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SHARKFEST: HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY | ©2026 National Geographic SHARKFEST, the annual celebration of those aquatic marvels of evolution who remain largely unchanged from their ancestors 20 million years ago, launches its fourteenth season on National Geographic Channel, Hulu and Disney+ on Sunday, July 5. This year’s two-week-long SHARKFEST launches with HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY.

A.J. Cook as Jennifer ‘JJ’ Jareau and Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez in CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – Season 2 and/or Season 17 – “Piranha” | ©2024 Paramount+/Michael Yarish Adam Rodriguez joined CRIMINAL MINDS on CBS in its twelfth season in 2016 as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Luke Alvez with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Actor and character remained through 2020’s Season 15, when CBS canceled the series.

MINIONS & MONSTERS movie poster | ©2026 Universal Rating: PG Stars (voices): Pierre Coffin, Alison Janney, George Lucas, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Trey Parker, Zoey Deutch Writers: Brian Lynch and Pierre Coffin, based on characters created by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Sergio Pablos Director: Pierre Coffin; co-director, Patrick Delage Distributor: Universal Release Date: July 1, 2026 If the Minions were playable Dungeons & Dragons characters, they’d be Chaotic Neutral.

LOCKBOX movie poster | ©2026 Aura Entertainment Rating: R Stars: Carla Gugino, Lou Taylor Pucci, Katherine Isabelle, Jed Rees, Donald Sales, Aeden Edwards, Lee Tichon, Darcey Johnson, Olivia Ducayen, Samantha Ferris, Mercedes de la Zerda Writer: Justin Yoffe, based on the Knifepoint horror podcast THE LOCK BOX by Soren Narnia Director: Daniel Stamm Distributor: Aura Entertainment/MGM+ Release Date: July 3, 2026 LOCKBOX (at one point titled WINTHROP, which it is still listed as on its IMDB...

SUPERGIRL movie poster | ©2026 Warner Bros./DC Studios Rating: PG-13 Stars: Milly Adcock, David Corenswet, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Diarmaid Murtagh, Jason Momoa, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham Writer: Ana Nogueira, based on characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster Director: Craig Gillespie Distributor: Warner Bros./DC Studios Release Date: June 26, 2026 The new SUPERGIRL doesn’t have that “Eureka! This is how you do this now” spark that galvanized its immediate franchise...

THE GET OUT movie poster | ©2026 Vertical Entertainment Rating: R Stars: Russell Crowe, Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer, Danny Zovatto, Josh McConville, Ever Love Hope, Nina Dobrev, Aaron Paul, Benedict Hardie Writers: Derrick Borte & Daniel Forte, based on the novel STRIP by Thomas Perry Director: Derrick Borte Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: June 26, 2026 THE GET OUT (not to be confused with Jordan Peele’s 2017 GET OUT) is based on STRIP, a novel by the late Edgar Award-winning...

CAMP movie poster | ©2026 Dark Sky Films Rating: Not Rated Stars: Zola Grimmer, Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp, Michael Tan, Izza Jarvis Writer: Avalon Fast Director: Avalon Fast Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: June 26, 2026 One might think that a movie called CAMP has a double entendre title. One would, in that case, be mistaken.

Rating: R Stars: Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Jeremy Blewitt, Mia Wasikowska, Ewen Leslie, Davida McKenzie, Nicholas Hope Writer: Adrian Chiarella Director: Adrian Chiarella Distributor: Neon Release Date: June 19, 2026 "Conversion therapy," for those thankfully unacquainted with the term and/or process, is designed to make LGBTQ people, largely (but not always) teens, lose their innate sexuality and become heterosexual.

Joe Mantegna as David Rossi and Zach Gilford as Elias Voit in CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION – Season 4 | ©2026 ABC Studios /CBS Studios Inc / Michael Yarish CRIMINAL MINDS, the procedural drama following the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.) as they track and capture serial killers, premiered in 2005 on CBS, where it aired for fifteen seasons. Canceled in 2020, the show returned in 2022 on Paramount+ as CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell Writer: David Koepp, story by Steven Spielberg Director: Steven Spielberg Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 12, 2026 DISCLOSURE DAY begins in what in other movies would be the middle, or at least the end of the first act. A man, who we will soon learn is scientist and mathematical genius Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), is bound to a chair.