Hollywood Features
THE ODYSSEY: Playing 3D Chess with an Epic, Gods and Mortals, and the Remorse of Odysseus
To directly answer a question that matters: is The Odyssey (2026) a good movie? A movie that captivates, that honors Homer's masterfully intricate, time-jumping epic, that you must go see, and that you will want to rewatch? My answer is:...
Opening This Week: SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, I WANT YOUR SEX, THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER
Heading to cinemas: Unlikely people team up.
Now Playing: HER PRIVATE HELL, SHEEP IN THE BOX, MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT
Our primary focus remains the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, but not all of us could make the trip this year, so instead we cast our eyes on what opened in movie theaters today. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey...
Now Streaming: Nicholas Winding Refn, From PUSHER to COPENHAGEN COWBOY
With 'Her Private Hell' set to open this weekend, we look back at the director's distinguished career in genre cinema.
Opening This Week: HER PRIVATE HELL by NWR, SHEEP IN THE BOX by Kore-eda, MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT by Mann
Plus: 'Cruel Hands' and 'Pinocchio Unstrung.'
Now Streaming: GOLDEN KAMUY 3: THE ABARISHI PRISON RAID Action, EXIT 8 Mystery
Plus: 'Marc by Sophia,' 'The Land of Sometimes,' 'Lucky,' 'Ride or Die,' 'Return to Paradise S2,' ''The Activists.'
Now Playing: THE ODYSSEY, STEAL AWAY, THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA
Plus: 'Take Care of My Cat' and '40 Watts to Nowhere.'
Friday One Sheet: HOT SPOT
Ochre and clay and sulphur, oh my! The poster for Agnieszka Smoczynska's big budget Artificial Intelligence dystopian sci-fi thriller, Hot Spot, is from Gravillis, the design house who did yeoman's work on the campaigns for Sinners and Obsession in the past year. ...
Opening This Week: THE ODYSSEY, STEAL AWAY, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT
Plus: 'The Kidnapping of Arabella' and '40 Watts From Nowhere.'
Now Playing: EVIL DEAD BURN, WESTHAMPTON, THE ISOLATE THIEF
Plus: 'Moana,' 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,' 'Mockbuster,' 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' 'Black Chariot,' 'Crossing.'
Opening This Week: EVIL DEAD BURN Terrifies, THE ISOLATE THIEF Resonates
Plus: Live-action 'Moana,' inside The Asylum in 'Mockbuster,' 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass' (comedy), 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' (drama), 'Black Chariot' (landmark in Black cinema), 'Crossing' (Chinese war).
Now Streaming: HUMAN VAPOR Creeps, MOTHRA Rebirths, MAN FINDS TAPE Unsettles
Plus: 'X-Men '97'' returns and 'Touch Me' does something I can't talk about here.
Now Streaming: SILO S3, Getting Back on a Revolutionary Track
Rebecca Ferguson returns for more underground intrigue in the post-apocalyptic series, while the series also begins telling its origin story.
Friday One Sheet: MUTINY
Like Saul Bass did for Hitchcock, design firm BOND does for Statham. Who does not love a long bit of perspective-based text in their movie poster? If only the design did not have the studio mandate to put "From The...
Now Playing: THE INVITE, CAMP, ROMERIA, SUPERGIRL
The final weekend of June offers the third film by Olivia Wilde, described by our critic as "adult entertainment," an ethereal horror drama by a 'daring new voice' in the indie space, an autobiographical portrait of family origins, and a...
Friday One Sheet: KLARA AND THE SUN
Christian imagery is the theme here for the Columbia Picture adaptation of Kazou Ishiguro's novel, Klara And The Sun. In the dystopian science fiction story, where advances in genetic engineering have divided humans into strict, isolated social classes, an obsolete...
Echoes: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS One Year Later, Rediscovering Its Shamanic Inspirations
It's been just over one year since one of Netflix's crowning masterpieces came out on June 20, 2025. I'm talking about KPop Demon Hunters, whose head-banging songs and powerful storyline gripped audiences of all ages and all regions of the...
Opening This Week: THE INVITE, CAMP, ROMERIA, SUPERGIRL
What to watch in the wild, wonderful world of genre fare.
Echoes: 12 Wide Releases That Could Define the Second Half of 2026
Six months down, six to go! The first half of 2026 was full of boundary-pushing blockbusters that changed the way Hollywood filmmakers think of modern audiences. But the year's biggest cinematic swings are still to come as Hollywood gears up...
Opening This Week: THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, LEVITICUS, THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER
Plus: 'Rose of Nevada,' 'Unidentified,' 'Toy Story 5.'
