Memphis Movies This Week: Locally made ‘Elijah Peel,’ Anne Hathaway’s ‘End of Oak Street’
Late summer brings a bundle of interesting smaller releases, including a couple of new titles from young filmmakers who have made striking previous work.
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August 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: Cats and street gangs on the prowl
Box office behemoths continue their runs, and this week’s special screenings offer gangs, cats, Ghibli and more.
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July 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: Spider-Man’s ‘New Day,’ an early Denis Villeneuve thriller
A new Tom Holland summer blockbuster will hit theaters. Plus, two Wilde sex comedies are still screening.
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Memphis Movies This Week: Is ‘The Odyssey’ worth a trip?
IMAX, 70mm, both? Chris Herrington breaks down all the ways you can see the movie of the year — and his Christopher Nolan film rankings. Plus, a Memphian-directed documentary explores the Newport Folk Festivals.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘The Invite,’ Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’
Comedies opening this weekend: “The Invite” and “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.”
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June 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Toy Story’ returns, a Todd Snider farewell
Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. From the first “summer blockbuster,” a beloved children’s movie series to Robin Hood, what’s old is back again at the theaters this week. Plus, Chris Herrington also gives his Steven Spielberg Top 10.
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Memphis Movies This Week: Spielberg new and old with ‘Disclosure Day’ and ‘Close Encounters’
Aliens are on the big — and giant — screen in Memphis, and you can stream the portrait of the life of Memphian Maurice White. And somehow, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” brings it all full circle.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Tuner,’ ‘Power Ballad,’ ‘Frances Ha’
It’s pick your theme at the movies this week and you can double up.
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May 2026
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Memphis Movies this Week: ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Boosters’ and a couple of Oscar winners
There’s a solid fistful of notable revival screenings around town this week, though three of them will be showing on the same night (Thursday), at the same time (7 p.m.). Which will you choose?
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Memphis Movies This Week: Fresh filmmakers debut, ‘Top Gun’ flies again
Genre movies from debut feature filmmakers, “Obsession” and “Is God Is,” are in theaters this week.
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Memphis Movies This Week: Crime is up, from ‘Sheep Detectives’ to ‘Heat’
Chris Herrington: “‘Knives Out’ meets ‘Babe’ is an elevator pitch I would buy, and I suspect I’ll be buying in the form of a movie ticket soon.”
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April 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Jerry Maguire,’ ‘E.T.’ get big-screen revivals
In addition to the throwbacks, screenings this week include a set-in-Italy romantic comedy, “You, Me and Tuscany,” and the new horror movie “Faces of Death.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: Complicated romance in ‘The Drama,’ ‘Fantasy Life’
Also, Chris Herrington gives his Top 5 Baseball Movies List.
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March 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Project Hail Mary’ is for the kids (of all ages), Prince and Dylan duel
Also opening this week in wide release are two horror-comedies: “They Will Kill You” with Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”) and Myha’la (“Industry”), and “Forbidden Fruits.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Hail Mary,’ ‘Pulp Fiction’ gets Pink
With the Oscars finally in the rearview, the first potential well-liked live-action hit of the 2026 movie year arrives this weekend, says Chris Herrington.
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Memphis Movies This Week: Oscars (finally) arrive, Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
The Iranian drama “It Was Just an Accident” is the best 2025 film to skip Memphis screens entirely, Chris Herrington said.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘The Bride!,’ Oscar winner ‘Flow’
Where Guillermo del Toro’s current Oscar nominee “Frankenstein” is a quasi-straight adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original novel, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie is a highly stylized adaptation transported to the gangster milieu of 1930s Chicago.
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February 2026
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Any movies opening besides ‘Wuthering Heights?’ We investigate.
Local screens fill up with everything from Oscar heavyweight “Sentimental Value” to the new “Wuthering Heights,” sci‑fi comedies, fresh horror, and special showings of “Zappa,” “Grease” and a 40th‑anniversary “Pretty in Pink.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Send Help’ is a good time, and ‘Macbeth’ is at Crosstown
Stranded on a South Pacific island with Rachel McAdams? Be careful what you wish for in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help.”
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January 2026
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Memphis Movies This Week: International, animated Oscar nominees open
Five major-category Oscar nominees that have been available on local screens during the storm will stick around next week. This week also welcomes a couple of new Oscar nominees to town.
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Twenty years after ‘Hustle & Flow,’ Craig Brewer directs another Oscar-nominated performance
When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Jan. 22, one relative surprise was a Best Actress nomination for Kate Hudson, who plays Milwaukee tribute singer Claire Sardina in “Song Sung Blue.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: See Oscar hopefuls ‘The Secret Agent,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ while you can
The Oscar nominations will be announced Thursday and will be followed locally by a bundle of expected nominees making their debut on local screens, making a return or expanding their footprint.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘No Other Choice,’ ‘28 Years Later’
Chris Herrington notes that “January and February can bring the late arrival of some of the prior year’s best films, especially of the foreign-language variety.”
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Memphis Movies This Week: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?,’ a Jim Jarmusch award-winner
Jim Jarmusch is a New York filmmaker, but one with Memphis connections. Chris Herrington says the filmmaker’s “Mystery Train” is arguably the greatest of Memphis movies.
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Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Song Sung Blue,’ ‘Marty Supreme’
Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” arrives with the tagline “Dream Big.” But Craig Brewer’s “Song Sung Blue” one-ups it with the tagline “Dream Huge.”
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