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Courtesy of De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Recently, Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen passed away at the age of 85. Transformers fans mourned his passing, remembering all the movies, shows, and videos he voiced Optimus in. His passing happened right before the theatrical rerelease of The Transformers: The Movie, which is coming out on September 17 to celebrate the movie’s 40th anniversary. For many Transformers fans, this movie is a childhood classic, defined their c

Courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment After being shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery for a tax write-off back in 2023, Coyote vs. Acme is finally out, directed by Dave Green and starring Will Forte and John Cena alongside Looney Tunes characters Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, and others, mostly voiced by Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza. Similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Coyote vs. Acme is a live-action animated movi

Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Late last year, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, tragically passed away. Right away, tributes poured in, and fans reflected on the incredible run of movies Reiner made throughout the years. In 2026, one of his greatest movies celebrated its 40th anniversary: Stand By Me, starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland. Stand By Me is based on the Stephen King novella The Body from his 1982 series of nov

Courtesy of Indie Rights Having directed two short films (once in 2018 and then six years later in 2024), you could say David St. Clair has become a very ambitious man. It also should be stated that while these two titles were played out in different mediums (one was animated while the other was live action), Red Tape and Madness Unplugged were both out of this world - in a thematic sense, at least. The former is a digital dystopian horror of sorts and in the latter, everyd

Courtesy of D23 The MCU is having a big summer so far. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is close to making $2 billion worldwide and is on its way to becoming one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. A couple of new trailers for Avengers: Doomsday have been released. Future projects beyond Avengers: Secret Wars, such as Ghost Rider starring Ryan Gosling and Black Panther 3 starring David Jonsson, have been announced for 2028. D23 gave an even bigger announcement: the official

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment Spider-Man: Brand New Day is finally out nearly five years after Spider-Man: No Way Home, this time directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jon Bernthal, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, and Mark Ruffalo. Four years after being forgotten by the world, Peter is alone, spending most of his time being Spider-Man. Despite making New York City safer than it’s ever been before and gaining the love and s

Courtesy of Universal Pictures Christopher Nolan has done something most directors can't do. Based on his name alone, the hype for The Odyssey has been unlike any other film in the past couple of years. With it's fantastic cast and incredible source material, The Odyssey has been hyped up to be the best film of 2026. Does it deliver on that promise? The Odyssey comes from a story written by Homer about a soldier named Odysseus who is on a journey back home to his family. The

Courtesy of DC Studios Supergirl is the second movie in the DCU, this time directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa, and David Corenswet. Supergirl gets mixed up in a young girl’s quest for revenge when Krypto is poisoned, and Supergirl is racing to get the cure before it’s too late. After the strong start the DCU had with shows like Creature Commandos and Peacemaker, and James Gunn’s Superman, fans are hoping Superg

Courtesy of Pixar Toy Story 5 has been out for a couple of weeks, and, like its predecessors, it charms audiences and critics alike. Directed by WALL-E director Andrew Stanton, who also co-wrote the previous Toy Story movies, the toys are back, but this time taking on technology, which seems to be pushing kids away from toys all around, and now threatens to do the same between the toys and Bonnie. Jessie, voiced again by Joan Cusack, takes the lead in Toy Story to take on Lil

Courtesy of Universal Pictures The king of summer movies, Steven Spielberg, is back with a new movie called Disclosure Day, returning to his earlier roots in science fiction. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, Disclosure Day explores how a TV meteorologist and cybersecurity officer are trying to expose decades-long information on extraterrestrials. Spielberg is known for directing classic movies involving extraterrestrials, such

Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios It’s been nearly 40 years since the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie and 44 years since Mattel created Masters of the Universe. Various shows based on Masters of the Universe have also been released through the years. Now in 2026, a new live-action Masters of the Universe movie is out, directed by Travis Knight and starring Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, Idris Elba, and Alison Brie. When Skeletor takes over Eternia, Adam is sen

Courtesy of Focus Features The 2020s have been a solid era for horror movies, and 2026 continues that trend with Obsession. Directed by YouTuber Curry Barker, Obsession stars Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette in an incredible psychological horror movie about a music store employee named Bear who loves his best friend Nikki. Wanting her to fall in love with him, he makes a wish on a toy that comes true, but it shows that wishes have consequences as Nikki’s newfound love tur

Courtesy of Lucasfilm A new Star Wars movie is out, featuring popular characters Din Djarin (the Mandalorian) and Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Pedro Pascal. In a post-empire world, the New Republic tasks Mando with catching those who worked for the empire, and in the process, he gets caught up in the drama of what is left of Jabba the Hutt’s crime family. This is the first Star Wars movie to come out in nearly seven years since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Courtesy of Viaplay Content Distribution I have an urge to watch Polish director Pawel Maślona’s newest feature Scarborn a second time. Considering that’s something I never do, take that as a testament to how good this movie is. Suffice to say, Viaplay - a Swedish video streaming service - has once again brought a seriously underrated production to the United States. In November of last year, I took my first real dive into Viaplay and reviewed Vanguard, a five e

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures On November 16, 2001, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (also called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ) was released in theaters. Based on the book of the same name, the movie broke box-office records and won over critics and audiences. It made around $974 million in its original box-office run and, through rereleases, made over $1 billion in total. It was the highest-grossing movie of 2001 and, at one point, the second-highest-g

Courtesy of Illumination Entertainment The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is finally out, produced by Illumination and directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, starring Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, and Keegan-Michael Key, as well as newcomers Benny Safdie, Brie Larson, and Donald Glover. Bowser Jr., voiced by Benny Safdie, wants his father back and revenge on Mario. Mario and the gang are on an adventure to stop him, which also involves other charac

Courtesy of Viaplay Content Distribution Don’t let the tropes fool you: Double Stakes seamlessly blends 90s cop show nostalgia with a modern Ukrainian soldier returning home to a brand new - but deadly - world, while delivering a Batman-worthy villain lineup. Releasing on March 19th, one of Viaplay’s newest action offerings - called Double Stakes - is by all accounts, a very unique watch. On one hand, the eight episode first season heavily leans into just about every thematic

Courtesy of MGM Studios Project Hail Mary is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a former middle school teacher and molecular biologist who is on a mission to save the sun from dying out. When the movie starts, he has no idea who he is or why he’s in space. Flashback sequences reveal who he is and how he got to this point. The movie is also written by Drew Goddard and is based on Andy Weir’s 2021 novel Project Hail Mary . It’s

Courtesy of MetFilm Distribution The time was 1942. World War II was raging throughout the world. So many lives every single day were lost to combat on the front lines. But for fifteen women living in the villages of East Prussia, life was about to change entirely as well. They were plucked and pulled from their own families and forced to be a part of a terrifying ordeal. A secret trial that took place behind high walls - which was all hidden from history - until seventy year

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures After a rough few years of getting Scream 7 made, Scream 7 has finally come out, directed by Kevin Williamson and starring Neve Campbell, Isabel May, Courtney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Joel McHale, and Matthew Lillard. Ghostface has returned and found Sidney Prescott, now Sidney Evans, and her family, targeting Sidney’s daughter, Tatum. Williamson previously wrote Scream , Scream 2 , and Scream 4 . Scream 7 went through an unusu