The story follows a K-pop girl group called Huntr/x (pronounced Huntrix), who are also demon hunters, responsible for protecting humanity from supernatural threats with their combat skills and empowering pop. Their rivals are the Saja Boys, who are secretly demons. When the groups are pitted against one another, the stakes are peace on Earth, and in particular the Honmoon: the magical barrier that protects humans from the underworld. Conflict, and personal growth, ensues.
It's ambitious to make a movie about how making movies is like harvesting dreams, projecting viewers' inner lives back at them, often to visceral, abstract, and sometimes tummy-hurting ends. This is ambitious for even the director of Long Day's Journey into Night, a puzzling 2018 noir that concludes with a 56-minute continuous-shot meant to be experienced in 3D, and Kaili Blues (2015), which boasts its own 41-minute unbroken take. To say the least: This is not easy shit to pull off.
BERKELEY, Calif. -- As a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, writer and director Alex Woo's goal was to make an animated feature film. "Every film student and every aspiring filmmaker, what they want to do is they want to make a feature film on the biggest scale. That was always the dream," Woo shares. After partnering with fellow animators Stanley Moore and Tim Hahn, Woo started Kuku Studios in Berkeley, California.
With the whole world taking the Ella McCay challenge in whatever state they were born and raised, let's take a fond look back at his first major upset, the wonderfully ambitious "I'll Do Anything," in which the WASP romcom was given a one-of-a-kind remake, which scared people so bad they ran into the arms of Woody Allen's dreadful " Eve ryone Says I Love You."
"I am playing Mayor Brian Winddancer, who used to be, you know, an action hero, a movie star," Warburton said. With a cast already populated with unforgettable voices like Jason Bateman, Adam Sandberg, and Ginnifer Goodwin, Warburton did not hesitate to sign on. "This is Disney, and it's Zootopia so I didn't need to see anything," Warburton said. But when early images of his new character were shared with him, he was thrilled.
Happy 2026, everyone. Whether you're kicking off the new year with a great show or with 2025's best movies, music and video games, we are here for you. So let's get to it, shall we? (As always, be sure to double check event and venue websites for any last-minute changes in health guidelines or other details.) Meanwhile, if you'd like to have this Weekender lineup delivered to your inbox every Thursday morning for free, just sign up at www.mercurynews.com/newsletters or w.eastbaytimes.com/newsletters .
Lego has kicked off 2026 by adding several notable Star Wars models to its ever-expanding catalog. The lineup of January 2026 Lego Star Wars sets features notable starships and transport vehicles like the Venator-Class Attack Cruiser and AT-AT Walker as well as the return of the most popular droid from the recent Star Wars film trilogy. That's right, BB-8 has returned to the Star Wars Lego lineup following a lengthy hiatus.
The secret ingredient in her music was silence. One of my favorite canonical experiences I can't I just, I can't does not have an entry for our deity, Roberta Flack, our priestess of quiet. This is what the kids would call triggering. Triggering! I'm Wesley Morris, and this is Cannonball Today.' Strumming my pain with his fingers. That was bad.
Kristen Stewart is returning to the big screen, but this time as a director. Her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, is a force of nature and a piercing adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's 2011 novel of the same name. Stewart's psychological drama follows a young woman (Imogen Poots) who escapes trauma through writing and swimming. It's a challenging watch but a poignant perspective on addiction and motherhood through the eyes of a queer woman.
Located on a street corner in the Fashion District, their space, which doubles as a man cave, reflects their creative influences, their ties to L.A. and their offbeat sense of humor. Before they moved in 2021, the place was a shoe store called Latino Fashion - the storefront sign remains. Walk in and you'll find the bottom half of a mannequin flaunting male genitalia ("That was our stunt penis from [the short film] 'Shut Up and Fish,'" says Sanchez laughing).
Welcome to See/Hear, InsideHook's deep dive into the month's most important cultural happenings, pop and otherwise. Every month, we round up the biggest upcoming movie, TV and album releases, ask some cool people to tell us what they've been into lately, make you a playlist we guarantee you'll have on heavy rotation and recommend a classic (or unduly overlooked) piece of pop culture we think is worth revisiting.
Co-directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer ( Run Lola Run), and based on the supposedly unfilmable novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas spends three hours jumping between six loosely interconnected stories set from 1849 to 2321. Several actors appear in a majority of the timelines, and stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, and Hugh Grant feature in all of them, hinting at themes of reincarnation and redemption as small decisions made centuries ago filter down through the ages.
American cinema-verite demigod Frederick Wiseman's latest is a 6,000-course tasting menu of a documentary, like one of those supercuts with all the delicious food on offer in Studio Ghibli films. Most of the 95-year-old's career has been dedicated to chronicling US institutions, but here he returns to the strain of Francophile work he has dipped into since the mid-90s (he lives in the country part-time). In this case, he infiltrates the Michelin triple-starred Le Bois sans Feuilles restaurant in Ouches in the Loire,
Given the closed finale of Scott Derrickson's "The Black Phone," it seemed a horror hit that was unlikely to produce a sequel but Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill topped that original with this clever follow-up, a movie inspired by both the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise and the cult classic "Curtains," among others. Ethan Hawke's Grabber has been reimagined as a Freddy Krueger figure, a boogeyman haunting the dreams of Finney and Gwen as they try to uncover the truth about his early crimes.
50 Blue Moon Ethan Hawke plays with campy brilliance and criminal combover the lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals into vinegary jilted despair after his split from Richard Rodgers in this latest collaboration with Richard Linklater. Read the full review. 49 Happyend Dysfunctional Happyend Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora's beguiling debut feature set in an oppressive near-future Japan. Read the full review.
After decades of talk, Francis Ford Coppola's forever-gestating dream project Megalopolis debuted in movie theaters in fall 2024, and promptly flopped at the box office, grossing a paltry $14m worldwide against a budget around $120m, much of which was put up by Coppola himself. Not even a series of splashy Imax presentations, including some with a live-actor element, could entice more than a relative handful of curious cinephiles out of the house.
This is a film made with the best of intentions and it has some good insights into the loneliness and isolation of seeking asylum in the UK. But there are a few too many sentimental moments to properly work as social-realism, or anything close to convincing drama, which is disappointing given its creator, Don Ng, is a journalist-turned-director making his feature debut.
Hugh Jackman's ex-wife would be justified in saying that karma is a you-know-what amid a report that his new girlfriend, Sutton Foster, is having a hard time watching his sizzling on-screen chemistry with his co-star Kate Hudson. Jackman, 57, and Hudson, 46, are delighting critics and movie-goers with the love connection they show in the hit new film, Song Sung Blue, playing real-life couple Claire and Mike Sardina, who were part of the Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder.
Chris Hemsworth's Thor may be the most tragically misunderstood character in Marvel's Cinematic Universe. At the very least, he's the most inconsistent: he suffers the most from Marvel's episodic approach, with each writer and director delivering a different idea of his character. Kenneth Branagh introduced Thor as an upstart prince who spoke in Shakespearean verse; those who followed used him as either comic relief or a punching bag, saddling him with one tragedy after the next in lieu of true character development.
Recently, the Trump administration faced a similar situation. After Donald Trump purported to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, the jazz musician Chuck Redd withdrew from a planned Christmas Eve concert. The administration's response was somehow both more authoritarian and comic than the one in the movie. The Kennedy Center's president, Richard Grenell, announced that the Center intends to sue Redd for his impudence. Grennell's letter threatening legal action depicts Redd as a sad loser suffering "dismal ticket sales and lack of donor support" and "lagging" attendance whose withdrawal, paradoxically, is "very costly to a non-profit Arts institution."
Bouncing through the year 1987 under a cloud of weed and Lou Reed, wannabe travel essayist James suffers a reality check when his dad's demotion means that the family can no longer fund a planned European jolly with his best mate, Eric. Faced with an empty summer before studying at Columbia University, the Charles Darwin acolyte manages to bag himself a job at the titular theme park, where amusement stations are inexplicably slapped with names like the Flighing Dutchman.
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