Films

9.0Skry

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.

8.6Skry

Project Hail Mary

2026

8.5Skry

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.

7.9Skry

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

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.

7.0Skry

The Mandalorian and Grogu

2026

6.5Skry

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.

Klara and the Sun

2026

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.

Hope

2026

A remote South Korean coastal village is under siege from something the locals can't quite name or agree on — and that collective failure of perception is where Na Hong-jin plants his film. The director of *The Wailing* builds *Hope* as a genre puzzle that passes through procedural investigation, creature panic, and something closer to cosmological dread, each register undercutting the one before it. Police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae arrive to manage a crisis that keeps expanding its own terms. With a cast spanning Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, and Alicia Vikander, it operates on Na's characteristic principle: the more clearly characters think they see, the worse their decisions become.

Avengers: Doomsday

2026

The Russo brothers return to the franchise they last handled with *Endgame*, this time assembling characters from three distinct Marvel universes on a collision course. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth are joined by Pedro Pascal in what the premise frames as a crossover operating at a larger structural scale than the series has previously attempted — the threat here cuts across continuities rather than converging on a single timeline. Built on the brothers' established preference for ensemble action that sequences its set-pieces around character geography, the film positions itself as an event in the formal sense: a film whose architecture depends on which version of each hero the audience is watching, and why that distinction matters.

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.

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.