Tag: may-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.

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.

Meryl Streep proved she can still command a room, A24 turned a creepypasta into a real horror movie, and Star Wars went back to theaters. May was stacked.

Star Wars is back in theaters for the first time since 2019, and The Mandalorian and Grogu is about to dominate every screen in sight. But there's more hitting this week than just a galaxy far, far away.

May is stacked with returning favorites — final seasons, surprise comebacks, and at least three shows you'll want to binge immediately. Here's your complete guide to what's back and when.