1Project Hail MaryScience Fiction - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller - Amazon MGM Studios - 20/03/2026 - 13+A middle-school science teacher wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there. He discovers he is the sole survivor of a mission launched to save the Sun, and with it humanity, from a cosmic parasite slowly dimming its light.Project Hail Mary brings to the screen Andy Weir's novel of the same name, the author behind The Martian, adapted in 2015 by Ridley Scott with Matt Damon. The film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, a duo whose resume ranges wildly from the animated Lego films and Spider-Verse to the action-comedy of 22 Jump Street, here tackling their first large-scale, more dramatically pitched science-fiction production. Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how or why he got there. He soon discovers he is the sole surviving crew member of a mission launched to investigate astrophage, a cosmic microorganism slowly consuming the Sun's energy, and that of nearly every other star in the galaxy, endangering life on Earth. The narrative alternates between present-day, hard-sci-fi problem solving that stays close to the novel, and flashbacks that gradually piece together how Grace ended up on the mission. As in the book, the emotional core is the bond the protagonist forms with an unexpected alien intelligence, told with a mix of scientific rigor, humor and an almost family-adventure sense of optimism that sets it apart from the bleaker tone of much recent genre fare. Gosling carries long stretches of the film essentially solo, generating real feeling for an alien presence that is little more than a voice and a shape at the console, a demanding acting task that critics have largely praised. The film is explicitly positioned to repeat the audience and critical success of The Martian, sharing both a literary author and a spacebound survival structure, while aiming for a more intimate register, closer to an interspecies buddy movie, and a more visually ambitious scale thanks to substantial effects work on its deep-space sequences. Reservations exist too, some reviewers found the tone occasionally unsteady in balancing comedy with existential drama, but the overall consensus leans favorable. The film returned to the spotlight after opening to more than 80 million dollars domestically and roughly 141 million worldwide, the biggest March opening ever for a film outside an established franchise, a result that cemented its status as one of the year's defining releases.see full review
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1Spider-Man: Brand New DayFourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland, released in summer 2026. Topped the global box office for 4 weekends.Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland in the lead role, represents a deliberate and successful reset for the character within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film, produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures, abandons epic multiversal stakes to tell an intimate, street-level story, finding Peter Parker isolated and forgotten by everyone after the events of *No Way Home*. Holland delivers what is considered his most mature and nuanced performance yet, while Cretton's direction focuses on a darker tone, inventively choreographed action scenes, and a more restrained use of CGI. The film effectively introduces new elements, such as a more prominent relationship with Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and a mysterious antagonist played by Sadie Sink, building a reflection on loneliness and adult growth. Despite some criticism regarding an excessive runtime and perhaps too many subplots, the film succeeds in its goal of returning Spider-Man to his more human and urban roots.see full review
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3The OdysseyAdventure, Drama, Fantasy - Christopher Nolan - Universal Pictures - 16/07/2026 - RAfter the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on a perilous journey home to Ithaca, encountering mythical creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe, in a modern blockbuster adaptation of Homer's epic poem.Three years after Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan returns with a titanic endeavor: The Odyssey, a colossal epic produced by Syncopy and distributed by Universal Pictures that adapts Homer's poem. With a star-studded cast led by Matt Damon as a weary and scarred Odysseus, alongside Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus, the film opts for a more linear narrative than expected, focusing on the theme of homecoming and the hero's inner transformation. While Nolan builds a monumental visual experience thanks to Hoyte van Hoytema's IMAX cinematography, some reviews point to less deep characterizations and an adaptation that strays from the original myth to favor a more cinematic and intimate conclusion. The result is a grand Hollywood spectacle that, despite its ambitions, perhaps does not reach the narrative complexity of the director's most celebrated works.see full review
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4Blue HeronDrama - Sophy Romvari - Janus Films - 17/04/2026 - 13+On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, a family grapples with the struggles of their eldest son, marked by a behavioral disorder. Years later, the now-adult younger sister returns in memory to that childhood, piecing together fragments that were never resolved.Blue Heron is the narrative feature debut of Canadian director Sophy Romvari, previously known on the festival circuit for a series of personal, autobiographical shorts centered on memory and family grief. The film follows a family of six settling into a new home on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, focusing in particular on Jeremy, the eldest son struggling with oppositional defiant disorder, and the parents doing everything they can to support him. The younger sister, Sasha, narrator and quiet observer as a child, is later shown as an adult revisiting those years in her mind, even imagining a conversation with her younger self in an effort to recover what she could not understand at the time. The deliberately fractured, non-linear structure alternates home-movie-style footage with more conventional reconstructions, capturing the sense of a memory reassembling itself in fragments rather than along a tidy timeline. Working with a modest budget and a cast made up largely of performers unfamiliar to mainstream audiences, the film stakes everything on the sensitivity of Romvari's direction and the care given to its characters rather than on a plot built for big narrative turns. Critics have noted that Romvari's long-standing preoccupation with fractured identities here expands into a broader meditation on how incomplete memories get filled in over time, often unreliably, by the need to make sense of the past. The film has been singled out for articulating, with rare precision, the way a life-altering loss permanently reshapes one's sense of self, all while avoiding sentimentality or over-explaining the emotions at play. It is the classic festival-circuit title that, against every commercial expectation, managed to stand out amid far bigger and more heavily marketed productions, and it has recently returned to the spotlight for an unusually strong critical consensus, with a Metacritic score of 94 out of 100 placing it among the year's most acclaimed films.see full review
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4Coyote vs. AcmeReleased the weekend of August 28-30, 2026. Among the major new films of the weekend, based on the Warner Bros. character.Directed by Dave Green and produced by James Gunn, "Coyote vs. Acme" (2026) marks the return of the Looney Tunes to the big screen with a brilliant mixed-media legal comedy. Based on a story by Ian Frazier, the film sees Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for its defective products, assisted by his lawyer Kevin, played by Will Forte, while John Cena portrays the antagonist. After production setbacks that threatened its release, saved by Ketchup Entertainment and distributed in Italy by Lucky Red, the film has been acclaimed as a smart and satirical work, a live-action/animation hybrid that stands proudly alongside classics like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."see full review
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6The DramaRomantic Dark Comedy - Kristoffer Borgli - A24 - 03/04/2026 - 18+Days before their wedding, a happily engaged couple sees their relationship upended by an unexpected confession made during one drink too many. A romantic dark comedy about secrets, trust and the conventions of love put to the test.The Drama is the new film from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, previously behind the satirical Sick of Myself and Dream Scenario with Nicolas Cage, here making his first foray into a deliberately uncomfortable romantic comedy produced and released by A24. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play Emma Harwood, a bookseller at Mission Books, and Charles Thompson, the director of an art museum, a happily engaged couple whose wedding-week preparations are upended by a confession made during a night of heavy drinking, an event that tests both their relationship and the conventions of the romance genre itself. The supporting cast includes Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Zoe Winters and Hailey Gates. Critics have responded favorably on the whole, if not unanimously, praising above all the two lead performances, Zendaya is described as one of the most unpredictable actors of her generation, while Pattinson, now deep into a career phase defined by increasingly eccentric choices, steals scene after scene with a physical, bumblingly funny turn. Several critics have drawn comparisons to the marital erotic-thriller tradition made famous by Adrian Lyne, noting that Borgli takes a different tack, provocative without ever tipping into self-satisfaction, posing an uncomfortable question at the story's center and then stepping back to let the characters, and the audience along with them, wrestle with it in real time. The reservations critics have raised mostly concern structure, with constant jumps in time and tone that some reviewers felt disoriented more than they engaged, turning what could have been a truly memorable film into a solid but not fully resolved one. It remains one of the year's most-discussed titles across social media and the trade press, helped along by two of the moment's most closely followed stars, and it has recently returned to attention thanks to a strongly positive commercial run, more than 126 million dollars worldwide against a budget of roughly 28 million.see full review
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7Wuthering HeightsRomantic Drama - Emerald Fennell - Warner Bros. Pictures - 13/02/2026 - 18+On the Yorkshire moors of the nineteenth century, an obsessive and destructive passion binds Catherine Earnshaw to the foundling Heathcliff across generations. A pop, visually heightened retelling of Emily Brontë's classic, built around love, revenge and class.After Promising Young Woman, which won her the Oscar for original screenplay, and the divisive success of Saltburn, Emerald Fennell takes on her first major literary adaptation, choosing one of English literature's most beloved and hardest to adapt novels, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Fennell writes and directs, and also produces through Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment, with Robbie starring as Catherine opposite Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff, backed by a supporting cast that includes Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif. The story follows the tormented bond between the two leads, raised together like siblings before class divides them, a love that curdles into obsession and a thirst for revenge capable of consuming two generations of the same family. Visually, the film deliberately breaks from the traditional British costume-drama mold, with cinematography by Linus Sandgren that multiple critics described as making every frame practically pop off the screen, flamboyant costumes by Jacqueline Durran and original songs by Charli XCX underlining a distinctly pop, almost psychedelic reading of the nineteenth-century text. Critical reception has been sharply polarized, a pattern that has followed Fennell throughout her career, some praised it as an enthralling, accessible retelling of a great love story, while others accused the film of flattening the novel's complexity, reducing Cathy and Heathcliff's tormented bond to a string of sexual encounters dressed up in lavish costumes, stripped of the moral weight and bleakness of the source material. Robbie and Elordi's performances have been praised almost across the board regardless of where reviewers landed on the adaptation itself, with several critics noting that their on-screen chemistry holds even when the script seems to favor visual shock over psychological depth. Divisive or not, it remains one of the year's most talked-about and most photographed films, recently back in the conversation thanks to a strong commercial run, roughly 242 million dollars worldwide against an 80 million budget, a result that has only fueled the debate around it.see full review
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7Disclosure DayScience Fiction Thriller - Steven Spielberg - Universal Pictures - 12/06/2026 - 13+A meteorologist suddenly begins speaking every language on Earth and knowing intimate details about complete strangers. A cybersecurity expert uncovers evidence linking her condition to a decades-long alien cover-up. A science-fiction thriller.Disclosure Day marks Steven Spielberg's return to science-fiction territory, with the director co-writing the screenplay alongside longtime collaborator David Koepp, with whom he previously worked on Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds, and once again entrusting the score to his regular composer John Williams. The cast is among the strongest assembled all year, led by Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo, with a deep supporting bench that includes Wyatt Russell and Elizabeth Marvel. Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a meteorologist who suddenly begins speaking every language on Earth and knowing intimate details about complete strangers, while O'Connor plays a cybersecurity expert convinced that Margaret's condition may be linked to a decades-long alien cover-up. True to a thread that runs through the director's career since Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which has returned to the theme of alien contact from different angles more than once, the film blends large-scale visual spectacle with a quieter meditation on institutional trust, how governments manage information, and the psychological weight of a truth that upends an entire civilization's certainties. Critics have responded largely positively, though not without reservations, some reviewers called it a riveting science-fiction thriller carried by a top-tier cast, while others noted that, rather than a true alien-contact film, it plays more like a vintage spy thriller with a few ufological elements in the background, one that nonetheless works thanks to the energy of Blunt's performance. The rollout was tightly controlled, with plot details kept under wraps right up to release, fueling anticipation around one of the summer season's most talked-about titles. At a moment when much of mainstream cinema leans on sequels, remakes and pre-existing intellectual property, the film has recently returned to the spotlight partly on the strength of Spielberg's name alone behind the camera, a factor that, combined with a cast of this caliber, was enough to place it among the year's most anticipated and discussed releases.see full review
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7Toy Story 5Animazione, Avventura, Commedia, Family - Andrew Stanton, McKenna Harris - Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures - 18/06/2026 - PGIl quinto capitolo della saga Pixar vede i giocattoli, con Jessie in un ruolo più centrale, affrontare le sfide poste dalla tecnologia moderna mentre cercano di mantenere il loro legame con la proprietaria Bonnie.Directed by Andrew Stanton for Pixar, Toy Story 5 arrives in 2026 and finds a new reason to exist by intelligently addressing the relationship between childhood and technology, shifting the focus to Jessie as the emotional heart of the story. The film does not demonize screens, represented by the new character Lilypad, but explores with balance how play and imagination can coexist with the digital, in a mature tale that speaks both to children and adults who grew up with the saga. Technically impeccable and with a soundtrack that also features a contribution from Taylor Swift, this chapter, despite some less-developed subplots, confirms itself as one of the most relevant animated releases of the year, capable of renewing the franchise without betraying its spirit.see full review
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10ObsessionHorror - Curry Barker - Focus Features - 15/05/2026 - 18+A shy record-store clerk buys an antique toy said to grant a single wish, hoping to confess his feelings to the coworker he loves. The wish comes true, but it twists that love into an uncontrollable obsession. A horror film.Obsession was one of the season's horror surprises, a film that won over critics without the backing of a major studio or a marquee cast, made on a modest budget of around one million dollars. Director Curry Barker tells the story of Bear, a shy record-store clerk who buys a 1960s antique toy, a kitschy One Wish Willow said to grant a single wish, hoping to finally find the courage to confess his feelings to his coworker and childhood friend Nikki. The wish comes true, but in a modern monkey's-paw structure, it turns Nikki into an increasingly obsessive, uncontrollable presence around Bear, flipping the classic courtship narrative into a nightmare with the roles reversed. Beneath its splatter surface, the film emerges as a bitter meditation on the thin line between desire and possession, and on how unrequited affection can curdle into something close to predatory control once every limit on it is suddenly removed. Claustrophobic cinematography and a sound design that amplifies every breath and every broken object help build a mounting sense of suffocation. Barker builds mounting tension by leaning on atmosphere and character writing rather than the usual jump scares, in a genre that in recent years has found some of its strongest work precisely in independent titles, with several critics comparing the film to works like Barbarian, Get Out and Talk to Me for its ability to blend violence, dark comedy and near-physical discomfort in the viewer. Actress Inde Navarrette, tasked with playing two versions of the same person over the course of the story, has been singled out by multiple outlets as one of the film's strongest elements, single-handedly sustaining the mounting sense of threat in the story's back half. Word of mouth among genre fans and enthusiastic reviews from critics have recently turned it into one of the year's best-reviewed and most-discussed horror films, a notable result for a production without the promotional backing typically reserved for bigger studio titles.see full review
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10Minion & MonstersAnimazione - Pierre Coffin, Patrick Delage - Universal Pictures, Illumination - 01/07/2026Ambientato nella Hollywood degli anni '20, il film segue i Minion James, Henry ed Ed che, dopo un'irruzione su un set, vengono scritturati e decidono di girare un proprio film di mostri, scatenando involontariamente il caos con creature reali in un omaggio al cinema muto e alla storia del cinema.Distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Illumination Entertainment, "Minions & Monsters" marks a return to solo directing for Pierre Coffin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Brian Lynch. The film catapults the iconic yellow Minions into 1920s Hollywood during the tumultuous transition from silent films to talkies, where their incomprehensible language turns them from stars into outcasts, setting off a series of events involving the creation of cinematic monsters. This installment is widely regarded by critics as a love letter to cinema, packed with sophisticated references ranging from Chaplin to Metropolis, while still maintaining the slapstick comedy and energy typical of the franchise. Although some reviews note a more conventional tone in the second part, dedicated to monster action, the film is generally praised as the most polished and cinephile-friendly of the series, capable of entertaining both young audiences and adults passionate about film history.see full review
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10The Devil Wears Prada 2Commedia, Drammatico - David Frankel - Walt Disney - 29/04/2026Sequel vent'anni dopo: Miranda Priestly lotta contro l'ex assistente Emily Charlton per gli introiti pubblicitari in un mondo editoriale in crisi, mentre Andy Sachs ritorna a Runway.Two decades after the original, "The Devil Wears Prada 2" brings the star-studded cast back together under the direction of David Frankel. The sequel finds Meryl Streep reprising her role as the iconic Miranda Priestley, grappling with the publishing crisis and the rise of digital media, while Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt return with new roles. Distributed by Disney, the film opens with interesting insights into the transformation of journalism and media, but according to many reviews, it ultimately leans into nostalgia and personal dynamics, resulting in an enjoyable and well-acted film that lacks the bite of the first installment. The return of the original protagonists and the Milan setting during Fashion Week are the strengths of a production that, despite a sometimes uncertain screenplay, has managed to draw audiences to the box office.see full review
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10Kung Fu SoccerSports comedy - Stephen Chow - 11/07/2026 - PG13A spiritual successor to Shaolin Soccer following the fictional Emei women's football team as they use martial arts to compete in the extravagant "Supreme Invincible Cup" tournament.After seven years away from directing, Stephen Chow, Hong Kong's "King of Comedy," returns behind the camera with "Kung Fu Soccer," an action-comedy that revives the madcap alchemy of soccer and martial arts from the cult classic "Shaolin Soccer." The film, a co-production between China and Hong Kong distributed domestically by Maoyan Entertainment, follows the story of the Emei women's soccer team as they compete in the fictional "Supreme Invincible Cup" tournament, where the laws of physics are systematically broken with surreal dribbling and explosive shots. Featuring a cast that includes Zhang Xiaofei, Dilraba Dilmurat, and Lay Zhang Yixing, the film debuted strongly in China in the summer of 2026, earning over $73 million in its first two days and capitalizing on the World Cup context. International distribution is handled by Encore Films, although for Western markets, despite interest tied to the 25th anniversary of "Shaolin Soccer," official release dates have yet to be announced.see full review
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14BackroomsFound-Footage Horror - Kane Parsons - A24 - 29/05/2026 - 18+A researcher in a hazmat suit films his descent into an endless maze of empty rooms and identical hallways after losing all contact with his colleagues. A found-footage horror born from a creepypasta and an amateur video series that became a viral internet phenomenon.Backrooms grew out of one of the internet's oddest recent phenomena, the creepypasta and amateur video series created by Kane Parsons around unsettling liminal spaces and endless empty hallways, which became a full-blown online cult starting with a nine-minute video posted on YouTube in 2022, when the director was just sixteen. The film opens as a found-footage document, built from recovered recordings of a hazmat-suited researcher, Naren Warne, who loses all contact with his colleagues during an expedition into the maze of the Backrooms, a space reached through an anomalous section of wall in a store's basement. A team of scientists at the Async Research Institute studies those recordings, gradually piecing together what happened during the expedition. The adaptation tries to carry over to the big screen that same sense of unease and disorientation that made the original material famous, leaning on stripped-down found footage, with its trademark sickly yellow walls and handheld, VHS-style camerawork, rather than flashy effects. Critics have particularly praised the film's opening stretch, described by multiple outlets as one of the most effectively creepy pieces of old-school found footage of the year, with two or three sequences singled out among the genre's strongest of the decade for making viewers feel fully submerged in its claustrophobic surroundings. Some reservations concern the film's middle section, where the shift toward more conventional narrative risks, according to several reviewers, dissipating some of the tension built up in the opening. Made on a production budget of around 10 million dollars, the film has recently returned to the spotlight thanks to its commercial performance too, more than 117 million dollars grossed worldwide and A24's biggest opening ever, a milestone that made Kane Parsons the youngest director ever to open at number one at the box office.see full review
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15Insidious: Out Of The FurtherReleased recently. US opening weekend box office of $60 million.Insidious: Out of the Further, directed by Jacob Chase, marks the sixth installment in the popular horror saga produced by James Wan, Leigh Whannell, and Jason Blum. The film, starring Amelia Eve as Gemma, a single mother who discovers she can travel into the Further and even bring objects back from that dimension, attempts to revitalize the franchise by expanding its narrative scope. However, despite some intriguing ideas and effectively tense scenes, such as the pillow fort sequence, the film ultimately settles into a tired formula, relying on predictable jump scares and a plot that revisits familiar dynamics, banking on the return of iconic characters like Elise Rainier, played by Lin Shaye. The result is a work that is bizarre and ambitious in intent, yet lacking the boldness needed to truly reinvent a saga that seems to have exhausted its innovative spark.see full review
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15The Dog StarsRidley Scott's dystopian film starring Jacob Elordi, releasing August 28, 2026. Mixed reviews (RT ~40%), projected US opening $9-13M.With "The Dog Stars – The Stars After the End," Ridley Scott marks his thirtieth film and his first true venture into the post-apocalyptic genre, adapting Peter Heller's bestseller with a screenplay by Mark L. Smith. Produced by 20th Century Studios and distributed by Disney, the film follows pilot Hig, played by Jacob Elordi, who lives in a world ravaged by a pandemic alongside the pragmatic former soldier Bangley, a Josh Brolin in top form. The discovery of a faint radio signal drives Hig to undertake a risky journey into the unknown, where he will cross paths with characters like Cima, portrayed by Margaret Qualley, and her father, Guy Pearce. The true heart of the narrative, beyond the solid chemistry between the protagonists, is the touching relationship between Hig and his dog Jasper, played by the Italian Belgian Shepherd Raksha, which infuses the film with a sense of authenticity and hope. Filmed between the majestic Dolomites and Cinecittà studios, the film stands out for its contemplative direction and powerful cinematography, choosing to tell the end of the world through the lens of empathy and the rebuilding of trust, rather than mere cynicism.see full review
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15Moana (Live-Action)Released July 2026. Disney live-action, $43 million USA/Canada opening weekend, $250 million budget. Source: InfoNews.The live-action "Moana," released internationally as "Oceania," arrives in theaters in August 2026, directed by Thomas Kail. The film, a Walt Disney Pictures production, faithfully retells the story of the 2016 animated original, with young Catherine Lagaʻaia in the role of Moana and Dwayne Johnson returning to play the demigod Maui. Reviews agree that, despite the superfluousness of a remake only ten years later, the film works as an enjoyable family-friendly product, thanks to the chemistry between the leads and respect for the spirit of the original work, although it loses some of the visual magic and at times appears too literal in its transition to live-action.see full review ▶ youtube.com
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15Vishwanath and SonsReleased August 2026. Tamil film starring Suriya, worldwide collection of ₹187.55 Cr (up to day 14). Source: Times of India."Vishwanath and Sons" is a 2026 Tamil family drama directed by Venky Atluri, marking his first collaboration with star Suriya. The film follows the story of Sanjay Vishwanath (Suriya), a wealthy entrepreneur and Olympic shooter whose orderly life is upended after having a child via surrogacy, with the arrival of the young surrogate mother Maddy, portrayed brilliantly by Mamitha Baiju. Reviews unanimously praise the cast's performances, particularly the chemistry between the two leads and Suriya's mature acting, highlighting how the first half of the film is fresh, comedic, and well-constructed. However, the film loses some momentum in the second half, becoming more melodramatic and conventional with some narrative deviations that loosen the tension. Despite this, it remains a warm and progressive family entertainer, produced by Sithara Entertainments, recommended for those seeking a modern and pleasant relationship story.see full review ▶ youtube.com
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15ColonyReviewed August 28, 2026. Action/zombie film by director Yeon Sang-ho, scoring 81% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and 91% Popcornmeter.Presented in the Midnight Screenings section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, "Colony" marks the return of South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho, already famous for "Train to Busan," to the zombie genre. The film, starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan, sets the usual survival plot in a quarantined Seoul skyscraper, where a virus turns people into a colony of infected with a collective intelligence. While the movie is praised for its visual strength, fast pace, and solid action sequences, reviews criticize its lack of originality, flat characterizations, and a screenplay that, despite interesting ideas about collective consciousness, recycles elements already seen in the genre without adding anything truly new. The result is a mainstream Korean product, pleasantly entertaining for fans, but one that feels like a wasted opportunity to innovate.see full review
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15The UprisingHistorical film starring Andrew Garfield, releasing on 11/09/2026.The historical film "The Uprising," directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Andrew Garfield, tackles the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, offering a vibrant and courageous political reflection. The work, which marks the costume-drama debut of the director of "Captain Phillips," has divided critics since its release, as evidenced by its provisional score on Rotten Tomatoes. While the energy of the action scenes and Garfield's physical performance are praised, some reviews criticize a narrative that is at times confusing and the occasionally excessive use of Greengrass's signature documentary style. With a supporting cast that includes Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis, and Thomasin McKenzie, the film aims to drag the viewer into the events, transforming a medieval revolt into a contemporary question about the relationship between people and power.see full review
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15Mirzapur: The MovieFilm adaptation of the Indian series, released ~05/09/2026, positively reviewed by Karan Johar.Mirzapur: The Movie, directed by Gurmmeet Singh and written by Puneet Krishna, marks the ambitious cinematic transition of the popular Indian crime franchise, released in September 2026. The film, serving as a narrative expansion set during the timeline of the series' first season, reunites the original star cast including Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, and Divyenndu, alongside the new antagonist played by Ravi Kishan, in a story centered around the power struggle and the throne (gaddi) of Mirzapur. Reviews, such as those from Hindustan Times and Filmfare, praise its compelling performances, large-scale action, and balance between fan service and new elements, while noting as main criticisms its runtime exceeding three hours and an occasionally uneven pace. Overall, it confirms itself as an entertaining companion piece for fans, designed to leverage the big screen without betraying the violent and irreverent spirit of the original work.see full review ▶ justwatch.com
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15OnslaughtAction, Horror, Thriller, Fantascienza - Adam Wingard - 01/10/2026 - 17+Un'ex cecchina dell'esercito deve usare tutte le sue abilità per proteggere sua figlia quando tre supersoldati geneticamente modificati fuggono da un laboratorio segreto e danno inizio a un violento assedio nel deserto del New Mexico.After handling the giants of the MonsterVerse, Adam Wingard returns to a more aggressive, genre-driven cinema with "Onslaught - Final Assault," an action-horror film produced by A24 and distributed in Italy by I Wonder Pictures starting October 1, 2026. Set in the New Mexico desert, the film stars Adria Arjona as a former sniper forced to use her skills again to protect her daughter from an assault by genetically modified supersoldiers escaped from a secret laboratory. Early reviews, which give it a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, describe it as a brutal and eccentric homage to exploitation cinema and B-movies, comparing it to the style of John Carpenter and characterizing it for its frenetic pace and spectacular violence. With a cast that also includes Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, and a cameo from UFC champion Alex Pereira, "Onslaught" aims to be a return to Wingard's roots, favoring a visceral and over-the-top approach to genre blending.see full review ▶ justwatch.com
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15HopeAction, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction - Na Hong-jin - Forged Films, Plus M Entertainment - 05/11/2026 - RA South Korean genre-bending film that begins as a rural survival tale, transforms into a monster movie, and explodes into a controlled chaos blending mythology, Hollywood-style action, and tension, following a police chief and hunters confronting mysterious creatures terrorizing a town.After the anticipation generated by the presence of its director, Na Hong-jin, at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, *Hope* proved to be one of the most overwhelming cinematic events of the year. This South Korean blockbuster, the most expensive ever produced in the country and starring international actors like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, powerfully depicts an alien invasion that devastates a town near the Korean demilitarized zone. The film stands out for its extremely extended action sequences, such as an initial 60-minute rampage, blending horror, science fiction, and genre irony with a relentless pace reminiscent of *Mad Max: Fury Road*. Despite some reservations about its length and digital effects, the masterful direction by Na Hong-jin and cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo won over both critics and audiences, positioning *Hope* as an ambitious and purely cinematic work, already conceived as the first chapter of a potential trilogy.see full review ▶ justwatch.com
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15HaiwaanIndian crime thriller starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Earned ₹3 crore on its first day in India. Released September 12, 2026.The Disney live-action film "Moana 2026," directed by Thomas Kail, brings the beloved adventure of young Moana, played by Catherine Lagaʻaia, and the demigod Maui, once again portrayed by Dwayne Johnson, back to the big screen. The movie, extremely faithful to the 2016 animated film, revisits the same plot and key songs, albeit with new performers and arrangements, and also includes a new song by Lin-Manuel Miranda. While not offering substantial narrative innovations, the film presents itself as pure family entertainment, successfully speaking to children through adventure and to adults through its themes of parent-child relationships and the search for identity.see full review ▶ justwatch.com
Project Hail Mary
A middle-school science teacher wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there. He discovers he is the sole survivor of a mission launched to save the Sun, and with it humanity, from a cosmic parasite slowly dimming its light.
Project Hail Mary brings to the screen Andy Weir's novel of the same name, the author behind The Martian, adapted in 2015 by Ridley Scott with Matt Damon. The film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, a duo whose resume ranges wildly from the animated Lego films and Spider-Verse to the action-comedy of 22 Jump Street, here tackling their first large-scale, more dramatically pitched science-fiction production. Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up alone aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how or why he got there. He soon discovers he is the sole surviving crew member of a mission launched to investigate astrophage, a cosmic microorganism slowly consuming the Sun's energy, and that of nearly every other star in the galaxy, endangering life on Earth. The narrative alternates between present-day, hard-sci-fi problem solving that stays close to the novel, and flashbacks that gradually piece together how Grace ended up on the mission. As in the book, the emotional core is the bond the protagonist forms with an unexpected alien intelligence, told with a mix of scientific rigor, humor and an almost family-adventure sense of optimism that sets it apart from the bleaker tone of much recent genre fare. Gosling carries long stretches of the film essentially solo, generating real feeling for an alien presence that is little more than a voice and a shape at the console, a demanding acting task that critics have largely praised. The film is explicitly positioned to repeat the audience and critical success of The Martian, sharing both a literary author and a spacebound survival structure, while aiming for a more intimate register, closer to an interspecies buddy movie, and a more visually ambitious scale thanks to substantial effects work on its deep-space sequences. Reservations exist too, some reviewers found the tone occasionally unsteady in balancing comedy with existential drama, but the overall consensus leans favorable. The film returned to the spotlight after opening to more than 80 million dollars domestically and roughly 141 million worldwide, the biggest March opening ever for a film outside an established franchise, a result that cemented its status as one of the year's defining releases.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Fourth Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland, released in summer 2026. Topped the global box office for 4 weekends.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland in the lead role, represents a deliberate and successful reset for the character within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film, produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures, abandons epic multiversal stakes to tell an intimate, street-level story, finding Peter Parker isolated and forgotten by everyone after the events of *No Way Home*. Holland delivers what is considered his most mature and nuanced performance yet, while Cretton's direction focuses on a darker tone, inventively choreographed action scenes, and a more restrained use of CGI. The film effectively introduces new elements, such as a more prominent relationship with Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and a mysterious antagonist played by Sadie Sink, building a reflection on loneliness and adult growth. Despite some criticism regarding an excessive runtime and perhaps too many subplots, the film succeeds in its goal of returning Spider-Man to his more human and urban roots.
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The Odyssey
After the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on a perilous journey home to Ithaca, encountering mythical creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe, in a modern blockbuster adaptation of Homer's epic poem.
Three years after Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan returns with a titanic endeavor: The Odyssey, a colossal epic produced by Syncopy and distributed by Universal Pictures that adapts Homer's poem. With a star-studded cast led by Matt Damon as a weary and scarred Odysseus, alongside Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus, the film opts for a more linear narrative than expected, focusing on the theme of homecoming and the hero's inner transformation. While Nolan builds a monumental visual experience thanks to Hoyte van Hoytema's IMAX cinematography, some reviews point to less deep characterizations and an adaptation that strays from the original myth to favor a more cinematic and intimate conclusion. The result is a grand Hollywood spectacle that, despite its ambitions, perhaps does not reach the narrative complexity of the director's most celebrated works.
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Blue Heron
On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, a family grapples with the struggles of their eldest son, marked by a behavioral disorder. Years later, the now-adult younger sister returns in memory to that childhood, piecing together fragments that were never resolved.
Blue Heron is the narrative feature debut of Canadian director Sophy Romvari, previously known on the festival circuit for a series of personal, autobiographical shorts centered on memory and family grief. The film follows a family of six settling into a new home on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, focusing in particular on Jeremy, the eldest son struggling with oppositional defiant disorder, and the parents doing everything they can to support him. The younger sister, Sasha, narrator and quiet observer as a child, is later shown as an adult revisiting those years in her mind, even imagining a conversation with her younger self in an effort to recover what she could not understand at the time. The deliberately fractured, non-linear structure alternates home-movie-style footage with more conventional reconstructions, capturing the sense of a memory reassembling itself in fragments rather than along a tidy timeline. Working with a modest budget and a cast made up largely of performers unfamiliar to mainstream audiences, the film stakes everything on the sensitivity of Romvari's direction and the care given to its characters rather than on a plot built for big narrative turns. Critics have noted that Romvari's long-standing preoccupation with fractured identities here expands into a broader meditation on how incomplete memories get filled in over time, often unreliably, by the need to make sense of the past. The film has been singled out for articulating, with rare precision, the way a life-altering loss permanently reshapes one's sense of self, all while avoiding sentimentality or over-explaining the emotions at play. It is the classic festival-circuit title that, against every commercial expectation, managed to stand out amid far bigger and more heavily marketed productions, and it has recently returned to the spotlight for an unusually strong critical consensus, with a Metacritic score of 94 out of 100 placing it among the year's most acclaimed films.
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Coyote vs. Acme
Released the weekend of August 28-30, 2026. Among the major new films of the weekend, based on the Warner Bros. character.
Directed by Dave Green and produced by James Gunn, "Coyote vs. Acme" (2026) marks the return of the Looney Tunes to the big screen with a brilliant mixed-media legal comedy. Based on a story by Ian Frazier, the film sees Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for its defective products, assisted by his lawyer Kevin, played by Will Forte, while John Cena portrays the antagonist. After production setbacks that threatened its release, saved by Ketchup Entertainment and distributed in Italy by Lucky Red, the film has been acclaimed as a smart and satirical work, a live-action/animation hybrid that stands proudly alongside classics like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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The Drama
Days before their wedding, a happily engaged couple sees their relationship upended by an unexpected confession made during one drink too many. A romantic dark comedy about secrets, trust and the conventions of love put to the test.
The Drama is the new film from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, previously behind the satirical Sick of Myself and Dream Scenario with Nicolas Cage, here making his first foray into a deliberately uncomfortable romantic comedy produced and released by A24. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play Emma Harwood, a bookseller at Mission Books, and Charles Thompson, the director of an art museum, a happily engaged couple whose wedding-week preparations are upended by a confession made during a night of heavy drinking, an event that tests both their relationship and the conventions of the romance genre itself. The supporting cast includes Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Zoe Winters and Hailey Gates. Critics have responded favorably on the whole, if not unanimously, praising above all the two lead performances, Zendaya is described as one of the most unpredictable actors of her generation, while Pattinson, now deep into a career phase defined by increasingly eccentric choices, steals scene after scene with a physical, bumblingly funny turn. Several critics have drawn comparisons to the marital erotic-thriller tradition made famous by Adrian Lyne, noting that Borgli takes a different tack, provocative without ever tipping into self-satisfaction, posing an uncomfortable question at the story's center and then stepping back to let the characters, and the audience along with them, wrestle with it in real time. The reservations critics have raised mostly concern structure, with constant jumps in time and tone that some reviewers felt disoriented more than they engaged, turning what could have been a truly memorable film into a solid but not fully resolved one. It remains one of the year's most-discussed titles across social media and the trade press, helped along by two of the moment's most closely followed stars, and it has recently returned to attention thanks to a strongly positive commercial run, more than 126 million dollars worldwide against a budget of roughly 28 million.
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Wuthering Heights
On the Yorkshire moors of the nineteenth century, an obsessive and destructive passion binds Catherine Earnshaw to the foundling Heathcliff across generations. A pop, visually heightened retelling of Emily Brontë's classic, built around love, revenge and class.
After Promising Young Woman, which won her the Oscar for original screenplay, and the divisive success of Saltburn, Emerald Fennell takes on her first major literary adaptation, choosing one of English literature's most beloved and hardest to adapt novels, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Fennell writes and directs, and also produces through Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment, with Robbie starring as Catherine opposite Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff, backed by a supporting cast that includes Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif. The story follows the tormented bond between the two leads, raised together like siblings before class divides them, a love that curdles into obsession and a thirst for revenge capable of consuming two generations of the same family. Visually, the film deliberately breaks from the traditional British costume-drama mold, with cinematography by Linus Sandgren that multiple critics described as making every frame practically pop off the screen, flamboyant costumes by Jacqueline Durran and original songs by Charli XCX underlining a distinctly pop, almost psychedelic reading of the nineteenth-century text. Critical reception has been sharply polarized, a pattern that has followed Fennell throughout her career, some praised it as an enthralling, accessible retelling of a great love story, while others accused the film of flattening the novel's complexity, reducing Cathy and Heathcliff's tormented bond to a string of sexual encounters dressed up in lavish costumes, stripped of the moral weight and bleakness of the source material. Robbie and Elordi's performances have been praised almost across the board regardless of where reviewers landed on the adaptation itself, with several critics noting that their on-screen chemistry holds even when the script seems to favor visual shock over psychological depth. Divisive or not, it remains one of the year's most talked-about and most photographed films, recently back in the conversation thanks to a strong commercial run, roughly 242 million dollars worldwide against an 80 million budget, a result that has only fueled the debate around it.
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Disclosure Day
A meteorologist suddenly begins speaking every language on Earth and knowing intimate details about complete strangers. A cybersecurity expert uncovers evidence linking her condition to a decades-long alien cover-up. A science-fiction thriller.
Disclosure Day marks Steven Spielberg's return to science-fiction territory, with the director co-writing the screenplay alongside longtime collaborator David Koepp, with whom he previously worked on Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds, and once again entrusting the score to his regular composer John Williams. The cast is among the strongest assembled all year, led by Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo, with a deep supporting bench that includes Wyatt Russell and Elizabeth Marvel. Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a meteorologist who suddenly begins speaking every language on Earth and knowing intimate details about complete strangers, while O'Connor plays a cybersecurity expert convinced that Margaret's condition may be linked to a decades-long alien cover-up. True to a thread that runs through the director's career since Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which has returned to the theme of alien contact from different angles more than once, the film blends large-scale visual spectacle with a quieter meditation on institutional trust, how governments manage information, and the psychological weight of a truth that upends an entire civilization's certainties. Critics have responded largely positively, though not without reservations, some reviewers called it a riveting science-fiction thriller carried by a top-tier cast, while others noted that, rather than a true alien-contact film, it plays more like a vintage spy thriller with a few ufological elements in the background, one that nonetheless works thanks to the energy of Blunt's performance. The rollout was tightly controlled, with plot details kept under wraps right up to release, fueling anticipation around one of the summer season's most talked-about titles. At a moment when much of mainstream cinema leans on sequels, remakes and pre-existing intellectual property, the film has recently returned to the spotlight partly on the strength of Spielberg's name alone behind the camera, a factor that, combined with a cast of this caliber, was enough to place it among the year's most anticipated and discussed releases.
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Toy Story 5
Il quinto capitolo della saga Pixar vede i giocattoli, con Jessie in un ruolo più centrale, affrontare le sfide poste dalla tecnologia moderna mentre cercano di mantenere il loro legame con la proprietaria Bonnie.
Directed by Andrew Stanton for Pixar, Toy Story 5 arrives in 2026 and finds a new reason to exist by intelligently addressing the relationship between childhood and technology, shifting the focus to Jessie as the emotional heart of the story. The film does not demonize screens, represented by the new character Lilypad, but explores with balance how play and imagination can coexist with the digital, in a mature tale that speaks both to children and adults who grew up with the saga. Technically impeccable and with a soundtrack that also features a contribution from Taylor Swift, this chapter, despite some less-developed subplots, confirms itself as one of the most relevant animated releases of the year, capable of renewing the franchise without betraying its spirit.
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Obsession
A shy record-store clerk buys an antique toy said to grant a single wish, hoping to confess his feelings to the coworker he loves. The wish comes true, but it twists that love into an uncontrollable obsession. A horror film.
Obsession was one of the season's horror surprises, a film that won over critics without the backing of a major studio or a marquee cast, made on a modest budget of around one million dollars. Director Curry Barker tells the story of Bear, a shy record-store clerk who buys a 1960s antique toy, a kitschy One Wish Willow said to grant a single wish, hoping to finally find the courage to confess his feelings to his coworker and childhood friend Nikki. The wish comes true, but in a modern monkey's-paw structure, it turns Nikki into an increasingly obsessive, uncontrollable presence around Bear, flipping the classic courtship narrative into a nightmare with the roles reversed. Beneath its splatter surface, the film emerges as a bitter meditation on the thin line between desire and possession, and on how unrequited affection can curdle into something close to predatory control once every limit on it is suddenly removed. Claustrophobic cinematography and a sound design that amplifies every breath and every broken object help build a mounting sense of suffocation. Barker builds mounting tension by leaning on atmosphere and character writing rather than the usual jump scares, in a genre that in recent years has found some of its strongest work precisely in independent titles, with several critics comparing the film to works like Barbarian, Get Out and Talk to Me for its ability to blend violence, dark comedy and near-physical discomfort in the viewer. Actress Inde Navarrette, tasked with playing two versions of the same person over the course of the story, has been singled out by multiple outlets as one of the film's strongest elements, single-handedly sustaining the mounting sense of threat in the story's back half. Word of mouth among genre fans and enthusiastic reviews from critics have recently turned it into one of the year's best-reviewed and most-discussed horror films, a notable result for a production without the promotional backing typically reserved for bigger studio titles.
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Minion & Monsters
Ambientato nella Hollywood degli anni '20, il film segue i Minion James, Henry ed Ed che, dopo un'irruzione su un set, vengono scritturati e decidono di girare un proprio film di mostri, scatenando involontariamente il caos con creature reali in un omaggio al cinema muto e alla storia del cinema.
Distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Illumination Entertainment, "Minions & Monsters" marks a return to solo directing for Pierre Coffin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Brian Lynch. The film catapults the iconic yellow Minions into 1920s Hollywood during the tumultuous transition from silent films to talkies, where their incomprehensible language turns them from stars into outcasts, setting off a series of events involving the creation of cinematic monsters. This installment is widely regarded by critics as a love letter to cinema, packed with sophisticated references ranging from Chaplin to Metropolis, while still maintaining the slapstick comedy and energy typical of the franchise. Although some reviews note a more conventional tone in the second part, dedicated to monster action, the film is generally praised as the most polished and cinephile-friendly of the series, capable of entertaining both young audiences and adults passionate about film history.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
Sequel vent'anni dopo: Miranda Priestly lotta contro l'ex assistente Emily Charlton per gli introiti pubblicitari in un mondo editoriale in crisi, mentre Andy Sachs ritorna a Runway.
Two decades after the original, "The Devil Wears Prada 2" brings the star-studded cast back together under the direction of David Frankel. The sequel finds Meryl Streep reprising her role as the iconic Miranda Priestley, grappling with the publishing crisis and the rise of digital media, while Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt return with new roles. Distributed by Disney, the film opens with interesting insights into the transformation of journalism and media, but according to many reviews, it ultimately leans into nostalgia and personal dynamics, resulting in an enjoyable and well-acted film that lacks the bite of the first installment. The return of the original protagonists and the Milan setting during Fashion Week are the strengths of a production that, despite a sometimes uncertain screenplay, has managed to draw audiences to the box office.
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Kung Fu Soccer
A spiritual successor to Shaolin Soccer following the fictional Emei women's football team as they use martial arts to compete in the extravagant "Supreme Invincible Cup" tournament.
After seven years away from directing, Stephen Chow, Hong Kong's "King of Comedy," returns behind the camera with "Kung Fu Soccer," an action-comedy that revives the madcap alchemy of soccer and martial arts from the cult classic "Shaolin Soccer." The film, a co-production between China and Hong Kong distributed domestically by Maoyan Entertainment, follows the story of the Emei women's soccer team as they compete in the fictional "Supreme Invincible Cup" tournament, where the laws of physics are systematically broken with surreal dribbling and explosive shots. Featuring a cast that includes Zhang Xiaofei, Dilraba Dilmurat, and Lay Zhang Yixing, the film debuted strongly in China in the summer of 2026, earning over $73 million in its first two days and capitalizing on the World Cup context. International distribution is handled by Encore Films, although for Western markets, despite interest tied to the 25th anniversary of "Shaolin Soccer," official release dates have yet to be announced.
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Backrooms
A researcher in a hazmat suit films his descent into an endless maze of empty rooms and identical hallways after losing all contact with his colleagues. A found-footage horror born from a creepypasta and an amateur video series that became a viral internet phenomenon.
Backrooms grew out of one of the internet's oddest recent phenomena, the creepypasta and amateur video series created by Kane Parsons around unsettling liminal spaces and endless empty hallways, which became a full-blown online cult starting with a nine-minute video posted on YouTube in 2022, when the director was just sixteen. The film opens as a found-footage document, built from recovered recordings of a hazmat-suited researcher, Naren Warne, who loses all contact with his colleagues during an expedition into the maze of the Backrooms, a space reached through an anomalous section of wall in a store's basement. A team of scientists at the Async Research Institute studies those recordings, gradually piecing together what happened during the expedition. The adaptation tries to carry over to the big screen that same sense of unease and disorientation that made the original material famous, leaning on stripped-down found footage, with its trademark sickly yellow walls and handheld, VHS-style camerawork, rather than flashy effects. Critics have particularly praised the film's opening stretch, described by multiple outlets as one of the most effectively creepy pieces of old-school found footage of the year, with two or three sequences singled out among the genre's strongest of the decade for making viewers feel fully submerged in its claustrophobic surroundings. Some reservations concern the film's middle section, where the shift toward more conventional narrative risks, according to several reviewers, dissipating some of the tension built up in the opening. Made on a production budget of around 10 million dollars, the film has recently returned to the spotlight thanks to its commercial performance too, more than 117 million dollars grossed worldwide and A24's biggest opening ever, a milestone that made Kane Parsons the youngest director ever to open at number one at the box office.
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Insidious: Out Of The Further
Released recently. US opening weekend box office of $60 million.
Insidious: Out of the Further, directed by Jacob Chase, marks the sixth installment in the popular horror saga produced by James Wan, Leigh Whannell, and Jason Blum. The film, starring Amelia Eve as Gemma, a single mother who discovers she can travel into the Further and even bring objects back from that dimension, attempts to revitalize the franchise by expanding its narrative scope. However, despite some intriguing ideas and effectively tense scenes, such as the pillow fort sequence, the film ultimately settles into a tired formula, relying on predictable jump scares and a plot that revisits familiar dynamics, banking on the return of iconic characters like Elise Rainier, played by Lin Shaye. The result is a work that is bizarre and ambitious in intent, yet lacking the boldness needed to truly reinvent a saga that seems to have exhausted its innovative spark.
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The Dog Stars
Ridley Scott's dystopian film starring Jacob Elordi, releasing August 28, 2026. Mixed reviews (RT ~40%), projected US opening $9-13M.
With "The Dog Stars – The Stars After the End," Ridley Scott marks his thirtieth film and his first true venture into the post-apocalyptic genre, adapting Peter Heller's bestseller with a screenplay by Mark L. Smith. Produced by 20th Century Studios and distributed by Disney, the film follows pilot Hig, played by Jacob Elordi, who lives in a world ravaged by a pandemic alongside the pragmatic former soldier Bangley, a Josh Brolin in top form. The discovery of a faint radio signal drives Hig to undertake a risky journey into the unknown, where he will cross paths with characters like Cima, portrayed by Margaret Qualley, and her father, Guy Pearce. The true heart of the narrative, beyond the solid chemistry between the protagonists, is the touching relationship between Hig and his dog Jasper, played by the Italian Belgian Shepherd Raksha, which infuses the film with a sense of authenticity and hope. Filmed between the majestic Dolomites and Cinecittà studios, the film stands out for its contemplative direction and powerful cinematography, choosing to tell the end of the world through the lens of empathy and the rebuilding of trust, rather than mere cynicism.
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Moana (Live-Action)
Released July 2026. Disney live-action, $43 million USA/Canada opening weekend, $250 million budget. Source: InfoNews.
The live-action "Moana," released internationally as "Oceania," arrives in theaters in August 2026, directed by Thomas Kail. The film, a Walt Disney Pictures production, faithfully retells the story of the 2016 animated original, with young Catherine Lagaʻaia in the role of Moana and Dwayne Johnson returning to play the demigod Maui. Reviews agree that, despite the superfluousness of a remake only ten years later, the film works as an enjoyable family-friendly product, thanks to the chemistry between the leads and respect for the spirit of the original work, although it loses some of the visual magic and at times appears too literal in its transition to live-action.
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Vishwanath and Sons
Released August 2026. Tamil film starring Suriya, worldwide collection of ₹187.55 Cr (up to day 14). Source: Times of India.
"Vishwanath and Sons" is a 2026 Tamil family drama directed by Venky Atluri, marking his first collaboration with star Suriya. The film follows the story of Sanjay Vishwanath (Suriya), a wealthy entrepreneur and Olympic shooter whose orderly life is upended after having a child via surrogacy, with the arrival of the young surrogate mother Maddy, portrayed brilliantly by Mamitha Baiju. Reviews unanimously praise the cast's performances, particularly the chemistry between the two leads and Suriya's mature acting, highlighting how the first half of the film is fresh, comedic, and well-constructed. However, the film loses some momentum in the second half, becoming more melodramatic and conventional with some narrative deviations that loosen the tension. Despite this, it remains a warm and progressive family entertainer, produced by Sithara Entertainments, recommended for those seeking a modern and pleasant relationship story.
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Colony
Reviewed August 28, 2026. Action/zombie film by director Yeon Sang-ho, scoring 81% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and 91% Popcornmeter.
Presented in the Midnight Screenings section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, "Colony" marks the return of South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho, already famous for "Train to Busan," to the zombie genre. The film, starring Gianna Jun and Koo Kyo-hwan, sets the usual survival plot in a quarantined Seoul skyscraper, where a virus turns people into a colony of infected with a collective intelligence. While the movie is praised for its visual strength, fast pace, and solid action sequences, reviews criticize its lack of originality, flat characterizations, and a screenplay that, despite interesting ideas about collective consciousness, recycles elements already seen in the genre without adding anything truly new. The result is a mainstream Korean product, pleasantly entertaining for fans, but one that feels like a wasted opportunity to innovate.
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The Uprising
Historical film starring Andrew Garfield, releasing on 11/09/2026.
The historical film "The Uprising," directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Andrew Garfield, tackles the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, offering a vibrant and courageous political reflection. The work, which marks the costume-drama debut of the director of "Captain Phillips," has divided critics since its release, as evidenced by its provisional score on Rotten Tomatoes. While the energy of the action scenes and Garfield's physical performance are praised, some reviews criticize a narrative that is at times confusing and the occasionally excessive use of Greengrass's signature documentary style. With a supporting cast that includes Jamie Bell, Cosmo Jarvis, and Thomasin McKenzie, the film aims to drag the viewer into the events, transforming a medieval revolt into a contemporary question about the relationship between people and power.
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Mirzapur: The Movie
Film adaptation of the Indian series, released ~05/09/2026, positively reviewed by Karan Johar.
Mirzapur: The Movie, directed by Gurmmeet Singh and written by Puneet Krishna, marks the ambitious cinematic transition of the popular Indian crime franchise, released in September 2026. The film, serving as a narrative expansion set during the timeline of the series' first season, reunites the original star cast including Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, and Divyenndu, alongside the new antagonist played by Ravi Kishan, in a story centered around the power struggle and the throne (gaddi) of Mirzapur. Reviews, such as those from Hindustan Times and Filmfare, praise its compelling performances, large-scale action, and balance between fan service and new elements, while noting as main criticisms its runtime exceeding three hours and an occasionally uneven pace. Overall, it confirms itself as an entertaining companion piece for fans, designed to leverage the big screen without betraying the violent and irreverent spirit of the original work.
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Onslaught
Un'ex cecchina dell'esercito deve usare tutte le sue abilità per proteggere sua figlia quando tre supersoldati geneticamente modificati fuggono da un laboratorio segreto e danno inizio a un violento assedio nel deserto del New Mexico.
After handling the giants of the MonsterVerse, Adam Wingard returns to a more aggressive, genre-driven cinema with "Onslaught - Final Assault," an action-horror film produced by A24 and distributed in Italy by I Wonder Pictures starting October 1, 2026. Set in the New Mexico desert, the film stars Adria Arjona as a former sniper forced to use her skills again to protect her daughter from an assault by genetically modified supersoldiers escaped from a secret laboratory. Early reviews, which give it a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, describe it as a brutal and eccentric homage to exploitation cinema and B-movies, comparing it to the style of John Carpenter and characterizing it for its frenetic pace and spectacular violence. With a cast that also includes Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, and a cameo from UFC champion Alex Pereira, "Onslaught" aims to be a return to Wingard's roots, favoring a visceral and over-the-top approach to genre blending.
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Hope
A South Korean genre-bending film that begins as a rural survival tale, transforms into a monster movie, and explodes into a controlled chaos blending mythology, Hollywood-style action, and tension, following a police chief and hunters confronting mysterious creatures terrorizing a town.
After the anticipation generated by the presence of its director, Na Hong-jin, at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, *Hope* proved to be one of the most overwhelming cinematic events of the year. This South Korean blockbuster, the most expensive ever produced in the country and starring international actors like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, powerfully depicts an alien invasion that devastates a town near the Korean demilitarized zone. The film stands out for its extremely extended action sequences, such as an initial 60-minute rampage, blending horror, science fiction, and genre irony with a relentless pace reminiscent of *Mad Max: Fury Road*. Despite some reservations about its length and digital effects, the masterful direction by Na Hong-jin and cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo won over both critics and audiences, positioning *Hope* as an ambitious and purely cinematic work, already conceived as the first chapter of a potential trilogy.
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Haiwaan
Indian crime thriller starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Earned ₹3 crore on its first day in India. Released September 12, 2026.
The Disney live-action film "Moana 2026," directed by Thomas Kail, brings the beloved adventure of young Moana, played by Catherine Lagaʻaia, and the demigod Maui, once again portrayed by Dwayne Johnson, back to the big screen. The movie, extremely faithful to the 2016 animated film, revisits the same plot and key songs, albeit with new performers and arrangements, and also includes a new song by Lin-Manuel Miranda. While not offering substantial narrative innovations, the film presents itself as pure family entertainment, successfully speaking to children through adventure and to adults through its themes of parent-child relationships and the search for identity.
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