Writer/director Mark Jenkin’s gritty horror has the looks of a grainy old grindhouse film. It follows the tale of a wildlife volunteer working on a supposedly uninhabited island who descends into madness as reality and nightmares become one.
It’s a story 13.8-billion years in the making, and there’s no better voice on Earth to tell it than Morgan Freeman. This epic, six-part documentary series explores the formation of our universe and the evolutionary events which created life as we know it. Drops 11.22.22 on Netflix.
After sending a signal into the Quantum Realm, Scott Lang, his daughter Cassie, Hope van Dyne, and her parents find themselves sucked into a strange, wonderful, and sometimes terrifying new universe that exists beneath ours. Along the way, they run into Marvel’s new super-baddie Kang the Conqueror. In theaters 2.17.2023.
This high-intensity reality competition show from Japan pits celebrity contestants against an army of hunters attempting to catch them on foot. The longer they evade their captors, the bigger the cash prize, but get caught and lose it all. Coming to Netflix 11.15.2022.
She-Hulk season one is over, and while it isn’t the greatest Marvel show ever, we got some good laughs from its self-referential humor. Screen Junkies offers up their smart-alecky critique of the show, including its lack of courtroom drama, Tatiana Maslany’s improbable dating problems, and its Deus ex Kevin Feige.
Sylvester Stallone stars in this fish-out-of-water TV drama from Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, 1883) and Terrence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire). It follows the story of a recently-released mafia capo who gets bounced from New York City to Tulsa, Oklahoma as his new territory. Coming to Paramount+ 11.13.22.
Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and Octavia Spencer star in this feel-good holiday flick that takes elements of A Christmas Carol and adds a dash of whimsy to the occasion. Expect witty banter, Broadway-style musical numbers, and tap dancing. Coming to Apple TV+ 11.18.2022.
This stop-motion film from Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Jordan Peele (Get Out, Nope) is the perfect addition to your Halloween watch list. It follows a teen (Lyric Ross) who is duped into releasing two demons into the world of the living – and those demons are Key and Peele. Drops 10.28.22 on Netflix.
Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Fred Armisen, and Christina Ricci star in Tim Burton’s comedy-mystery series about Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Coming to Netflix 12.23.2022.
This isn’t the first time there’s been a Super Mario Bros. full-length film, but this animated feature looks more true to form than that live-action mess from 1993. It’s voiced by a star-studded cast including Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen.
We already know that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. But if you’re looking for more Santa Claus in your vigilante action films, look no further than Violent Night, an upcoming holiday flick about a wealthy family held hostage when a tired and jaded Santa (David Harbour) comes down the chimney and stumbles onto the criminals.
The upcoming game Retro Gadgets from Evil Licorice challenges players to create virtual electronic gadgets in a digital workshop. The game will test your creativity and improve your electronics skills as you invent, build, and solder together your projects, then write code to make them work. Coming to Steam.
(PG-13: Gore) Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro takes on showrunner duties for this eight-episode anthology series like a modern-day Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Each episode is made by a great horror filmmaker, including the directors of The Babadook, Splice, Firestarter, and Mandy. The horror begins on 10.25.2022 on Netflix.
(PG-13) Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, The Revenant) is the mind behind this epic film about a Mexican journalist and documentarian whose return to his country triggers memories and fears from his past. The film’s surrealist visual approach is sure to wow some and bewilder others.
Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine star in this series about a woman whose nightmares draw her into the hunt for a serial killer. But like all good psychological thrillers, not everything is what it seems. Given the mention of time travel, we’re convinced that Capaldi is an evil incarnation of Doctor Who. Drops 10.28.222 on Prime Video.
American Crime Story’s Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan revisit the horrific crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled him to murder 17 people over 13 years. Evan Peters stars as Dahmer with Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald, Michael Learned, and Niecy Nash. The series drops 9.21.22.
Places… numbers… the future… all of these things seem limitless, but are they? This documentary explores the nature of infinity through interviews with prominent mathematicians, physicists, and cosmologists. Is the universe genuinely boundless, or is that just human wishful thinking? Drops 9.26.22 on Netflix.
Charlie Hunnam stars in this Apple TV+ series about a man who tries to flee his past by moving to India and reinventing himself as a doctor. But he can’t escape his nature and finds himself pulled into Bombay’s underworld. Based on the best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts. We want to call it “Slums of Anarchy.”
(PG-13: Nudity, Language) Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, and Jean Smart star in this epic film about characters living it up in 1920s Los Angeles, where decadence, deviance, and drama rule the early days of Hollywood. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land). In theaters 12.25.2022.
Nick Fury is back on Earth after working with the Skrulls in deep space for years. Now, these shapeshifting aliens have infiltrated our planet and are hiding in plain sight. Samuel L. Jackson is joined by Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle in this new Disney+ series slated for 2023.
If there’s one thing we’re sick of, it’s the endless reboots of TV shows and movies. This comedy series imagines a network’s attempt to reboot a sitcom with the original cast, but a lot has changed since the show first aired. Stars Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville, and Paul Reiser. Coming to Hulu 9.20.22.
Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front has been made into a film twice before. This German-language version takes advantage of modern cinematic techniques to immerse us deeper into the dark reality of a German soldier living on the front line during World War I. Coming to Netflix 10.28.22.
Nicolas Winding Refn is the visionary director behind films like Drive, Bronson, and Only God Forgives. His latest creation is a six-episode Netflix series about a young woman who escapes a life of enslavement to seek vengeance in the underworld of Copenhagen. Expect lots of neon, violence, and synthwave music.
