Films

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.

Scary Movie

2026

Twenty-six years after the original Core Four survived a masked killer whose very existence felt like a copyright violation, the gang reassembles for another round. Michael Tiddes directs the Wayans brothers and Anna Faris and Regina Hall back into a franchise that built its reputation by running genre conventions through a blender — jokes arriving faster than the plot, parody operating less as commentary than as maximum-density reference fire. The 2026 iteration promises no horror IP will be left standing, which frames the whole enterprise as a catalog sweep: how much has accumulated since 2000, and how much of it survives the treatment.

The Holdovers

2023

Paul Giamatti plays a classics instructor so comprehensively disliked by his students that being assigned to supervise the handful left behind over Christmas break reads less as punishment than confirmation. Alexander Payne builds the film as a three-character chamber piece set against the snowbound quiet of a New England prep school — a curmudgeon, a sharp and directionless teenager, and a cook newly bereaved by Vietnam, each stranded in their own way. The comedy and the grief are kept in the same register throughout, neither subordinated to the other, and the film's method is essentially to let proximity do the dramatic work.

Over Your Dead Body

2026

Pati Patni Aur Woh Do

2026