Dear Edward

Dear Edward is a 2023 drama television series developed by Jason Katims, based on the novel of the same name by Ann Napolitano.

Young Edward Adler is the lone survivor of a plane crash that takes the lives of his family. He and others affected by the tragedy connect with one another to cope with their respective losses and pain.

The cast includes Taylor Schilling, Connie Britton, Colin O’Brien, Anna Uzele, Idris DeBrand, Carter Hudson, and Maxwell Jenkins.

Dear Edward is set to debut February 3rd on Apple TV+. Watch the official trailer below.

Poker Face

Poker Face is a 2023 comedy drama series created by Rian Johnson, the genius mind behind Knives out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. It is described as a "case-of-the-week" mystery series.

A 10-episode “mystery-of-the-week” series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.

Poker Face is scheduled to debut January 26th only on Peacock. Watch the official trailer below.

Shrinking

Shrinking is a 2023 comedy drama television series created by Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence and Jason Segel.

The series follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives...including his own.

The series stars Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, and Lukita Maxwell.

Shrinking will debut January 27th on Apple TV+. Watch the official trailer below.

You People

You People is a 2023 buddy comedy film directed by Kenya Barris, which he co-wrote with Jonah Hill. Harris is best known for the series Black-ish, as well as writing the screenplays for Girl’s Trip and Barber Shop: The Next Cut.

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.

The impressive cast includes Eddie Murphy, Hill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lauren London, Sam Jay, Molly Gordon, Mike Epps, Nia Long, Deon Cole, Rhea Perlman, and David Duchovny.

You People is scheduled to be released on January 27th, 2023, only on Netflix. Watch the official trailer below.

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool is a 2022 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, who previously wrote and directed Possessor (2020). The film is an international co-production Canada, Hungary, and France, and is scheduled to have its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2023.

While staying at an isolated island resort, James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi (Mia Goth), they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you’ll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.

Infinity Pool is set for a limited theatrical release on January 27th, courtesy of Neon. Watch the official trailer below.

Women Talking

Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand stars and also serves as a producer. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022.

In 2010, eight women from an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith.

The cast includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand.

Women Talking is set to debut in select theaters December 23rd, with a wide release scheduled for January 27th, courtesy of United Artists Releasing. Watch the official trailers below.

Missing

Missing is a 2023 mystery thriller film written and directed by Nick Johnson and Will Merrick in their directorial debuts, from a story by Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty. It is a standalone sequel to the 2018 film Searching. Missing had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2023.

When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers...and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Starring Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Lisa Yamada, Megan Suri, Nia Long, Storm Reid, Thomas Barbusca, Tim Griffin, Tracy Vilar, and Zeke Alton.

Missing is set to debut in theaters January 20th, courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing. Watch the official trailer below.

Skinamarink

Skinamarink is a 2023 Canadian experimental horror film written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball in his feature directorial debut. The film was made on a $15,000 budget and after an initial limited theater release it quickly surpassed $1 million in earnings, allowing for a wide theatrical release.

In 1995, four-year-old Kevin injures himself in what his six-year-old sister Kaylee says is a sleepwalking incident. Some time later, the two wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father has seemingly disappeared and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are gradually vanishing as well.

The cast includes Jaime Hill, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul, and Lucas Paul.

Skinamarink is set to debut in select theaters January 13th and is set to debut on Shudder February 2nd, courtesy of IFC Midnight. Watch the official trailer below.

When You Finish Saving The World

When You Finish Saving The World is a 2023 coming-of-age comedy drama written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg in his directorial debut. In August it was confirmed that A24 would finance, produce, and distribute the film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20th, 2022. It is based on Eisenberg's 2020 audio drama of the same name.

Evelyn and her oblivious teenage son Ziggy can't seem to connect, yet they try to find that bond in other people. She latches on to a young boy she meets at her women's shelter, while he falls in love with an extremely political student at his school.

The cast includes Julianne Moore, Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk, Alisha Boe, Jay. O. Sanders. and Eleonore Hendricks.

When You Finish Saving The World is set to release January 23rd, 2023. Watch the official trailer below.

The Son

The Son is a 2022 drama film directed by Florian Zeller (The Father) from a screenplay written by himself and Christopher Hampton. It is based on Zeller's 2018 stage play of the same name and serves as a prequel to 2020's The Father. The film stars Hugh Jackman (Prisoners, Logan), Laura Dern (Little Women, Marriage Story), Vanessa Kirby (About Time, Mission: Impossible - Fallout), Zen McGrath, and Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, The Father).

A couple of years after his parents’ divorce, 17-year-old Nicholas (McGrath) no longer feels he can stay with his mother, Kate (Dern). He moves in with his father Peter (Jackman) and Peter’s new partner Beth (Kirby). Juggling work, his and Beth’s new baby, and the offer of his dream job in Washington, Peter tries to care for Nicholas as he wishes his own father (Hopkins) had cared for him. But by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto the Nicholas in the present.

The Son had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2022, and was released for a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City and Los Angeles on November 25, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 20, 2023, by Sony Pictures Classics. Check out the official trailer below.

Plane

Plane is a 2023 American action-thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet, written by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. The film was announced in 2016, acquired by Lionsgate Films in 2019, sold to Solstice Studios in 2020, and re-acquired by Lionsgate in 2021. It was shot in Puerto Rico.

Pilot Brodie Torrance saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island -- only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.

The cast includes Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Daniella Pineda, and Tony Goldwyn. It centers around a pilot surviving the aftermath of an emergency landing in hostile territory.

Plane is set to debut in theaters on January 13th. Watch the official trailer below.

A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto is a 2022 comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee. It is the second film adaptation of the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, and a remake of the 2015 Swedish film of the same name written and directed by Hannes Holm.

Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.

The film stars Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Cameron Britton.

A Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical release on December 30th, 2022, before a wide release on January 13th, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Watch the official trailer below.

The Last of Us

The Last of Us is an upcoming post-apocalyptic drama television series from creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin, set to air on HBO Max in 2023. Druckmann is an Israeli-American writer, creative director, designer, programmer and co-president of Naughty Dog, best known for his work on the Uncharted and The Last of Us video game franchises. Mazin previously created the successful miniseries Chernobyl for HBO.

Based on the 2013 video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog, the series will follow Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States. It will also feature Gabriel Luna as Joel's younger brother Tommy, Merle Dandridge as resistance leader Marlene, and Anna Torv as Joel's smuggler partner Tess.

It is the first HBO series to be based on a video game, and is a joint production by Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, Naughty Dog, The Mighty Mint, and Word Games. The first season will consist of ten episodes, and original game composer Gustavo Santaolalla will compose the score.

The Last of Us is set to debut January 15th, 2023, only on HBO Max. Watch the official trailer below.

Mayor of Kingstown: Season 2

Mayor of Kingstown is a crime drama series created by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone), and Hugh Dillon. The first season premiered in November of 2021, and even though it received mixed reviews I loved it. I will watch anything Sheridan is involved with, and the addition of my guy Jeremy Renner was just icing on the cake for me. The series is gritty, fast-paced, very well-written, and expertly acted by Renner and the supporting cast.

The McLusky family are power brokers in Kingstown, Mich., where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.

Mayor of Kingstown: Season 2 will premiere January 15th only on Paramount Plus. Watch the official trailer below.

M3GAN

M3GAN is a 2023 science fiction horror thriller directed by Gerard Gladstone (Housebound), from a screenplay by Akela Cooper (Malignant, The Nun 2) and a story by horror legend James Wan, the man behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and produced by Blumhouse, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone, and The Invisible Man.

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.

The cast includes Allison Williams (Girls, Get Out), Violet McGraw (The Haunting of Hill House) Ronny Chieng (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will & Grace), Jen Van Epps (Cowboy Bebop), Lori Dungey (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, extended edition) and Stephane Garneau-Monten (Straight Forward).

M3GAN is set to debut in theaters on January 6th, 2023, courtesy of Universal Pictures. Watch the official trailer below.

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 mystery thriller film written and directed by Scott Cooper, adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Louis Bayard.

West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

The film features an ensemble cast that includes Christian Bale and Harry Melling as Landor and Poe respectively, along with Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall, and Robert Duvall.

The Pale Blue Eye released is set to release in select theaters on December 23rd, and will release on Netflix on January 6th, 2023. Watch the official trailer below.

White Noise

White Noise is a 2022 black comedy film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. It is Baumbach's eleventh feature film, and the first not to be based on an original story of his own. White Noise will have its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31st, 2022.

A dramatization of a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.

The film stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, André Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Don Cheadle.

White Noise is scheduled to be released in limited theaters on November 25th, before its streaming release on December 30th exclusively on Netflix. Watch the official trailer below.

The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans is a 2022 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Schindler’s List) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Tony Kushner (who also produced the film). The film stars Gabriel LaBelle (The Predator, Brand New Cherry Flavor) in the lead role, with Michelle Williams (Shutter Island, Manchester by the Sea), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, The Batman), Seth Rogen (Superbad, The Interview), and Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Dear John) in supporting roles. The film is dedicated to the memories of Spielberg's real-life parents Arnold Spielberg and Leah Adler.

The film, a semi-autobiography loosely based on Spielberg's early life, follows Sammy Fabelman, a young aspiring filmmaker growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, who discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

The Fabelmans had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film is scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 11, 2022, before expanding wide on November 23, 2022, by Universal Pictures. Watch the official trailer below.

Empire of Light

Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film written and directed by Sam Mendes. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3rd, 2022.

A romance develops in a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

The cast includes Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth.

Empire of Light is set to debut in theaters on December 9th, courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. Watch the official trailer below.

Empire of Light

Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film written and directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, 1917). The film stars Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Crown), Micheal Ward (The Old Guard), Tom Brooke (The Death of Stalin), Tanya Moodie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Hannah Onslow (Ridley Road), Crystal Clarke (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Toby Jones (Captain America: The Winter Solider), and Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service).

The film follows a love story that takes place in an English coastal cinema during the 1980s.

Empire of Light premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 9, 2022, and in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2023, by Searchlight Pictures. Watch the official teaser trailer below.