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A darker and more emotionally complex return, Stranger Things Season 5 delivers gripping character arcs and stunning set pieces. The Duffers push the series toward its endgame with confidence, clarity, and surprising emotional depth.
Michelle Pfeiffer shines in Oh. What. Fun., a heartfelt holiday dramedy celebrating the invisible labor of mothers. Warm, charming, and emotionally resonant, the film brings a fresh perspective to Christmas storytelling.
Timothée Chalamet delivers the strongest performance of his career in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, a fever-dream epic of mania, ambition, and American mythmaking. An electrifying A24 drama filled with visionary filmmaking, explosive tension, and a career-defining turn from Chalamet — a major awards-season contender.
Jessie Buckley gives a career-defining performance in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet,’ a devastating, beautifully crafted portrait of grief, memory, and love. A major awards contender and one of 2026’s most powerful films.
‘Wicked: For Good’ closes Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical with a moodier tone, patient pacing, and a finale that rewards the wait. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande guide Oz toward an emotional, rousing conclusion that brings the Elphaba-Glinda story full circle.
Prime Video’s Playdate pairs Alan Ritchson and Kevin James for a fast, chaotic action-comedy that leans into big personalities and bigger set pieces. It’s not prestige filmmaking, but the leads keep it entertaining from start to finish. A fun, easy watch built on chemistry, charm and pure stream-at-home energy.
Netflix’s The Beast in Me is a gripping, slow-burn psychological thriller powered by outstanding performances from Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys. Tense, emotional, and character-driven, it recalls the prestige heyday of Homeland while carving out its own dark, addictive identity.
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man reimagines Stephen King’s dystopian classic for a new generation — with Glen Powell delivering a star-making performance in a blood-soaked, adrenaline-fueled action epic that reclaims the power of the theatrical experience.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia reimagines the Korean cult classic Save the Green Planet! as a darkly comic eco-satire about conspiracy, control, and extinction. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons deliver electric performances in a film that’s both absurdly funny and deeply unsettling.
Politics, ego, and madness collide in Death by Lightning, a stunningly acted retelling of Garfield’s assassination that plays like a slow-motion tragedy for a country addicted to power. Macfadyen is the performance of the year, his Guiteau both pathetic and magnetic, while Shannon turns Garfield into a tragic monument of integrity. If history repeats itself, this one makes you wish it wouldn’t.
Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player dazzles with visual style but struggles with soul. Colin Farrell delivers a haunting performance as a gambler chasing salvation in Macau’s neon purgatory, joined by Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton in a stylish yet hollow morality play.
Apple TV’s The Last Frontier turns a gripping premise — convicts loose in Alaska — into a haunting meditation on survival and morality. Jason Clarke leads a strong cast in a slow, patient thriller that finds beauty and conscience in the cold.
Netflix’s Nobody Wants This returns with less spark but more sincerity. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody remain charming in this funny, heartfelt look at love, faith, and commitment. A thoughtful, if uneven, follow-up that proves belief and chemistry are still worth watching.
Critics called it alarmist, but Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a daring and necessary work of modern cinema. Far from exploitation, her nuclear thriller channels tension and truth into moral reflection. With Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris commanding the screen, Bigelow proves fear can be art — and that art can still provoke courage.
Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? closes the New York Film Festival with warmth, humor, and humanity. Starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern, this tender, funny film explores love’s second act through stand-up, self-reflection, and the art of moving forward.
Daniel Day-Lewis makes a powerful return in Anemone, a haunting father-son collaboration with his son Ronan Day-Lewis. A visually stunning, emotionally bruising portrait of guilt, violence, and forgiveness that cements the Day-Lewis legacy across generations.
A single revelation ignites a political wildfire — Disclosure Day chronicles the lightning-fast unraveling of truth, power, and public spectacle.
The teaser plunges viewers into high-stakes urgency: an explosive leak hits just as Washington’s power corridors gear up for a decisive moment. Eyes dart across press rooms, corridors of power, and tense briefings as aides try to contain the fallout. With screens full of headlines and counting clocks, the lines between fact and frenzy blur — what begins as a quiet truth dump becomes a tidal force reshaping politics and spin in real time. The atmosphere is urgent, uneasy, and magnetic, hinting at a cascade of consequences once the world knows what it now knows.
A locked-door mystery pairs two strangers under suspicion — and when evidence points inward, truth becomes the most dangerous thing of all.
The trailer opens with a forensic investigation so close it feels personal: two bodies, a single weapon, and a psychological labyrinth that spins identity into doubt. A couple wakes to accusations and no memory of the night before. Clues scatter like smoke — footprints, blurred photos, conflicting timelines — as detectives edge closer and secrets unravel. With each revelation, the question shifts from what happened to who can be trusted? Netflix frames it as a taut, cerebral thriller where intuition and guilt collide, and every answer breeds another question.
When routine becomes a battlefield, every second counts — and in Hijack Season 2, time isn’t just ticking, it’s detonating.
The trailer propels viewers straight into chaos as a commandeered flight becomes the stage for a high-stakes psychological chess match. Season 2 heightens the urgency: hostages are pushed to the edge, alliances crack under pressure, and the hijackers’ motives blur between logic and menace. With tension mapped across every aisle, cockpit, and lifeline, the visuals cut between panicked passengers, steely negotiators, and impossible choices. On Apple TV+, this next chapter promises a relentless descent into fear, strategy, and survival — where landing safely might be the least of their problems.
A symbol of hope rises again — Supergirl returns to redefine power, legacy, and what it means to be Earth’s guardian in a world teetering on chaos.
The teaser opens with low, desolate cityscapes before a distant sonic boom heralds her arrival. Kara’s silhouette cuts through storm clouds, landing with purpose as citizens look skyward, burdened by fear and longing for a protector. Brief flashes show her navigating moral conflict and a world that has changed since last she donned the cape. With hushed whispers of legacy and a heartbeat-thumping score, the trailer hints at a Supergirl forged not just from strength, but from belief — her journey a canvas of resilience and defiance in the face of rising threats.
Desperation turns to danger when a struggling man’s quest for easy money leads him straight into chaos — and every shortcut becomes another trap.
In gritty, kinetic edits, the trailer follows a down-and-out protagonist as he chases a scheme that promises a quick score. What begins as ambition tinged with hope soon fractures into frantic choices, suspicious partners, and spiraling consequences. The tone is tense and raw: deals in dingy rooms, late-night exchanges that turn hostile, and a sense that every decision cuts deeper than the last. A24’s signature blend of humor and dread threads through a story where each move toward “making it” threatens to destroy him.
In a world ravaged by a devastating infection, a doctor’s pursuit of a cure becomes a harrowing fight for humanity — where mercy might be the hardest thing to hold onto.
The second trailer plunges deeper into life after the collapse: quarantined zones, broken communities, and doctors racing against time to save what’s left. At the heart is a physician driven to uncover a cure, but every breakthrough demands a cost — emotional, physical, and moral. Flashing between frantic hospital scenes, jungle patrols, and desperate survivors, the trailer balances raw despair with fragile hope. Mercy isn’t just a goal here — it’s a question of whether humanity can still choose it in the darkest hour.
Inside Pittsburgh’s busiest trauma center, the cases get tougher, the hours get longer, and the emotional toll becomes impossible to ignore.
Season 2 drops back into the controlled chaos of a Pittsburgh emergency department where every shift feels like a marathon. Doctors and nurses race between life-or-death decisions, understaffed hallways, and personal fractures they can no longer keep outside the hospital doors. The trailer moves from high-intensity trauma cases to quieter moments of exhaustion, doubt, and moral compromise — reminding us that survival isn’t just about saving patients, but about holding yourself together when the system keeps pushing back.
Time is currency — and the cost of staying alive grows even deadlier in Season 2.
The teaser revisits a world where years of life are bought, stolen, traded, and weaponized. New black-market players rise, governments tighten their grip, and desperate people gamble with the only thing they have left — their lifespan. Quick-cut images of riot zones, ticking biometric timers, and illegal clinics build tension as returning characters face the fallout of Season 1’s revelations. Hulu frames the new season as bigger, darker, and more politically charged.
The Na’vi face a reckoning as Pandora’s war expands — and fire meets water in the saga’s most explosive chapter yet.
The trailer brings sweeping landscapes, volcanic terrain, and the return of familiar and new clans bracing for an evolving threat. Jake and Neytiri stand at the center of a conflict now spanning land, sea, and sky. Massive battles erupt across molten valleys; ancient myths awaken; and human forces return with devastating new weapons. It’s visually enormous — James Cameron pushing scale, spectacle, and emotional stakes as survival becomes a generational fight.
A failed entrepreneur turns to crime for quick cash — only to discover that the fastest money always demands the highest cost.
The film follows a down-on-his-luck hustler who stumbles into a get-rich scheme that spirals out of control. The trailer flashes between tense handoffs, grimy backroom deals, and the slow realization that he’s in far deeper than he thinks. A24 leans into dark humor and mounting dread: every shortcut becomes a trap, every partner a threat, and every success a ticking bomb. It’s sharp, frantic, and built on the terrifying momentum of one bad decision multiplying into ten.
Marty prepares for glory — or disaster — in a frenzied montage of training, ego, and barely contained mania.
Unlike the full trailer, this promo focuses on intensity: rapid-fire table-tennis sequences, sweaty confrontations, and Marty’s obsessive rituals. We see flashes of fame, breakdowns in locker rooms, and the hysteria of crowds naming him a hero before tearing him down. It’s a character portrait made of adrenaline — a reminder that Marty isn’t chasing victory, he’s chasing meaning.
A washed-up puppeteer gets one last shot — with a puppet who might be smarter, meaner, and more alive than he is.
Merv, once a beloved children’s performer, spirals into desperation until a new puppet revitalizes his act. But as crowds grow, so does the puppet’s unsettling personality. Quick cuts show Merv losing control on stage, backstage fights with his own creation, and a blurring of reality as the puppet’s influence spreads. What starts as a comeback story morphs into an offbeat psychological meltdown — equal parts comedy, dread, and bizarre charisma.
New money, new power, new predators — Pierpoint enters its most dangerous era yet.
The teaser moves like an adrenaline shot: trading floors erupt, betrayals stack up, and the young bankers who once scrambled to survive now fight to dominate. Harper circles Pierpoint like a shark, Eric schemes from the shadows, and Yasmin rebuilds her identity with sharper teeth. This season leans into moral decay and financial warfare — sex, secrets, and volatility collide as everyone reaches for a throne that may not exist.
The deadly game returns — and this time the hunted refuses to run.
Set years after the original blood-soaked wedding night, the sequel finds Grace dragged back into the orbit of the cursed Le Domas legacy. But she’s no longer a survivor — she’s the threat. The trailer swings between grisly humor, explosive traps, occult family rituals, and Grace crafting her own twisted rules for revenge. Searchlight leans fully into chaos: knives, fire, masks, and a bloodline desperate to break the curse before she breaks them. It’s louder, meaner, and far more unhinged.
A rising star with a voice that aches finds her life colliding with fame, heartbreak, and the impossible cost of chasing perfection.
Set in the 1960s music scene, the trailer follows a gifted young performer struggling under the weight of industry expectations and personal demons. Recording booths, late-night rehearsals, toxic romances, and the alluring glow of stardom flash by in a whirlwind of emotion. Her voice becomes both salvation and curse as she’s pulled deeper into a world that rewards her talent but punishes her vulnerability. The film positions itself as a lush, melancholic musical drama about ambition, sacrifice, and the crushing pressure behind the spotlight.
A quiet English town is torn open by something no one understands — and once the rip appears, nothing stays contained.
Disturbances ripple through homes, coastlines, and relationships as an unexplained tear in reality appears near the village. The teaser gives no answers — only rising panic, flooded streets, and an undercurrent of cosmic dread. Characters move like they’re being watched; the waterline grows unstable; something ancient or extraterrestrial pulses beneath the surface. Netflix positions it as a slow-burn thriller where nature, physics, and sanity start to fracture at once.
Waking up alone on a silent spacecraft, a lone scientist discovers he’s humanity’s last hope — and he’s not the only one out there.
The trailer expands the scope of the first look: a man stranded on a distant mission with no memory, a dying Earth depending on his success, and an unexpected first-contact twist that reshapes his mission. We see the ship’s eerie emptiness, flashes of his forgotten past, and the breathtaking moment he meets an alien ally with whom he must build trust from scratch. The tone balances humor, awe, and existential threat, teasing an emotional sci-fi adventure that hinges on cooperation and cosmic vulnerability.
A grieving father enters a simulated war zone — only to find the line between training and terror dissolving around him.
The film follows a man who signs up for Atropia, a hyper-realistic military training city meant to replicate Middle Eastern battlefields. What begins as controlled immersion fractures into paranoia as civilians behave unpredictably, soldiers lose control, and staged conflicts feel increasingly real. The trailer builds dread through malfunctioning systems, blurred identities, and a psychological descent that makes every street corner a threat. Vertical frames it as a tense, disorienting thriller where trauma refuses to obey the script.
One incident fractures a quiet life, sending ripples through memory, guilt, and the chaos that follows when truth refuses to stay buried.
The teaser is spare and unsettling: a dinner table gone silent, a hand trembling, a nocturnal car ride that feels like a confession waiting to erupt. A24 teases a psychological unraveling told through snapshots — broken timelines, shifting perspectives, and a single decision that devastates everything in its path. It’s moody, intimate, and razor-sharp, promising a character-driven thriller built on unease rather than spectacle.
A modern Frankenstein myth cracks open as a woman brought to life discovers the terror of being created for someone else,
The teaser gives flashes of a laboratory, violent storms, and a resurrected bride awakening to a world that wants to claim her. Electricity, stitched skin, and a woman’s scream pierce through the gothic unrest. This reimagining leans into autonomy versus ownership, teasing a heroine who refuses to play the role she was built for. It’s eerie, stylish, and charged with classic monster-movie dread reworked for a new century.
A jewel thief, a determined detective, and a final score set the California coastline on edge.
The story tracks a master thief planning one last heist along the 101 freeway, where sun-bleached calm masks rampant crime. A veteran detective closes in as loyalties fray and every perfect detail begins to crack. The trailer flashes between sleek robberies, shattered trust, and the dangerous thrill of a career-defining job. It’s a sharp, muscular crime thriller where everyone is running out of time — and no one walks away clean.
Quentin Tarantino says Paul Dano was the “weakest link” in There Will Be Blood, sparking industry-wide debate about acting styles, legacy performances, and the evolution of Paul Dano’s career.
Euphoria Season 3 leaks hint at the wildest chapter yet, with Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie launching an OnlyFans account, a chaotic engagement with Nate, Rue pulled deeper into danger, and major cast shake-ups. New footage shown at HBO’s press event suggests the show is darker, stranger, and more unhinged than anything the series has done before.
At the New York premiere of Landman season two, stars Billy Bob Thornton and Sam Elliott addressed Taylor Sheridan’s future move from Paramount to NBCUniversal — and why the hit drama’s future remains secure. With strong cast confidence and record-breaking season-one numbers, Landman isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, and J.J. Abrams appeared at the SVA Theater in New York for a special screening and Q&A of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. The exclusive event featured candid discussions, red-carpet moments, and glowing early reactions to the latest Benoit Blanc film.
‘Spider-Man: Alone’ has exploded online with over 3M views — but director Bennett Sullivan’s fan film is more than viral success. It’s a nonprofit movement blending art, purpose, and community, redefining what independent filmmaking can be.
From John Oliver’s expletive-filled roast of Nate Bargatze to Hannah Einbinder’s “Fuck ICE” mic drop, here’s everything the CBS broadcast censored during the 2025 Emmy Awards — uncensored and in context.
Sydney Sweeney refuses to discuss her American Eagle ad controversy at TIFF, redirecting focus to her new boxing drama Christy. The David Michôd-directed film, premiering Sept. 5, sees Sweeney portray underdog champion Christy Martin in what could be her most transformative role yet.
At Venice, Luca Guadagnino explained why After the Hunt opens with Woody Allen–style credits, calling it both a homage to classic cinema and a provocation about how we reckon with controversial artists. Starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield, the Amazon MGM Studios drama opens Oct. 10.
During a joint Variety interview, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi appear emotionally distant—intentional tension or simply editing? Their dynamic may echo Guillermo del Toro’s thematic reimagining of Frankenstein.
From war-torn Vovchansk to global arenas, Artem Pivovarov brings his powerful message of resilience and Ukrainian culture to North America this fall with ORCHESTRA LIVE.
Quentin Tarantino explains why he passed on directing Netflix’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up, praising David Fincher’s involvement, scrapping The Movie Critic, and teasing his 10th and final film.
Tom Cruise reportedly turned down President Donald Trump’s offer to be honored at the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, citing scheduling conflicts. Instead, the actor will receive an honorary Oscar at this year’s Governors Awards.
Apple TV+’s Mr. Scorsese, a five-part documentary premiering October 17, offers rare access to Martin Scorsese’s private archives, candid stories from collaborators, and behind-the-scenes insight into his legendary career.
Cote de Pablo turned down an intimacy coordinator for 'NCIS: Tony & Ziva,' citing deep trust with co-star Michael Weatherly. The Paramount+ spin-off premieres Sept. 3, reuniting the fan-favorite duo for a series that blends action, romance, and their iconic chemistry. Here's what they had to say about filming together again.
Ryan Gosling, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller reveal first footage of Amazon MGM’s sci-fi epic 'Project Hail Mary' at San Diego Comic-Con, blending laughs, emotion, and space survival ahead of its March 2026 release.
Former Thing actor Michael Chiklis shares his support for the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel’s 1960s-set reboot starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Directed by Matt Shakman, the film opens in theaters July 25.



