Coming & Current Unreviewed Movies

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

North American Theaters: April 19, 2024

Challengers

North American Theaters: April 26, 2024 (wide release)

Unsung Hero

North American Theaters: April 26, 2024 (wide release)

North American Theaters: May 3, 2024

Screen Gems, a division of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment— Starring: Avantika, Jacob BataloJacob Batalo, Olwen Fouéré, Harriet Slater | Director: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg

When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings - never use someone else’s deck - they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death to escape the future foretold in their readings.

The Fall Guy

North American Theaters: May 3, 2024 (wide release)

Universal Pictures— Starring: Ryan Gosling (as Colt, a stuntman), Emily Blunt (Jody, Colt’s ex-girlfriend who is directing her first film), Lee Majors, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke | Director: David Leitch — “Bullet Train” (2022), “John Wick” (2014), “Atomic Blonde” (2017)

This is a feature film adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name created by Glen A. Larson, which starred Lee Majors.

A battered and past-his-prime stuntman, Colt, finds himself working on a movie set with the A-list star for whom he doubled long ago. When the star goes missing, and the film (which is being directed by Colt’s ex-girlfriend), is in danger of being shut down, he volunteers to investigate the disappearance and find the missing actor.

North American Theaters: May 10, 2024

20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company— Starring: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, William H. Macy | Director: Wes Ball

Many apes societies have grown from when the Moses-like Caesar brought his people to an oasis, while humans have been reduced to a feral-like existence. Some ape groups have never heard of Caesar, while others have contorted his teaching to build burgeoning empires. In this setting, one ape leader begins to enslave other groups to find human technology, while another ape, who watched his clan be taken, embarks on a journey to find freedom. A young human woman becomes key to the latter’s quest, although she has plans of her own.

“They don’t need a reason”

North American Theaters: May 17, 2024 (wide)

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Ella Bruccoleri, Gabriel Basso, Rachel Shenton, Madelaine Petsch, Richard Brake | Director: Renny Harlin

A young couple drive cross-country toward a new beginning; unfortunately, they have no choice but to stop and stay at a secluded Airbnb in Oregon—and endure a night of terror against three masked strangers.

“A story you have to believe to see”

North American Theaters: May 17, 2024 (wide release)

Paramount Pictures Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS— Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Ryan Reynolds, Matt Damon, Awkwafina, Steve Carell, Louis Gossett Jr., Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Maya Rudolph, Fiona Shaw, Christopher Meloni, Sebastian Maniscalco, Cailey Fleming, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Stewart | Director: John Krasinski

Follows a young girl who goes through a difficult experience and then begins to see everyone’s imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.

North American Theaters: May 24, 2024

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures— Starring: Chris Pratt as Garfield (voice), Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Cecily Strong, Brett Goldstein, Harvey Guillén as Odie, Ving Rhames | Director: Mark Dindal

Garfield is about to go on a wild outdoor adventure. After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father - the cat Vic - Garfield and Odie are forced to abandon their pampered life to join Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.

North American Theaters: May 24, 2024 (wide release)

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber, Nathan Jones | Director: George Miller

The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in “Fury Road”

“Defy the odds”

North American Theaters: May 31, 2024

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures— Starring: Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia | Production: Jerry Bruckheimer Films | Director: Joachim Rønning

The story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.

The daughter of a German butcher from Manhattan, Ederle was a competitive swimmer who won gold in the 1924 Olympics when she decided to attempt crossing the channel. She undertook the feat after first swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, NJ, setting a record that stood for 81 years. She contracted with two newspapers and sold her story, thereby financing her quest. There was actually a race among women who would be first to cross as only five men had done so before.

Based on the non-fiction book, Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World by Glenn Stout

North American Theaters: June 7, 2024

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Bill Skarsgård (Bill Skarsgard), Danny Huston, FKA twigs, Laura Birn, Jordan Bolger | Director: Rupert Sanders

Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

“Miami’s finest are now its most wanted”

North American Theaters: June 7, 2024 (wide release)

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures— Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Eric Dane, Alexander Ludwig, Rhea Seehorn, Ioan Gruffudd, Jenna Kanell, Paola Núñez, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith | Director: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah

“Big changes. New emotions.”

North American Theaters: June 14, 2024

Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures — Director: Kelsey Mann

Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

“They are watching”

North American Theaters: June 14, 2024

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett | Director: Ishana Shyamalan (daughter of M. Night Shyamalan)

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

North American Theaters: June 28, 2024 (Chapter 1 — wide release) and August 16, 2024 (Chapter 2 — wide release)

New Line Cinema, division of Warner Bros. Pictures— Starring: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, Will Patton, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt, and Jamie Campbell Bower | Director: Kevin Costner

Chronicles a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American west. A two-part event, Chapter 1 is scheduled to be released on June 28, 2024, and Chapter 2 is scheduled to be released on August 16, 2024.

North American Theaters: June 28, 2024 (wide release)

“Hear how it all began”

Paramount Pictures Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS— Starring: Denis O'Hare, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn | Director: Michael Sarnoski

North American Theaters: July 3, 2024 (wide release)

Universal Pictures— Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Pierre Coffin | Director: Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage

Gru, supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for a new era of Minions mayhem, alongside his wife and fellow Anti-Villain League-agent Lucy, their three adopted girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—and the newest member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. The family is forced to go on the run when they become targeted by escaped criminal Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina.

North American Theaters: July 5, 2024

A24 Films LLC— Starring: Mia Goth (Maxine Minx), Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Halsey, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon (a private investigator), Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Uli Latukefu | Director: Ti West

After surviving a massacre in Texas, Maxine continues to pursue her dreams of becoming a famous actress, all while evading the Night Stalker in 1985 Los Angeles.

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

“Chase. Ride. Survive.”

North American Theaters: July 19, 2024

Universal Pictures— Producers: Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley — Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian, Maura Tierney, Kiernan Shipka, David Corenswet, Anthony Ramos, Daryl McCormack, Sasha Lane | Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Estimated budget of $200 million / The epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.

North American Theaters: July 26, 2024 (wide release)

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Marvel Studios — Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine, Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Matthew Macfadyen, Leslie Uggams, Emma Corrin, Shioli Kutsuna, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Stefan Kapicic | Director: Shawn Levy

Wolverine joins the ‘merc with a mouth’ in this third installment of the Deadpool film franchise.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

“Everything he draws is about to get real”

North American Theaters: August 2, 2024

Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures— Starring voices of: Zooey Deschanel, Zachary Levi, Tanya Reynolds, Camille Guaty, Lil Rel Howery | Director: Carlos Saldanha — “Rio” and “Ice Age”

A young boy named Harold embarks on a magical mission with the help of his purple crayon.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children’s book by Crockett Johnson. Published by Harper Collins Publishers, it is Johnson’s most popular book, and has led to a series of other books, as well as many adaptations.

North American Theaters: August 9, 2024

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills | Director: M. Night Shyamalan

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

It Ends with Us

North American Theaters: August 9, 2024 (wide release)

Sony Pictures— Starring: Blake Lively (as Lily Bloom), Justin Baldoni (as Ryle Kincaid), Brandon Sklenar (as Atlas Corrigan), Jenny Slate, Justin Baldoni, Hasan Minhaj | Director: Justin Baldoni

Lily believes she’s found true love with Ryle, but when a painful incident triggers past trauma, she must decide if love alone can carry her marriage through. However, things are complicated when her first love returns to her life. However, things are complicated when her first love returns to her life.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working for the life she wants. She’s come a long from the small town where grew up-she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous doctor named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems heaven sent. Ryle is assertive, headstrong, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his ‘no dating’ rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

“Chaos loves compan”

North American Theaters: August 9, 2024

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, Jamie Lee Curtis | Producer: Ari Arad | Director: Eli Roth

Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas (Edgar Ramírez). Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team—Roland (Kevin Hart), a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Dr. Patricia Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a persistently wiseass robot.

These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.

North American Theaters: August 16, 2024 (wide release)

20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company— Starring: Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renau, David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, Spike Fearn | Director: Fede Alvarez

Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe.

A standalone installment in the ‘Alien’ franchise set between the events of ‘Alien’ (1979) and ‘Aliens’ (1986)

Official site for more information

North American Theaters: Aubust 23, 2024

Affirm Films, a division of Sony Pictures— Director: Alex Kendrick

Isaiah Wright has some growing up to do. A year out of high school with no plans for his future, Isaiah is challenged by his single mom and a successful businessman to start charting a better course for his life. Through the prayers of his mother and biblical discipleship from his new mentor, Isaiah begins to discover God’s purpose for his life is so much more than he could hope for or imagine. From the Kendrick Brothers, the creators of the No. 1 hit WAR ROOM, comes THE FORGE, a faith-filled new movie with old friends and inspiring new twists.

North American Theaters: August 23, 2024

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), owned by Amazon® through MGM Holdings, Inc.— Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Adria Arjona, Channing Tatum, Geena Davis, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Naomi Ackie | Director: Zoë Kravitz (Zoe Kravitz)

When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It’s paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone’s having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.

“Villains aren’t born. They’re made.”

North American Theaters: August 30, 2024 (wide release)

Sony Pictures— Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven), Russell Crowe, Fred Hechinger (Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon), Ariana DeBose, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, Levi Miller | Director: J.C. Chandor

Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world. / Set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU), the same universe in which “Venom,” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” “Morbius,” “Silver Sable,” “The Black Cat,” “Nightwatch,” “Jackpot”, “Silk,” and “Madame Web” are set. / Taylor-Johnson described his take on the character as a conservationist, a “protector of the natural world”, and an “animal lover”.

“The wait is almost over”

North American Theaters: September 6, 2024

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Michael Keaton (as Betelgeuse — pronounced “Beetlejuice”), Monica Bellucci (as Beetlejuice’s wife), Winona Ryder, Willem Dafoe (a detective in the afterlife ), Jenna Ortega, Burn Gorman, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux | Director: Tim Burton

This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice, about a ghost who’s recruited to help haunt a house.

North American Theaters: September 13, 2024

Universal Pictures— Starring: James McAvoy, Aisling Franciosi, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Alix West Lefler | Producers: Jason Blum, Paul Ritchie | Director: James Watkins

A family invited to spend a weekend in an idyllic country house, goes from a dream vacation to a psychological nightmare.

This is a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name.

North American Theaters: September 20, 2024

DreamWorks Pictures Animation, a production label of Amblin Partners— Director: Chris Sanders

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

Official description: “From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

“Witness the origin”

North American Theaters: September 20, 2024 (wide release)

Hasbro and Paramount Pictures Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS— Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Keegan-Michael Key, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Tyree Henry | Director: Josh Cooley

An origin story set on Cybertron, home of both the Autobots and the Decepticons. The film is said to focus on the relationship between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

“The world is a stage”

North American Theaters: October 4, 2024

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company— Starring: Joaquin Phoenix (Arthur Fleck / Joker), Lady Gaga (Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn), Zazie Beetz (Sophie Dumond), Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson, Ken Leung, Steve Coogan | Director: Todd Phillips

Sequel to “Joker” (2019)

White Bird: A Wonder Story

North American Theaters: October 4, 2024

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Stuart McQuarrie, Olivia Ross, Bryce Gheisar | Director: Marc Forster — “The Kite Runner” (2007), “Finding Neverland” (2004), “A Man Called Otto” (2022), “Machine Gun Preacher” (2011)

Based on the book by the best-selling author of Wonder, this uplifting movie shows how one act of kindness can live on forever

In R.J. Palacio’s bestselling collection of stories Auggie and Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.

North American Theaters: October 25, 2024

Sony Pictures— Starring: Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clark Backo | Director: Kelly Marcel

the 6th film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe / Sequel to “Venom” (2018) and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (2021)

North American Theaters: November 8, 2024 (wide release)

Focus Features, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal/Comcast— Starring: Ralph Fiennes (as Cardinal Lomeli), Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini (as Sister Agnes), Brían F. O'Byrneg, Lucian Msamati | Director: Edward Berger

Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events - selecting a new Pope. Amidst this process, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of The Church. He discovers the former Pope had a secret that must be uncovered.

North American Theaters: December 13, 2024

New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Animation, Sola Entertainment— Starring: Voices of Brian Cox, Shaun Dooley, Miranda Otto, Lorraine Ashbourne, Benjamin Wainwright, Luke Pasqualino, etc. | Director: Kenji Kamiyama

The untold story behind Helm’s Deep, hundreds of years before the fateful war, telling the life and bloodsoaked times of its founder, Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan.

Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg - a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Hera, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction.

North American Theaters: December 20, 2024

Paramount Pictures Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS— Starring: Voices of Idris Elba, James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, etc. | Director: Jeff Fowler

North American Theaters: December 20, 2024

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures— Starring: Voices of Seth Rogen, Aaron Pierre, Billy Eichner, Kelvin Harrison Jr., etc. | Director: Barry Jenkins

Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored.

North American Theaters: June 6, 2025 (wide release)

Lionsgate (Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.)— Starring: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Lance Reddick, Ian McShane, Norman Reedus, Anjelica Huston, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Gabriel Byrne | Director: Len Wiseman

A young female assassin and ballerina (Ana de Armas) seeks revenge against the people who murdered her family.