 23rd, Followed by a Nationwide Release on October 30th

Welcome to New York City, where you always have to stay alert because you never know who might be reaching for what isn’t theirs. John Turturro stars as a veteran pickpocket trying to survive in a cashless city in this new crime comedy-drama, alongside Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Turturro’s Harry Lehman lives carefully and quietly, until one lifted wallet leaves him holding a valuable USB drive and running from a crime family that wants it back. In a city this big, one bad grab can make everything feel very small in a hurry. Written and directed by actor-filmmaker Noah Segan, known for his collaborations with Rian Johnson, the film is billed as a warts-and-all love letter to New York, where the old-school thief is becoming just as endangered as the cash he used to steal.

🎥 “The X-Files: I Want to Believe — Vrach Frankenshteyn” Trailer: Chris Carter’s Long-Rumored Director’s Cut Brings Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) Back to a Darker X-Files Case — Streams August 14th on Hulu / Disney+

After years of rumors and one recent false-start release date, Chris Carter is finally getting to premiere his director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The darker new version, titled Vrach Frankenshteyn, brings Mulder and Scully (played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) back into one of their most unsettling standalone cases, involving a missing FBI agent, a disgraced priest with psychic visions (played by Billy Connolly) and a frozen trail leading toward human experimentation and body-horror secrets. This cut, which fans have been anticipating for years, is said to restore Carter’s original horror-driven vision, giving the 2008 film a more disturbing shape than the version that first hit theaters. So, the truth is still out there, only now it looks a lot uglier.

🎥 “Madden” New Promo: Nicolas Cage Becomes Legendary Football Coach-Commentator John Madden in David O. Russell’s Biographical Sports Drama with Christian Bale as Raiders Owner Al Davis — Premiering November 18th on Prime Video

If you think NFL football, you think John Madden. And if you think November, you probably think of the annual Thanksgiving football game. But this year, Nicolas Cage is giving the calendar another reason to circle the month. David O. Russell’s new Amazon original sports drama, now set for Nov. 18th, follows Madden (played by Cage under heavy prosthetic makeup) from his days reshaping the Oakland Raiders with Al Davis (played by Christian Bale under considerably less prosthetic work) to his second act as a broadcasting icon and the name behind one of the most influential football video games ever made. Kathryn Hahn co-stars as Madden’s beloved wife Virginia in a story about the coach, communicator, and larger-than-life personality who helped change how America watched, played, and understood the game.

🎥 “The Deputy” Trailer: Duke Nicholson Loses a Corpse and Uncovers a Small-Town Conspiracy in This Offbeat Crime Flick with William H. Macy, Stephen Dorff, Julia Fox, Billie Lourd, and Tiffany Haddish — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital September 25th

First rule of a crime scene: make sure the dead body is secured. But in a small town full of buried secrets, even corpses have a way of disappearing. Duke Nicholson, Jack Nicholson’s grandson, makes his leading-role debut as a rookie deputy assigned to guard a dead body, only to watch his simple assignment spiral into a conspiracy involving decades of corruption, crooked power, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out. Also starring William H. Macy, Tiffany Haddish, Stephen Dorff, Julia Fox, Devon Ross, and Billie Lourd, and directed by Matt Sukkar, this small-town crime flick proves that some cases are easier to bury than solve.

🎥 “Appofeniacs” Trailer: Deepfakes Spark Paranoia and Real-World Violence in Chris Marrs Piliero’s Dark Satirical AI Horror-Thriller Starring Aaron Holliday, Simran Jehani, Jermaine Fowler, and Sean Gunn — In Theaters October 2nd

There’s an old line often credited to Mark Twain: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Now imagine a new AI world where lies can travel in split seconds. The truth doesn’t have a chance to keep up. That fear lies at the core of this new tech horror-thriller, where deepfakes don’t just distort reality... they unleash real-world violence. Written and directed by music video helmer Chris Marrs Piliero, this dark satirical AI thriller follows a group of interconnected people caught in a spiral of paranoia, fabricated evidence, and deadly consequences, proving that the scariest part of a fake image is what real people are willing to do once they believe it. Starring Aaron Holliday, Simran Jehani, Sean Gunn, Paige Searcy, Jermaine Fowler, and Michael Abbott Jr., the film offers one simple warning: be careful what you believe online.

🎥 “April X” Trailer: Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie Enters a Futuristic Underworld in This Sci-Fi Noir Action-Thriller About Stolen Memories and a Missing Sister — In Theaters September 18th

Connor Storrie, the breakout from the hit series Heated Rivalry, trades hockey sticks for black-market body parts in this sci-fi noir thriller, starring as Bax, a hustler searching for his missing twin sister, April (Lilly Krug), in a futuristic post-Soviet city. In a place where dreams can be recorded, memories can be stolen, and reality is starting to crack, Bax follows her trail through a neon-lit underworld where every clue brings him closer to the truth... and further into danger. Directed by Michel K. Parandi, this dystopian actioner tests the bond between a brother and sister in a world where even memory can be bought, stolen, or rewritten.

🎥 “Rage of Stars” Trailer: Polish Filmmaker Lukasz Rog Goes Big with a Microbudget Sci-Fi Action Thriller Shot Like a Hollywood Blockbuster — Coming to Theaters Worldwide October 16th

Who says you need a big budget to make a Hollywood-level action blockbuster? Polish filmmaker Lukasz Rog looks ready to test that theory with this ambitious sci-fi action thriller set in a near future where the world is already spiraling toward disaster. Filmed on a reported $500,000 budget, the film follows an elite special-operations officer (Andrea Tivadar) whose terrifying visions may be the only warning sign connecting missing children, strange occult forces, and a catastrophe closing in fast. Shot with the explosive visual language of a Michael Bay-style action spectacle, but likely made on one of Bay’s catering bills, this might be a roadmap for filmmakers out there trying to go big without waiting for Hollywood money.

🎥 “The History of Concrete” Teaser: Filmmaker John Wilson Brings His Eye for Everyday Absurdity to a Deadpan Documentary Comedy About Concrete — In Theaters September 18th

Street observer and filmmaker John Wilson earned a cult following with HBO’s wonderfully eccentric comedy docuseries How To with John Wilson, where he wandered through New York City documenting ordinary life in all its strange little details. Now he brings that same observational deadpan humor to his first feature documentary, which somehow aims to turn one of the world’s most boring-sounding materials into a funny, oddly personal look at art, ambition, and the business of making movies. Who knows, maybe there’s something more in concrete that we’re not seeing, but John Wilson seems more than willing to find out.

🎥 “Confinement” Trailer: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Nathalie Emmanuel Faces a Sinister Family Obsession in Director Peter Howitt’s Pregnancy Thriller — Available on VOD/Digital September 1st

Nathalie Emmanuel has gone from serving queens and dragons to facing a family that may be even harder to survive. In this new thriller, the Game of Thrones actress plays a pregnant widow who accepts help from her late husband’s estranged relatives, only to realize their hospitality comes with a terrifying fixation on her unborn child. Uh-oh. Just when you thought family was supposed to make things easier, they turn out to be the very reason she may not make it out. Directed by Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors, Johnny English) and co-starring Claire Forlani, Ben Cura, and Eloise Lovell Anderson, this one turns a quiet country estate into a very bad place to be expecting.

🎥 “Last Train to Fortune” Trailer: Malcolm McDowell and James Paxton Hit the Dusty Trail in Adam Rifkin’s Old-Fashioned Frontier Western — Opening in Select Theaters September 17th Before VOD/Digital Release on November 6th

At 83, veteran actor Malcolm McDowell could probably afford to choose roles that keep him comfortably seated. Instead, he’s heading back into the saddle for this old-fashioned frontier western, playing a bookish English schoolteacher who misses the last train to Fortune and winds up making a desperate deal with an outlaw. In writer-director Adam Rifkin’s (Detroit Rock City, The Last Movie Star) retro western drama, James Paxton (son of the late Bill Paxton) plays the outlaw tasked with getting McDowell’s schoolteacher safely to town, turning a simple payday into a dusty road adventure full of gunfights, jailbreaks, saloons, and one unlikely friendship.

🎥 “The Beloved” International Trailer: Javier Bardem Plays a Celebrated Filmmaker Pulling His Estranged Daughter Into a Dangerous Creative Reunion in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s New Spanish Drama — Coming Soon

Oscar-winner Javier Bardem has kept himself busy these days, moving from blockbusters to prestige dramas, but whenever he gets the chance to return to his home country for a new Spanish-language feature, that’s where he really gets to let loose. In Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s latest drama, Bardem plays an acclaimed filmmaker whose charm and ego become dangerous tools when he reunites with his estranged daughter (played here by Victoria Luengo) and pulls her into his new film. Think of it as an examination of how art, ego, and family trauma can cloud the way we see the people who hurt us, especially when they are still trying to direct the story.

🎥 “Parasomnia” Trailer: Night Terrors Become All Too Real in James Ross II’s Supernatural Horror Thriller Starring Jasmine Mathews — Streams September 4th on Shudder

Sleep is a time for peace and quiet. The only problem is, closing your eyes might mean letting something terrifying in. Jasmine Mathews, from Amazon’s The Tomorrow War, stars as Riley, a young woman tormented by night terrors and unresolved tragedy, only to suspect that the demonic figure stalking her dreams has found a way into the real world. Talk about a rude awakening! Written and directed by James Ross II and based on his award-winning short Don’t Blink, this supernatural horror film asks what happens when the thing waiting in your sleep refuses to stay in the dream world and starts hunting in ours.

🎥 “Hansel & Gretel’s Halloween” Trailer: Six Teens Enter a Candy-Coated Maze in Directors Marcus Mallard and Logan Walcher’s Twisted Indie Horror Take on the Classic Fairy Tale — Coming Soon

Halloween candy is supposed to be a treat, but in this twisted take on Hansel and Gretel, every sweet bite comes with a deadly catch. In this horror-fantasy thriller, six teenagers enter a candy-coated maze on Halloween night, only to find themselves trapped inside the Witch’s deadly game. Starring Griffin Edge and Alexia Berry as Hansel and Gretel, with Christy Tate as the Witch, this indie horror turns one of the most beloved fairy tales into a modern survival story where resisting temptation may be the only way out.

🎥 “Nobody’s Violence” International Trailer: French-Canadian Filmmaker Denis Côté Explores Mercy, Death, and Moral Cost in His Latest Dystopian Drama Starring Larissa Corriveau — Coming Soon

In French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté’s latest, mercy doesn’t arrive as comfort. It arrives as a service. Set in a damaged dystopian world, the film stars Quebec actress Larissa Corriveau as Mira, a traveling young woman whose job is to help people die. Seen as both a figure of mercy and an executioner, she moves through a broken landscape where every act of compassion comes with a moral cost. After its festival run, the film is expected to make its way to wider audiences soon.

🎥 “The Secret Woman” Trailer: Natalie Madueño Uncovers a Forgotten Life and a Dangerous Family Secret in New Danish Psychological Thriller with Claes Bang and Pål Sverre Hagen — Premieres August 28th on Netflix

A woman with memory loss, a past she doesn’t remember, and a family she can no longer recognize. It’s the kind of mystery where every answer only makes the truth feel more dangerous. In this new psychological thriller, Danish-Spanish actress Natalie Madueño stars as an amnesiac woman whose life is turned upside down when a stranger claims she is actually a missing wife and mother tied to a powerful shipping family. But the closer she gets to the life she supposedly left behind, the more she begins to wonder whether her forgotten past is hiding something far more sinister. Directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg and also starring Claes Bang, Pål Sverre Hagen, and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, the film is based on the bestselling mystery novel by Anna Ekberg.

🎥 “Madness: Take It Or Leave It” 4K Restoration Trailer: Legendary ’80s Ska Band Reenact Their Scruffy North London Beginnings in Dave Robinson’s Classic 1981 Music Film — Back in UK and Irish Cinemas October 2nd, with a New Blu-ray Release October 19th

Forty-five years ago, Madness, one of Britain’s most recognizable ska bands, was still figuring things out in the pubs, clubs, and streets of North London. And like plenty of bands from that era, they eventually wound up with their own movie. The difference here is that the guys played themselves, basically reenacting the arguments, dead-end jobs, rehearsals, and early gigs that led to all the “madness.” Now newly restored in 4K by the BFI, Dave Robinson’s scruffy 1981 music film is heading back to the big screen and getting a fresh disc release. So yeah, maybe it’s time to go “One Step Beyoooooond!”

🎥 “Repo! The Genetic Opera” Blu-Ray Trailer: Darren Lynn Bousman’s Cult Horror Rock Opera Gets a Filmmaker-Approved Steelbook — Own It October 13th on 4K UHD

You like your musicals dark, twisted, and just a little deranged? Well, golly, this might be the one for you. Director Darren Lynn Bousman, of Saw fame, brings his cult horror rock opera back in a new 4K UHD Steelbook, where surgery comes with a payment plan... and a missed bill comes with a blade. Originally released in 2008 and starring Alexa PenaVega, Anthony Head, the late Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman, and Paris Hilton, this little goth-rock ditty tells the story of a future where organ transplants save lives, payment plans rule the world, and missing a bill means the Repo Man comes to collect. All set to a blast of industrial rock and gothic theatrics, it’s a genre-bender if we ever saw one.

🎥 “Underworld” Trailer: Arrow Video Unearths Clive Barker’s Grimy ’80s Body-Horror Noir for a New Limited Edition Release — Out on 4K UHD, September 7th in the UK

Long before Clive Barker became synonymous with puzzle boxes and Cenobites, the horror author tried his hand at mutant body-horror noir with this grimy 1985 chiller, now getting a new 4K restoration from Arrow Video. Set beneath the city of London, the George Pavlou-directed film follows a private investigator (Larry Lamb) hired to rescue a woman (Nicola Cowper) kidnapped by drug-addicted mutants, only to descend into a hidden world of experimentation and bodies pushed past the point of return. For those who love long-lost ’80s horror oddities, this one looks ready to crawl back out of the underground and into your Blu-Ray collection.

🎥 “Ju-On: The Grudge” 4K Restoration Trailer: Takashi Shimizu’s J-Horror Classic Brings Kayako and Her Deadly Curse Back in 4K — Coming Soon from Arrow Video

You can count Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 ghost-horror classic as one of the J-horror movies that really helped put the genre on the international map, turning Kayako (and that impossible-to-forget death rattle) into a horror icon. Now, more than two decades later, Arrow Video is giving the film a new 4K restoration, which feels like a pretty good excuse to step back inside that house. The story follows social worker Rika Nishina (Megumi Okina), who visits a quiet suburban home and quickly realizes something is very wrong. The house is carrying a deadly curse tied to the murdered Saeki family, and once Rika walks through the door, she becomes part of it. The curse spreads from one victim to the next, proving that leaving the house doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve escaped it. Just when you thought the curse had finally gone quiet... Kayako is back in 4K. Eeek!

🎥 “Tekkonkinkreet: 20th Anniversary” Trailer: Director Michael Arias’ Cult 2006 Anime Crime Fantasy Gets a New Restoration — Own It September 1st on 4K UHD and Blu-ray

Looking to add something strangely bold and beautifully animated to your anime shelf? Well, STUDIO4°C’s kinetic animated crime fantasy is making the jump to 4K UHD, bringing Tekkonkinkreet back with a sharper look at Treasure Town and the two brothers fighting to protect it. Directed by visual-effects artist Michael Arias (The Animatrix) and adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga, the film follows Black and White, two orphaned brothers whose fight to save their city pulls them into a battle with yakuza, ruthless developers, assassins, and the darker corners of Black’s own mind. Restored in 4K, this 2026 cult favorite returns with its bruised beauty, restless energy, and big emotional heart still fully intact.

🎥 “Muyi” International Trailer: Julien Chheng’s Gorgeously Colorful Animated Adventure Follows a Young Girl Into the Secrets of a Forbidden Village — Screening at This Year’s TIFF Before Opening in French Theaters January 20th, 2027

Some of the best animated films are the ones that take you to a world you have never seen before. And that seems to be the case with this gorgeously water-colored animated adventure from French animation filmmaker Julien Chheng (Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia). Set in a secluded mountaintop village in China where men are forbidden, the film follows young Mu Yi as one curious decision opens the door to old legends, angry spirits, and a magical journey into her family’s hidden past. Sometimes, breaking the rules is the only way for a child to fully understand why they were made in the first place.

🎥 “Viva Carmen!” International Trailer: Sébastien Laudenbach’s Visually Dazzling Animated Take on Carmen Gives Opera’s Most Famous Tragedy a New Surprise — Screening at This Year’s TIFF Before Opening in French Theaters December 16th

Some stories are so famous you think the ending is already written. But this gorgeously animated take on Carmen asks: what if a group of street kids decided tragedy needed a rewrite? Set in 1820 Seville, the film, from acclaimed French animator Sébastien Laudenbach, director of the award-winning hand-painted feature The Girl Without Hands, follows young Salva and a band of street children who set out to protect Carmen after a vision reveals the tragic fate waiting for her. Sometimes, even opera needs a little surprise.

🎥 “Papercuts: My Life as an Indie Animator” Trailer: Animator Eric Power Turns Two Decades of Handmade Animation Into a Personal Memoir About the Cost of Creating — On VOD/Digital August 11th

Independent animator Eric Power pulls back the paper curtain on more than two decades of building animated films by hand, turning his own career into a cut-paper memoir about creativity, pressure, persistence, and the tiny sacrifices hiding behind every finished piece. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the kind of filmmaking where the artist does almost everything himself, and where every papercut becomes part of the picture.

🎥 “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe” Trailer: Hathaway Noa Leads a Rebellion Against the Earth Federation in This Political Mecha Anime Sequel — Streams August 31st on Netflix

In this second chapter of the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway trilogy, rebel leader Hathaway Noa (Kensho Ono) continues his war against the corrupt Earth Federation while a mysterious woman named Gigi Andalucia (Reina Ueda) begins pulling apart the identity he has worked so hard to protect. In the tradition of classic mecha anime, this political sci-fi drama mixes towering mobile-suit battles with rebellion and the personal cost of fighting for a cause.

🎥 “Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear” Trailer: Blink-182 Drummer Travis Barker Reflects on the Plane Crash That Changed His Life in New Hulu Documentary — Premieres August 13th on Hulu

Famed rock drummer Travis Barker made his name by driving the beat and making every drum hit as loud as possible. Then a plane crash nearly silenced him, altering his life forever. This Hulu original documentary traces Barker’s rise, survival, and long road back from the tragedy that nearly stopped the music for good. Directed by Justin Krook and Michael Dwyer, this Hulu original documentary examines how the Blink-182 drummer survived unimaginable personal trauma yet found a way back to his life, family, and music, proving that every downbeat gets a chance to find a new tempo.

🎥 “Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young” Trailer: Netflix’s New Sports Documentary Looks Beyond the Rose Bowl Glory to Tell the More Complicated Story of Football Legend Vince Young — Streams August 25th on Netflix

Before the NFL pressure, the injuries, and the headlines, Vince Young was the Texas Longhorns quarterback who delivered one of the most unforgettable performances in college football history. Netflix’s latest Untold documentary looks back at the man behind that legendary Rose Bowl run, tracing how sudden fame, massive expectations, personal loss, and a complicated pro career turned a highlight-reel hero into a much more human story.

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📺 “War” Teaser Trailer: Dominic West and Sienna Miller Turn Divorce Into an All-Out Legal Battle in HBO’s New British Drama — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on HBO and HBO Max

Divorce is one of the most painful things that can happen to two people who once loved each other. No matter how well-intentioned a couple may be when they enter a marriage, they rarely consider what happens when it falls apart. Add wealth and fame to the equation, and you’ve got yourself more than a little breakup... you’ve got war.

The Crown’s Dominic West and Anatomy of a Scandal’s Sienna Miller star as two very public figures who find themselves at the center of one of the biggest divorce trials in Britain’s legal history in the upcoming eight-episode drama War.

West’s Morgan Henderson is a tech entrepreneur, while Miller’s Carla Duval is a well-known film star. He has the money. She has the fame. And both have high-powered divorce lawyers convincing their respective clients that they are each the “wronged party”; making anything close to an amicable split nearly impossible.

The new series is written and created by prolific British TV writer-producer George Kay, the creator behind Idris Elba’s tense Apple TV hostage thriller Hijack and co-creator of the twisty French caper series Lupin. Kay is also behind the forthcoming Netflix Swedish detective series Blood Sacrifice (watch the newly released teaser below).

Seemingly drawing on real-life high-profile divorce battles, the British series will examine the legal strategies and personal fallout as each party tries to paint the other as the villain and themselves as the true victim. But as we all know, there are two sides to every story. And in a divorce, the truth usually gets lost somewhere in the middle.

Co-starring Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Archie Renaux, Nina Sosanya, and Pip Torrens, War is slated to premiere Thursday, October 1st on HBO and HBO Max.

📺 “High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” Trailer: Joel Kinnaman Stars as the CIA Agent in Charge of Interrogating Saddam Hussein in TNT’s Four-Part Political Thriller — Debuting Sunday, September 13th on TNT

It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from TNT, but the cable network may finally have something to spark interest with its latest limited series. This new drama thriller takes TV viewers back to December 2003, when the world was glued to the news of Saddam Hussein’s capture after U.S. forces pulled him from a small underground hideout in Iraq. But as it turns out, the manhunt was only part of the story.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is a new four-episode miniseries starring Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad, For All Mankind) as CIA analyst John Nixon, tasked with identifying and interrogating Saddam Hussein after his capture. Inspired by true events, the drama traces the events leading up to and following his capture, focusing on the high-stakes interrogation that unfolds behind closed doors.

Nixon was the first American intelligence officer to positively identify and interrogate the former Iraqi dictator. And rather than approaching that encounter as a straightforward political history lesson, it seems this drama aims to turn those conversations into the center of a psychological chess match between two men sitting on opposite sides of history, each trying to assert control... and perhaps each trying to shape the narrative through his own version of the truth.

Waleed Zuaiter, the actor and co-producer of the 2013 Oscar-nominated Palestinian drama Omar, takes on the task of portraying Saddam Hussein as a complex, commanding figure at the center of the interrogation, seemingly defiant to the bitter end.

Meanwhile, it seems Kinnaman’s John Nixon may have gone into the interrogation convinced that Saddam was hiding the truth about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. The implications of what he discovers, however, could force him to question not only the intelligence that led them there, but the entire justification for the war.

Based on Nixon’s memoir, directed and developed by Leslie Greif, the co-creator of The Offer, the limited series also co-stars Tom Berenger, Lena Góra, Talia Balsam, and Matt Barr.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam debuts Sunday, September 13th on TNT.

📺 “Outer Banks: Season 5” Final Trailer: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline & the Pogues Return for One Last Treasure Hunt in the Final Season of Netflix’s Hit Teen Adventure Drama — Premiering Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

To be honest, when Netflix first launched Outer Banks, it felt like it might just be another quick grab at a younger audience, especially since that was clearly their fastest-growing demographic at the time. But we certainly didn’t expect it to go the distance, let alone make it to five seasons. Not only has it done that, but it also ended up launching the careers of breakout stars like Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Drew Starkey, Carlacia Grant, Madison Bailey, Rudy Pankow, and Jonathan Daviss.

For anyone new to it, the Netflix series, created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate (Surface), and novelist Shannon Burke, is set along the coastal Outer Banks of North Carolina. It follows a tight-knit group of working-class teens known as the Pogues, who get pulled into a dangerous treasure hunt that constantly puts them up against their wealthy rivals, the Kooks, along with a whole range of other threats along the way.

Over the past four seasons, the Pogues have chased treasure, dodged danger, dealt with plenty of bad dudes, and still somehow managed to find their way back to each other every time. And through it all, fans have stayed right there with them.

Now, as the series heads into its final fifth season, the story begins in grief following the events of Season 4. JJ (Pankow) is gone, the Blue Crown has been lost, and John B (Stokes), Sarah (Cline), Kiara (Bailey), Pope (Daviss), and Cleo (Grant) are left carrying a loss that could either bring them closer together or completely pull them apart.

With revenge now driving the chase, Season 5 feels less like just another adventure and more like the Pogues’ final chance to settle everything before their story comes to a close. And we’re sure, for fans, this final ride is going to be a bittersweet one.

And with the summer winding down, it only adds a little more bittersweetness to the idea that Outer Banks: Season 5 offers a fitting farewell to the Pogues with its final treasure-hunting adventure. And from the looks of it, it’s going to be every bit as adventurous and emotional as ever when it premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix.

📺 “Star Wars: Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi” Final Trailer: Would-Be Jedi Kara Searches for Her Lightsaber-Maker Father in This New Eight-Episode Anime Series Based on the Fan-Favorite ‘Visions’ Shorts — Streaming Now on Disney+ and Hulu

The Force has always been about choosing between light and dark. But what happens when that choice becomes less and less clear? In this new anime continuation of the Star Wars: Visions shorts “The Ninth Jedi” and “Child of Hope,” Kara (Chinatsu Akasaki / Kimiko Glenn), the daughter of a kidnapped lightsaber maker, trains under Margrave Juro (Tetsuo Kanao / Andrew Kishino) while searching for her father, Lah Zhima (Shinichiro Miki / Simu Liu), across a galaxy hunted by forces determined to wipe out the Jedi. Trying to understand her own connection to the Force, Kara joins a small group of Jedi-in-training on a mission that could reveal whether light and dark were ever as simple as they seemed. While taking one of the most compelling standalone stories in Star Wars: Visions and expanding it into a full eight-episode adventure, the series gives Kara’s journey more room to explore what it really means to choose a side.

📺 “Conan O’Brien Must Go: Season 3” Trailer: Conan Takes His Shameless Travel Comedy to Four More Countries... and Once Again Makes a Fool of Himself — Premieres Friday, August 21st on HBO and HBO Max

Conan O’Brien is at his best when he’s front and center, acting ridiculously and shamelessly foolish in all his self-effacing glory. That’s likely why he’s so perfectly suited to hosting his own travel show, fully committing to the bit while gleefully playing up every embarrassing version of the “ugly American tourist” stereotype. In the third season of his HBO travel comedy series, Conan heads to four different countries to meet fans, stumble through local traditions, and turn himself into the main attraction for all the wrong reasons. The joke is rarely on the places he visits. It’s on Conan, who somehow manages to embarrass himself internationally while still finding a genuine connection beneath all the nonsense. So, if you happen to be in the country Conan is visiting, don’t be too embarrassed to laugh at him... chances are, everyone else already is. Because, from the looks of things, making a fool of himself abroad is pretty much the whole mission.

📺 “Average Joe: Season 2” Trailer: Deon Cole Takes His Darkly Comic Crime Series From Pittsburgh to South Africa — Premieres Wednesday, August 19th on Paramount+

Comedian Deon Cole may have started his career writing jokes for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and Conan, but he has since made a smooth transition into acting, stealing scenes in shows like Black-ish and taking on more dramatic roles in films such as the Western actioner The Harder They Fall, the musical adaptation of The Color Purple, and, most recently, playing Don King in the Michael Jackson biopic Michael. With the second season of his hit BET series, Cole puts that sharp comic timing to work while showing another side of himself as Joe, an ordinary plumber and family man whose late father’s mob ties have pulled him and his loved ones deeper into a dangerous criminal world. This time, Joe’s troubles follow him far beyond Pittsburgh, sending him and his crew to Cape Town, SoutH Africa after a new threat tied to the Russian mob puts his family directly in the crosshairs. Co-starring Michael Trucco, Malcolm Barrett, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Katlego Lebogang, and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, this darkly comic crime series proves that being an “average Joe” doesn’t always mean living an average life.

📺 “Colin From Accounts: Season 3” U.S. Trailer: Ashley and Gordon (Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall) Face the Fallout From a Painfully Botched Proposal in the Hit Aussie Rom-Com Series — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Paramount+

It starts with the most adorable meet-cute imaginable, only to quickly turn into one of the most awkward and random romantic encounters ever. One injured dog and an accidental wardrobe malfunction later, Ashley and Gordon have gone on to build a relationship that’s somehow just as messy and oddly endearing as the way it began. Creators and stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who are also a real-life married couple, return for a brand-new season of their hit Aussie rom-com series, where love is only one bad decision away from becoming a full-blown crisis. This time around, Ashley and Gordon are dealing with the fallout from Gordon’s painfully botched proposal, forcing them to figure out whether they’re actually ready for marriage... or just barely holding together the relationship they already have. Looking for some heartfelt romance with a slightly sharper edge? Give this Aussie gem a try, as it has quietly become one of the better romantic comedies on television.

📺 “The Shards” Music Video Promo: Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Take Us Back to 1981 Los Angeles for a Little Sex, Teen Angst, Murder, and ’80s Music Videos — Streaming Now on FX, Hulu, and Disney+

Looking for a time machine back to the ’80s? Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis may have found one. By the looks of this new promo, their latest FX series doesn’t simply revisit the decade... it drops us right into the neon glow and VHS haze of an early 80s music video. Based on Ellis’s semi-autobiographical novel, the series takes place in 1981 Los Angeles and stars Igby Rigney as Bret, an aspiring writer finishing his senior year at an elite prep school where money, sex, and jealousy are all part of the daily routine. But when magnetic new student Robert Mallory (Homer Gere) enters Bret’s inner circle just as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers across the city, attraction quickly gives way to suspicion and obsession. With Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, and Graham Campbell rounding out the cast, this retro-soaked teen-gone-bad mystery-thriller suggests that a little paranoia may be healthy... especially when the object of your obsession might also be a killer.

📺 “Blood Sacrifice” Trailer: Jakob Oftebro and Peter Andersson Star as Detectives Hunting a Killer in a New Swedish Crime-Thriller Series From Hijack Creator George Kay — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

George Kay, the British writer and producer behind Hijack, Lupin and HBO’s upcoming War, is back with another crime mystery. This time, he brings the suspense to the Swedish islands. During the brightness of a Swedish summer, two police officers respond to a call at an empty house and walk straight into a carefully planned execution. The attack is only the beginning. As the police realize someone is targeting their own, investigator Thomas (Jakob Oftebro) is forced to work with his estranged father, former detective Alfred (Peter Andersson). With another officer potentially next on the list, the two men must put years of bad blood aside long enough to catch the killer before it’s too late.

📺 “Made in Korea: Season 2” Teaser: Power, Revenge, and Family Rivalry Drive This New Season of the Korean Political Thriller, Starring Hyun Bin — Streams Wednesday, September 9th on Hulu / Disney+

Nine years can change a man... or simply give him more time to tighten his grip on power. In the new season of this sprawling Korean political crime series, undercover agent turned smuggler Baek Kitae (Hyun Bin) has risen to the height of his influence, but prosecutor Jang Geonyoung (Jung Woo-sung) is finally ready to strike back. Meanwhile, Kitae’s brother Baek Kihyun (Woo Do-hwan) begins chasing power on his own terms, creating a family rift that could bring everything Kitae has built crashing down. In a world built on secrets and corruption, the people closest to you may be the ones capable of doing the most damage.

📺 “Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black: Season 3” Trailer: Taylor Polidore Williams Fights to Hold Onto Power in Netflix’s Soapy Family Drama as the Bellarie Clan Strikes Back — Streams Thursday, August 27th on Netflix

Power inside the Bellarie family has always come with a price, and Kimmie may finally be the one holding the bill. Tyler Perry returns as creator, writer, and director for Season 3, with Taylor Polidore Williams leading the cast as Kimmie alongside Crystle Stewart, Ricco Ross, Charles Malik Whitfield, Terrell Carter, Debbi Morgan, Richard Lawson, Julian Horton, and Steven G. Norfleet. After fighting her way from the club floor to the top of the Beauty in Black empire, Kimmie enters the new season with more control than ever. But staying on top proves more dangerous than getting there, as the Bellarie family closes ranks and prepares to take back everything Kimmie claimed.

📺 “Lion” Trailer: A Vulnerable Cub Grows Into a Leader in National Geographic’s Four-Part Wildlife Series — Premieres Wednesday, August 19th on National Geographic and Streams Thursday, August 20th on Disney+ / Hulu

Every king’s journey has to start somewhere. For lion cub Kio, that begins not with a crown, but as a vulnerable youngster trying to survive the dangers surrounding his pride. In this new four-part nature docuseries, cameras follow Kio over four years as loss, exile, and fierce rivals push him from cubhood toward becoming a leader. Every king has to earn his roar before he can lead the pride, and this little guy has a long road ahead of him before he’s ready to claim that crown.

📺 “102 Minutes Inside the Towers” Trailer: Survivors Recount the Fight to Escape the World Trade Center in Robin Roberts’ 9/11 Documentary Special — Premieres Friday, September 11th at 8/7 on HISTORY

For 102 minutes on September 11, 2001, the people inside the World Trade Center towers faced an unimaginable disaster that those watching from the outside could never fully see or understand, even after the world watched it unfold live on television. Executive produced by Good Morning America host and journalist Robin Roberts, this HISTORY documentary special brings together survivors, office workers, security personnel, window washers, and first responders to recount what happened inside the buildings... and how they miraculously found a way out.

📺 “Disney Worldbuilders” Trailer: Leslie Iwerks’ Documentary Special Looks at How Disney Turns Big Ideas Into Worlds You Can Step Inside — Streaming Thursday, August 20th on Disney+

Building a world takes more than six days. It takes patience, persistence, and a whole lot of imagination. No better example exists than the world builders at Disney, where ideas don’t just become stories; they become places people can actually step inside. That creative journey sits at the heart of Leslie Iwerks’ new documentary, which looks at how some of Disney’s biggest worlds are dreamed up, designed, and brought to life for everyone to experience. This Disney special gives viewers an early look at the artists, filmmakers, executives, and Imagineers who turn personal sparks of inspiration into full-scale worlds built to last.

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There are two kinds of moviegoers who love Christmas movies. Some prefer the sugar-filled comedies packed with holiday cheer and candy-coated sentiment. Then there are those of us who want something darker, stranger, and a little more twisted than the typical Christmas fare.

Violent Night, the David Harbour–starring vehicle, rightfully fits into the latter category, as it’s definitely not something you would show the whole family... unless they’re all hopped up on eggnog and looking for some blood-soaked holiday entertainment. Released back in 2022, the film became an unexpected seasonal hit by turning Santa Claus into a hard-drinking, hammer-swinging action hero with a serious grudge against anyone on the naughty list.

For anyone who cringes whenever a relative flips on the Hallmark Channel or queues up another predictable Christmas rom-com, Violent Night became the perfect antidote to all that holiday fluff. It’s dark, bloody, twisted, and absolutely hilarious—provided you can check your brain at the door, preferably right next to the stockings and any remaining sense of holiday decency. But as much fun as we had with the first Violent Night, we’re still a little surprised it’s getting a sequel, since it felt more like a perfectly contained burst of holiday mayhem than the start of a full-blown franchise.

But after watching the sequel’s first official trailer, we can confidently say this return trip to Santa’s naughty list looks every bit as deranged, brutal, and ridiculously entertaining as the original. Anyone who wasn’t a fan of the first film will likely find little here to change their mind. Consider it another lump of coal in their stocking. But for those who fully embraced its bone-crunching action and pitch-black holiday humor—yes, count us among those who loved watching David Harbour chew up the scenery as a burly, murderous Santa Claus—this sequel looks ready to leave another blood-red gift under the tree this Christmas season.

And while the first film felt like a cross between Die Hard and Silent Night, Deadly Night, this upcoming sequel seems more interested in cranking the action up to Troma-like levels of cartoonish carnage. Which, once again, is very much to our liking... and to anyone who prefers their holiday movies to come with a little blood, bad taste, and absolutely no concern for delicate sensibilities.

This time around, Harbour’s Santa finds himself on the naughty list after apparently “forgetting the meaning of Christmas.” Until he rediscovers it, he’s stripped of his magical powers, putting the entire holiday in jeopardy. But if you think old Saint Nick is going to sit idly by while a local strip mall is taken over by heavily armed bad guys, you’d better think again. Magic powers or not, this Santa is still ready to exact the kind of carnage usually reserved for the very top of the naughty list. Out come the axe, bruised knuckles, and anything sharp enough to do some real damage.

Kristen Bell joins the cast as Mrs. Claus. And if you thought Harbour’s Mr. Claus was outrageously dangerous, Bell looks ready to prove the better half may be even more unhinged.

Jared Harris, Joe Pantoliano, Daniela Melchior, and Andrew Bachelor round out the cast of this wildly over-the-top, action-crammed sequel, which aims to turn the Christmas season into one long, blood-splattered beatdown where the naughty don’t make it to see New Year’s Day.

Once again directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, who helmed the first film as well as this year’s ridiculously silly yet entertaining Netflix shark thriller Thrash, Violent Night 2 is slated to open in theaters on December 4th.

Guess Christmas is coming early for anyone who prefers their holiday cheer served with broken bones and severed body parts. Ho, ho, ho!

🎥 “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” Trailer: Mahershala Ali Wields a Blade and Fights to Protect His Children in Bassam Tariq’s Houston-Set Action Thriller — In Select Theaters September 25th, Nationwide in October

Picture this: a man with a large blade emerges from the dust and smoke, looking every bit like a warrior ready for battle. Then comes the surprise... he’s carrying a small child at his side.

Yes, the image of a lone samurai traveling with a child has crossed cultures, genres, and generations—from the classic Japanese manga and film saga Lone Wolf and Cub to more recent sci-fi fare like The Mandalorian. There’s just something irresistible about watching a hardened assassin, trained to survive almost anything, suddenly saddled with the one responsibility no weapon can prepare him for: taking care of a child.

Mahershala Ali is the latest actor to step into that tradition, playing a professional hitman suddenly charged with raising and protecting his newborn baby and teenage children in the thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

For years, the two-time Oscar winner remained at the center of public discussion over his planned role as Blade in the MCU. It was a project that endured years of delays, director departures, script changes, and enough production turmoil to finally push Ali to move on. And while Ali’s departure is understandable, it did leave many wondering what his version of Blade might have looked like.

And while there are no vampires in this new movie, it does offer a glimpse of how Ali might have approached the Blade character—likely with the same ferocity and sincerity he brings to Latif, a devout retired assassin who finds himself at the end of his rope following the devastating death of his wife and suddenly responsible for protecting the children left in his care.

From what we can tell, Ali’s Latif lives by a certain moral code—one that is stretched to its limits as he’s forced to make hard choices for the benefit of his children.

“I thought I was your sword. Now I have to fill her shoes... I’m breaking.”

Latif confesses in the trailer, seemingly pleading with a higher power for strength and guidance as images show him swinging a thin wooden bat at a playground with his children.

In another scene, Latif visits a government assistance office and asks a social worker for help:

“I’m here for the breast milk. My wife passed away, and Zez is breastfed. She’s allergic to formula.”

But his request is denied because he doesn’t have the required prescription.

It’s such a compelling setup for a character who feels familiar: a reformed outlaw with a violent past who believes he has finally left that life behind, only to be pulled back in by financial pressure, grief, and a system that offers little support.

Left with few options, Latif returns to Houston’s criminal underworld, hoping one last job might give his children the stability he can no longer provide on his own. With a blade as his weapon of choice, as guns are no longer part of his code, Latif once again finds himself surrounded by blood, death, and violence.

John Cho co-stars as a cowboy-hat-wearing antagonist who appears to share a dark history with Ali’s Latif, drawing the former assassin back into his inner circle. We’re not sure whether Cho’s character wants him dead or whether Latif has made him his next target. Either way, the trailer promises plenty of action, giving Ali several chances to show off the blade work that inevitably leaves us wondering what his version of Marvel’s vampire hunter might have looked like.

Co-starring Abubakr Ali, Laith Nakli, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone, and Giancarlo Esposito, the film is written and directed by Bassam Tariq, best known for the acclaimed Riz Ahmed–starring hip-hop drama Mogul Mowgli and the award-winning documentary These Birds Walk.

Interesting note: Tariq was previously selected by Mahershala Ali to direct Marvel’s Blade before departing the troubled production. That shared history between director and star makes this reunion especially intriguing, though it would only be speculation to say their frustrations directly gave birth to this project. Still, it’s hard not to wonder whether some of the ideas, themes, and character work they once hoped to explore together found a new home here. Perhaps this is the Blade movie they never got to make... just without the vampires or the Marvel label. In a lot of ways, that might work in their favor.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is slated to make its world premiere in September at TIFF before landing in limited release on September 25th, followed by a nationwide rollout in October.

🎥 “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” Teaser Trailer: Shun Oguri Stars as a Corrupt Cop Spiraling Through Addiction, Revenge, and a Missing-Person Case in Takashi Miike’s Twisted Crime Thriller with Lily James — Premiering at TIFF in September

Released back in 1992, Abel Ferrara’s crime film Bad Lieutenant featured an astonishing performance from Harvey Keitel as a corrupt New York police officer at the end of his moral rope. The film has since become a cult classic and is widely regarded as one of Ferrara’s masterpieces. It is also remembered for its graphic depiction of heroin use, as well as an infamous nude scene involving Keitel’s character during a drug-induced stupor.

Partly because it is such a distinctly ’90s New York film, it was never really thought of as anything more than a singular, self-contained piece of work. Then, in 2009, filmmaker Werner Herzog came along with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a loose reimagining that transplanted the story to Louisiana and placed Nicolas Cage at the center of its own drug-fueled descent. Like its predecessor, the film became a cult classic and is best remembered for Cage’s gloriously unrestrained performance as a crooked detective spiraling deeper into addiction, paranoia, and madness.

Surely, there can’t be any more Bad Lieutenant movies, right? After all, stories about corrupt cops aren’t exactly rare, and the title never felt like the foundation for a conventional franchise.

Oh, wait! Here comes legendary Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike—the man behind Audition, Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and countless others—with his own take on the Bad Lieutenant legacy. After helming more than 100 feature films, the prolific director isn’t exactly known for playing it safe, nor for passing up the chance to put his own twisted stamp on familiar material.

With Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, Miike taps Japanese actor Shun Oguri (Godzilla vs. Kong and Netflix’s Human Vapor) as the titular bad lieutenant, a cop neck-deep in corruption and addiction. But when the daughter of a powerful American family goes missing, Tokyo’s worst detective may be the only man reckless enough to find her, placing him on a collision course with an uncompromising FBI agent and a former yakuza hitman seeking revenge.

Lily James (Pam & Tommy, The Iron Claw), Shotaro Mamiya, and WWE wrestler Liv Morgan round out the cast, with Miike directing from a script penned by Audition and 13 Assassins screenwriter Daisuke Tengan.

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is slated to make its world premiere in September at TIFF. Already acquired by NEON, the film will be released at a later date.

August is here! And while summer has made it over that proverbial hump, don’t go thinking the slate is any less crowded. This week is packed with a surprisingly wide variety of new releases. While many of the big-ticket items, like the new Spider-Man movie and Nolan’s much-buzzed-about Homer epic, have taken up most of the attention, there’s still an interesting batch of titles arriving on both the big and small screen. There’s plenty to choose from, and if you thought this week might offer a little breathing room, think again.

Like we do every week, we’ve compiled a list of the most notable new releases arriving over the next several days. So, whether you’re looking to catch a movie in theaters this weekend or planning to watch something on streaming or television, you may be surprised by just how many options are on the table.

So, scroll down and see what catches your eye. We’re sure there’ll be something that deserves a spot on your watch list.

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🎥 Super Troopers 3
(Fri, Aug 7th — wide release)

Broken Lizard is back for another round of questionable police work, with those lovable, boneheaded state troopers returning for more roadside mischief and spectacular incompetence. Jay Chandrasekhar once again directs and stars alongside Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, and Kevin Heffernan. This time, Farva’s extravagant engagement to Thorny’s sister threatens to tear the group apart, while a dangerous new drug ring gives the Troopers an even bigger mess to completely mishandle.

🎥 One Night Only
(Fri, Aug 7th — in theaters)

Sometimes it only takes one night to find a real connection. It just so happens to be the one night built for anything but commitment. Monica Barbaro stars as Allie, a hopeful romantic navigating a government-sanctioned hookup holiday in New York City, while Callum Turner plays Owen, a recently dumped pizza shop owner. Written and directed by Will Gluck (Anyone but You, Easy A), this high-concept rom-com sends Allie and Owen through missteps, detours, and late-night mayhem as the city keeps pulling them apart; proving that even on a night designed for fleeting pleasure, something real can still find a way through.

🎥 Ice Cream Man
(Fri, Aug 7th — wide release)

You scream, we all scream for ice cream... and horror maestro Eli Roth is here to make sure those screams are anything but sweet. Returning to his slasher roots, Roth delivers an off-the-wall chiller set in the seemingly peaceful town of Bayleen Bay, where a mysterious ice cream vendor (Ari Millen) serves frozen treats with horrifying consequences. When local children descend into violent madness, the adults must confront a grotesque outbreak that transforms summer nostalgia into suburban terror, making this one ice cream man worth running from... not toward.

🎥 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

With a title like that, you know you’re in for something unusual. I Saw the TV Glow writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is back with another neon-soaked meta-horror head-scratcher destined for cult status. Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder stars as a rising young horror filmmaker hired to revive the cult Camp Miasma slasher franchise by bringing its original final girl, played by Gillian Anderson, back for one last encore. But this is no routine reboot, as things mutate into something far stranger... and far more psychosexual as the two women become entangled in obsession, attraction, and shared trauma.

🎥 Tony
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Before Anthony Bourdain became a culinary icon, he was merely a 19-year-old aspiring writer searching for direction. Dominic Sessa stars in Matt Johnson’s 1976-set origin story, which sends the young Tony to Provincetown for a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant. Hired by a commanding chef (Antonio Banderas), he is pulled into the frantic, profane, and seductive world of professional kitchens, where pressure, precision, and hard work begin reshaping his own ambitions. What starts as seasonal work quickly becomes the spark that changes the course of his life.

🎥 Late Fame
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Fame has a strange way of arriving late, as Willem Dafoe stars as a forgotten New York poet whose quiet life changes when a group of young artists rediscovers his work and treats him like a newly discovered literary genius. Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan also star in filmmaker Kent Jones’s bittersweet drama about just how fleeting fame and notoriety can be—and whether recognition offers lasting fulfillment or simply reopens emotional wounds you weren’t quite ready to confront.

🎥 Olmo
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Growing up gets painfully complicated when freedom collides with family duty. Newcomer Aivan Uttapa stars as Olmo, a 14-year-old Mexican American in 1979 New Mexico who sneaks away from caring for his bedridden father (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) to attend a party with his next-door crush (Melanie Frometa). Directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (of Duck Season), this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy-drama follows one reckless night of mischief and painful consequences as Olmo discovers the home he longs to escape may be the only place where he finally begins to understand himself.

🎥 The Run
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Callan Mulvey stars as an aging smuggler attempting one final job in a post-pandemic world devastated by a global fertility crisis. When a runaway teenager and her baby become targets of ruthless criminals, the delivery turns into a brutal test of loyalty, morality, and sacrifice in this dystopian action thriller, where the most valuable cargo may also be humanity’s only hope.

🎥 Lockjaw
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Blu Hunt stars as a woman whose jaw has been wired shut since a drunk-driving accident weeks earlier. Determined to prove she can return to normal, she finds that her inability to speak clearly turns every strained friendship, awkward encounter, and bad decision into something much bigger. As resentment increasingly builds, one ordinary evening with friends spirals into a parade of falsehoods she can’t quite talk her way out of. Written and directed by Sabrina Greco, this dark comedy wonders whether silence is still golden when the truth becomes harder to swallow.

🎥 Cookie Queens
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release)

Four young women compete to become top Girl Scout Cookie sellers in this coming-of-age documentary from director Alysa Nahmias. Looking beyond sales totals and familiar cookie-season traditions, the film explores the ambition, pressure, joy and tension the girls experience while learning that success involves far more than moving boxes.

🎥 Julian
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release; in NY)

Love becomes a vow, then a mission. Inspired by Fleur Pierets’ book, Cato Kusters’ tender queer 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 love story that transforms private devotion into a public act of visibility, defiance, and hope. Sometimes saying “I do” once is not enough.

🎥 The Last Picture Shows
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release, in NY)

A road trip across the American West searches for the remaining small-town movie theaters and the communities working to keep them alive. Empty marquees and vacant seats become symbols of a disappearing moviegoing culture in this documentary about a time when cinema was not merely something people watched, but somewhere they went together.

🎥 Center Stage: 35th Anniversary (4K Restoration)
(Fri, Aug 7th — limited release, in NY’s Film Forum)

Stanley Kwan’s 1991 Hong Kong classic returns in a new 4K restoration for its 35th anniversary. This unconventional portrait of Chinese silent-screen icon Ruan Lingyu features an award-winning performance from Maggie Cheung as the celebrated actress whose private life, public image, and tabloid persecution begin to echo the melodramas that made her famous. Blending period recreation, archival footage, interviews, and Cheung’s personal reflections, the film transforms biography into a conversation between two actresses separated by half a century.

🎥 Tales from Earthsea: 20th Anniversary
(Sat, Aug 8th & Mon, Aug 10th — Studio Ghibli Fest, via Fathom Entertainment)

The balance of the world is cracking, and the dragons know it first. Goro Miyazaki’s anime fantasy follows Archmage Sparrowhawk and troubled prince Arren across Earthsea, where failing crops, returning dragons, and dark magic point to a realm coming apart. Based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s books and featuring the English-language voices of Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay, and Cheech Marin, this 20th anniversary screening brings the Studio Ghibli epic back to theaters.

🎥 Only Yesterday: 35th Anniversary
(Sun, Aug 9th & Tues, Aug 11th — Studio Ghibli Fest, via Fathom Entertainment)

Growing up does not mean the past stops talking. Isao Takahata’s anime drama follows Taeko, a 27-year-old Tokyo office worker whose countryside trip brings back memories of childhood, first crushes, family tensions, and the girl she used to be. With Hayao Miyazaki as general producer and Daisy Ridley, Dev Patel, and Alison Fernandez in the English-language cast, this 35th anniversary screening brings one of Studio Ghibli’s most reflective films back to the big screen.

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🎥 “Wicker” Trailer: Olivia Colman Finds an Unconventional Romance With Alexander Skarsgård’s Woven Husband in This Darkly Comic Fantasy Fable with Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki — In Select Theaters October 23rd, Expanding Nationwide October 30th

Here’s a serious question: Does one have to be married to be considered happy? Does one need to find a partner to somehow feel that their life is complete?

Now, here’s a completely unserious question: If we could somehow construct a romantic partner out of wood fiber and wicker, would you want one?

Well, Oscar-winner Olivia Colman gets to explore this bizarre scenario in the wildly off-kilter fairy tale Wicker, where one woman’s desire for companionship leads her to commission a husband woven entirely from wood. Talk about finding someone who’s willing to “bend” over backward for you.

Set in a conservative seaside village, this darkly comic fantasy fable follows an ostracized fisherwoman (Colman) who has grown tired of being mocked for living alone. So, she approaches the local basketmaker, played by the always wonderful Peter Dinklage, with an unusual request: build her a husband.

The result is Alexander Skarsgård as the Wicker Husband. He’s a soulful, spectacular creation whose mere presence awakens not only desire and fascination throughout the village but also heated jealousy among some residents.

Sure, the fisherwoman’s newfound happiness may be unconventional, as her husband is made out of woven wood. But that also means her nights are no longer lonely. And what he lacks in flesh and blood, he more than makes up for in nighttime stamina. If you catch our drift.

But this unconventional couple soon exposes just how fragile the community’s ideas about marriage, respectability, and belonging really are, especially once some residents begin questioning whether their own partners measure up.

Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, and Nabhaan Rizwan round out the cast of this comic fantasy from married writer-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who previously made 2020’s indie alien-invasion comedy Save Yourselves!

Adapted from Ursula Wills-Jones’s short story “The Wicker Husband,” filmmakers Fischer and Wilson made the wise decision not to turn Skarsgård’s character into a fully CGI creation. Instead, they went to Weta Workshop to develop a makeup and suit design tailored to the actor’s face and expressions. The results, judging from this trailer, are pretty astonishing, if you ask us.

Following a world premiere earlier this year at Sundance, where it received strong reviews, Wicker is now set to open in select theaters October 23rd before expanding nationwide on October 30th.

🎥 “Victorian Psycho” Trailer: Maika Monroe Plays a Demon-Possessed Governess With Murder on Her Mind in Zachary Wigon’s Twisted Gothic Horror with Jason Isaacs, Thomasin McKenzie, and Ruth Wilson — Coming to Theaters This Fall

Maika Monroe has played a variety of strong women chased by evil in horror hits such as It Follows, Watcher, and Longlegs. Now she gets to revel in villainy as a woman possessed by a gleefully sadistic and homicidal presence. And, strangely enough, she seems to enjoy every moment of it.

Set in Victorian England, Victorian Psycho follows Monroe’s Winifred Notty, an eccentric governess who arrives at a remote Gothic manor to care for its children. Beneath her proper manners and dutiful routine, however, lurks something far more sinister than she is letting on. There’s a demon living inside her, and whenever it comes out, terrible things tend to follow.

As strange events unsettle the household and members of the staff begin disappearing, the manor’s owners slowly realize their new governess may not be an innocent witness to the danger. She may very well be... the danger.

Jason Isaacs, Thomasin McKenzie, and Ruth Wilson round out the cast of this psychological period thriller, adapted from Virginia Feito’s horror novel.

Zachary Wigon, the director behind the Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott–starring BDSM dark comedy Sanctuary, calls the shots, seemingly bringing a twisted sense of humor to this world of Victorian hierarchy, repressed desires, and polite domestic suspicion.

With every role she takes, Monroe continues to reveal new layers as a performer. This time, she appears ready to trade survival instincts for murderous impulses, killing her way into a family she wants to call her own. Slay, queen!

Victorian Psycho will be slashing its way into theaters this fall. Come for the Gothic atmosphere, but stay for Maika Monroe’s murderous grin. That is, assuming you’re not too busy covering your eyes.

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🎥 “The Last Sunrise” Trailer: Maia Reficco and Fernando Lindez Fall in Love Across a Cultural Divide in Carlson Young’s Coming-of-Age Romance Based on Anna Todd’s Novel, Co-Starring Eva Longoria — Premieres August 26th on Prime Video

Beautiful vistas, sexy young people, the Mediterranean coastline, nightclubs, dancing, and fun times... Summer was supposed to be a time to unwind. But in this new Prime Video romance, it becomes the backdrop for a love story between two people from different worlds and opposite sides of a cultural divide. Maia Reficco stars as Ry, a college student living with a chronic illness who travels to Mallorca with her protective mother (Eva Longoria) and unexpectedly falls for Julián (Fernando Lindez), a magnetic local who challenges her to stop measuring life only by its risks. As Ry’s health worsens and family secrets bubble to the surface, the carefree getaway takes on the shape of a ticking clock. Directed by actress-turned-filmmaker Carlson Young (Prime’s rom-com Upgraded) from Anna Klassen’s adaptation of Anna Todd’s best-seller, this sun-soaked coming-of-age romance asks how fully we’re willing to live when the future refuses to make any promises.

🎥 “Bill Sienkiewicz: That Polish Guy” Teaser Trailer: This Indie Documentary Profiles the Comic-Book Visionary Behind the Groundbreaking Art of Moon Knight, Elektra, and The New Mutants — Coming Soon

Only a handful of true comic-book geniuses can say they’ve changed the entire landscape of the medium; artists whose work not only broke the rules but shattered the boundaries of comic-book art. Bill Sienkiewicz is, without question, one of them: an artist’s artist whose expressive paintings, collages, and mixed-media experiments helped transform Moon Knight, The New Mutants, and Elektra: Assassin into visual landmarks. Directed by Remsy Atassi, this indie documentary traces Sienkiewicz’s Polish-American immigrant story, creative evolution, and work across comics, film, television, posters, and music. He may be “that Polish guy” to some, but his fingerprints are all over the way modern comics look.

🎥 “Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s Edition” Trailer: Ten Films, Including El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Arrive in a 14-Disc 4K/Blu-ray Set — Available November 11th in Australia and New Zealand

There are cult filmmakers, and then there’s Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is one of the defining figures behind the midnight-movie movement of the 1960s and ’70s. This fourteen-disc collector’s edition gathers ten of Jodorowsky’s films spanning more than five decades, from the spiritual provocations of El Topo and The Holy Mountain to the autobiographical visions of The Dance of Reality and Endless Poetry. Alongside Fando y Lis, Santa Sangre, Tusk, The Rainbow Thief, Psychomagic, A Healing Art, and Frank Pavich’s documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, the set includes Jodorowsky-supervised restorations, four Dolby Vision presentations, commentaries, interviews, featurettes, and a hardbound book. It’s a lavish tour through surrealism, mysticism, personal mythology, and artistic rebellion, but with Jodorowsky, even a collector’s edition can feel like a portal. Unfortunately, this collection is being released outside the U.S., but if you already consider yourself a Jodorowsky fan, you likely already have a similar collection or a region-free player.

🎥 “Street Fighter” Special Look Clip: Jason Momoa Goes Green as Blanka Opposite Andrew Koji’s Ryu in Kitao Sakurai’s Live-Action Video-Game Reboot — Hitting Theaters October 16th

After playing Lobo in Supergirl this summer, Jason Momoa is heading back to the big screen for another larger-than-life role: Blanka. This special look offers a better glimpse at Momoa’s green-skinned, orange-haired take on the fan-favorite beast, who brings plenty of ferocity to the World Warrior Tournament. Starring opposite Andrew Koji as Ryu, Momoa joins Noah Centineo’s Ken and Callina Liang’s Chun-Li in director Kitao Sakurai’s live-action reboot, where a global fighting competition hides a much bigger conspiracy. The tournament may belong to Ryu and Ken, but Blanka already looks ready to steal the show.

🎥 “Drummer Boy” Teaser: Joel David Smallbone and Lucas Leach Fight on Opposite Sides of the American Revolution in Ben and Joel Smallbone’s Historical Action Musical — In Theaters November 6th

From the studio that brought us the historical drama Young Washington comes a new American Revolution tale so patriotic, a bald eagle might as well come with the ticket. As the war drives two brothers, played by Joel David Smallbone and Lucas Leach, onto opposite sides of the fight for independence, they must choose between political loyalty, family, and the possibility of forgiveness while the country tears itself apart. Directed by Ben Smallbone and Joel David Smallbone, with music from the Grammy-winning duo for KING + COUNTRY, this historical action-musical blends battlefield spectacle with a story about freedom, faith, and the cost of choosing a side, even when that choice cuts through your own bloodline.

🎥 “Big Girls Don’t Cry” International Trailer: Ani Palmer Tests Desire, Identity, and the Early Internet in Paloma Schneideman’s Rural New Zealand Coming-of-Age Drama with Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor — Coming to New Zealand Cinemas October 8th

Picture the year 2006: analog is fading out, digital is on the verge of taking over, and summer break still means hanging out with your friends, not just living inside chatrooms or text threads. Executive produced by Oscar-winner Jane Campion, this New Zealand coming-of-age drama stars newcomer Ani Palmer as Sid, a rural 14-year-old Kiwi girl spending one sweltering summer trying on identities, chasing approval, and imitating the older girls she wants to be loved by. Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor co-star in writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s debut feature, which follows Sid as first desire, jealousy, rejection, and the early internet blur into one messy education in becoming yourself. Some summers teach you who you are; this one teaches Sid how painful it can be to stop pretending.

🎥 “Bucking Fastard” First Look Clip: Kate Mara and Rooney Mara Speak in Unison and Love the Same Man in Werner Herzog’s Strange Sister Drama with Orlando Bloom — World Premiering at the 2026 Venice Film Festival

Real-life sisters Kate Mara and Rooney Mara have built respected acting careers of their own, but now they finally get to share the screen together. And we do mean share. In this first-look clip, the Mara sisters play Jean and Joan Holbrooke, two inseparable sisters who speak in unison, love the same man (Orlando Bloom), and seem to move through life as if they’re living inside the same dream. Written and directed by legendary auteur Werner Herzog, this strange sibling drama, loosely inspired by British identical twin sisters Freda and Greta Chaplin, follows the world’s attempt to understand a bond that refuses to fit ordinary explanation. Courts, reporters, helpers, and opportunists may all try to define the Holbrooke sisters, but Herzog seems more interested in the mystery of two tightly bound people who have already created their own private reality.

🎥 “Boorman and the Devil” Trailer: Filmmaker John Boorman and Actress Linda Blair Revisit ‘Exorcist II: The Heretic’ in David Kittredge’s Documentary — Opens in New York August 28th; Expanding U.S. September 4th

Some films fail so loudly they become legends. After classic films like Point Blank and Deliverance, director John Boorman took on Exorcist II: The Heretic, an ambitious sequel whose radically different ideas and imagery collided with a wall of critical hostility and nearly ended his career. Filmmaker David Kittredge brings Boorman together with Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Joe Dante, Mike Flanagan, Karyn Kusama, and others to revisit the production, the backlash, and the cult reputation that followed. Rather than simply defend a notorious misfire, the documentary asks what gets lost when a film is judged solely by its first wave of reactions. Can a movie survive its opening-week verdict... or does it sometimes need decades before audiences are ready to take a second look?

🎥 “Hellcat” Trailer: Dakota Gorman Is Trapped in a Moving Camper With an Evil Infection in Brock Bodell’s New Horror Thriller — Streaming August 14th on Shudder

A trip to the doctor becomes a race against time in this new psychological horror thriller. Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes up wounded inside a moving camper with no memory of how she got there. The unseen Clive (Todd Terry) insists she has less than an hour to reach medical help, but every answer raises new questions about her confinement... and whether she is even being taken somewhere safe. Written and directed by Brock Bodell, this claustrophobic chiller turns a locked camper into a moving prison where escape may be just as dangerous as staying put.

🎥 “Bury the Devil” Trailer: A Homecare Nurse Faces a Demonic Presence in Adam O’Brien’s One-Shot Supernatural Horror Film Starring Dawn Ford — In Select Theaters and On VOD/Digital August 21st

Things that go bump in the night are one thing, but they become a real threat when those bumps turn out to be something demonic trying to get inside your home. In this new horror thriller set during an overnight shift in an isolated old house, a nurse (Dawn Ford) watches her dementia patient’s behavior become increasingly disturbing, forcing her to question whether illness—or something else entirely—is taking control. As the doors lock, the shadows deepen, and an unseen presence begins pressing through the walls, she must figure out who—or what—can still be trusted. Directed by editor-turned-filmmaker Adam O’Brien and unfolding in real time as one continuous shot, this supernatural chiller turns a routine caregiving shift into a terrifying battle to survive ’til morning.

🎥 “Blood Shine” Trailer: A Filmmaker and a Religious Zealot Face a Folk-Horror Ordeal of Faith, Captivity, and Sacrifice in This Psychological Horror Thriller Starring David Call and Emily Bennett — In Select Theaters and on VOD/Digital August 21st

Some people find God through faith and prayer. Others find him through torture and sacrifice. When horror filmmaker Brighton West (David Call) retreats to the upstate New York countryside to finish his screenplay, he crosses paths with Clara (Emily Bennett), a religious zealot whose worship of light comes with a painful initiation. After taking Brighton captive, Clara subjects him to sadistic rituals she believes will transform him into a god, forcing him to confront the overlap between artistic ego, spiritual devotion, and control. From Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks, the filmmakers behind Alone with You, this folk-horror descent asks whether enlightenment is worth bleeding for.

🎥 “Who’s Watching” Trailer: Zachary Ray Sherman and Gracie Gillam Turn an Office Crush Into a Voyeuristic Nightmare in This New Horror Thriller From Cursive Frontman Tim Kasher — In Select Theaters and on VOD/Digital September 18th

They say the camera never lies. But the cameraman is a different story. In this creepy psychological horror-thriller from Cursive frontman-turned-filmmaker Tim Kasher, socially isolated office worker Caleb (Zachary Ray Sherman) becomes fixated on his new coworker, Krista (Gracie Gillam). Under the guise of making a documentary, he begins recording her with a handheld camera, but artistic curiosity soon gives way to surveillance, stalking, and a dangerously distorted idea of intimacy. Also starring Olivia Luccardi and Steve Berg, this shaky cam chiller sets out to prove that sometimes the most disturbing thing on camera is the person holding it.

🎥 “Lockjaw” Trailer: Blu Hunt’s Night Out Turns Into a Darkly Comic Battle of Miscommunication in Sabrina Greco’s Feature Debut — In Limited Theaters August 8th; On VOD/Digital September 8th

A wired jaw is a terrible accessory for a night out. Six weeks after causing a drunk-driving accident, Rayna (Blu Hunt) tries to prove she can return to normal, but her inability to speak clearly turns every strained friendship, awkward encounter, and bad decision into something much bigger. As resentment bubbles up and a manipulative stranger enters the picture, one ordinary evening becomes a parade of misunderstandings that Rayna can’t talk her way out of. Written and directed by Sabrina Greco, this dark comedy asks how long someone can perform being fine before the people around them stop believing it.

🎥 “Hellbilly Hollow” Trailer: Paranormal YouTubers Face a Sadistic Clown in This New Backwoods Slasher — In Select Theaters September 25th

The haunted attraction is fake. The clown is not. A team of paranormal YouTubers heads into the Alabama backwoods on Halloween eve, expecting easy footage, but instead crosses paths with Tickles (Kevin Wayne), a disfigured, childlike clown, and Bull (Kurt Deimer), his sadistic caretaker brother. As staged scares give way to deadly games, director Kevin Wayne turns internet spectacle into a backwoods slasher where the cameras keep rolling, even when nobody is left to watch.

🎥 “My Husband’s Sister” Trailer: Mikhail Keize and Marcia Harvey Face a Murderous Caregiver in Bobby Yan’s New Tubi Thriller — Premiering August 21st on Tubi

Second chances are hard to come by... and even harder to protect. After leaving his life as a con artist behind, Liam (Mikhail Keize) begins building a new future with help from Sierra (Marcia Harvey), the wealthy woman who believes he deserves a fresh start. But when an extremely dangerous person from his past reenters Liam’s life and begins targeting Sierra, he must expose the deadly deception before his old crimes destroy the one relationship that gave him a chance at redemption. Directed by Bobby Yan, this suspenseful Tubi Original proves that no matter how far you run, the past always knows where to find you.

🎥 “American Summer” Trailer: Steve Guttenberg and Christie Brinkley Revisit the Summer That Changed Everything in Michael W. Gray’s Coming-of-Age Family Dramedy — In Theaters September 4th

’80s icons Steve Guttenberg and Christie Brinkley revisit the summer that changed everything in this nostalgic coming-of-age dramedy, where past loves and old regrets come rushing back. As an adult, Mikey (Guttenberg) remembers the season when his younger self (Logan Gray) joined a travel baseball team, formed lifelong friendships, and fell for Kelly (Mia Talerico), whose adult counterpart is played by Brinkley. Behind the bikes, ballfields, neighborhood adventures, and first romance lies a deeper coming-of-age story about a boy growing up while his father remains missing overseas. Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Michael W. Gray, this heartfelt family story shows how one ordinary summer can not only create a lifetime of memories but shape the person we eventually become.

🎥 “Air Bud Returns” Teaser: A Basketball-Playing Golden Retriever Joins a Team of Young Underdogs in the Latest Installment of the Beloved Family Sports-Comedy Franchise — In Theaters January 22, 2027

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can apparently keep giving him new movies. In this new installment, every kid deserves a second chance... and every basketball team could use a golden retriever with exceptional athletic skills. After his father’s death, Jacob (Aydin Artis) moves with his mother (Tracy Ifeachor) to Fernfield, where an old Air Bud VHS leads him to Buddy, a neglected dog with an impossible jump shot. As Jacob works through his grief, the pair assemble a team of overlooked players and chase a championship. Written and directed by Robert Vince, this family comedy proves that the right teammate can change everything... even when that teammate walks on four legs.

🎥 “Your Name.” 4K Re-Release Trailer: Two Teens Trade Bodies Across Time in Makoto Shinkai’s Beloved 2016 Anime Romance — Back In Theaters August 14th

Body-swapping is complicated enough without discovering your connection may be written in the stars. Rural teenager Mitsuha and Tokyo student Taki begin waking in each other’s bodies, leaving behind messages and rules as they try to understand the strange bond linking their lives. But when the switching suddenly stops, Taki sets out to find Mitsuha and uncovers a truth that turns their impossible connection into a race against time, memory, and fate. Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, this modern anime classic returns in a new 4K remaster for its 10th anniversary.

🎥 “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” Blu Ray Trailer: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Face Death, Hell, and Evil Robot Doubles in Peter Hewitt’s ‘Excellent’ 1991 Sequel — Limited-Edition 4K UHD August 17th in the UK

Some bands break up. Others have to die before playing their biggest gig. When evil robot doubles arrive from the future to destroy Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted’s (Keanu Reeves) lives, the would-be rock legends are killed and sent on a strange journey through the afterlife. To return to Earth, save their babes, defeat their mechanical replacements, and reach the Battle of the Bands, they must outwit Death (William Sadler), escape Heaven and Hell, and find unexpected allies. Directed by Peter Hewitt, this sequel takes Bill & Ted’s time-traveling optimism into a darker, totally bogus dimension. Still, the music must go on.

🎥 “A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon” Trailer: Chow Yun-fat and Anita Mui Star in Tsui Hark’s 1989 Wartime Prequel — 4K UHD and Blu-ray September 28th in the UK

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Chow Yun-fat might have been the coolest gunman in Hong Kong cinema, and the A Better Tomorrow franchise helped prove it. Legendary director Tsui Hark takes over this third installment, sending Chow’s iconic Mark Gor into war-torn Vietnam for an origin story fueled by loyalty, romance, and gunfire. As Saigon nears collapse, Mark helps his uncle and cousin Chi-Man (Tony Leung Ka-fai) escape with help from fearless gunrunner Kit (Anita Mui). Presented in a new 4K restoration from Arrow Video, this classic 1989 prequel reveals the love and loss behind one of Hong Kong cinema’s iconic antiheroes.

🎥 “Center Stage: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Ka-fai Star in Stanley Kwan’s Unconventional Portrait of Silent-Screen Icon Ruan Lingyu — Opening Friday, August 7th, at Film Forum

Movie stardom becomes a hall of mirrors in Stanley Kwan’s unconventional portrait of silent-screen icon Ruan Lingyu. Iconic Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays the celebrated actress as her private life, public image, and tabloid persecution begin echoing the melodramas that made her famous. Blending period recreation, archival footage, interviews, and Cheung’s reflections, this newly restored 1991 Hong Kong classic turns biography into a conversation between two actresses separated by half a century.

🎥 “Nostalghia: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Oleg Yankovsky Stars in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 Poetic Portrait of Exile and Homesickness — In Select UK and Irish Cinemas July 24th

While researching an exiled composer in Italy, Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) finds himself consumed by homesickness and drawn into the troubled world of Domenico (Erland Josephson), a local man convinced that a simple ritual can save humanity. As memory, faith, dreams, and reality begin to overlap, Gorchakov must carry a lit candle across an empty mineral pool without letting the flame go out. Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature made outside the Soviet Union turns exile into a haunting journey through spiritual isolation, proving that sometimes the smallest flame carries the heaviest weight.

🎥 “The Hot Spot: 4K Restoration” Trailer: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly Star in Dennis Hopper’s 1990 Sun-Baked Neo-Noir — Coming August 17th on 4K UHD and Blu-ray

Small-town trouble looks better under a scorching Texas sun. Drifter Harry Madox (Don Johnson) talks his way into a car-dealership job, plans a bank robbery, and gets caught between his boss’s calculating wife (Virginia Madsen) and a vulnerable accountant (Jennifer Connelly). Dennis Hopper’s 1990 crime drama turns lust, greed, blackmail, and murder into one very bad bargain, now restored in 4K from the original negative, via Radiance Films.

🎥 “KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS” Trailer: All-Girl Pop Group KATSEYE Takes Fans Behind Its Rise to Pop Stardom in This New Music Documentary — Limited Theatrical Screenings on August 12th

Pop stardom is never a solo act. KATSEYE opens the door on its journey from the pressure of Dream Academy to viral success, chart milestones, personal setbacks, and the sacrifices behind its global rise. Directed by Nadia Hallgren, this music documentary combines intimate interviews, unseen footage, and fan-made videos from EYEKONS to explore the bond between the performers and the community that helped carry them forward. From the team behind Netflix’s Pop Star Academy, this behind-the-scenes look celebrates a group stepping into its next stage of stardom.

🎥 “Barbara Forever” Trailer: This Intimate Documentary Portrait Celebrates Queer-Cinema Pioneer Barbara Hammer’s Fearless Life, Art, and Enduring Legacy — Opening Friday, September 4th at New York’s Film Forum

Some filmmakers leave behind a body of work. Barbara Hammer left behind an entire way of seeing. Built from her films, recordings, writings, and personal archives, this documentary follows the five-decade career of the pioneering lesbian avant-garde artist who placed queer passion, aging, illness, and artistic process at the center of her cinema. Director Brydie O’Connor lets Hammer’s unmistakable voice guide a portrait that feels less like a conventional biography than a conversation across time, with longtime collaborator Florrie Burke helping illuminate the filmmaker’s personal history.

🎥 “Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing” Trailer: Rory Kennedy’s New Documentary Investigates Boeing’s Whistleblower Scandal in the Follow-Up to ‘Downfall’ — Streaming August 19th on Netflix

After the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy returns to the aviation giant she examined in Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. Drawing on new insiders, hidden-camera footage, and Barnett’s story, the documentary investigates allegations that cost-cutting, outsourcing, and weakened quality control changed Boeing’s manufacturing culture... and may still threaten the passengers who depend on it. This follow-up expands the conversation beyond one whistleblower’s testimony to ask whether Boeing has truly confronted the failures exposed within its walls.

🎥 “Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers” Trailer: Jeff Bridges Narrates John H. Cunningham’s Documentary About Jimmy Buffett’s Original Band — In Theaters September 4th for Jimmy Buffett Day, Coming to VOD/Digital in October

Before Margaritaville became a lifestyle, it was a band trying to survive itself. Narrated by Jeff Bridges, this music documentary reunites Jimmy Buffett’s original Coral Reefers through firsthand interviews and rare archival material from their formative years in Key West, on the road, and in the studio. Featuring Kenny Chesney, Mac McAnally, Roger Bartlett, and other longtime collaborators, the film shifts the spotlight from Buffett to the musicians who helped create his signature sound... and the hard-partying chemistry that nearly pulled them apart.

🎥 “Beast Race” Trailer: A Rebel Organizer Fights to Save His Sister in Fernando Meirelles’ Dystopian Action Thriller — Streaming August 7th on Prime Video in Brazil

In a near-future city reshaped by environmental catastrophe and extreme inequality, wealthy Players control impoverished contestants known as Beasts in a deadly race for a million-dollar prize. When his sister is used as collateral in a wager, rebel organizer Mano (Matheus Abreu) must enter the competition he has spent his life sabotaging, with Dalva (Thainá Duarte) depending on him to survive. Directed by Ernesto Solis, Rodrigo Pesavento, and Fernando Meirelles, this Brazilian sci-fi thriller turns spectacle into a weapon... and survival into the ultimate bet.

🎥 “Esta Isla” Trailer: A Young Couple (Zion Ortiz and Fabiola Brown) Run for Their Lives in Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina’s Tribeca and Spirit Award-Winning Puerto Rican Romance-Thriller — Coming to VOD/Digital August 25th

Paradise is a terrible place to hide in this John Cassavetes Award-winning romance-thriller. After a murder forces Bebo (Zion Ortiz) and Lola (Fabiola Brown) to flee across Puerto Rico, their escape into the mountains becomes a reckoning with class, violence, and a past Bebo cannot outrun. First-time directors Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina turn young love into a tense journey where redemption may be just as dangerous as exile. The island can hide them... but not forever.

🎥 “Ramayana: Part 1” Trailer: An Exiled Prince Begins an Epic Quest to Rescue His Wife and Confront the Demon King Ravana in India’s IMAX-Bound Mythological Epic — Coming Soon

Before legends are carved into stone, they must survive the choices that create them. Ranbir Kapoor plays Rama, whose exile sets him on a journey of duty, sacrifice, and destiny alongside Sita (Sai Pallavi) and Lakshman (Ravie Dubey). When Sita is taken by Yash’s Ravana, Rama’s personal struggle grows into a battle that calls Hanuman (Sunny Deol) and entire kingdoms into action. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari, this first chapter of Namit Malhotra’s two-part adaptation pairs mythic scale with music by Hans Zimmer and A. R. Rahman; and a story where righteousness comes at the highest possible price.

🎥 “The Ribbon Hero” Final Trailer: A Princess Is Reborn as a Masked Hero in Yuki Igarashi’s Anime Fantasy — Streaming August 8th on Netflix

A ribbon can be a crown, a weapon, or a symbol of hope. After the monstrous Nergal devastates her kingdom, Princess Sapphire finds a new home threatened by the same darkness and reawakens as the Ribbon Hero. Voiced by Saaya and directed by Yuki Igarashi, this fantasy anime draws inspiration from Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight while sending its heroine into a desperate battle to protect the people she refuses to lose.

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📺 “Below” Teaser Trailer: Josh Hartnett and Mackenzie Davis Face a Terrifying Sea Creature in Netflix’s Newfoundland-Set Horror Mystery Series — Premiering Thursday, October 8th on Netflix

Josh Hartnett is back, people. And this time, he’s leading a new Netflix series that might have us fearing the water all over again.

Hartnett, who has been one of our favorites since the days of Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, has enjoyed a steady career resurgence in recent years, particularly after starring in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2024 twisty serial-killer thriller Trap, along with memorable appearances in FX’s The Bear and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Now, he’s heading to the rocky shores of Newfoundland for Below, an all-new six-episode horror-mystery series where a small fishing town might be the last place you’d expect to find something monstrous hiding just beneath the ocean’s surface.

Hartnett stars as Calvin Penney, a working-class fisherman and single father struggling to hold together a family still carrying the weight of personal loss. Life in the remote community of Snooks Arm is already difficult enough, but things take a far more dangerous turn when a mysterious sea creature begins terrorizing the town and threatening the waters that generations of local fishermen have depended on for decades.

And who better to get to the bottom of this creature mystery than the guy from one of the coolest and most overlooked sci-fi flicks of the ’90s, The Faculty?

Calvin joins forces with visiting marine researcher Fonda Howander, played by Station Eleven’s Mackenzie Davis, hoping to identify whatever is moving beneath the surface before another resident becomes its next victim. But as their investigation continues, the attacks begin pointing toward the island’s buried history, along with Calvin’s own traumatic past, suggesting that the creature may have been haunting the community for far longer than anyone realizes.

Created and showrun by Canadian writer Jesse McKeown, whose previous credits include The Umbrella Academy and 19-2, the upcoming limited series draws heavily from Newfoundland’s maritime culture, folklore, landscape, and history.

The strong ensemble cast—all sporting distinct Newfoundland accents, by the way—also includes Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton as Wade Penney, Bridgerton’s Ruby Stokes as Mary Penney, Halloween Ends’ Rohan Campbell as Jay Penney, Willow Kean as Ruth Penney, and Kaleb Horn as Noah. Species’ Natasha Henstridge also appears as one of the community’s local leaders.

All six episodes of Below will premiere Thursday, October 8th on Netflix.

📺 “Ted Lasso: Season 4” Trailer: Jason Sudeikis Heads Back to Richmond for a New Challenge Coaching the Women’s Team — Returning Wednesday, August 5th on Apple TV

Americans have a rather negative reputation for being rude and obnoxious while traveling abroad. And while we’re not saying that stereotype is entirely untrue, it’s good to know there are shows like Ted Lasso making a genuine effort to change the narrative and suggest that American “optimism” might be our greatest export to foreigners. Then again, some might call it stupidity. And yes, that isn’t entirely untrue, since maintaining blind optimism often requires ignoring all available evidence. You just gotta… “believe.”

Three years after Ted Lasso walked away from AFC Richmond and returned home to Kansas, Jason Sudeikis’ relentlessly optimistic football coach is heading back across the pond. But rather than simply reclaiming his old position, Ted is taking on a challenge that pushes him into entirely new territory: coaching Richmond’s second-division women’s soccer team.

Season 4 reunites Ted with Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), Keeley Jones (Juno Temple), Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), and Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), while introducing a new roster of players and staff members with their own ambitions, frustrations, and reasons for taking the field.

Sudeikis returns to lead the comedy as both star and executive producer. The ensemble also includes new cast members Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds as coach Alice Chilton, along with Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern, and Grant Feely as Ted’s son, Henry.

Created by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt, and based on the NBC Sports sketch character, the Apple series appears ready to continue its belief that the sport isn’t necessarily just about skill and hard work, but also the friendships formed along the way. Now Ted gets to test that philosophy with a whole new team fighting for its own place at Richmond.

The 10-episode fourth season is slated to premiere Wednesday, August 5th on Apple TV, with new episodes arriving weekly through October 7th.

📺 “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 18” Trailer: Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Dee, and Frank Return for More Shameless Schemes and Socially Unacceptable Misadventures — Premiering Monday, August 17th on FXX and Streams on Hulu / Disney+

In this day and age, it’s hard enough for a television show to survive its first season, let alone make it all the way to Season 18. And for a comedy series? That’s almost unfathomable.

Most comedies begin running out of steam by their fourth, fifth, or sixth season, so the fact that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has lasted this long has to be credited to the incredible chemistry among its main cast. Over the years, they’ve built a devoted audience willing to follow these characters to the ends of the Earth just to watch them act like complete fools and stumble into increasingly ridiculous situations.

Season 18 doesn’t appear to be any different. Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Dee, and Frank are back at Paddy’s Pub, cooking up more selfish schemes involving inheritance money, automation, conspiracy theories, sobriety culture, school, youth sports, and even a Renaissance Faire.

In other words, the world continues to change while this pub-owning group remains completely incapable of learning anything from it.

Rob Mac (McElhenney), Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito once again lead the ensemble, returning as five of television’s most stubbornly terrible people. David Hornsby also returns as the perpetually unfortunate Rickety Cricket, while Jimmi Simpson is back as Liam McPoyle, suggesting the Gang’s latest disasters will spread well beyond the walls of Paddy’s.

This long-running FXX comedy has survived by refusing to soften its characters or force them into meaningful growth. Instead, every new pop-cultural shift becomes another opportunity for the group to make terrible life choices, turning even the most ordinary situations into unbearably awkward disasters.

After 17 seasons, we’re still ready to see what they come up with next. The jokes will be big. The humor will be crass. And the Always Sunny Gang will almost certainly find new taboos to cross.

Season 18 premieres Monday, August 17th on FXX and streams on Hulu and Disney+.

📺 “The Shards” Final Trailer: Igby Rigney, Homer Gere and Kaia Gerber Enter 1980s L.A. Prep-School Obsession in Ryan Murphy’s New Bret Easton Ellis Thriller Series — Debuts Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Remember the ’80s: big hair, louder fashion, and a whole generation of young people up to no good. Famed provocateur Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) teams up with executive producer Ryan Murphy for a new ’80s throwback series where a privileged class of teenagers may be even more treacherous than the serial killer stalking Los Angeles. Based on Ellis’ semi-autobiographical novel and set inside the moneyed world of 1980s L.A., this FX thriller follows Bret (Igby Rigney), an aspiring writer at an elite prep school whose polished social circle begins to fracture when magnetic newcomer Robert Mallory (Homer Gere) arrives before senior year. Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, Wes Bentley, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jordan Roth co-star as desire, jealousy, status games, and a killer known as the Trawler turn teenage obsession into something far more dangerous. ’80s L.A. excess wasn’t just about consumption and privilege... it also meant the city was crawling with people willing to cross any line to get what they wanted.

📺 “Cupertino” Teaser: Mike Colter and Rachel Keller Take on Big Tech in a New Legal Drama From ‘The Good Wife’ Creators Robert and Michelle King — Premieres Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

When it comes to network television, legal dramas are a dime a dozen. But this one has Luke Cage. “Sweet Christmas!” Mike Colter trades in his bulletproof hoodie for a courtroom suit to lead this David-versus-Goliath drama from Robert and Michelle King, creators of The Good Wife, Evil, and Elsbeth. He stars as Michael Price, a lawyer fired by a tech startup and cheated out of stock options just before its breakthrough. Teaming with Rachel Keller’s Olivia Siffre, another discarded attorney, he builds a practice for workers exploited by Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. Big Tech may have the money and data, but these lawyers are ready to serve notice.

📺 “Outer Banks: Season 5” Trailer: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline and the Pogues Go After Revenge, Redemption, and One Last Treasure in Netflix’s Final Season — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

Netflix has no shortage of hit shows, but one of its biggest recent breakouts might still be one of its most unexpected: a sun-soaked teen mystery-adventure about treasure hunts, class wars, and a crew of young troublemakers from the coast of North Carolina. Now the Pogues are heading into their fifth and final season, with John B (Chase Stokes), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), Kiara (Madison Bailey), and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) reeling from the death of JJ and chasing the stolen Blue Crown. With revenge, redemption, and one last shot at a future all on the line, the final hunt sends them into dangerous new territory while Rafe (Drew Starkey) gets pulled back into the Pogues’ orbit. Summer may have started as a coastal fantasy, but for the Pogues, it might just end in one final fight for everything they have left.

📺 “Dugout Dads” Trailer: Patrick Renna Reunites With His Sandlot Castmates and Boy Meets World’s Danielle Fishel in This New Little League Comedy Series — Coming Soon

’90s kids, rejoice! Prepare for some heavy nostalgia as Patrick Renna heads back to the baseball diamond with several of his former The Sandlot castmates. Only this time, they’re the grown-ups causing all the trouble. In this forthcoming streaming series, Renna stars as an idealistic father who volunteers to coach his children’s Little League team, only to discover that managing a group of 10-year-olds is easier than handling their fiercely competitive parents. Co-created by Renna and fellow actor Kyle Howard, and featuring Boy Meets World’s Danielle Fishel alongside The Sandlot alums Tom Guiry, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Victor DiMattia, and more, this original sports comedy brings the old gang back together to awaken the ’90s kid in all of us. The kids just want to play ball ... but it seems the dads are the ones who need a timeout.

📺 “Lioness: Season 3” Final Trailer: Zoe Saldaña’s CIA Officer Faces a War That Hits Home in Latest Season of Taylor Sheridan’s Military Action-Thriller — Out This Sunday, August 2nd on Paramount+

Zoe Saldaña returns as CIA officer Joe McNamara, who has spent years keeping covert wars away from her front door. But as hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals close in, she finds the line between duty and family disappearing fast. Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Kelly are also back for this new eight-episode season from creator Taylor Sheridan, where every mission carries serious consequences... and this time, the battlefield is closer than ever. Joe may know how to survive the enemy, but protecting her family could prove to be her most dangerous assignment yet.

📺 “Possession” International Trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jonny Lee Miller Confront a Plantation’s Haunted Past in Sky’s Supernatural Thriller Miniseries — Debuts Thursday, August 6th in the UK on Sky and NOW

Some houses are haunted by ghosts; others by the horrors of history. Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Claudia, a British lawyer sent to Jamaica to defend a wealthy aristocrat (Jonny Lee Miller) in a disputed inheritance claim involving Hope Hill, his family’s former plantation. But when Claudia recognizes the estate from her recurring dreams, the legal battle opens the door to a supernatural mystery connecting the property’s violent past to the injustices of the present. Created by Karla Crome and directed by Jamaican filmmaker Storm Saulter, this five-episode British thriller suggests the law may decide who owns the house, but the trauma within its walls might still lay claim to everyone who enters.

📺 “Robot Chicken: Adult Swim’s 25th Anniversary Special” Trailer: Seth Green and Matthew Senreich Send Adult Swim’s Strangest Characters on a Cruise From Hell — Airing Sunday, August 30th on Adult Swim and Streaming Monday, August 31st on HBO Max

Adult Swim is turning 25, and Robot Chicken has volunteered to ruin the party. Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s stop-motion special packs characters from The Venture Bros., Smiling Friends, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse and more aboard an anniversary cruise that quickly becomes a fight for survival. With decades of late-night oddballs and deep cuts available for roasting, this is less a heartfelt tribute than one seriously overcrowded disaster at sea.

📺 “The Airport Chaplain” International Trailer: Hugo Weaving and ‘The Pitt’ Breakout Shabana Azeez Clash Inside a Chaotic Australian Airport in This New Miniseries — Premieres Wednesday, August 26th in Australia on SBS and SBS On Demand

Shabana Azeez is one of the many breakout stars to emerge from HBO’s hit medical drama The Pitt. What some viewers may not realize is that she’s Australian. And somehow, between seasons, she found time to return home for this eight-part workplace drama starring opposite an Aussie legend. Hugo Weaving stars as Tobias Wallace, an unconventional airport chaplain who considers himself indispensable until Azeez’s formidable new boss, Mira, arrives determined to rein him in. Their power struggle soon spreads throughout the terminal, where fixers, cleaners, baggage handlers, and passengers are already juggling crises of their own. Airports are stressful enough without a chaplain who thinks he runs the place... and a boss determined to prove he doesn’t.

📺 “The Chosen” Season 6 Teaser: Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus Faces His Final Day in Dallas Jenkins’ Hit Biblical Drama — Premiering Sunday, November 15th on Prime Video

It all leads back to the cross. Jonathan Roumie returns as Jesus as the sixth season follows his final hours through the followers who love him, the authorities who condemn him, and the disciple whose betrayal sets everything in motion. Creator Dallas Jenkins unfolds the story across six new episodes before concluding it with a feature-length theatrical finale in spring 2027.

📺 “Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes” Trailer: Documentarian Joe Berlinger Uses Unreleased Prison Recordings to Revisit the Cult Leader, the 1969 Murders and the Trial That Became a Media Spectacle — Debuts Wednesday, August 12th on Netflix

Nearly six decades later, Charles Manson’s voice remains as disturbing as ever. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy) returns for the fourth installment of his true-crime anthology, using unreleased prison recordings, interviews, and archival footage to trace Manson’s rise as a cult leader, the 1969 murders carried out by his followers, and the trial that turned the case into a media spectacle. The tapes may bring us closer to Manson’s voice, but closeness is not the same as understanding.

📺 “Leanne: Season 2” Trailer: Leanne Morgan Faces More Family Troubles in Chuck Lorre’s Southern Sitcom — Returning Thursday, August 27th on Netflix

Starting over was only the opening act. Stand-up comic Leanne Morgan returns with sister Carol (Kristen Johnston) beside her as old habits, new challenges, and changing family roles complicate her hard-won fresh start. Lainey Wilson, Jaime Pressly, Billy Gardell, and Tyne Daly join the family circle for a second season filled with more domestic disruption and Southern humor. Reinvention may be personal... but in this family, it never stays private.

📺 “Mousetrap” Teaser: A Man Hunts Down the Hacker Who Stole His Identity in Netflix’s Korean Crime Thriller Series — Premieres Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Identity theft is bad enough when someone steals your password. It’s a whole other nightmare when they steal your entire life. In this new Korean series, Ryu Jun-yeol stars as Moon-jae, a reclusive novelist who wakes up to find his name, money, phone, and proof that he even exists taken over by a mysterious impostor known as the Rat. With his only friend missing and nowhere else to turn, he forms an uneasy alliance with No-ja, the ruthless loan shark (Sul Kyung-gu), to track down the man who has erased him. Directed by Kim Hong-sun and written by Lee Jae-gon, this Netflix thriller asks what happens when a stolen identity turns into a full-blown existential manhunt.

📺 “La Mesías” International Trailer: A Man Confronts His Family’s Cult-Like Past in Los Javis’ Spanish Psychological Thriller Series — Begins Streaming Thursday, September 3rd on MUBI in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and other Select International Markets

Spanish actor Roger Casamajor stars as Enric, a man shaken by the sudden fame of Stella Maris, a Catholic pop group whose young singers remind him of the religious fanaticism, maternal control, and buried secrets he and his sister Irene have spent years trying to escape. Created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, this seven-episode Spanish thriller moves through different periods of one fractured family, where music becomes both a performance of faith and a trigger for the past.

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🎥 “The Thomas Crown Affair” Teaser Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Directs and Stars as the Ultimate Debonair Gentleman Thief in This Stylish New Heist-Thriller Remake with Adria Arjona — Arriving In Theaters March 5, 2027

You would think that after winning a Best Actor Oscar for Sinners, Michael B. Jordan might want to take some time off and bask in the glow of his victory. But then again, Jordan has never been one to slow down or rest on his laurels. He is already back in the saddle, proving that for some Oscar winners, the work never ends... it only gets bigger.

This time, Jordan wears multiple hats, directing, producing, and starring in a new adaptation of The Thomas Crown Affair, a heist thriller that has been reinvented once before and now appears ready for another stylish makeover, with Jordan in the lead opposite Adria Arjona.

Jordan plays the titular billionaire master thief Thomas Crown, whose suits are as impeccably tailored as the elaborate schemes he uses to pull off impossible scores. This debonair art bandit was once a professional race car driver whose career ended after a terrible accident. Now, he channels that thrill-seeking impulse into increasingly daring heists, chasing the same rush he once found behind the wheel.

Meanwhile, Arjona joins the fray as a tenacious insurance investigator who crosses paths with Crown, whose charm may prove just as dangerous as his criminal reputation. While Crown eyes his next score in plain sight, Arjona’s character recognizes the one detail everyone else overlooks: most thieves eventually get caught... it is only a matter of when they make a mistake.

But what begins as a cat-and-mouse pursuit ultimately develops into a dangerous romance, blurring the line between hunter and thief and making it harder to tell who is really playing whom.

With Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, Danai Gurira, Pilou Asbæk, Aubrey Plaza, Ruth Negga, Aiysha Hart, and Paapa Essiedu filling out the supporting cast, Jordan has surrounded himself with serious talent while pushing the film toward a sleeker, more action-heavy direction.

Judging by this teaser trailer, Jordan, who made his feature directorial debut with Creed III, appears to be leaning into a distinctly James Bond-style edge, with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young (Arrival, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Selma) working his magic behind the lens.

It will be interesting to see how this new version compares with the previous two. The 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway remains a stone-cold classic, further cementing director Norman Jewison’s reputation as one of the era’s most versatile filmmakers. Then there is John McTiernan’s 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, a stylish caper that was somewhat overlooked at the time but has since earned recognition as one of Brosnan’s best films outside the Bond franchise.

Whatever the outcome, Michael B. Jordan certainly looks good in a suit... and right at home playing the debonair gentleman thief who always seems to be one step ahead of everyone chasing him.

The Thomas Crown Affair will arrive in theaters March 5, 2027.

🎥 “Jumanji: Open World” Trailer: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan Bring the Game Into the Real World in This Final Installment of the Action-Comedy Franchise — Hitting Theaters December 25th

There’s no secret that Dwayne Johnson has hit a rough patch lately, especially after the disappointing summer box-office performance of Disney’s live-action Moana. Once considered one of Hollywood’s most dependable stars, Johnson has entered the kind of downturn that nearly every major movie star eventually has to weather. Nevertheless, he will have another chance this year to remind audiences why his larger-than-life charisma helped turn him into a movie star in the first place.

Johnson will once again reunite with comedian Kevin Hart, comedy superstar Jack Black, and MCU star Karen Gillan for Jumanji: Open World, the reportedly final installment in the modern action-comedy trilogy inspired by the beloved 1995 Robin Williams blockbuster.

Director Jake Kasdan, who has been in the director’s chair for the entire three-film run, returns to bring the gang back together for another round of body-swapping antics, giant creature attacks, and increasingly ridiculous life-or-death challenges.

The twist here: those Jumanji video game avatars are now loose in the real world, far away from the rules and safeguards of their digital jungle. That also means the real world is no longer safe from hordes of rogue animals suddenly running wild, setting up a new level of the game that feels all too real.

Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain, Rhys Darby, Nick Jonas, and Danny DeVito are also back, as game characters Dr. “Smolder” Bravestone (Johnson), sidekick Mouse Finbar (Hart), dance-fighting survivalist Ruby Roundhouse (Gillan), and code-breaking Professor Shelly Oberon (Black) suddenly materialize in the real world. Now, the human players who once controlled them must figure out how to stop a game that no longer appears interested in following its own rules. This makes the new setup feel much closer to the premise of the 1995 original. Full circle, perhaps.

Jumanji: Open World is due to open in theaters December 25th.

🎥 “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” Trailer: Rinko Kikuchi Dances Through Grief and Second Chances in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Sundance-Winning Feel-Good Dance Flick — Twirling Into Theaters September 25th

Dance. No one gives it enough credit as an art form that can express emotions while also telling stories and communicating ideas without saying a single word.

And while “Shake Your Booty” may have been turned into a disco command by KC and the Sunshine Band, letting go of yourself completely on the dance floor might qualify as its own kind of spiritual experience. Because sometimes moving forward begins by simply moving.

That seems to be the idea running through Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, the new music-driven comedy-drama starring Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, who began her international career playing a rebellious teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2006 drama Babel and has since matured into a versatile powerhouse. Need proof? Just watch her in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, Pacific Rim, or, more recently, HBO’s crime series Tokyo Vice.

Here, Kikuchi takes on the role of Haru, a competitive ballroom dancer in Tokyo whose life collapses after the sudden death of her husband and lifelong dance partner. Nine months later, Haru remains grief-stricken. She has withdrawn from her friends, family, and the ballroom studio that once gave her life purpose and meaning.

But when Haru’s sister and friends finally persuade her to return to the dance studio, she meets Fedir, a magnetic new dance instructor played by Cuban actor Alberto Guerra (Narcos: Mexico). Their immediate connection awakens feelings she believed had disappeared months ago. But it also leaves her caught between loyalty to the past and the unsettling possibility of wanting to dance again; even with a partner who isn’t her late husband.

Japanese-American filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka, who recently worked in television, directing episodes of Narcos, The Terror: Infamy, and Tokyo Vice—where he previously collaborated with Kikuchi—was awarded the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where the film made its world premiere to rave reviews.

So, if you’re looking for a life-affirming movie where shaking booties isn’t just for fun but part of the healing process, this one may be worth saving a dance for. Ah, shake, shake, shake, shake...

Also co-starring Alejandro Edda and Damián Alcázar, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is coming to theaters September 25th.

🎥 “Fall 2: Deadpoint” Trailer: Harriet Slater and Arsema Thomas Are Stranded 5,000 Feet Above Ground in This Vertigo-Inducing Survival Sequel — Coming to Theaters September 2nd

What goes up must eventually come down, right?

That’s the uneasy thought running through our minds whenever we see someone reckless enough to cross a tightrope, scale a high tower of some kind, or inch along a narrow ledge on a mountain with nothing but open air beneath them.

That fear... that gut-churning suspense is likely one of the major reasons why the 2022 survival thriller Fall became such a huge sleeper hit that year. Sure, we may know the actors are standing on a controlled set, surrounded by safety equipment and visual effects, but watching someone dangle thousands of feet above the ground still produces that unmistakable pit in the stomach.

Now the franchise is climbing even higher. And we can already feel our stomachs clenching.

Fall 2: Deadpoint shifts the action from an abandoned communications tower to the exposed planks of Mount Kwan, where two women find themselves stranded 5,000 feet above the ground after a devastating rockslide destroys their route to safety.

Harriet Slater stars as Jax Hunter, a deeply traumatized woman still mourning the tragic death of her thrill-seeking sister, Shiloh, played by Virginia Gardner in the original film. Hoping to honor her memory, Jax joins Hunter’s former friend Luce, played by Arsema Thomas, for a dangerous plank walk high above the mountains of Taipei.

Now the question is... why? That’s not exactly the safest way to process grief, right?

It doesn’t matter, as Fall 2: Deadpoint seems to know exactly what its audience wants to see: two female characters in the most extreme situation imaginable, where they must contend with vertigo, exposure, injury, and the creeping realization that one wrong move could send either of them plummeting to their deaths.

Taking over directing duties are Peter and Michael Spierig, the twin Australian filmmakers behind the cult genre hits Daybreakers, Predestination, Jigsaw, and Winchester. Their films tend to place characters inside tightly engineered genre traps, making them a natural fit for a sequel built around limited space, escalating danger, and the fear of falling from what would feel like an impossible height.

Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank, who wrote the original film, return for the screenplay. Tom Brittney also joins the cast, while Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline Currey return in guest cameos as original protagonists Shiloh Hunter and Becky Connor.

Fall 2: Deadpoint opens in theaters September 2nd. Come for the scream-inducing thrills, but stay... not because you want to, but because your feet are frozen in place.

🎥 “Children of Blood and Bone” Trailer: ‘The Woman King’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Brings Tomi Adeyemi’s Mythic African Supernatural Fantasy to Life with Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Viola Davis, Regina King and Many More — Hitting Theaters and IMAX January 15th, 2027

Damson Idris had long been rumored to be in the running to take over the Black Panther mantle, but filmmaker Ryan Coogler officially ended that speculation at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend when he revealed that fellow British actor David Jonsson will play T’Challa’s son and Wakanda’s next protector in the upcoming third installment.

The announcement left many wondering whether the Snowfall and F1 star could still have a future somewhere in the Wakandan corner of the MCU. And while that remains up in the air, and probably won’t happen anytime soon, if ever, Idris is nevertheless stepping into similar territory with his latest film, a sweeping African fantasy carrying some distinctly Wakandan visual cues.

Based on Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling, genre-bending 2018 debut novel, Children of Blood and Bone, the upcoming epic, much like Coogler’s Black Panther films, falls under the umbrella of Afrofuturism, as both stories imagine vast African cultures breaking free from Western stereotypes and expanding into something richer and more fantastical.

Yet in the case of Children of Blood and Bone, the focus is not on advanced Wakandan technology, but on magic and the supernatural, blended with ancient African mythology and history. It’s a mythological folktale told with the scale and spectacle of a sweeping fantasy adventure, which likely explains why Adeyemi’s book became such a phenomenon.

Thuso Mbedu, one of the breakout stars of The Woman King and who recently starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Task, stars as Zélie Adebola, a young, gifted woman from the kingdom of Orïsha who possesses the power to conjure the spirits of the dead. She is fighting to restore magic to her oppressed people in the hope of freeing them from the tyrannical rule of King Saran, played here by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Damson Idris, meanwhile, plays Prince Inan, the crown prince of Orïsha. He is tasked with hunting down Zélie once it is revealed that she comes from a bloodline nearly eradicated years earlier and is destined to restore magic across the kingdom; something his father is determined to prevent at any cost. His mission, however, becomes a little more complicated as he begins to question his father’s rule and his own role in sustaining his tyrannical reign.

Joining Mbedu, Idris, and Ejiofor is a stacked ensemble that includes:

• Tosin Cole as Tzain, Zélie’s protective older brother;

• Amandla Stenberg as the rebellious Princess Amari;

• Oscar winner Viola Davis as Mama Agba, the elder who helps train Zélie to control her abilities;

• Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo as Admiral Kaea;

• Lashana Lynch as Jumoke;

• Idris Elba as Lekan;

• And Oscar winner Regina King as Queen Nehanda.

The upcoming film hails from writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the historical epic The Woman King, the Netflix comic-book actioner The Old Guard, and the beloved romantic drama Love & Basketball.
Oscar-winning Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler also helped build the world of Orïsha, which may explain why the two fantasy kingdoms share such a strong visual connection.

Children of Blood and Bone opens in theaters and IMAX on January 15th, 2027.

🎥 “Onslaught” New Trailer: Adria Arjona Faces Genetically Engineered Super Soldiers in Adam Wingard’s Pulpy Action-Horror Thriller — Coming to Theaters September 4th

After spending the last several years making large-scale Godzilla x Kong blockbusters, filmmaker Adam Wingard is returning to his roots this year with a new genre-bending action flick. The thing is, those roots aren’t exactly grounded in your typical action-heavy horror movies. They’re steeped in retro style, lo-fi genre filmmaking, and the kind of VHS-era thrills that first put him on the map. The best way to describe it: a little John Carpenter, a little James Cameron, a little Sam Raimi, and a whole lot of late-night video-store weirdness thrown in for good measure.

Starring Andor breakout Adria Arjona, Onslaught feels very much in the vein of Wingard’s scrappy 2014 horror-tinged action thriller The Guest— and rumor has it the two films might even be connected somehow.

Here, Arjona plays Celeste, a retired Army sniper living in a remote desert trailer park in the middle of nowhere. Trying to get by, she’s doing everything she can to provide for her young daughter. But the proverbial shit hits the fan when her trailer park is suddenly invaded by a unit of heavily armed, masked mercenaries. Armed to the teeth and quick on the trigger, these supposedly genetically engineered super soldiers, who have just escaped from a nearby secret military facility, are closing in fast.

Celeste soon finds herself cornered and forced to fall back on the lethal skills she thought she had left behind. If they wanted a gunfight, they picked the right trailer park, because Celeste isn’t about to lie down without one. This momma bear has claws... and she’s not afraid to use them.

Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, comedian Eric Wareheim, and genre veteran Michael Biehn round out the cast, along with Family Matters and Die Hard icon Reginald VelJohnson as one of Celeste’s trailer park neighbors who joins the fight. Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall, both of whom have previously worked with Wingard, also make guest appearances.

With that lineup of talent and one truly out-there premise, Onslaught has all the makings of one of Wingard’s strangest and most unapologetically pulpy movies yet. At least, that’s what we’re hoping for.

The film also reunites Wingard with his longtime screenwriting collaborator Simon Barrett and is set to blast its way into theaters September 4th.

“The Cycle” Teaser Trailer: Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll Investigates Her Father’s Mysterious Death in Shudder’s Supernatural Horror Thriller — Premiering October 23rd on Shudder

You might know Deborah Ann Woll from Marvel’s Daredevil series, where she plays Karen Page, Matt Murdock’s most trusted ally and closest confidante. Or perhaps you know her from her star-making turn as the innocent Jessica Hamby, who goes from small-town waitress to newly turned vampire in HBO’s hit series True Blood.

And no matter how long you’ve been following her career, we imagine she gained plenty of new fans after appearing on fellow Daredevil co-star Jon Bernthal’s podcast, where she spoke with remarkable honesty about not only how much she loves Dungeons & Dragons, but how the tabletop role-playing game helped save her life after years of being bullied as a teenager.

Woll, who became a professional Dungeon Master during the pandemic and the actors’ strike, also offered something of a masterclass in how easily someone could join a campaign, guiding a complete novice like Bernthal through the basics of the game with ease. It’s a must-see for anyone who wants to watch, in real time, how a little imagination can turn a few simple choices into a fully realized adventure.

And while Woll may seem more comfortable leaning into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, she’s hardly stepping away from acting. She takes on the lead role in this new supernatural horror thriller, playing a woman pulled into a dark mystery surrounding the recently discovered body of her estranged father.

Directed by cult horror filmmaker Jordan Downey, whose credits include the horror comedy ThanksKilling and the lo-fi Viking chiller The Head Hunter, The Cycle centers on the police investigation into three mangled bodies—one of which belongs to a man who has been missing for 36 years. When the victim’s daughter, a medical examiner played here by Woll, learns of the discovery, she is drawn into a case that grows stranger with every new clue. Soon, her father isn’t just another body on the examination table, but the key to uncovering something far more disturbing... something that might now be hunting her down.

Also co-starring Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan as a local police detective, alongside Will Hochman, Jack Doolan, Carl W. Crudup, Jeb Berrier, Gretchen Corbett, and David Myers Gregory, The Cycle is a Shudder exclusive set to premiere on the horror streaming platform October 23rd.

July might be drawing to a close, but the summer movie season still has a few surprises left before it winds down. After weeks of major hits and unexpected duds, the box office is clearing the way for another big franchise comeback. Marvel and Sony are hoping to turn Spider-Man into their next major summer hit, and while this week’s movie slate has been thinned out for the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, the TV landscape is once again crowded with plenty of promising options.

As always, we’ve rounded up the week’s major releases across theaters, streaming, VOD, and television into one handy lineup to help you plan your viewing week. Skim through and add something to your watchlist. We’re sure there’s something here worth checking out, whether on the big screen or at home.

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🎥 WHAM! 10 Days In China
(Tues, July 28th — limited release)

WHAM!’s landmark 1985 trip to China becomes a pop spectacle and cultural time capsule in Mike Christie’s retrospective documentary. Newly restored, digitized, and never-before-seen footage revisits the Beijing and Guangzhou concerts that made George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley the first Western pop act to perform in the country. Firsthand interviews add perspective to the cultural collision and political weight surrounding two young stars who suddenly found themselves performing on a much larger world stage.

🎥 Above & Below
(Wed, July 29th — limited release)

There is a shark below, armed criminals above, and very little oxygen in between. Laura Marano and Antonio Banderas star in this ocean thriller about a dream diving vacation hijacked by criminals who force a group of friends beneath the surface. Staying underwater means suffocation, but coming up places them directly in the path of their captors. With a circling predator making either choice potentially fatal, survival depends on deciding which danger to face.

🎥 Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(Fri, July 31st — wide release)

Peter Parker saved the world, but no one remembers he exists. Tom Holland returns as a more isolated, street-level Spider-Man, living anonymously in New York without MJ (Zendaya), Ned (Jacob Batalon), the Avengers, or high-tech backup. Destin Daniel Cretton directs as Michael Mando’s Scorpion reenters the picture, Jon Bernthal’s Punisher makes his big-screen debut, and Mark Ruffalo returns as Bruce Banner. The neighborhood may be smaller this time, but a possible mutation—and an apparent clash with the Hulk and a new mysterious foe (Sadie Sink)—suggest Peter’s problems are not.

🎥 I Want Your Sex
(Fri, July 31st — wide release)

Desire comes with rules. Elliot is about to learn what happens when he stops understanding them. Cooper Hoffman stars as a fresh-faced young man whose dream job with Erika Tracy, a celebrated artist and sexual provocateur played by Olivia Wilde, becomes an invitation to serve as her muse. Drawn into her seductive world of fantasy, power, and BDSM, Elliot discovers how quickly pleasure can become dangerous when the rules of consent and control begin to change. Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Margaret Cho, and Johnny Knoxville round out Gregg Araki’s kinky erotic comedy thriller.

🎥 The Gentleman Thief
(Fri, July 31st — limited release)

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

🎥 The Samurai and the Prisoner
(Fri, July 31st — limited release)

Inside a besieged castle, rebellion gives way to suspicion, betrayal, and murder. Masahiro Motoki plays Lord Murashige Araki, whose conflict with Bando Shingo’s Nobunaga Oda turns his own court into a deadly contest of trust. His most unlikely ally is Masaki Suda’s Kanbei Kuroda, a brilliant strategist imprisoned in the dungeon. Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs this shadowy historical thriller, transforming the samurai genre into a feudal murder mystery where political survival may depend on solving the crimes within the castle walls.

🎥 Jimmy
(Fri, July 31st — limited release; in NY)

Before James Baldwin could build a new life abroad, he had to step beyond the world he knew. Benny O. Arthur stars as the young writer, whose search for freedom and artistic purpose carries him from 1948 New York into the landscapes of Istanbul and the streets of Paris. Blurring past and present, writer-director Yashaddai Owens’ debut feature follows Baldwin’s early experiences overseas as he navigates identity, belonging, and what it means to find his place in the world.

🎥 Boyhood: 12th Anniversary
(Fri, July 31st — re-release; special screening)

12 years after its original release, Richard Linklater’s classic coming-of-age drama returns to theaters this weekend for a special anniversary screening. Ellar Coltrane stars as Mason, a Texas boy navigating divorce, new homes, family dinners, first loves, and the ordinary moments that shape a life. Filmed with the same cast from 2002 to 2013, the film follows Mason from childhood to college alongside Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Lorelei Linklater, capturing how children grow up, and how entire families change with them.

🎥 Welcome II the Terrordome: 4K Restoration
(Fri, July 31st — in select theaters; re-release)

A new 4K restoration brings Ngozi Onwurah’s 1995 dystopian satire back to theaters through Janus Films. Set in a near-future Britain where Black residents have been confined to a segregated slum, the film turns the death of a young boy into the flashpoint for years of grief, anger, and systemic violence. Its collision of science fiction, political fury, and Afrofuturist imagery returns more than three decades later as both a landmark and a warning.

🎥 Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
(Fri, July 31st — limited release; restoration)

Driver’s education once came with mangled wreckage and fresh corpses. For generations, learning road safety meant watching death in full color. Filmmaker and restorationist Bret Wood revisits notorious 1950s classroom shock films like Signal 30, tracing their rise as educational tools. Featuring restored footage and interviews with creators, this documentary examines a safety campaign that scared teenagers straight... and haunted them long after the projector stopped.

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🎥 “Matchbox: The Movie” Trailer: John Cena Reunites With His Childhood Friends for a High-Speed CIA Mission in Mattel’s New Action Spy Thriller with Jessica Biel, Corey Stoll, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris and More — Debuting October 9th on Apple TV

You know, there was a time when Hollywood had to come up with a clever twist on a well-known property, especially when the thing they were trying to adapt didn’t necessarily have enough material or story to sustain a feature film. Well, those days are over. Now anything can become a movie, no matter how thin the premise, how limited the source material, or how little anyone ever asked to see it stretched across two hours. Oh, you don’t believe us? Well, feast your eyes on Matchbox (wait for it...) The Movie.

Yes, those old-ass Matchbox cars (the classic die-cast toy line now owned by Mattel) have somehow become the source material for a new John Cena action movie. At this point, we’re still not entirely sure why. It’s not like people were dying for a Matchbox movie, and if there is some massive fanbase built around those tiny die-cast cars, they’ve managed to keep remarkably quiet about it.

Anyhoo, John Cena stars in this action-packed spy thriller as an undercover CIA agent who reunites with his childhood friends for what should be a nostalgic night out, only for the entire group to be taken hostage by a team of heavily armed mercenaries.

You see, Cena plays Sean, a former toy-loving nerd who spent his childhood playing with Matchbox cars alongside his neighborhood friends. Little did they know Sean would eventually grow up to become an international spy known for crashing cars and pulling off death-defying stunts as if he were still playing with toys in the backyard. Hence the Matchbox tie-in. See? It all makes sense now.

Despite its kooky IP connection, the cast is surprisingly top-notch, with Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, and Arturo Castro playing Cena’s childhood friends, who are shocked not only to learn what he does for a living but also to find themselves caught up in one of his dangerous missions.

Danai Gurira is also in the mix as a CIA director, while Corey Stoll takes on the role of the main villain, with Bill Camp and Golshifteh Farahani rounding out the cast.

Sam Hargrave, a former stunt coordinator who worked on films like Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and Captain America: Civil War, continues his successful transition into a full-fledged action director with this new John Cena movie, following the hit Netflix films Extraction and Extraction 2.

So even with the understandable skepticism that comes with turning a silly toy brand into an action movie, Hargrave’s involvement suggests we can at the very least count on some roaring engines, bone-rattling stunts, massive explosions, and tightly choreographed action sequences.

Matchbox: The Movie debuts October 9th on Apple TV.

🎥 “Resident Evil” Full Trailer: Austin Abrams Takes One Last Delivery Into an Infected Dead Zone in Zach Cregger’s Survival-Horror Reboot — In Theaters September 18th

After delivering two of the most acclaimed horror hits in recent memory with Barbarian and Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger likely had his pick of what to tackle next. So, naturally, he chose something that seems completely out of character, yet at the same time somehow feels perfectly Cregger.

The Resident Evil franchise is apparently something Cregger has held close for years, having been a devoted fan of the video games since his younger days. And while the movie franchise based on the games has been far less consistent, Cregger seems determined to bring it closer to the survival-horror roots that made the original Resident Evil game such an enduring favorite.

For this complete franchise reboot, Cregger has once again teamed up with Weapons actor Austin Abrams as the main protagonist and, essentially, the audience’s guide into the filmmaker’s version of this infected, decaying world.

Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier whose job is to transport and deliver emergency donated organs to hospitals across the city. When asked to make another run before ending his night shift, Bryan agrees to drive one last emergency organ across town.

The problem? His destination sits just outside the quarantine zone. But hey, the job pays double.

It turns out to be the worst decision Bryan has ever made, as he soon finds himself attacked and stranded in a deserted town crawling with infected dead who want nothing more than to tear him apart from bloody limb to bloody limb. What begins as one routine delivery becomes a relentless race through collapsing streets, hostile spaces, and an outbreak offering no obvious route home. No one said earning double pay would come cheap.

Written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, the film tells a standalone story rather than continuing the previous screen continuity. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser join Abrams in the cast.

Cregger, a comedian by trade, has already shown a real gift for dropping ordinary people into extremely hostile situations where macabre humor and sudden violence are never far apart. With this franchise installment, he seems to be tapping into the core of what made Resident Evil so potent in the first place: claustrophobic terror, limited resources, and the creeping realization that whatever is waiting behind the next locked door might be even worse than what’s chasing you.

Resident Evil is set to open in theaters September 18th. Come for the scares, but stay because every exit door happens to be blocked by something hungry. Yikes!

🎥 “Ebenezer” Comic-Con Trailer: Johnny Depp Transforms Into Scrooge in Ti West’s Darkly Supernatural Christmas Carol Retelling — Arriving in Theaters November 13th

So, it’s the height of summer, and it’s Comic-Con weekend. Naturally, that means Christmas movies and Johnny Depp, right?

Okay, maybe those aren’t the first things that come to mind, but Depp made a surprise appearance in full costume at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, wandering the Gaslamp Quarter and greeting bewildered fans as Ebenezer Scrooge before introducing the film’s first official trailer in Hall H. Apparently, not even July is safe from a well-timed “Bah, humbug.”

Directed by horror maestro Ti West, best known for X, Pearl, and MaXXXine, this new rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol appears to lean into a darker, more overtly supernatural interpretation of the miser’s Christmas Eve haunting.

Here, Depp takes on the titular role of Ebenezer Scrooge in his first major studio film since his controversial and highly publicized defamation trial. Judging by the footage, Depp seems to relish disappearing beneath the elaborate makeup and fully embracing Scrooge’s theatrical mannerisms as the ultimate cranky old curmudgeon.

In the film, Scrooge’s life of isolation, cruelty, and emotional retreat is interrupted by the arrival of his long-dead former business partner, Jacob Marley. Legendary actor Ian McKellen takes up the chains as Marley, while Andrea Riseborough and Tramell Tillman appear as the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, guiding Scrooge through the memories, regrets, and consequences he has spent a lifetime avoiding.

Rupert Grint plays the long-suffering Bob Cratchit, with Daisy Ridley as Emily Cratchit and Sam Claflin as Scrooge’s nephew Fred.

Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Charlie Murphy, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes round out the cast.

West, who is again best known for low-budget yet critically acclaimed horror films, feels like an intriguing choice, especially since this may be the biggest production of his career. Still, anyone who saw his standout flashback episode of this year’s sleeper-hit series Widow’s Bay can attest that the filmmaker knows how to weave elements of Gothic horror with dark humor in the most unexpected ways. Color us intrigued.

Sure, Christmas may still be several months away, but Scrooge has already arrived to spoil the summer. Ebenezer is slated to open in theaters November 13th.

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🎥 “The Stunt Driver” U.S. Trailer: Jay Baruchel Risks Everything on Ken Carter’s Impossible Rocket-Car Jump in Michael Dowse’s Canadian Daredevil Comedy with Ben Foster and Ed Helms — In U.S. Theaters September 25th

Ken Carter doesn’t just want to break a record. He wants to launch himself into history, even if the landing destroys everything he has left. Jay Baruchel stars as the real-life Canadian daredevil whose plan to rocket a car across the St. Lawrence River becomes a years-long obsession, testing his finances, relationships, reputation, and ability to deliver on an increasingly impossible promise. Ben Foster co-stars as American stunt-performing madman Evel Knievel, whose fame and rivalry only sharpen Carter’s pressure to prove he belongs in the same conversation. Written and directed by Michael Dowse (Goon, FUBAR), and co-starring Ed Helms and Laurence Leboeuf, this true-story comedy-drama follows an underdog chasing one spectacular moment while his personal demons threaten to bring him crashing down before takeoff. For Ken Carter, the hardest part may not be landing the jump... it may be surviving the dream.

🎥 “Coyote vs. ACME” Final Trailer: Wile E. Coyote Takes His Defective-Gadget Disasters to Court in This Live-Action/Animated Legal Comedy with Will Forte and John Cena — In Theaters August 28th

You’ve heard of a kangaroo court. Well, this is a coyote court! And he’s one plaintiff with a mountain of defective evidence. After decades of explosions, anvils, and spectacular product failures, Wile E. Coyote is done chasing the Road Runner. Now he’s chasing damages. Comedian Will Forte stars as the struggling attorney helping the battered underdog sue the conglomerate ACME, only to face John Cena’s slick, intimidating corporate lawyer. Directed by Dave Green, this live-action/animated comedy finally gives cartoon justice its day... assuming the courthouse survives the evidence. Once shelved by Warner Bros. amid new management’s hasty efforts to cut back its film slate, this ultimate underdog movie has finally escaped captivity and will race into theaters next month.

🎥 “All Night Wrong” Trailer: Zach Cherry and Maria Bakalova Turn a Hookup Into a Deadly First-Date Disaster in New Dark Comedy with Tyler Labine — In Select Theaters and on VOD/Digital August 14th

Some first dates end with an awkward goodbye. This one comes with a stolen car, a backpack full of cash, and a bloodied body in the trunk. Hey, some blind dates are better than others. Zach Cherry and Maria Bakalova star as Gary and Ell, two online strangers pulled into a spiraling trail of increasingly terrible decisions after finding themselves in possession of a car that clearly belongs to someone dangerous. Calling the police isn’t an option, escaping is getting harder, and surviving the night may be the closest thing either of them gets to a happy ending.

🎥 “Buddy” New Teaser: A Smiling Unicorn Turns Children’s Television Into a Technicolor Nightmare in This Dark Comedy-Horror From Too Many Cooks Creator Casper Kelly — In Theaters August 28th

From Casper Kelly, the creator of the sadistically funny viral hit Too Many Cooks, so you already know this won’t be your typical children’s show. Step into a place where happiness is mandatory, and refusing to smile comes with consequences. Welcome to the relentlessly cheerful world of It’s Buddy!, where young kid performers sing, dance, and follow the rules until one child refuses to play along... and the show’s bright orange unicorn host reveals what happens when the script is broken. Delaney Quinn leads a cast that includes Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt in this darkly satirical twist on 1990s children’s television. Imagine Barney reworked as a psychological prison where only the good children are allowed to live... that is, if they can keep smiling.

🎥 “The Transformers: The Movie: 40th Anniversary” Trailer: Optimus Prime, Megatron and Unicron Return for One More 4K Battle — Back in Theaters September 17th via Fathom Entertainment

One shall stand, one shall fall... and an entire generation may still need a minute. The Autobots face a devastating Decepticon assault just as the planet-devouring Unicron closes in, reshaping old enemies and forcing Hot Rod to rise toward the Matrix of Leadership. Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles power the voice cast, while Vince DiCola’s electronic score keeps the cosmic war roaring in this ’80s cartoon classic that a whole generation watched wide-eyed from their theater seats. Forty years later, the film returns in 4K with a new post-credits chapter, proving some childhood memories still got the touch! And the poooowwwer, yeah!

🎥 “Point Break” 35th Anniversary Trailer: Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze Ride the Ultimate Wave of Crime, Obsession, and Surf-Fueled Adrenaline in Kathryn Bigelow’s Classic 90s Action Thriller — Back in Theaters August 16th and 19th

Surf’s up... bank’s down. Director Kathryn Bigelow’s action classic returns in restored 4K, sending Keanu Reeves’ rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah undercover among Southern California surfers while chasing the Ex-Presidents, a crew of masked bank robbers with a taste for speed, danger, and presidential disguises. Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi turns the case into something far more dangerous than an investigation: a full-contact seduction by freedom, risk, and pure adrenaline. Some undercover jobs get under your skin... this one gets into your bloodstream.

🎥 “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” Trailer: Cult Filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto Turns His Anti-War Lens Toward a Black Marine Haunted by Vietnam in His First English-language Feature Starring Rodney Hicks and Geoffrey Rush — Opening September 11th in Japan

Cult Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, of Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tokyo Fist fame, continues his unsparing examination of the human psyche, this time turning his attention to the psychological damage of war. Marking Tsukamoto’s first English-language film, this based-on-a-true-story drama stars Broadway actor Rodney Hicks (Rent, Come from Away) as Allen Nelson, a Black Marine who enlists to escape poverty and discrimination, only to return from Vietnam carrying severe PTSD, fractured relationships and memories he cannot outrun. Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush co-stars as the veterans’ hospital psychiatrist who becomes his last connection to the world. Written, directed, photographed and edited by Tsukamoto, the film asks what happens when a country trains a young man to kill, then leaves him alone with the consequences.

🎥 “The Deb” U.S. Trailer: Rebel Wilson Makes Her Feature Directorial Debut With a Small-Town Aussie Musical Comedy About Deb Balls, Big Feelings, and Self-Acceptance — Arriving on VOD/Digital August 25th

The ball is formal. The feelings are anything but. Natalie Abbott and Charlotte MacInnes star as teenage cousins Taylah and Maeve, whose search for dates to a country-town debutante ball turns into a bigger fight over identity, belonging, and who gets to decide what growing up should look like. Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson makes her feature directing debut and co-stars in this Australian musical comedy, where tradition gets a catchy little shove into the present.

🎥 “Don’t Say Good Luck” Trailer: Sunny Sandler Faces Opening-Night Pressure and Family Turmoil in Netflix’s New Coming-of-Age Comedy with Steve Buscemi, Melanie Lynskey, and Max Greenfield — Streaming August 14th on Netflix

Sunny Sandler is ready for her leading role. Her character may not be, however. She stars as Sophie Birenbaum, a high school student preparing to headline the school musical just as family problems begin stealing focus from the stage. Directed by Julia Hart and co-starring Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Jack Champion, Stephanie Beatriz, Bebe Neuwirth, and Steve Buscemi, this coming-of-age dramedy asks whether Sophie can keep the show together when home life starts missing every cue.

🎥 “Super Troopers 3” New Promo: Broken Lizard’s Cult Cop Comedy Returns with Farva’s Wedding, Thorny’s Schemes, and One Messy Drug Ring — In Theaters August 7th

The boys are back, and somehow Farva is the one getting married. Broken Lizard reunites for the third chapter of its cult cop comedy, with Kevin Heffernan’s Farva planning an over-the-top Indian engagement to Thorny’s sister while Jay Chandrasekhar’s Thorny does everything he can to stop it. Add in a new drug ring, Captain O’Hagan, and the usual parade of spectacularly questionable police work, and this wedding investigation starts looking less like a case and more like a crime scene. Save the date, hide the evidence, and maybe don’t let Farva near the ceremony.

🎥 “Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day” Trailer: Haley Bennett Defies Romance, Marriage, and Edwardian Expectations in This Period Romantic Comedy-Drama with Jack Whitehall, Elyas M’Barek, and Lily Allen — In Select Theaters September 4th

Studying the stars is easy. Choosing a life beyond Edwardian expectations is considerably more complicated. Haley Bennett stars as Katharine Hilbery, an aspiring astronomer resisting an arranged marriage as her friendship with suffragette Mary Datchet (Lily Allen) and growing connection with editor Ralph Denham (Elyas M’Barek) reveal possibilities far beyond the future her family has planned. Directed by Tina Gharavi from Justine Waddell’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, this period romantic comedy-drama asks whether love can still feel liberating when marriage is treated as an obligation.

🎥 “The Girl in the River” Trailer: Maggie Grace, Devon Sawa, Tiffany Haddish, and Ralph Macchio Hunt a Child Killer in Brando Benetton’s Crime-Mystery Thriller — In Theaters and on VOD/Digital September 4th

One child is dead. Her twin is still missing. Maggie Grace, Devon Sawa, Tiffany Haddish, and Ralph Macchio lead this crime-mystery thriller about a seasoned criminologist and a forensic psychologist drawn to a remote town, where each new clue tightens the case and deepens their obsession. Written and directed by Brando Benetton, the investigation becomes a race to find the surviving girl before the killer turns one tragedy into two.

🎥 “The Scout” Trailer: A New York Location Scout Steps Inside Strangers’ Spaces and Finds a City Full of Quiet Secrets in Paula González-Nasser’s Intimate Indie Drama Starring Mimi Davila — Opening in New York Theaters September 25th

Every room has a story. Sofia just needs permission to enter. Mimi Davila stars as a New York location scout moving through apartments, businesses, and neighborhoods while trying to satisfy a chaotic television production, only to find each stop revealing flashes of loneliness, curiosity, tension, and connection. Writer-director Paula González-Nasser draws from her own scouting experience for a quiet city drama about creative labor, borrowed spaces, and the strange intimacy of looking at life from the edges.

🎥 “Chopin, a Sonata in Paris” International Trailer: Polish Actor Eryk Kulm Plays Legendary Polish Composer and Virtuoso Pianist Frédéric Chopin as Fame, Romance, and Illness Fill the Parisian Spotlight — Coming Soon

Paris hears a genius at the piano; Chopin hears the clock ticking. Eryk Kulm stars as Frédéric Chopin in this 1830s-set period drama, following the Polish composer through concerts, society parties, lessons, romances, and relentless creative pressure as serious illness shadows his rising fame. Directed by Michał Kwieciński, this music-driven biopic looks past the legend to find a young artist trying to live as intensely as he composes.

🎥 “Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution” International Trailer: English Action Star Craig Fairbrass Turns Ibiza Into a Battleground in a Blood-Soaked Hunt for Revenge In This British Crime-Action Sequel — Arriving in UK and Irish Theaters August 28th

Ibiza is about to get a lot less peaceful. Craig Fairbrass returns as Pat Tate, whose mission to avenge a friend’s murder drags him into a war involving arms traffickers, mercenaries, and the CIA. With Tamer Hassan, Leo Gregory, Jamie Foreman, and Vincent Regan joining the fight, director Nick Nevern sends the long-running British crime franchise into hostile new territory. Pat came for retribution. Everyone else should have left the island.

🎥 “Motherwitch” Trailer: A Grieving Painter Awakens Ancient Cypriot Creatures in Minos Papas’ Gothic Folk-Horror Fantasy — Premiering July 30th at Fantasia Festival

A mother’s grief can summon terrible things, no matter how pure the love behind it. Margarita Zachariou stars as Eleni, a nineteenth-century Cypriot painter who attempts to resurrect her dead children, only to awaken ancient creatures and place her entire village under a curse. Written and directed by Greek-Cypriot filmmaker Minos Papas, this gothic folk-horror fantasy binds motherhood, art, faith, and colonial violence into a supernatural reckoning. Eleni just wanted to undo death. Instead, she gave it somewhere new to live.

🎥 “Newborn” Trailer: David Oyelowo Stars as an Ex-Con Coming Home to a Life That Still Feels Like Prison in Nate Parker’s Psychological Drama-Thriller — On VOD/Digital July 24th

Freedom can be its own kind of cell. David Oyelowo stars as Chris Newborn, a man released after seven years in solitary confinement, only to find that coming home means battling trauma, paranoia, and a world that no longer feels recognizable. As he tries to reconnect with Tara and their son, a remote resort getaway pushes old wounds into dangerous new territory. Written and directed by Nate Parker, this psychological drama-thriller asks what happens when the sentence ends, but the prison follows you home.

🎥 “You Had to Be There” Trailer: Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, and More Revisit the Toronto ‘Godspell’ Production That Helped Launch a Comedy Revolution — Opens September 18th at New York’s Film Forum, Nationwide This Fall

Before Saturday Night Live and SCTV, there were overalls, show tunes, and one ridiculously stacked Canadian cast. Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin, Paul Shaffer, and Gilda Radner were among the young performers brought together for Toronto’s 1972 production of Godspell, forming friendships and creative bonds that would ripple through comedy for decades. Directed by Nick Davis, this comedy-history documentary combines interviews, archival footage, and animation to reconstruct the stage show that helped turn a local theater community into a cultural launching pad.

🎥 “If These Walls Could Rock” Trailer: Slash, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, and More Revisit Six Decades of Sunset Marquis History in This New Music Documentary — Available on VOD/Digital August 14th

Every room has a story. At the Sunset Marquis, most of them come with a guitar riff and a warning label. Directors Tyler Measom and Craig A. Williams explore how the famed Los Angeles hotel became a private crossroads for creativity, collaboration, and rock-star chaos. Featuring Slash, Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Dave Grohl, and archival material of Ozzy Osbourne, the documentary checks into the place where music history rarely got an early night.

🎥 “Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?” Teaser: Jarvis Cocker Revisits the Rise, Reunion, and Reinvention of Britain’s Britpop Outsiders in Director Garth Jennings’ Music Documentary — In U.S. Theaters September 24th

The comeback is over. Now comes the question of what a band does after proving it still has something left to say. Directed by music video helmer/filmmaker Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and narrated by Britpop rocker Jarvis Cocker, this music documentary traces Pulp’s journey from stubborn Sheffield outsiders to 90s rock icons, combining archival material with concert footage from the tour behind More, their first album of new material in twenty-four years. Part career portrait and part live document, the film looks beyond the familiar songs to the awkward humor, endurance, and sharp social observations that helped turn Pulp into one of Britain’s defining bands.

🎥 “Ghost: 2 Big To Rig” Trailer: Ghost Brings Its Arena-Sized Rock Spectacle to IMAX in This Behind-the-Scenes Concert Film — In IMAX Theaters August 26th & 27th

This rig was always too big for a regular screen. Now costumed Swedish rock band Ghost is taking the whole ritual to IMAX. Directed by Amir Chamdin and filmed across two sold-out Mexico City concerts, this rock concert film captures Tobias Forge’s Papa V Perpetua leading the band through towering stagecraft, masked pageantry, and an arena-sized catalog. More than a tour souvenir, it closes the Skeletour chapter with the kind of excess that makes a movie theater feel less like a venue than a cathedral.

🎥 “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris” Trailer: Katy Perry Brings Her Career-Spanning Pop Spectacle to the Big Screen — In IMAX Theaters September 2nd

Forget the back row. This time, Katy Perry is bringing Paris straight to the biggest screen she can find. Directed by Paul Dugdale and filmed with more than 60 camera angles across two sold-out Accor Arena performances, this pop concert film captures the choreography, costume changes, crowd energy, and career-spanning hits of the Lifetimes Tour. From intimate fan moments to full-scale arena anthems, Perry turns one night in Paris into a front-row seat built for IMAX.

🎥 “Phenomena” Trailer: Real-World Physics Becomes a Psychedelic Cosmic Journey in Josef Gatti’s Experimental Science Documentary — On the 2026 Festival Circuit

No CGI. No artificial universe. Just reality behaving far stranger than fiction. Filmmaker Josef Gatti joins his physicist father to capture light, matter, electricity, magnetism, and motion through practical experiments filmed entirely in-camera. Set to music by Nils Frahm and an original score by Rival Consoles, this experimental science documentary transforms invisible forces into a hypnotic voyage from microscopic reactions to cosmic wonder.

🎥 “To Use a Mountain” Trailer: Six Rural Communities Fight to Keep America’s Nuclear Waste Out of Their Backyards in This Environmental Documentary — Opening in Select Cities; NY’s DCTV Firehouse Cinema From August 21st thru 27th

In 1982, six rural American communities learned that the federal government was considering their homes as burial sites for 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste. Filmmaker Casey Carter places government archives beside testimony from farmers, miners, Native American leaders, citizen scientists, and activists who resisted having their histories and sacred ground reduced to data points. This environmental documentary asks who gets to decide when land becomes disposable... and who is left to live with the consequences.

🎥 “Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy” Trailer: British Comedian Mo Gilligan Puts His Appetite on the Line to Investigate the Business Behind Fried Chicken — Premiering Worldwide August 5th on Netflix

This investigation comes with a side of consequences. British comedian Mo Gilligan spends 28 days eating fried chicken three times a day while traveling from South London to the United States, tracing how a cultural staple became a global industrial obsession. Directed by Liana Stewart, this Netflix documentary digs into factory farming, public health, environmental damage, and the racial stereotypes baked into the food’s marketing. By the end, another bucket may be harder to swallow.

🎥 “Killer Party” Blu-Ray Trailer: Sorority Hazing Awakens a Supernatural Guest List in This Cult ’80s Campus Slasher — Arriving on Blu-Ray via Arrow Video in the UK August 10th

Some parties are dead before they start. And some become literal graveyards. Three sorority pledges break into an abandoned fraternity house for an April Fool’s celebration, only to discover that a fatal hazing ritual and rumors of occult activity left something behind. Joanna Johnson, Elaine Wilkes, and Sherry Willis-Burch star in William Fruet’s 1986 cult horror comedy as campus pranks give way to possession, revenge, and a guest who refuses to leave. The invitation said party, but something else already RSVP’d.

🎥 “My Sassy Girl: 25th Anniversary” Trailer: Cha Tae-hyun and Jun Ji-hyun Turn a Disastrous Meet-Cute Into This Genre-Bending Korean Romantic Comedy Classic — 4K Restoration Hits U.S. Theaters August 3rd

Some meet-cutes begin with chemistry. This one begins with public humiliation, mistaken identity, and a train ride from hell. Cha Tae-hyun stars as Gyeon-woo, an easygoing student pulled into the orbit of Jun Ji-hyun’s unpredictable force of nature, whose impossible demands slowly reveal deeper heartbreak. Written and directed by Jae-young Kwak, this newly restored 4K romantic comedy is considered one of the most influential Korean films of the 21st century, swinging from slapstick mayhem to aching sincerity without missing a beat; proof that true love rarely arrives on schedule.

🎥 “Shogun’s Ninja” Blu-Ray Trailer: A Young Hiroyuki Sanada Shows Off His Killer Moves in Norifumi Suzuki’s Wild 1980 Samurai Revenge Caper — On Blu-Ray August 25th via Arrow Video

Decades before he was slicing through John Wick: Chapter 4 and commanding FX’s Shogun, Hiroyuki Sanada was already leaping, kicking, and cutting his way through feudal Japan. Sanada, in his first lead role, stars in this 1980 samurai classic as Takamaru Momochi, the heir to the Iga clan, who returns from exile in China to avenge his father and rally the scattered survivors of his clan against the ruthless Shiranui, played by screen legend Sonny Chiba. Directed by Norifumi Suzuki, this hyperactive blend of period drama, ninja warfare, and acrobatic martial-arts mayhem turns family honor into a full-blown guerrilla fight. Some homecomings come with swords already drawn.

🎥 “Linda Linda Linda” Blu-ray Trailer: Four Teen Musicians Race to Save Their Final School Concert in Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Newly Restored 2005 Coming-of-Age Music Comedy — GKIDS Collector’s Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray Arrives August 25th

Three days. Three songs. One last chance to make some noise together. When their lead singer quits before the school festival, three students recruit Korean exchange student Song, played by Bae Doona, and scramble to become a real band before showtime. Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and newly restored in 4K, this tender 2005 Japanese coming-of-age music comedy finds its biggest moments in late-night rehearsals, and the simple joy of playing loud with your friends.

🎥 “The Kung Fu Kid” Trailer: A Village Underdog Fights to Save His Father in This Animated Martial-Arts Action Comedy — On VOD/Digital August 18th

He isn’t fighting for fame. He’s fighting to bring something home. After traveling to Shanghai to pay his father’s medical debt, a village teenager joins a local kung fu gym and enters a brutal tournament filled with elite fighters and techniques from around the world. This animated family action comedy sends an unlikely contender into the ring carrying his family’s future... and a martial-arts tradition that refuses to disappear quietly.

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📺 “Lanterns” Comic Con Trailer: Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre Bring the Veteran-Rookie Cop Formula to DC’s Alien-Tinged Neo-Western Mystery Series — Premiering Sunday, August 16th on HBO and HBO Max

Every great cop story... or, in this case, a “space cop” story, starts with a veteran, a rookie, and a partnership neither one of them asked for. Lanterns sends that formula into space and down again, pairing two Green Lanterns who look less like future best friends and more like detectives struggling to survive their first week together.

Kyle Chandler, of Friday Night Lights fame, plays Hal Jordan, a hardened veteran who carries himself like Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black: craggy, experienced, and increasingly tired of explaining how everything works. He understands the ring, the job, and the dangers surrounding both, but years of Lantern duty appear to have left him deeply disgruntled, which sets up his new partner perfectly: John Stewart, played here by Rebel Ridge breakout Aaron Pierre.

John is the ambitious recruit waiting to claim the ring and prove he belongs. He’s confident, determined, and ready to embrace his heroic destiny, despite what Hal thinks of him. There’s only one problem, though: John hasn’t quite figured out how to fly... or at least not yet, from what this new full trailer has led us to believe.

When John is asked to summon the ring’s power and fly, he comes up painfully short. Hal responds with more sarcasm than sympathy. But here’s the interesting thing: this DC series, which arrives with plenty of expectations attached, appears to take a tonal detour from typical superhero fare.

Rather than launching directly into cosmic warfare, this eight-episode HBO drama brings its intergalactic officers down to Earth. A shooting in rural Nebraska pulls Hal and John into a small-town murder investigation that may carry unmistakably alien fingerprints. And those fingerprints could point toward something far more dangerous than an ordinary human killer.

“What do you know about Manhunters?” John asks Hal in this new Lanterns trailer, suggesting their investigation may involve a suspect capable of changing shape.

Hal’s expression immediately hardens. “Where did you hear that word?”

Created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, Lanterns looks closer to a neo-Western detective thriller than a conventional superhero adventure. The rings may be capable of creating anything their wearers imagine, but solving a murder and learning to trust the person beside you could prove considerably harder when a shapeshifter is on the loose... and could very well be anyone.

Also starring Kelly Macdonald as the local sheriff, who doesn’t take too kindly to outsiders poking their noses into her town’s business, the cast also includes Garret Dillahunt, Paul Ben-Victor, Jason Ritter, and Poorna Jagannathan, along with surprise turns from Laura Linney, Ulrich Thomsen as Thaal Sinestro, and Nathan Fillion returning as Guy Gardner.

Lanterns premieres Sunday, August 16th, on HBO and HBO Max.

📺 “Blade Runner 2099” Comic Con Teaser Trailer: Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh Enter a Future Where Replicants Rule and Humanity Is on the Run in Upcoming ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Miniseries — Premiering Wednesday, November 25th on Prime Video

Wait a minute. Hold up. Stark silhouettes of futuristic Los Angeles. Smog hanging over brutalist-style towers. Giant digital billboards flickering through the haze.

That can only mean one thing: Blade Runner. Only this time, the year is 2099.

There’s something amusing about how far the franchise has traveled. Ridley Scott’s original took place in 2019, which was then 37 years into the future. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel jumped ahead to 2049. Now, this eight-episode Prime Video series moves another half-century forward.

And yet, judging by this first look coming straight from San Diego Comic-Con, the Blade Runner world still carries the same visual scars. The smoky streets, neon glow, monolithic architecture, and advertisements cascading from above all remain firmly intact. The world looks familiar, but the power structure has changed.

Following a Replicant uprising, humanity no longer appears to sit at the center of society. Hunter Schafer, coming off her turn in the HBO series Euphoria, stars as Cora, a human fugitive who has survived by repeatedly changing identities over the years, with the city’s darkest corners becoming her refuge. Hoping to secure a future for herself and her brother, she makes one final transformation and becomes a Blade Runner.

Blade Runners were once special police detectives tasked with hunting rogue Replicants. But in the year 2099, a Blade Runner’s job is something much different: instead of hunting Replicants, they now hunt rogue human runaways.

That new role forces Cora into an uneasy partnership with Olwen, played by Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, a veteran Replicant with only days left to live. Together, they are assigned to hunt a runaway carrying information powerful enough to collapse the city’s fragile new order, possibly revealing that whoever controls the power also controls the truth.

Created by Silka Luisa (Shining Girls), with Shōgun helmer Jonathan van Tulleken directing the first two episodes, Blade Runner 2099 appears ready to preserve the franchise’s visual identity while shifting its perspective toward the Replicants now holding power.

The future may belong to them, but the old questions remain: Who gets to decide what counts as human, and what happens when the hunted finally take control?

Executive produced by Ridley Scott, all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 are due to premiere Wednesday, November 25th, on Prime Video.

📺 “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 3” Comic Con Teaser Trailer: Sauron Forges the One Ring as Middle-earth Descends Into War in Amazon’s Epic Fantasy Series — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video

You can’t have Comic-Con without something from Middle-earth, especially with Amazon coming to San Diego to showcase the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set to debut this November.

So, check out the first teaser for the upcoming third season of The Rings of Power, fresh from Hall H. And judging by the footage, the time for uneasy peace and political maneuvering has officially ended.

Five years have passed since the fall of Eregion, and Middle-earth is now deep in the War of the Elves and Sauron. The Dark Lord’s armies have swept across the land, leaving Khazad-dûm, Lindon, and Rivendell among the few remaining strongholds capable of resisting him.

But Sauron isn’t settling for military victory. From his newly completed tower of Barad-dûr, he begins forging the One Ring, hoping to seize control of every remaining free people. That threat forces Elves, Dwarves, Men, and Wizards into alliances built less on trust than on the simple need to survive.

Charlie Vickers returns as Sauron alongside Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Daniel Weyman as Gandalf, and Benjamin Walker as Gil-galad.

Season 3 is also set to introduce Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn, Zubin Varla as Khamûl, Eddie Marsan as Thrain, and Simon Pegg as the voice of the Balrog, who apparently has something to say after all these years.

Created by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the new season appears ready to move beyond the forging of the Rings and into the full-scale war that will shape Middle-earth for generations. And fingers crossed, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will finally deliver the sweeping fantasy conflict it has been building toward.

The first four episodes of Season 3 are slated to premiere Wednesday, November 11th, on Prime Video, followed by two episodes on November 18th and the final two on November 25th. Remember, it takes One Ring to rule them all... but only one Amazon Prime subscription to stream them all.

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📺 “Carrie” Comic-Con Teaser: Horror Filmmaker Mike Flanagan Reimagines Stephen King’s Classic Coming-of-Age Nightmare for a New Amazon Miniseries Starring Summer H. Howell — Premieres Wednesday, October 7th on Prime Video

You know what they say: it’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for. You never know what might finally set them off. Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, a sheltered teenager pushed into public school after her father’s death, only to become the target of a viral bullying scandal as strange telekinetic powers begin to surface. Samantha Sloyan, Siena Agudong, Alison Thornton, Joel Oulette, Amber Midthunder, and Matthew Lillard join Mike Flanagan’s modern reimagining of Stephen King’s horror classic. High school cruelty has consequences, and Carrie is about to make everyone feel them. Flanagan may also prove once again that his creative partnership with King remains one of modern horror’s most compelling combinations.

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📺 “Reacher: Season 4” Comic-Con Trailer: Alan Ritchson Returns to Take on a Deadly Pentagon Conspiracy in Amazon’s Hit Action Thriller — Premieres Wednesday, August 12th on Prime Video

Alan Ritchson is back as Jack Reacher, the muscle-bound drifter with a knack for finding trouble as often as he solves it. After a late-night subway encounter ends in a Pentagon employee’s death, the former military investigator follows the trail into a conspiracy involving political power, terrorism, and a missing child. Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, Sydelle Noel, Agnez Mo, Anggun, Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, Kevin Corrigan, and Kathleen Robertson join Ritchson for this adaptation of Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow. The people behind it expect fear and silence... two things Reacher has never been built to deliver.

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📺 “Neagley” Comic Con Teaser: Maria Sten Steps Out of Reacher’s Shadow to Lead Prime Video’s New Action-Thriller Spinoff — Premiering September 16th

How big a hit is Reacher for Amazon? Big enough that Jack Reacher’s most trusted ally is getting a fight of her own. Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley, the guarded Chicago investigator whose search for answers after a friend’s suspicious death pulls her into the city’s criminal underworld and forces her to confront a past she has kept buried. Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Jasper Jones, Matthew Del Negro, and Damon Herriman join the new series, with Alan Ritchson appearing as Reacher. Neagley has spent years helping Reacher clean up trouble, now she gets to make a mess on her own terms.

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📺 “Neuromancer” Comic-Con Teaser: William Gibson’s Genre-Defining Cyberpunk Classic Finally Reaches the Screen in Apple TV’s Sci-Fi Series Starring Callum Turner and Briana Middleton — Premiering Friday, January 22nd, 2027 on Apple TV

Long before The Matrix plugged into the cultural consciousness, William Gibson’s landmark 1984 novel was already mapping the digital frontier through hackers, artificial intelligence and disembodied identities. After decades of stalled film projects and rumored television adaptations, the quintessential cyberpunk novel finally reaches the screen with Callum Turner as Case, a damaged hacker pulled into a high-stakes conspiracy alongside Briana Middleton’s razor-girl assassin, Molly. Their mission targets a corporate dynasty guarding secrets powerful enough to blur the lines between technology, consciousness and control. Created by writer Graham Roland and director JD Dillard, and co-starring Mark Strong, Clémence Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Dane DeHaan and more, this 10-episode thriller finally brings one of science fiction’s most influential worlds to life. Before cyberpunk entered the mainstream, Gibson’s visionary tale had already imagined the digital future we all now inhabit.

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📺 “Dark Matter: Season 2” Comic Con Trailer: Joel Edgerton Faces More Versions of Himself as Apple TV’s Multiverse Hit Returns — Premiering Friday, August 28th on Apple TV

In a multiverse crowded with doppelgängers, alternate lives and countless versions of the same man, finding the right reality was only the beginning. Joel Edgerton returns as Jason Dessen, whose attempt to build a quiet life with Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) unravels when multiple paths—and multiple Jasons—converge into one expanding existential crisis. The hit Apple TV series returns for a second season after leaving audiences questioning the nature of reality, identity and the lives waiting on the other side of every choice. As the Box pulls Jason deeper into obsession and the people around him into new dangers, surviving the multiverse means protecting the family he loves most—including them from himself.

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📺 “Futurama: Season 14” Comic Con Trailer: Fry, Leela, Bender and the Planet Express Crew Return for More Intergalactic Chaos, Space Pirates and Questionable Meat — Premiering Monday, August 3rd on Hulu

The future keeps finding new ways to get weirder. Fry, Leela, Bender and the Planet Express crew return for another round of badly managed intergalactic adventures involving swaggering space pirates, lab-grown meat, seductive scams and the unexpected return of Dr. Zoidberg’s lost love. Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio and the returning voice cast once again bring Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated sci-fi comedy to life, using tomorrow to make fun of everything going wrong today. In the 31st century, progress is optional, chaos is guaranteed and Planet Express still somehow stays in business.

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📺 “Yaga” Comic Con Teaser: Noah Reid Hunts for a Missing Heir as Carrie-Anne Moss and an Old Witch Legend Haunt AMC’s New Coastal Mystery Thriller Series — Premiering This October on AMC+

Every small town has secrets. Whitlock may have a witch hiding among them. Noah Reid stars as Rapp, a private investigator searching for missing fishery heir Henry Park (Hudson Williams), only to find local detective Carson (Clark Backo), university professor Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss) and an entire coastal community tangled in suspicion, folklore and old magic. Adapted by Kat Sandler from her own stage play, this contemporary Baba Yaga mystery mixes noir, horror and police procedural into one deeply uneasy disappearance.

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📺 “Knight Rider: Declassified” Trailer: David Hasselhoff, William Daniels and the Original Crew Revisit the Making and Legacy of K.I.T.T. in This ’80s Nostalgia-Filled, Crowdfunded Docuseries — Coming Soon, with Preorders Ending Sunday, August 2nd

K.I.T.T. had the voice, the gadgets and the flashing red light, but the people behind the wheel have stories of their own. David Hasselhoff, William Daniels, Patricia McPherson and other members of the original cast and crew revisit the design, engineering, stunts, music and production decisions that transformed a talking Pontiac into a television icon. Told across five planned hours, this documentary series combines new interviews with rare behind-the-scenes footage to retrace the road from ambitious action show to enduring pop-culture phenomenon. Four decades later, the engine is still running. It’s a must for anyone raised on ’80s television, when action heroes drove talking cars, technology looked like magic and every adventure began with that flashing red light.

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📺 “Common Side Effects: Season 2” Comic Con First Look: Marshall and Frances Take Their Miracle Mushroom Underground in Adult Swim’s Animated Conspiracy Thriller — Coming in 2027

The person most likely to jam up the corporate machine may also be the last one anyone would suspect. Meet Marshall Cuso (voiced by Dave King), a chubby guy in a bucket hat, open Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and sandals who may have stumbled upon the most powerful healing mushroom ever discovered. Now he’s returning for a new season of Adult Swim’s animated conspiracy comedy, where he remains a thorn in the side of every institution determined to keep that discovery buried. With the magical Blue Angel mushroom outlawed, Marshall and his childhood friend Frances (voiced by Emily Pendergast) retreat to Oregon and attempt to build something useful while staying beyond the reach of the government, Big Pharma, and a new adversary who considers the mushroom sacred. Co-creators Joe Bennett and Steve Hely return with this animated action-comedy, executive produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, where changing the world becomes considerably harder when keeping people sick is more profitable than curing them.

📺 “Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned” Comic-Con Teaser: Akasha Takes the Throne in AMC’s Gothic Horror Drama Series — Coming Soon to AMC and AMC+

And just like that, Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe is preparing another transformation. After reinventing Interview With the Vampire around The Vampire Lestat, AMC’s gothic horror drama turns to The Queen of the Damned, with Sheila Atim (of The Underground Railroad and The Woman King fame) stepping forward as Akasha. The ancient mother of all vampires has awakened with a vision for remaking the world, forcing the series’ familiar immortals to confront a ruler who sees domination as salvation. Season 4 will be led by new showrunner Hannah Moscovitch alongside executive producer Mark Johnson, and from the look of things, this queen isn’t looking to rule quietly.

📺 “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3” Comic-Con Teaser: The Titan’s Curse Sends Percy Into a Darker Quest in Disney+’s Fantasy Adventure Series Based on Rick Riordan’s Bestselling Novels — Premiering Friday, November 20th on Disney+

The next quest is already closing in. Walker Scobell returns as Percy Jackson alongside Leah Sava Jeffries’ Annabeth and Aryan Simhadri’s Grover as Season 3 adapts Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse, pushing the young demigods toward a missing ally, a dangerous prophecy, and the larger war gathering around Camp Half-Blood. This fantasy adventure continues Percy’s search for where he belongs while destiny keeps making the answer more complicated.

📺 “Avatar: Seven Havens” Comic Con Teaser: A Young Earthbender Inherits the Avatar’s Power in Paramount’s New Animated Fantasy Adventure Series — Premiering Friday, October 9th on Paramount+

Being the Avatar once meant bringing hope. In a world broken by catastrophe, it now makes a young Earthbender the most feared person alive. Branded as humanity’s destroyer and hunted by enemies from both the human and spirit worlds, she joins her long-lost twin to uncover their shared past and protect civilization’s seven remaining havens. Created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this animated fantasy adventure begins a new Avatar era where restoring balance may first require surviving everyone determined to stop it.

📺 “Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO” Comic Con Teaser: Humanity’s Greatest Discovery Creates a New War in Kenji Kamiyama’s Upcoming Mecha Anime Series — Coming in 2027

A technological miracle becomes the seed of humanity’s next disaster. When an object from another galaxy gives civilization the power to control gravity, communicate faster than light, and materialize thought, the solar system enters a new age of expansion. Less than a decade later, that same object begins producing a hostile ecosystem capable of replicating itself. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, this science-fiction anime begins a new Gundam continuity set roughly a century before the action game Gundam Rogue Orbit, laying the groundwork for a conflict designed to unfold across generations.

📺 “House of the Dragon: Season 3” Mid-Season Trailer: The Targaryens Set Westeros Ablaze in a War No Dragon Can Control — New Episodes Weekly on Sundays, HBO Max

The throne is still standing. The family fighting over it may not be. Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney, and Ewan Mitchell return as the Dance of the Dragons spreads across Westeros, turning rival claims into advancing armies, shattered alliances, and fire raining from the sky. With Rhaenyra and Aegon’s courts driving the realm deeper into open war, every victory strips another piece from the dynasty they are trying to save. The dragons may decide who rules... but the bloodshed will decide what remains.

📺 “Tires: Season 3” Trailer: Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben Take Ownership of More Bad Decisions in Netflix’s Workplace Comedy Series — Streaming Thursday, August 13th on Netflix

Valley Forge Auto has new owners. Unfortunately, they’re still Will and Shane. Steve Gerben’s Will starts questioning the life he never pursued, while Shane Gillis’ Shane finds adulthood taking an unwanted turn into his lane. Created by Gillis, Gerben, and director John McKeever, this workplace comedy keeps business growth, personal responsibility, and basic professionalism trapped inside a tire shop where every attempt at progress is only one terrible idea away from total collapse.

📺 “The Shards” New Teaser: Obsession, Privilege, and Murder Haunt 1980s Los Angeles in This New FX Series from Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis — Premiering Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu

Privilege can buy almost anything... except protection from obsession. In 1981 Los Angeles, an aspiring teenage writer becomes convinced that his prep school’s magnetic new student is connected to a killer stalking the city. Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, and Graham Campbell star in Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’ psychological teen thriller series, where jealousy, desire, and paranoia begin tearing through an insulated world of wealth. Based on Ellis’ semi-autobiographical novel, sometimes the most privileged communities hide the darkest secrets.

📺 “LEGO One Piece” Official Teaser: Usopp Spins the Straw Hats’ Wildest Adventures Into a Brick-Built Pirate Legend in This Two-Part LEGO Special — Premiering Tuesday, September 29th on Netflix

Usopp telling the truth? Now that would be the real fantasy. Jacob Romero’s long-nosed Straw Hat takes command of this two-part animated LEGO special, rebuilding the crew’s early adventures with more bricks, bigger laughs, and a proudly unreliable grip on the facts. Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, and Taz Skylar return in voice form as Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji, with Tom Hyndman steering the special as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. The Grand Line was already dangerous enough before Usopp got to edit the legend.

📺 “My Brilliant Career” Trailer: A Young Woman Defies Marriage, Manners, and 1900 Australia in Netflix’s New Spirited Aussie Period Drama Mini-Series Starring Philippa Northeast — Premiering Thursday, August 13th on Netflix

Sybylla wants a career... not a cage. Aussie actress Philippa Northeast (of Home and Away) stars as a sharp, restless aspiring writer in 1900 Australia, where family expectations keep pushing her toward marriage while her own ambition keeps pulling her toward independence. Christopher Chung’s Harry complicates the plan with romance, while Anna Chancellor, Genevieve O’Reilly, and Kate Mulvany help fill out a world determined to tell Sybylla what kind of woman she should become. Developed by executive producer Liz Doran from Miles Franklin’s landmark novel, this six-part drama lets its heroine chase the only ending that matters: the one she writes herself.

📺 “Apollo Has Fallen” Trailer: A Hijacking Unleashes a Viral Conspiracy Across Europe — Coming Soon on Hulu US, and Prime Video UK

Europe is about to catch something deadly. Ritu Arya and Tewfik Jallab star as MI6 agent Zara Taylor and former protection officer Vincent Taleb, whose investigation into a hijacking exposes a cross-border conspiracy built around a devastating virus. With mercenary leader Yuri Mishkin (played by Jacek Koman) pulling the strings and trust collapsing on every side, the partners must outrun betrayal, old trauma, and a biological threat designed to turn an entire continent into collateral damage. The hijacking may only be the distraction. The real attack is already spreading.

📺 “Camp Rock 3” Trailer: Connect 3 Returns to Find the Next Act Ready to Steal the Spotlight in Disney Channel’s New Jonas Brothers Musical Sequel — Premiering Thursday, August 13th on Disney Channel and Friday, August 14th on Disney+

The campfire is lit, the microphones are live, and everyone wants the opening slot. Joe, Nick, and Kevin Jonas return as Connect 3, heading back to Camp Rock after losing their tour’s opening act and launching a competition among a new generation of performers. As Sage, Fletch, Desi, Rosie, and their fellow campers chase the spotlight, rivalries spark, friendships bend, and romance finds its way into the setlist. Winning may open the tour, but finding your own sound is the real encore.

📺 “The Undeclared War: Season 2” Trailer: The UK Government Hunts a Mole as Britain’s Cyberwar Turns Inward in This British Thriller Series Starring Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon Pegg — Premiering Thursday, August 27th on Peacock

The most dangerous breach is already inside the room. After surviving a devastating Russian cyberattack, the UK Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) Malware Department discovers that someone within its own ranks may be feeding an even larger operation. Hannah Khalique-Brown, Simon Pegg, Siân Brooke, Alex Jennings, and Danny Sapani return as suspicion spreads, loyalties fracture, and Britain’s invisible war moves closer to home. The code may expose the attack. But trusting the wrong person could bring the whole system down.

📺 “Women in Blue: Season 2” Trailer: Mexico’s First Female Police Force Reopens the Wounds of 1968 in This Spanish-Language Crime Series — Premiering Wednesday, August 12th on Apple TV

Some cases won’t stay buried. They wait for someone brave enough to dig. After the murder of a student activist, newly promoted police officer María and her fellow “Azules” uncover a conspiracy tied to Mexico’s 1968 student massacre. Bárbara Mori, Natalia Téllez, Amorita Rasgado, and Ximena Sariñana return as corruption closes ranks and a second victim suggests someone is settling old scores. When you need order, send the police. But when you need the truth, send the Azules.

📺 “The Prisoner: The Complete Series” Trailer: Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six Refuses to Surrender His Identity in This Cult 1960s British Spy Thriller Series — Streaming Now on the Criterion Channel

You can imprison the man. Breaking him is another matter. Patrick McGoohan stars in this landmark 1960s British sci-fi spy series as Number Six, an abducted agent held inside the Village and subjected to an escalating campaign of surveillance, manipulation, and mind games. Considered a precursor to mind-bending mystery shows like Twin Peaks and Lost, this cult classic pits one stubborn individual against a system built to erase individuality. He may be numbered, but he will not be owned.

📺 “Whitmer Thomas: Terminal Crew of Dudes” Trailer: Whitmer Thomas Turns Friendship, Memory, and Original Punk Rock Music Into a Deeply Personal HBO Stand-Up Comedy Special — Premiering Friday, August 14th on HBO and HBO Max

Some friendships become memories. Others become material. Alternative comedian Whitmer Thomas returns to HBO with a deeply personal stand-up comedy special that blends jokes, original songs, photographs, and home videos into a funny, affectionate look at the friends, family, and fellow weirdos who shaped him. What begins as a comedy set gradually becomes something warmer and messier: a tribute to the friends who made him who he is.

📺 “Disney Worldbuilders” Teaser: Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks Celebrates the Artists Behind Disney’s Most Immersive Worlds in This New Documentary Special — Streaming This August on Disney+

Every magical world begins with someone staring at a blank page. Then an army of artists turns imagination into somewhere audiences can actually visit. Director Leslie Iwerks goes behind Disney’s familiar stories, characters, and creative traditions to spotlight the craftspeople who design, shape, and build every detail. The magic may feel effortless, but worldbuilding is where the real work begins.

📺 “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks” Trailer: The Super Bowl Champions Discover That Defending the Crown Starts in the Heat — Premiering Tuesday, August 4th on HBO and HBO Max

The confetti is gone. Now the real title defense begins. NFL Films and HBO’s on-going docuseries follows head coach Mike Macdonald, Sam Darnold, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon, Byron Murphy II, and the reigning Super Bowl champions through a training camp where every drill, roster decision, and mistake carries championship weight. Veterans fight to stay sharp, hopefuls fight to stay employed, and an entire locker room learns that repeating is harder than arriving.

📺 “Special Ops True” Trailer: New Docuseries Chronicles and Reconstructs Some of the U.S. Military’s Highest-Stakes Missions Through Firsthand Testimony — Premiering Tuesday, August 4th on Paramount+

History looks different from inside the mission. This Paramount+ original docuseries revisits major special-operations missions through firsthand accounts and previously unseen footage, putting the fear, pressure, and split-second choices back into stories often remembered only by their headlines. Told from the perspective of the people who lived them, the series trades distant battlefield myth for ground-level memory, including the U.S. operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

📺 “The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls” Trailer: British Adventurer Bear Grylls Takes the Cast of ‘The Chosen’ From Biblical Drama to Wilderness Survival — All Six Episodes Premiere Sunday, August 9th on Prime Video

Faith is about to get a lot more rugged. Bear Grylls leads The Chosen cast members Jonathan Roumie, Paras Patel, Elizabeth Tabish, Noah James, and Luke Dimyan, along with series creator Dallas Jenkins, through rivers, deserts, forests, and canyons as wilderness challenges open the door to candid conversations about fear, endurance, and belief. Across six episodes, the group trades scripts and sets for skydives, climbs, scorpions, and whatever else the wilderness throws their way. This time, the leap of faith is literal.

📺 “MLB at Field of Dreams” Trailer: The Phillies and Twins Bring Baseball Back to the Iowa Cornfields in Netflix’s Live Sports Special — Streaming on Netflix Live Thursday, August 13th

Some ballparks hold history. This one was built from a movie dream. The Philadelphia Phillies face the Minnesota Twins as Major League Baseball returns to Dyersville, Iowa, for a live game surrounded by cornfields and memories of the 1989 classic. With Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, and Byron Buxton taking the field... and Kevin Costner narrating this trailer, this Netflix sports special turns a regular-season matchup into a night where Hollywood nostalgia meets baseball history.

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🎥 “Clayface” Full Trailer: DC Goes Full Body Horror as Tom Rhys Harries Melts Into Gotham’s Most Tragic Monster — Hitting Theaters October 23rd

They say beauty is only skin deep. But what happens when that skin starts sagging in ways you can no longer control?

The new Clayface trailer asks a brutal question: who are you when you no longer recognize the face in the mirror... and everyone around you starts seeing you as a monster?

DC Studios’ upcoming horror thriller Clayface follows Matt Hagen, a rising Gotham actor whose life is built around the one thing Hollywood values most: his face. After a crime boss leaves him horribly disfigured, Matt turns to an experimental treatment that appears to restore what was taken from him.

At first, the procedure looks like salvation. But then his body starts betraying him. Skin droops mid-flight. Facial features shift at the worst possible moments. Flesh begins moving like wet clay, turning Matt’s desperate comeback into something grotesque, unstable, and increasingly dangerous.

Tom Rhys Harries, a rising Welsh actor best known for co-starring in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen and appearing among the ensemble of the British fantasy series Britannia, gets his most high-profile role yet as the titular Clayface. He also appears to bring an indignant rage to a man who believes the people he trusted betrayed him and that the justice system failed him. He is not simply becoming a monster physically. He is becoming one emotionally, too.

What makes Clayface feel so different from the usual DC playbook is how fully it leans into horror. This does not look like a superhero movie with horror flavor sprinkled on top. It looks very much like a full body-horror tragedy about vanity, fame, identity, and the terrifying moment when a man realizes the thing he wanted back may be the thing destroying him.

Joining Rhys Harries is Blink Twice’s Naomi Ackie as Caitlyn Corr, the scientist connected to Matt’s transformation, while Max Minghella plays a Gotham PD detective pulled into the fallout. The cast also includes David Dencik, Eddie Marsan, Nancy Carroll, and Joshua James.

Directed by James Watkins, of 2024’s horror thriller Speak No Evil and the supernatural period chiller The Woman in Black, and written by horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini from a story by Flanagan, Clayface gives DC one of its strangest swings yet: a super-villain origin story treated less like a comic-book spectacle and more like a psychological descent into revenge and self-destruction.

This does not look like your traditional DC superhero movie. It looks like a tragic horror story about a man desperate to recover his old face, only to lose the rest of himself in the process. Sure, getting your old life back after losing your face sounds like a dream. But in Gotham, however, it may be the first step toward becoming something much worse.

Clayface, quite appropriately, comes out this Halloween season, hitting theaters October 23rd.

🎥 “Other Mommy” Trailer: Jessica Chastain Plays Both a Mother and Her Monstrous Doppelganger in Rob Savage’s Supernatural Horror Thriller — Coming to Theaters October 9th

There’s nothing quite like a mother’s love for her child. But when that love manifests into something devilishly wicked, it can leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about dear old Mom, including whether she was ever really your mother in the first place.

Jessica Chastain is no stranger to the horror genre, having starred in several films before, most notably the supernatural hits It Chapter Two and Mama. But in her latest horror outing, she isn’t just running away from the monster. She may very well be the monster. She’s the... Other Mommy. And this mommy puts the “mother” in smother.

Directed by British horror filmmaker Rob Savage, Other Mommy adapts Josh Malerman’s novel Incidents Around the House and follows eight-year-old Bela, played by Arabella Olivia Clark, as she forms a relationship with a sinister presence inside her home that looks exactly like her mother.

Chastain plays both Bela’s mother, Ursula, and the entity Bela calls the “Other Mommy,” turning maternal comfort into something deeply wrong and unnerving. The presence seems friendly at first, appearing out of nowhere inside the family home and speaking to Bela with the shape of someone she should be able to trust. But the more it asks to be let into Bela’s “heart,” the more it reveals itself as something far more possessive, invasive, and dangerous.

Jay Duplass co-stars as Bela’s father, Russ, who appears to be the first to glimpse this evil presence in its true form during one of the trailer’s more effective jump-scare moments. Eeek!

Savage is best known for directing the 2020 breakout screen-life horror thriller Host, which was shot through Zoom calls. He followed that with the car dashboard-cam horror thriller Dashcam and then the 2023 supernatural thriller The Boogeyman. Here, Savage appears to be working in a more intimate, child’s-eye register, where the scariest thing in the room may not be a literal monster in the corner, but the person who looks like Mother, complete with a warm smile and an eerie glare that goes from motherly to murderous in a second.

Produced by horror maestros James Wan and Jason Blum, and co-starring Dichen Lachman, Arian Moayed, Karen Allen, Sean Kaufman, and Adam Silver, Other Mommy is coming to theaters October 9th.

So, don’t forget to lock the doors, check on the kids, and just to be safe, maybe don’t answer if Mom calls from the hallway.

🎥 “It Ends” Trailer: Four Friends Take a Wrong Turn Into an Endless Road-Trip Nightmare in Alex Ullom’s Genre-Bending Feature Debut — Coming to Theaters August 21st, Expanding Wide August 28th

Three friends on a road trip, driving in a beat-up car without a care in the world. Each looking toward an uncertain future. And all looking to one another for friendship and camaraderie. If this were the ’90s, during the indie film movement, this would be easy to label as a heartfelt coming-of-age slacker drama about understanding yourself during a stage of life defined by uncertainty.

But this isn’t the ’90s.

It’s 2026, and this kind of premise can start as something familiar before slowly descending into an existential nightmare, where the road never ends and the questions only multiply with each mile traveled.

It Ends marks the feature debut of writer-director Alex Ullom, who premiered the film to strong reviews at SXSW in 2025 before earning the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Florida Film Festival.

The film follows four recent graduates, played by Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Mitchell Cole, who head out for food before their post-college lives pull them in different directions. What should be one last casual late-night drive takes an impossible turn when they find themselves trapped on a two-lane backroad that refuses to end.

From there, the trailer appears to turn a simple hangout movie into something much stranger. The friends remain mostly confined to their Jeep Cherokee, surrounded by woods, abandoned vehicles, screaming strangers, and the growing sense that other people may have been lost on this road long before them.

There’s an obvious metaphor here: growing up already feels like driving into the unknown, but It Ends makes that feeling literal, supernatural, and deeply unsettling. The road becomes less of a location and more of a trap, forcing the group to decide whether they can keep searching for an exit or accept that their future may now be nothing but motion.

NEON is bringing Ullom’s genre-bending road trip into theaters, beginning with a limited U.S. release on August 21st before expanding nationwide on August 28th. So, bring a friend... but maybe take two cars.

🎥 “Misty Green” Trailer: Chris Rock Strips Away Hollywood’s Glamour in His Stark Showbiz Drama Starring Rosalind Eleazar and Daniel Kaluuya — Premiering at TIFF This September

Hollywood is built on dreams, romantic notions, and the lingering glow of its glamorous yesteryear. But after the writers’ and actors’ strikes, not to mention the disruption of COVID and the rise of the streaming era, Hollywood has become a very different place from the one it once sold to the world. La La Land has now turned into Blah Blah Land; a place of shrinking opportunities, vanishing stability, endless uncertainty, and major productions leaving town in search of cheaper places to make movies and shows.

Comedian Chris Rock, of all people, seems to have tapped into this new era of Hollywood—one where even familiar faces, established performers, and award-winning actors are struggling harder than ever to make ends meet. In his first film in 12 years as a writer and director, Rock appears to depict the movie industry with stark realism, stripping away its glamour to reveal the instability and desperation of working actors trying to survive between jobs.

Misty Green stars Slow Horses’ Rosalind Eleazar in the title role. Misty is an Emmy-winning actress known for being both notoriously difficult and exceptionally talented. But despite her success, she survives by bouncing from one L.A. apartment to another. As Misty struggles to secure her next job, she finds herself trapped by both her reputation and an industry determined to define her solely by her identity. While many are quick to dismiss her as a difficult, borderline narcissistic actress, it gradually becomes clear that Misty is simply struggling to survive like everyone else; all while caring for her troublemaking brother, played here by Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya.

Along with writing and directing, Rock also co-stars as a Hollywood filmmaker looking to cast Misty in his latest project. That is, if she can keep her reputation, personal struggles, and self-destructive instincts from costing her the job.

The film boasts an impressive supporting cast that includes Adam Driver as a sleazy L.A. hustler, Anna Kendrick as a fellow struggling actress contemplating leaving the business for good, Topher Grace as Misty’s Hollywood agent, Anthony Anderson as an L.A. patrol officer, and Tracie Thoms as a casting agent.

With so much of the current conversation centered on how hard the entertainment industry has fallen, forcing some filmmakers and actors to sell their homes and leave California altogether, we imagine Misty Green will generate plenty of discussion when it makes its world premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a theatrical release from A24.

🎥 “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Final Trailer: Tom Holland’s Peter Parker Reconnects with Zendaya’s MJ and Jacob Batalon’s Ned in New MCU Installment — Hitting Theaters July 31st

Being Spider-Man has always meant sacrifice. But for Peter Parker, the cruelest part may not be losing people. It’s watching them live perfectly fine without him.

The final trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day retraces Peter’s long journey from boy genius to reluctant hero to a young man completely erased from the lives of the people who once meant everything to him. It’s less about reminding us of the MCU timeline and more about showing just how much Peter has lost since that fateful spell in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

And that seems to be the emotional pressure point behind Brand New Day, with Tom Holland returning for his fourth solo outing as everyone’s favorite wall-crawler. This new final trailer appears to lean hard into that loneliness. Peter watches MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) move on, while he buries himself deeper into the mask and his new purpose of becoming New York’s full-time protector.

But you can’t have a Spider-Man movie without Holland’s Peter eventually crossing paths with MJ and Ned, even if this time the reunion comes with the painful reminder that they have no idea who he is. Or at least not yet. After all, a brand new day also brings a brand new chance for Peter to rebuild the life he sacrificed.

Directed by Shang-Chi helmer Destin Daniel Cretton, this new chapter pushes Holland’s Spider-Man into a more street-level corner of the Marvel universe, encountering such characters as Frank Castle, aka the Punisher (Jon Bernthal), Scorpion (Michael Mando), and possibly ninjas from the Hand clan.

Mark Ruffalo also appears as Dr. Bruce Banner, teasing a possible head-to-head showdown between Spidey and the Hulk. Meanwhile, Sadie Sink’s character is still being kept under wraps, which of course has already sent Marvel fans into theory mode. Is she friend, foe, mutant, or something else entirely? For now, the trailer is keeping that mystery close to the vest.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings into theaters next week, July 31st. And with it comes the hope that the MCU can prove audiences still care about Peter Parker, not because of multiverse cameos or franchise connections, but because underneath the mask, he’s still the lonely kid trying to do the right thing.

🎥 “The End of Oak Street” New Trailer: Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor Face Dinosaurs at the End of the Block in David Robert Mitchell’s Suburban Sci-Fi Thriller — Arriving In Theaters August 14th

Anne Hathaway is having one of those years where it feels like she’s suddenly everywhere again. After starring in two of this year’s biggest films with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and The Devil Wears Prada 2, Hathaway will again be back on screen next month in very different circumstances. This time, she’s running full speed through a seemingly average suburban neighborhood with a rifle in hand, while vicious roaming dinosaurs chase her and her family down.

That is the visually stunning image behind the new trailer for The End of Oak Street, a science-fiction mystery thriller that sees Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as Denise and Greg Platt, parents trying to hold their family together after a cosmic event rips their entire street out of ordinary 1980s suburbia and drops it somewhere unknown.

At first glance, it’s the kind of big studio premise that sounds almost absurdly simple: what if your house, your neighbors, and your whole street were suddenly transported to a place where dinosaurs roam beyond the cul-de-sac?

But now, perhaps the better pitch is: hey, come see if Anne Hathaway can outrun dinosaurs before shooting them with a rifle while dressed like Schneider from One Day at a Time.

Sold.

Hailing from writer-director David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind the horror smash It Follows and the cult neo-noir mystery Under the Silver Lake, The End of Oak Street feels less like a standard creature-feature ride and more like an eerie suburban panic attack where a family is tested in the strangest of ways. Here, the front lawn, the driveway, and the family home become the edge of a much larger mystery, where survival is only the first problem. Hey, sometimes the end of the world really does begin at the end of the block.

Maisy Stella and Christian Convery co-star as the Platt children, with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot producing. Expect dinosaurs to invade the big screen when The End of Oak Street arrives in theaters and IMAX on August 14th.

🎥 “Batman: Knightfall Part 1” Trailer: Bane Pushes the Dark Knight Past His Breaking Point in DC’s New Animated Trilogy Featuring Anson Mount, Pablo Schreiber, David Dastmalchian and Michael Mando — Hitting VOD/Digital August 25th, Followed by Blu-ray September 8th

Batman is at his breaking point... and unfortunately, Bane specializes in breaking things.

In the upcoming animated film Batman: Knightfall Part 1, the first chapter in a planned trilogy adapted from DC’s legendary comic book saga, we find the Dark Knight barely holding Gotham together as he edges closer to rock bottom. With Arkham’s inmates running loose and Bane waiting in the shadows, Bruce Wayne isn’t just fighting Gotham’s worst villains... he’s being pushed straight through the cracks.

Featuring the voices of Anson Mount as Batman and Michael Mando as Bane, with Pablo Schreiber as Jean-Paul Valley/Azrael, Jack Giffin as Robin, David Dastmalchian as the Riddler, and Bruce Boxleitner as Commissioner Gordon, the animated film takes place after Arkham Asylum is destroyed in an unexpected explosion. Gotham’s most dangerous inmates flood the streets, forcing Batman into a relentless mission to put them all back behind bars.

After barely sleeping for two days, Bruce Wayne refuses to stop, even as exhaustion, buried trauma, and mounting regret begin clouding his judgment. Robin and Commissioner Gordon can see what Batman refuses to admit: he is losing control, growing unusually violent with every confrontation.

That makes Bane’s arrival especially dangerous. Because the best way to bring down a knight is not to strike first. It’s to wait until the armor is already cracked. And Bane does not need to create the cracks in Bruce Wayne’s psyche. He only needs to find them... and apply pressure. A lot of pressure.

Directed by Jeff Wamester and written by Jeremy Adams, Batman: Knightfall Part 1 begins a three-film adaptation of the landmark DC storyline. This opening chapter appears focused on establishing the full extent of Bruce’s collapse while positioning Jean-Paul Valley, aka Azrael, as the dangerous successor waiting just beyond the shadows to step in as Gotham’s new protector.

Batman: Knightfall Part 1 is set to hit VOD platforms on August 25th, followed by 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on September 8th.

🎥 “The Fix” Trailer: Zachary Levi and Liam Neeson Lead a War-Scarred CIA Rescue Mission Into Tehran in This Gritty Action Thriller — Landing in Theaters September 11th

Sometimes you find yourself in the mood for a macho action movie. You know, where the plot is barely holding itself together, the bullets fly freely, and every emotional problem can apparently be solved by a tactical vest and a well-timed explosion. You got actors delivering their lines through gritted teeth, barking orders into walkie-talkies, and staring off into the distance like every bad decision in their lives has led them to this exact firefight.

Well, we can’t think of a better macho action movie mascot than Liam Neeson, the man who basically turned late-career gravitas into its own subgenre of bruised-knuckle rescue mission thrillers.

And then there’s Zachary Levi... you know, the Shazam! star. Really macho? Hmm. Maybe not the first name that comes to mind. But hey, Liam Neeson is in this, so the macho-action credentials are already covered.

The Fix is a new action thriller from writer-director Guy Moshe, who, at first, we thought must have been a former stuntman. But no, he’s simply a filmmaker best known for directing the 2010 genre mashup Bunraku.

Here, Zachary Levi stars as Tucker and Liam Neeson as Larry. The film follows a team of war-scarred CIA operators still carrying the damage of a mission in Afghanistan that went tragically wrong. When they enter Tehran for a dangerous rescue operation, the job becomes less about clean extraction and more about surviving the consequences of old mistakes.

Levi plays the field leader trying to pull the unit through hostile territory, while Neeson brings his familiar hardened persona to the role of a veteran mentor guiding the mission from the sidelines but still getting all the cool lines, like “And you shall know the truth. The truth shall make you free.”

Cue the explosions, the not-so-subtle war propaganda, and a couple of grim glances indicating this mission has just gotten personal.

The cast also includes Titus Welliver and Wes Chatham, which ups the film’s grizzled-action credentials considerably.

The Fix is due to open in theaters September 11th.

And from the looks of the trailer, this mission does not come with an easy way out, but a one-way ticket into deeper trouble where no one gets to walk away clean. Hey, maybe it’s closer to U.S. military foreign policy than we thought.