Tag: 2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters this Friday and is about to eat every screen for ten days. Before then, here are five quietly excellent indie films that landed on streaming in the first half of May — verified platforms, no fake hype, all watchable tonight.

Are movies actually getting better in 2026, or are we just rating them higher? I ran the question against every movie in the spameri.cz database with at least 100 Trakt votes — 5,433 films from 2015 through 2026 — and the answer is yes to both, but the math is more interesting than that.

Boots Riley's I Love Boosters lands in theaters this Friday, and it joins a 2026 slate where the $30–$50M movie has quietly been the smartest bet on the board. Let me show you what the numbers reveal — because if you only watch the top of the chart, you're missing the actual story of this year's box office.

This week ends an era — Wednesday May 20, the Boys series finale lands on Prime Video after a Tuesday-night 4DX theatrical preview. Then the weekend hands theaters over to one Star Wars title, with Boots Riley quietly counter-programming on the same day. Here is exactly where to spend your attention from May 18 to May 24.

🍿 Just binged Episode 7 of The Boys and we need to talk. Three massive beats in 66 minutes: a member of The Boys finally dies after five seasons of close calls, Homelander moves into the literal Oval Office, and Butcher's whole finale plan now hinges on turning Kimiko into the next Soldier Boy. The finale's eight days out and somehow we got more setup, not less. Strap in — and grab some tissues if you're a Frenchie stan.

Look, I'm going to say something nobody at a Hollywood pitch meeting wants to hear: Mortal Kombat II opened to $40 million this weekend — the best opening of the entire Mortal Kombat film franchise, by the way — and it still got out-grossed by a sequel about a fashion magazine editor. In its second weekend. A holdover. A legacy comedy. About clothes.

🎬 This week splits the calendar in half. The first half belongs to Cannes — the 79th festival opens Tuesday with Park Chan-wook chairing the jury, and Christopher Nolan's massive The Odyssey trailer is still echoing from its Late Show drop last Monday. The second half belongs to Wednesday's penultimate The Boys episode and Friday's most interesting new release: Olivier Assayas's political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, with Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as his fictional whisperer. Here's everything worth your screen time between Monday and Sunday.

The numbers tell a story the marketing didn't. The Sheep Detectives projects a $14.9M domestic opening weekend — Hugh Jackman's biggest non-Marvel debut since Pan in 2015 — landing on a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score from 128 critics, his career-highest ever. Pre-release tracking topped out at $15M low-end. The film cleared it. Here's what that data actually means.

🍿 OK we need to talk. The Terror is back after almost seven years, Devil in Silver dropped on AMC+ and Shudder this morning, and if you're hunting for something to mainline this weekend, the answer is here — with one big asterisk. Dan Stevens plays a regular guy dumped in a New York psychiatric ward that absolutely should not exist, and Victor LaValle, Christopher Cantwell, and Karyn Kusama turned LaValle's own 2012 novel into something prestige horror fans should make time for. It's not Franklin Arctic. It's not trying to be.

🍿 OK we need to talk. The Terror is back after almost seven years, Devil in Silver dropped on AMC+ and Shudder this morning, and if you're hunting for something to mainline this weekend, the answer is here — with one big asterisk. Dan Stevens plays a regular guy dumped in a New York psychiatric ward that absolutely should not exist, and Victor LaValle, Christopher Cantwell, and Karyn Kusama turned LaValle's own 2012 novel into something prestige horror fans should make time for. It's not Franklin Arctic. It's not trying to be.

We're three days into May and this is finally the week things get interesting again. The Terror returns to AMC+ for its long-awaited third season, Hugh Jackman of all people is voicing a shepherd who reads detective novels to his sheep, Mortal Kombat II is crashing the party with $40-50M tracking, and Devil Wears Prada 2 keeps stealing the weekend after that monster $77M opening. Here's what's actually worth your time May 4-10.

Two very different films open the same Friday: a fashion-comedy sequel and an animated political fable. We don't have opening numbers yet — but we have a decade of historical clash weekends, long-gap sequel data, and audience demographics that tell us a lot about what to expect.

Sony and Warner Bros. showed their hands Monday and Tuesday. Then Universal brought Nolan and Spielberg. Amazon brought Rick Moranis back as Dark Helmet. Paramount dropped a Street Fighter trailer. And Disney? Disney brought Chris Evans back as Captain America — and the whole room demanded they play the trailer twice.

Sony went all-in on gaming adaptations and Spider-Man. Warner Bros. dropped seven minutes of Dune 3 and announced a Game of Thrones movie. Two studios down, two to go — and CinemaCon already has a clear winner.

Two films have combined for $1.14 billion worldwide in mere weeks, Q1 domestic revenue is up 24.8% year-over-year, and April has already surpassed 2024's entire monthly total in just 12 days. The numbers say the post-COVID recovery is finally real.

The biggest movie industry event of the year kicks off April 13 in Las Vegas. Avengers: Doomsday footage, Dune Part Three, Spider-Verse updates, and more. Here's your complete guide to what's coming.

HBO's Green Lantern series is about to prove that DC can do prestige TV. But don't sleep on the rest of August's streaming lineup — there's enough here to get you through the month.

Spider-Man is still swinging, Jason Statham is boarding a ship, Ridley Scott is ending the world, and the Green Lanterns are finally landing on HBO. August 2026 is loaded.

Nolan brought Homer to IMAX, Disney sent Moana back to the ocean, Evil Dead refused to die, and Spider-Man broke the internet before breaking the box office. July 2026 was the biggest movie month I've ever experienced.

Summer's almost over and the theaters just won this round — but streaming still had some bangers. Here's my final verdict on every show I watched since June, from A+ to 'why did I bother.'

A 1-billion-view trailer. A $300 million opening weekend tracking. And a plot that literally erases Peter Parker from existence. Tom Holland didn't just come back — he rewrote the rules.

Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker on July 31 with a 1-billion-view trailer, a $300 million opening weekend in sight, and the biggest cast a Spider-Man movie has ever assembled. Plus Gregg Araki's Sundance sensation as counter-programming and summer holdovers that refuse to quit.

Four episodes into Season 3 and the dragons are finally earning their screen time. Plus The Dink just landed on Apple TV+ and it's the weirdest sports comedy of the year. Here's your streaming rundown for a week when the theaters are hogging all the attention.

In 1981, three college kids and a shoestring budget created one of the most enduring horror franchises in cinema. Forty-five years and six films later, Evil Dead Burn proves that you can't keep a good deadite down.

Sébastien Vaniček brings the deadites back on July 24 with Evil Dead Burn, Christopher Nolan's Odyssey dominates its second weekend, and Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Brand New Day is exactly seven days out. July 2026 is the summer that won't stop giving.

Sam Reid is giving the performance of the summer and nobody's talking about it because Christopher Nolan just dropped a $250 million IMAX epic. Let's fix that — plus your streaming picks for a week when theaters are absolutely dominating.

Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer, and now The Odyssey. At some point in the last decade, Nolan stopped being a filmmaker and became a gravitational force. The numbers, the hype, and the IMAX cameras all agree.

The Odyssey lands on July 17 with a $250 million budget, the most stacked cast of the year, and the first film ever shot entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras. Plus Jonah Hill's counter-programming comedy, Moana's second weekend, and the July gauntlet rolls on.

We're halfway through summer and your streaming queue is either overflowing or collecting dust. I've been keeping up with everything so you don't have to — here's what survived, what peaked, and what quietly became the best thing on TV.

Catherine Laga'aia steps into the biggest Disney live-action debut since Halle Bailey's Little Mermaid, Dwayne Johnson returns as Maui, and this is just the warmup — Nolan, Evil Dead, and Spider-Man are all coming before August.