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Backrooms brings a YouTube sensation to the big screen

YouTuber Kane Parsons (aka Kane Pixels) directs his script co-written with Will Soodik (Ash vs Evil Dead) about Clark (Chiwetel Ejiolfor), a failed architect in therapy who owns a floundering furniture store. When Clark disappears into another dimension through a portal in the rear of his store’s basement, his therapist, Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve) […]

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Nemesis is campy, melodramatic crime drama fun

NemesisWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix Created by Courtney A. Kemp and Tani Marole, this series feels like a real ’80s throwback. I almost abandoned the first episode midway because the dialogue was so cheesy and melodramatic. It follows workaholic LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Lt. Isaiah Stiles (Matthew Law), who’s haunted by […]

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu may satisfy Star Wars super fans

Jon Favreau (Elf, Iron Man, The Lion King) directs this screenplay co-written with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor about former lone bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), also known as The Mandalorian, and his Yoda-like apprentice, Grogu, who are working for the New Republic under orders from Col. Ward (Sigourney Weaver) to hunt down Galactic […]

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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War takes the TV show movie length

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost WarWhat’s it rated? R When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Prime Video Andrew Bernstein directs this feature length installment in the Jack Ryan franchise, this time starring John Krasinski from the Jack Ryan TV show spinoff (2018-23). Before Krasinski, Harrison Ford, Chris Pine, and Ben Affleck had played the character—a former […]

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Remarkably Bright Creatures is a sweet story about finding joy

Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing, First Match) directs this script she co-wrote with John Whittington adapting Shelby Van Pelt’s 2022 novel of the same name about Tova Sullivan (Sally Field), an elderly cleaning lady at an aquarium in Sowell Bay, Washington. Her best friend is Marcellus (voiced by Alfred Molina), an arrogant and dismissive […]

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#Skyking is a crazy documentary about taking a commercial plane for a joyride

#SkykingWhat’s it rated? Not rated When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Hulu Richard ā€œBeeboā€ Russell knew the ins and outs of SEA-TAC airport—after all, he was ground crew. He knew the hierarchy, that the pilots frequently made dismissive remarks about the ā€œramp rats.ā€ The hours were long and the pay meager, but Beebo was a glass-half-full […]

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Groundbreaking LGBT film Brokeback Mountain screens May 23 in the Palm

Brokeback MountainWhat’s it rated? R When? 2005 Where’s it showing? Palm Theatre of San Luis Obispo on Saturday, May 23, at 1 p.m. Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Life of Pi) directed this groundbreaking 2005 neo-Western romantic drama adapted by screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry from Annie Proulx’s 1997 short story about two […]

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New Lord of the Flies is a terrific adaptation of William Golding’s dark depiction of humanity

William Golding’s classic 1954 dystopian novel gets its first television adaption written by Jack Thorne (Adolescence) and directed by Marc Munden (Utopia, The Sympathizer) about a group of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island in the Pacific following a plane crash. Ralph (Winston Sawyers) is named their leader, and with the help of intellectual ā€œPiggyā€ […]

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Apex delivers an adrenaline-fueled, action-packed survival story

Baltasar KormĆ”kur (2 Guns, Everest) directs Jeremy Robbins’ script about adrenaline junkie Sasha (Charlize Theron), who’s haunted by a climbing accident and heads to the isolation of the Australian outback. What was meant as a retreat to reset turns into a cat-and-mouse battle to the death when Ben (Taron Egerton), a local weirdo, makes her […]

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