Weekly Entertainment Digest – May 30th

May 30, 2026

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Ready for some summer blockbusters? We have drams, love stories, kids movies and a lot of great series coming out in the next couple of months. We also have all of the details about the new Peanuts shows coming to Apple TV+, the new Scooby Doo Series coming, the marthons you can check out on ElectricNow including Father’s Day offerings, and special movie experiences at your local MJR Theater.

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TUNER | In Theaters Now

In Tuner, Academy Award®-winning director Daniel Roher’s first narrative feature, written by Daniel Roher & Robert Ramsey, Leo Woodall stars as a gifted young piano tuner whose heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as well as for tuning Steinways. With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki’s safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory. Blending romance, drama, and the taut suspense of a heist thriller, Tuner also features performances from Tony Award®-winner Tovah Feldshuh, Lior Raz, with Jean Reno.

WE ARE PAT | in NYC Theaters Now

Following a critically acclaimed debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025, Rowan Haber’s delightful documentary We Are Pat will begin an Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run on May 29 in New York, with screenings in Los Angeles, Chicago and nationwide this summer. Tribeca Films, the distribution label from Tribeca Enterprises and Giant Pictures, will release We Are Patdigitally on June 23rd.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Rowan Haber (FX’s Pride, Stonewall Forever, New Deep South, and Braddock, PA), and produced by Caryn Capotosto (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Little Richard: I Am Everything), the film examines one of the most loved, hated and misunderstood characters in comedy.

Created by Julia Sweeney in the 90s, “Pat” became a phenomenon on SNL before facing cultural backlash as conversations around transness and non-binary identity politics evolved. What starts as a pop culture excavation becomes something deeper: a reflection on gender identity, the elasticity of comedy, the ethics of authorship, and what happens when a joke outlives the era it was born in.

Reflecting on her participation in the filmJulia said, “I was interviewed over several years for this documentary, never knowing if it would be sympathetic or problematic. Much like Pat, Pat-self, the documentary holds both at the same time. It is so much deeper and richer and more provocative than I ever imagined. And funny. Really, really funny.”

As Haber explains, “I was interested in what happens when you don’t try to resolve a cultural artifact, but instead reopen it and see what’s still alive inside it. We Are Pat uses comedy to sit in that tension, inviting trans comedians to reshape something that once excluded them and ask whether we can laugh at what was meant to laugh at us, and maybe rewrite those harmful narratives in the process.”

As hilarious as it is endearing, the film features a who’s-who of trans comics tasked with the ultimate challenge – creating a new 2025 Pat sketch in an all-trans writer’s room. The film features interviews with Julia Sweeney, Kevin Nealon, Molly Kearney, Abby McEnany, Murray Hill, Nori Reed, Robin Tran, Sabrina Wu, Roz Hernandez, James Tom, Ally Beardsley, JD Samson, River Gallo, Riv Butcher, Grace Freud, April Clark, Ever Mainard, Hayden Johnson, Brontez Purnell, and Jules Gill-Peterson.Executive Producer Alan Cumming sums it up when he said, “Under Rowan Haber’s assured direction, the film honors the past while cheekily re-writing it, delivering wit, warmth and the last laugh.”

The team behind WE ARE PAT includes standout talent from both the documentary world and legendary queer artists behind the camera: Directed by Sundance Fellow, Tribeca & Webby award winner Rowan Haber; Produced byEmmy winner Caryn Capotosto p.g.a. and Rowan Haber p.g.a. ; Executive Producers Emmy winner &NY Times Bestselling Author Alan Cumming, Tony award winning film and theatre producer Adrian Salpeter, Bill & Ruth Ann Harnisch – The Harnisch Foundation, Jenny Raskin,Geralyn White Dreyfous, J Winkelried, Pierre Hauser, Rebecca Lichtenfeld , Chandra Jessee, Marci Wiseman ,Daniel J. Chalfen, Dawn Bonder,Eric Kuhn ,Beth Levison, Shauna Schmunk, Lilly Wachowski,Lauren Greenfield,and Frank Evers, Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, Caroline Libresco andMeadow Fund; Co-Executive Producers Kelsey Koenig, Eric Szmanda, Kirsten Vangsness, JanaLee Cherneski, Ashlin Hatch,Sam Paige; Co-Producers Ryan Cunningham, Katherine Fisher and Leo DiSantis; Written by Hannah Buck and Rowan Haber; Directors of Photography Christine Ng and Mego Lin; Original music by Erick del Aguila; and Edited by Hannah Buck and Alex Bohs.

PREMARITAL | Available On DEMAND June 2nd

This is Robert’s first feature film, an effort which he built up to after spending his 20s working in commercials in Los Angeles. Robert got his start making home movies while passing time in the long shapeless days of midwestern homeschooling. Along with that free, untethered lifestyle came the paradoxically rigid structures of conservative religion. When you’re encouraged to explore your “God-given” creativity and plumb the depths of human experience, but at the same time your own personal experience is itself aggressively repressed, let’s just say it saddles you with a philosophical tension you can never quite shake. But you can laugh about it. Eventually. After a lot of therapy.

HOPPERS | Debuts on Disney+ on June 3rd

Experience the wonderful and wild animal world that exists in your own backyard – from the comfort of home – when Disney and Pixar’s outrageously original, adventure-packed comedy “Hoppers” premieres June 3 on Disney+.

The wildly imaginative animated adventure follows animal lover Mabel as she uses a groundbreaking technology to “hop” her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver, uncovering a hidden animal world shaped by its own rules. Alongside charismatic beaver King George and an unforgettable community of local wildlife, Mabel embarks on an action-packed mission that invites audiences to experience nature like never before.

Certified Fresh™ and Verified Hot by Rotten Tomatoes^®, “Hoppers” features Pixar’s signature blend of inventive humor, heartfelt storytelling and surprising discoveries, delivering a viewing experience that the entire family can enjoy together again and again.

“Hoppers” is directed by Daniel Chong and produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, p.g.a., with an original score by Mark Mothersbaugh and a screenplay by Jesse Andrews.

FILM SYNOPSIS

In this animated comedy adventure, animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to “hop” her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals. As she makes amazing discoveries, Mabel befriends a charismatic beaver and must rally the entire animal kingdom to face a major, imminent, human threat.

LOVE LETTER | Premieres in Theaters Beginning June 5th

A defining voice in contemporary Japanese cinema, Shunji Iwai has long been celebrated for his lyrical storytelling, emotional precision, and quietly radical influence on global filmmaking. Emerging in the 1990s as one of the most original talents of his generation, Iwai crafted a cinematic language that fused music, memory, and melancholy into something wholly distinct, capturing the inner lives of youth with an intimacy that resonated far beyond Japan.

Iwai’s 1995 breakthrough Love Letter, called “the greatest sentimental story ever told” (Asian Movie Pulse), starred Miho Nakayama in a dual role and became a bonafide pop culture phenomenon throughout Asia and beyond, and this June, Film Movement Classics presents the cinematic touchstone in a new 4K restoration for the very first time in North America.

In LOVE LETTER, two years after the sudden death of her fiancé in a mountaineering accident, Hiroko Watanabe (Nakayama) remains unable to let go of the past. On the anniversary of his passing, she discovers his childhood address in an old school yearbook and, on impulse, sends a letter addressed to him—never expecting a reply. But one arrives, from a librarian named Itsuki Fujii, who once knew him and shares not only his name, but an uncanny connection to his past. As the two women begin an intimate correspondence, their letters gradually uncover long-buried memories of the man they both loved in different ways. Through recollections of adolescence in snowy Hokkaido, fragments of first love, and moments left unspoken, a fuller portrait of Itsuki emerges — one shaped as much by absence as by memory.

The restoration of LOVE LETTER will be shown in select theaters with Iwai’s ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2026. A haunting coming-of-age drama, ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU follows a group of disaffected Japanese teenagers navigating the alienation and cruelty of adolescence in the early internet age. At its center is Yuichi, a shy, bullied 14-year-old who finds solace in the ethereal music of elusive pop star Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou’s big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in store for Lily’s devoted fan. Blending lyrical imagery with raw depictions of youth violence, Iwai crafts a deeply unsettling portrait of adolescence, where music offers fleeting transcendence in a world defined by loneliness, cruelty, and the fragile search for meaning.

DISCLOSURE DAY | Experience it Everywhere in IMAX^®June 12th

On Friday, June 12th, IMAX fans will have a special and rare opportunity to attend the “Disclosure Day: IMAX Live Pre-Show Q&A with Steven Spielberg and Emily Blunt.” Guests who attend this event will receive a limited-edition light-activated invisible mini-poster, while supplies last. Tickets for this exclusive event can be purchased at https://www.imax.com/disclosuredayQA.

SYNOPSIS:

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to…Disclosure Day.

PROMISED SKY | in Theaters Beginning June 12th

An Ivorian pastor and former journalist, Marie, opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women: Naney, Jolie, and Kenza. A mother desperate to obtain residency status in Tunisia, Naney seeks a better life for herself and her daughter. Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family’s expectations for her future. Kenza, an orphaned child and the only survivor of a shipwreck carrying refugees to Tunisia, is lost and in need of a mother. Marie struggles with her role as a spiritual leader while assuming the role of Kenza’s caregiver and supporting Naney and Jolie. As the four women grow closer in this makeshift family, they must grapple with poverty, conflict, and alienation.

Erige Sehiri’s PROMISED SKY, an Un Certain Regards Award nominee at Cannes in 2025, is a “bittersweet celebration of endurance and sacrifice” (Screen Daily), demonstrating the importance of resilience, friendship and human connection in the face of global tensions surrounding migration and refugee crises worldwide.

TOY STORY 5 | Experience it in IMAX^®June 19th

The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time it’s Toy meets Tech. Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Jessie (voice of Joan Cusack) and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (voice of Greta Lee), a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?

SUGAR | Season 2 Trailer – Streaming on Apple TV+ June 19th

Apple TV released the trailer for the second season of “Sugar,” the acclaimed neo-noir detective drama starring and executive produced by Colin Farrell. “Sugar” will return for its eight-episode second season on Friday, June 19 on Apple TV with one episode, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday through August 7.

“Sugar” is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story. Season two ushers in the return of Los Angeles’s iconic private detective and film connoisseur John Sugar, played by Colin Farrell, who stayed on earth in hopes to find his sister as he takes on a new missing persons case – searching for the older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer. As the investigation expands into a sinister, city-wide conspiracy, Sugar must reckon with himself to answer the question –– how far will he go to do what’s right?

In addition to Farrell, the second season of “Sugar” introduces a brand new cast that includes Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly, Sasha Calle, along with special guest star Shea Whigham.

Season two of “Sugar” is showrun by Sam Catlin, who also executive produces under his Short Drive Entertainment banner. Audrey Chon and Simon Kinberg also serve as executive producers alongside Farrell, Scott Greenberg and Chip Vucelich. “Sugar” is created by Mark Protosevich.

Hailed as “one of the best neo-noir thrillers in years” with “one of the greatest plot twists in recent TV history,” the complete first season of “Sugar” is now streaming globally on Apple TV.

ENONGO | Premiering Exclusively on IndiePix Unlimited on June 19th

What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate, a teacher, and a proud nerd — all at once? ENONGO sets out to answer that question with honesty and style.

An award-winning animation-documentary hybrid from Director Kevin Schreck, the film follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo — known as SAMMUS — as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time music career alongside academic life. With her autobiographical, afrofuturism-inspired music, she tackles mental health, identity, race, gaming, and feminism, earning a devoted following that spans activists, hip-hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike.

The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team — the first in the history of feature filmmaking — bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: the Ithaca upbringing, the years teaching in Houston, the return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together.

Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, ENONGO is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who consistently, defiantly, thinks outside boxes.

A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE | Premiering on BritBox June 24th

BritBox revealed the official trailer and key art for A Woman of Substance, premiering on June 24 in the U.S. and Canada. The 8-episode BritBox Original series will debut with two episodes, followed by a weekly episodic rollout. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, A Woman of Substance is an epic period drama spanning six decades, charting the rise of Emma Harte from penniless Yorkshire maid in the early 1900s to powerful 1970s business mogul. Through love, loss, war, and unrelenting ambition, Emma amasses power, outwits rivals, and shapes her own destiny.

The series stars Brenda Blethyn (Vera, Little Voice) and Jessica Reynolds (House of Guinness, Outlander) as the two versions of the iconic character Emma Harte. Additional cast include Emmett J. Scanlan (MobLand), Lydia Leonard (Ten Percent), Leanne Best (The Walk-In), Ewan Horrocks (The Last Kingdom), Harry Cadby (Everything Now), Will Mellor (Broadchurch), Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?), Niall Wright (Slow Horses), Robert Wilfort (Gavin & Stacey) Mara Huf (Tetris) and Toby Regbo (Outrageous).

The series finds Emma in 1911, an impoverished ambitious maid in Yorkshire, England, who goes on a dizzying journey to become the world’s richest woman, gazing down from a sprawling luxury New York penthouse. A rags-to-riches tale of women through the 20th century, Emma defies the expectations of her society, fearlessly challenging the roles she’s given, smashing glass ceilings, and never, ever deviating from her masterplan: Get to the top. Whatever it takes.

jackass: best and last | In Theaters June 26th

Johnny Knoxville and the gang return for one final fling at the big screen. Featuring all-new stunts and stupidity along with the greatest hits and biggest laughs from the past, jackass: best and last is a joyously raucous celebration of all the mischievous camaraderie that you’ve come to love and expect from these idiots over the past 25 years. So, grab your dumb little buddies, raise your glasses, and come experience the cinematic event that promises to be the last time you’ll ever laugh this hard in a theatre.

ANIMALS IN WAR | Premiering on VOD/Digital/FM+ on June 26th

Inspired by true stories, Animals in War is a feature anthology film created by Ukrainian filmmakers in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Featuring Oscar winner Sean Penn alongside a collaboration of Ukrainian and international artists, the drama tells seven independent stories united not by narrative, but by a shared emotional and ethical space.

Through a range of visually arresting artistic styles — blending observational realism with poetic imagery, and at times approaching allegory and fairy tale — war’s destruction comes into focus not through soldiers or battles, but through the animals caught in its wake. A white rabbit, a wolf, a cow and other creatures, both domestic and wild, become witnesses, companions, and sometimes the only reason to survive as cities empty, frontlines shift and the world is instantly reshaped by violence.

War here is portrayed not as spectacle, but as a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. Children forced to grow up overnight, adults living with loss, and people under occupation making impossible decisions all find themselves bound to animals under the pressure of conflict. Yet alongside the devastation, ANIMALS IN WAR reveals tenderness, moral choice and the enduring power of compassion — a haunting yet deeply moving plea for global awareness, reflection and action.

FOR THE LOVE OF A WOMAN | In Select Theaters June 26th

In the 1970s, Esther, an American woman mourning her mother, receives a letter that sets her on a journey to uncover a hidden chapter of her family’s history. With the help of Zayde, a university professor with secrets of his own, she begins searching for a woman who lived decades earlier in British Mandate Palestine.

The woman is Yehudit, whose arrival in a settlers’ village in the 1930s entangled the lives of three men: a widowed father, an idealistic farmer and a cattle trader. By tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde discover a shocking truth.

TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY | Returns to Theaters for 20th Anniversary June 28th, 30th and July 1st

NASCAR stock car racing sensation Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) is a national hero because of his “win at all costs” approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly), are a fearless duo — “Thunder” and “Lightning” by their fans for their ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) challenges “Thunder” and “Lightning” for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing’s top driver.

THE WESTIES | Premiering on MGM+ July 12th

The Westies is a gritty and kinetic crime drama centering on New York City’s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name. The series is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall. Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.

SPA WEEKEND | Only In Theaters on August 21st

In the spirit of BAD MOMS and THE HANGOVER, SPA WEEKEND is a hilarious and heartfelt comedy about four lifelong friends who realize that somewhere between careers, relationships, families and everyday responsibilities, they have forgotten how to take care of themselves and each other. Burned out and overdue for a break, the women escape to a luxury spa retreat for what turns out to be an unforgettable weekend dedicated to fun, laughter, and a lot of really bad decisions.

LAST SEEN | Premieres on Apple TV+ September 9th

Apple TV revealed the first look at the new six-episode Australian thriller “Last Seen” (FKA “The Dispatcher”), starring Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall, and adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from CWA John Creasey Dagger Award-winning author Ryan David Jahn’s book “The Dispatcher.” “Last Seen,” set and filmed in Victoria, Australia, is directed and executive produced by Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Christian Schwochow and will make its global debut on Wednesday, September 9 with two episodes, followed by a new episode every Wednesday until October 7, 2026.

Police detective Ian Ridley’s (Brammall) life fell apart 11 years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a teenage girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.

In addition to Brammall (“The Devil Wears Prada 2,” “Colin from Accounts,” “Evil”), the series also stars Maxine Peake (“Say Nothing,” “Black Mirror”), Brendan Cowell (“Dune: Prophecy,” “Plum”), Daniel Henshall (“Mickey 17,” “How to Make Gravy”), Jessica Wren (“Mr. Inbetween,” “Return to Devil’s Playground”), Zahra Newman (“Thirteen Lives,” “Addition”) and newcomer Chloe Jean Lourdes.

The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films (“Hijack,” ’Slow Horses,” “Down Cemetery Road”), with executive producers Schwochow (“The Crown,” “Bad Banks,” “Munich: The Edge of War”), Mrksa (“Requiem,” “No Escape,” “White House Farm”) and Joanna Werner (“The Newsreader,” “Riot,” “Clickbait”) at Werner Film Productions.

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S TOMMY & TUPPENCE | Premieres on Britbox September 15th

BritBox announced Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence will premiere September 15th in the U.S. and Canada and released a new teaser trailer. BritBox is the lead commissioner on the series, a six-part adaptation of the Agatha Christie novels and short stories starring Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor, Sill Up), Josh Dylan (Buccaneers, Mamma Mia 2) and Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter, the Paddington films). The series is produced by Lookout Point (Pride and Prejudice, Happy Valley), part of BBC Studios, in association with Agatha Christie Limited.

In the first contemporary English language television adaptation of Agatha Christie’s stories, Tommy and Tuppence are a detective duo for the ages. They fall in love, fall out of it, and tumble back in, all while solving some thrilling, entertaining mysteries along the way.

The cast also includes Nicholas Richardson (Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Younger), Charlie Condou (Dr. Who, Unforgotten), Callie Cooke (F1, Cheaters), and Chizzy Akudolu (Little Disasters, The Woman in the Wall).

The series is written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell (The Road Trip, Harm), who also executive produces, in her first drama series commission for television. Fergus O’Brien (Happy Valley, The Tourist) will direct the first four episodes and Ellie Heydon (Outrageous, Trying) the last two. Stella Merz (Miss Austen, Gentleman Jack) will produce.