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Love movies? Live for TV? USA TODAY's Watch Party newsletter has all the best recommendations, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now and be one of the cool kids. You know it's getting to be Valentine's Day soon when the starry rom-coms and relationship horror flicks begin to pop up. As January turns to February, 'tis the season for candy hearts and love at the movies. Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon crash each other's wedding parties in Amazon's new "You're Cordially Invited," one of several movies to stream if you're feeling frisky with the Apple TV or Roku remote. On the big screen, Sophie Thatcher gets bloody as an AI girlfriend in "Companion," while the Sherlock Holmes universe is getting yet another pop-culture reinvention with the TV medical procedural "Watson." It's enough to keep you busy until Chappell Roan takes the stage at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. (Mount up, Pink Pony Club. Let's ride...

Don’t expect a retreat of killer AI horror movies like M3GAN or Subservience with writer/director Drew Hancock’s Companion. Making his directorial feature debut, the filmmaker flips the script on the killer robot subgenre by centering Sophie Thatcher‘s Iris as the protagonist. Thatcher stars opposite Jack Quaid as Iris’s affable boyfriend, Josh, who’s brought her along on a weekend cabin getaway to meet his friends for the first time. As if the major relationship milestone didn’t add enough pressure for Iris, an unexpected death sets off a series of increasingly bizarre, violent events. Hancock’s debut, in theaters now, aims to keep you guessing, throwing unexpected wrenches into Iris’s attempts to integrate into Josh’s friend group. Let’s just say that the blood and laughs flow free in this energetic and funny sci-fi horror mashup, though it very nearly didn’t. The filmmaker, speaking with Bloody Disgusting ahead of the film’s release, revealed that Companion was initially conc...

Considering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators are wrestled into bed, in which hoity-toity wedding guests get buzzed by passing motorboats, in which male strippers show up to bare their wares at the damnedest times. We need that kind of release valve right now. But we don’t really get it from writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s You’re Cordially Invited, a comedy that packs its gags so densely, and often so carelessly, that nothing much sticks. In an age of chaos, what we really need is focus, and You’re Cordially Invited chases down every distraction in sight. Will Ferrell stars as Atlanta widower dad Jim, who takes great pride in having raised his daughter Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan), on his own. She’s grown up and moved out, but he prepares for her visits by baking three kinds of cookies and steaming the wrinkles from her clothes. It’s a bit much, but that’s the joke: he’s the dad who loves too much, and Jen...

Deva: If you have not seen shahid Kapoor's Deva, then assume that you have missed something big at the beginning of the year. If the question 'why' has arisen in your mind, then read the reasons here. Shahid Kapoor's deva has been released on 31st January. The trailer of the film had created a 'mess'. The audience is going to see that chaos in the cinema halls as well. This is such a chaos which has not been seen in any film for a long time. Now the opportunity has come in the new year, Bollywood has a brand new film, which is inspired by a 12-year-old South film but is not old at all. Why should you watch this film of shahid Kapoor, understand here in 5 points. This will not waste much of your time and your mindset will also become positive before watching the film, which will increase the excitement for Shahid's cop avatar. Deva: shahid Kapoor's 'Deva' is more interesting than necessary, know 7 important reasons to watch the film here ...

The latest "Scream" may be reintroducing some familiar Ghostfaces. "Scream 7," the next installment in the long-running horror franchise, is set to stab its way into theaters in just over a year, and on Thursday, some bombshell casting news left fans' heads spinning. Matthew Lillard, who played Ghostface killer Stu Macher in the original "Scream," is returning to the series. After his casting was reported by multiple outlets, Lillard seemingly confirmed it on Instagram by posting a quote his character uttered in the 1996 film: "My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me!" USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Spyglass Media Group, the film's production company. The cast for "Scream 7" has been gradually growing in recent weeks and consists of a mix of new and returning stars. But there remains a fair amount of controversy around the project based largely on who isn't in it. Need a break? Play the USA...

As per predictions, Deva is expecting around Rs 5 crore net opening on Friday. Directed by Rosshan Andrrews, the latest actioner is headlined by Shahid Kapoor. After Sky Force, Rosshan Andrrews's directorial, Deva is the next big commercial entertainer in Hindi cinema which has our eyes on. Led by Shahid Kapoor, the investigative action thriller arrived in theaters on January 31, 2025. Also starring Pooja Hegde and Pavail Gulati, the latest release is a remake of Andrrews' Malayalam film, Mumbai Police (2013). Let's predict Deva's entry to the box office. Deva To Witness Rs 5 Crore Opening On Day 1 Deva has made a sluggish entry to the box office. As per mid-day opening predictions, Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde-starrer is expecting to open at Rs 5 crore net on the first day of its release. Set against the backdrop of Mumbai, the neo-noir investigative cop action thriller features Shahid as a fearless cop, Dev Ambre and Pooja plays Diya Sathaye, a journalist...

As the cast for Scream 7 continues to grow with filming now underway, a new puzzling addition has just been announced. Deadline reports that Scream 3 actor Scott Foley has joined the cast. The seventh installment is set to release in theaters on February 27, 2026. Naturally, character details are under wraps at this point, but Foley previously played Roman Bridger, the half-brother of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who was revealed to be Ghostface in Scream 3. Roman didn’t survive the events of the third entry, so start speculating now whether Roman will get resurrected in some way or whether Foley’s casting hints toward a more meta approach in the upcoming sequel. The only plot details released so far is that the seventh installment is expected to return the focus to Sidney Prescott and her family. If Foley does wind up reprising Roman Bridger, that further supports Scream 7 as a Prescott family affair. “Train Dreams” was fully financed by Black Bear, the production com...

It's alive! IT'S ALIIIVEEEE! 17 years after we first reported that Guillermo del Toro was interested in bringing his own take on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's seminal sci-fi novel Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus to our screens, the Mexican auteur's all-star Gothic horror is in the can, on its way, and heading for Netflix this year. And today, following a presentation in which the streamer showed off its massive 2025 movie slate, Netflix gave us a pair of first-look photos from Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. Check out our first glimpse of Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein in GdT's deliciously dark-looking period piece below; And here's Frankenstein in his steampunk style laboratory, which features a suspiciously large individual who may or may not be Jacob Elordi's Creature; When del Toro won his Oscar in 2018 for The Shape Of Water, the fabulist filmmaker took the time to personally thank Shelley for the inspiration she has ...

“Train Dreams,” a lyrical drama about a logger whose work developing America’s railroad keeps him laboring in isolation, has sold to Netflix. The film earned rave reviews after debuting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, with Variety’s Peter Debruge calling it a “modest monument” and praising it for “creating a record that history somehow missed.” Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones star in “Train Dreams,” which is adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella. Clint Bentley, who oversaw the 2021 Sundance drama “Jockey,” directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar. The two recently collaborated on the Oscar-nominated script for “Sing Sing.” Kerry Condon, William H. Macy and Clifton Collins Jr., who starred in “Jockey,” round out the cast of “Train Dreams.” “Train Dreams” was fully financed by Black Bear, the production company which also funded “Sing Sing,” so this project extends their relationship with the filmmakers. Black Bear and Kamala Films produced ...

There are certain things about “You’re Cordially Invited” that seem like they could be fun if you squint really hard. Reese Witherspoon banging her chest like King Kong while shouting expletives and warning she’s going “chaos monkey,” for example. Or Will Ferrell wrestling the fakest alligator you’ve ever seen. It’s best to just be wide-eyed about this unfortunate rom-com situation: There’s not really much fun at all to be had. Written and directed by Nicholas Stoller – who’s far from the wry highs of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Neighbors” here – “You’re Cordially Invited” (★½ out of four; rated R; streaming now on Prime Video) is like the worst wedding you’ve ever gone to. It’s a bizarrely off-kilter affair that’s forcibly heartfelt and sentimental in one scene and overly mean-spirited in the next, and not even a few choice moments and some enjoyable surrounding weirdos can help two A-listers in way over their heads. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receiv...

Ryan Coogler tells us about the influences–be they historical, horror, or family heritage—on his new vampire movie, Sinners. In the new trailer for Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s first foray into the horror genre, a worldly voice warns, “There are legends of people where the gift of making music [is] so true, it can conjure spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune, but it can also pierce the veil between life and death.” For anyone steeped in the history of American music, such mysticism and menace is part and parcel for a story set in the South. Still, the vampires are a new innovation on the part of writer-director Coogler’s film, which follows Michael B. Jordan in the dual roles of twin brothers trying to make ends meet in 1930s era Mississippi. But even then, as Coogler sees it, a vampire yarn naturally lends itself to something like the rhythm and blues, as well as how those sounds were demonized a hundreds years ago when Jim Crow was the la...

Michael Shanks wrote and directs the movie that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Together, the body horror movie starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, has landed at Neon, which has had success as of late with horror films like Longlegs. Michael Shanks wrote and directed the movie about a long-term couple who, while their relationship is in a weak moment, decides to move to the countryside, which triggers a supernatural incident. The movie was greeted at the Sundance Film Festival with a raucous premiere screening filled with applause, laughs and screams of discomfort. The Hollywood Reporter review of the movie reads, “Shanks never lets the relationship drama intrude too much on the demented ‘pleasures’ of the stretchy flesh, mining humor throughout from such things as social media banality, gay weddings, the uses of muscle relaxants against occult forces and, of course, that electric saw. It’s refreshing to see a horror movie that relies less on sh...

One of the most influential photos in history has come under attack in a new documentary to debut at the Sundance Film Festival. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of nine-year-old Kim Phuc, taken on 8 June 1972, captures her running down a street in Trang Bang, south Vietnam as she flees an American napalm attack. She is naked, screaming and has her hands outstretched in the haunting image. Colloquially dubbed the “napalm girl”, and officially titled The Terror of War, it sparked protests and an international conversation about the horrors of war and US military action in Vietnam. Originally reported to have been taken for the Associated Press by photographer Nick Ut, a new documentary, The Stringer, suggests that the actual creator of the image is Vietnamese freelance photographer, Nguyen Than Nghe. Nghe claims he was working as a driver for an NBC news crew when he visited the town of Trang Bang where he captured the image of Phuc screaming down the street. In the ...

Donald Trump's "border tsar" has vehemently defended a drive to deport unlawful migrants after singer and actress Selena Gomez posted a tearful video saying: "All my people are being attacked, and children." The star, who has Mexican heritage, sobbed uncontrollably on camera, adding: "I wish I could do something but I can't." She captioned her video with "I'm sorry" alongside a Mexican flag emoji. But Tom Homan, responding to Gomez and others with similar views, told Fox News: "If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law. We're going to do this operation without apology." Trump ordered a nationwide immigration crackdown after returning as president, with 956 arrests on Sunday, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Gomez deleted her original Instagram video but returned to social media to respond to her critics, writing: "Apparently it's not OK to show empathy ...

After Rose Byrne’s stress-inducing motherhood-is-hell panic attack If I Had Legs I’d Kick You premiered, 70s-set folk horror Rabbit Trap is providing yet more confirmation to Sundance attendees that children should be avoided. In writer-director Bryn Chainey’s patchy feature debut, his lead couple might not have a child of their own, but a mysterious local stranger would certainly disagree, forcing himself into their household, whether they like it or not. For a while they do, sound recordist Darcy (Dev Patel) and alternative musician Daphne (Rosy McEwen), charmed and intrigued by the nameless kid (Jade Croot), an unusual and self-possessed boy eager to teach them more about the area. They moved to a remote Welsh cottage from London, both transfixed by the many sounds of nature, hoping it might lead to creative inspiration. Chainey is as fascinated as they are and it’s immediately easy to see why, the film’s ASMR immersion into the specific squishes, gusts and crunches of the c...

Like many Americans in the early aughts, documentary filmmaker David Osit watched “To Catch a Predator,” a hidden camera reality TV show that followed journalist Chris Hansen working in coordination with law enforcement while conducting sting operations that exposed adult men who were hoping to have sex with minors. “I found it fascinating and weird and strangely addictive,” he admits. “In many ways, it was sort of the template for modern true crime TV.” But he never really gave the NBC series much thought until years later when he came across an article about Bill Conradt, a Texas assistant district attorney who committed suicide in 2007 after police served him with a warrant stemming from one of Hansen’s online investigations into potential pedophiles. Hansen and his crew were on the scene when Conradt shot himself. The episode eventually aired, but NBC’s journalism was criticized for breaching ethical lines and Conradt’s family sued. “To Catch a Predator” went off the air the ne...