Release Date: 02/13/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Action. Adventure. Animation. Comedy. Family. Sport. MPAA: Rated PG. Distributor: Sony Pictures. The Verdict: A Maybe GOAT is the latest animated movie from Sony Pictures Imageworks with an assist from producer and basketball legend Steph Curry (who also voices a giraffe named Lenny). The story focuses on Will (Caleb McLaughlin), a goat who has dreams of making it in the professional basketball league. It’s not just any league, thoug

Season Two. [Episodes 1 - 3] Aired On: Hulu on Disney+. Release Date: 02/23/26. Genre: Action. Drama. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See Season two of Paradise takes us outside of the bunker into a dystopian future that rivals the high emotions the first season brought out. The finale of season one took us on a wild ride from discovering who assassinated the President to Xavier setting off to find his wife on a personal aircraft and into the abyss of the unknown.  Episode on

w/ Director Frank E. Flowers. SYNOPSIS A Caribbean woman gets her secret past revealed when her island is invaded by vicious buccaneers.   Cinefied's Connor Petrey spoke with Director/CoWriter Frank E. Flowers about the Prime Original The Bluff - the brutal pirate action film led by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban. They discuss the historical accuracy, the epic fights, and what brought this narrative to our screens... THE BLUFF will premiere globally on Prime Video -

Genre: Animation. Short. Director: Courtney Sposato. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See Staring Contest is a 99 second animated short that might be brief on run time but is lengthy in topic. Two friends, a bunny and bear, start the day with a friendly staring game. But in a class full of bears, the bunny is soon singled out – nay, targeted – by being different. The staring game soon becomes a political contest of who will blink first. Courtney Spo

Genre: Adventure. Short. Director: John Michael Riva Jr. Cast: Hosea Chanchez. Lee Pugsley. Edward Fletcher. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See Set to the pulse of an 80s PI show, John Michael Riva’s Murphy’s Ranch  is a hip, clever short that ends way too soon. Within its compact runtime, the short film places two working-class adopted brothers against everyone’s favorite villain: Nazis. The dialogue snaps with Shane Black precision, the plotting

Genre: Comedy. Short. Director: Sylvia Ray. Cast: Kamal Angelo Bolden. Patrick Cage. Veronika Cherniaieva. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See A relatable comedy about a divorced dad trapped in a conversational quagmire with an overcaffeinated super dad, Seaweed Snacks  nails the social horror of the kid birthday party circuit. Slightly dark, sharply funny, and just unhinged enough to feel familiar. Patrick Cage II stars as Ellis, a soft spoken, ar

Director: Sammy LeMieurs Runtime: 75 Minutes. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See The stillness that follows a funeral can be a difficult weight. Tony LeMieur has died. The LeMieur family has gathered not only to mourn him and a life cut short, but to also confront their own humanity. In his intimate documentary The LeMieurs , filmmaker Sammy LeMieur turns the camera toward his own Minnesota family, capturing four years of grief, acceptance, and th

Director: Jacob Hatley. Tom Vickers. Runtime: 96 Minutes. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Maybe Beautifully shot and intimately framed, Clovers  tracks three residents of Asheboro, North Carolina, once dubbed the “fastest dying city in America.” Filmed over three years, directors Jacob Hatley and Tom Vickers center their story around a quasi-legal strip mall casino and the orbiting lives of Jennifer Paschal, JD Cranford, and Sharon McNeill. Each is give

Genre: Comedy. Director: Mechi Lakatos. Lucy Sandler. Cast: Mechi Lakatos. Lucy Sandler. Sivan Ambrose. Seen for Slamdance Film Festival 2026. The Verdict: A Must-See An absurdist, heavily ad-libbed comedy, Danny Is My Boyfriend  feels like National Lampoon  shared a cringy, three martini lunch with Curb Your Enthusiasm . The resulting style is scrappy, original, and chaotic. Two women discover they are dating the same man, care for a tripod dog, and attempt revenge, all wit

Release Date: 02/17/26 [VOD] Genre: Horror. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Cineverse Entertainment. Seen for Nightmares Film Festival 2025. The Verdict: A Maybe Director and co-writer Gabriel Bernini picked up the award for Best Director – Feature at the Nightmare Film Festival for his debut Blood Barn , and that means something to the horror genre. The prestige of this festival stems from its celebration of the field and the inspirational, emerging voices within it.  Bernini’s

Season Five. [Episodes 1 - 4] Aired On: Hulu on Disney+. Release Date: 02/21/26. Genre: Action. Comedy. Drama. Sport. The Verdict: A Must-See If I recall a review I wrote of an earlier season of this Canadian comedy, I stated that Letterkenny walked so Shoresy could run. Five seasons in, and this incredible spinoff continues to be innovative and fresh, while remaining familiar and sharp.  This new storyline raises the stakes, as all progressing seasons ought to do. Shores

Release Date: 02/06/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Action. Adventure. Drama. Music. Mystery. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Neon. The Verdict: A Must-See In the Moroccan desert, much lies beneath the sands that stretch miles north leading into the Sahara; it is hot and it is deadly. However, that doesn’t stop the party from going on. Hundreds come to the desert to take part in raves, shaking the dunes with the sonic force of EDM music. Further into these raves, we see a father,

Release Date: 02/13/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Horror. Romance. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Panoramic Pictures. The Verdict: A Maybe Millennial fans of Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark  will eat up Mimics , with its creepy dummy and underlying wholesome message somewhat reminiscent of the ‘90s kid show. In fact, Mimics  is an apt name for the film which appears to be inspired by many movies before it – think Joker  with a dash of Late Night Night With The Devil . A

Release Date: 02/20/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: A24. The Verdict: A Must-See There’s something immediately striking about How to Make a Killing , and it isn’t just the pairing of Glenn Powell and Margaret Qualley. The film carries itself with a slick assurance that feels more accessible than you might expect, while still retaining a slight indie bite that keeps it from feeling overly polished or formulaic. What’s perhaps most surp

Season Ten. [Season One - Revival] Aired On: ABC. Hulu on Disney+. Release Date: 02/25/26. Genre: Comedy. Drama. The Verdict: A Must-See Scrubs originally ran from 2001 to 2009 and was an enthusiastic look at the medical industry, with a bromance for the ages and chemistry amongst the cast that has lived on for decades. Now 17 years after the series closed on a bit of a downer, Scrubs has been resuscitated for another go.  When we meet up with J.D., he no longer works for S

Release Date: 02/13/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Horror. SciFi. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films. The Verdict: A Maybe Back in 2019, David Koepp ( Jurassic Park , Spider-Man ) wrote a silly novel that read like a B-movie pitch. Skylab falls from orbit. Alien fungus lands on Earth. The government freezes it. Climate change thaws it. It grows. It spreads. It explodes. The concept was pulpy, fast, and knowingly ridiculous. Seven years later, Koepp’s gory little c

Physical Media Release Date: 02/17/26. Label: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Form of Release: 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD Steelbook. The Verdict: A Must-Buy A new era of illusionists step into the spotlight when Now You See Me: Now You Don't  arrives on 4K UHD (+ Blu-ray + Digital), Blu-ray™ (+ Digital), and DVD beginning February 17 from Lionsgate. Now You see Me: Now You Don't  stars Jesse Eisenberg ( The Social Network) , Woody Harrelson ( Zombieland ), Dave

Release Date: 02/13/26 [Netflix] Genre: Comedy. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Netflix. The Verdict: A Maybe The MCU is back! Tyler Perry’s Madea Cinematic Universe, that is. But for the first time in the franchise’s history, the abrasive and eccentric matriarch known as Mabel Earlene "Madea" Simmons is not the star. Instead, her outspoken brother Joe is. Joe has appeared in nearly every film alongside Madea. Yet each time he’s only served as the Statler and Waldorf-esque comed

Release Date: 02/12/26 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. Romance. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Warner Bros. The Verdict: A Must-See Each film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights can almost be seen as a personal love letter from the filmmaker to the book based on how they present the story to us. Which scenes from the book they favor, which lines they move around, the order in which major plot points do or don’t happen, and even how the ending will be changed. Although some o

Release Date: 02/13/26 [Shudder] Genre: Comedy. Fantasy. Horror. SciFi. Thriller. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Shudder. The Verdict: A Must-See Admittedly, Honey Bunch takes some time to get going, requiring a surplus of patience to truly appreciate the revealing second half and the incredibly odd storytelling. There’s immediately an uncanny valley effect to the style of filmmaking at hand here, with the opening shot seeming pointless until it expands upon much much later.