🎬 A 90-second ghost from 1921 that animation forgot

📆 Estreno: 1921 (fragment; never officially released)
🎭 Género: #Animation · #LostFilm · #SilentEra
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Winsor McCay, the man who gave us Gertie the Dinosaur, spent years animating centaurs onto live-action forest footage. Production notes say the finished footage amounted to over three minutes; only 90 seconds survive. The rest deteriorated into dust from negligent storage.

What gets me is the audacity of the craft. McCay's fine linework and naturalistic style visibly influenced Disney's centaurs in Fantasia, twenty years later. And yet this thing was never released. Why it was abandoned remains unclear, though budgetary pressure and being pushed out of animation by Hearst may have played a role.

Oh, and that male centaur throwing a rock at a random bird for zero reason? Absolute cinema.

🎬 Garry Watson, last silent film actor, is gone at 97

He debuted on screen at the age of one in the 1929 film Drag, the youngest of nine siblings who collectively appeared in over a thousand Hollywood productions. He is particularly recognized for his appearance in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but his real distinction was simply outlasting everyone else.

The silent era ran from roughly 1896 until The Jazz Singer (1927), with American cinema fully transitioning to sound by 1929. Worth noting: Watson was a one-year-old on set, not a craftsman of the form. But that's the point. All of the last surviving silent actors were child actors. The true artists of that era are long gone. What dies with Watson is the last living breath of contact, however fragile, with a cinema that moved without sound.

🍿 Nolan clocks in at 2h 52m. For Homer's epic, that's actually... restrained.

📆 Estreno: July 17, 2026
🎭 Género: #Action · #Adventure · #Fantasy
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Nolan had already confirmed The Odyssey would be shorter than Oppenheimer. Most people braced for something around 2h20m. Getting 172 minutes on a mythic epic crossing the Mediterranean is genuinely surprising, and I mean that as a compliment.

The guy who made Dunkirk run just 106 minutes and still make it feel enormous knows exactly what he's doing with a runtime. Nolan doesn't pad; he compresses. At $250 million and shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film cameras, this already feels like a once-in-a-generation swing. Matt Damon as Odysseus, and I'm genuinely intrigued.

🍿 Jackass: Best and Last. A farewell that reads like a confession.

📆 Estreno: June 26, 2026
🎭 Género: #Comedy #Stunts #Documentary
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Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine know exactly what this is: a victory lap built on archive gold and a handful of new bits, with no pretense of passing the torch. The new cast isn't on the poster, and that's not an accident.

What made Jackass untouchable was never the stunts. It was a specific group of broken, fearless idiots who genuinely loved each other. The film mixes old and new footage, serving as a celebration of the whole franchise. You can't franchise that chemistry, and TikTok proved it by trying every day.

Those two empty spaces in the shopping cart poster hit harder than any stunt. Ryan Dunn was part of the original crew's DNA. This one's for him, for the era, and for knowing when to stop.

🍿 Nolan's Homer looks incredible. The poster, though? That's a different conversation.

📆 Estreno: July 17, 2026
🎭 Género: #Epic #Action #Fantasy
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Christopher Nolan shot this thing entirely on 70mm IMAX across Morocco, Greece, Iceland, and the open sea. With a $250 million budget, it's the most expensive film of his career and the first shot entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras. That ambition is real. But the IMAX logo on this poster is literally bigger than the title, and those medieval-looking warriors could be from any generic fantasy game cover. 🤨

Matt Damon as Odysseus, with Oppenheimer-level star power behind him. The faith is there. I just hope the film earns an identity as singular as its production. Turn up the subtitles either way.

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🎬 RIP Anthony Head, 72. One actor, two completely opposite souls.

Anthony Head built his legacy across four very different pillars: Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Uther Pendragon in Merlin, and Rupert Mannion in Ted Lasso. What gets me is the range. Giles: the warm father figure every lost kid deserved. Mannion: a smug, hollow villain you pitied as much as you despised.

His daughters confirmed he faced complications from pneumonia. He had also lost his longtime partner in 2025. And then there's Repo! The Genetic Opera, the cult gem that deserves its own tribute. Three very different careers in one. All of them real. 🕯

🍿 Pixar goes mob noir. In Venice. With cats. And it actually looks gorgeous.

📆 Estreno: March 5, 2027
🎭 Género: #Animation · #Comedy · #Adventure
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The trailer showcases a hand-painted animation style that feels like nothing Pixar has done in years, and that alone is enough to buy my attention. Director Enrico Casarosa returns to Italy after Luca, this time with a scrappy black cat named Nero tangled up in a feline mob.

The cast is led by Mark Ruffalo as Nero and Laurence Fishburne as Rocco, the mob boss. Fishburne doing a cat crime lord in an oil-painting Venice. I'm in. My only real question is whether the music angle gets the space it deserves, or ends up as window dressing on what is already a very full premise.

🎬 The Magic School Bus is coming to theaters. And yeah, I have concerns.

Elizabeth Banks plays Ms. Frizzle, with Rob Letterman writing and directing at Legendary. That combo feels less like education and more like a $150M IP grab with a wacky costume budget.

The whole point of this franchise is taking kids on genuinely educational adventures through outer space, the human body, and beyond. Strip that out for quippy one-liners and a "believe in yourself" arc, and the bus is just a cool prop. History says don't hold your breath. 🎒

🍿 Backrooms hits PVOD July 7. A24's biggest hit ever, made by a 20-year-old.

📆 Estreno: July 7, 2026 (PVOD)
🎭 Género: #Horror · #SciFi
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Kane Parsons was 16 when he uploaded a YouTube short about endless fluorescent hallways. Now he's the youngest director to open at number one at the global box office, with $330 million and A24's all-time record. The nightmare logic here isn't a gimmick; it's the whole engine.

Chiwetel Ejiofor grounds the disorientation with real weight, and the first two acts are genuinely suffocating. The third act wobbles, sure, but concept-driven horror lives and dies by atmosphere, and this one has it in spades.

🍿 Suburbia meets the Cretaceous, and somehow nobody knows if that's a comedy

📆 Estreno: August 14, 2026
🎭 Género: #SciFi · #Survival · #Thriller
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David Robert Mitchell made his bones turning genre rules inside out, from 'It Follows' to the delirious neo-noir of Under the Silver Lake. Now, with Anne Hathaway clutching a porch rifle and Ewan McGregor in angel wings, he gets an $85M studio budget and dinosaurs in the front yard.

The tone question is the whole ballgame here. The posters scream dark comedy, the synopsis reads survival horror, and early screenings got laughs. Mitchell playing it straight would intrigue me more than a knowing wink. Either way, this is the most original blockbuster pitch of the summer.

🎬 Heat 2 is real. DiCaprio, Bale, Mann. November shoot.

After a year of difficult negotiations, DiCaprio and Bale are set to star in Michael Mann's sequel, filming starting in November. Bale takes Pacino's Vincent Hanna, DiCaprio steps into Kilmer's shoes as Chris Shiherlis.

Mann at 83 is taking this globe-trotting production to LA, Chicago, Paraguay, and Singapore. For a director whose last few films barely registered at the box office, this reads like a final, uncompromising statement. The sequel nobody thought would actually happen is happening.

🍿 Avengers: Doomsday — RDJ's back, and he's not playing nice

📆 Estreno: December 18, 2026
🎭 Género: #Action · #SciFi · #Superhero
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What genuinely intrigues me is Robert Downey Jr. playing Victor Von Doom with a full accent and zero smirk. The Russos brought him back as the villain, and that's a real swing worth watching.

Whether it lands depends entirely on whether the Russos keep Doom cold and theatrical, never winking at the audience. This is chapter one of a two-part reset leading into Secret Wars in 2027, so I'm cautiously in.