Jason Miller

Marvel just ended the wait. After a year of teasers dribbled out in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash, a five-hour livestream of chairs, and one very lucky room of exhibitors at CinemaCon back in April, Marvel Studios has finally dropped the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, and it is exactly the swing-for-the-fences pileup fans have been begging for. Two minutes. Roughly four decades of superhero movie history. One extremely angry man in a metal mask.

If you slept on Blue Ridge: The Series the first time around, consider this your wake-up call. The rugged Appalachian crime drama returns to INSP on Sunday, July 19 at 10 p.m. EST for a second season, and everything about this go-round feels bigger, badder, and built for a wider audience. Here’s the thing that might surprise you: this is no under-the-radar curiosity. After its 2024 debut, the first season went on to become one of the top five most popular shows in the world on Prime Video.

Christopher Nolan has never been afraid to think big, but with The Odyssey, he does something even more impressive. He takes one of the oldest stories ever told and makes it feel immediate, intimate, and deeply human. Based on Homer’s epic poem, the film follows Odysseus (Matt Damon) on the long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War, while his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, fight their own battles in his absence.