While the high-level political decisions have been debated at length, “Retrograde” promises to give audiences an unprecedented look at what happened on the ground as American troops wrapped up their operation and prepared to leave. The harrowing footage was captured at great risk to Heineman’s safety, but the documentarian is no stranger to risking his life to make films. He recently braved the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic to make “The First Wave,” a documentary about essential health care workers treating patients despite a clear lack of resources....

That account of the tragedy on the New Mexico set of “Rust” last month was included in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Svetnoy’s lawyers on Wednesday. It’s believed to be the first suit filed in connection to the incident; Svetnoy alleges negligence by Baldwin and his fellow producers, the film’s financiers, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, first AD David Halls, and a long list of others....

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan star as the two inspectors hired to solve a string of murders, with the killer targeting members of a popular West End play, in “See How They Run,” out this September from Searchlight. A desperate Hollywood producer sets out to turn a popular play into a film. The only problem? The play’s star actors are killed off one by one. The official logline reads: “In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered....

As the auteur behind “Call Me By Your Name,” Luca Guadagnino has established his bonafides as the preeminent chronicler of romantic love. His documentary work often applies that focus to passionate figures in love with what they do, from Tilda Swinton to Bernardo Bertolucci, celebrating cinematic artists with the same gusto that he brings to the form. His delightful “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” is the best example of that tendency to date, a delightful two-hour love letter to iconic Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo that doubles as a history of Hollywood glamour from the ground up — literally — as it delivers a delectable tribute to his mouthwatering designs....

An opening title card tells us that for $50,000, Chinese immigrants can be sent to the United States, where they will be then forced into prostitution and other illegal jobs as a means of paying off the debt to the person who brought them, the eponymous “snakehead.” Sister Tse (Chang) is one such woman, working to survive in America and also to find the daughter she lost along the way....

Meh. Produced entirely remotely by Jenji Kohan, the creator of “Orange Is the New Black,” the series focuses on how Americans were forced to cope with the early effects of quarantine. Each episode tells a different story. But is it worth watching? For a number of reasons, it falls short. A television show about life during the pandemic feels too soon — we don’t know how this story ends, because it has yet to end....

Where to Watch ‘South Side’: HBO Max (Season 1 of the series originally aired on Comedy Central.) The middle of Season 2 of “South Side” is one of the better runs that any comedy had last year. Nestled in a pretty magical sophomore season, the show delivered a pair of episodes that speak to how much ground this comedy can cover on a week-to-week basis: one half hour about the very eventful life of a single piece of furniture (one of our picks for 2021’s best) followed by an unhinged sendoff to a legendary Chicago-area party promoter....

Or, as Zeke puts it: “Forrest Gump made a billion dollars selling shrimp, and Jenny still won’t fuck him!” It’s a twisted punchline to open the latest entry in a series mostly known for hacking people to death in depraved Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, and makes it clear that Rock — who originated the idea for this sequel — clearly had input on the screenplay, even if he doesn’t have a writing credit....

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” made history as the most-watched “Star Trek” original series debut on Paramount+ ever and also became one of the top two most-watched original Paramount+ series in the U.K. “Strange New Worlds” is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) led the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites from Season 2 of “Star Trek: Discovery” including Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock....

Not only did “Stranger Things” Season 4 not require the full four weeks to shatter the previously-held English-language TV record (with a whopping 1.65 billion hours viewed with in own first four weeks, the Korean “Squid Game” is still by far Netflix’s biggest show ever), it also didn’t need its final two supersized episodes to do it. Those, which include the nearly two-and-a-half-hour season finale, drop July 1; the first seven episodes of the penultimate season landed on Netflix May 27....

The whereabouts of Dr. Brenner have been unknown since he was attacked by a monster, but fans have long speculated the character would return to the series. While many characters in the show believe Brenner is dead, one former orderly at Hawkins National Laboratory was heard saying that Brenner was alive. Modine has been tight-lipped about his character returning, but he loves all the speculating. “I love that the fans are trying to figure out where Dr....

Thankfully, and somewhat in spite of itself, “Sweet Tooth” manages to thread the needle. (Or thread the floss?) Based on Jeff Lemire’s DC comic books and adapted by “Hap & Leonard’s” Jim Mickle (who serves as co-writer, director, and executive producer), the eight-part Netflix series follows a “hybrid deer-boy” (their words) who travels across a post-apocalyptic America in search of his mother, alongside a former pro football star whose past sins are far darker than helmet-to-helmet penalties and a young girl who started an army of animal-hybrid wannabes....

While a little lengthy in parts and with a central puzzle that will entice devout sleuths more than casual fans (there is apparently a cipher sprinkled throughout the series, allowing sharp-eyed fans to discover bonus clues ahead of the narrative), “The Afterparty” is dependably enjoyable and repeatedly clever through seven episodes, showcasing impressive range from the likes of Sam Richardson, Ben Schwartz, and Zoë Chao — not to mention convincing genre send-ups from a team who continue to expand their professional attributes as far as their imaginations will take them....

The Observer reported on Monday that David Gordon Green (2018’s “Halloween”) is in talks to direct the upcoming sequel, which will hail from Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek. Per the publication, Jason Blum, David Robinson and James Robinson will serve as executive producers on the film, which does not have a release date. Additional details about the upcoming film, including casting, plot, and a prospective release date, were not provided....

The splintering of the family unit, characters chasing their dreams or venturing into fantastical realms to escape their home life or restore a lost connection — this is the core of the Steven Spielberg filmography, and the subtext that’s made text by “The Fabelmans.” It’s part of what “Fabelmans” production designer Rick Carter identifies as “the Spielberg code,” the threads tying together the 33 features in the director’s filmography. And Carter would know those threads better than most people, having worked with Spielberg 11 times dating back to “Jurassic Park....

The fifth entry in the grimly provocative franchise created by James DeMonaco for horror mainstay Blumhouse Productions, “The Forever Purge” continues the saga with an uprising of renegade purgers who take a government sanctioned 12-hour crime spree to its extreme conclusion, breaking the rules to wreak havoc on the entire country in the name of purity. There can be no doubt about the racism motivating the forever purgers. “Help us purify this nation once and for all,” says one hooded goon, before getting his face blown off....

“One of the things that was important was the aesthetic,” said Dan Glass, the production VFX supervisor from DNEG (who previously worked on “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions”). “It’s clearly an upgrade. It’s a new version of the Matrix that’s learned lessons from the previous films [about blurring reality and unreality], and she wanted it to feel all the more real. As you watch it, you relate to it even more....

“You have to feed their souls,” he says, walking around the boardroom in his big, black, block glasses and tan, crisp, California suit. “How do you do that? Well, that’s hard. Right now, the soul of America is broken. […] People don’t trust politics or big business, so what can Americans look up to? Well, I’ll tell you: Paramount. Take a look at the logo. We’re the mountaintop. We’re the goddamn Statue of Liberty — because you can give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and we’ll give them two hours of respite from the harsh realities of this world....

Despite their frequent setting in the late-19th century, Western stories usually transpire in an ahistorical cinematic landscape where the west always needs to be won. But Campion’s film breaks that mythology, underscoring how, by the 20th century, the modern world had encroached on what had become a carefully constructed male fantasy of ranch life down to the mail-ordered 10-gallon hats. Kirsty Cameron’s costume designs straddle the modernism and glamour of the ’20s and the rugged timelessness of the American West in ways that reflect the rapidly changing world and those, particularly Benedict Cumberbatch’s toxic Phil Burbank, who reject the encroachment of modernity....

By now, you’ve probably heard Jesse Gemstone, played by “Righteous Gemstones” creator Danny McBride, triumphantly shout this double entendre after crashing his steerhorn-mounted Cadillac into a valet stand. HBO included the scene in its first teaser trailer for Season 2, as well as the network’s 2022 preview reel, and with good reason. The line’s crude implication speaks to Jesse’s, let’s say, atypical moral stance for a professional man of God....