✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 27-July 2
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming titles, check out the 2025 Film Guide.
F1 (Dir. Joseph Kosinski) Apple hopes the director of Top Gun: Maverick does for racing what he did for fighter jets in this old-school Hollywood summer epic featuring Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem as drivers back to take on the new blood. See it in IMAX or Dolby before Jurassic Park comes out next week. Now playing in theaters.
M3gan 2.0 (Dir. Gerald Johnstone) 2023’s raucous horror-comedy featuring a killer A.I. doll is back for the inevitable second helping and more social commentary about iPad kids. Now playing in theaters.
Hot Milk (Dir. Rebecca Lenkiewicz) The screenwriter of 2014’s Oscar-winning Ida, makes her directorial debut with a tale of a mother-daughter duo (Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey) traveling to a seaside Spanish town to seek a cure for a mystery illness whose lifelong resentments reach their boiling point in the sultry locale. Now playing in theaters.
Tatami (Dirs. Guy Nattve and Zar Amir) An Israeli-Iranian filmmaking team are behind this hybrid of sports drama and political thriller about a judo athlete forced to withdraw from a world championship when her government takes issue over her facing off against an Israeli. Now playing at The Belcourt.
Evil Dead 2 and The Cabin in the Woods @ Belcourt Midnights Nashville’s arthouse celebrates evil entities attacking in isolated rural locales with the horror subgenre’s two all-time great entries.
Nashville: A City on Film/Altman at 100 The Belcourt turned 100 this year. So did the late Robert Altman. To celebrate, Nashville’s arthouse has curated a selection of films shot in Nashville from Harmony Korine’s Gummo to the little-seen Girl from Tobacco Row to Ernest Scared Stupid. The tribute to the 70s film icon features a lineup including Thieves Like Us, The Player, and California Split.
Bolly/Tolly/Kolly/Lollywood and Other Special Presentations of Asian and Middle Eastern Imports.
Regal Hollywood 27: Kannappa (Telugu), Maa (Hindi), Maargan (Tamil)