YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING --- 4 Stars - THEATERS - October 16, 2026

VERITY - 2 Stars - THEATERS - October 2, 2026 & THE HOUSEMAID ---- 2 Stars - HBO Max - October 9, 2026

Verity takes another go at the sexy thriller with the hot husband in the middle.  In Verity, Anne Hathaway plays a fabulously successful writer who can no longer speak or move after a terrible car crash.  Hot husband Michael Showalter needs a ghost writer.  Of course he finds sexy, in need of work writer Dakota Johnson.  And of course, Dakota has to move in with the couple and their young son.  Pretty soon Dakota and hottie husband start canoodling. What's the harm, after all, Anne can't move or speak ---OR CAN SHE?  Verity is more of a type than a movie.  

The Housemaid - HBO MAX - one week later on a main streamer --- October 9, 2026.  2 Stars. Same movie except it's Sydney Sweeny and Amanda Seyfried and another hot guy I've never heard of --- Brandon Sklenar.  Nice twists end both movies.  Both belong to a long line of sexy thrillersplayed off season for decades. 

Movie Guide

You can see Everything - 4 Stars - THEATERS - October 16, 2026 - Comic/Internet Host Nathan Fielder imbeds with disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her family in the days before she begins her eleven-year prison sentence for fraud.  The jaw dropping results include reenactments and an A list actress.  

 
The Rivals of Amziah King - 4 Stars - APPLE - August 14, 2026 - Delightful modern noir with Matthew McConaughey as a beekeeper/musician/town character and newcomer Angelina LookingGlass as Matthew's foster daughter who takes over the business and avenges those who sabotaged  McConaughey.   

The Odyssey - 4 Stars - THEATERS- July 24, 2026 - Director Christopher Nolan goes big in the epic of the year.  Battles, monsters, and musings on civilization give viewers a lifetime's worth of food for thought.  Pee before you go.  Three hours.  (really doesn't feel like it.)  

The Invite - 4 Stars - PRIME - June 26, 2026 - Stunningly funny parable of modern marriage.  Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogan, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton never miss a beat.  Edgy R rated and fascinating.  

Tuner - 4 Stars - APPLE - May 28, 2026 --- A piano tuner turns safe cracker and balances a life of crime and music. Classic thriller with jaw dropping twists toward the end. 

Life is Short - 4 Stars - NETFLIX - May 12, 2026 - A surprisingly inspiring review of actor Martin Short's life, his talent, his joy, and the deep grief of love and loss.  

Song Sung Blue - 4 Stars -- PEACOCK - December 25, 2025 - Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as cover artists chasing a dream.  Grand old school audience pleaser.  

The Pitt - 4 Stars - MAX - January 9, 2025 - Season Two - April 16, 2026  - One of the great medical series, with Noah Wyle as head of emergency medicine in a struggling Pittsburgh hospital.  The Pitt far surpasses Wyle's work in ER.  This one's the real deal. 

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA - PRIME - August 7, 2026 - Delightful send up of slasher flicks and the movie business with Hannah Einbinder as Gen X filmmaker hired to reboot a tired slasher series.  Gillian Anderson channels her campiest Gloria Swanson in a jaw dropping guilty pleasure.  Don't take grandma.   

Obsession- 3 1/2 Stars - May 15, 2026 - PEACOCK - Socially awkward boy gets his wish for cute girl to love him obsessively.  Boy does this turn out bad.  Creative psychological thriller with a great performance from Inde Navarrette. Gets ready for shocks, jolts, and an unnervingly good time.

Remarkably Bright Creatures - 3 1/2 Stars - May 8, 2026 - NETFLIX - An Octopus observes Sally Field's friendship with a young drifter.  Delightful, creative and touching.  

The Sheep Detectives ---3 Stars --- PRIME - June 25,2026 - Delightful mix of animation and live action.  Shepherd Hugh Jackson is murdered.  His flock solves the who-done-it.   

Project Hail Mary - 31/2 Stars - PRIME - Ryan Gosling as a science nerd shot into space to save the world.  Optimistic and winning tonic for our times.  

The Devil Wears Prada 2 - 3 Stars - May 1, 2026 - STREAMING - Meryl Streep returns for a twenty year update of the iconic comedy.  Nothing new here, but still fun.  

Coyote vs. Acme - 2 1/2 stars - APPLE - August 28, 2026 - Wile E. Coyote has his day in court, with the cartoon characters you love as well as Will Forte as Wile E's hapless lawyer.  

Verity - 2 Stars - October 2, 2026 - THEATERS - Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and a hot husband match wit in a formula thriller.   Johnson's hired to ghost write for the new paralyzed Hathaway, who can no longer move or speak.  OR CAN SHE?  This kind of story pops up every fall.  

The Housemaid - 2 Stars - HBO MAX - 2/3/26 - See Verity above.  Same kind of movie --- Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney, a hot husband and a twist.  What a formula. 

Primetime - 2 Stars - THEATERS - September 25, 2026 - Robert Pattinson oozes tension as Chris Hanson, creator of "To Catch a Predator." No heroes in this story of humiliation as entertainment.  I left with a headache.   

Disclosure Day - 2 Stars - STREAMING - June 12, 2026 - Steven Spielberg's still chasing space aliens.  This one's long, loud, and loaded with crash scenes.  Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor feel right, even if the project comes off like something from 30 years ago.  Nothing new to see here.   

  

 

 

PRIMETIME - 2 Stars - September 26, 2026 - THEATERS

Robert Pattinson turns never lets up as former NBC reality show star Chris Hansen in Primetime.  Hansen, as host of NBC's "To Catch a Predator" creates something of a sensation as he exposes internet predators, caught on camera believing they are meeting an underage teen for sex.  Don't expect any heroes in this story.  The predators are entrapped and humiliated for the sake of entertainment.  Primetime has plenty to say about network television's quest for ratings at any price.  Instead of moral outrage I left the theater with a headache.  

Coyota vs. Acme - 2 1/2 Stars - THEATERS - August 28,2026

Everything Wile E. Coyote dredges up from the Acme corporation flops - rocket skates, cannons, giant slingshots.  He's had enough of it, ruining his pursuit of the - BEEP-BEEP - roadrunner.  Licking his wounds one night Mr. Coyote catches and for Will Forte's ambulance chasing law firm.  So begins Coyote Vs. ACME.  The mix of cartoons and humans is nice, recalling but not quite equaling Who Killed Roger Rabbit, the gold standard of this kind of thing.  As with the original cartoons, Coyote vs. ACME offers plenty of pratfalls, especially into very deep canyons.  The finale drags out many of the Warner Brothers great stable of characters led by Foghorn Leghorn, the overgrown rooster/bully at the head of ACME. Kids will like.  Some will try to make this a statement on heartless giant corporations.  If you go, just go for the fun.  

Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - 3 1/2 Stars - THEATERS - AUGUST 7, 2026

Forget about every Friday the 13th knock off you ever watched.  Sex and Death at Camp Miasma leaves them in the dust laughing all the way.  Hannah Einbinder seems perfect as a cutting age Gen X filmmaker hired to reboot a tired teenage slasher series.  She travels to the camp where it all happened.  Wouldn't you know the now forgotten star of the original films lives here.  Gillian Anderson channels her best Gloria Swanson - explained as "...you know, like the old lady in Sunset Boulevard."  The deaths are over the top grizzly, the monster is ridiculous, the lampoon of Hollywood execs lands right on the money.  Watch out for all the metaphors about sex, and violence, and fame and generations.  This thing is great fun.  Don't take Grandma, unless your grandma is Jamie Lee Curtis.