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Top 10 Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)

July 4, 2026 AdamLeave a comment

Hey, everyone! I hope you all are enjoying your 4th of July weekend! As we exit June and enter July, that means we are already halfway through 2026! Because of that, I might as well give you all my pick for the top 10 best movies of the year so far!

Keep in mind, I have not seen every single movie that has released in 2026 and there might just be a critically praised movie that you love that I have just not gotten around to yet. Also, these rankings are NOT set in stone and are subject to change as the year goes on. For all I know, my #10 on the list could possibly end up being my #1 favorite movie of the year.

Although there is still PLENTY of films to come out for the remainder of the year, these are the ten films that has affected me in the best ways for the first six months of 2026!

10.) Backrooms

While I’m not quite on the love boat with this one, I’m sure as hell on the respect boat. I love the original atmosphere and unique setting that Kane Parsons has created here, making the backrooms itself a fascinating place to explore whenever we are able to get to it. I did wish the overall narrative had more meat to it and Parsons didn’t have to keep coming up with contrived excuses for his characters to keep showing up to the backrooms. And I’m still scratching my head on the resolution to the whole thing. However, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve are great here and there are still plenty of seeds that have yet to be grown in the world that is Backrooms that I’m curious to visit yet again in the future. I can see this being a series of films that only gets better from here on out.

9.) The Sheep Detectives

Well, what do you know. Who would’ve guessed that a film about a literal talking sheep in live-action could end up being this heartwarming and cozy?! Even if it can be a bit too silly at times, The Sheep Detectives just tugs at your heartstrings in the best of ways and Hugh Jackman is as much as a welcome presence as he always has been on the big screen. If you are someone that adores the new Paddington movies, this might just well in your wheel house.

8.) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

It made have taken a second try but 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is able to deliver the complete full package I wanted from the previous 28 Years Later film from last year, while standing as perhaps the best installment in this franchise since the original. The acting is terrific, the horror and gore will disgust you in the most delightful ways imaginable, and it is still able to follow the franchise’s overall themes by continuing to offer fresh, new, and different perspectives about a world that has plunged into total chaos without taking you out of it or even inviting comparisons to the world that we are currently live in. I sure hope this is able to find it’s audience through digital and streaming because if not, then MAN are they missing out!

7.) Hoppers

Hoppers is a showcase of what happens with Pixar allows themselves to let loose and forge their own path to creativity. The film has it’s own distinct animation style that compliments the storytelling without it being too overbearing or “in your face”, the characters are all likeable with their own relatable goals that anyone can get behind, it’s easily among the funniest Pixar movie in years, and despite prior reports of Disney’s efforts to downplay the themes of environmentalism, it’s able to get that exact message across in as much of a profound way as Pixar was able to in 2008 with Wall-E. It may take it’s time in getting to that exact point in the ways that it was intend and does have one or two cringeworthy lines about how “aware” it is of it’s own premise but the pay-offs by the latter half of Hopper makes it the whole experience feel worth it! While there are those out there that claim Toy Story 5 or Minions & Monsters as their animated film of the year, I’m still sticking by this one.

6.) Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

After coming out of the closet making the criminally underrated A Cure For Wellness, Gore Verbinski is back to take a stance on the biggest global crisis at the moment, Artificial Intelligence. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die sees Sam Rockwell from the future to give us all a warning on how the robots and machines are taking over and it’s up to choices that we make now that can set the course to a much brighter path forward. The cast is greats, the visuals are aces, the ending is as poignant it comes, and it’s super refreshing for a movie to not have any subtly whatsoever to get it’s message across. Although Verbinski’s direction won’t be suitable for anyone, this is a solid watch.

5.) Send Help

Can we point out how much of a miracle that a film like Send Help exists? In an age of sequels, reboots, remakes, and legacy-quels conquering the film landscape and sucking up the remaining creative energy that Hollywood might still have, films like these are becoming more diamonds in the rough in the film industry. Thankfully, someone at 20th Century Fox or Disney was wise enough to give a blank check to the godfather of horror and superhero movies in Sam Raimi, his first original horror film since 2009’s Drag Me To Hell! Send Help is yet another worthy addition to Raimi’s Hall of Fame of Horror! It’s able to capitalize on it’s simple yet effective premise thanks to it’s two charismatic leads, it’s incredibly visionary direction, unapologetically excessive gore, and a script that will keep audiences on their toes the whole way through. Even if the ending leaves out a bit too many unanswered questions, it’s still an absolute blast of a motion picture that is definitely worth seeing on the big screen.

4.) Disclosure Day

Despite it’s polarizing reception, Disclosure Day is a very entertaining and engaging ride that makes for another fine addition to the “NOT a Marvel/Star Wars/IP movie” collection of the 2026 summer movie season. The cast is terrific, Spielberg is clearly having a blast making a movie about aliens again, and the screenplay is able to have it’s cake-and-eat-it-too, operating as both a solid thriller and a layer filled character study that will have plenty of delightful “explain” videos made for it. Not every single question the audience have will be answered but the ones that does is given a proper answer while the ones it choses to leave in the balance might just be for the better. It may not be quite S-Tier Steven Spielberg but Disclosure Day is more than enough proof that the godfather of blockbuster cinema still got plenty in the tank left in him and should still be treated with grace and dignity with each new film he releases. Even if not everybody will buy what Disclosure Day has to say about humanity and how the truth can lead to unity, it is bittersweet to see Steven actually try and perhaps that is what matters more than anything.

3.) The Furious

Have you been wanting to see a spiritual successor to The Raid 2 for the past 12 years?! Have you been anxious to see a balls-to-the-wall non-stop action thrill ride in the 2020s that is NOT John Wick?! Did you want to see a movie that takes the same plot and premise surrounding stopping human traffickers as Supergirl (2026) but done right?! Well, look no further than The Furious! An action packed masterwork that has no agenda other than delivering on over-the-top fight scenes, performing some of the greatest stunts and practical set pieces you have seen in years, and give you simplistic characters with human goals that you want to root for! Sometimes, there is nothing better for a film than riding with pure simplicity, without a care in the world of what lengths and leaps of logic it is willing to go to deliver the goods. Regardless of what way you chose to watch it, please check out The Furious ASAP!

2.) Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary is an incredibly well made, extremely well acted, and very well paced sci-fi thriller that works not just as a faithful adaption of the critically acclaimed book from Andy Weir (The Martian) but it also stands strongly as it’s own cinematic experience and a thematically moving think tank surrounding art and science . There is not a single second that is boring or uninteresting, Ryan Gosling is pitch perfect in the lead role as Grace and has great chemistry with his so-called co-star, it has a perfectly controlled tone that knows when to be funny, serious, and moving when it’s absolutely required, and even if you can see the inspiration from your favorite sci-fi flick from the 2010s (Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian, Arrival, Mr. Gosling’s own First Man! Take your pick!), it is able to have it’s own unique identity while telling a distinct story about the importance of loyalty, friendship, unity, and sacrifice. While it’s certainly not the most flawless film I’ve ever seen and I’m sure there will be nits to be picked from fans of the book, I can’t imagine Project Hail Mary being a better version of itself than what Mr. Lord and Mr. Miller was able to deliver here.

1.) Obsession

The most talked about film of 2026 is my absolute favorite thus far! I don’t think I’ve seen a film where the whole message of “Be careful what you wish for!” has been executed this well and scary! The directing by Curry Barker is top notch, the performances are all great, it has a nice blend of horror thrills and laughter that I don’t any other director would be able to combine brilliantly, and the ending still haunts me weeks after seeing the movie. It’s also makes for a perfect subversion to have the main protagonist practically being the villain of the film, being forced to face the consequences of the choice he made strictly for his own pleasure. Inde Navarrette deserves a damn Oscar for her performance and it’s yet another brilliant original horror film to go with all of the other brilliant horror films we have gotten so far this decade! If this is the future for not just original horror but original films in general, there might just be a light at the end of the tunnel for future cinema.

Happy 250th Day everybody! Enjoy with prosper!

Supergirl (2026) Spoilers- About That Ending

June 30, 2026 AdamLeave a comment

*Warning! This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Supergirl (2026)! If you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t want anything spoilers, then you might want to click off the article right now! You have been warned!*

So, uh…..the new Supergirl movie came out this weekend. And just like with every other estrogen-fueled superhero movie that is not about Princess Diana of Themyscira (and even that eventually fell flat on it’s face a few years later with it’s sequel), it has had it’s wide share of controversy. I would go over exactly what *some* of this controversy stirs from but literally just think of any woman-lead ANYTHING that has come out post-GamerGate and you will know exactly what I’m talking about. And as much as folks would love to rally behind this film’s defense, Supergirl (2026) is just not good or interesting enough of a movie to die on it’s hill.

It has received a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the first project in the DC Universe to receive that rating (The MCU didn’t have a single rotten rated film until Eternals in 2021 btw!), it got a very poor B- rating on CinemaScore (With Superman 4‘s C and Joker: Folie A Deux‘s D being the only two DC films that have received worse ratings), and even the audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes have been just decent at best (ranged around 75 to 76%). Because of these mixed reviews and poor word of mouth, Supergirl (2026) underperformed in even it’s slimest of expectations this weekend, grossing a dreadful $37 million domestically and only $62 million worldwide, that’s lower than the opening weekends of Morbius, The Marvels, & Joker: Folie A Deux. To put it simply, things are not looking good for Supes’ cousin at all.

So, what exactly happened here? While the stirred controversy I mentioned earlier before is nothing out of the ordinary, not even hardcore DC fans, moviegoers, or actual sane people not brainwashed by Fox News are coming to their (Super)girl’s support! Was it with Supergirl (2026) that is not connecting with anyone? The character has had her success in comics and television but can’t seem to translate that onto to the big screen, with both the 1984 version with Helen Slater and the 2026 version with Milly Alcock being financial bombs.

While I can go into things I pointed on in my review such as the barebone storytelling, uninspired direction, subpar looking visuals, and the main villain with somehow even less charisma and memorability than whatever the hell Christopher Eccleston was suppose to be playing in Thor: The Dark World, the moment that really sealed this movie’s faith for me was with Kara Zor-El’s final decision she makes at the end. It’s a decision that not only contradicts the source material it’s based off of but also contradicts the entire point to Supergirl’s arc in the movie.

In case anyone is unaware, Supergirl (2026) is based off Tom King’s 2021-2022 comic run of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. In that version, we seen a young Kara being striped down from what would you expect from young blooded female superheroes. Instead of being portrayed as the biggest piece of eye candy you have ever seen or the ultimate girl power fantasy, Supergirl is just a girl who lost everything in her life at such a young age. She was raised on Krypton, watched everyone she loved perish away, and now has no one but herself and her lovable dog Krypto. It made for an interesting portrayal that you usual see from older, male superheroes.

Instead of using her superpowers to save as many people as she can and do pure good like her cousin, Superman, she instead uses it to go to red sunned planets to get drunk, party like a punk rockstar, and kick whoever ass gets in her way. That is until she has a come to Jesus moment and is offered a journey with another young girl named Ruthye, to take vengeance against the man who killed her parents, Krem. Kara refuses at first until Krem comes along the way to crash the party and puts a needle right through everyone’s favorite alien dog, Krypto. And just like that, the two go on a quest for revenge, to not only find Krem to put him out of commission but also to uncover the secrets behind this group known as Brigands, a group of space pirates and human traffickers.

It’s throughout the course of the film where you get to see just how Supergirl differs than Superman. Instead of finding family and love like her cousin did, she found only pain and lost. Instead of using her powers for the means of helping others, she uses her powers for the means of helping herself. And as the movie claims, instead of finding the good in everyone, she only she’s the truth. It’s loneliness that trumps togetherness, selfishness that trumps selfness, and being a realist that trumps being a optimist. Regardless of whether or not you think the film and/or comic goes too far with it’s “edgy” portrayal of Supergirl, you can’t deny it does help separate Kara than just being a gender-swapped version of Superman (something which CW’s Supergirl got bluntly excused off as that show went on).

However, the real dealbreaker that seems like was the one element that both super siblings could agree on is to NOT be a killer. While Superman (2025) certainly had a body count of some sort, you never got the sense that Clark Kent would go out of his way to kill someone out of the lime, even his worst enemy. And that is the one element that Kara wants to portray herself has to. Throughout the entire film, she tells Ruthye that killing is not the answer. No matter what Krem could’ve possibly done to take everything away from her, killing him would not bring ANYTHING back for her. Instead of leaving filling out that black hole inside of her, it will only just make that hole bigger forever and consume what good is left in her.

We then come to the final confrontation where Ruthye has Krem exactly where he wants him, he’s on his knees and vulnerable. If there is a more open time to kill him, it’s this one. However, once again, Kara arrives and tells her to spare his life, reminded her again that this won’t change anything and will basically just gives him exactly what he wants. After immense hesitation, Ruthye agrees and spares his life.

It’s that this moment where you expect a slight change from the ending of Woman of Tomorrow. While doing a notable time jump is perhaps out of the question, you can still have Supergirl make a move that leaves a big mark on Krem’s face, a scar that will remind himself of what he did to earn that mark. Whether it’s a cane or not, you can still have Supergirl acts as a mean of revenge that doesn’t take away her arc. However, director Craig Gillespie and writer Ana Nogueira decided to go in a complete different direction have Kara flat out kill Krem herself. Yes, you heard that correctly!

SUPERGIRL KILLS KREM!!!

That’s right! Instead of just giving him a ding to the head while getting the antidote to cure Krypto, Supergirl picks up her sword and kills Krem. Despite the fact that Kara has spent the whole movie preaching to Ruthye about how you can’t kill people because of how wrong it is, she does the dirty deed herself. Not only is that a complete betrayal of the Woman of Tomorrow comic itself, it’s a betrayal of Supergirl’s arc in the movie itself.

Despite what some might claim, NO, Krem is NOT killed in the comic run. Not only was this confirmed by comic writer Tom King himself in 2024, it’s made obvious in the final few pages where Krem is laying on the ground and covering his face after he just got wacked by an older Ruthye’s cane. He didn’t die there nor was he killed by Kara. It was actually Ruthye letting out years of vengeance inside of her and dumping it all over Krem right after he spent 300 years in prison, while Kara watches. Whether you think that’s tacked on or not, it still keeps Supergirl’s characterization consistent by her being as an edgy anti-hero that doesn’t feel the urge or teaches to kill. And the fact that writer Ana Nogueira interpreted that sequence as something different and didn’t even bother to check in with Tom King himself or do a quick google search is baffling to me.

But it hurts Supergirl even more in the movie itself. While Kara doesn’t see herself as being a Mr. (or Mrs.) Goody Two Shoes hero like her cous, Supes, she still draws the line at killing because that is what separates her from being an anti-hero to a straight up villain. That’s why she keeps telling Ruthye to NOT kill Krem, once you start down that dark path, you will never come back from it. It’s what keeps her from being Supergirl to just being Homelander with a vagina (or basically Stormfront). However, in the case of Supergirl (2026), it almost seems like a decision that would be more in line with what Zack Snyder’s version of Supergirl would be like instead of James Gunn.

Now, this is not me trying to defend the actions of Krem himself. He was objectively a terrible person who is the caught of tracking children and young girls alike. He deserved the most cruel and unusable punishment imaginable but I don’t think Supergirl killing him is exactly that. It almost feels like he got exactly what he wanted. Instead of living out the rest of his days in a jail cell, possibly turning into the same depressed and jaded individual that Supergirl herself became at such a young age, he now is left off the hook scott-free. And our main heroine let him do just that.

The only way this could’ve possibly work if we saw a certain change in Kara in the aftermath of her killing Krem. However, instead of seeing a sense of doubt or her being mentally scarred by this decision, she kinda just carries on like normal. She reunites with Ruthye one last time, letting her join along in celebrating the rest of her birth week, and then reunites with Superman on Earth. She doesn’t have a conversation about what transpires or get a hint of how she changed or grew from that experience. It’s back to stage one except she is slightly less depressed and angsty now.

Say what you will about Superman killing Zod at the end of Man of Steel, but at least we were able to get an IMMEDIATE reaction out of him after he did the dirty deed. Literally just SECONDS after he killed one of his own, he screamed in utter pain and agony, almost as if he just killed someone he loved deep down inside. It was then Clark was able to help heal the mental wound inside of him by being closer to his adoptive mother, Martha, and his new girlfriend/partner at the Daily Planet, Lois Lane. I still can’t say I was in love with that decision from Mr. Snyder and Mr. Goyer but you could at least see somewhat of a justification for it given Superman was trying to save literal human lives.

When it comes to Supergirl (2026), Kara killing Krem just seems like a decision that just comes out of nowhere. I don’t know if it’s because they wanted to make that change from the comic to catch people off guard. I don’t know if it’s because they wanted to subvert our expectations by showing how this Supergirl is much different than Superman. I don’t know if it’s because they wanted to show us how Krem basically won because he got Supergirl to break her unwritten rule. And I certainly don’t know if it’s because that’s what Ana Nogueira ACTUALLY thought happened at the end of Woman of Tomorrow so she decides to do the sequence just like that. The fact that I can’t tell you why that decision was made speaks volume to the film’s overall aimless writing and direction.

I’m not gonna act like Supergirl (2026) is the worst comic book movie of all time or even the worst one that has come out recently but it’s this one decision made at the ending with Kara that brings this movie down from being just a simply mid movie to a kinda crappy one. I also believe that is the one decision that is keeping even the most diehard of comic book fans from defending it from the corrupt mainstream media. It showed a fatal understanding of the comic it’s based on and even what the whole film itself stands for.

I’m not saying you have to stay faithful to every comic you adapt to an absolute T or can’t make required changes but you need to at least capture the full hearted spirit of it and why that story has resonated with comic readers all around the world. While Supergirl (2026) can claim it’s honoring it by incorporating certain story elements and characters from the book and bringing in Jason Momoa’s Lobo to steal the show, Kara’s ending actions and the way it’s executed proves that it doesn’t understand the point it’s source material was trying to make nor it’s own point. I don’t think I’ve seen an ending of a comic book movie misunderstood the point of it’s source material THIS hard since The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

I sure do hope that Supergirl (2026) only amounts to a slight bump in the road to whatever DC Studios has planned with their current cinematic universe and beyond. However, if this really is the quality we can expect for projects which James Gunn himself is NOT writing or directing, then we might be back in the same well hole we were in around this time a decade ago with the LAST DC cinematic universe and the ones before that.

Supergirl (2026) Movie Review- Punk Slop

June 24, 2026June 28, 2026 AdamLeave a comment

Whenever you watch a movie that is based off of source material you are strongly familiar with, you tend to judge it on two different terms. 1.) Does it work as a faithful adaption of the source material? and 2.) Does it work as it’s own standalone film? Supergirl (2026), directed by Craig Gillespie, acting as the second film installment of the DC Universe, is inspired by Tom King’s comic book run of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. At the time the comic released in 2021, it acted as a refreshing change of pace from your typical comic storylines centered around female superheroes. It boldly stripped down Kara Zor-El’s character as we know it, taking away her usual flawless looking girl power superheroine image in favor of turning her into a more relatable and pure messy “girlfailure” that is haunted by her tragic past. While most other Supergirl stories would have her spent her birthday saving the day and defying gender/sexist stereotypes, Woman of Tomorrow just has Kara celebrating her 23rd birthday with some good drinks. She then travels across the galaxy with her lovable dog Krypto where she would meet a young Ruthye Maryne Kroll that will lead her to a quest of revenge! (I basically just gave you the plot synopsis right there!)

While I’m not gonna say that Woman of Tomorrow is my favorite comic run of all time, it did stand strongly on it’s own as not just one of the better female-led superhero stories in recent memory but as a damn good story in it’s own right. And with James Gunn now in charge of the DC wheel, director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) at the helm of this project, the casting of Milly Alcock (House of Dragons) as the title character, and great source material to make a movie out of, you think this would be an absolute home run for DC Studios and female superhero movies in general. Right, right?! Well….you would unfortunately be wrong!

Supergirl (2026) is not without it’s own redeemable merits. Milly Alcock makes for a great Supergirl, feeling like the messy version of the character that was ripped straight off the pages of Woman of Tomorrow. Jason Mamoa is as reliable entertaining as Lobo as you would imagine him being. There’s some effective flashback sequences that tie back to Kara’s past that work quite well in their own rights, one of the few instances when the film allows itself to let those effective moments sink in. Also, David Corenswet is just as charming and delightful as Superman as he was last summer in the limited screentime that he has.

However, the film doesn’t so much feel like it’s trying to honor the spirit and heart of Woman of Tomorrow and feels more like it’s skimming through the pages to capture the “big” moments of the story in order to sell tickets. Or as if writer Ana Nogueira used ChatGPT to recite the plot summary of the comic in just three to four paragraphs. The punk rock style that worked very well in Superman (2025) doesn’t translate as hard here, much of the humor and action beats fall flat, the eye popping visuals from the comics are poorly realized here and not amusing to look at, and the villains (Just like in the comics!) are about as interesting as watching paint dry.

To the film’s credit, Supergirl (2026) does NOT play out as the goofy over-the-top Guardians of the Galaxy knock-off that the trailers themselves presented it as. It does takes itself quite seriously and very rarely undercuts any potential emotional beat in favorite of a funny one-liner. If anything, it feels more in line with Mad Max than Guardians of the Galaxy!

No, Supergirl is NOT Starlord! No, Lobo is NOT Drax the Destroyer! No, the main bad guy is NOT Ronan the Accuser (Although, even he was more memorable!) While there are definitely needle drops throw in (One of which is LAUGHABLY bad towards the end!), it’s no different than other needle drops in other superhero movies that doesn’t star Chris Pratt or Margot Robbie! (We can’t just claim that the Just a Girl happened in Captain Marvel all because Hooked on a Feeling happened in Guardians of the Galaxy!)

And it is that grim tone and edgy portrayal of Supergirl that is able to carry the majority of the film. Kara doesn’t strive to be this perfect girl that many Supergirls in the past are presented as. Instead, she’s strives on her imperfection and feels no need to apologize for it. Sometimes heroes can just let themselves loose and still act for the greater good. And it’s with her journey with Ruthye (despite a rather flat performance by Eve Ridley) that she holds similar confliction with her darker self about not letting vengeance consume you and sometimes it’s best to just not give yourself what you want because it will give you the exact opposite of that. This makes for a great reversal of Superman and an interesting way to examine the character without making her come across as strictly a female version of Kal-El.

Just too bad nearly ALL of that character work is thrown out by the time you reached the third act. Only then, we find Kara making decisions that complete contradicts her entire arc up to that point. Not to get too wrapped into spoilers but Supergirl’s decisions in her final confrontation is a COMPLETE 180 from the decisions she makes at the end of the comic. Whether that was intended to act as full circle moment for this edgy Supergirl, a subversion from most other superhero movies or changes to the book so fans wouldn’t be able to second guess everything beforehand is anyone’s guess. However, by the end, it felt incredibly unearned and left the climax feeling very less fulfilling than it otherwise should have been. (The Snyder cult is gonna have a RIOT with the end of this movie!)

From a technical side of things, the film is quite a mixed bag. While there’s some good set designs and the creatures and make-ups that looks incredibly fitting in such a dystopian world, the visuals and green screen are distractingly flat, feeling like it’s getting the very least of it’s $170 million budget that was given into production. Craig Gillespie has made some good movies in the past but between this and Cruella, he seems unqualified in directing high budgeted big feature films and should just stick to narrative-driven dramas like I, Tonya.

The editing between the flashback sequences and present day is quite distracting, the pacing grinds to a screeching hold in the second act, and while there are a handful of good tunes here, the original score by Claudia Sarne is nothing to write home about, failing to achieve even the ounce of the punk rock energy that John Murphy and David Fleming provided with Superman (2025). Even for a film that has a shorter budget than most superhero films nowadays, I was still expecting better.

The question some of you will ask is if Supergirl (2026) will work better for you if you have NOT read the novelization it’s based on?! It’s hard to say but that doesn’t change the shaking feeling of the film rather uneven quality, it’s bizarrely pacing and structure, and like a handful of chunks was cut out to trim the runtime down to an hour and 40 minutes for more theater showings. (I’m more than willing to believe those rumors about 30 minutes being cut directly from this film!)

Sure, you could bring up similar criticism in regards to Superman (2025) but that film was at least able to get it’s consistent message across involving kindness and warmth. It still felt like a complete vision from beginning to end, had plenty of standout moments in regards to character and emotion, and despite it’s rather overstuffed plot, it still was able to find a payoff for nearly every story element it sets up. With Supergirl (2026), you don’t get that vibe whatsoever, almost as if the film was directed by Lobo himself .

Supergirl (2026) is not a movie I hate or even dislike but it is the one that is bluntly shown the cracks of the armor of this new cinematic universe from Mr. Gunn and Mr. Safran this early on. While I am excited to see Alcock’s Supergirl teaming up with Corenswet’s Superman in next year’s Man of Tomorrow, DC Studios better bring their A-game this time next year or else the DCU could be over before it even gets a chance to settle in.

(At least Clayface looks good though.)

Other comments:

At my screening, I ran into Dan Murrell, a movie reviewer on YouTube and also previously worked for Screen Junkies, the channel that does the Honest Trailers. I was gonna get a pic of him to prove it but I had to leave immediately after the film ended because I had to go to the bathroom so bad.

Fyi, I don’t know if there’s a post credit scene or not. I heard reports that there originally was but it got cut for some reason. Just see for yourselves if you want.

This was probably the least packed early screening for a movie that I’ve ever been to. The only other one I can think of that was worse than this was for Night Swim, where the film press didn’t even bother to show up and they just gave us all the “good” seats because of that.

It’s very interesting how this makes for the SECOND recent film where the main bad guys are just a bunch of child traffickers. Between this and The Furious, it’s like cinema is trying to send a message to the US government to just release the files of a certain someone.

Also, see The Furious if you haven’t already! It’s f**king awesome! Best action film of the decade and best action film of it’s kind since The Raid 2!

Top 10 Biggest 2026 Summer Movies- Box Office Predictions

April 19, 2026May 24, 2026 AdamLeave a comment

We are approaching May, which means we are officaly enterting the summer movie season! The time of the year where the big blockbusters of the year are front and center in movie theaters everywhere now that the kids are out of school! Because of that, it’s time to do a list of what I believe will be the top highest grossing films of the summer!

With Hollywood continuing to struggle in the movie theater business post-covid, only God knows how many more summer movie seasons await. Although, theaters have been picking up great momentum in the box office as of late with the likes of Project Hail Mary and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, it’s unclear how long they will be able to carry that momentum throughout the rest of the year and even the future.

I think the 2026 summer movie season will give a big indication as to whether or not Hollywood is still recovering from the post-covid era of struggling to get people’s butts into theater seats or will this be the beginning of a resurrection for summer movies! We can only cross our fingers and hope for the best!

And considering I’ve been seeing multiple people put their own predictions of the top 10 biggest summer movies in terms of profit, why not throw my own hat in the ring and do my own list of this?! Keep in mind, these are the movies that I believe will be the highest grossing of the summer, not the ones that I desperately want to be at the very top. This list is not a matter of anticipation or movies I think will be objectively the best, this is a list of the movies that I believe will be the most to least successful in terms of the top 10 movies of the summer.

Also, this is a ranking based on box office numbers worldwide and NOT domestic. That list would be harder and more complicated for me to judge. This is how I feel the box office numbers will hold for summer movies WORLDWIDE from late April to mid August. Could I be dead wrong on every single one of these? Absolutely! But hey, it’s fun to be able to make predictions, right?!

And yes, I am throwing Michael in there. Even though it’s a movie that’s coming out in April, I think that gives up more “summer movie season kick off” vibes than The Devil Wears Prada 2. Just like how Infinity War and Endgame gave off more “summer movie season kick off” vibes….than whatever the heck released in the first week of May in 2018 and 2019!

Time to jump right in and put my predictions on what I believe will be the top 10 highest grossing films of the summer!

10.) Supergirl

Release Date: June 26th

Box Office Projection: $350+ Million

It’s very difficult to find any positive signs here. From it’s questionable release date to it’s lackluster trailers to it’s already nightmare PR, Supe’s cousin will have a hard time finding any sort of audience in the theaters come June. Even Jason Momoa won’t be the selling point that DC is hoping he will be. Unless the quality of the film ends up being nothing sort of stellar, with Elemental-like legs to help pull it through, I expect Supergirl to be one of the more heartbreaking bombs of the summer, falling into the same “female-led movies made for men” wheelhouse with 2024’s Furiosa and last summer’s Ballerina. Mr. Gunn and company better hope that Man of Tomorrow delivers next summer or else this new DC Universe might just be over before it even got a chance to settle in, (and that’s not even mentioning the GIANT elephant in the room that’s about to swallow Warner Bros Discovery up).

9.) The Mandalorian & Grogu

Release Date: May 22nd

Box Office Projection: $400+ Million

Who in their right minds thought that Star Wars’ first trip back to cinema since 2019 should involve an extension of a streaming series that ended three years ago and peaked in quality over five years ago?! With the near non-existence marketing and a very vague plot synopsis, The Mandalorian & Grogu looks more in-line with the The Clone Wars animated film from 2008 than any of the “official” Star Wars films (And that’s totally NOT because both films where originally meant to be several episodes of their own respective shows and JUST so happens to have Jabba the Hutt’s son in it). The good news is that it will have two weeks to itself, including Memorial Day weekend, before having to go up against any real competition, and if the budget is tight enough, it won’t need to make a fortunate to avoid a Solo: A Star Wars Story-level financial disaster. It looks harmless enough with the fan favorite characters from the Disney era in Mando and Grogu at the forefront, with the G.O.A.T. Sigourney Weaver thrown in there for good measure. If this doesn’t make any noise once June rolls around, it might be up to good old Ryan Gosling to salvage what’s left of the Star Wars IP come this time next year with Star Wars: Starfighter.

8.) Discourse Day

Release Date: June 12th

Box Office Projection: $475+ Million

This could easily come back to burn me later on down the road but every summer, there’s always tends to be one original film that’s able to break out at the box office in ways that nobody expected. Last year, that film was F1. This year, I can see Discourse Day being that film. Maybe it’s because it’s a Steven Spielberg film and the whole “Are aliens real or not?!” question that the film is asking has become strangely relevant in recent months (Thanks, Obama!), but I can see this shocking everyone in amazement to at least edge around the half billion dollar mark. This film’s potential level of grand success is all about the timing of it’s release and if the word-of-mouth is able to be on the level of Project Hail Mary. Films like Sinners, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and the two others I mentioned has shown that audiences are indeed hungry for more original stories/experiences on the big screen, the solid quality just needs to be there. And if the quality is there, don’t be surprised to see Discourse Day defying every expectation this summer.

7.) The Devil Wears Prada 2

Release Date: May 1st

Box Office Projection: $625+ Million

If there’s one thing we should all learn by now, it’s to NEVER underestimate the power of women. Films like Barbie, Wicked, and last winter’s The Housemaid has shown that the ladies will ALWAYS show up in drones to see films in theaters that are specifically made for them. The original Devil Wears Prada turns 20 years old this year and has gained a MASSIVE cult following throughout the past two decades. With the return of the OG cast of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci, it’s strong marketing, and massive trailer hype/viewership, I fully expect The Devil Wears Prada 2 to kick off May on a high note and be the big film to beat next month.

6.) The Odyssey

Release Date: July 17th

Box Office Projection: $750+ Million

To be sure, a film like this making at least 750 million dollar signs in this day and age should be seen as a MAJOR accomplishment! There is no other filmmaker working today other than Christopher Nolan that could generate this level of excitement with a project like this! However, I don’t see The Odyssey being on the same level as Oppenheimer (which made $975+ million in 2023), as it won’t have the “Barbenheimer” hype attached to it despite it tackling a more “universal” story. Not to mention, the potential loss of its IMAX screens after it’s first two weeks due to Spider-Man: Brand New Day could greatly affect repeated viewings for its theatrical release! Christopher Nolan is perhaps the one director working today to where his name attached to a film alone will guarantee box office success (Every film that Nolan has directed since 2008’s The Dark Knight has been able to achieve this mark, even Tenet in 2020, A.K.A. the covid year!) and The Odyssey should be no exception! However, the road to doing Oppenheimer level numbers will be much tougher for Mr. Nolan this time around!

5.) Moana (2026)

Release Date: July 10th

Box Office Projection: $800+ Million

Moana is undoubtedly one of the most popular Disney brands right now, with the original animated film being the most streamed movie ever on Disney Plus and its sequel making a billion dollars just over a year ago! What will likely hold this live-action remake back other than the crowded family summer movie season is its lack of nostalgia factor! Live-action remakes like The Lion King (2019) and Lilo & Stitch (2025) were able to be the billion dollar grossers they did BECAUSE of the nostalgia attached to those films, which gave kids enough time to grow up, become nostalgic for the original animated Disney classics, and have raised kids of their own to share the theatrical experience with! Moana (2026) will be coming out at a time where the original animated film won’t even be fully 10 years old yet (It released in November 2016 btw) and just a year and a half after its animated sequel came out! It will still be a big success since the Moana brand is still strong but the lack of the nostalgic hook will prevent this from making a billion dollars!

4.) Minions & Monsters

Release Date: July 1st

Box Office Projection: $850+ Million

Since 2010, Illumination Animation has been able to crack the code on how to make crowd pleasing animated flicks for young kids, forcing their parents to take them to the movie theaters every other summer to see the newest Despicable Me and Minions movie that comes out. In regards to the installments that have come from this franchise post-covid, Minions: The Rise of Guru was able to make $940+ million in 2022 and Despicable Me 4 made $971+ million in 2024! Due to a much more crowded summer than in 2022 and 2024, having to compete with other family flicks such as the one-two Mickey Mouse punch of Toy Story 5 and Moana (2026), I do expect Minions & Monsters to take a decline as well, in a similar way that last summer’s Jurassic World: Rebirth was a slight decline with the other Jurassic Park/World movies. Even if this one ends up being slightly inferior to it’s predecessors and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie isn’t the $1.5+ billion juggernaut I predicted (Silly me!), Illumination and Universal should be eating just fine with their animated feature films in 2026!

3.) Michael

Release Date: April 24th

Box Office Projection: $950+ Million

I don’t care if the pre-sales numbers have been iffy thus far and the behind-the-scenes drama will put a giant raincloud throughout the press release, THIS is one that I can see being a global phenomenon. Michael Jackson is no doubt the most popular musician of all time, gaining worldwide appeal from all across planet Earth. With the high trailer numbers and the multiple generations of fans that MJ has gained throughout the course of several decades, there should be no reason to doubt his annual biopic will be a huge theatrical success. If the legs are strong and it ends up pleasing the masses enough, I can see Michael topping Bohemian Rhapsody as the highest grossing musical biopic of all time. This seems like the kind of film that will get people who don’t go to theaters anymore off their couches, similar to the likes of Top Gun: Maverick and Barbenheimer. Even though this film will be released in April, this will likely be seen as the true kick-off to the summer movie season of 2026!

2.) Toy Story 5

Release Date: June 19th

Box Office Projection: $1.1+ Billion

Although I was harsher on this one in my initial box office predictions earlier this year, this has grown on me quite a bit in recent months. To compare the box office numbers of the last two Toy Story movies, Toy Story 4 made $1.073+ billion about nine years after Toy Story 3, which made around $1.066+ billion. That’s less than a seven million dollar increase between these two films despite being nearly a decade apart! However, with it’s iPad storyline being very timely and the trailers seeming to promise a more traditional Toy Story adventure than Toy Story 4 did, I can see Toy Story 5 surpassing the previous film just enough to take the crown as the big family film of the summer, even from Disney’s own Moana (2026). Even if the film stumbles in quality or ends up being a punching bag on the internet like Toy Story 4 became after it’s release, there will still be plenty of kids and families that will go see this film in theaters to make it at least flirt with the billion dollar mark!

1.) Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Release Date: July 31st

Box Office Projection: $1.3+ Billion

Even in an era where superhero fatigue is at an all-time high, Spider-Man will ALWAYS be a box office draw no matter what! Him and Batman have proven themselves to be perhaps the lone superhero IPs that can still draw box office hits in the most uncertain times of the genre, at least if the successes of 2021’s No Way Home ($1.9+ billion), 2022’s The Batman ($772+ million), and 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse ($690+ million) is anything to go by. And NO, this will NOT be a No Way Home box office juggernaut but that should be expected considering this will (likely) not have the nostalgia of the good old days with William Dafoe and Tobey Maguire attached to it. I expect similar numbers to Far From Home (which made $1.1+ billion high off the heels of Avengers: Endgame), if not a bit more. Between the additions of notable Marvel characters such as The Punisher, Hulk, and whoever the heck Sadie Sink is suppose to be playing along with there being a decent amount of time since the last Spider-Man movie came out to build hype (No Way Home turns HALF a decade old this year btw!), Brand New Day will stand proud as the #1 film of the 2026 summer movie season, proving Spidey can defy ANY realms of superhero and Marvel fatigue!

1.) Spider-Man: Brand New Day- $1.3+ Billion

2.) Toy Story 5- $1.1+ Billion

3.) Michael- $950+ Million

4.) Minions & Monsters- $850+ Million

5.) Moana (2026)- $800+ Million

6.) The Odyssey- $750+ Million

7.) The Devil Wears Prada 2- $625+ Million

8.) Disclosure Day- $475+ Million

9.) The Mandalorian & Grogu- $400+ Million

10.) Supergirl- $350+ Million

As for other movies that missed the list:

Masters of the Universe (2026)
- $325+ Million
  - I went back and forth between Supergirl and Masters of the Universe for the #10 spot but I went with Supergirl because I believe superheroes still have more appeal with Gen Z and Millennials than Masters of the Universe has with baby boomers. Even if the quality is on the level of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves like I expected to be given it’s Travis Knight taking the wheel here, He-Man just doesn’t seem like a popular brand in the year 2026. I wouldn’t be surprised if this film ends up losing Amazon quite a bit of money.

Mortal Kombat II
- $175+ Million
  - Even if the first film was a bomb in 2021 (when half of movie theaters around the world will still closed), Mortal Kombat II should do quite well, with it being giving a more proper theatrical release and the trailers promising to deliver the goods the fans wanted that they didn’t get from the first film. Even if it will do numbers closer to Five Nights At Freddy’s than Minecraft, Mario, or Sonic, I don’t think WB will be too upset with the box office results. I only wonder if it was wise to delayed the picture from it’s original fall release from last year.

Scary Movie (2026)
- $200+ Million
  - If Scary Movie is able to be on the same level of quality as last year’s The Naked Gun, then I can see the sixth entry riding the successful wave of Scream 7, opening the doors opening for more raw horror/politically incorrect comedies for the immediate future.

Evil Dead Burn
- $50+ Million
  - Evil Dead Burn will likely end up being as buried and forgotten as ME3AN 2.0 was last summer. Again, what is it with these horror films getting the most bizarre release dates imaginable?!

Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie
- $150+ Million
  - This will prove that Paw Patrol is still….a thing that exists for kids. But, it’s also coming out at the tail end of summer and when kids start going back to school so….yeah.

Jackass: Best and Last
- $100+ Million
  - Johnny, please take us ALL home with Jackass: Best and Last! Just take us all home!

Ranking All The DC Comics Movies (25-1) (2/2)

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 AdamLeave a comment

Since I felt putting all 57 DC Comic movies was a bit too much for one list, I decided to make a second post of it! That way, there’s most stability and this specific ranking doesn’t feel too clutter for one piece. My previous one was rankings from #57 to #26. This list will consist of #25 to #1!

No more time and filler! Let’s finish this MASSIVE movie ranking!

25.) Batman (1966)

24.) Watchmen

23.) Stardust

22.) Blue Beetle

21.) Aquaman

20.) Zack Snyder’s Justice League

19.) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

18.) Teen Titans Go! To The Movies

17.) Road To Perdition

16.) Superman (2025)

15.) The Lego Batman Movie

14.) Superman II

13.) Shazam!

12.) A History of Violence

11.) V For Vendetta

10.) The Suicide Squad

9.) The Batman

8.) The Dark Knight Rises

7.) Batman (1989)

6.) Batman Begins

5.) Batman Returns

4.) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

3.) Wonder Woman

2.) Superman (1978)

1.) The Dark Knight

Ranking All The DC Comics Movies (57-26) (1/2)

July 11, 2025 AdamLeave a comment

Now that Superman (2025) is now out in theaters, I decided to do something totally insane and rank every single DC movie ever! Not just the movies related to the DC Extended Universe or the brand new DC Universe but all theatrically-released films that have some sort of connection to DC. That includes all the Batman, Superman, DC imprints, and even animated films that have been released in theaters of all kind!

Throughout last year, I actually took the time to watch every other DC-related film that I haven’t got around to just for the sake of making this list. Why? Because I have no life whatsoever and I like making insane lists! That’s why!

But anyways, let’s get into list making and rank all 57 theatrically-released DC Comics films from best to worst! If you agree with this list, awesome! If you disagree, fine and I likely will by the time I actually publish this! Either way, let’s have some fun and rank these superhero flicks!

Btw, NO I’m not going into any sort of description of each said film because then this list would take a million years to make! I’m just gonna let the ranked number for each film speak for themselves!

57.) Catwoman