Category: Action
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Street Fighter: Knocking Myself Out in the Theater
Street Fighter (2026) Kitao Sakurai How does one top You Can See Everything? Nothing in theaters right now was going to be able to match the sheer surprise and awe that I experienced watching that documentary, and unfortunately, Street Fighter certainly wasn’t close. As someone who has never played any of the Street Fighter games, I wasn’t the target audience for this movie, but I wanted to give it a…
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Mayday: Third Gun From the Top, But Count Me Ass-Ass-In!
Mayday (2026) Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley Other than the opening weeks of 2026, I can’t remember a longer drought of new movies this year than the one we’re in right now. The last time I went to the theater for a new film was The Dog Stars on September 4, and I won’t be back until my press screening of Forgotten Island on the 22nd. Luckily, though, a few streamers have dropped in…
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The End of Oak Street: The Beginning of Dino Movies’ Next Chapter
The End of Oak Street (2026) David Robert Mitchell With summer blockbuster season in the rear view mirror, my priorities have shifted to the numerous original films coming out in the next couple months. While there are bigger fish for me to fry in that time (Coyote vs. Acme has to be my most anticipated one of the bunch), I’ve been really excited for The End of Oak Street as well. I love…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day: A Reboot and a Homecoming for the MCU’s Finest
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Destin Daniel Cretton As Morgan and I got seated in the theater tonight (albeit way too early—I figured there’d be lines out the wazoo for concessions, so we got to the theater 20 minutes before our showtime only to find zero line), I realized that I’d only ever seen four MCU movies in the theater before tonight. Those were the first Avengers, Spider-Man:…
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The Odyssey: An Epic Destined to Please the Gods
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Odyssey (2026) Christopher Nolan My personal film-loving renaissance began in 2022 under pretty silly circumstances (that aren’t important to this story, so I’ll save them for another time), and as my love of film grew, one of the big events I remember early in that development was Barbenheimer in the summer of 2023. I was determined to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer in order to…
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Young Washington: Where Did We Come From, and Where Are We Going?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Young Washington (2026) Jon Erwin After being on the road for most of last week, I was happy to get back to the theater today, and I barely squeezed in a patriotic watch on this Fourth of July weekend. Young Washington wasn’t really on my radar, and despite Angel Studios not really being my favorite studio, the trailer was interesting enough that I wanted to give it a…
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Supergirl: Lost in Translation Without Gunn
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Supergirl (2026) Craig Gillespie I’ve had quite the superhero renaissance over the last few years, and it all started with James Gunn’s Superman. I saw that poster and trailer and immediately felt hope for the genre again. I felt many of the same feelings about Supergirl—my excitement most manifested in me reading the comic that this movie was allegedly based on—but those feelings waned as everyone on the…
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Masters of the Universe: Nicholas, Jared, and Travis Have the Power!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Masters of the Universe (2026) Travis Knight I told you I was scheduling a lot of movies! I remember when Masters of the Universe was first announced a few years ago; I immediately added it to my watchlist, only after asking, “What’s Masters of the Universe?”. I didn’t ever watch the show as a kid, but I knew who He-Man and Skeletor were in the same way that I…
