Movies

David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan are the new it couple of the DC Universe, as they've been cast as Clark Kent and Lois Lane in 2025's "Superman: Legacy."

Honesty revealed: 'You Hurt My Feelings'

Romance comes alive in 'Past Lives'

Marvel's new television series "Secret Invasion" debuted Wednesday on Disney+ with an opening title sequence apparently conjured by artificial intelligence, stoking fiery reactions across social media and from those within production itself.

To explain Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City," an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional meta-movie, in terms of both form and content, it may be helpful to walk a prospective viewer backward, outward from the center of this most puzzling - and, most puzzlingly, ponderous - of puzzle boxes.

Friday's openings: Asteroids and past loves

In the blandly inoffensive sex comedy "No Hard Feelings," Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, an emotionally stunted, sexually liberated 30-year-old living in her childhood home in Montauk, studiously avoiding the bonds of adulthood. As the movie opens, Maddie's car is being towed for back taxes, a catastrophe of financially epic proportions, since she's an Uber driver.

A man with a mustache once saved pinball

Welcome to the world of backyard chickens

A 14-year-old fan re-created the "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" trailer in the style of the "Lego" movies and ended up getting hired as an animator on the film.

This week brings a wealth of varied new movies, comedy specials and series to streaming services, so here’s a list of highlights and what to watch every day this week, based on the new releases.

'The Blackening' teases horror-movie tropes

If it's possible for a Pixar movie to be both cute and problematic, "Elemental" might just fit that bill. The story is set in a fictional metropolis called Element City, inhabited by anthropomorphized characters representing three of the four elements as defined by the ancient Greeks: Air people, rendered as floating puffs of clouds with arms, legs and mouths full of wind; Water people, shown as walking, talking, shapeshifting blobs of H2O; and Earth people, here presented as, well, humanoid dirtballs with plants growing out of them. (One Earth child is named Clod, an example of the film's gleefully punning nomenclature, in this case pronounced sort of like "Claude.")

Horror-comedy “The Blackening” started as a way to skewer a tired trope: the frequency with which Black characters are killed first in horror movies. Though this cliche has been called out frequently by horror fans and Black audiences, here it serves as the entire premise for a feature film, posing a provocative question: if all the characters in the horror movie are Black, who dies first?

Friday's openings: Rev up your teen attitude

'Guardians Vol. 3': Idiots in space return

'Kiki's Delivery Service': for kids and adults

Chris Hemsworth dedicated more than a quarter of his life to playing Thor for Marvel. Naturally, taking on the Mjölnir-wielding Norse god grew stale.

The “Transformers” film franchise, spawned in 2007 with Michael Bay’s “Transformers,” was one of the first straight-faced blockbuster franchises based on a toy (and an '80s cartoon series). It is now, astonishingly, seven films deep with the release of “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” which is both a prequel to “Transformers” and a sequel to 2018’s “Bumblebee,” which was set in 1987. "Rise of the Beasts," set in 1994, is also based on the “Transformers: Beast Wars” media franchise of comic books and anime, which introduced the Maximal characters, alien robots that look like giant animals, not shape-shifting cars.