Neon’s “Infinity Pool,” written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg (“Possessor”), stars Alexander Skarsgård as a novelist who accidentally kills a man while on vacation. Yet in this foreign land, the punishment is death: either his own, or for the right price, the death of a fabricated doppelgänger. Mia Goth also stars in the thriller, hinting at what would happen if “The White Lotus” merged with “The Purge” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” with a bit of an “Us” twist....

The official “Lisey’s Story” synopsis from Apple reads: “‘Lisey’s Story’ is a deeply personal, pensive thriller that follows Lisey Landon (played by Julianne Moore) two years after the death of her husband, famous novelist Scott Landon (played by Clive Owen). A series of unsettling events causes Lisey to face memories of her marriage to Scott that she has deliberately blocked out of her mind. Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Ron Cephas Jones and Sung Kang star alongside Moore and Owen....

The HBO Max original series — about a woman trying to escape her controlling tech billionaire husband after he puts a chip in her brain without telling her — is often charming (thanks mainly to its well-assembled cast), well-acted (again, great casting), and fitfully bizarre (in a good way), even if it doesn’t exactly put its best foot forward. Writers Alissa Nutting, Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos, and Christina Lee (who also serves as showrunner) split the pilot into two timelines: one in the “present” and the other 24 hours prior....

Roald Dahl’s beloved novel “Matilda” is getting another big-screen treatment courtesy of Netflix, this time a rock musical based on the Tony- and Olivier-winning production directed by Matthew Warchus. Thompson stars as headmaster Trunchbull who is set on extinguishing independent thought among her elementary school students, including the brilliant and uniquely gifted Matilda, played by “Darklands” star Alisha Weir. Matilda’s only role model, Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch), encourages Matilda to use her vivid imagination and maintain her curiosity, despite Trunchbull’s demands to get rid of all the “rebels” at Crunchem Hall....

The latest Marvel installment stars Jared Leto as biochemist Dr. Morbius, who is cured of a rare blood disease by using bat DNA. The only side effect? Becoming a quasi-vampire with superpowers. The Spider-Man comic book villain did swing to the top of the box office its opening weekend, grossing $39 million domestic and $84 million worldwide. Yet bad reviews and a C+ CinemaScore — the second-lowest of any Marvel film behind 2015’s “Fantastic Four” reboot — have plagued the follow-up to “Spider-Man: No Way Home....

Director and producer José Padilha (“Robocop”) has officially sued production partner Eric Newman over allegations that Newman is hiding millions of dollars worth of profits from the critically acclaimed series. Padilha listed in the suit that Newman is concealing revenue from Gaumont Television, which violates their profit-sharing agreement. Newman’s production company Spahn Ranch was supposed to be sharing reports and proceeds from “Narcos” with Padilha’s production company Cold Mountain. The contract states “each party receives an equal amount of Gross Proceeds at all times....

In addition, a catalogue consisting of thousands of past “Neighbours” episodes will launch on Freevee sometime before the new season premieres. Created by television executive Reg Watson, “Neighbours” premiered in 1985 and ran for over 9,000 episodes of seemingly as many plot twists, marriages, and family rivalries on Ramsey Street, a cul-de-sac in the fictional Melbourne suburb Erinsborough. The news comes after the show was forced to end its 37-year run this July, after U....

The $19.99 rental title added home viewing while still at 2,405 theaters. Even with just three days’ availability, it scored #1 spots Apple (by rentals) and FandangoNow (by revenue). (It is also #7 at GoogleTV, which usually lags a few days behind Apple, but was released too late for inclusion on Spectrum Cable’s site). A strategy originally conceived to buttress Universal from uncertain theatrical response, it’s become a hit for consumers at home while maintaining box-office interest....

Here’s the official synopsis: “‘Notturno’ captures the everyday life that lies behind the continuing tragedy of civil wars, ferocious dictatorships, foreign invasions and the murderous apocalypse of ISIS. Gianfranco Rosi constructs a sublime cinematic journey through the region finding peace and light within the chaos and despair in the aftermath of war. A mosaic of intimate moments and luminous images, ‘Notturno’ is a profound and urgent cinematic achievement, from a master of the documentary form....

And while the wait for Season 2 has been long, there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel. We’re getting our first look at where best friends Maya and Anna are headed in their middle-school adventures, in a Season 2 trailer announcing the Sept. 18 release date. Typical school-age awkwardness ensues, with Anna and Maya partaking of slumber parties and a pool party they’re obviously too good to attend....

There are many times in Hogir Hirori’s “Sabaya,” an anxiety-filled potboiler of a documentary about the fight to rescue enslaved girls from ISIS, where one might wonder how they pulled it off. That feeling is quickly followed by relief that they did. The daring on display by Hirori, the 40-year-old Swedish filmmaker who left his native Kurdistan in 1999, is matched and (he’d certainly say) exceeded by the bravery of his subjects: the humanitarian rescuers of the Yazidi Home Center in northern Syria....

If that’s not enough to titillate you, here’s the official synopsis: “The Scary of Sixty-First” premiered at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival to strong reviews, including from IndieWire: “Much will be made about the connection of ‘The Scary of Sixty-First’ to ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’ But the movie that more closely touches its urbane blend of erotics, affable female friendship, and a search for answers in a world with so many puzzling questions is really ‘Celine and Julie Go Boating,’ Jacques Rivette’s quasi two-hander about a pair of young French women caught up in the need to narrativize the discordant strands of their lives....

This sense of discomfort and disorientation is present already from the opening scene, where we follow Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald), who meets with a white woman and her husband, before stepping into the trunk of their car in complete silence, seemingly afraid of something. There is barely a word spoken in the first 15 minutes of the film, there is no score at all, no relief from the tension, forcing the audience to ponder just what is going on here....

Reprising some of the shenanigans of his lovable “Elf” character, reliable funnyman Will Ferrell plays a jovial ghost of Christmas present opposite a dastardly Ryan Reynolds as a modern day Scrooge. Bolstered by a stellar ensemble, both Ferrell and Reynolds make surprisingly charming showmen, impressing with confident crooning — and even some light choreo. It’s refreshing to see two stars who could have easily phoned it in for the rest of their careers push themselves to try new things....

The director joked that he may have to hide from the elderly after the film is released. In the meantime, Hwang is returning to South Korea to pen “Squid Game” Season 2 for Netflix, with an estimated release date at the end of 2024. And Hwang counts his favorite compliment as something Steven Spielberg told him at the AFI Awards luncheon. “Steven Spielberg told me, ‘I watched your whole show in three days and now I want to steal your brain!...

With Halloween right around the corner, it’s best to start shopping for costumes as early as possible and if you’re a TV fan in search of a cool costume idea look no further than “Squid Game.” The insanely popular South Korean survival series that premiered on Netflix last month follows hundreds of cash-strapped, down on their luck adults that agree to participate in high-stakes and potentially deadly children’s games such as “red light, green light,” in hopes of winning a handsome cash prize....

Now, with just three episodes left to air in the show’s third season, audiences are witnessing an ascendant Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) start to shine, comfortable in his father’s good graces. The most recent episode of the series, “What It Takes,” sees Roman persuade his father to back a maybe-fascist/definite white supremacist candidate for president, which feels like a big win for the character and a horrible, terrible, no good thing for everyone else in the world....

The official “Synchronic” synopsis from Well Go USA reads: “When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Mackie) and Dennis (Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest daughter suddenly disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality—and the flow of time itself....

Pattinson assumes the role of Gotham’s Caped Crusader following Michael Keaton in Tim Burton’s “Batman” movies, plus Christian Bale in Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy, and Ben Affleck in the DC Extended Universe films. (It was recently announced that Affleck will reprise the role in the upcoming Flash movie.) Starring opposite Pattinson is a starry ensemble cast that includes Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Colin Farrell as The Penguin, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and John Turturro as Carmine Falcone....

“[I was] waiting for the right one or ones, where you’re in collaboration with people and material that excites you,” the “Prisoners” star told Entertainment Weekly about signing on to “The Batman,” in theaters March 4. “I was totally surprised, frankly, that [the script] was so good. I felt immediately [on] page one, page two, you could tell that the director [Matt Reeves] was seeing the film that they wrote....