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The end is coming for Hawkins, and fans now have a first look at how it will all play out. Netflix has released the first teaser for the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things.” This marks the final chapter of the popular sci-fi show that started back in 2016.

The main cast is returning one last time. Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Maya Hawke, and Jamie Campbell Bower will all be back. New faces are joining too, with Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux stepping into the story. Netflix confirmed this in their official announcement.

The teaser was shown on Stranger Things Day, the yearly event that celebrates the show. This day marks the anniversary of when Will Byers first disappeared in the show’s very first episode, way back in 1983. That episode was called “The Vanishing of Will Byers.

The final season of “Stranger Things” is finally on the way, and fans now have their first look at what’s coming next. Netflix has just dropped the first teaser trailer for season 5, and it looks like Hawkins is heading for its biggest fight yet. This will be the end of the story that started back in 2016.

All the familiar faces are coming back. Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Maya Hawke, and Jamie Campbell Bower will all return. Some new faces are joining too, like Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux.

According to Netflix, this will be the final time we see this group together.

The teaser was revealed on Stranger Things Day. That’s the yearly celebration of the show, marking the date when the first episode happened, November 6, 1983. That first episode was called “The Vanishing of Will Byers.

Updated with the latest: Stranger Things Season 5 now has its first trailer.

The final installment of the Netflix tentpole series will arrive in three parts at the end of this year. Season 5 officially wrapped production December 2024 after it had reached the halfway point in July. Production on the final season kicked off in January 2024.

The fifth and final season of the show has been in the works ever since Part 2 of Season 4 arrived in July 2022, with the writers room for the next season opening August that year. A pandemic delaying Season 4’s arrival and then dual Hollywood strikes pushed Season 5 further than originally planned.

Find everything we know about Stranger Things Season 5 below.

When will Stranger Things Season 5 come out?

Netflix announced at its big Tudum event May 31 that the first of three parts of the final season will arrive Nov. 26, 2025 on the streamer. Part 2 will come out on Christmas,...

Season 5 of ‘Stranger Things’ is coming to Netflix in November, and we’ll give you all the details we know so far here!

Does the town of Hawkins, Indiana, have a future? Things looked pretty grim for the sleepy Midwestern town at the end of Season 4 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” but there’s still hope left. Mike, Dustin, Eleven, Lucas, and Will aren’t willing to give up on their efforts to defeat evil once and for all, and they’ll have plenty of help from friends. Will it be enough? When will fans get the chance to find out by watching “Stranger Things” Season 5? Below, we’ll break down everything we know about the show’s final season!

What do we know about “Stranger Things” Season 5 so far?

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It’s the end of an era, and finally, we’ll know what happens to Hawkins, Indiana once and for all. The trailer for the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” has been unveiled, with more hints as to how the hit Netflix series will conclude.

Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, and more reprise their roles in the ensemble cast for “Stranger Things 5.” The fifth season also welcomes new cast members Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux.

The first teaser for “Stranger Things 5,” the final installment of the viral Netflix series, was released during the annual “Stranger Things” Day in honor of the first episode of the series being set on November 6, 1983, titled “The Vanishing of Will Byers.”

Season 5 will take place in 1987 and also has another “Vanishing of” episode, with that character name hidden in the teaser.

Netflix has unveiled the official teaser trailer and teaser art for Stranger Things Season 5, which will comprise eight episodes and premiere this fall. Volume 1 will debut on November 26 at 5 p.m. Pt. Volume 2 will premiere on Christmas at 5 p.m. Pt, and The Finale will debut on New Year’s Eve at 5 p.m. Pt.

Netflix previously announced the titles of the episodes in Stranger Things Season 5, which include “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of …,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”

The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.

As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches,...

After a three-year wait, the first look at the final season of Stranger Things is finally here.

Below is the teaser trailer for season five of the Netflix coming-of-age sci-fi smash. The footage is heavy on special effects, spectacle and the sprawling cast looks full of intense emotions while keeping the storylines largely under wraps.

The new season will be released in three parts, all around holiday weekends: Volume 1 on Nov. 26 (consisting of four episodes), Volume 2 on Christmas (three episodes) and The Finale on New Year’s Eve. Each will drop at 5 p.m. Pt.

First, here’s the official description of the new season: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military...

For a certain type of film fanatic, who also happens to be a physical media enthusiast, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Yes, Barnes & Noble’s 50% off Criterion Collection sale is upon us. This biannual tradition (the next sale happens in November) is the perfect opportunity to splurge on some of the very best home video releases around – for half the price, no less.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Criterion Collection, they started off as a laserdisc company, at the time known for their impeccable taste and commitment to extensive special features and commentary tracks, years before DVDs would make supplemental material commonplace. As the company continued to DVD, Blu-ray and now 4K Uhd discs, the principals that made them so special in the first place have remained. Every Criterion release is an event. And the Barnes & Noble sales are an essential part of the Criterion experience.

This article contains spoilers for the "Ironheart" season 1 finale.

"Ironheart" might have taken off as quickly as it arrived, but not before dropping a credits scene in its final episode. Hopefully continuing the trend that "Thunderbolts*" managed to recapture by delivering a post-credits scene that actually means something, Riri Williams' (Dominique Thorne) adventure ends with a struggling villain trying to get back to his former glory and visiting a mutual associate of Ironheart that could play a bigger part in the future of the MCU, and specifically for one A-list hero. 

After being cut loose from the long-awaited villain Mephisto (Sacha Baron Cohen), Parker Robbins, aka The Hood (Anthony Ramos), is now a lone agent, since the team he gathered is scattered to the winds. On a mission to reclaim his former title and take hold of the power he once had, Robbins tracks down the Stantons' store, fully aware...

The Avengers: Doomsday casting announcement shocked fans worldwide by unveiling that many of our favorite heroes are bound to assemble yet again in one epic multiversal adventure. Thor, The New Avengers, Captain America, and the Fantastic Four will all be there, along with countless other fan-favorites. However, heroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe aren't the only ones that are about to steal the spotlight. Much to fans' surprise, variants of the X-Men from the Fox universe will also join the fight against Victor Von Doom (which was a long time coming).

In case the list of over 25 characters didn't seem like enough, then we have good news. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed there's still room for more. Many assumed that this was an indirect confirmation that big heroes like Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Hulk, and Captain Marvel would make a comeback. How could they not? They were all present...

Pioneering Hollywood movie marketing strategist Allan Freeman has died. He was 88.

Freeman died on June 7 due to unspecified causes, former friend and colleague Martin Lewis, a movie and music marketing strategist who worked as a consultant with Freeman on United Artists projects, told The Hollywood Reporter. Sid Ganis, a former president of Paramount, chairman of Columbia, Lucasfilm exec and president of the Motion Picture Academy, in a statement praised his former colleague and friend.

“Allan Freeman was a pioneer. Someone had to invent research for movies and Allan was the one!” Ganis said. Freeman, who worked behind the Hollywood curtain on film releases for Superman, Star Wars and Rain Man, as an early research director at Warner Bros. introduced film title testing and research strategies to ensure a tentpole release better hit with audiences in theaters by avoiding pre-release confusion about a film’s plot or characters.

“The reason we...

With the death of director William Friedkin sending shockwaves through the film world, as everyone pays tribute to his classics The French Connection and The Exorcist, now is a good time to look back at one of his most underrated movies, the 1977 classic action thriller Sorcerer!

The 1970s were probably the last decade when the film industry had many honest-to-goodness auteurs. Directors who made movies on their own terms without compromises; not just the ones making little indie art films, but the guys in charge of sizable projects with the backing of major studios. Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Brian De Palma came of age during this era, and were responsible for movies that would resonate for decades. Another name you can add to that list is William Friedkin, who during that period made two instant classics and one misunderstood masterpiece.

The classics...

Hollywood Insider - Every Highly Anticipated Trailer Teased at Netflix’s Tudum 2025

From the chilling tease of the ‘Stranger Things’ final season to the first six minutes of ‘Wednesday’ Season 2, here’s everything Netflix dropped during Tudum 2025. Netflix’s Tudum Gone Live and In Person Netflix’s annual fan event Tudum is no longer just a virtual marketing experiment—it’s gone fully in-house. Netflix’s Tudum fan event was held at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and hosted by Sofia Carson. For the first time ever, Netflix streamed the event live on its own platform, putting the spotlight on its biggest stars, buzziest franchises, and originals all in one nonstop reel of content reveals. But while Tudum 2025 packed in more trailers than ever before, from major sequels to genre-spanning originals, it also raised the stakes on a question that’s been brewing since Tudum launched in 2020: who,...

Physical media culture is alive and thriving thanks to the home video tastemakers hailing everywhere from The Criterion Collection to Kino Lorber and the Warner Archive Collection. Each month, IndieWire highlights the best recent and upcoming Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases for cinephiles to own now — and to bring ballast and permanence to your moviegoing at a time when streaming windows on classic movies close just as soon as they open.

The summer movie season is upon us, with “Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” smashing records and luring audiences back to theaters for blockbuster spectacle and family-friendly fare. As the weather improves, you may not feel like going out to a movie or staying at home to watch one, and after a dreary East Coast winter and spring, you wouldn’t be faulted for preferring to get out and smell the roses rather than stare at a screen.

Since its debut in 2016, Stranger Things has captivated audiences worldwide with its intoxicating blend of 1980s nostalgia, supernatural horror, and heartfelt coming-of-age storytelling. Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, the series weaves mysteries and otherworldly reality into a tale of friendship, bravery, and adventure. Centered around a peculiar group of kids, Stranger Things is all about battling evil forces from an alternate dimension known as the Upside Down.

Created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix exclusively, the show has evolved from a cult hit into a global phenomenon, becoming one of the streaming giant’s biggest shows. From its compelling characters, intricate plot, and homage to classic sci-fi horror, the series has now cemented its place as a cultural juggernaut.

Now, after four brilliant seasons, Stranger Things is hurtling towards its fifth and final one, with a bittersweet end and farewell to beloved characters. After Season 4 (released in...

Will screaming, “Run!,” at the end of the Stranger Things season five premiere dates announcement is pretty much the perfect way to finish the teaser video. The streamer’s taking advantage of the year-end holidays to launch the award-winning sci-fi drama’s final season. Season five will arrive in three parts, beginning with the four-episode Volume 1 on November 26, 2025.

The three-episode Volume 2 premieres on Christmas, and the series finale will debut on New Year’s Eve. Each of the three parts will premiere at 5pm Pt. The streamer previously revealed the season five episode titles are:

E1 – The Crawl

E2 – The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler

E3 – The Turnbow Trap

E4 – Sorcerer

E5 – Shock Jock

E6 – Escape from Camazotz

E7 – The Bridge

E8 – The Rightside Up

“The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But...

Stranger Things revealed its fifth and final season’s release schedule Saturday during Netflix’s Tudum event, with the last eight episodes arriving in three installments around major holidays.

The fifth season’s Volume One premieres on November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, followed by Volume Two on Christmas, December 25. The series will end with The Finale, set for New Year’s Eve, December 31.

All three parts will hit the streaming service “worldwide all at once, date may vary based on your local timezone,” anchored to 5 p.m. Pst.

Netflix also...

It has been three long years since fans last turned Upside Down with new episodes of “Stranger Things,” but during Tudum 2025: The Live Event, Netflix has finally revealed the fifth and final season will drop in two parts, with Vol. 1 releasing on Wednesday, November 26 and Vol. 2 hitting the streamer on Christmas Day. The series finale will debut on New Year’s Eve.

Star Finn Wolfhard told IndieWire in April that while he could not tease much “without them killing me,” wrapping production was “bittersweet.”

“It was super emotional, but we’re all unbelievably happy with the finished product,” Wolfhard said. “We just can’t believe it’s over, but we can’t wait until people see it.”

In January at Next on Netflix, the Duffer Brothers previewed footage from the finale season, with Ross Duffer calling it the “biggest and most ambitious” yet.

“It’s like eight blockbuster movies,...

It’s almost time to venture into the Upside Down one final time with the kids from Hawkins, Indiana.

Season five of Stranger Things will debut on Netflix on November 26, the streamer revealed at its Tudum fan event in Los Angeles on Saturday.

The season will be split into three volumes. Season 4 was split into two volumes. The eight-part season 5 will be split into three parts, with the second part launching at Christmas 2025 and the finale launching on New Year’s Eve.

Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria refused to discuss the split volume approach earlier this year, particularly as some fans were upset about the practice, but did leave the door open for more split seasons.

The trailer was announced by stars Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schanpp and Caleb McLaughlin, while Millie Bobby Brown couldn’t be there because she’s filming an Enola Holmes film in London

The fifth season,...

Netflix has revealed a first look at Stranger Things Season 5, the eight-episode final season that will begin streaming this fall. Volume 1 will debut on November 26 at 5 p.m. Pt. Volume 2 will premiere on Christmas at 5 p.m. Pt, and The Finale will debut on New Year’s Eve at 5 p.m. Pt.

Netflix previously announced the titles of the episodes in Stranger Things Season 5, which include “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of …,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”

A love letter to the ’80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events.

Beneath the surface of their ordinary town lurks an extraordinary supernatural mystery,...

It was a party was Netflix Tudum Live 2025, but that is what we expected. We wanted to see the casts of our favorite shows, such as Squid Game, Wednesday, and Stranger Things, and we did. We also wanted to know about release dates, and we got several.

You might have already known through all the rumors about Stranger Things that the final season was going to be split into two (it turned out to be three...sort of), but we didn't know when part one of that would start. The assumption is that part two would come about a month after that.

We knew from an interview Finn Wolfhard conducted with People that filming for the final season had been completed and the cast had said their goodbyes. The only thing left was post-production and editing. As the Duffer Brothers and Shawn Levy are still involved, that should have been easy.

Netflix has finally revealed when the long-awaited and fifth and final season of Stranger Things will debut.

The streamer announced the final season of the coming-of-age sci-fi hit will air in three parts late this year. The first will premiere Nov. 26, followed by part two on Christmas and the series finale on New Year’s Eve.

The news was announced at Netflix’s Tudum fan event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles Saturday, with stars Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp running through some look-back clips before revealing the dates for season five via a teaser (watch it below).

Back in January, Ross Duffer said about the final episodes, “We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane.

Stranger Things premiered in 2016, and fans have been waiting for a long time for the show's conclusion. The series will be back for the fifth and final season, set to premiere later this year.

After a long wait in between seasons, fans finally get a glimpse at what's to come, and the stakes have never been higher. After the cliffhanger Season 4 finale, which had the Upside Down slipping into Hawkins, the final season will be bigger than anything the show has done before. Stranger Things just officially unveiled the first trailer at Netflix's Tudum 2025 event, which can be watched below, also announcing the release date this fall and winter.

The Upside Down slipped onto the Kia Forum stage as the actors Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, and Caleb McLaughlin took the stage. As they sat down on an 1980s-inspired set, the trio looked back at several behind-the-scenes clips from the set,...

Netflix has finally revealed when the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” will arrive on the streaming platform, with the wildly popular Duffer Brothers series overtaking the holidays this year. The streamer announced that the final batch of episodes will be split into three release dates — the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas and the finale airing on New Year’s Eve.

Watch the reveal below.

The fight isn’t over yet. Get ready for the epic series finale of Stranger Things.

Volume 1: November 26, 5pm Pt*

Volume 2: Christmas, 5pm Pt*

The Finale: New Year's Eve, 5pm Pt*

*releasing worldwide all at once, date may vary based on your local timezone #Tudum pic.twitter.com/nBcx9Ast9x

— Netflix (@netflix) June 1, 2025

It’s unclear how, exactly, the episodes will be divided but the final episode – or episodes – will come out Dec. 31. It seems like a winning formula, combining the tried-and-true...

As IndieWire wraps up our Cannes Film Festival coverage — see our favorite films of the festival here and our annual critics survey here — so does the Screen Talk podcast. This week, hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio debate the late-breaking premieres like “The History of Sound” and “The Mastermind,” finally get a chance to gush over “Sentimental Value,” and speculate on what countries might submit Cannes premieres for the International Feature Oscar.

Since Iran will never submit its dissident director Jafar Panahi, who’s back in his home country post-Cannes despite legal battles and decades of censorship attempts by the Islamic Republic, for Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident,” we’re going with Luxembourg as the country to pick this film for the Oscars. Both France and Luxembourg have production stakes in the film, though France will have plenty of other contenders to work with.

Norway, no question,...

Iron Man: Something Strange!

By Dean Hale and Douglas Holgate

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After three team-up books featuring Spider-Man, the young reader line shines the spotlight on Iron Man and Doctor Strange, and it’s a fun time. Aimed at 5-9-year-old readers, the book ostensibly is about an alien infestation that comes to shellhead’s attention when the Avengers’ communication system fails. It turns out the ten little creatures are the offspring of an interdimensional creature who is none-too-happy to be on Iron Man’s plane of existence.

When the Golden Avenger runs out of science-based options, he takes Thor’s advice and seeks supernatural help from the Master of the Mystic Arts. Here’s where the real theme emerges: science versus magic becomes a running gag between the two heroes. With just an hour to collect the children of Great Gargantos, Scourge of the Outer Planes, Tonty Stark...

For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here in 2010 (You All Are Captains), 2016 (Mimosas), and 2019 (Fire Will Come) without once going home empty-handed, and he now rises to the occasion with Sirat, his grandest, most adventurous work yet: the kind of bold, auteurist arrival that seems to happen more here than any other festival. The story takes place in Morocco, which provided the backdrop of Laxe’s first two films, and follows a father searching for his daughter amidst the dust and drugs of an illegal rave scene in and around the Atlas Mountains. There’s a delicious touch of Paul Schrader’s Hardcore to that setup, but Sirat is more in the lineage of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, even Mad Max: a story about a ragtag group attempting to move some monstrous vehicles over a landscape...

I’ve always found it fascinating to learn the favourite movies of the filmmakers behind my own favourites—more often than not, I end up discovering something new. To promote a special video episode of The Video Archives Podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary have revealed their top 3 movies (right now).

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Here are Quentin Tarantino’s top three movies:

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) by James Whale The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) by Rowland V. Lee The Last of the Mohicans (1936) by George B. Seitz

And here are Roger Avary’s top three movies:

A Clockwork Orange (1971) by Stanley Kubrick Sorcerer (1977) by William Friedkin M (1931) by Fritz Lang

Some fun films there, with Sorcerer being one of my personal favourites.

Related Steven Soderbergh was surprised that Quentin Tarantino agreed to let David Fincher direct Once...

From a solitary photographer capturing desert rock formations to abandoned movie theaters housing unexpected evils, Joshua Erkman’s directorial debut “A Desert” is consistently preoccupied with images and the people who devote their lives to making them. A nightmarish road trip film that wears its Hitchcock influences on its sleeve, the film follows a once-acclaimed photographer (Kai Lennox) who tries to manufacture a spark of creativity by driving through the American Southwest without a cell phone to comb through the scenery that used to inspire him so much.

The film, which premiered at Tribeca in 2024 and opens in theaters this weekend, feels like the launch of a promising new genre filmmaker. Erkman’s road to his directorial debut was a long one, as he spent much of his previous career working on restorations of classic films. The director explained that this project was a direct result of a life that...

Stars: Megan Tremethick, Andrew Gourlay, Dorian Todd, Michael Daviot | Written by Lawrie Brewster, Sarah Daly | Directed by Richard Campbell

Crown of Shadows, also know as The Reign of Queen Ginnarra (the title under which it played film festivals), is a dark, Gothic medieval horror film from director Lawrie Brewster – credited on the DVD from High Fliers as Richard Campbell – and writer Sarah Daly who’ve previously worked together on other Hex Studios productions such as Lord of Tears, The Devil’s Machine, Dragon Knight and The Slave and the Sorcerer.

This latest effort comes from the companies new “strand”, Hex Elder Myths and combines both Brewster and Daly’s past experience in both horror and and action, taking tropes and stereotypes from both genres, fusing medieval fantasy with Lovercraftian horror to deliver what is a sword and sorcery epic. And I don’t use the word epic lightly, because this film runs a whopping 142 minutes!

Netflix's Stranger Things has been a major hit, both with the critics and with the audience. The show is set to premiere its fifth and final season later this year, but the franchise continues to grow.

The cast just reunited on Apr. 22 in New York for the opening night of the Broadway show Stranger Things: The First Shadow. With the upcoming final season on the way and the new Broadway show, the franchise is further expanding with an animated series, which was announced in April 2023. Ahead of Season 5, Netflixofficially confirmed the title of the animated series: Stranger Things: Tales From '85.

The upcoming series is currently in the works, and it will be set in the same universe as the original series. When they announced it, the creators Matt and Ross Duffer revealed their inspiration was Saturday morning cartoons.

"We’ve always dreamed of an animated Stranger Things in...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Bam

Bard-bred films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Béla Tarr, and Luchino Visconti screen in Macbeth(s).

Anthology Film Archives

Essential Cinema brings Michael Snow’s Wavelength and Back and Forth screen on 16 and 35mm.

Roxy Cinema

The Tilda Swinton-led Female Perversions plays throughout the weekend with Q&As; The French Connection shows on 35mm this Saturday, as curated by Martin Scorsese, while Freak Orlando and Eraserhead also screens; The Flintstones screens for free on Sunday.

Spectacle

Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive from the Past screens on Friday.

Film Forum

Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman plays in a new restoration, as does Lelouch’s La bonne année; Yentl screens this Sunday.

IFC Center

Salò, The Lair of the White Worm, The Holy Mountain, Stop Making Sense, The Elephant Man, Sorcerer, and Mad Max show late.

Nitehawk Cinema...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Anthology Film Archives

A series on sex workers includes Spike Lee’s Girl 6, Working Girls, and House of Tolerance.

Bam

Queering the Canon runs between in-theater showings and virtual screenings, including Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour.

Spectacle

Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive from the Past screens on Saturday.

Roxy Cinema

The French Connection plays on 35mm, as curated by Martin Scorsese; Beethoven screens for free on Sunday.

Film Forum

Mort Rifkin favorite A Man and a Woman begins playing in a new restoration; Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman plays on 35mm this Sunday.

IFC Center

Salò, The Holy Mountain, Stop Making Sense, The Elephant Man, Sorcerer, and Funny Games (the good one) show late.

Nitehawk Cinema

Twelve Monkeys screens early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph

Donnie Darko and Diabolique play on 35mm; In Good Faith and In the Pinku start while Tonino Guerra,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Jaws Dunny from Kidrobot

In honor of its 50th anniversary, Jaws is joining Kidrobot’s Dunny line of art figures.

Standing 8″ tall, the limited edition collectible recreates the film’s iconic poster inside translucent, blue resin.

Estimated to ship in the third quarter of the year, it costs $149.99.

Squid Game Staircase Set from Mattel

The Squid Game staircase comes to life with a Mega building set from Mattel Creations. Shipping by June 27, it costs $130.

When constructed, the 1,735-piece build measures 10″ high, 9.85″wide, and 8″ deep. Turn the crank to make the 40 1″ worker figures move. A 2″ Front Man with desk is also included.

Terrifier 2 Shirt from Fright-Rags

Drop on by Fright-Rags for a Clown Cafe shirt from Terrifier 2.

Designed by Kyle Crawford,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Bam

My ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere.

Japan Society

One of Ozu’s greatest films, Early Spring, plays on 35mm this Friday.

Roxy Cinema

Eraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free.

Anthology Film Archives

The Rules of the Game and The Flowers of St. Francis play on 35mm in Essential Cinema.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective continues, as does Luis Buñuel’s Él and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Betty Boop and Friends screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Sorcerer, and Funny Games (the good one) show late.

Nitehawk Cinema

Hanna and a print of Westward the Women screen early on Saturday and Sunday.

Metrograph

Donnie...

Marvel Studios ratcheted up excitement for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday by unveiling its cast on its official YouTube account. The includes MCU mainstays such as Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth, as well as debutants like the Fantastic Four's Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby.

Marvel is also bringing back many fan-favorite Fox X-Men characters, members of the Thunderbolts, and a Wakandan contingent. However, many fans lamented the conspicuous absence of other characters, like Tom Holland's Spider-Man, Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Stephen Strange, and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk. Their worry about these absences may be premature because the studio has teased the inclusion of even more characters as the Russo brothers-helmed behemoth swings into production. In an Instagram exchange, Doctor Doom actor Downey posted, "That's what u call a deep bench of talent. It's more like a row, but an extra-long one. That must be it, right?" regarding the revealed cast.

The Criterion Collection has unveiled their June 2025 releases, and it is an absolutely stacked one, with unnerving suspense, bureaucratic domination and whatever Sidney Lumet was going for with The Wiz.

One of the most anticipated releases in Criterion’s June slate is William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, a stellar remake of The Wages of Fear that flopped upon initial release but has since gone on to be considered one of the finest thrillers of the 1970s. Surprisingly, it is Friedkin’s first film ever in The Criterion Collection. The release, set as spine #1267, has a new 4K digital restoration, and has special features that include a feature-length documentary on Friedkin from 2018, numerous archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and more. Sorcerer arrives on June 24th.

Another new title coming from Criterion this June is The Wiz, an adaptation of the Broadway show which was a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz. Nominated for...

What does the Criterion Collection have in store for home video enthusiasts this June? The boutique label just announced their new releases for that month today, with five new movies entering the Collection. Leading the pack? A Sidney Lumet musical and one of William Friedkin‘s tensest efforts, as well as a classic screwball comedy, a doc about one of jazz’s greatest pianists, and a boldly unconventional film biography.

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Just when I thought I was out (of money), Criterion pulled me back in (with their June 2025 release slate). How about William Friedkin's awesome Sorcerer for starters? Plus Terry Gilliam's great Brazil. Plus Paul Schrader's Mishima. Plus four more movies that I have yet to memorize: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz, Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonius Monk Straight, No Chase, Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, and François Girard's Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Pardon me while I drop this mic. Hasten thee to the official Criterion site to deplete all your funds on future physical media....

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I’ve still never seen The Wages of Fear (life moves fast and there’s books to read in-between all those films) but within days of Criterion’s 4K arriving at my door comes news that its little brother is next in line. William Friedkin’s Sorcerer lands on 4K this June, a month that sees two of its biggest titles (and best-looking packages) get the much-desired upgrade: Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil should look and (in the case of Philip Glass’ score for the former) sound better than ever.

Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz and François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould also arrive on the format; both are complemented by a Blu-ray of Charlotte Zwerin’s Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. Meanwhile, Mitchell Leisen’s Midnight (starring Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore) earns the honorable silver prize of a Blu-ray.

“Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown wasn’t actually born with the middle name Bobby, she told Chris Pratt in an interview for BuzzFeed UK.

“My middle name is Bonnie,” she revealed.

Pratt, who stars alongside Brown in “The Electric State,” looked surprised and asked for clarification. “It’s Millie Bonnie Brown … I’ve never told anyone that,” the actress added.

“Your middle name is Bonnie? But you just changed it to Bobbie for … ” Pratt trailed off. “S–ts and giggles,” Brown answered. Pratt also joked that Brown must have changed it to have a stage name.

The fifth season of “Stranger Things” wrapped filming in December 2024 after a year of production. In November Netflix revealed the titles of the season’s 8 episodes:

“The Crawl” “The Vanishing of [Redacted]” “The Turnbow Trap” “Sorcerer” “Shock Jock” “Escape From Camazotz” “The Bridge” “The Rightside Up”

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Stars: Megan Tremethick, Andrew Gourlay, Dorian Todd, Michael Daviot | Written by Lawrie Brewster, Sarah Daly | Directed by Lawrie Brewster

The Reign of Queen Ginnarra, set for a UK release later this year from High Fliers under the more generic title Crown of Shadows, is a dark, Gothic medieval horror film from director Lawrie Brewster and writer Sarah Daly who’ve previously worked together on other Hex Studios productions such as Lord of Tears, The Devil’s Machine, Dragon Knight and The Slave and the Sorcerer.

This latest effort comes from the companies new “strand”, Hex Elder Myths and combines both Brewster and Daly’s past experience in both horror and and action, taking tropes and stereotypes from both genres, fusing medieval fantasy with Lovercraftian horror to deliver what is a sword and sorcery epic. And I don’t use the word epic lightly, because this film runs a whopping 142 minutes!

Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch on the SNL50: The Anniversary Show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.”

The sketch was a spoof of the documentary Scared Straight, the program in which prisoners scream and yell at teens in an effort to get them to avoid a life of crime. It’s become an occasional SNL spoof over the years.

Of course, the prisoners in this sketch go a bit too far, concocting wild narratives before berating the young men, in an explicit and graphic terms, what awaits them behind bars.

Joining Murphy, as “All The Way” Ray May, were Kenan Thompson as Lorenzo McIntosh and Will Ferrell as Red, with Jason Sudeikis as the police officer who invites the inmates to give the youngsters a talkin’ to.

“When I was a boy, I wanted both...

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The long-awaited return of Sorcerer Supreme Wong may be on the horizon. Three years after his last Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance, Benedict Wong is among the rumored cast set to appear in Marvel Studios' Strange Academy series.

Trusted scooper Alex Perez of The Cosmic Circus recently confirmed insider Daniel Richtman's report that Strange Academy was picking up steam at Marvel Studios. However, Perez did not address the rumored 2026 filming start date. Instead, the scooper revealed some of the characters that are expected to appear in the Disney+ series, such as Wong and America Chavez, the latter of whom made her MCU debut in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, played by Xochitl Gomez.

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After the success of “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” William Friedkin became one of the most in-demand filmmakers in Hollywood. Having the option to choose his own projects, he opted to adapt Georges Arnaud’s 1950 novel “The Wages of Fear.” This was the second adaptation of the novel after Henri-Georges Clouzot’s critical darling of the same name, released in 1953, which won both the Golden Bear and the Palme d’Or. While Friedkin admired Clouzot’s work and even dedicated his film “Sorcerer” to Clouzot, the tone and treatment of his film were completely different from the earlier adaptation. In this article, I will discuss the two films and explore how despite being based on the same source material they became two distinct cinematic works.

Clouzot’s film starts in a small town somewhere in Latin America, filled with impoverished foreigners. The most prominent among them are Mario, a...

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Season five of Stranger Things is one of the most anticipated series finales not just on Netflix but across streaming platforms. The science fiction show has garnered a lot of support and success for itself over the course of ten years, four released seasons, and many much-loved characters and roles.

With such interesting stories still left to tell, fans were expecting to see new series of the characters eventually. Recently, the showrunners and creators were asked if there were chances of potential spin offs or sequels set in the same universe and here’s how the producers responded to the questions.

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During a panel, Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators, directors and executive producers of Stranger Things shed some light on their future plans. They responded to the inquirers,...

William Friedkin's fatalist masterwork, Sorcerer, is a movie about roads. The roads we take in life, how they dictate our futures, and eventually, how they dictate our ends. Whichever road you take, they all lead to the same place. Man versus nature, man versus self, and man versus man all coalesce in a thrilling and harrowing journey through the jungle that will have you gripping the edge of your seat.

For guys coming off a grueling shoot to immediacy embark on an equally taxing post-production, Stranger Things creators/executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer didn’t look too run down when they took the stage at the Next on Netflix event Wednesday to tease the upcoming fifth and final season of the hugely popular series.

“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer revealed. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies.”

The last statement confirms once again that the final season of Stranger Things will consist of 8 episodes. As tevealed in a teaser last November, their titles are “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of _,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.”

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The fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” is headed our way here in 2025, and series creators the Duffer Brothers have offered up some fresh “Stranger Things 5” teasers.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Matt and Ross Duffer are hyping the final hours of the hit Netflix series less as episodes and more as a series of “eight blockbuster movies.”

“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer said at a Netflix event today. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty, pretty insane.”

“Season 5 will be big and epic,” Matt Duffer added, echoing Ross’s promise for the final season. “There’s no time for a ramp-up. It’s going to be intense from beginning to end.”

The scale of “Stranger Things 5″ is bigger than the previous four seasons,...