CABLE | Anya Taylor-Joy Runs Out of 'Lucky' on Apple TV

"I don't have time for your cowboy haikus right now."

Apple Studios / Hello Sunshine

The talented and wide-eyed Anya Taylor-Joy stars capably in the entertaining crime thriller miniseries Lucky, based on bestselling author Marissa Stapley's novel of the same name. Created by screenwriter Jonathan Tropper and showrun by Cassie Pappas, audiences are dropped into the eponymous con woman's exciting identity-swapping dealings on the run when she wakes up alone in Las Vegas with no memory of what was supposed to be a getaway after one last big score.

REEL | Christopher Nolan and Matt Damon Conquer 'The Odyssey'

"It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep."

Universal Pictures / Syncopy

Oscar-winning, visionary British-American auteur Christopher Nolan adapts The Odyssey, the second of Homer's two ancient Greek epic poems (after The Iliad), into a metaphysical but immersive action blockbuster experience. Starring regular collaborator Matt Damon as the legendary Odysseus, the departed soldier-king of Ithaca, in another hero role as a man desperate to find his way home, the dense mythical fantasy is a monumental yet accessible journey of pure cinematic spectacle, filmed on the grandest of canvases.

CABLE | Javier Bardem and Amy Adams Strike 'Cape Fear' x Fantasia 2026

"I see something eating at you."

Universal Content Productions / Amblin Television

Cape Fear, the revenge miniseries adaptation of the 1957 potboiler novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald and both its classic 1962 and 1991 film adaptations, stretches the Southern gothic psychological thriller material across ten episodes. Created and showrun by screenwriter/producer Nick Antosca and executive produced by the duo of Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, the eventual and originally attached director of the film remake, this contemporary television interpretation still maintains its strong Hitchcockian overtones.

SCREEN | Glaciers and Memories – 'Time and Water' x DOXA 2026

"I have never written a memorial for a glacier."

National Geographic Documentary Films / Sandbox Films

Oscar-nominated Fire of Love director Sara Dosa explores the environmental impact of melting glaciers through renowned, award-winning Icelandic poet/author Andri Snær Magnason's comprehensive family history in their documentary, Time and Water (see also his book, On Time and Water). It's an elegiac portrait of time passing told side-by-side with the Earth's "memories" as climate change ravages the glacial natural wonders.

REEL | Anne Hathaway Suddenly Sees 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'

"May the bridges I burn light my way."

20th Century Studios

The fashionable duo of Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep reunite for The Devil Wears Prada 2, the fashion magazine comedy sequel to the highly rewatchable 2006 literary adaptation about bad bosses, toxic workplaces, and career sacrifices with a decidedly female focus. Twenty years later, much has changed as we explore the contemporary problems of running a once-glamorous and powerful global print brand with humour and plenty of style.

CABLE | 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' Makes Fans x SXSW 2026

"You ruined my life so pretty."

A24 / Lewellen Pictures

Margo's Got Money Troubles, prolific television writer/producer David E. Kelley's new family dramedy series based on author Rufi Thorpe's bestselling 2024 novel of the same name, stars Elle Fanning (also an executive producer) as the titular college dropout who turns to online sex work after getting pregnant due to an illicit affair with a married literature professor (Michael Angarano) and desperately needing funds to raise her newborn baby on her own.

REEL | Ryan Gosling Saves the Universe – 'Project Hail Mary'

"You just need to find someone to be brave for."

Amazon MGM Studios / Lord Miller Productions

Acclaimed comedic filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller adapt The Martian author and scientist Andy Weir's other grounded science-fiction astronaut novel, Project Hail Mary. "Just Ken" himself, actor/producer Ryan Gosling, stars in the impressive, almost-solo film about a mild-mannered but brilliant high school science teacher who is reluctantly sent into outer space and forced to save the universe in a last-ditch effort to prevent our dying sun from ending life as we know it.

GENRE | Jessie Buckley Reinvigorates the Motherf—king 'The Bride!'

"The dead are angry."

Warner Bros. Pictures

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal directs the wildly audacious, gothic reimagining, The Bride! (note the exclamation point), starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the monstrous couple, inspired by the iconic 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Her messy gangster crime take on Mary Shelley's original 1818 literary tale relocates the action to 1936 Chicago, as Frankenstein's monster (called just "Frank" here) begs for a suitable female companion be created for him by reviving a recent murder victim.

GENRE | Glen Powell Learns 'How to Make a Killing'

"Call me when you've killed them all."

VVS Films / StudioCanal

The handsome Glen Powell stars in writer/director John Patton Ford's delightfully twisted black comedy thriller, How to Make a Killing. Powell stars as Becket, the son of a disowned billionaire scion outcast of the Redfellows of Huntington, New York, who devises a plan to murder his estranged family members in order to inherit their multi-billion-dollar family fortune.

GENRE | Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo Steal 'Crime 101'

"I suggest you load it."

Amazon MGM Studios / Working Title Films

English true-crime documentarian Bart Layton adapts pulp novelist Don Winslow's 2020 novella of the same name. Crime 101 stars frequent Avengers co-stars, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, as our opposing criminal and cop characters. Their hard-boiled film adaptation cleverly revolves around a series of jewel heists along the titular 101 Freeway in Los Angeles while clearly being inspired by the many films of director Michael Mann, particularly Heat.

SCREEN | Kristen Stewart Swims Past 'The Chronology of Water'

"We will publish or perish together!"

The Forge

Talented actress turned first-time feature filmmaker Kristen Stewart directs Imogen Poots in her riveting portrayal of Oregon-based, bestselling author Lidia Yuknavitch in a hazy film adaptation of the latter's 2011 cult memoir, The Chronology of Water. Framed around a tumultuous family life centred on parental abuse leading to both substance and sex addiction before a promising competitive swimming career, the film is a narratively ambitious portrait of personal salvation.

SCREEN | Falling for the 'People We Meet on Vacation' on Netflix

"How about we die alone together?"

3000 Pictures / Temple Hill Entertainment

People We Meet on Vacation, Netflix's new romantic comedy adapted from bestselling contemporary romance author Emily Henry's 2021 novel of the same name, stars the good-looking duo of Emily Bader and Tom Blyth as best friends who get together every summer for one week to travel somewhere in the world. Director Brett Haley mines the whole When Harry Met Sally-inspired best friends-turned-couple angle, but for contemporary audiences, set against attractive international locations in a flashback format.

REEL | Grieving A Shakespearean Tragedy – 'Hamnet' x TIFF 2025

"Will you be brave?"

Toronto International Film Festival

Hamnet, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao's elegaic period film adaptation of Irish novelist and co-screenwriter Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 fictional literary account exploring the lingering trauma of the tragic childhood death of William Shakespeare's eponymous young son, stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as the famed playwright's grieving wife (Agnes) and the young Bard himself. As a real tearjerker, the occasionally metaphysical film balances the inspiration of sadness and grief and its effect on the artistic process.

VIFF 2025 | 'Train Dreams' Logs the Pacific Northwest Frontier

"That state is a collection of savage lunatics."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2025—Sing Sing co-writer/producer Clint Bentley remembers the natural beauty and wonder of the Pacific Northwest in his American frontier drama, Train Dreams. Set during and after the Great War, we follow the unremarkable but deeply meaningful life of a contemplative Idaho orphan logger (Joel Edgerton) who travels across the Western United States as it slowly becomes developed before settling in a cabin in the woods of Washington State.

REEL | Leonardo DiCaprio Chases 'One Battle After Another'

"Time doesn't exist, but it controls us anyway."

Warner Bros. Pictures / Ghoulardi Film Company

San Fernando Valley native Paul Thomas Anderson and one of our last true movie stars, Leonardo DiCaprio, finally team up in their long-awaited contemporary political action thriller. Filmed in the stunning 1950s VistaVision sideways 35mm widescreen film format and projected on glorious 70mm, One Battle After Another is an uproariously incendiary yet highly comedic act of cinematic countercultural rebellion.

REEL | Austin Butler Gets 'Caught Stealing' Back in 1998 NYC

"I depend on your poor judgment."

Sony Pictures / Protozoa Pictures

A drunk but athletic Austin Butler stars in director Darren Aronofsky's brutal, late-'90s New York crime caper, Caught Stealing, about a washed-out, former baseball prospect getting tied up in the intersection of the Russian, Jewish, and Puerto Rican criminal underworld, based on the novel of the same name by author Charlie Huston, who also wrote the film's script.

SCREEN | Denzel Washington and Spike Lee Kidnap 'Highest 2 Lowest'

"All money ain't good money!"

Apple Original Films / A24

Legendary African-American cinematic duo, director Spike Lee and star Denzel Washington, reteam for their fifth film collaboration in the virtuosic English-language neo-noir crime thriller remake of Akira Kurosawa's moralistic 1963 Japanese police procedural, High and Low, itself loosely adapted from American author Evan McBain's mystery novel King's Ransom. Highest 2 Lowest supercharges its own fresh Black touches about being removed from the culture you helped build after the isolation of immense success.

WANDER | Douglas Coupland x Suite X x Faimont Pacific Rim

"I'm very much a product of the late twentieth century."

Coal Harbour—(July 23, 2025) It was a real treat to tour acclaimed Vancouver-based visual artist and novelist Douglas Coupland's latest design collaboration, Suite X, located inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in the Corner Suite on the newly renovated Fairmont Gold floor lounge, overlooking the scenic Vancouver Waterfront.

REEL | 'How to Train Your Dragon' Reimagines Itself in Live-Action

"Back into the fog we go."

Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Animation

Longtime DreamWorks writer/director Dean DeBlois closely remakes his first animated adaptation of the children's fantasy book series of the same name by British author Cressida Cowell. This How to Train Your Dragon is basically more of the same, almost shot-for-shot Viking wonder but told in live-action.

REEL | Tom Hiddleston Reflects on 'The Life of Chuck'

"Our man Krantz is the Oz of the apocalypse."

Neon / Elevation Pictures

One might be surprised to learn that Stephen King firmly believes in the transformative power of dance and math to save us from the apocalypse! A frequent adapter of the prolific author's literary works, Mike Flanagan, trades in the horror genre for a sweetly life-affirming reflection on existence in his slightly fantastical film adaptation of the short story of the same name, The Life of Chuck, starring noted dance enthusiast Tom Hiddleston as the otherwise ordinary eponymous accountant, Charles Krantz. Split into three acts told in reverse chronological order, Flanagan expresses a life's worth of joy in 110 minutes.