1. "Snow White"
Hi-ho, it’s off to another Disney live-action remake we go!
This one stars Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) as Snow White while Wonder Woman
herself, Gal Gadot, plays the Evil Queen.
March 21
2. "The Alto Knights"
You can never have enough Bobby D. and this film has two.
Robert De Niro pulls double duty as two mob bosses for separate crime families,
at odds for control of New York. The film is based on the true story of Frank
Costello and Vito Genovese.
March 21
3. "Bob Trevino Likes It"
Lily (Barbie
Ferreira), craving affection and attention from her estranged father,
Bob (French Stewart), but coming up dry, befriends a same-named man (John
Leguizamo) online in this sweet comedy. The film is based in part on
writer/director Tracie
Laymon’s own experiences and premiered at South by Southwest 2024
before earning a limited release this year.
March 21
4. "The Woman in the Yard"
We’ve never thought of our yards as particularly scary
places, but this horror film is making us reconsider. In it, a family is
tormented by a ghost woman, who’s taken up residence in their yard and getting
closer and closer to the house.
March 28
5. "Death of a Unicorn"
A father and daughter (Paul Rudd and Jenna
Ortega) run over a unicorn, and all hell breaks loose in this new horror
comedy. A pharma boss wants to exploit the creature’s magic powers while the
unicorn’s parents, more monsters than horses, arrive to slaughter all involved
with the death of their child, one by one.
March 28
6. "The Minecraft Movie"
Four misfits are pulled into the Overworld in this
adaptation of the blockbuster kids’ game. Jack Black, who has become an elder
statesman of dad video game culture online, plays the infamous Steve, an expert
crafter who will help his new friends.
April 4
7. "The Amateur"
A CIA cryptographer (Rami Malek) makes it his mission to take his wife’s
killers down in this action thriller. Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan
and Caitríona Balfe co-star.
April 11
8. "Warfare"
A visceral war film set in real time, it follows a group of
American soldiers in Iraq. Ray Mendoza, an Iraq War vet, co-wrote and directed
the screenplay with Alex Garland ("Civil War") based on his own experiences. D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai plays him in the film, while
Will
Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn
Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah
Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique
Zaga, Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton co-star.
April 11
9. "Drop"
In this modern-day psychological thriller, Meghann Fahy
("White Lotus") plays a woman getting threatening air drops via phone on her first date. In
order to protect herself and her young son at home, she must kill her date — a
good way to not get a second date.
April 11
10. "Sinners"
Director Ryan Coogler and his favorite leading man, Michael
B. Jordan, team up for the fifth time in this supernatural horror film set in
the Jim Crow-era South. Two brothers, Smoke and Stack, both played by Jordan,
return to their hometown to find evil waiting for them.
April 18
11. "Sacramento"
This film kind of gives us “A Real Pain” dramedy vibes.
Rickey (Michael Angarano), an impish psychologist, drags
his anxious friend Glenn (Michael Cera) on an impromptu trip to Sacramento to
scatter his father’s ashes. Angarano co-wrote the film, and his real-life wife, Maya Erskine, plays a flirtatious barista. Kristen Stewart plays Glenn’s wife.
April 11
12. "The Wedding Banquet"
A remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film, this comedy centers
around two gay couples (Bowen Yang and Han Gi-chan in one pairing and Kelly
Marie Tran and Lily Gladstone in the other) living together. When one of the
women trades a green card marriage for IVF treatments with one of the men, his
grandmother surprises them from South Korea with a grand wedding banquet. Like
a French farce, hilarity ensues.
April 18
13. "Thunderbolts*"
Your favorite Marvel supervillains take center stage now
that the Avengers are mostly dead and retired. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh)
takes over as Black Widow from her sister along with her father, Red Guardian (David
Harbour). Joining them are Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Valentina Allegra de
Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Taskmaster (Olga
Kurylendko), U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell) and “Thunderbolt” Ross/Red Hulk (Harrison
Ford).
May 2
14. "Friendship"
Super dark and funny, a nebbish man (Tim Robinson) tries to
befriend his cool neighbor (Paul Rudd) but after a bit, it goes off the rails.
It’s an interesting take on male social isolation. Kate Mara and Jack Dylan
Grazer also star.
May 9
15. "Lilo & Stitch"
You likely know the drill with this next Disney live-action
remake: a lonely Hawaiian girl makes a best friend who’s a bit of a nightmare,
and a space alien, at that. Luckily, “ohana” means family, so it’ll be all
right no matter what he wrecks. Chris Sanders, the voice of Stitch, reprises
his role from the 2002 animated original.
May 23
16. "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning"
Is Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) ready to hang up his spy glasses
once and for all? At the end of the last installment, Ethan was trying to find
a submarine while taking down a nefarious AI program. The gang is back together
(Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby and Ving Rhames), joined by Hannah
Waddingham, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer and Lucy Tulugarjuk.
May 23
17. "Karate Kid: Legends"
Now that we’ve thoroughly caught up on Cobra Kai, this film
folds the Jackie Chan remake into the universe. Ralph Macchio will return along with newcomers
to the franchise Ming-Na Wen, Ben Wang and Joshua Jackson.
May 30
18. "How to Train Your Dragon"
Universal gets in on the live-action remake game with this
reimagining of "How to Train Your Dragon." In it, Hiccup, a young Viking boy
descended from dragon slayers, befriends Toothless, a supposedly-fearsome-but-totally-cute
dragon.
June 13
19. "28 Years Later"
Twenty-eight years after a zombie apocalypse took over the
UK, Danny Boyle returns to the horror franchise as director with Alex Garland
as screenwriter. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Jack
O’Connell star.
June 20
20. "Elio"
Elio loves all things space and aliens, but when he’s
actually beamed up to the Communiverse, it goes beyond his wildest dreams.
Mistaken for the leader of Earth, he suddenly has a lot of responsibility in
saving the universe for a kid.
June 20