Release Date: 11/04/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Drama. Romance. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Entertainment Squad. Seen for SXSW 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See G.G. Hawkins’ I Really Love My Husband is a cautionary tale about falling just to fall to force yourself to be happy. A beautiful setting contrasts well with the fantastic range of performances, as we witness a wide range of emotions expose themselves on Teresa and Drew's belated honeymoon celebration.    Madison Lane

Season One. Aired On: HBO Max. Release Date: 11/02/25. Genre: Comedy. The Verdict: A Must-See In the wake of predecessors like Girls and Broad City , I Love LA ditches the New York setting for an ensemble comedy series that’s more aligned with the likes of Netflix’s Love , or even a younger sister to Nobody Wants This .    Show creator Rachel Sennott plays Maia, who lives in Los Angeles as an aspiring talent agent with her sweet boyfriend Dylan (Josh Hutcherson). Maia’s

Release Date: 10/31/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. Horror. Thriller. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: XYZ Films. Seen for SXSW 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See Hallow Road is any parent's worst nightmare, driving down an endless stretch of open road in the early AM with their child on the line in danger of ruining their life. The film is a sinister take on suspense, allowing for a majority of the film to be parent versus parent in their response on how to protect their child different

Release Date: 10/27/25 [VOD] Genre: Documentary. Horror. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Roadside Attractions. The Verdict: A Mistake A string of serial murders in California’s Inland Empire gets the true-crime-doc treatment in Strange Harvest , the new, entirely fictional “film” from writer-director Stuart Ortiz. What begins as a bleak police procedural quickly dissolves into a queasy mash-up of torture porn, occult cosplay, and half-baked found footage. ​ The story kicks off w

Season Four. Aired On: Paramount+. Release Date: 10/26/25. Genre: Drama. Thriller. The Verdict: A Must-See As a fan of the show since its debut in 2021, I was looking forward to the fourth season of Mayor of Kingstown yet also dreading it at the same time. In addition to being horrifically violent and dark, this show can manifest a feeling of systemic despair like no other I’ve seen, and last season dragged on a bit despite starting strong.   That said, season four may be t

Release Date: 10/24/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Drama. Romance. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Paramount Pictures. The Verdict: A Must-See From the filmmaker behind one of the best book to screen adaptations of all time, The Fault in Our Stars comes yet another success story with Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You .    A tale of betrayal, grief, growing up and ultimately finding yourself among the chaos of life, Regretting You balances all of these attributes incredibly well with a fine

Release Date: 10/24/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Horror. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: IFC Films. Seen for Nightmares Film Festival 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See George A. Romero didn’t invent zombies, but he certainly made them mainstream. Since the release of his masterwork Night of the Living Dead , the fictional creatures have been reimagined and reformatted to fit almost every scenario imaginable. In the last 25 years alone, Scooby Doo has encountered them ( Scooby Doo o

Release Date: 10/24/25 [Netflix] Genre: Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Netflix. The Verdict: A Must-See Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in nearly a decade arrives at a precarious time. A House of Dynamite is a two-hour film about 19 perilous, uncertain minutes when a missile with no known point of origin launches and is set to land in an American city, ostensibly killing millions of citizens. The film shifts between different perspectives on the situation from va

Release Date: --/--/-- [Cinemas] Genre: Horror. Thriller. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: TBA. Seen for Nightmares Film Festival 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See It’s been approximately 12 hours since I finished The Red Mask and I’ve had time to fully soak into the film as a whole. My opinion… it's one of the most innovative and technically sound slashers since the original Scream .    From just a writing standpoint, The Red Mask is phenomenal with so many moments of fantastic m

Release Date: --/--/-- [Festival Run] Genre: Horror. Thriller. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: TBA. Seen for Nightmares Film Festival 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See Anthologies are a tough breed of filmmaking, it’s very rare that one can manage to make every segment as captivating as the next and If It Bleeds narrowly misses the mark in that regard. The film is smartly written, campy, loads of fun, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have its faults.    Four segments combine to m

Release Date: 10/17/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Horror. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Universal Pictures. The Verdict: A Must-See Just four years after the events of The Black Phone , siblings Gwen and Finny find the past has come back to haunt them; Gwen sleepwalks through the night while also drifting through a paranormal plane receiving messages from lost souls as the evil spirit of The Grabber returns to make the siblings’ life a living hell. Thankfully, the two siblings, played e

Release Date: 10/14/25 [VOD] Genre: Action. Comedy. Drama. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: MVD Entertainment Group. The Verdict: A Must-See Alejandro Montoya Marín’s The Unexpecteds is an immensely charming heist indie that is bursting at the seams with its topical narrative and robust character dynamics that will have you grinning from ear to ear.    The Unexpecteds is an ensemble piece, without one piece of this insane puzzle, the picture wouldn’t quite come together. Matt

Release Date: 10/10/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Action. Adventure. SciFi. MPAA: Rated PG13. Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures. The Verdict: A Maybe Neon lights, big city. He lives to ride his light cycle. To ride, to ride. To ride, to ride. To ride, to ride. To ride, to ride. - Ares   ...or a terrible reimagining of "Bright Lights" from 30 Seconds to Mars - who’s to notice the difference. Tron is a 80s film with a lot of visual flair, ahead of its time and accompanied by endless ne

Release Date: 10/10/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Comedy. Drama. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: A24. The Verdict: A Must-See The ultimate question in life, if we are able to, is do we want kids? And of course, IF we are able to. Whether that be our financial situation, if our bodies will allow us, or even if our minds may not be able to take it - do you think you're REALLY able to have a kid in today's day and age? Mary Bronstein's If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You , her first movie

Release Date: 10/10/25 [Cinemas / VOD] Genre: Action. Biography. Drama. Horror. War. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment.. The Verdict: A Must-See Kiah Roache-Turner’s Beast of War is an intense battle for survival stranded in the Pacific with a ferocious Great White on the prowl. Utilizing the best of the environment to make for an always eerie atmosphere, covered in blaze and fog from the ongoing war, waiting for a looming attack from above or below.   

Release Date: 10/10/25 [Netflix] Genre: Drama. Mystery. Thriller. MPAA: Rated R. Distributor: Netflix. The Verdict: A Mistake The Woman in Cabin 10 is not a novel I’ve had the pleasure of reading, so my experience with this film will be from the perspective of just that. However as I do with book adaptations, I have researched after the fact just how faithful it is to the source and this one… is interesting.    The film makes some drastic changes to details around the myste

w/ Director Kiah Roache-Turner. SYNOPSIS A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the enemy and must battle for their lives against a giant hungry great white shark.   ​Cinefied's Connor Petrey had the opportunity to speak with Kiah Roache-Turner , the director of Beast of War - the mechanical shark, the way they filmed it, and what's on the horizon... ​ ​ READ Our Beast of W

Release Date: 10/10/25 [VOD] Genre: Drama. Horror. Mystery. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Film Movement. Seen for Nightmares Film Festival 2024. The Verdict: A Must-See Johannes Grenzfurthner’s Solvent is a wild escapade to hell and back, delivering one of the most shocking features in a year full of shock value. Shot in a found footage fashion, with a strapped GoPro and inspection scope type of cameras, the film gives a bizarre first person experience as we witness a posse

Release Date: 10/10/25 [Cinemas] Genre: Action. Adventure. Fantasy. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Shout! Studios. Seen for Fantastic Fest 2025. The Verdict: A Must-See Since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, the sword and sorcery genre has slowly withered away. That’s not to say there haven’t been any genuine (or even good) attempts at trying to revive it. 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves made a noble attempt but ultimately failed to leave a major impr

Release Date: --/--/-- [Festival Run] Genre: Drama. MPAA: Not Rated. Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment. Seen for Yellow Springs Film Festival 2025. The Verdict: A Mistake Magic Hour is a title that slipped by me during my SXSW experience, even having the opportunity to chat with writer/director Katie Aselton about the film only to have a scheduling conflict that caused me to miss the screening. Now several months later, the film had made a resurgence at a local indie fil