Hollywood hopes to spice up the holiday season after a rather flat fall at the box office.

“Joker: Folie à Deux” didn’t exactly wield aces. “Venom: The Last Dance” fared better worldwide but didn’t take a huge bite out of the domestic box office. Superhero fatigue looks to be the real deal.

Then there’s the big-budget “Megalopolis” from Francis Ford Coppola. It bombed, as did sentimental offerings such as “Here” with de-aged stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

Dig a bit deeper, though, and success stories do turn up. “The Wild Robot,” contender for best animated feature of 2024, flexed true staying power even as it migrated to streaming. The news is also guardedly hopeful for daring indies such as Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which managed to maneuver into the Top 10.

Now Hollywood shifts to the holidays — the second most lucrative time of the year — with a string of hotly anticipated releases, including Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,” and Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked.” Will they get audiences to show up? We’re keeping a positive outlook.

Then there are the indie award contenders, including Luca Guadagnino’s searing “Queer,” with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, and the powerful epic set in Tehran, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.”

Here’s a rundown of some, but by no means all, of the films coming to screens big and little through the end of 2024. They are arranged chronologically, though of course release dates are subject to change.

“Red One”: In this high-concept action comedy, the first in a potential franchise, a bounty hunter (Chris Evans) teams up with North Pole security top-dog Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson) and his enforcer of a polar bear to try to get a kidnapped St. Nick (J.K. Simmons) back in time for, well, you know. Director Jake Kasdan’s seasonal offering also features Lucy Liu. Details: In theaters Nov. 15.

“Wicked”: Will the spell that this beloved Tony-Award winning, San Francisco-born phenom cast on theatergoers extend to persnickety moviegoers? Early reactions to Palo Alto native Jon M. Chu’s cinematic reimagining of the hit Broadway musical — loosely based on the Oz-themed book of the same name — suggest “Wicked” could find lift-off at the box office (unlike Chu’s wonderful “In the Heights”). The magical cast includes Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum as the iconic Wizard. Details: Part One in theaters Nov. 22; Part Two scheduled for release November 2025.

“Gladiator II”: Twenty four years ago, Ridley Scott’s bloody good sword-and-sandal epic with Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix kicked up a whole lot of sand at the box office and went on to triumph in the Academy Awards arena, nabbing five Oscars. Scott’s big-budget sequel (allegedly exceeding $300 million) is said to be a visual spectacle with terrific teeth-gnashing performances, especially from Paul Mescal as the vengeance-seeking Lucius — son of Maximus (Crowe). He enters the cursed do-or-die ring after his wife is killed and he’s turned into a slave. Others in the top-notch cast includes Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and more. Details: In theaters Nov. 22.

“The Piano Lesson”: The legendary August Wilson earned a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for this powerhouse stage drama about a 1930s family grappling with the gravity of the past, which comes into sharp focus over a family heirloom piano. Malcolm Washington’s feature-length directorial debut is jam-packed with quality actors, including Danielle Deadwyler, John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Corey Hawkins. Details: Begins streaming Nov. 22 on Netflix.

“Moana 2”: Originally envisioned as a Disney+ series, this latest sequel from the Disney empire is set three years after the goings-on of the original 2016 animated musical and pivots on Moana’s daring plan to put the kibosh on a god’s curse. Auli’i Cravalho (in the title role), Dwyane Johnson, Nicole Scherzinger and Alan Tudyk return to voice their original characters. Details: In theaters Nov. 27.

“Queer”: Prolific “Call My By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino follows up his sweaty tennis love triangle (“Challengers”) with an intense and, also quite sweaty, gay love story. His adaptation of Beat generation author William S. Burroughs’ trippy novel finds Daniel Craig smoldering in 1950s Mexico City as a lonely expat gobsmacked by a handsome younger man (Drew Starkey) he devotedly pursues. Details: In limited theatrical release Nov. 28; wider after in December.

“The Order”: An obsessed FBI agent (Jude Law) and a smart young cop (Tye Sheridan) try to collar the culprits behind a spate of bold, savage robberies and heists. Their investigation leads them to a 1980s white supremacist group in the Pacific Northwest and the magnetic racist family man (Nicholas Hoult) at its center. Australian director Justin Kurzel’s fact-based, chilling thriller draws its inspiration from the book, “The Silent Brotherhood” by Kevin Flynn. Details: In theaters Dec. 6.

“Nightbitch”: A mom at her wits’ end (Amy Adams) channels her inner beast in Alameda native Marielle Heller’s dark comedy that taps into what it means to be not only a mother but a whole person. Details: In theaters Dec. 6.

“Y2K”: Kyle Mooney of “Saturday Night Live” fame directed, co-wrote and co-stars in this disaster/comedy that reimagines what went down just after the clock struck 12:01 a.m. during that much-hyped entrance into 2000. Two teens (Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison) get into the party mood until things turn ugly. Details: In theaters Dec. 6.

“September 5”: Director Tim Fehlbaum’s intense re-creation of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics crisis concentrates on how sports reporters and producers found themselves covering a far different story than what they were expecting when Israeli athletes were taken as hostages. John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch star.  Details: Opens in theaters Nov. 29 (Los Angeles and New York) and Dec. 6 (Bay Area).

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”: A father’s promotion to judge in Tehran coincides with his two daughters’ outrage at how both women and dissenters are treated by Iran’s authoritarian government. Mohammad Rasoulof’s riveting, award-winning political thriller, shot in the shadows, led to the director living in exile. It’s a must.  Details: in theaters Nov. 27 (Los Angeles) and Dec. 13 (Bay Area).

“Kraven the Hunter”: J. C. Chandor’s R-rated Marvel action film with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the thorn in Spidey’s side finally gets its release after bouncing from date to date like an Olympics gymnast. Will this more violent Marvel origin story appeal to fans as well as those uninitiated to the ways of Kraven, who’s a hunter in the comic books? We’ll soon find out. Details: In theaters Dec. 13.

“The Brutalist”: It takes a director with a lot of chutzpah to convince studio execs that a nearly 4-hour film is a good idea. But American filmmaker Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”) did just that and the result is this immigrant epic about a acclaimed Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) from Budapest making his way post-World War II to Pennsylvania where he starts a new life and lands a huge project dreamt up by a wealthy eccentric (Guy Pearce). Corbet’s film wowed at the Venice Film Festival and was quickly snatched up by A24. Oscar is taking notice. Details: In theaters Dec. 20.

“The Count of Monte Cristo”: Already a box-office hit in France, where it received raves, this nearly 3-hour epic takes the classic Alexandre Dumas revenge tale and muscles up the action and basks in the period details. We’re all in. Details: In theaters Dec. 20.

“Mufasa: The Lion King”: Disney plumbs the origins of Simba’s dad with this latest entry in a cherished franchise that extends into new generations and features a photorealistic look. “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins brings gravitas to the project while “Hamilton’s” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been tasked with writing the songs that the whole world is expected to sing. The voice cast includes a pride of top talent:  Aaron Pierre (Mufasa), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Taka), Mads Mikkelsen (Krios), Beyoncé (Nala) and Beyonce’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter (Kiara). And, yes, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen return as scene-stealers Timon and Pumbaa. Details: In theaters Dec. 20.

“Babygirl”: A highly successful and quite married CEO (Nicole Kidman) hooks up with a new intern (Harris Dickinson) and the twosome get tied up into all sorts of sexual knots in this ultra-steamy offering. The lusty, comical trailer certainly aroused our interests. Details: In theaters Dec. 25.

“Nosferatu”: Robert Eggers lends his trademark Gothic sensibilities (the trailer made us swoon) in a lavish redo of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 landmark horror classic. As the vampire Count Orlok, Bill Skarsgård is ready to pounce and give us a fright like he did as Pennywise in 2017’s “It.” Jarin Blaschke’s eerie cinematography alone looks to raise the stakes, as does the cast (Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe who teamed up with Eggers on the divisive “The Lighthouse”). Details: In theaters Dec. 25.

“A Complete Unknown”: Timothée Chalamet charmed audiences worldwide as a younger version of Willy Wonka, but can the “Dune” star convincingly transform into a mid-20s Bob Dylan? Director James Mangold certainly thinks so. Rather than tell Dylan’s life story, the “Ford v. Ferrari” filmmaker focuses on the icon’s shocking 1965 decision to “go electric” at the Newport Folk Festival. That more focused approach perks up our interests. Details: In theaters Dec. 25.

“The Fire Inside”: Rachel Morrison’s inspirational sports-themed biopic relates the true story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (Ryan Shields), a boxer training for the 2012 Olympics. Barry Jenkins wrote the screenplay. Details: In theaters Dec. 25.

Animated treats

It’s been a stellar year for animated features, and these releases look to keep the trend going through year-end.

“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”: This release from award-winning anime director Kenji Kamiyama takes place nearly two centuries before the landmark trilogy. Details: In theaters Dec. 13.

“Flow”: A black cat befriends numerous animals in the aftermath of a climate-change-induced flood. Details: In theaters Nov. 22 (Los Angeles) and Dec. 6 (Bay Area).

“Spellbound”: The Netflix release  is set in a fantasyland wherein the daughter of two crowned heads seeks to reverse a spell that turned her parents into monsters. Details: Streaming Nov. 22.

“Sonic the Hedgehog 3”: Animated characters gets mixed in with live-action cast members again as Sonic and sidekicks Knuckles and Tails team up to take on a new adversary in this latest film based based on the video game series. Details: In theaters Dec. 20.

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign for next season.

That book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel,” lands in stores on Nov. 19, and it immediately pulled me in with its sobering, concise summation of the period: “That century brought world wars, revolutions, automobiles, women’s suffrage, death camps and the internet.”

With all that profound change, the jacket copy asked a question as pertinent now as for the previous century: “And for novelists, it posed an urgent question: How to write books as startling and unforeseen as the world we live in?”

Indeed.

In this work of nonfiction, which was 15 years in the making, author Edwin Frank, the editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores 20th-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that makes allowances for Dostoevsky’s 1864 narrative “Notes From the Underground,” which presages the fiction of the coming century). Frank examines novels by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Chinua Achebe, Gabriel García Márquez, Ralph Ellison and W.G. Sebald among them. (And list lovers alert: He includes even more novels to consider in an appendix.)

In one passage in the introduction to “Stranger Than Fiction,” Frank addresses books about World War II, Hans Erich Nossack’s “The End,” which details the firebombing of Hamburg, and Vasily Grossman’s two tomes about the brutal Battle of Stalingrad, “Life and Fate” and “Stalingrad.” Referring to the challenge of writing about these cataclysmic events, he writes “…the imaginative resources of fiction struggle both to engage with and fight clear of unbearable fact.”

Unbearable facts may always be with us. Novels can be welcome distractions, searing indictments or innumerable other things, but the struggle to confront change remains ongoing. Frank’s searching study of the novel, what he calls the “story of an exploding form in an exploding world,” bursts with thought-provoking material, and I look forward to diving deeper into its chapters.

And maybe it’s useful to consider everything we’ve gone through thus far and think – even if it’s difficult to contemplate at times – that maybe we have what it takes to keep on going whether through the darkness or the light.

“How does it all end up?” asks Frank in his introduction.

Then, as now, it remains a good question.

What other books are coming out in November? Let’s take a look at 10 more.

Nov. 5

“Before We Forget Kindness” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square)

Need something cozy and comforting right now? In the latest book of the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot from the original Japanese, a fresh batch of characters seek healing or closure at Café Funiculi Funicula by sampling its time-traveling amenities.

“Bel Canto (Annotated Edition)” by Ann Patchett (Harper).

Patchett annotates her award-winning bestseller about a South American hostage situation that ensnares an opera singer, a Japanese businessman, terrorists and more. The author’s notes — criticizing an adverb here, revealing a character who “bores” her there – offer a welcome running commentary on the beloved novel.

Nov. 12

“Didion & Babitz” by Lili Anolik (Scribner)

My colleague Emily St. Martin, who has a story coming about this book and its

author, told me she’s obsessed with this lively work of nonfiction about two iconic Southern California writers and the Franklin Avenue scene of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Didion and Babitz’s opposites-attract friendship would ultimately repel them from each other; trust that the author shares all those details and more. As Anolik warns: “Reader, don’t be a baby.”

“Lazarus Man” by Richard Price (FSG)

Price, the author of such richly textured novels as “Lush Life,” “Clockers” and “The Whites” as well as indelible work in TV and film that includes “The Wire,” “The Color of Money,” and “The Night Of,” is back with a novel about a collapsing tenement in Harlem and the intertwining lives reacting in its wake.

“Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: A Celebration of Taylor Swift’s Musical Journey, Cultural Impact, and Reinvention of Pop Music for Swifties by a Swiftie” by Rob Sheffield (Dey Street)

Sheffield is one of the best writers about music and pop culture, and here he takes a complex look – just look at that subhead – at the work of Taylor Swift. As he proved with his terrific essay collection “Dreaming the Beatles,” Sheffield can be endlessly interesting as explores the work of the artists he admires.

“Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures” by Katherine Rundell (Doubleday)

Rundell just published her YA fantasy “Impossible Creatures” here in the States, and she’s already back with a new book of fantastical beasts – except these are real. Whether drawing connections between wombats and Italian painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Shakespeare and Greenland sharks, she fascinates.

“Shy Creatures” by Clare Chambers (Mariner)

Set in a 1960s-era psychiatric hospital, the novel features Helen, an unmarried art therapist carrying on a dreary affair with a married male colleague (who – red-flag – presses bleak novellas on her when she’d rather be reading Dorothy L. Sayers mysteries). Her life gets upended with the appearance of a wild-haired recluse who’s spent decades living hidden away with his aged aunt and turns out to be a talented artist.

Nov. 19

“Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America” by Rita Omokha (St. Martin’s)

Following the murder of George Floyd, which was captured on video by 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, award-winning journalist Rita Omokha traveled to 30 states to meet and speak with young Black activists and explore the past one hundred years of work done by younger people in the fight for social justice.

“The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America” by Stephanie Gorton (Ecco)

In the early part of the last century, two women were at the forefront of the campaign for reproductive rights and birth control access. Gorton’s book details how these leaders – Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and Dennett, now largely forgotten – were often at odds and how that affected the movement.

“Gangster Hunters: How Hoover’s G-Men Vanquished America’s Deadliest Public Enemies” by John Oller (Dutton)

Oller’s book follows the action-packed exploits of 1930s-era FBI agents – who often lacked the experience, skills and equipment of their high-flying criminal counterparts – as the G-men chased down gangsters such as Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd.

To say Maya Petropoulos likes the “Mean Girls” musical, and especially the meanest girl character of Regina George, is an understatement.

“I’ve loved that show for years,” she says. “I’ve been obsessed with it since I was a teenager. I always wanted to play that role — and people always laughed at me when I said that.”

No one’s laughing now.

Petropoulos, 23 — who grew up in Grosse Pointe Park and graduated from Grosse Pointe South High School — is playing George, the meanest of the Plastics, in the current touring cast of “Mean Girls,” which brings her home to Detroit’s Fisher Theatre this week. Coming just 18 months after her graduation from Montclair State University, Petropoulos is expecting “a crazy seven days. I’ll want to sleep after.”

“I can’t even describe it,” she says. “I grew up going to that theater and being so enthralled to just be in the building.’Could I ever take a bow on that stage?’ was such a crazy thought. I couldn’t even let myself think about it. It seemed so far away.

“And when I got the schedule and I saw it would be coming, it just sucked the air of me. I’m really gonna take a bow on that stage — the stage I have been seeing shows on my whole life. That’s probably the most nervous I’m ever going to be for a show. I don’t think that’s going to set in until it happens.”

Petropoulos’ immersion in theater started early, albeit by accident. “My parents were big on, ‘You need to have something to do!,’ so I tried a lot of things and couldn’t find my niche,” she recalls. “They forced me to do a musical when I was in first grade — and I was really not happy about that.”

By middle school, however, she had friends doing theater, and after appearing in a production of “Annie” she had “a good time” and started doing annual shows in school and joined a show choir, which “sucked me in immediately and became my entire world.”

Traveling to audition for college programs allowed Petropoulos to see “Mean Girls” — a Tony Award-nominated adaptation of the 2004 film written by Tina Fey, who also handled the book for the musical — on Broadway during her senior year of high school, and Montclair was her first choice. While there, she also landed a role in the comedy “Betty,” which ran for two seasons on HBO, and in the Go-Go’s jukebox musical “Head Over Heels,” playing Philoclea. The “Mean Girls” opportunity, meanwhile, was perfectly timed to her graduation.

“During my senior year, news dropped that they’re doing another tour and I just knew that I would blow everyone out of the way to get the chance to do it,” Petropoulos says. “I remember sending in a self-taped (audition) and thinking, ‘Whatever happens I’m gonna try like hell to get this job!’ I ended up getting it a month after graduating and they scooped me up and put me on my way, and this has pretty much been my entire college life.”

The learning curve has been steep, however.

“I knew it would be hard. It’s harder than I thought it would be,” she acknowledges. “Eight shows a week is no joke. It’s not for the weak. ‘How do I keep my voice healthy through all this?’ “How do I come up the other side and still be healthy?’ ‘How do I work through it and still be able to kind of live a life?’

“It’s just a job at the end of the day, but it’s a big job and there’s a lot of pressure and you have to give your best. It’s what I wanted, so no complaints.”

Petropoulos said she hopes there’s more of it to come, too. She’s contracted with “Mean Girls” through May 2025 but is already considering what’s next,. “Wicked” (“the first film I ever saw and first cast recording I listened to”) and “Hadestown” are top of her list. “If I did ‘Wicked,’ my parents would be, ‘OK, you can do anything else now,'” she says, with a laugh. But Petropoulos has her sights set beyond the stage, too.

“I really would love to make my TV/film transition, but I love to sing, so musical theater is always gonna be part of my life and … my home,” she says. “Honestly, I just want to be an artist for as long as I can. This (‘Mean Girls’) opportunity came at a point where I wasn’t sure where things were going. It just happened and I’m grateful I can have it at this point in my life.

“I’m looking forward to following that, really — not having my sights on anything concrete, but being open to what the universe has in store for me.”

“Mean Girls” runs Tuesday, Nov. 19 through Nov. 24 at the Fisher Theatre, 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit. 313-872-100 or broadwayindetroit.com.

I met Al Pacino one September afternoon long ago at the wedding of David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon at a place called Stillington Hall in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive northeast of Boston. As the family gathered for pictures under a huge tree on the lawn, Pacino said, “C’mon, let’s get in on the pictures,” to me and to his female companion, who said, “Stop kidding around, will you?”

Now, some 33 years later, I have encountered him again, on the 370 pages of his spirited autobiography “Sonny Boy,” and he is not kidding here when he provides a thoughtfully introspective but also oddly remote journey that begins with his childhood in a South Bronx tenement.

His teenage parents split up before he was two and he was raised primarily by his paternal grandmother who, Pacino writes, “was probably the most wonderful person I’ve ever known in my life.” His mother, “fragile and uncontrollable,” had mental health troubles that had her undergoing electroshock treatments, attempting suicide when he was six and dying of a drug overdose when he was 22.

It is her instability and frequent absences that shadowed Pacino as he and his best pals — Cliffy, Bruce and Petey — flirt with antics that spoke of bigger crimes, but his family kept a tight rein, “away from the path that led to delinquency, danger and violence.” He gave up dreams of playing professional baseball and discovered theater, where being in a school play “made me part of something. … I actually was whole.” He was still on that path a few years later when “one night, onstage, just like that, it happened. …I want to do this forever.”

It was a struggle to get started but enjoyable to read of his on-a-shoestring formative years, highlighted by his meeting Charlie Laughton, not the famous actor, but a teacher and actor who would become Pacino’s friend and essential mentor. They met in a bar and these years, as Pacino frankly details, were soaked in booze. Working odd jobs, rooming with another young unknown named Martin Sheen, acting in all manner of downtown Manhattan spaces, Pacino drank hard, believing that “drinking saved my life. … Happy drunk. Sad drunk. Always drunk. And that’s the actor’s life. … I would drink at night and pop pills the next day to calm down.”

This went on for some raucous time, until he stopped in the late 1970s, prodded by Laughton and aided by AA, some therapists and a relationship with actress Marthe Keller.

Many pages later he answers an unasked question, writing, “Of course, there’s the general belief that I’m a cocaine addict, or was one. It may surprise you that I’ve never touched the stuff.” No, he just played one in “Scarface,” a film he made while also starring on stage in David Mamet’s “American Buffalo.”

Pacino does not offer commentary on all of his plays and films and that’s fine. There have been far too many to mention. But he gives us stories from a lot of them — the “Godfather” trio, “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Serpico,” “Scarface,” Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which earned him Oscar nominations but only one win, an Academy Award for best actor for his over-the-top role in “Scent of a Woman.” Some tales and anecdotes will be familiar to those of you who partake of late-night talk shows on which Pacino has been a frequent and lively guest.

Those coming to “Sonny Boy” seeking the sort of dirt and scandal that pepper so many celebrity books will be disappointed. Pacino is a gentleman throughout and admirable for that.

You may not have known that Pacino has never been married but you are right to assume that he has not lacked for female companionship, writing, “I have always liked women, but from the time I was very young, I have been shy around them.” He conquered that shyness with such girlfriends as Jill Clayburgh, Diane Keaton, the aforementioned Keller, some others you’ve never heard of.

You get but the briefest mention of his four children, two with Beverly D’Angelo (Olivia and Anton), about whom he writes “(we) had our issues about where to live” and a bit later, “We were working through the whole gestalt of raising our kids without each other.” That’s it.

Women and kids were never a priority in this life and he has known that for a long time. As he writes, “I could see a pattern already starting in me, some innate understanding that work is work, and romance and life come second.”

He has never been a careful man so you may get only a mild shock when he writes, “I was broke. I had fifty million dollars, and then I had nothing. … The kind of money I was spending and where it was going was just a crazy montage of loss.”

This book was written with what Pacino calls the “commitment and energy … and considerable help and persistence” of Dave Itzkoff, a former New York Times culture reporter and the author of a fine biography of Robin Williams titled simply “Robin.” (I will tell you that I have never been a fan of audiobooks but listening to Pacino read one this is a joy).

Pacino realizes his good fortune, writing, “I have always needed someone to take care of me,” and knowing he’s been lucky in finding them. And while father figures abound, the shadow of loss hangs heavy, as he eulogizes those  pals Cliffy, Bruce and Petey, their lives lost to drugs, with a poem.

Pacino is 84 years old and writes, near the book’s end, “I look in the mirror and I see something looking back at me that looks like and old wolf with a snarl and a mountain of white hair.” And some pages later, “This life is a dream. … I think the saddest part about dying is that you lose your memories. Memories are like wings: they keep you flying, like a bird on the wind.”

Were I to ever meet him again, I’d say, “Thanks for sharing.”

rkogan@chicagotribune.com

Earlier this week came the announcement that A24 and Apple are developing a movie about Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX cryptocurrency founder who was convicted of fraud in 2023. Lena Dunham is attached to write the script, based on the Michael Lewis non-fiction book “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”

My fundamental question is always this: Beyond providing a showy role for an actor hoping for an awards campaign, why adapt an already widely reported story? What unexplored insights are there to be mined?

I was in the minority two years ago when I said we didn’t need “The Dropout,” Hulu’s prestige series about Elizabeth Holmes and her Theranos scam, and I’m probably in the minority saying the same about this project too.

Hollywood executives never seem to tire of this trope, churning out a quartet of series in 2022 that were a variation on the same theme, including the one about Holmes, another about the con artist Anna Delvey, yet another about the rise and fall of WeWork executives Adam and Rebekah Neumann, plus one more about Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, who resigned from the company after a series of concerning allegations.

It’s unclear what we, as audiences, are meant to get from these projects. Maybe some viewers find some entertainment value, but to me, these shows come across as empty re-enactments that tend to be shrugging in their “welp, corruption!” sensibility.

All that aside, looking ahead to the proposed Bankman-Fried movie, I’m not sure Lewis’ book is the best source material. According to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, Bankman-Fried “orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, stealing over $8 billion of his customers’ money.” He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion.

Despite these facts, Lewis has been criticized for developing a “misguided soft spot for the fallen crypto king,” per The Guardian, resulting in a book that is unable to “disguise the fact that Lewis can’t bear to think ill of his subject.”

A 1997 profile of Lewis in Vanity Fair noted that his work “raises the question of how heavily he may be placing his thumb on the scales when he weighs the ingredients of his dashing dispatches” and his “history suggests that he may be particularly susceptible to the lure of a shapely, larger-than-life narrative.”

Those are concerning traits in a non-fiction writer, but ironically, prized skills in Hollywood. Is Dunham, most famous for capturing millennial angst in her TV series “Girls,” the right person to tackle any of this with a clear eye? Time will tell.

As a critic, I’m always curious why certain types of projects get green-lit. A cynical read might be this: These stories don’t galvanize audiences to demand more scrutiny of corruption, but instead deliver a false but reassuring message that the system works because every so often, a powerful figure falls from their lofty perch.

Hollywood has always had an affinity for schemers and maybe that’s because show business is run by similar types: High on their own supply of overconfidence and fast-talking obfuscation. In 2022, when all those prestige series came out, I wrote about a different and far more interesting approach to the scammer genre:

1993’s “Six Degrees of Separation” starring Will Smith (and based on the John Guare play, which was inspired by real events) is a good point of comparison. It’s a movie that’s interested in more than the mere fact of the swindle, but why it worked: Smith’s character has an innate understanding of human nature and, despite the con, a genuine desire and need to connect with people. And the self-congratulatory swells taken in by his lies are really just projecting onto him all their neuroses and biases. Perhaps that’s because Guare (who also wrote the screenplay) wasn’t aiming to recreate a scandal, but instead used a true story to inspire his imagination and poking around the nooks and crannies of human nature.

”Six Degrees of Separation” … feels rich and complicated because it also contemplates the way ideas about race, and the smug assurance that only other white people are racist, plays into the game Smith’s character is running. That’s notably missing from the aforementioned projects. Whether it’s Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, their whiteness is so obviously key to affording them the benefit of the doubt and getting them through doors. And yet the shows about them aren’t interested in exploring this in any depth.

I’m holding out hope there are screenwriters with deeper things to say about the moral rot that has shaped corporate America. Whether there are media executives and financiers willing to back them is the tougher question.

Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.

By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press 

NEW YORK (AP) — A year after turning to comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host their big show, the Academy Awards will pivot to another familiar TV funnyman — Conan O’Brien.

“America demanded it and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars,” O’Brien said in a statement Friday.

It will be his first time as Oscar host, but he’s emceed other high-profile awards shows, like the Emmy Awards in 2002 and 2006 and the White House Correspondents’ dinner in 1995 and 2013.

The Oscars will air live on ABC on March 2.

O’Brien is best known for hosting the late-night talk shows “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” and “Conan.” Before his TV hosting career, O’Brien was a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons.”

O’Brien joins the list of Oscar hosts that includes Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Neil Patrick Harris.

“He joins an iconic roster of comedy greats who have served in this role, and we are so lucky to have him center stage for the Oscars,” said Craig Erwich, president, Disney Television Group.

Hearing the title “A Real Pain,” you can’t help but imagine a multi-camera sitcom or, perhaps, a disposable laugher starring Adam Sandler.

In reality, this second directorial feature from Jesse Eisenberg — who also wrote and co-stars in the film, which is in theaters this week — is a thoughtful study of two characters dealing with sadness and depression in their own ways.

At 90 minutes it is only so ambitious, but Eisenberg accomplishes what he sets out to do with the dramedy, aided by strong work by his co-star, Kieran Culkin.

Eisenberg’s David and Culkin’s Benji are cousins who decide to travel from New York to Poland to tour Holocaust sites and see the onetime home of their late beloved grandmother and Holocaust survivor, Dori. Once like brothers, the men have drifted apart, Big Apple resident David marrying and having a son, Benji living alone in Binghamton.

While trying to get to the airport in plenty of time for their international flight, a frantic David calls Benji repeatedly, leaving messages even after saying he’s left his last one, only to find a relaxed Benji has been at the airport for hours. (Benji says he likes to come early to meet interesting people, our first hint that something isn’t quite right with the lad.)

That they’re very different men, at least at this point, is evident immediately, with the reserved David on edge around his cousin, who from the time at the airport through the flight and into their first night in a hotel talks about how happy he is that David has chosen to do this with him. At the hotel, Benji pays him an unusual compliment — “Dude, I forgot: You have really nice feet” — and twists his arm into smoking some of the marijuana he’s had mailed to the hotel on its roof.

The next day, they meet their knowledgable, affable and enthusiastic tour guide, James (Will Sharpe, “The White Lotus”), and the other members of the group: the recently divorced Marsha (Jennifer Grey, “Dirty Dancing); Shaker Heights couple Diane (Lisa Sadovy, “A Small Light”) and Mark (David Oreskes, “Only Murders in the Building”); and Eloge (Kurt Egyiawan, “House of the Dragon”), who converted to Judaism after surviving genocide in Rwanda. Benji’s reaction to Eloge’s tale (“Oh, snap!”) is the group’s first taste of the behavior David dreads.

Benji’s antics only increase from there, including a meltdown on a train as the group rides in first class, which he finds very distasteful given the nature of their tour.

In his screenplay, Eisenberg tiptoes to the line of overreaching with Benji, penning a character too outlandish to be believed. However, he balances the bombast with other moments, quieter moments, that ring true and provide more insight as to what’s going on inside that head of Benji’s.

Through his writing and performance, Eisenberg also peels away the layers of David. During a particularly strong scene at a restaurant — after Benji has another outburst and then leaves for the restroom — David reveals to the others his complex feelings toward Benji and shares something he probably shouldn’t about his troubled cousin.

No psychiatric terms are thrown around when it comes to Benji, but this is a person who experiences wild mood swings. He’s hurting inside, which he expresses in various ways, including anger, yes, but also sweetness and even empathy.

Again, this is all enhanced by acting choices made by Culkin, who certainly channels aspects of Roman Roy, the memorable character he portrayed over the four seasons of the HBO hit “Succession. However, there’s more to Benji than there is to Roman.

“A Real Pain” is the child of two Eisenberg projects: a play he wrote and performed in, “The Revisionist,” which debuted off-Broadway in 2013 and also starred Vanessa Redgrave; and a short story about two men, sharing a similar dynamic to that of David and Benji’s, touring Mongolia. He struggled to adapt either over the years, according to the production notes for “A Real Pain,” which ultimately led to this largely satisfying film.

It’s hard to shake this nagging feeling that “A Real Pain” could have been something more had Eisenberg fleshed out the film’s supporting characters, especially Eloge. That said, that they exist almost solely to serve as a means for us to better understand David and Benji is an understandable choice.

It is a moment late in “A Real Pain,” shared between James and Benji as the cousins are leaving the group to go on to the grandmother’s onetime home, that crystalizes what Eisenberg has managed to pull off with the film.

It is his follow-up to 2022’s “When You Finish Saving the World,” and we’re interested to see what he delivers the next time he sits in the director’s chair.

‘A Real Pain’

Where: Theaters.

When: Nov. 15.

Rated: R for language throughout and some drug use.

Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes.

Stars (of four): 3.

Oprah Winfrey is shooting down rumors she was paid a whopping $1 million to support Kamala Harris at high-profile campaign events ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

“I was not paid a dime. My time and energy was my way of supporting the campaign,” she wrote in the comments section of the Shade Room’s Instagram post regarding the claims.

The billionaire media mogul was seemingly responding to a Washington Examiner report claiming the Democratic candidate “paid more than $15 million” on “event production,” which allegedly included a $1 million payment to Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for the Sept. 19 “United for America” virtual town hall she hosted.

Citing its own analysis of alleged federal filings, the Examiner claimed Winfrey’s company was paid in West Hollywood, Calif. on Oct. 15.

When asked by a Shade Room reporter on Monday to respond to the scuttlebutt, Winfrey said: “Not true — I was paid nothing, ever.”

The 70-year-old, who’s worth roughly $3 billion according to Forbes’ latest estimate, further set the record straight on the payment in the Instagram comments.

“For the live-streaming event in September, my production company Harpo was asked to bring in set design, lights, cameras, microphones, crew, producers, and every other item necessary (including the benches and chairs we sat on) to put on a live production,” she wrote. “I did not take any personal fee. However the people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story.”

Winfrey, who also spoke at Harris’ last campaign rally on Nov. 4 in Philadelphia, said she’s usually “reluctant to respond to rumors in general,” but felt it was necessary to put an end to any falsehoods.

“These days I realize that if you don’t stop a lie, it just gets bigger,” she wrote.

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — My Little Pony finally made it to the winner’s circle.

After years as an also-ran, the pastel-colored ponies were enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, along with Transformers action figures and the Phase 10 card game.

The honorees rose to the top in voting by a panel of experts and the public from among 12 finalists. This year’s field included: the party game Apples to Apples, balloons, “Choose Your Own Adventure” gamebooks, Hess Toy Trucks, Pokémon Trading Card Game, remote-controlled vehicles, Sequence, the stick horse and trampoline.

“These are three very deserving toys that showcase the wide range of how people play,” Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections and chief curator, said in a statement. “But for My Little Pony in particular, this year is extra validating. The beloved toy was a finalist seven times before finally crossing the finish line!”

Hasbro’s mini-horses, distinguishable by different “cutie marks” on their haunches, were introduced in the 1980s and reintroduced in 2003, outselling even Barbie for several years.

The collectibles were recognized for encouraging fantasy and storytelling — the kind of creative play the Hall of Fame demands of inductees — along with popularity over time.

“The My Little Pony line has endured for decades because it combines several traditional forms of doll play with children’s fascination with horses,” said Michelle Parnett-Dwyer, curator of dolls and toys. “The variety of figures promotes collecting as a pastime, too.”

Phase 10 was introduced by inventor and entrepreneur Ken Johnson in 1982. Today, Mattel sells 2 million decks of the card game annually in 30 countries and more than 20 languages. That makes it one of the bestselling card games in the world, according to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, where the Toy Hall of Fame is housed.

In the style of rummy, the game challenges players to collect groups of cards to complete 10 phases in sequential order before their opponents.

“Whether played in its original form or in one of its variations, Phase 10 has become an iconic game title that continues to encourage multigenerational social and competitive play,” said Mirek Stolee, the museum’s curator of board games and puzzles.

Transformers came along in the 1980s, when Hasbro bought the rights to several existing Japanese toy lines featuring transforming robots. They were first marketed with a cartoon and have since graduated to a series of live-action films. Social media sites allow for debates over which figures are must-haves, as well as demonstrations of the sometimes complex process of manipulating them from robot to vehicle or other alternate form.

Regular new Transformers characters keep collectors coming back, Bensch said, “but the toys are also popular because they are so suited to the ways kids play. The toy line feeds kids’ imaginations and fantasy play.”

Anyone can nominate a toy for the Hall of Fame. Museum staff narrows the field to 12 finalists each year. Fans can cast votes online for their favorites and their results are counted alongside ballots from a national advisory committee of historians, educators and others with industry expertise.

By MARK KENNEDY

NEW YORK (AP) — Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, N.W.A. and Alanis Morissette are among the nominees for the 2025 class at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, an eclectic group of rap, rock, hip-hop and pop pioneers.

Joining them on the ballot are Bryan Adams, with radio staples like “Summer of ’69” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?,” and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, hoping to get in 25 years after band founder Brian Wilson. David Gates, co-lead singer of the pop-music group Bread, is also looking for entry.

The Hall annually inducts performers and non-performers alike, and the latter category this year includes Walter Afanasieff, who helped Mariah Carey with her smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You;” Mike Chapman, who co-wrote Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield;” and Narada Michael Walden, the architect of Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know″ and Aretha Franklin’s “Freeway of Love.”

Eligible voting members have until Dec. 22 to turn in ballots with their choices of three nominees from the songwriter category and three from the performing-songwriter category. The Associated Press got an early copy of the list.

Several performers are getting another shot at entry, including Clinton, whose Parliament-Funkadelic collective was hugely influential with hits like “Atomic Dog” and “Give Up the Funk,” and The Doobie Brothers — Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons and Michael McDonald — with such classics as “Listen to the Music” and “Long Train Runnin.’” Steve Winwood, whose hits include “Higher Love” and “Roll With It,” has also been on the ballot before.

Hip-hop this year is represented by Eminem — whose hits include “Lose Yourself” and “Stan” — and N.W.A. members Dr. Dre, Eazy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella. Already in the Hall are hip-hop stars like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Missy Elliot. Tommy James, with hits including ”Mony Mony,″ ”Crimson and Clover″ and ”I Think We’re Alone Now,″ has also earned a nod.

If Jackson, whose 1989 album “Rhythm Nation” was a landmark, gets into the Hall, it will be more than two decades after her late brother Michael. The Canadian songwriter Morissette, whose influential “Jagged Little Pill” has won Grammys, Tonys, Junos and MTV awards would also add to the Hall’s rocking women. (Glen Ballard, who helped produce and write the album, is already in.)

As would Crow, the “All I Wanna Do” and “Everyday Is a Winding Road” singer-songwriter, is having a critical resurgence after being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. Boy George lifts the flag for ’80s New Wave with the Culture Club hits “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.”

Other nominees for the non-performing category include Franne Golde, who co-wrote Selena’s ”Dreaming of You;″ Tom Douglas, who wrote country hits for Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert; Ashley Gorley, fresh off his co-writing smash “I Had Some Help” by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen; and Roger Nichols, who co-wrote The Carpenters’ ″We’ve Only Just Begun.″

They join Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, who contributed to the hit ″The Boy Is Mine″ by Brandy and Monica; Sonny Curtis, former member of the Crickets who wrote and performed the theme song for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” ”Love is All Around,” and British composer Tony Macaulay, who wrote “Build Me Up Buttercup.”

The Hall also put forward three songwriting teams: Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan, who wrote “Secret Agent Man;” and Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, who penned the Four Tops hit “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got);” and Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, who wrote the Percy Sledge tune “Out of Left Field.”

The Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1969 to honor those creating the popular music. A songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first commercial release of a song.

Some already in the hall include Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Lionel Richie, Bill Withers, Neil Diamond and Phil Collins. Last year saw R.E.M., Steely Dan, Dean Pitchford, Hillary Lindsey and Timbaland inducted.

Online: http://www.songhall.org

Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

Police in Argentina are searching for Liam Payne’s missing Rolex watch after his fatal fall from his hotel balcony last month.

The “One Direction” artist’s expensive timepiece went missing around the same time of his fatal fall from the third floor of CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, authorities tell TMZ.

Payne’s father, Geoff, flew to the city to gather his son’s possessions and realized it was missing. Geoff noted that the watch has sentimental value. Police then confirmed their uncertainty about its whereabouts.

Security cameras reportedly show Payne was wearing the watch just hours before his death. But authorities also say he wasn’t wearing it when he fell from the balcony. In turn, they say it was not stolen off his body.

“He had it in one of his hands and he had it at least two to three hours before his fatal hotel fall,” a prosecution source told Buenos Aires newspaper, La Nacion.

Per the outlet, the watch was also nowhere to be found during the police raids on the hotel or at the homes of the three suspects who were arrested in connection to Payne’s death.

All three defendants — a friend of Payne’s, an alleged drug dealer and a hotel housekeeper — were charged with supplying the entertainer with narcotics and abandoning him.

Police plan to do another sweep of his suite at the hotel in case they missed it.

The glamor but also the nasty underbelly of Hollywood have always loomed large in the imagination. You’d think the great destabilization that’s hit the TV and film industry would have led to all kinds of showbiz satires excavating the anxieties and disruptions brought on by streaming and, more recently, artificial intelligence. And yet the latest entry in this genre, HBO’s “The Franchise” — about the absurdity of superhero moviemaking — has nothing to say about any of it. Worse, it’s not even funny.

Perhaps it’s fitting that in such an uninspired era of commercial entertainment, not even a satire of this moment can muster up an original idea.

That got me thinking about better, more thoughtful attempts in the past, which prompted me to revisit “The Comeback.” I haven’t watched the show since it originally aired (on HBO, ironically enough) nearly 20 years ago.

Created by Michael Patrick King (“Sex and the City”) and Lisa Kudrow (who also stars), the series is equal parts comedy and tragedy, following the travails of a middling sitcom actress named Valerie Cherish. After being out of work for a few years, she’s asked to audition for a new series, but it comes with an awkward stipulation: If she’s cast, a reality TV crew will follow her around during the process to capture her “comeback.”

She’s often accompanied by her doting hairdresser (a hilarious Robert Michael Morris). “I pray you get this sitcom, because I’m two years from retiring and I need those health benefits,” he tells her. “They found two more questionable melanomas — don’t cry for me, Argentina!”

“Well, here we are,” she interrupts as they arrive at the network. “I’m sorry, darlin’, just put a pin in that.” Just put a pin in that revelation you have skin cancer, no big deal!

Kudrow was coming off her 10-year run on “Friends” when the first season of “The Comeback” premiered in 2005. It wasn’t meant to be a commentary on the show that made her famous. Even so, it’s a savage behind-the-scenes depiction of sitcom life. A second season aired in 2014, which was a meta turn of events — a comeback for “The Comeback,” a decade later. (Both seasons are available to stream on Max.)

The series portrays an era when pilot season and the network sitcom still were dominant. Watching it now, I expected “The Comeback” to feel dated. And yet the show’s observations are still so on point about Hollywood itself. King and Kudrow capture a searing but also empathetic look at the way show business can make a person deranged. Through it all, Valerie keeps a smile on her face because she has an old-school approach to stardom: Never let them see you sweat (or cry or fall apart).

We’re witnessing the raw footage of Valerie’s reality show as it’s being shot and she’s a wonderful amalgam of ridiculous but also professional.  Her standard greeting upon walking into any room: “Hello, hello, hello!” When she thinks a moment is unflattering and shouldn’t be filmed, she makes a time-out motion while her director (Lauren Silverman) consistently ignores her pleas. This makes Valerie frantic and vulnerable, forever trying to maintain her composure in the face of humiliation. She also has plenty of self-sabotaging tendencies. She’s terrible at reading the room or knowing when to let things go. The more she feels minimized, the worse she gets. She has no chill, and yet you feel deep wells of sympathy for her.

That sympathy only goes so far. “Oh, there’s that girl writer,” she says of the lone woman who’s been added to the sitcom’s writing staff. Valerie can’t be bothered to learn her name because she’s only interested in people who have power.

Veteran sitcom director James Burrows plays himself, and he is a very funny and grounding presence as he tries (in vain) to give Valerie a reality check. Her mere presence has become an annoyance to her sitcom bosses and Burrows takes her aside. “Why are you so worried about this show?” he asks and then points to the reality crew filming: “That’s your show.” He’s the voice of reason, but it’s a harsh truth that she is not prepared to accept, and the genius of “The Comeback” is that Valerie is usually some combination of wrong and right at any given moment.

Her nemesis is one of the sitcom’s creators, a hateful and obnoxious person known as Paulie G (a terrifying Lance Barber, who more recently played the dad for seven seasons on “Young Sheldon”). In “The Comeback’s” long-belated second season, we learn that Paulie G was a heroin addict when he and Valerie first worked together. Now he’s clean and making a prestige series about his time working on that sitcom. Valerie is cast to play herself, and she takes the role because her consuming hunger for fame means she’ll put up with all manner of insults. You can practically see the rage shooting out like laser beams from Paulie G’s eyes. He is Valerie’s worst nightmare — and she his.

More than a stock villain, Paulie G is a miserable, complicated man. Several years ago, when I interviewed Kudrow, she said the show’s various writers had encountered a similar personality type at some point in their careers.

“When we were interviewing people to write for the show, they all thought they knew who Paulie G was based on, and everyone had a different person in mind.  So there are a lot of those guys out there, that’s what that said to me.”

Despite the many shifts that have reshaped Hollywood in recent years, I suspect this aspect hasn’t changed much at all.

“The Comeback” makes fun of, but also has so much compassion for, an actor’s self-involved absorption and desperation. Valerie is just trying to retain some dignity in a business that’s doing everything to demolish it. Aren’t we all.

Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.

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INDIANAPOLIS — The end of Eras is upon us.

This won’t be the last time you hear that over the next few weeks. Taylor Swift played the final United States show on her ultra-mega-blockbuster Eras tour last weekend in Indiana. After a year and a half of concerts and almost 150 dates (including three sold-out nights at Soldier Field in Chicago), the tour concludes in Vancouver on Dec. 8.

And though you’ve likely had a lifetime fill of Taylor Swift since Eras began in 2023 — or you can never get enough and are already rallying fellow Swifties to avenge my sincere micro-plea of exhaustion — we need to consider why the Eras Tour will be remembered as a cultural milestone for decades to come, a spiritual cousin to Woodstock, a traveling micro-economy and a coming-out cotillion for the future, which, most certainly, is female.

We need to see why its influence will go on for years.

I attended the second night in Indianapolis, and like every previous night on the tour, it began with a statement: A clock appeared on a massive screen, counting down to the start of the concert, counting back from exactly 2 minutes and 31 seconds. Why so exact? Because that’s the length of the song that Swift has taken the stage to at every show on the Eras Tour: Lesley Gore’s furious, gauntlet-throwing “You Don’t Own Me.”

And don’t tell me what to do

Don’t tell me what to say

And please, when I go out with you

Don’t put me on display, ‘cause

You don’t own me

Now picture 69,000 people, nearly all women, some elderly, some in elementary school, many in their teens and 20s, bedazzled, screaming that, thrusting fists, singing with alone-in-the-shower energy, not because they are collectively into AM pop radio hits of 1963, but because they felt it. And since little about the Eras tour is spontaneous, they expected it. Indeed, this is the first and most important lesson to pull from the Eras Tour:

1. Fans Are the Show Now.

A woman in her mid-20s sat in front of me wearing a ballet tutu so stiff and wide it flowed gloriously across nearby seats and even out into the aisle. It took up space. When Lesley Gore’s voice landed, the woman leaped from her chair and belted the lyrics skyward, howling at the soaring roof of Lucas Oil Stadium, usually home to NFL football. This woman was surprising and funny, angry and creative and thoughtful. She was like performance art herself, employing the canvas of the Eras Tour as both a catalyst and a sandbox. And again, she was just one out of 69,000 fans. After Swift played “Champagne Problems” alone at a piano, midway through the show, Swift stood for an ovation that went on 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It was endless, and from the practiced look of surprise and humility on Swift’s face during the ovation, expected. But never for a moment did I think that ovation was about Swift.

Photos: Taylor Swift Eras Tour comes to Chicago

It was about a fandom reveling in its own stamina and voice, and Swift graciously playing the sounding board. Consider that ballet costume — a nod to an outfit Swift wore in the “Shake It Off” video. Here was a concert closely resembling a fan convention. Or a cosplay showcase. I saw someone dressed like Jake Gyllenhaal (a Swift ex), and someone dressed as the scarf Swift was rumored to have left at his apartment when they broke up. I saw women dressed as Christmas trees, because Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm. I saw a man playing a banana, because there is a video of Swift having trouble with a banana after undergoing Lasik surgery. It was shot by her mother, who finds her daughter in bed trying to eat a banana, looking very spaced out.

“I’m not asleep,” Swift tells her mom, “my mind is alive.”

I also saw someone in a shirt that read: “I’m not asleep. My mind is alive.”

If you didn’t get those references … well, then what were you doing there?

Grateful Dead fans, Bruce Springsteen fans: You probably see similarities. Swifties without tickets roamed Indianapolis streets before the shows, holding a finger in the wind. That’s classic Deadhead for “I need one ticket.” Also known in Dead-ese as “a miracle.” Music may be the organizing force, but since we more or less know what we’ll hear, the music is merely a way into a coded universe constructed partly by that audience. Swift herself spends a huge part of the show staring directly into cameras, as if she’s staring at you alone. That’s when she isn’t staring into the crowd, smiling and winking — playing, at least, an answer to decades of self-congratulatory concert gods.

2. The Age of the Impersonal Pop Star is Over.

The irony of the Eras Tour is that even as it made Swift a global force, she comes off human in the show, not a caricature or even, despite all the theater involved, a posturing idol. In fact, whether you believe her or not, a chunk of her show features Swift singing that not everything is about her. I write that despite that, a few blocks from Lucas Oil Stadium, a Marriott installed a massive Taylor Swift on its facade, a mural rising nearly as high as the 34-story hotel itself. You could see this Tay-Zilla from clear across downtown. That’s not her doing. But even when Robert Plant was whole-heartedly drunk on his own glow, playing a golden god on Led Zeppelin tours, he wouldn’t have dreamed of such lionizing. Then again, no one sought his presidential nod — or accused him of interfering in politics.

He was also never accused of single-handedly inflating ticket prices, destroying the environment by using private jets, being a capitalist pig in service to an elitist power structure, dating racists or failing to call for a cease fire in the Middle East. Fairly or not, Swift has heard of all of that and way more — why can’t she show dogs some love, too?

My point is, if even Taylor Swift can fake a real smile night after night — as well as laugh a laugh that sounds like a genuine laugh — what excuse do other pop stars have anymore? Think about that next summer when Oasis holds you emotionally at arm’s length. A woman sitting behind me at the show had Neil Young lyrics scrawled on her arm in marker. I asked her why. She said Taylor used to do this before concerts, so this fan does this a lot, whenever she feels good, sad, anything, she does it for herself — to remind her to feel something.

3. The Only Universal Culture Left is Female.

There was a moment in the Eras Tour reserved for variety, a two-song bit where the show leaves its well-oiled track and alters nightly. Anything can happen, but typically Swift plays a medley on guitar followed by a medley on piano. More surprising, the night I attended, was the red, white and blue dress Swift wore during those songs, the colors less flag-like than melting together. It came, of course, days before the election. She paired that with a song titled “The Prophesy.” The refrain: “Who do I have to speak to /  About if they can redo the prophecy?” It’s not a political song but briefly became one.

It reminded me of the Olympics, how politics are present but often unspoken. The Eras Tour itself was like the Olympics, from the stage surface itself doubling as a screen to parades of dancers who enter the stadium with billowing sails above their heads. Like the Olympics, the Eras Tour was also that rare 21st century culture most Americans are aware of and sometimes form opinions about, even if they never bothered to watch. It’s like mainstream culture before streaming, iPods, the internet and TikTok; it’s of a piece with “M*A*S*H*” and” “Star Wars” and Michael Jackson. It’s closest in cheery spirit to Paul McCartney (a Taylor BFF), though a reminder pop music right now is named Olivia and Sabrina and Lana and Charli, decidedly female, crafted by females for females.

Swift thanked fans for all the “ceremonial traditions” created during the tour. She could have meant the Deadhead-esque caravans. (I met fans from Maine, Colorado, New York, but few from Indiana.) She could have meant how many women took off shoes and danced in bare feet. (Three-plus hour shows will do that.) But probably she meant the bracelets, beaded words spelling songs and albums, circulating throughout the Taylor-verse, traded or often gifted, among fans. I saw very few Indianapolis police officers or stone-faced security dudes without an arm covered in bracelets, like notes of solidarity. I passed a restaurant table covered in bracelets, all lined up orderly in rows.

“Wow,” a passerby said, “you made a lot.”

“I went nutso,” the bracelet maker replied.

Music writer Rob Sheffield has a charming, insightful new book “Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music” that includes a telling story about Swift as a kid, pre-social media, smitten with LeAnn Rimes. She presses close to Rimes after a show: “LeAnn, did you get my letter?” And Rimes says: “I sure did, Taylor.”

“For Taylor,” Sheffield writes, “that was the primal scene of instruction.” Rimes, he explains (cheekily), “warped this child into being the best to ever do what LeAnn did.”

Meaning, Rimes took a young girl seriously as a person, and Swift made it a culture.

4. Concerts Need to Tell Stories Now.

If there’s a reason why what happened onstage during the Eras Tour came across less phony than it probably sounded in descriptions, that’s because the production takes the concept of theater seriously, too. Beyonce does it. Bowie did it. Springsteen spun long intimate stories of family that went on the length of songs. Swift works this muscle, too.

Theatrical doesn’t have to mean fake, of course. It was a spectacle but there were a lot of homes and rooms on that stage — a rustic cabin in one segment, an office building during another. You could feel your attention being pushed in, then out — zooming for closeup, circling the grounds. Sometimes you were reminded of high school, other times gender inequality. There were knowing cliches and painful realizations and recognitions of privilege. But the plot never changed: The Eras Tour, bottomline, was the story of how a girl grows into a woman, and all the heartache and delight that comes with that time.

It also paradoxically makes Swift a character in her own story, an avatar for herself. Some of the conversations I heard on the way out of the show included: Does Taylor Swift cry like I cry? Does Taylor Swift scream in the car?

The Eras Tour was a lot of world building for a pop show, but then: She’s almost 35, the same age Springsteen was when he told stories on the “Born in the U.S.A.” tour about parental feuding and the struggles of returning Vietnam vets. He asked stadiums to question Ronald Reagan and blind faith, and Swift screams about blind faith and a boyfriend who talks about his childhood and carries a “(Bleep) the Patriarchy” keychain. That many of her young fans even know the word “patriarchy,” that’s a sign of progress.

5. The Past is Never Past.

Eras end messily, trailing slime like a snail.

That was the clever conceit of the tour: Each show was divided into acts, or eras, representing moments in life. When I first heard this, it sounded self-congratulatory, grandiose. Until I recognized The Beatles lasted a decade, and Swift is 17 years into an ongoing career. Her evolution hasn’t been as dizzying as veering from “Love Me Do” to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” but she’s still young, savvy enough say something about life that also nods to the future of live music: We are the eras we embody yet we still carry every era we have been, all the time. We are more like a medley than a song.

Performers have always banked on a mix of new and old songs but the Eras Tour suggests the way streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music present a body of work as a flat constant, playing everything all at once, shuffling evolution. Reinvention is real but past selves remain, it says. Regret and pride live beside pettiness and silliness. At one point in the show, Swift seems to struggle against a series of past Taylors trying to free themselves from glass cages. Corny, but telling: The kind of extended music career that allows enough patience to change shape and sound looks increasingly rare.

Who is still around, making relevant music, with enough material, ambitious enough for something like this, a nostalgic concert that points to the future? The Eras Tour became its own weather system, its own touring chamber of commerce, its own bit of folklore. It’s maybe never to be repeated. It just contained too much. It became too big. Taylor Swift played, no joke, 47 songs at the show I saw, in part or whole. At least one was 10 minutes long. By the end I was well into my exhaustion era. But leaving the stadium, I heard delight, a teenager singing to herself. She wasn’t singing one of those 47 songs. She was singing Lesley Gore:

I’m young and I love to be young.

And I’m free and I love to be free.

cborrelli@chicagotribune.com

Jelly Roll is certainly no stranger to the metro area.

His concert Wednesday night, Nov. 6, at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena was his seventh appearance in these parts in a little over two years. That run includes a pre-NFL Draft show at the Fillmore Detroit in April, as well singing Bob Seger and singing with Eminem during June’s Michigan Central opening concert.

Not surprisingly the country/rap/rock crossover star was full of Motor City love during his hour and 40 minutes on stage in front of more than 15,500 — the largest crowd so far, he said, on his Beautifully Broken Tour supporting his chart-topping new album of the same name. Following opening sets by Allie Coleen, Shaboozey (who shouted out the Detroit Lions and spoke about visiting Ford Field earlier in the day) and Ernest (who sported an Eminem T-shirt), Jelly Roll spoke about his long history of playing in the area, from the Shelter and Saint Andrew’s Hall to “the old historic Harpo’s a thousand times.” Of Little Caesar’s he marveled over “how many times I’ve come here and drove by this arena and never thought I would be big enough to (play) here. It’s a dream come true on so many levels.” The next target, he said, was to play Ford Field.

He also shouted out the Livonia rap/rock duo Twiztid — which made a special one-song appearance on a B-stage at the back of the arena floor between Ernest and Jelly Roll’s set — for being “the first band that ever took me on a nationwide tour.” And he gushed that “the biggest phone call I ever got was when Marshall Mathers (aka Eminem) called me and asked me if I’d be on his new album,” on the track “Somebody Save Me,” which samples Jelly Roll’s hit “Save Me.”

“Now,” he added, “I just need someone here to finalize the dream I have and help me to meet Bob Seger,” who Jelly Roll said was a favorite of his father’s — along with Motown music.

And if that verbiage wasn’t enough, he hammered home his devotion by performing truncated versions of three Seger hits, “Old Time Rock and Roll,” “Turn the Page” and “Against the Wind,” the latter as a duet with Ernest — who this time sported a vintage Detroit Pistons Bad Boys T-shirt. “Somebody tell Bob Seger how much I love him,” Jelly Roll said after the latter.

His affection for the city was certainly reciprocated by the crowd, and the Tennessee native (real name Jason DeFord) gave his Detroit fans plenty to love in turn. He’s definitely on a, well, roll with “Beautifully Broken’s” success and “I Am Not Okay” lodged as his fifth consecutive No. 1 single on the country charts. He opened with that song, in fact, walking through the crowd — accompanied by his wife, podcast star Bunny XO — to the B stage, where he sang under a burning, cabin-shaped structure and promised “a night of healing…a night of therapy…a night of love.” “But most important Detroit,” he added, “I hope it’s the best show you’ve ever seen in your…life.”

Jelly Roll and his 11-member band — including Detroit-born keyboardist Snow Boots, sporting a Red Wings Jersey — did their best to make that the case on Wednesday; it was, surely, more than okay, hampered only by a muddy sound mix. He certainly upped the production value, with a pair of long side ramps, plenty of fire, extensive video production, a large set of rosary beads that hung above the stage during “Need a Favor” (which included a church-style a capella closing with his three backing vocalists) and a giant, lighted skull from the cover of “Beautifully Broken” that was part of a couple of numbers. He pulled out six songs from the new album and threw plenty of past triumphs into the set — including a medley of “Creature,” “Same A**hole” and “Fall in the Fall” and the hip-hop banger “Smoking Section.”

Seger wasn’t the only artist Jelly Roll covered, either, as he rolled through Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” and Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” which led into John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” His “real music for real people who have gone through real s***” focused on those who have been through recovery, celebrating fans who waved signs declaring their own sobriety. And he shouted out Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson, shaking his hand and praising initiatives that include a recording studio in the county jail.

Jelly Roll finished the night where he started, back on the B stage, singing “Save Me” amidst a shower of faux rain that left him sopping wet but beaming as he waved his soaked baseball cap at the crowd. It was another special show for him in the metro area, and given how things have been going we’ll likely see him back here — maybe even at Ford Field — before too long.

NEW YORK (AP) — Halloween has plenty of traditions, from candy to jack-o’-lanterns — and the annual spectacle of Heidi Klum’s costume.

The supermodel-turned-TV personality is fond of surprising her guests with her elaborate costumes, like in 2022, when she arrived at the event on the end of a fishing line, encased in a slithering worm costume.

“I just wanted to be something random,” she explained while lying on the floor for maximum worm-like effect. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone being a rain worm before.”

Last year, she enlisted the help of several Cirque du Soleil performers as the tail feathers to her peacock costume.

“A lot of planning goes into it, you know,” Klum said through her peacock beak, with husband Tom Kaulitz next to her, dressed as an egg. “Because first, you have to have an idea.”

At her 2008 party she dressed as Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction — complete with multiple arms, dangling heads and a deep coat of blue body paint.

Klum told The Associated Press she would immediately be planning her look for the following year. “After tonight I’ll be thinking about what I’ll do next year. It’s always got to be different. Completely different,” she said.

Other notable Klum costumes over the years have included a giant Transformer, a clone (complete with several Klum-lookalikes) an elderly version of herself, and an alien experiment gone awry.

The star has also transformed into a terrifying butterfly, an ape, a cat, a crow — and cartoon characters including Jessica Rabbit and Fiona from “Shrek.”

Her tip to those still trying to decide what to wear this Halloween? Leave the store-bought masks at home.

“I personally don’t like it when people hide behind those full masks. I prefer when people get a little bit creative and they play with their face, when they put a lot of makeup on,” she told the AP in 2007. “I always love that the most on me, I really go scary on the face.”

Detroit’s Huntington Place will be, as the Vapors sang, turning Japanese this weekend as the 19th annual Youmacon settles in for a four-day run through Sunday, Nov. 3.

The gathering celebrates Japanese pop culture, including anime, gaming, art and music. The festivities include video and tabletop game competitions, panel discussions, art and memorabilia exhibits, a full marketplace, dance parties and an elaborate costume contest that’s an annual highlight — all for an expected crowd of up to 26,000.

Celebrity guests include Jason Douglas, a voice actor in popular games such as Dragon Ball Super and Borderlands 2 and 3. He’ll be joined by notables such as Suzie Young, John Bentley, Britt Baron, Kirk Thornton, Briana White and others. Voice actor Keith Silverstein will present “The Art of Being Evil” on Sunday, Nov. 3, along with a Behind the Mic: Women in Video Games panel.

A concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, will feature SSJ Live, mic jack, Hiro x Noveliss, Crim and DJ Mark Cooper.

Daily admissions and weekend passes are available between $30-$80. More information is available via youmacon.com.

On sale 10 a.m. Nov. 1

• Oakland University vs. Michigan State University: Dec. 17, Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, ticket prices vary.

• Nick Cannon: Dec. 22, Little Caesars Arena, ticket prices vary.

• Kelsea Ballerini, MaRynn Taylor and Maisie Peters: Feb. 4, Little Caesars Arena, ticket prices vary.

• We Them Ones Comedy Tour: March 7, Little Caesars Arena, hosted by Mike Epps and featuring Kountry Wayne, Kalous Miller, Lil Duval, Corey Holcomb, Mojo Bookzz, Haha Davis, Bubba Dub and Tony Roberts, lineup subject to change, ticket prices vary.

• Darcy & Jer, comedy duo: March 10, The Fillmore, Detroit, LiveNation.com, ticket prices vary.

• Tyler, The Creator: July 3, Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, ticket prices vary.

• Ghost: July 24, Little Caesars Arena, ticket prices vary. (Presale began Oct. 29)

Postponed

• Shakira: May 22, (previously scheduled for Dec. 15), Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Note: Events are subject to change; check with venues for updates. Tickets on sale at 313Presents.com, LiveNation.com, Ticketmaster.com or the XFINITY Box Office at Little Caesars Arena.

Beats

• Insane Clown Posse: 3 p.m. Oct. 31, Masonic Temple Theatre, 500 Temple St., Detroit, www.themasonic.com, ticket prices vary.

• The Crystal Method & Rabbit In The Moon: 7 p.m. Oct. 31, The Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, www.themagicbag.com, all ages, $35+ adv.

• Los Tigres del Norte: 8 p.m. Nov. 1, Fox Theatre, Detroit, 313Presents.com, ticket prices vary.

• King 810: 6 p.m. Nov. 1, The Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw, Pontiac, all ages, https://thecrofoot.com/events, $25+.

• Dave Matthews Tribute Band: 8 p.m. Nov. 1, Emerald Theater, 31 N. Walnut St., Mt Clemens, 586-630-0120, TheEmeraldTheatre.com, doors at 7 p.m., ages 18+, $20+.

• Streetlight Manifesto: Nov. 2, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W 4th St. Royal Oak, www.royaloakmusictheatre.com, 248-399-3065, ticket prices vary.

• El DeBarge, Dave Hollister: Nov. 2, Music Hall Center, 350 Madison St., Detroit, www.musichall.org, ticket prices vary.

• Mark & Andrea Forester: 6 p.m. Nov. 2, First General Baptist of Waterford, 2933 Frembes Road, wgbchurch.com, 248-673-6481, free admission, donations welcome.

• Drive-By Truckers: 7 p.m. Nov. 5, Saint Andrew’s Hall, Detroit, livenation.com, doors at 6:30 p.m., ticket prices vary.

• Jelly Roll, Ernest, Shaboozey and Allie Colleen: 7 p.m. Nov. 6,  Little Caesars Arena, 313Presents.com, ticket prices vary.

• Lauren Sanderson, Kami Kehoe: Nov. 7, The Loving Touch, 22634 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, 248-820-5596, thelovingtouchferndale.com, all ages, doors at 7 p.m., $23+.

• Kenny Nelson: 8 p.m. Nov. 7, at 20 Front Street, Lake Orion, 248-783-7105, www.20frontstreet.com, doors at 7:30 p.m. all ages, $20+.

Shows

• Ann Arbor Stamp Club’s annual show: Nov. 1 (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Saturday Nov. 2 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.), Morris Lawrence Building of the Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, admission and parking are free, sign-in registration, www.annarborstampclub.org, 734-761-5859.

• Shoppe Sylvan: Noon-4 p.m. Nov. 3, at Sylvan Lake Community Center, 2456 Pontiac Drive, Sylvan Lake, $1 admission.

• Motor City Comic Con: Nov. 8-10, at Suburban Collection Showplace, Pop Culture event featuring comic book and multimedia dealers from across the country offering pop-culture merchandise, including comics, art, t-shirts, movie memorabilia, posters. Also featuring actors including John Cusack, Dave Coulier, and Robert Englund, comic book creators, writers and artists, www.motorcitycomiccon.com, ticket prices vary.

• Waterford Festival of the Arts craft and vendor fair: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 9, at Waterford Recreation Center, 5640 Williams Lake Road, Waterford Twp., 248-674-5441, admission is $1 per person.

Theater

•“The Seagull”: Through Nov. 2, Metamora Opera House, Metamora,  Actor’s Lab show presented by Oxford Wildcat Professional Theatre Co., www.oxfordwildcattheatreco.org, ticket prices vary.

• “Junie B. Jones The Musical Jr.”: 2 p.m. Nov. 2-3, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., www.macombcenter.com, 586-286-2222, $15-$17+.

• “Witch”: Through Nov. 3, The Marlene Boll Theatre inside the Boll Family YMCA, 1401 Broadway, Detroit, DetroitMercyArts.com, ticket prices vary.

• “Strangers On a Train”: Through Nov. 3, at Meadow Brook Theatre, on the campus of Oakland University, 248-377-3300, www.mbtheatre.com, $39+.

• “Fat Ham”: Through Nov. 3, Detroit Public Theatre, 3960 Third St., Detroit, 313-974-7918, www.detroitpublictheatre.org, $49+.

• “MJ-The Musical”: Through Nov. 3, Fisher Theatre, 3011 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, www.broadwayindetroit.com, ticket prices vary.

• “Elf The Musical”: Nov. 6-10, Fox Theatre, Detroit, 313Presents.com, ticket prices vary.

• “The Hobbit”: Nov. 7-10, at Avondale Performing Arts Center 2800 Waukegan St., Auburn Hills presented by the Avondale Theatre Company, avondaletheatrecompany.ludus.com, general admission-$10; streaming Nov. 9-$10; and students-$7.

• “Frozen Jr.”: Nov. 8-10, Oxford Middle School, 1420 Lakeville Road, Oxford, www.oxfordwildcattheatreco.org, $10-18, student discount available.

• “Crimes Of The Heart”: Nov. 8-23, Avon Players Theatre, 1185 Washington, Rochester, 248-608-9077, https://www.avonplayers.org, $28+.

• “Next to Normal” musical: Through Nov. 10, presented by Birmingham Village Players, 34660 Woodward Ave., Birmingham, www.birminghamvillageplayers.com, $30.

• “Good Riddance”- A Gnarly 1990’s Murder Mystery party: Nov. 13, Andiamo Warren, 7096 E. 14 Mile Road, Warren, photo opportunities, games and costume contest with fantastic prizes, ages 21+, includes two drink tickets (cash bar also available),  strolling dinner, and live music from Funhouse, ages 21+, $79.95+ per person. Tax and gratuity are not included, cash bar,  www.andiamoitalia.com.

Art

• Ofrendas-Celebrating Día de Muertos: Through Nov. 3, featuring 11 ofrenda altars, Artist Talk is at 2 p.m. Nov. 3, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org.

• Drop In Workshop: Sugar Skulls is 6:30-8 p.m. Nov. 1, and noon-4 p.m. Nov. 2-3, Detroit Institute of Arts, Art-Making Studio, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, www.dia.org.

• “Florilegium & Fairy Tales”-Lori Zurvalec: Through Nov. 1, Color | Ink Studio, 20919 John R Road, Hazel Park, open 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday to Saturday, and at other times by appointment, and at ColorInkStudio.com, 248-398-6119.

• South Oakland Artist Association Museum Show & Sale: Nov. 2-16, at the Royal Oak Historical Museum, 1411 W Webster Road, Royal Oak, opening receptions and awards ceremony is 2-5 p.m. Nov 3, open to the public, https://southoaklandart.com.

• Natural Crafting workshop: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 4, Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, conference room of the Dairy Barn, 1005 Van Hoosen Road, Rochester Hills, for ages 10+, children under 14 must be accompanied by a paid adult, www.rochesterhills.org.

• Seniors @ the Center: 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 5, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, monthly drop-in art-making workshop for ages 65+, of all skill levels, $10/person, includes all materials. The November project is Watercolor Greeting Cards, https://bbartcenter.org.

• Snowman Stroll Artist Reception: 6-7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, at the Chief Financial Credit Union Community Room, 20 S. Main St., Rochester. Snowman Stroll, a public art event featuring 5’ fiberglass snowmen along Main Street, designed by local artists. This year’s snowman design renderings will be on display and light refreshments will be served. The Snowman Stroll will debut on Dec. 1. For information, visit www.DowntownRochesterMI.com or call the Rochester DDA at 248-656-0060.

• Axel Timm public lecture: 6 p.m. Nov. 7, Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, https://cranbrookart.edu/event/public-lecture-axel-timm, free. Cranbrook’s deSalle Auditorium. Cranbrook Art Museum is open late and free to all on Thursdays, arrive early to explore their current exhibitions.

• GIG – The Art of Michigan Music: Nov. 8-10, at Art 634 in Jackson, ttps://lifeinmichigan.com/gig, $25 for one day or $45 for the weekend. A three day arts and music show featuring 22 Michigan visual arts who create the imagery for the music scene (gig posters, concert photography, album covers)

• JC Rivera: Exhibit through November, on the second floor of Detroit Shipping Company, 474 Peterboro St., Detroit, www.detroitshippingcompany.com, RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/art-gallery-opening-jc-rivera-tickets-1035017684757.

• Patrick Alston and Heather Day: Through Dec. 21, Library Street Collective, 1274 Library St.. Detroit, open Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m., lscgallery.com.

• “Grace Under Fire”: Through Jan. 11, the Shepherd, 1265 Parkview St., Detroit, lscgallery.com, open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday.

• How We Make the Planet Move: Through March 2, The Detroit Collection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with Agnes Martin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.

• Oak Park Community Mural: Recently completed by local artist and Oak Park native, Desiree Kelly, on the Oak Park Public Library, 14200 Oak Park Blvd., Oak Park, www.oakparkmi.gov.

• “The Lion and the Mouse” and “Hippo” sculptures: Formerly at Eastland Center in Harper Woods are now on display at Ascension St. John Hospital, 22101 Moross Road, Detroit.

• “The Art of Dining-Food Culture in the Islamic World”: Through Jan. 5, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org.

• Tiff Massey-“7 Mile + Livernois”: Exhibit through May 11, 2025, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org.

• Thursdays at the Museum: 1 p.m. Thursdays, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, self-guided visit of our collections for adults 55 and older. Groups of 25 or more in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties can receive free bus transportation, www.dia.org/events/thursdays.

• The Hawk Makerspace: The Hawk – Farmington Hills Community Center, featuring craft space, specialized equipment including a laser cutter, 3D printer, and sewing lab. Makerspace users may purchase passes to use the equipment during Open Studio hours. Classes are also offered, fhgov.com/play,-explore-learn/the-hawk/amenities/makerspace.

• Drop-in Design: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, self-guided art-making activities in the Cranbrook Art Museum, Art Lab, 39221 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10.

• University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 South State St., Ann Arbor, 734-764-0395, umma.umich.edu, ticket prices vary.

• DIA Inside|Out: High-quality reproductions of artworks from the DIA’s collection are at outdoor venues throughout Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties, through October, https://dia.org/events/insideout-2024. The city of Rochester is participating, for locations visit www.downtownrochestermi.com/dia-insideout.

Beats, continued

• Sweet: 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Andiamo Celebrity Showroom, 7096 E. 14 Mile Road, Warren, doors at 6:30 p.m., andiamoshowroom.com, $25-$59+.

• Verve Pipe: 8 p.m. Nov. 9, The Roxy, 401 Walnut Blvd., Rochester, 248-453-5285, www.theroxyrochester.com, doors at 7 p.m., ages 21+, $40+.

• Close to You Carpenters Tribute with Lisa Rock: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9, at River Raisin Centre for the Arts Theatre, 114 S. Monroe St., Monroe, 734-242-7722, www.riverraisincentre.org.

• Split Shifters: 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Max Dugan’s, 844 E 10 Mile Road, Hazel Park, 248-677-3059, www.facebook.com/maxsdugans248, costume contest, $5 cover.

• Matthew Ball – The Boogie Woogie Kid: 1-2 p.m. Nov. 12, City of Troy Community Center, 3179 Livernois Road, Troy. For seniors, register at 248-524-3484.

• City and Colour: 7 p.m. Nov. 12, The Fillmore Detroit, www.thefillmoredetroit.com, ticket prices vary.

• Everclear: 8 p.m. Nov. 15, Flagstar Strand Theatre, Pontiac, www.flagstarstrand.com/performancesandevents, ticket prices vary.

• Simply Sinatra—Starring Steve Lippia: 7:30 Nov. 15, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., www.macombcenter.com, 586-286-2222, $50-$69+.

• Kelley O’Connor and Robert Spano: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16, Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305 West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills, www.chambermusicdetroit.org/season81, $30+ each.

• Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening: 7 p.m. Nov. 23, The Fillmore Detroit, www.thefillmoredetroit.com, ticket prices vary.

Books/Lectures

• Storied-The Grunge Era: 8 p.m. Nov. 2, The Berman Center for Performing Arts, 6600 W Maple West Bloomfield Twp., https://tickets.thejdetroit.org/storied-grunge, $25-$45.

Choruses

• Chamber Choir Festival: 7 p.m. Nov. 12, at Varner Recital Hall 371 Varner Drive, Rochester, https://calendar.oakland.edu/smtd, free.

• The Macombers Fall Extravaganza: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., www.macombcenter.com, 586-286-2222, $12-$18+.

Classical/Orchestra

• Fall Chamber Music with U of M Students: 7 p.m. Nov. 1, Hawk Community Center located at 29995 W 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, TheHawkTheatre.com, free but reservations required.

• Rachmaninoff & Prokofiev: Nov. 2-3, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dso.org, $20+.

• Oakland Symphony Orchestra: 3 p.m. Nov. 3, Oakland University Varner Recital Hall, 371 Varner Drive, Rochester, www.oakland.edu/smtd, $25 general, $12 students.

• Detroit Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 2 p.m. Nov. 3, Hawk Community Center located at 29995 W 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, TheHawkTheatre.com, $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $6-student.

• Woodwind, High Brass, Low Brass recitals: Nov. 10, Woodwind recital at 1 p.m., High Brass recital at 3 p.m. and Low Brass recital at 7 p.m., at Varner Recital Hall, 371 Varner Drive, Rochester, https://calendar.oakland.edu/smtd, free admission to all 3.

• Michigan Philharmonic-A Veterans Day Salute: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15, St. Kenneth Church, 14951 N Haggerty Road, Plymouth, michiganphil.org, $35 gen adm., $10 students.

• Macomb Symphony Orchestra: 3 p.m. Nov. 17, Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield Road, Clinton Twp., www.macombcenter.com, 586-286-2222, general admission-$25, first responder and military-$15, MCC students- $12, 12 and younger-free at the Box Office.

Comedy

• One Night Stans: Carlos Mencia-Nov. 1-2; Ron Feingold-Nov. 7-9; at 4761 Highland Road, Waterford Twp., www.onenightstans.club, 248-249-1321, ages 18+, ticket prices vary.

• Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle: Geoffrey Asmus-Nov. 1-2; Jiaoying Summers-Nov. 6; T. Barb-Nov. 7; Pauly Shore-Nov. 8-10, at 310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak, www.comedycastle.com, 248-542-9900, ages 18+, ticket prices vary.

• Steve Martin and Martin Short: 8 p.m. Nov. 2, Fox Theatre, Detroit, 313Presents.com, ticket prices vary.

• Comedy Night for a Cause: Nov. 14, Andiamo Celebrity Showroom, 7096 E. 14 Mile Road, Warren, Motown Mark Dabiero presents comedy showcase featuring Sal Demilio and Steve Lott, dinner at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m., doors at 6 p.m., www.Motownmark.com, $50+.

Dance

• Mark Morris Dance Group-“The Look of Love”: Nov. 2-3, Detroit Opera House, Detroit, the songs of Burt Bacharach,  musical arrangements by Ethan Iverson, https://detroitopera.org, ticket prices vary.

• Disco Diwali: 6-11 p.m. Nov. 9, Shankar Distillers, 1030 Chicago Road, Troy, dance party celebrating the Hindu festival of lights, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/disco-diwali-tickets-1014966280467?aff=op.

Film

• “Night of the Living Dead” (un-rated but the theater is treating admissions as a PG-13), is 9:30 p.m. Oct. 31, at the Farmington Civic Theater, 33332 Grand River Ave., Farmington, www.thefct.com. Tickets, available online and at the box office, are $10 and include a large popcorn and large pop.

• Open caption film screenings: Sunday and Wednesday afternoons throughout November at select Emagine Theatres, Emagine-Entertainment.com, ticket prices vary. Also sensory-friendly screenings are offered Nov. 2 and Nov. 16, and dementia-friendly screenings are offered Nov. 13.

• “Jurassic Park” Q&A screening with Wayne Knight: 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Emagine Theatre, Novi, www.MotorCityComicCon.com, $40+.

• Robert Englund Q&A screening: 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Emagine Theatre, Novi, screening of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, www.MotorCityComicCon.com.

• “Goodboy” screening: 4-6 p.m. Nov. 10, Phoenix Theatres State Wayne, 35310 W Michigan Ave., Wayne. Presented by Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit, proceeds to benefit shelter pets at Friends for Animals in Dearborn, www.metrodetroitanimals.org/event/goodboyfilm.

• Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org, ticket prices vary.

• Milford Independent Cinema: 945 E Summit St., Milford, milfordcinema.org/tickets, $5+.

• Redford Theatre, 17360 Lahser Road, Detroit, redfordtheatre.com, ticket prices vary.

Fundraisers

• PurpleLight ceremony: 6 p.m. Nov. 3, at Gilda’s Club Detroit – Garden, 3517 Rochester Road, Royal Oak, hosted by Michigan Affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer, register at https://pancan.org, www.facebook.com/groups/pancanmichigan.

• Step Up to the Plate: Nov. 3-8, dine out at participating restaurants to benefit Troy schools, turn in receipts to Troy school of choice, https://troychamber.com.
• Meadow Brook Gala: Nov. 8, Meadow Brook Hall, 350 Estate Drive, Rochester featuring a glamorous evening at the estate that includes a special look inside the newly opened De Carlo Visitor Center, alongside an exquisite evening of live strings and fine dining at the historic mansion, including a champagne toast and full bar, live music, a five-course gourmet dinner, glittering reception. Tickets are $500, at meadowbrookhall.org/gala.

• The Zekelman Holocaust Hosts its 40th Anniversary Benefit Dinner, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Nov. 10, at Huntington Place, 1 Washington Blvd., Detroit. The annual fundraising event will celebrate honorees Marcie and Rob Orley and features keynote speaker Mitch Albom. Purchase tickets at https://holocaustcenter.org/events/anniversary-benefit.

• Paint a Miracle hosts Miracle at Meadow Brook exhibit event is 7 p.m. Nov. 13, Meadow Brook Hall, 350 Estate Drive, Rochester. The event will feature a curated exhibit of unique, one-of-a-kind art pieces created by Paint a Miracle artists, available for viewing and purchase. Attendees will also have the opportunity to enjoy self-guided tours of Meadow Brook Hall. All proceeds from art sales will directly benefit the talented artists of Paint a Miracle. Ticket sales will close at noon on Nov. 4. Tickets can be purchased at https://paintamiracle.cbo.io. Tickets are $100 each, two for $175, or six for $450.

• Yoga Moves MS’s Gratitude Gala: Nov. 16, at The MINT, in Lathrup Village. Yoga Moves MS provides free adaptive yoga to those in need through in-person, virtual, and online programming. The gala features dinner, live music, auction, wine pull, purchase tickets at www.yogamovesms.org, https://cbo.io/tickets/ymms24/tix24, tickets are $150+ each.

• GMAR Gives Back is 6-10 p.m. Nov. 15, at Fifth Avenue, 215 West 5th Street, Royal Oak, to support Shades of Pink, ages 21+, includes two drinks and appetizers, tickets are $50 until Oct 31, then $60 up until the day of the event, Greater Metropolitan Association of Realtors, https://gmaronline.com/event/2024-11-15/gmar-gives-back.

• Volunteers of America Michigan Holidays of Hope Gala is 6 p.m. Nov. 16 at M1 Concourse, 1 Concourse Dr, Pontiac. The fundraiser will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, gourmet dinner catered by Andiamo, live and service auctions, slot car racing, professional drivers, cocktail attire requested, www.voami.org/holidaysofhope, tickets are $175+.

Haunted attractions
• Azra Chamber of Horrors: Through Nov. 2, at 31410 John R, Bldg. 2, Madison Heights, 734-718-0088, https://azrahaunt.com,  ticket prices vary.

• Erebus Haunted Attraction: Through Nov. 2, at 18 South Perry St., Pontiac, www.hauntedpontiac.com, 248-332-7884, ticket prices vary.

• Rotten Manor Haunted Attraction: Opens at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays in October, and Nov. 1-2, at 13245 Dixie Hwy., Groveland Twp., www.facebook.com/RottenManor,  tickets sold on site, cash only, (ATM on site). Manor, forest, hayride attraction ticket prices vary.

• Hush Haunted Attraction: Open select dates through Nov. 2, at 37550 Cherry Hill Road, Westland, https://hushhauntedattractions.com, ticket prices vary.

• Immersive & Illuminated Forest Experience: Open Thursday to Sunday evenings, through Nov. 3, at Glenlore Trails, 3860 Newtown Road, Commerce Twp., “Enchanted” themed outdoor event, all-ages, tickets at GlenloreTrails.com, ticket prices vary.

Holiday activities

• All Things Detroit-The Holiday Experience: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 3, Detroit’s Eastern Market, 2934 Russell St. Detroit, Sheds 3, 4 and 5. Tickets are $5 at the door, $10 Beat the Crowd tickets are soldonline only at https://events.allthingsticketing.com/events/ATDHoliday2024.

Downtown Rochester Holiday Expo: 5-7:30 p.m. Nov. 11, at the Royal Park Hotel. Over 60 businesses will be showcasing their products and services, just in time for the holidays. Attendees are encouraged to shop, discover holiday ideas and inspirations, and explore all that the businesses have to offer. Admission is free and includes light refreshments and door prize drawings, downtownrochestermi.com.

• Palmer Woods Holiday Home Tour & Soirée: Dec. 7. Guests will be invited to tour five homes in Palmer Woods plus the Soirée home, the former residence of Detroit icon, Aretha Franklin. Contact hhtour@palmerwoods.org or 313-744-2624. www.palmerwoods.org.

Misc.

• Cold Case Live-true crime show: 8 p.m. Nov. 1, Flagstar Strand Theatre, Pontiac, www.flagstarstrand.com/performancesandevents, ticket prices vary.

• Gold Over America Tour starring Simone Biles: 7 p.m., Nov. 3,  Little Caesars Arena, 313Presents.com, ticket prices vary.

Museums

• Bank of America customers receive free admission: Nov.  2-3, and the first weekend of each month to museums and cultural institutions across the country, including Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Michigan Science Center, Arab American National Museum, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and Motown Museum, bit.ly/2NvmECM.

• “He Rode With Custer-Rochester’s Samuel Harris”: Nov. 7, Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, 1005 Van Hoosen Road, Rochester Hills, free for Rochester-Avon Historical Society members. Nonmembers are asked to consider a $5 suggested donation at the door. Registration is required at www.rochesteravonhistoricalsociety.org/events, or call 248-266-5440 and leave a message.

• Speaker Series-Eddie Game: 6-8 p.m. Nov. 7, Cranbrook Institute of Science, 39221 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, “Eavesdropping on Conservation in the Asia Pacific with Q&A,” https://science.cranbrook.edu/visit/events/2024-11/speaker-series. Registration is free, but required.

• Lost Mariners Remembrance: 6 p.m. Nov. 10, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, tribute to sailors lost on the Great Lakes, presented by the Detroit Historical Society. The event marks the anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, features performance by Lee Murdock, a celebrated balladeer of the Great Lakes. The evening closes with the playing of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” coupled with a bell ringing, $10 members, $15 general public, detroithistorical.org/membership.

• Westin Book Cadillac at 100 Exhibition: Westin Book Cadillac, 1114 Washington Blvd., Detroit, presented with Detroit Historical Society, exhibit explores the 100-year history of the Book Cadillac hotel, https://detroithistorical.org.

• Michigan Science Center (Mi-Sci): 5020 John R St., Detroit, 313-577-8400, www.mi-sci.org. Regular museum gen. adm. is $18+. Standard Mi-Sci films are available as a $6 add-on to general admission tickets. Mi-Sci is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday and until 8 p.m. the first Friday of each month. “Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family” exhibit is open through Jan. 12.

• Michigan Science Center Illuminate: 6-10 p.m. Nov. 8, celebration of National STEM Day, (Mi-Sci): 5020 John R St., Detroit, 313-577-8400, www.mi-sci.org.gourmet cuisine and libations, suggested donation of $75.

• The Zekelman Holocaust Center: 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, www.holocaustcenter.org, 248-553-2400.

• Motown Museum, 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit, motownmuseum.org, 313-875-2264. Motown Mile outdoor, walkable art installation, “Pushin’ Culture Forward,” open through early fall, along the Detroit Riverwalk, free admission.

• The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village: 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, Ford Rouge Factory Tours Monday-Saturday, purchase tickets online, prices vary, thehenryford.org.

• Ford Piquette Plant Museum: 461 Piquette Ave, Detroit. Open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $10-$18. Optional guided tours take place daily at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., www.fordpiquetteplant.org, 313-872-8759.

• Ford House: Historic estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford, 1100 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Shores, fordhouse.org/events, 313-884-4222, admission is $7 per adult and $5 per child, ages 6+, free for 5 and younger.

• Dossin Great Lakes Museum: 100 Strand Drive, Belle Isle, Detroit, detroithistorical.org.

• Detroit Arsenal of Democracy Museum: Seeks volunteer groups from veteran and military groups to assist with restoration. The museum is also seeking building materials and equipment to support the ongoing restoration of its vintage industrial space at 19144 Glendale Ave., Detroit, including floor grinders, clear epoxy and Thinset products for floor repairs, www.detroitarsenalofdemocracy.org.

• Pontiac Transportation Museum: 250 W. Pike St., Pontiac. Admission to the museum is $10, $8 for seniors and veterans, $6 for children ages 6-12, free for children ages 5 and younger. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, www.pontiactransportationmuseum.org.

• Detroit Historical Museum: 5401 Woodward Ave. (NW corner of Kirby) in Midtown Detroit, detroithistorical.org. Permanent exhibits include the famous Streets of Old Detroit, the Allesee Gallery of Culture, Doorway to Freedom: Detroit and the Underground Railroad, Detroit: The “Arsenal of Democracy,” the Gallery of Innovation, Frontiers to Factories, America’s Motor City and The Glancy Trains, regular museum general admission is $10.  Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. “Detroit Lions: Gridiron Heroes,” exhibition featuring the history of the Detroit Lions, detroithistorical.org.

• Cranbrook Institute of Science: 39221 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, https://science.cranbrook.edu, $14 general admission, $10.50 for ages 2-12 and seniors 65+, free for children under age 2.

• Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm: Drop in tours on Fridays and Saturdays from noon-3 p.m., at 1005 Van Hoosen Road, Rochester Hills, with a guided tour of the Van Hoosen Farmhouse at 1 p.m., www.rochesterhills.org/musprograms, museum members-free, non-members-$5/adults, $3/seniors and students, no registration needed.

• The Wright: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit, 313-494-5800, open Tuesday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and open until 7 p.m. on Thursday, closed on Mondays, reserve timed tickets at thewright.org, $30+ gen adm., $20 for seniors 62+, $15 for youth, ages 5-17, free for under 5.

• Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society: Open 1st/2nd/4th/5th Sundays of the month and 3rd Fridays, 1-4 pm, (holidays excluded) with exhibits including “Four Communities” exhibit at The Orchard Lake Museum, 3951 Orchard Lake Road, Orchard Lake. Admission is free, donations are welcome, www.gwbhs.org, 248-757-2451.

• Meadow Brook Hall offers Guided House Tours and Self-Guided Tours, check available times and purchase tickets at meadowbrookhall.org/tours, ticket prices vary. Meadow Brook Hall, 350 Estate Drive, Rochester, on the campus of Oakland University.

• Royal Oak Historical Society Museum: Hours are 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1411 W. Webster Road, Royal Oak, royaloakhistoricalsociety.com, 248-439-1501, $10+ suggested donation.

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The following list includes movies available at local theaters, and movies that are available to watch through online streaming and video on demand services including: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, Hulu, Vudu, FandangoNow, Apple TV+, YouTube, Disney+, HBO Max and more.

Showing at theaters

• “Absolution” (R): An aging gangster attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes of his past. Starring William Xifaras, Josh Drennen, Chanel Rose Connor and Ian Dylan Hunt. In theaters, Nov. 1.

• “Hitpig!” (PG): Animated feature about a bounty-hunting pig who catches escaped animals. Featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Anitta, Rainn Wilson and Lilly Singh. In theaters, Nov. 1.

• “Here” (PG-13): A generational story about the comings and goings in a house over the course of a century. Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Kelly Reilly and Paul Bettany. In theaters, Nov. 1.

• “The Carpenter” (PG-13): Action adventure about an adopted Viking orphan who becomes a carpenter’s apprentice to Jesus. Starring Kameron Krebs, Jeff Dickamore, Milton Schorr and Daz Crawford. In theaters, Nov. 1.

• “Conclave” (PG): Mystery-thriller film based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with participating in the secretive process of selecting a new pope. Surrounded by other religious leaders in the halls of the Vatican, he soon uncovers secrets that could shake the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church. Also starring Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Carlos Dietz, Isabella Rossellini, Sergio Castellitto and Lucian Msamati. Directed by Edward Berger.

• “Venom-The Last Dance” (PG-13): The final chapter of the “Venom” trilogy. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom must make a devastating decision as they’re pursued by a mysterious military man. Also starring Juno Temple, Peggy Lu and Rhys Ifans.

• “Your Monster” (R): A romantic-comedy-horror film about an actress whose life falls apart. She recovers her voice after finding a terrifying but charming monster living in her closet. Starring Tommy Dewey, Melissa Barrera, Edmund Donovan and Meghann Fahy.

• “Exhibiting Forgiveness” (R): A Black artist’s path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict. Starring Andra Day, André Holland, John Earl Jelks and Dan Nainan.

• “Smile 2” (R): Global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is about to embark on a world tour when she begins experiencing terrifying and inexplicable events, and is forced to face her dark past. Also starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Raúl Castillo and Ray Nicholson.

• “Terrifier 3″: Third installment in the “Terrifier” horror film franchise with Sienna and her brother struggling to rebuild their lives after surviving Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre. Starring David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi and Elliott Fullam.

• “Saturday Night” (R): Comedy/Drama that follows producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) and the cast of young comedians and writers as they prepare for the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 11, 1975. Also starring Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith and Rachel Sennott.

• “Piece by Piece” (PG): Animated documentary about the life of singer/songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, told with LEGO animation. Featuring the voices of Pharrell Williams, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay Z and Snoop Dogg.

• “My Hero Academia-You’re Next” (PG-13): Fourth movie of the “My Hero Academia” anime series with high school student Izuku Midoriya confronting a villain who imitates the hero he’s long admired.

• “We Live in Time” (R): Romance/Comedy film about Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) who are brought together by a surprise encounter that changes their lives.

• “White Bird”: A coming of age story, based on R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel, “White Bird: A Wonder Story”. Starring Bryce Gheisar, Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt and Helen Mirren.

• “Joker: Folie À Deux” (R): “Joker” sequel with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur finds his true love, Harley Quinn, played by Lady Gaga. Also starring Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, and Zazie Beetz, (Thriller/Musical)

• “The Wild Robot” (PG): DreamWorks Animation adaptation of Peter Brown’s #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name. The adventure follows a robot named Roz that is shipwrecked on a deserted island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the native animals, forming a parental bond with an orphaned gosling. Featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, with Mark Hamill, Matt Berry and Ving Rhames.

• “Transformers One” (PG): Animated prequel to the “Transformers” film series, origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, featuring the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi.

• “The Substance” (R): Horror/Sci-fi film that follows Elisabeth Sparkle, (Demi Moore) renowned for an aerobics show, as she is fired on her 50th birthday. A laboratory offers her a substance which promises to transform her into an enhanced version of herself. Also starring Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid and Tiffany Hofstetter.

• “Speak No Evil” (R): When an American couple and their daughter are invited to spend the weekend at a British family’s idyllic country estate, what begins as a dream holiday soon becomes a nightmare. Starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, Dan Hough and Scoot McNairy.

• “Beetle Juice Beetle Juice” (PG-13): Sequel to the 1988 horror comedy, “Beetle Juice.”  After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River, where Lydia’s rebellious teenage daughter discovers a mysterious portal to the afterlife. Starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, with Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Tim Burton.

Streaming movies

• “Time Cut” (NR): A teenager travels back to the early 2000s to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister. Starring Michael Shanks, Griffin Gluck, Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, Summer H. Howell, Rachel Crawford and Megan Best. Available on Netflix, Oct. 30.

• “The Crow” (R): Reboot of the 1994 cult classic of the same name, based on the comic book series by James O’Barr. Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Eric is given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, and sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead. Starring Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Karel Dobrý, and David Bowles.

• “Deadpool & Wolverine” (R): New superhero film with Marvel Studios characters Deadpool and Wolverine teaming up to defeat a common enemy. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni and Matthew Macfadyen.

• “Woman of the Hour” (R): Based on the true story of an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial killer, whose lives intersect during an episode of The Dating Game. Starring Anna Kendrick, Tony Hale, Jedidiah Goodacre, Kelly Jakle, Daniel Zovatto, and Max Lloyd-Jones. Available on Netflix.

• “Lonely Planet” (R): A young man goes with his girlfriend to a prestigious workshop for writers in Morocco. As their relationship becomes strained, he engages in a romance with a famous, reclusive writer. Starring Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers, Ben Youcef, Bellina Logan and Dillon Lane. Available on Netflix.

• “Hold Your Breath” (R): Set in Oklahoma during the dust storms of the 1930s, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family. Also starring Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona Jane Robbins, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Available on Hulu.

• “Never Let Go” (R): Psychological thriller/horror film — as an evil force takes over the world beyond their front door, the only protection for a mother (Halle Berry) and her twin sons, is their house and their family’s protective bond. Also starring Anthony B. Jenkins, Percy Daggs III and Percy Daggs IV.

• “Alien-Romulus” (R): New sci-fi/horror-thriller of the “Alien” franchise. While scavenging a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers face the most terrifying life form in the universe. Producer Ridley Scott, starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu.

• “It Ends With Us” (PG-13): Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) moves to Boston to chase her lifelong dream of opening her own business, and meets a charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni). As the two fall in love, she begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents’ relationship. Also starring Brandon Sklenar and Isabela Ferrer.

• “Reagan” (PG-13): Drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to Hollywood stardom to becoming the 40th president of the United States. Starring Dennis Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller, Scott Stapp and Darci Lynne Farmer.

• “Average Joe” (PG-13): Based on a true story, high school football coach Joe Kennedy (Eric Close) finds himself in a fight for religious freedom after he’s fired for publicly taking a knee in prayer after each game. Also starring Amy Acker, Jimmy Gonzales and Paul Rae.

• “Lee” (R): Drama based on the true story of photographer Elizabeth `Lee’ Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. Starring Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Marion Cotillard.

• “God’s Not Dead-In God We Trust” (PG): Drama with Rev. David Hill (David A.R. White) running for Congress against an opponent who wants to erase religion from policy. Also starring Dean Cain , Isaiah Washington , Scott Baio and Samaire Armstrong.

• “The Forge” (PG): A young man with no plans for his future, is challenged by his single mom and a successful businessman to start charting a better course for his life. Through the prayers of his mother and biblical discipleship from his new mentor, he begins discovering God’s purpose for his life. Starring Priscilla Shirer, Aspen Kennedy, Jerry Shirer and Karen Abercrombie.

• “It’s What’s Inside” (R): A group of college friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into a nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets. Starring Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Devon Terrell. Available on Netflix.

• “Wolfs” (R): George Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer (Brad Pitt) shows up, the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together. Also starring Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Poorna Jagannathan. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Twisters” (PG-13): A former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years, is lured back to the open plains by a friend to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney and Brandon Perea.

• “The Killer’s Game” (R): Top hitman Joe Flood (Dave Bautista) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and decides to take take a hit out on himself. But when the hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend (Sofia Boutella), he must fend off assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life. Also starring Terry Crews and Scott Adkins, with Pom Klementieff, and Ben Kingsley.

• “Rez Ball” (PG-13): The Chuska, New Mexico high school basketball team is rich in Native American heritage. After the loss of their star player, the team must face their greatest challenge to keep their dreams of a state championship alive. Starring Jessica Matten, Kauchani Bratt, Cody Lightning, Dallas Goldtooth, Ernest David Tsosie, Kusem Goodwind, Zoey Reyes, Amber Midthunder and Julia Jones. Available on Netflix.

• “His Three Daughters” (R): Bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Jovan Adepo and Jay O. Sanders. Available on Netflix.

• “Uglies” (PG-13): In a futuristic world that imposes a mandatory cosmetic surgery at 16, a teen awaiting her turn leaves to search for her friend who ran away. Starring Joey King, Chase Stokes and Laverne Cox. Available on Netflix.

• “Rebel Ridge” (TV-MA): Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) enters the town of Shelby Springs to post bail for his cousin. But when Terry’s life savings is unjustly seized by law-enforcement, he’s forced to go head to head with local police chief Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson) and his combat-ready officers. Terry finds an ally in court clerk Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb). Available on Netflix.

• “Blink Twice” (R): A young waitress in Los Angeles meets a tech entrepreneur who invites her to vacation with him and his friends on his private island. When strange things start to happen, Frida must uncover the truth to make it out alive. Starring Channing Tatum, Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan and Adria Arjona.

• “Borderlands” (PG-13): Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter returns to her home planet and forms an alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Based on a video game franchise. Also starring Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Florian Munteanu.

• “Despicable Me 4” (PG): Sequel to “Despicable Me 3” with a new member of the family, Gru Jr. The family is forced to go on the run when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru. Animated, featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Pierre Coffin, Joey King, Sofia Vergara, Stephen Colbert, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier and Madison Polan.

• “My Penguin Friend” (PG): A heartbroken fisherman rescues a penguin drifting alone in the ocean. Starring Jean Reno, Adriana Barraza, Rocio Hernandez and Nicolás Francella.

• “Ryan’s World the Movie-Titan Universe” (PG): When Ryan’s twin sisters Emma and Kate get trapped in a comic book world, he enters the realm to rescue them. Starring Ryan Kaji, Albie Hecht, Shion Kaji and Kate Kaji.

• “Cuckoo” (R): Horror film about a 17-year-old girl who reluctantly leaves her American home to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Starring Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick and Kalin Morrow.

• “How To Come Alive with Norman Mailer”: Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, dia.org, ticket prices vary.

• “Kneecap” (R): Biopic film about the rise of the Irish hip hop act, Kneecap. Starring Naoise Ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara”, JJ Ó Dochartaigh “DJ Provaí”, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best, with Simone Kirby and Michael Fassbender.

• “Kalki 2898 AD”: Indian Sci-fi/Action film. A modern avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu is said to have descended on Earth to protect the world from evil forces, subtitles. Starring Prabhas, Kamal Haasan, Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan.

• “Sound of Hope-The Story of Possum Trot” (PG-13): Donna and Reverend Martin ignite a movement of compassion in their East Texas church for 22 families to adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system.

• “Bad Newz”: Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Anand Tiwari. Starring Tripti Dimri, Vicky Kaushal, Ammy Virk and Fatima Sana Shaikh.

• “The Front Room” (R): Horror/thriller film that follows a newly pregnant woman whose mother-in-law moves in and tries to get her claws on the child. Starring Brandy, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap and Neal Huff.

• “Slingshot” (R): A trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan must attempt a slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space. Starring Casey Affleck, Tomer Capone, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham.

• “Strange Darling” (R): A twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree. Starring Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Giovanni Ribisi and Barbara Hershey.

• “Between The Temples” (R): A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his former grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly De Leon and Madeline Weinstein.

• “City of Dreams” (R): A young Mexican farmer travels to Los Angeles with the promise of training at a soccer camp. Soon he realizes he’s really been sold to a sweatshop, and plans his escape. Starring Ari López, Jason Patric, Renata Vaca and Diego Calva.

• “Afraid” (PG-13): Curtis (John Cho) and his family are selected to test a new digital assistant device which begins to anticipate their needs and makes sure nothing gets in the family’s way. Also starring Katherine Waterston, Lukita Maxwell and Havana Rose Liu.

• “1992” (R): Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) is trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amid the turbulent Los Angeles riots in 1992, following the Rodney King verdict. Meanwhile, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plan a heist where Mercer works. Also starring Ray Liotta, Scott Eastwood and Dylan Arnold.

• “Inside Out 2” (PG): Disney and Pixar’s sequel to “Inside Out” with Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) now a teenager with a new set of emotions. Animated comedy featuring the voices of Maya Hawke, Amy Poehler, Ayo Edebiri, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith.

• “You Gotta Believe” (PG): A group of underdog youth baseball players make it all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series. Starring Patrick Renna, Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear and Sarah Gadon.

• “Harold and the Purple Crayon” (PG): Animated fantasy comedy film, based on the children’s book of the same title by Crockett Johnson. Starring Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Tanya Reynolds and Lil Rel Howery.

• “Didi” (R): In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. Starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.

• “Trap” (PG-13): A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, featuring performances by his daughter, rising music star Saleka Shyamalan. Starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills and Allison Pill.

• “The Fabulous Four” (R): Lifelong friends travel to Key West, Fla., to be bridesmaids in the wedding of their college girlfriend. Starring Bette Midler, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Susan Sarandon and Megan Mullally.

• “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” (PG-13): Lifelong best friends Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean share an unbreakable bond from decades of weathering life’s storms. Now, as heartbreak and illness stir up the past, their bond is put to the test. Starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan, Uzo Aduba, Mekhi Phifer, Julian McMahon and Russell Hornsby. Available on Hulu.

• “The Union” (PG-13): Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker from Jersey, gets recruited by his high school sweetheart Roxanne (Halle Berry) to serve on a high-stakes US intelligence mission. Also starring J.K. Simmons, Mike Colter, Alice Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, and Jessica De Gouw.

• “The Instigators” (R): Rory (Matt Damon) and Cobby (Casey Affleck) are reluctant partners thrown together to rob a corrupt politician. When the heist goes wrong, they convince Rory’s therapist (Hong Chau) to join their getaway, and must put aside their differences and work together. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Bad Boys-Ride or Die” (R): Fourth installment of the “Bad Boys” action comedy franchise with the Miami detectives on the run as falsely accused fugitives. Starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Paola Núñez, Jacob Scipio and Vanessa Hudgens.

• “Fly Me to the Moon” (PG-13): Sparks fly between a marketing executive and a NASA official as he makes preparations for the Apollo 11 moon landing. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson and Anna Garcia.

• “Longlegs” (R): FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Starring Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt and Kiernan Shipka.

• “Gunner”: A father tries to save his sons from a dangerous drug gang. Starring Luke Hemsworth, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Baena and Grant Feely.

• “Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1” (R): Families, friends and foes discover the lure of the Old West as the Civil War divides the country. Starring Kevin Costner, Abbey Lee, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston. Directed by Kevin Costner.

• “Beverly Hills Cop-Axel F” (R): Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy. Also starring Kevin Bacon.

• “The Fall Guy” (PG-13): As a stuntman, Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) gets blown up, shot, crashed, and thrown through windows. After an almost career-ending accident, he must spring back into action to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life, while still doing his day job. Also starring Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu.

• “Oddity” (R): After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items to exact revenge. Starring Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Tadhg Murphy and Steve Wall.

• “Disciples in the Moonlight” (PG-13): In the not-too-distant future, the United States bans the Bible and replaces it with a government-approved version. A small group of Christians tries to smuggle the true Word of God to underground churches throughout the Midwest. Starring Brett Varvel, Micah Lynn Hanson, Sharon Oliphant and Myles Clohessy.

• “Kinds of Kindness” (R): Three stories: One follows a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; Another is about a policeman whose wife went missing at sea and returns seeming like a different person; and a woman who searches for someone with a special ability. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer.

• “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (PG-13): Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global franchise set several generations in the future, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. Starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy.

• “The Garfield Movie” (PG): New Garfield movie with Garfield being reunited with his long-lost father, a scruffy street cat, who draws him into a high-stakes heist. Animated, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Nicholas Hoult, Ving Rhames and Samuel L. Jackson.

• “Daddio” (R): A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi at JFK airport. As the driver takes off into the night toward Manhattan, she gradually tells the driver about her unfortunate decisions that led to an affair with a married man and  the driver also reveals about his life. Starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.

• “The Abandon” (R): A wounded U.S. soldier awakens trapped in a strange cube that tests his physical and mental limits as he struggles to find a way to escape. Thriller/sci-fi film starring Jonathan Rosenthal, Tamara Perry, Mezi Atwood and Priscilla Avila.

• “A Quiet Place-Day One” (PG-13): Prequel to “A Quiet Place,” the day the world went quiet. Starring Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou and Lupita Nyong’o.

• “Touch” (R): A romantic adventure that spans several decades and continents; following one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago. The film is based on the 2022 Icelandic best-selling novel by Olafur Johann Olafsson. Starring Egill Olafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur, Masahiro Motoki, Yoko Narahashi, Ruth Sheen, María Ellingsen, Meg Kubota and Charles Nishikawa.

• “The Exorcism” (R): A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a horror film. His estranged daughter wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play. Starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Chloe Bailey and Sam Worthington.

• “Ghostlight” (R): When a construction worker joins a local theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life. Starring Dolly De Leon, Keith Kupferer, Katherine Kupferer and Tara Mallen.

• “MaXXXine” (R): Horror film set in 1980s Hollywood about an adult film star/aspiring actress who finally gets her big break, but a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Los Angeles. Starring Mia Goth, Halsey, Elizabeth Debicki and Lily Collins.

• “Babes” (R): Pregnant from a one-night-stand, Eden leans on her best friend and mother of two, Dawn, to guide her. Starring Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Hasan Minhaj and Stephan James.

• “The Bikeriders” (R): During a rebellious time in America, a Midwestern motorcycle club transforms from a gathering place for local outsiders into an underworld of violence. Starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Mike Faist, Michael Shannon and Norman Reedus.

• “Summer Camp” (PG-13): Comedy about childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary who used to spend every summer at a sleep-away camp together. Years later, they’re given the opportunity to reunite. Starring Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Josh Peck and Victoria Rowell.

• “The Dead Don’t Hurt” (R): Western/Romance film about star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely independent woman who must fend for herself when Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen) goes to fight in the Civil War. Also starring Solly McLeod and Jason Clarke.

• “Dandelion” (R): A struggling singer-songwriter falls into an intoxicating romance that leads her to a deeper appreciation of her artistic journey as she discovers a voice that is authentically her own. Starring KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholls-King and Cliff Cash.

• “IF” (PG): From writer and director John Krasinski, “IF” is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends – and what she does with that superpower to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids. Starring Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr. and Steve Carell.

• “Godzilla x Kong-The New Empire” (PG-13): Latest film in the Monsterverse franchise following “Godzilla vs. Kong,” pitting Kong and Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden deep within the planet. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Kaylee Hottle and Nicola Crisa and Dan Stevens.

• “Young Woman and the Sea” (PG)  Based on the true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Starring Daisy Ridley, Stephen Graham and Kim Bodnia. Available on Disney+.

• “Dragonkeeper” (PG): A young orphan ventures across ancient China to save the last surviving dragons from extinction. Animated.

• “Sting” (R): Charlotte, a rebellious 12-year-old girl finds a tiny spider in her rundown apartment building. She keeps it in a jar, but it soon starts to grow at a monstrous rate and neighbors begin to disappear. Starring Alyla Browne, Ryan Corr, Penelope Mitchell and Jermaine Fowler.

• “Treasure” (R): A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. Starring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Sandra Drzymalska and Zbigniew Zamachows.

• “Thelma” (PG-13): A 93-year-old grandmother who loses $10,000 to a con artist on the phone gets help from a friend and his motorized scooter to travel across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her. Starring June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey and Clark Gregg.

• “Tuesday” (R): A mother and her daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of a talking bird. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinze Kene and Ellie James.

• “The Strangers-Chapter 1″ (R): First entry of horror film series. After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. where they are terrorized by three masked strangers. Starring Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Gabriel Basso and Rachel Shenton.

• “Challengers” (R): Tennis player turned coach Tashi (Zendaya) has transformed her husband, Art (Mike Faist), from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion.

• “Furiosa-A Mad Max Saga” (R): Fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise, and prequel to “Mad Max- Fury Road,” a young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Quaden Bayles, Tom Hardy and Anya Taylor-Joy.

• “Divorce in the Black” (R): New Tyler Perry movie. After her husband deserts their marriage, a woman gets a chance to find true love. Starring Meagan Good, Cory Hardrict, Joseph Lee Anderson and Richard Lawson. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

• “Hit Man” (R): A professional killer breaks protocol to help a woman trying to flee an abusive husband and finds himself falling for her. Available on Netflix.

• “The Watchers” (PG-13): An artist gets stranded in a forest in western Ireland and becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are stalked by mysterious creatures every night. Starring Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré and Siobhan Hewlett.

• “Sight” (PG-13): Based on the true story of Dr. Ming Wang, a Chinese immigrant who defies all odds to become a world-renowned eye surgeon. Starring Greg Kinnear, Terry Chen, Ben Wang and Mia SwamiNathan.

• “Fancy Dance” (TV-MA): Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) and her niece Roki hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City. Starring Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Shea Whigham, Ryan Begay, Crystle Lightning, and Audrey Wasilewski. Available on Apple TV+.

• “I Am-Celine Dion” (PG): Celine Dion highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit as she struggles with a life-altering illness. Available on Amazon Prime.

• “Unsung Hero” (PG): Based on a true story that follows David Smallbone, his pregnant wife Helen, and their seven children as they leave Australia to rebuild their lives in America. David and Helen realize the musical talent of their children, who become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history. Starring Joel Smallbone, Rebecca St. James, Candace Cameron and Daisy Betts.

• “Ezra” (R): Divorced stand-up comedian Max Bernal struggles to raise his autistic son, Ezra. Forced to confront difficult decisions about the boy’s future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip that has a transcendent impact on both of their lives. Starring Robert De Niro, Tony Goldwyn, Bobby Cannavale and William A. Fitzgerald.

• “Back to Black” (R): The story of Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black, that catapulted her to global fame. Starring Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville.

• “In A Violent Nature” (NR): Horror film where a group of teens take a locket from a collapsed fire tower in the woods, and unwittingly resurrect the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime. Starring Ryan Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Charlotte Creaghan and Lauren-Marie Taylor.

• “Firebrand” (R): In Tudor England, Katherine Parr reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII. Her predecessors were either vanquished or dead. Starring Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Junia Rees and Anna Mawn.

• “Tarot” (PG-13): A group of friends unwittingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within a cursed deck of tarot cards. Starring Avantika Vandanapu, Jacob Batalon, Larsen Thompson and Harriet Slater.

• “The Beach Boys” documentary: A celebration of the band that revolutionized pop music and the harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream. Available on Disney+.

• “Atlas” (PG-13): Sci-fi action film about a data analyst with a deep distrust of AI who finds it may be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown, Mark Strong, Sims Liu, Lana Parrilla, and Lesley Fera. Available on Netflix.

• “Monkey Man” (R): A young man ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where he is beaten bloody by popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sikandar Kher, Sobhita Dhulipala and Adithi Kalkunte.

• “The Strangers”-Chapter 1 (R): First entry of horror film series. After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. where they are terrorized by three masked strangers. Starring Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez, Gabriel Basso and Rachel Shenton.

• “Not Another Church Movie” (R): Taylor Pherry (Kevin Daniels), is given a mission from God to tell his family’s stories and inspire his community. What he doesn’t know is that the devil has other plans. Also starring Jamie Foxx, Tisha Campbell and Vivica A. Fox.

• “The First Omen” (R): When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith. Starring Nell Tiger Free, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson and Bill Nighy.

• “Abigail” (R): A group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure. All they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom, is watch the girl overnight in an isolated mansion. Starring Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud and Giancarlo Esposito.

• “Civil War” (R): In a dystopian future, a team of military-embedded journalists race to reach Washington, D.C. before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny and Jesse Plemons.

• “Ghostbusters-Frozen Empire” (PG-13): The Spengler family returns to the New York City firehouse to team up with the original Ghostbusters. When an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must unite to protect the world from a second ice age. Starring Mckenna Grace, Emily Alyn Lind, Bill Murray, Finn Wolfhard, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Paul Rudd.

• “Kung Fu Panda 4” (PG): After three death-defying adventures defeating villains with his courage and martial arts skills, Po the Dragon Warrior is called upon to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace. Animated, featuring the voices of Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Ian McShane and Ke Huy Quan.

• “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” (R): Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, this action-comedy tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII. The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis. Starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusamokun, Henrique Zaga, Til Schweiger, with Henry Golding and Cary Elwes.

• “Jeanne du Barry”: Historical drama about Jeanne, a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder. She becomes one of the favorites of King Louis XV and falls madly in love. Against all convention, Jeanne moves to Versailles. Starring Johnny Depp, Maïwenn, Pauline Pollmann and Diego Le Fur.

• “Boy Kills World” (R): Boy (Bill Skarsgård) trains to become an instrument of death and assassinate Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty who murdered his family. Also starring Jessica Rothe and Andrew Koji.

• “Mother of the Bride” (PG-13): Lana’s daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she’s getting married. Things get worse when Lana learns that the man who captured Emma’s heart is the son of the man who broke hers years ago. Starring Brooke Shields, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, and Chad Michael Murray. Available on Netflix.

• “Unfrosted” (PG-13): Imaginative tale set in Battle Creek, Michigan, 1963, about Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that changes breakfast forever. Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his directorial film debut, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, and Hugh Grant. Available on Netflix.

• “Dune 2″ (PG-13): The sci-fi epic continues with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) uniting with Chani and the Fremen, while seeking revenge against those who destroyed his family. Adaptation of Frank Herbert’s bestseller “Dune,” with returning and new stars, including Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.

• “The Image Of You” (R): Zoe becomes skeptical when her twin sister, Anna, falls for Nick. As Zoe digs into Nick’s past, they all get pulled into a dangerous game where honesty could prove fatal. Starring Sasha Pieterse (as Anna and Zoe), Parker Young, Mira Sorvino and Néstor Carbonell.

• “We Grown Now” (PG): In 1992 Chicago, best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city of Chicago, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing. They soon find their unbreakable bond challenged when a tragedy shakes their community. Starring Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Avery Holliday, and Ora Jones, with Lil Rel Howery and Jurnee Smollett. Available on Apple TV.

• “Arthur the King” (PG-13): Based on a true story, pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. Over the course of 10 days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between Light and a street dog named Arthur. Also starring Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ali Suliman, with Bear Grylls as himself, and Paul Guilfoyle.

• “The Long Game” (PG): In 1955, five young Mexican-American caddies are determined to learn how to play and create their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert. Starring Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Cheech Marin and Julian Works.

• “Imaginary” (PG-13): A woman moves back into her childhood home with her family, and her youngest stepdaughter develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear that she finds in the basement. Starring DeWanda Wise, Pyper Braun, Tom Payne and Taegan Burns.

• “The American Society of Magical Negroes” (PG-13): Comedy about a young man who gets recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to making white people’s lives easier. Starring Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, Nicole Byer and Rupert Friend.

• “Wicked Little Letters” (R): Set in a 1920’s seaside town, the residents of Littlehampton start receiving letters filled with obscenities and hilarious profanity, and blame Rose, a rowdy Irish immigrant. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan.

• “Tillu Square”: Indian Telugu-language romantic crime comedy, starring Anupama Parameswaran, Siddu Jonnalagadda, Madonna Sebastian and Fish Venkat. Available on Netflix.

• “Spy × Family Code-White”: A spy and an assassin keep their double lives to themselves while pretending to be the perfect family. Anime film.

• “Sasquatch Sunset” (R): Comedy/Drama Deep in the woods in North America, a family of Sasquatches find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them. Starring Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner and Jesse Eisenberg.

• “Arcadian” (R): In the near future on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons find tranquility by day but terror by night when ferocious creatures awaken and consume all living souls in their path. Starring Nicolas Cage, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall and Jaeden Martell.

• “They Shot the Piano Player” PG-13: A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of Brazilian piano virtuoso Francisco Tenório Júnior. Animated docudrama, featuring the voice of Jeff Goldblum.

• “Blood for Dust” (R): Travelling salesman Cliff (Scoot McNairy) is drowning under the weight of providing for his family and finds himself on a dangerous path after a chance encounter with a colleague who has a dark past. Starring Kit Harington, Josh Lucas and Ethan Suplee.

• “Rebel Moon-Part Two-The Scargiver” (PG-13): The continued science fiction/fantasy saga of Kora and the surviving warriors as they prepare to fight alongside the brave people of Veldt, to defend a once peaceful village, a newfound homeland for those who have lost their own in the fight against the Motherworld. Starring Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Bae Doona, Ray Fisher, Charlie Hunnam, Charlotte Maggi, Staz Nair and Anthony Hopkins. Available on Netflix.

• “The Greatest Hits” (PG-13): Harriet (Lucy Boynton) discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives romantic memories of her former boyfriend, her time travelling collides with a new love interest in the present  Also starring David Corenswet, Justin H. Min, Retta, Jackson Kelly, and Robert Keane. Available on Hulu.

• “Housekeeping for Beginners” (R): Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters. The three butt heads yet become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together. Starring Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim and Vladimir Tintor.

• “Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp”: After getting kicked out of the forest, Woody thinks he’s found a forever home at Camp Woo Hoo, until an inspector threatens to shut down the camp. Available on Netflix.

• “Girls State” (TV-MA): A political coming-of-age story that follows young female leaders from different backgrounds across Missouri participating in an experiment to build a government from the ground up. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Argylle” (PG-13): Reclusive author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) writes a series of best-selling espionage novels about secret agent Argylle. The plot thickens when Elly’s fictional books about Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate begin to mirror reality. Also starring Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, John Cena, Dua Lipa and Samuel L. Jackson.

• “Ordinary Angels” (PG): A struggling hairdresser meets a widowed father working hard to care for his two daughters. With his youngest critically ill and waiting for a liver transplant, the woman rallies the community to help. Starring Alan Ritchson, Hilary Swank, Nancy Travis and Skywalker Hughes.

• “Bob Marley-One Love”: (PG-13): Celebrates the life of Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley, who overcame adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world. Produced in partnership with the Marley family and starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as Bob Marley and Lashana Lynch as his wife Rita.

• “Migration” (PG): Animated tale about a family of ducks who decide to leave their New England pond for a family adventure trip to Jamaica, but wind up in New York City. Featuring the voices of Elizabeth Banks, Kumail Nanjiani, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell, Carol Kane, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal and Danny DeVito.

• “One Life” (PG): Based on a true story, London broker Nicholas “Nicky” Winton helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia, before the Nazi occupation closes the borders during World War II. Fifty years later, Winton is still haunted by the fate of those he wasn’t able to rescue. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin and Helena Bonham.

• “Late Night with the Devil” (R): Horror-comedy set in 1977, about a live television broadcast that goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. Starring David Dastmalchian, Ingrid Torelli, Laura Gordon and Georgina Haig.

• “Immaculate” (R): An American nun joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. She soon discovers her new home has a sinister secret with unspeakable horrors. Starring Sydney Sweeney, Benedetta Porcaroli, Simona Tabasco and Álvaro Morte.

• “The Beekeeper” (R): One man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after it is revealed that he is a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers.” Starring Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, with Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons.

• “Love Lies Bleeding” (R): A reclusive gym manager falls for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder who’s heading to Las Vegas to pursue her dream. Their love soon leads to violence due to Lou’s criminal family. Starring Kristen Stewart, Katy M. O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov.

• “Knox Goes Away” (R): After being diagnosed with a rapidly evolving form of dementia, a contract killer gets the chance to redeem himself by saving his estranged son’s life. Starring Michael Keaton, Al Pacino, James Marsden and Joanna Kulig.

• “Madame Web” (PG-13): Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) is a New York City paramedic who develops the power to foresee the future. She must protect three young women from a deadly adversary. Also starring Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Emma Roberts.

• “Irish Wish” (R) When the love of her life gets engaged to her best friend, Maddie (Lindsay Lohan) puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Before the wedding, Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love, and wakes up as the bride-to-be. Also starring Alexander Vlahos, Ayesha Curry, Elizabeth Tan, Ed Steelers and Jane Seymour. Available on Netflix.

• “Drive-Away Dolls” (R): Comedy that follows Jamie and her demure friend Marian who take an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, Fla., but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way. Starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon.

• “Night Swim” (PG-13): A former baseball player, forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash terror. Starring Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren.

• “Anyone But You” (R): Despite an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s initial attraction quickly turns sour. However, when they unexpectedly find themselves at a destination wedding in Australia, they pretend to be the perfect couple to keep up appearances. Starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Darren Barnet and Alexandra Shipp.

• “Mean Girls” (PG-13): When new student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls ruled by the queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp), Cady makes the misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend. Musical comedy adapted from the Broadway musical, based on the 2004 movie of the same name. Also starring Bebe Wood, Avantika, Christopher Briney, Auli’i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Jon Hamm, Tina Fey and Tim Meadows.

• “American Fiction” (R): Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. Also starring Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams and Adam Brody.

• “Damsel” (PG-13): A damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince and then finds the royal family has made her a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Available on Netflix.

• “Spaceman” (R): Astronaut Jakub (Adam Sandler) is on a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system. Six months into the voyage, he realizes that his marriage back home is in trouble. A mysterious creature that he finds hiding in the ship offers to help him fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan). Available on Netflix.

• “Lisa Frankenstein” (PG-13): A horror comedy about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, a handsome corpse who comes back to life. Starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest and Carla Gugino.

• “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (PG-13): Having failed to defeat Aquaman (Jason Momoa) in the first film, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, and will stop at nothing to take down Aquaman, his family and Atlantis. Also starring Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren and Randall Park.

• “Wonka” (PG): Prequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book, “Wonka” tells the story of how the inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, and Olivia Colman.

• “No Way Up” (R): Survivors of a plane crash into the ocean must find a way to escape as sharks circle the wreckage. Starring Sophie McIntosh, Colm Meaney, Will Attenborough and Jeremias Amoore.

• “The Zone of Interest” (R): A commandant of Auschwitz, strives to build a dream life for his family in a house and garden next to the concentration camp. Starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel.

• “Land of Bad” (R): A Delta Force team is ambushed in enemy territory, and their only hope lies with an Air Force drone pilot as the eyes in the sky. Starring Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth, Luke Hemsworth and Ricky Whittle.

• “The Boys in the Boat” (PG-13): A sports drama that follows the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction novel written by Daniel James Brown. Starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner. Directed by George Clooney.

• “Suncoast” (R): Story of teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her mother (Laura Linney), strikes up a friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time. Available on Hulu.

• “Orion and the Dark” (NR): Animated adventure about Orion, an average elementary school kid who is confronted by his worst fear-the Dark. Featuring the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, and Werner Herzog. Available on Netflix.

• “I.S.S.” (R): Sci-fi thriller set in the near future aboard the International Space Station. When a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth, the U.S. and Russian astronauts each receive orders from the ground to take control of the station by any means necessary. Starring Ariana DeBose, Masha Mashkova, Chris Messina and Costa Ronin.

• “The Book of Clarence” (PG-13): A man struggles to find a better life for his family while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah, he risks everything to carve his own path and discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out. Starring LaKeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, James McAvoy and Teyana Taylor.

• “The Iron Claw” (R): Based on the true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980’s. Starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney with Holt McCallany and Lily James.

• “Ferrari” (R): During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. Enzo decides to wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy. Starring Penélope Cruz, Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and Shailene Woodley.

• “The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour” (PG): A vicious beaver covers the jungle with a dangerous pink substance that explodes when coming into contact with water. With the rainy season approaching, a group of animals hurry to find the antidote. Animated, featuring the voices of Emmanuel Curtil, Céline Monsarrat, Jérémie Covillault and Mark Camacho.

• “Wish” (PG): Walt Disney Animation Studios’ all-new musical-comedy taking audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force. Featuring the voices of Ariana DeBose as Asha, Chris Pine as Magnifico, and Alan Tudyk as Asha’s favorite goat, Valentino.

• “Turning Red” (2022) (PG): Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), is a 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the urges of adolescence, plus whenever she gets too excited, she “poofs” into a giant red panda. Her mother is Ming (voice of Sandra Oh).

• The Underdoggs (R): When Jayden “Two Js” Jennings, a washed-up former pro football star is sentenced to do community service coaching an unruly pee-wee football team in his hometown, he sees it mostly as an opportunity to rebuild his public image. Starring Snoop Dogg, Tika Sumpter and Mike Epps. Available on Amazon Prime.

• “Masters of the Air” ( TV-MA): Limited series based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, the film follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany. Starring Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Elliot Warren and Ncuti Gatwa. Available on Apple TV+.

• “The Hunger Games-The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” (PG-13): Prequel set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as a tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. It follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from District 12. Also starring Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis.

• “Trolls Band Together” (PG): After two films of friendship and flirting, Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) are now a couple, and Poppy discovers that Branch and his brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. Animated musical comedy, also featuring the voices of Camila Cabello, Eric Andre and Amy Schumer.

• “The Color Purple” (PG-13): Musical/drama remake of the 1985 film, based on the novel and the Broadway musical about the extraordinary sisterhood of three women. Directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins and Halle Bailey.

• “Lift” (PG-13): An international heist crew races to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet. Starring Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio and Úrsula Corberó. Available on Netflix.

• “The Marvels” (PG-13): Sequel to “Captain Marvel” with Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel teaming up with two other super heroes to save the universe as “The Marvels.” Starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Seo-Jun Park, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, and Samuel L. Jackson. Available on Disney+.

• “Next Goal Wins” (PG-13): Sports comedy that follows the American Samoa soccer team, known for its brutal 2001 FIFA loss. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around. Also starring Oscar Knightly, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, and Taika Waititi.

• “Rebel Moon-Part One-A Child of Fire” (PG-13): An epic science fiction/fantasy film. When a peaceful settlement on a moon on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, their best hope for survival is Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers. Also starring Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Bae Doona, Ray Fisher, Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins. Available on Netflix.

• “Good Grief” (R): An artist grieving the loss of his famous writer husband takes his two best friends on a trip to Paris. Starring Dan Levy, Luke Evans, Ruth Negga, and Himesh Patel.

• “The Family Plan” (PG-13): Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) lives a quiet suburban life as a devoted husband, father of three and successful car salesman. But when enemies from his past life as a government assassin track him down, he packs his unsuspecting wife (Michelle Monaghan), and children into their minivan and takes off on a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Silent Night” (R): A man witnesses the death of his young son when the boy gets caught in the crossfire between warring gangs on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that took his voice, the father goes on a bloody quest to punish those responsible for his son’s death. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Harold Torres.

• “Chicken Run-Dawn of the Nugget” (PG): Sequel to the stop-motion animated film, “Chicken Run” of 2000.  After escaping from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger and Rocky have found a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock. But they must return to the mainland, because chicken-kind faces a terrible threat. Featuring the voices of Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, and Lynn Ferguson. Available on Netflix.

• “Maestro” (R): Love story about the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Starring Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman and Josh Hamilton. Directed by Bradley Cooper. Available on Netflix.

• “Dream Scenario” (R): Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. Also starring Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula and Dylan Baker.

• “Thanksgiving” (R): An axe-wielding maniac terrorizes residents of Plymouth, Mass., after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy. Starring Addison Rae, Rick Hoffman, Nell Verlaque and Milo Manheim.

• “Journey To Bethlehem” (PG): A musical retelling the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus. Starring Milo Manheim, Fiona Palomo, Joel Smallbone and Antonio Banderas.

• “The Holdovers” (R): An instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Tate Donovan and Carrie Preston.

• “Five Nights at Freddy’s” (PG-13): Horror film based on the video game series of the same name. A troubled young man caring for his 10-year-old sister Abby, and haunted by the past disappearance of his younger brother, takes a job as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. Starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Kat Conner Sterling, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard. Also available streaming on Peacock.

• “Killers of the Flower Moon” (R): An epic western crime saga, based on a true story and told through the romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), about the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation after oil was discovered underneath their land. Also starring Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, and Brendan Fraser. Written and Directed by Martin Scorsese.

• “Eileen” (R): Set in 1964 Massachusetts, a young secretary becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their friendship soon takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret. Based on a novel by Ottessa Moshfegh. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Sam Nivola and Owen Teague.

• “Waitress-The Musical” (NR): A new musical comedy-drama film consisting of a live stage recording of Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s 2015 musical of the same name, based on the 2007 film of the same name written by Adrienne Shelly.

• “Priscilla” (R): The story of Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, as seen through Priscilla’s eyes. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi.

• “Leave the World Behind” (R): A family’s vacation is upended when two strangers arrive, seeking refuge from a cyberattack. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, and Kevin Bacon. Available on Netflix.

• “Candy Cane Lane” (PG):  A man makes a deal with a mischievous elf who casts a magic spell that brings “The Twelve Days of Christmas” to life. Starring Eddie Murphy, Jillian Bell, Tracee Ellis Ross and Thaddeus J. Mixson. Available on Amazon Prime.

• “May December” (R): Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actor arrives to do research for a film about their past. Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton. Available on Netflix.

• “Family Switch” (PG): A chance encounter with an astrological reader causes a family to wake up to a full body switch on the morning of an important day in each of their lives including landing a promotion, a college interview, sealing a record deal, and soccer tryout. Starring Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers and Brady Noon. Available on Netflix.

• “Leo” (PG): Animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school –– as seen through the eyes of a class pet, a 74-year-old lizard named Leo (Adam Sandler) who has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle (Bill Burr). Also featuring the voices of Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler and Rob Schneider. Available on Netflix.

• “Best. Christmas. Ever!” (PG-13): Charlotte’s friend Jackie sends a boastful holiday newsletter every year. A twist of fate lands Charlotte and her family on Jackie’s doorstep just days before Christmas. Starring Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood, Matt Cedeño and Jason Biggs. Available on Netflix.

• “It’s a Wonderful Knife” (R): After saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve, Winnie (Jane Widdop) wishes she was never born and finds herself transported to a nightmarish parallel universe. Also starring Cassandra Naud, Justin Long and Jessica McLeod.

• “What Happens Later” (R): Snowed-in at a regional airport overnight, ex-lovers Willa and Bill meet again and realize they’re still attracted to each other, yet also still equally annoyed with each other. Starring Meg Ryan, David Duchovny and Eric Parkinson.

• “Dumb Money” (R): Comedy-drama film based on the true story about regular people who flipped the script on Wall Street with GameStop stock. Starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen and Pete Davidson.

• “Oppenheimer” (R): IMAX-shot thriller about the American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon.

• “The Creator” (PG-13): Epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Madeleine Yuna Voyles and Allison Janney.

• “The Persian Version” (R): Iranian-American Leila (Layla Mohammadi) strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures. When her family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, Leila attempts to keep her “real” life separate from her family life. Also starring Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet and Bijan Daneshmand.

• “The Kill Room” (R): A hit man teams up with an art dealer for a money-laundering scheme that unwittingly turns him into an avant-garde sensation. Starring Uma Thurman, Maya Hawke, Samuel L. Jackson and Liv Morgan.

• “The Retirement Plan” (R): A woman turns to her estranged beach bum father for help to escape a ruthless crime boss. Starring Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Ron Perlman and Jackie Earle Haley.

• “Outlaw Johnny Black” (PG-13): Cowboy Johnny Black vows to gun down the man responsible for the death of his father. He soon becomes a wanted outlaw while posing as a preacher in a small mining town. Starring Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Anika Noni Rose and Tony Baker.

• “Back on the Strip” (R): Comedy film starring Spence Moore II as Merlin, a young man who moves to Las Vegas to pursue work as a magician, only to get hired as the frontman for the notorious Black male stripper crew, the Chocolate Chips. Also starring Wesley Snipes, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart.

• “Landscape with Invisible Hand” (R): When an occupying alien species’ leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to save their families. Starring Asante Blackk, Brooklynn Mackenzie and Kylie Rogers.

• “Shortcomings” (R): Ben, a struggling filmmaker in Berkeley, California, lives with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben begins to explore what he thinks he might want. Starring Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki and Debby Ryan.

• “The Miracle Club” (PG-13): Set in 1967, three women of Ballygar, Ireland, get their ticket of a lifetime to escape domestic life and make a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, a place of miracles, with help from their local priest. Starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates.

• “Past Lives” (PG-13): Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are torn apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York in this heartening modern romance. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro.

• “After Death” (PG-13): Scientists, authors and survivors of near-death experiences discuss mortality and the afterlife. Directed by Chris Radtke and Stephen Gray. Starring Doug Lito.

• “Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow” (PG): Fired from his detective job after a mission goes awry, Inspector Sun boards a seemingly normal plane for a much-needed vacation. Starring Ronny Chieng, Jesús Barreda, Vicente Gil and Fernando García Cabrera.

• “Freelance” (R): A former special forces operative reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for a washed-up journalist as she interviews a ruthless dictator. When a military coup breaks out, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle and make it out alive. Starring Alison Brie, John Cena, Alice Eve and Juan Pablo Raba.

• “Rustin” (PG-13): The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known. Starring Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald. Available on Netflix.

• “The Killer” (R): Thriller that follows an assassin who, after a near-miss, battles his employers on an international manhunt. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton. Available on Netflix.

• “PAW Patrol-The Mighty Movie” (PG): After a meteor strikes Adventure City,  the PAW Patrol pups gain superpowers in this new PAW Patrol computer-animated film. Featuring the voices of McKenna Grace, Marsai Martin, Iain Armitage, Christian Convery, Ron Pardo, Finn Lee-Epp, Christian Corrao, Luxton Handspiker, Nylan Parthipan, Callum Shoniker, Kristen Bell, James Marsden, Serena Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Kim Kardashian and Chris Rock.

• “Saw X” (R): New installment in the “Saw” franchise, set between the events of “Saw I” and “Saw II”, a sick and desperate John Kramer (Tobin Bell) travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure to cure for his cancer – only to discover it is a scam. He turns the tables on the con artists through a series of traps. Also starring Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund, Renata Vaca and Steven Brand.

• “The Exorcist-Believer” (R): After a single father’s daughter and her friend Katherine disappear in the woods for three days with no memory of what happened, they start showing signs of demonic possession. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil, (Ellen Burstyn) who reprises her iconic role from the 1973 film, “The Exorcist”. Also starring Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum.

• “Fingernails” (R): Science fiction film set in a near-future where couples can use a new technology to test their love. Starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Luke Wilson. Available on Apple TV+.

• “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” (PG-13): Members of the Portokalos family reunite in Greece for a new adventure. Starring Nia Vardalos, Lainie Kazan, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor and Elena Kampouris.

• “The Equalizer 3” (R): Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), takes solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Now living in Southern Italy, he learns his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses and becomes his friends’ protector. Also starring Dakota Fanning, Sonia Ammar, Gaia Scodellaro and David Denman.

• “Blue Beetle” (PG-13): When Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) finds an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab, he becomes its symbiotic host, and is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor with extraordinary powers. Also starring Bruna Marquezine, George Lopez and Belissa Escobedo.

• “Barbie” (PG-13): Barbie and Ken, (Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling) are living in the seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land, but then decide to join the real world. The all-star cast includes: Greta Gerwig, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, singer/songwriter Dua Lipa, and Helen Mirren as narrator.

• “Expend4bles” (R): The Expendables are back in the fourth installment of the action movie franchise with invincible veteran mercenary Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his entourage, armed with every weapon available. Also starring Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Megan Fox.

• “NYAD” (R): Based on the true story of Diana Nyad, (American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer), who swam from Cuba to Florida, at the age of 64. Starring Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero and Luke Cosgrov. Available on Netflix.

• “The Blind” (PG-13): Byopic based on “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson’s troubled past and road to redemption. Starring Aron Von Andrian, Amelia Eve, Matthew Erick White and Aaron Dalla Villa.

• “The Nun II” (R): Horror film sequel follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with a demonic force. Starring Bonnie Aarons, Taissa Farmiga, Storm Reid and Anna Popplewell.

• “A Haunting in Venice” (PG-13): Supernatural thriller based upon the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie’ and directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as retired detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot attends a Halloween séance at a haunted palazzo, where one of the guests is murdered. Also starring Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh.

• “Pain Hustlers” (R): Liza Drake (Emily Blunt), a blue-collar single mom who has just lost her job, has a chance meeting with pharmaceutical sales rep Pete Brenner (Chris Evans). Out of desperation, she takes a job at the pharmaceutical startup, which helps her financially, but she becomes entangled in a dangerous racketeering scheme. Also starring Andy Garcia and Chloe Coleman. Available on Netflix.

• “Vindicta” (R): A seasoned detective and a young paramedic are forced into a deadly game of vengeance with a masked serial killer, who  remains on the loose. Starring Sean Astin, Elena Kampouris, Jeremy Piven and Daniel Cudmore.

• “She Came to Me” (R): A composer has a creative block and is unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. His wife, who was formerly his therapist, suggests he search for inspiration. Starring Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Joanna Kulig. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Old Dads” (R): Comedy about three middle-aged fathers who struggle to keep up with changing times. Starring Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine and Katie Aselton. Available on Netflix.

• “The Pigeon Tunnel” (PG-13): Documentarian Errol Morris tells about the storied life and career of former British spy and author David Cornwell, known by the pen name of John le Carré, author of classic espionage novels. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Mission Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part One” (PG-13): Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. Also starring Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff.

• “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (PG): New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated film. After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers. A new friend helps them take on a  crime syndicate, but they are soon under attack by an army of mutants. Featuring the voices of Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Nicolas Cantu, Micah Abbey, Brady Noon, Shamon Brown Jr., John Cena and Ayo Edebiri.

• “Fair Play” (R): When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, a newly engaged couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink. Starring Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer and Sebastian De Souza. Available on Netflix.

• “Reptile” (R): A hardened detective attempts to solve the case of a brutal murder of a young real estate agent, where nothing is as it seems. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone and Domenick Lombardozzi. Available on Netflix.

• “Haunted Mansion” (PG-13): Film inspired by the Disney theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion”, about a woman and her son who enlist so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Dan Levy, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Jared Leto. Available on Disney+.

• “The Inventor” (PG): Animated biographical film about famous inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci, when he leaves Italy to join the French court, to experiment, invent machines and study the human body. Featuring the voices of Daisy Ridley, Jim Capobianco, Stephen Fry and Marion Cotillard.

• “Jawan”: A man driven by a personal vendetta to rectify the wrongs in society, comes up against a monstrous outlaw. Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Atlee Kumar, Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi.

• “Meg 2: The Trench” (PG-13): Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean where they are forced into a battle for survival against prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers. Also starring Able Wanamakok and Li Bingbing.

• “Gran Turismo” (PG-13): A player wins Nissan-sponsored video game competitions and then becomes a real-life professional race car driver. Starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom and Darren Barnet.

• “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” (PG): A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill to cheat at gambling. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley and Richard Ayoade. Available on Netflix.

• “Flora and Son” (R): At a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, single mom Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA musician, Flora and her son, Max, discover the transformative power of music. Starring Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Orén Kinlan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Spy Kids-Armageddon” (PG): When the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus, they become spies themselves to save their parents and the world. Starring Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Everly Carganilla and Connor Esterson. Available on Netflix.

• “Sound of Freedom” (PG-13): After a federal agent rescues a boy from ruthless child traffickers, he learns the boy’s sister is still captive and embarks on a dangerous mission to save her. Starring Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verástegui, Mira Sorvino and Bill Camp.

• “Love at First Sight” (PG-13): After missing her flight from New York to London, Hadley (Haley Lu Richardson) meets Oliver (Ben Hardy) in a chance encounter at the airport that sparks an instant connection. Available on Netflix.

• “Golda” (PG-13): Biopic of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), set during the 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Also starring Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin and Jaime Ray Newman.

• “Talk to Me” (R): A group of friends discover how to conjure spirits by using an embalmed hand, and find it thrilling until one of them unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou.

• “Strays” (R): When Reggie (Will Ferrell), a naive Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug (Will Forte), Reggie falls in with a Boston Terrier named Bug (Jamie Foxx), a stray who loves his freedom. Also starring Isla Fisher, Randall Park and Josh Gad.

• “Bottoms” (R): PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. Starring Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Nicholas Galitzine and Havana Rose Liu.

• “Retribution” (R): While driving with his two children, a man ( Liam Neeson) receives a phone call from an unknown assailant who claims there is a bomb in the car. Also starring Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion and Emily Kusche.

• “The Hill” (PG): Sports drama based on the true story of Rickey Hill who overcame a physical handicap to play professional baseball. Starring Dennis Quaid, Colin Ford, Scott Glenn and Joelle Carter.

• “Elemental” (PG): New Disney and Pixar animated film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in. Featuring the voices of Leah Lewis as Ember and Mamoudou Athie as Wade.

• “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (PG-13): Harrison Ford returns as archaeologist Indiana Jones for the fifth installment of the franchise. Also starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

• “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” (R): Based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”, about the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry 50 unmarked wooden crates from Carpathia to London. Starring Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham and David Dastmalchian.

• “Attack of the Flies”: Sci-fi thriller produced and directed by August Leo of Detroit, filmed in 2021 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, set in the 1920s Prohibition Era, focused on the despair and isolation of the time, and a bizarre infestation of insects. Starring Jet Jandreau, Kyle del Santo and Marlon Morton. Available on Amazon.

• “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah” (PG-13): Comedy about Stacy and Lydia, best friends who’ve always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. Plans go awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threaten their friendship. Starring Idina Menzel, Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Samantha Lorraine, Dylan Hoffman and Sarah Sherman. Available on Netflix.

• “The Monkey King” (PG): Computer-animated action comedy film inspired by an epic Chinese tale, about a monkey and his magical fighting stick battling demons, dragons and gods. Starring Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee and Stephanie Hsu. Available on Netflix.

• “Heart of Stone” (PG-13): Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) is an intelligence operative in a global peacekeeping organization who must protect the organization’s most valuable and dangerous weapon. Also starring Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Matthias Schweighöfer, and Jing Lusi. Available on Netflix.

• “Happiness for Beginners” (TV-14): Newly divorced, Helen (Ellie Kemper), joins a quirky group of strangers on a survival course for the “adventure of a lifetime”, with hope of learning how to live and love again. Also starring Luke Grimes, Nico Santos and Blythe Danner. Available on Netflix.

• “Insidious- The Red Door” (PG-13): Fifth installment of the Insidious horror franchise, with Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) heading east to drop his son, Dalton, off at school. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare when the demons of his past return to haunt them both. Also starring Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye and Joseph Bishara.

• “Theater Camp” (PG-13): Comedy about how the staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York band together when their founder falls into a coma. Starring Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Jimmy Tatro and Ayo Edebiri.

• “The Beanie Bubble” (R): The tale of the Beanie Baby empire in the 1990s. Starring Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook and Geraldine Viswanathan. Available on Apple TV+.

• “They Cloned Tyrone” (R): Science fiction/mystery film about an unlikely trio on the trail of a government conspiracy. Starring John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx, with Kiefer Sutherland. Available on Netflix.

• “Spider-Man-Across the Spider-Verse” (PG): Brooklyn’s neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse where he encounters a team of Spider-People. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Shameik Moore, Oscar Isaac and Daniel Kaluuya.

• “Jules” (PG-13): A UFO crashes into a man’s backyard in rural Pennsylvania. As he befriends the extraterrestrial, things get complicated when two neighbors discover it. Starring Ben Kingsley, Jade Quon, Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris.

• “Joy Ride” (R): Comedy that centers on four unlikely friends who embark on an international adventure. When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes awry, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu.

• “The First Slam Dunk” (PG-13): Japanese animated sports film with the Shohoku High School basketball club in a match against Sannoh High School.

• “Transformers-Rise of the Beasts” (PG-13): New Transformers film will take audiences on a ’90s globetrotting adventure with Optimus Prime and the Autobots teaming up with a new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the battle for Earth. Starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Liza Koshy and Pete Davidson.

• “Stephen Curry-Underrated” (PG-13): A documentary about Stephen Curry’s rise from an undersized college basketball player at a small town Division I college to a four-time NBA champion with archival footage and on camera interviews. Available on Apple TV+.

• “The Flash” (PG-13): Warner Bros. superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The Flash uses his superpowers to travel back in time to save his family, but inadvertently alters the future. He becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation and there are no super heroes to turn to, unless he can coax a very different Batman out of retirement. Starring Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Michael Keaton and Ben Afleck.

• “Asteroid City” (R): World-changing events disrupt a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in a fictional American desert town, circa 1955. Science fiction comedy film directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Hope Davis, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carrell, Matt Dillon, Margot Robbie, Willem Dafoe and Scarlett Johansson.

• “Every Body” (R): Documentary focusing on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods. Starring River Gallo, Sean Saifa Wall and Ruth Deibel.

• “No Hard Feelings” (R): On the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate woman agrees to date a wealthy couple’s introverted and awkward 19-year-old son before he leaves for college. Comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti and Natalie Morales.

• “The Blackening” (R): A group of Black friends reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize it isn’t a game. Starring Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, Dewayne Perkins and Sinqua Walls.

• “The Little Mermaid” (PG): Disney live-action remake of the animated “The Little Mermaid,” based on the fairy tale written by author Hans Christian Andersen about a beautiful and spirited young mermaid who longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea. Starring singer and actress Halle Bailey as Ariel; Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric; Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian; and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula.

• “The Boogeyman” (PG-13): A horror-thriller based upon the short story by Stephen King about a high school student and her younger sister who are reeling from the death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families. Starring Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, Marin Ireland and Madison Hu.

• “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” (PG): DreamWorks Animation action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens. Animated film featuring the voices of Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Kosher and Jane Fonda.

• “Bird Box Barcelona” (R): From the producers of “Bird Box” comes an expansion of the 2018 film. After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. Starring Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva and Alejandra Howard. Available on Netflix.

• “The Out-Laws” (R): Owen Browning (Adam Devine) is a bank manager about to get married to the love of his life, Parker (Nina Dobrev). When his bank is held up by the infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin), who just arrived in town, are the outlaws. Available on Netflix.

• “Beau is Afraid” (R): A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to go home to his mother. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Hayley Squires.

• “Showing Up” (R): A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends in this funny portrait of art and craft. Starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro and Andrè Benjamin.

• “Spinning Gold” (R): Neil Bogart launched Casablanca Records in the 1970s, giving rise to musical acts including Donna Summer, Parliament, Glady Knight, The Isley Brothers, The Village People, Bill Withers and KISS. Starring Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan, Jay Pharoah, Casey Likes, Tayla Parx, Dan Fogler and Jason Issacs.

• “Nimona” (PG): When Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed), a knight in a futuristic medieval world, is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz), a teen who happens to be a shape-shifting creature Ballister has been trained to destroy. Also starring Eugene Lee Yang, Frances Conroy and Lorraine Toussaint. Available on Netflix.

• “John Wick-Chapter 4” (R): New film in the franchise where hit man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) takes his fight against The High Table global, facing off against a new enemy with alliances in the underworld across the globe. Also starring Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård and Laurence Fishburne.

• “Fast X” (PG-13): The 10th film in the Fast & Furious saga. Now Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family confront their most lethal opponent, emerging from the shadows of the past fueled by blood revenge. Also starring Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jason Momoa, John Cena, Jason Statham, Sung Kang, Alan Ritchson, Scott Eastwood, with Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson and Rita Moreno.

• “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” (PG-13): New Marvel Studios’ superhero film where Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) must rally his team to defend the universe and protect one of their own. Also starring Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillan.

• “About My Father” (PG-13): Comedy about a man who is encouraged by his fiancée to bring his immigrant, hairdresser father to a weekend get-together with her super-rich and eccentric family. Starring Robert De Niro, Sebastian Maniscalco, Leslie Bibb and Kim Cattrall.

• “Extraction 2” (R): Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is back in a second movie as the Australian black ops mercenary, tasked with another deadly mission: rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster. Also starring Golshifteh Farahani, Daniel Bernhardt and Tinatin Dalakishvili. Available on Netflix.

• “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (PG): Computer-animated film based on Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game franchise. Featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key and Seth Rogen.

• “Evil Dead Rise” (R): Horror film about two estranged sisters trying to survive and save their family from demons in a Los Angeles apartment building. Starring Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Mia Challis and Gabrielle Echols.

• “You Hurt My Feelings” (R): A novelist’s long-standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michaela Watkins, Owen Teague and Tobias Menzies and Arian Moayed.

• “Chevalier” (PG-13): Inspired by the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), rises in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and champion fencer. Also starring Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Marton Csokas, Alex Fitzalan, and Minnie Driver.

• “The Machine” (R): Comedy adventure about a man’s past coming back to haunt him, when a murderous mobster tries to kidnap him to atone for his crimes. Starring Bert Kreischer, Jimmy Tatro, Stephanie Kurtzuba and Mark Hamill.

• “Book Club-The Next Chapter” (PG-13): Sequel to “Book Club”, the new film follows the four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Giancarlo Giannini, with Andy Garcia and Don Johnson.

• “It Ain’t Over” (PG): The story of Lawrence Peter, “Yogi Berra”, the beloved New York Yankees baseball legend who became famous for his championship rings and funny proverbs. Granddaughter Lindsay Berra tells his story along with his sons, former Yankee teammates, players he managed, writers, broadcasters, and admirers (such as Billy Crystal).

• “Flamin’ Hot” (PG-13): The story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn Flamin’ Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry. Starring Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Tony Shalhoub, Dennis Haysbert and Emilio Rivera. Directed by Eva Longoria. Available streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.

• “Shooting Stars” (PG-13): Based on the book by LeBron James and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger, is the inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero. Starring Marquis “Mookie” Cook, Caleb McLaughlin, Avery S. Wills Jr., Khalil Everage and Wood Harris.

• “Still-A Michael J. Fox Movie R: Recounts Fox’s story in his own words – the improbable tale of an undersized kid from a Canadian army base who rose to stardom in 1980’s Hollywood, and his diagnosis at age 29 with Parkinson’s disease. Available on Apple TV+.

• Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant” (R): Directed by Guy Ritchie, the film follows Sergeant John who on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed. After John is injured, Ahmed risks his own life to carry John across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Beecham and Anthony Starr.

• “Dungeons & Dragons-Honor Among Thieves” (PG-13): The roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons comes to the big screen in an action-packed adventure with a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic. Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page,  Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Daisy Head and Chloe Coleman.

• “Hypnotic” (R): When a detective learns that his missing daughter and a string of high profile bank robberies might be connected, he goes on a gripping search for his daughter. Starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner and Hala Finley.

• “Love Again” (PG-13): Coping with the loss of her fiance, Mira Ray (Priyanka Chopra) sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number, not realizing it was reassigned to journalist Rob Burns (Sam Heughan). When Burns is assigned to write a profile of superstar Celine Dion, he enlists her help to figure out how to meet Mira in person. Starring Priyanka Chopra, Sam Heughan, Celine Dion and Sofia Barclay.

• “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (PG-13): Adaptation of author Judy Blume’s book of the same name about 11-year old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) who has a Christian mother and a Jewish father. Margaret is moving to a new town and beginning to contemplate everything about life. She relies on her mother (Rachel McAdams) who offers loving support but is seeking her own footing in a new place, and her grandmother Sylvia (Kathy Bates).

• “Sisu” (R): During the last days of World War II, a prospector crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-Earth retreat in northern Finland. When the soldiers decide to steal his gold, they quickly discover they just tangled with no ordinary miner. Starring Jorma Tommila, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila and Aksel Hennie.

• “Rally Road Racers” (PG): Animated comedy about a rookie race-car driver who gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. Featuring the voices of Chloe Bennet, Jimmy O. Yang, J.K. Simmons and Lisa Lu.

• “Big George Foreman” (PG-13): The film tells the story of world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, who retired from boxing, became a preacher, then stepped back in the ring to regain the championship at age 45. Starring George Foreman, Khris Davis, Jasmine Mathews and Sullivan Jones.

• “Mafia Mamma” (R): Action comedy film about a mild-mannered suburban mom who unexpectedly inherits her grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy. Starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Giulio Corso and Livia De Paolis.

• “Air” (R): A biographical sports drama that follows the history of former Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, and Nike’s partnership with basketball rookie Michael Jordan to create the Air Jordan brand. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Chris Tucker.

• “Polite Society” (PG-13): Action comedy film about martial artist-in-training Ria Khan (Priya Kansara), who believes she must save her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) from her impending marriage. Also starring Ella Bruccoleri, Shobu Kapoor, Nimbra Bucha and Rachel Kwok.

• “Scream VI” (R): Sixth installment in the “Scream” film series. Four survivors of the original Ghostface killings attempt to leave Woodsboro for a fresh start. Starring Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere, Melissa Barrera, Samara Weaving and Courtney Cox.

• “The Pope’s Exorcist” (R): Horror film based on the memoirs of Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe), chief exorcist for the Vatican. Also starring Laurel Marsden, Franco Nero and Alex Essoe.

• “Renfield” (R): Dracula’s loyal servant, Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), is forced to procure his master’s prey and do his every bidding. After centuries of servitude to Dracula (Nicolas Cage), Renfield is ready to see if there’s life outside his boss’s shadow. Also starring Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez.

• “Peter Pan and Wendy” (PG): Based on the classic tale, Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Starring Alexander Molony, Jude Law, Ever Anderson and Yara Shahidi. Available on Disney+.

• “Creed III” (PG-13): Still dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed must face off with childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, who resurfaces after serving in prison. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors and Tessa Thompson.

• “Avatar-The Way of Water” (PG-13): Set more than a decade after the first film, “Avatar”, the new film centers on the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their children) and their battles to stay alive. Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet.

• “Ghosted” (PG-13): Cole (Chris Evans) falls head over heels for Sadie (Ana de Armas) – but then finds out that she’s a secret agent. Before they go on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world. Also starring Adrian Brody, Amy Sedaris and Lizze Broadway. Available on Apple TV+.

• “Quasi” (R): A hapless hunchback finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the king of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other. Starring Adrianne Palicki, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Gabriel Hogan, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, and Paul Soter. Available on Hulu.

• “Murder Mystery 2” (PG-13): Four years after solving their first murder mystery, Nick and Audrey Spitz (Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston) are now full-time detectives struggling to start up their private eye agency, when they’re invited to the wedding of the Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar) on his private island. Trouble ensues when the groom is kidnapped for ransom. Available on Netflix.

• “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” (PG-13): The story continues about teenager Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word “Shazam!,” is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam. Starring Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren.

• “A Thousand and One” (R): Free-spirited Inez kidnaps her 6-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system and they set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. Starring Temana Taylor, William Catlett, Don DiPetta, and Lia Lando.

• “65” (PG-13): After their spaceship crashes on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth, 65 million years ago. Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, (Ariana Greenblatt) must traverse an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures. Also starring Chloe Coleman and Alexandra Shipp.

• “Ant-Man and The Wasp-Quantumania” (PG-13): New adventure of Marvel Studios superhero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Also starring Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors and Kathryn Newton.

• “Paint” (PG-13): Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross-inspired painter, hosts his own painting show on Vermont public television in this comedy starring Owen Wilson, Ciara Renée, Wendi McLendon‑Covey and Michaela Watkins.

• “Jesus Revolution” (PG-13): Based on the book of the same name about a pastor who opened his congregation in California to welcome youth and hippies in the 1970s. Starring Jonathan Roumie, Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

• “Cocaine Bear” (R): Dark comedy inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it. Starring Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Christian Convery-Jennings.

• “Tetris” (R): Based on the true story about how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to avid players around the globe. Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) discovers Tetris in 1988, and then travels to the Soviet Union during the Cold War-era where he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov). Available on Apple TV+.

• “Champions” (PG-13): Woody Harrelson stars in the story of a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that this team can go further than imagined. Also starring Ernie Hudson, Cheech Marin, Matt Cook, and Kaitlin Olson.

• “Inside” (R): A high-end art thief becomes trapped inside a luxury, high-tech penthouse in New York’s Times Square during a heist. Starring Willem Dafoe, Eliza Stuyck, Josia Krug and Gene Bervoets.

• “A Good Person” (R): Film about a woman whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. Starring Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman and Celeste O’Connor.

• “Moving On” (R): Two estranged women reunite to seek revenge against the husband of their recently deceased best friend. Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Richard Roundtree and Malcolm McDowell.

• “80 For Brady” (PG-13): Inspired by the true story of four best friends who take a wild trip to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play. Starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and Tom Brady.

• “A Snowy Day in Oakland” (PG-13): A psychologist from San Francisco decides to end a stalled romance with her high-profile psychiatrist boyfriend and business partner, and open her own practice in Oakland, California. Starring Loretta Devine, Kyle Bary, Michael Jai White and Nicole Ari Parker.

• “Luther-The Fallen Sun” (R): Continuation of the television series featuring detective John Luther (Idris Elba) who sits behind bars, haunted by his failure to capture the serial killer who is terrorizing London. Also starring Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley. Available on Netflix.

• “Operation Fortune-Ruse de Guerre” (R): Elite spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Also starring Aubrey Plaza and Josh Hartnett.

• “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” (R): Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) reprises his role as Magic Mike in this third installment of the franchise. He takes to the stage again when a business deal that went bad leaves him broke and bartending in Florida. Then he is lured to London with a wealthy socialite. Also starring Salma Hayek, Juliette Motamed and Matthew McConaughey.

• “M3GAN” (PG-13): Sci-fi horror film about a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s companion. Equipped with artificial intelligence, the doll can listen, watch and learn as she becomes playmate, teacher and protector for a child. When the creator of the doll becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she gives the girl a M3GAN prototype. Starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng and Brian Jordan Alvarez.

• “Knock at the Cabin” (R): While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers. Starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge and Nikki Amuka-Bird.

• “A Man Called Otto” (PG-13): A grumpy widower named Otto (Tom Hanks), has his life turned around when a lively young family moves in next door. Based on the New York Times bestseller, “A Man Called Ove”. Also starring Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia‑Rulfo and Rachel Keller.

• “Puss in Boots-The Last Wish” (PG): DreamWorks Animation new adventure in the Shrek universe where daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that he has burned through eight of his nine lives and sets out to restore his nine lives. Featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Olivia Colman.

• “Missing” (PG-13): When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June searches for answers from her home in Los Angeles. Starring Storm Reid, Nia Long, Megan Suri and Ken Leung.

• “The Whale” (R): A reclusive English teacher tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Starring Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins and Hong Chau.

• “Plane” (R): Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.

• “Shin Ultraman”: Japanese superhero Kaiju film starring Masami Nagasawa, Akari Hayami, Takumi Saitoh and Hideaki Anno.

• “Of an Age” (R): Set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother. Starring Thom Green, Toby Derrick, Hattie Hook and Elias Anton.

• “The Amazing Maurice” (PG): Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking rats. Animated film with voices of Emilia Clarke, Hugh Bonneville, Gemma Arterton and Himesh Patel.

• “Marlowe” (R): Detective Phillip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) becomes embroiled in an investigation with a wealthy family, in the late 1930s in Bay City, California. Also starring Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange and Daniela Melchior.

• “Emily” (R): Imagined story about English novelist Emily Brontë, author of “Wuthering Heights”, and her journey to womanhood as a rebel and a misfit. Starring Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson‑Cohen, Fionn Whitehead and Amelia Gething.

• “Living” (PG-13): The story of an ordinary man, worn down by years of office routine, who makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke.

• “Black Panther- Wakanda Forever” (PG-13): Marvel Studios’ new superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Black Panther with the Wakandans fighting to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. Starring Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Danai Gurira.

• “Sharper” (R): Motivations are suspect and expectations are turned upside down in this thriller set in New York City. Starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith and Brianna Middleton.

• “Your Place or Mine” (PG-13): Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) and Peter (Ashton Kutcher) are best friends and total opposites, who decide to swap houses for a week. Also starring Jesse Williams, Tig Notaro, Zoe Chao and Steve Zahn. Available on Netflix.

• “Infinity Pool” (R): A couple on vacation venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence and horror. Starring Mia Goth, Alexander Skarsgård, Cleopatra Coleman and Thomas Kretschman.

• “Fear” (R): A weekend vacation becomes a nightmare for a group of friends in this horror film. Starring King Bach, Joseph Sikora, T.I. and Terrence J., Annie Ilonzeh and Ruby Modine.

• “Maybe I Do” (PG-13): With their relationship at a crossroads, Michelle and Allen invite their parents to finally meet. As it turns out, their parents already know each other. Starring Emma Roberts, Richard Gere, Luke Bracey and Diane Keaton.

• “Alice Darling” (R): Pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice rediscovers herself and gains perspective while on vacation with two close girlfriends. Starring  Anna Kendrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, Charlie Carrick and Wunmi Mosaku.

• “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” (PG-13): Musical drama about Whitney Houston, (Naomi Ackie) as she rises to fame in the 1980s. Also starring Stanley Tucci and Ashton Sanders.

• “House Party” (R): Comedy film about aspiring club promoters and buddies Damon and Kevin who are broke and in need of a huge windfall. Their solution is to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion owned by NBA superstar LeBron James. Starring LeBron James, D.C. Young Fly, Jacob Latimore and Andrew Santino.

• “The Fabelmans” (PG-13): A semi-autobiography based on Steven Spielberg’s own childhood growing up in Arizona, from age 7 to 18. Starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

• “Shotgun Wedding” (R): Darcy and Tom gather their families for a destination wedding, but the ceremony gets put on hold when gunmen take everyone hostage. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Coolidge and Lenny Kravitz. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

• “She is Love”: A divorced couple unexpectedly cross paths at a country inn and rekindle a long-lost love. Starring Haley Bennett, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley and Rosa Robson.

• “Babylon” (R): A tale of ambition and excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva.

• “You People” (R): Comedy about a new couple and their families who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures. Starring Jonah Hill, Lauren London, David Duchovny, Nia Long, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Eddie Murphy. Available on Netflix.

• “Pamela, A Love Story” (NR): An intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world’s most famous blonde bombshells, Pamela, a love story follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother. Starring Pamela Anderson. Available on Netflix.

• “Ticket to Paradise” (PG-13): George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as a divorced couple who team up and travel to Bali to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they made 25 years ago.

• “The Son” (PG-13): The film centers on Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose busy life with his infant and new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas (Zen McGrath), who is now a troubled teenager. Also starring Anthony Hopkins.

• “Strange World” (PG): Walt Disney Animation Studios’ adventure about a family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. The voice cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White and Lucy Liu. Available on Disney+.

Theaters

• AMC Theatres: AMC Forum Sterling Heights, 586-254-1381; AMC Star Gratiot Clinton Township, 586-791-2095; AMC Star Great Lakes Auburn Hills, 248-454-0314; AMC Star John R Madison Heights, 248-585-4477, amctheatres.com

• Cinemark Southland Center, Taylor, 734-287-0629, www.cinemark.com/theatres

• Emagine Theatres: Birmingham 8, 248-723-6230; Emagine Palladium in Birmingham, 248-385-0500; Canton, 734-787-3002; The Riviera in Farmington Hills, 248-788-6572; Hartland, 810-207-5757; Macomb, 586-372-3456; Novi, 248-468-2990; Rochester Hills, 248-378-2991; Royal Oak, 248-414-1000, emagine-entertainment.com

• Farmington Civic Theater: 248-474-1951, thefct.com

• Milford Independent Cinema: 248-529-6774, Milford, milfordcinema.org

• MJR Theatres: MJR Chesterfield, 586-598-2500; MJR Universal Grand, Warren, 586-620-0200; MJR Troy, 248-498-2100; MJR Marketplace, Sterling Heights, 586-264-1514; MJR Partridge Creek, Clinton Twp., 586-263-0084; MJR Waterford, 248-666-7900, MJR Southgate, 734-284-3456, mjrtheatres.com

• Oxford GQT Theater: 248-628-7101, gqtmovies.com/theaterinfo/x01tk-gqt-oxford-7

• Regal UA, Commerce Twp.: 844-462-7342, regmovies.com/theatres/regal-ua-commerce-township

• Romeo Theatre, Washington: 586-752-3455, romeotheatre.com

• Trillium Cinema, NCG: Grand Blanc, 810-695-5000, ncgmovies.com