The Skry for Families

9.3Skry

PG

Casablanca

1943

A gin-soaked nightclub in Vichy-controlled Morocco, December 1941: Rick Blaine runs his establishment on studied neutrality, refusing favors and avoiding politics until the arrival of Ilsa Lund forces a reckoning with a past he's built his whole pose against. Michael Curtiz constructs the film as a wartime romance triangulated against ideology — Ilsa's husband is a Czech resistance leader whose exit papers Rick happens to hold — so that a love story becomes a question about what a person owes history when history comes looking. Bogart and Bergman carry the emotional weight, while Claude Rains, as a cheerfully corrupt French prefect, holds the moral ironies in place.

Streaming on HBO Max, TCM

9.1Skry

PG

Spirited Away

2001

A ten-year-old girl wanders into a bathhouse for spirits and cannot find the door back. Her parents have been transformed; her name is being taken from her; the rules of this world reveal themselves only as she breaks them. Miyazaki builds the film as a picaresque set inside a single enormous building, using Chihiro's labor — she must work the bathhouse to survive — as both plot engine and structural spine. Each floor, each corridor, introduces a new register: slapstick, dread, unexpected tenderness. The world compounds rather than explains itself, and the film's hold comes precisely from that density, a logic felt before it's understood.

Streaming on HBO Max

8.7Skry

PG

Groundhog Day

1993

A TV weatherman with a gift for condescension gets sent to cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and finds himself locked in a loop, waking every morning to the same six o'clock alarm and the same Sonny and Cher. Harold Ramis builds the film as a comedy whose engine is repetition — the same beats hit with incremental variation, Murray's reactions shifting from bafflement to hedonism to something more searching as the days accumulate into an uncountable span. What keeps it from becoming a stunt is that the loop is never explained or resolved on mechanical terms; the film treats the premise as a given and lets character carry the weight.

8.0Skry

PG

Toy Story 5

2026

The toys have always competed with something — a newer model, a yard sale, a child growing up — but a tablet reframes the threat structurally. Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and the gang now contend not with a rival toy but with a device that makes toys as a category feel optional. Andrew Stanton, returning to Pixar animation after the *Finding* films, builds the premise around that generational friction: a child absorbed by a screen, a roomful of characters whose entire purpose is suddenly in question. Whether the film plays that as adventure, comedy, or something more melancholy in its margins remains to be seen.

7.9Skry

PG-13

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

2026

Peter Parker's secret is no longer the problem — his erasure is. In a New York that has forgotten he exists, he keeps saving it anyway, watching the people he was closest to move through lives he can no longer enter. Destin Daniel Cretton builds the film around that displacement, running a superhero action picture through the engine of a reintegration drama: what does the mask mean when the face behind it has been scrubbed from everyone's memory? The central complication is a transformation in Parker himself, one the film positions as both threat and necessity. A villain who cannot be perceived raises the stakes on the action side while the identity architecture does its work in the quieter scenes.

7.7Skry

PG

Hoppers

2026

A girl slips her consciousness into a robotic animal body and steps into a world she thought she understood — Hoppers builds its adventure around that central gimmick and treats the animal kingdom as genuinely alien territory rather than a backdrop for cute behavior. Daniel Chong structures the film as a discovery narrative that keeps widening its own scope: each hop into a new body reframes what Mabel thinks she knows, until the animal world begins to look less like nature and more like a system with its own logic and secrets. The animation has work to do here, rendering both the robotic vessels and their organic counterparts in a register where the strangeness of the premise stays legible.

Streaming on Disney+

7.5Skry

PG

Moana

2026

7.4Skry

PG

Swapped

2026

Streaming on Netflix

7.3Skry

PG

Minions & Monsters

2026

7.0Skry

PG-13

The Mandalorian and Grogu

2026

6.5Skry

PG-13

Supergirl

2026

Kara Zor-El hasn't chosen this fight — it comes to her, close enough to make it personal. What follows is built as an interstellar chase-and-pursuit, the film moving outward from Earth into open space as Milly Alcock's Supergirl and an unlikely companion (Eve Ridley) track a threat that Matthias Schoenaerts and Jason Momoa's casting suggests will carry weight on both sides of the conflict. Craig Gillespie, whose work tends to find speed and pressure inside genre containers, structures this as a road movie that happens to cross star systems — the partnership between its two leads the load-bearing element as the scale expands around them.

TV-PG

Harry Potter

2026

TV-14

Blade Runner 2099

2026

TV-14

VisionQuest

2026

TV-14

Carrie

2026

PG-13

Runner

2026

PG-13

Practical Magic 2

2026

PG-13

Mayday

2026

PG-13

Fall 2: Deadpoint

2026

PG

Coyote vs. Acme

2026

PG-13

Insidious: Out of the Further

2026

TV-14

President Curtis

2026

G

Descendants: Wicked Wonderland

2026

The fourth chapter of the Disney Channel Descendants franchise picks up where the time-travel reset of the previous installment left off: the altered past has produced a new threat, and Red and Chloe find themselves assembling a fresh ensemble to contain it. Kimmy Gatewood structures the film around the familiar franchise rhythm — a mixed coalition of villain kids and hero kids learning to trust each other while the larger threat closes in — but the Wonderland setting keeps the visual grammar tilted toward the surreal rather than the courtly. Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker return as the central pair, with Rita Ora lending adult-cast weight to proceedings that otherwise run on the energy of its younger ensemble.

Streaming on Disney+, fuboTV

TV-G

See You at Work Tomorrow!

2026

Streaming on Prime Video

PG-13

Disclosure Day

2026

A cybersecurity analyst who stumbles onto evidence of concealed extraterrestrial contact becomes the kind of whistleblower a corporation needs to disappear — and Spielberg builds the film around that pursuit, running the thriller mechanics in parallel with a second plot strand following a meteorologist whose instruments are registering things they shouldn't. The two characters converge across a structure that keeps its science-fiction architecture at arm's length for most of the runtime, letting the conspiracy thriller do the load-bearing work until the larger frame snaps into place. Blunt, O'Connor, Firth, and Domingo anchor a cast arranged to suggest institutional scale on one side and individual exposure on the other.

PG-13

Masters of the Universe

2026

The Mattel property gets a second shot at live action, this time shaped by Travis Knight into something that reads as a planet-hopping reunion story before it becomes a siege film. Prince Adam has been separated from Eternia for fifteen years; when the Sword of Power pulls him back, he finds his home under Skeletor's occupation and his family scattered. Nicholas Galitzine carries the lead, with Idris Elba and Jared Leto in the frame as the film builds toward the transformation the franchise has always been organized around. Knight structures the material as a homecoming that doubles as a reckoning — the mythology delivered through personal stakes rather than world-building exposition.

Streaming on Prime Video

PG

The Breadwinner

2026

Nate Wilcox has spent his whole adult life as the family's earner; when his wife Katie lands a deal on *Shark Tank* and leaves for an extended business trip, he's suddenly the one holding down the house. Eric Appel builds the film as a domestic role-reversal comedy, running the joke not on incompetence but on the specific disorientation of a man whose identity was built around a function he no longer has. Nate Bargatze and Mandy Moore play the couple, with Bargatze's deadpan understatement carrying most of the weight once the premise kicks in and Katie exits the frame.

TV-14

Spider-Noir

2026

Streaming on Prime Video

PG-13

Finding Emily

2026

PG-13

The Devil Wears Prada 2

2026

Twenty years on from the events of the first film, the fashion world Andy Sachs once fled has changed around Miranda Priestly — and Runway, the magazine she built into a cultural instrument, now requires rescue rather than mere survival. Frankel structures the sequel as a deal-making drama inside a dying industry, with Emily Charlton's ascent to luxury-brand power turning what was once a hierarchy of humiliation into something closer to a negotiation among equals. The casting geometry does most of the positioning work: Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, and Tucci returning to roles that the first film fixed clearly in the culture, now repositioned by where each character has landed.

PG

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2026

PG

The Magic Faraway Tree

2026

PG-13

Project Hail Mary

2026

Streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo

PG-13

Dune: Part Two

2024

Paul Atreides has embedded himself with the Fremen, learning their warfare and their water discipline, moving toward the reckoning he believes is owed to him. Villeneuve builds the second half of his Herbert adaptation as a war film that earns its battles through accumulation — the geography of Arrakis, the internal politics of the Fremen, the competing pressures of messianic expectation — so that when the violence arrives it carries institutional weight rather than spectacle for its own sake. Zendaya's Chani, largely sidelined in Part One, becomes the film's structural conscience here, the perspective that resists the myth even as Paul moves deeper into it.

Streaming on HBO Max, YouTube TV

PG-13

Past Lives

2023

Two people who were close as children in Seoul find each other again as adults in New York, after years apart spent becoming different versions of themselves. Celine Song structures the film around the gap between those two moments — what happens in the middle is handled elliptically, with the film more interested in what accumulates across distance than in dramatizing the distance itself. The result is a romance built on restraint: Greta Lee and Teo Yoo play two people whose fluency with each other has outlasted the circumstances that produced it, and John Magaro's presence as Nora's husband quietly pressurizes every scene without tilting toward melodrama. The film works by what it withholds from each of its three characters at once.

TV-14

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

2022

Streaming on Paramount+

PG

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018

Miles Morales gets his spider-bite in a film that treats the origin story as a premise to move through rather than a destination to linger on. The interest is structural: Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman build the film around a collider accident that pulls half a dozen Spider-people from incompatible dimensions into Brooklyn, each rendered in a visually distinct idiom — anime, noir, slapstick cartoon — that the film holds in the frame simultaneously without resolving the collision into a single house style. Shameik Moore plays Miles as someone still working out who he is; Jake Johnson's older, frayed Peter Parker functions as a foil who's run out of room to grow. The animation does the genre argument: form as content, style as character.

Streaming on Netflix

PG-13

Inception

2010

A thief who works inside dreams is hired to do the reverse of what he does best: not steal an idea but plant one. Christopher Nolan builds this around the logic of nested architecture — each level of the dream a deeper fold, with different physics and a different pace of time — so that what looks like a heist film gradually becomes a puzzle of overlapping spaces running simultaneously. Leonardo DiCaprio's Cobb carries the emotional throughline, a man whose access to the subconscious is also his liability. The film earns its runtime by keeping those layers legible, stacking action across parallel planes rather than cutting between them arbitrarily.

Streaming on MGM+

TV-14

Mad Men

2007

The Madison Avenue advertising world of the 1960s is the engine here, but Matthew Weiner uses it as a pressure chamber: the decade's upheavals in race, gender, and class filtered through a single agency's conference rooms, bedrooms, and client pitches. Jon Hamm plays Don Draper, a creative director whose professional command sits on top of something deliberately obscured; Elisabeth Moss's Peggy Olson traces a different arc, moving through the same institution from a different position. The series runs its drama through period texture rather than commentary, letting the era's assumptions surface in ordinary transactions — who sits where, who speaks first, what goes unsaid.

Streaming on HBO Max, Philo, AMC+

PG-13

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

A Midwestern journalism graduate lands a job she can barely spell — assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor of a fashion magazine whose organizational gravity bends entire industries. David Frankel runs it as a workplace comedy that earns its dramatic pivot: the first half plays the culture gap for sharp laughs, the second turns quietly on what the protagonist is becoming by learning to survive it. What makes the film work as a formal object is Streep's performance, which refuses to play the tyrant for camp. Miranda speaks softly, rarely repeats herself, and the camera gives her the room a scene's true power source deserves. Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci fill the margins with precision.

Streaming on Disney+, Hulu, fuboTV

TV-14

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

The longest-running live-action drama in American primetime history, Dick Wolf's SVU spinoff took the Law & Order procedural format and narrowed its aperture to sex crimes and the investigators who work them. Where the parent series moves briskly between police work and courtroom, SVU tends to linger in the precinct and the hospital, its cases built from victim testimony as much as physical evidence. Mariska Hargitay anchors the squad's continuity across a cast that has cycled through decades of roster changes, and the series earns its longevity by treating each case as a self-contained procedural unit — the cold open, the canvass, the break — while banking enough character accumulation to sustain long-run investment.

Streaming on Hulu, fuboTV, Peacock