✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: May 15-21

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The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming titles, check out the 2025 Film Guide.

Hurry Up Tomorrow (Dir. Trey Edward Shults) We’d feel more confident about this thriller featuring The Weeknd as an insomniac popstar pulled into a stranger’s existential odyssey if it weren’t helmed by uneven indie director Shults (Waves). Reviews are somehow worse than for the artist's unfairly maligned HBO series The Idol a few years back. With Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Now playing in theaters. 

Final Destination: Bloodlines (Dirs. Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky) This gorno horror franchise has never been our bag, but for those who enjoy watching innocents die horrific deaths in overly elaborate scenarios that expand on the “man vs. fate” theme in less competent ways than you did in 9th grade English, it's the weekend’s top draw. Now playing in theaters. 

Friendship (Dir. Andrew DeYoung) Tim Robinson of Netflix’s  I Think You Should Leave plays a suburban dad whose bond with the local neighborhood weirdo (Paul Rudd) after an errant package delivery sends both into a spiral in the summer’s first truly edgy indie comedy. Now playing at The Belcourt.

Wednesdays with Wes As indie fans await the debut of Wes Anderson’s The Phonecian Scheme in June, the Belcourt offers a weekly celebration of the American Eccentric beginning with The Royal Tenenbaums and continuing with The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Grand Budapest Hotel.  

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (Dirs. Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson) The legendary funk-country-rock legend invites famous friends and admirers like Mike Judge, Jenny Lewis, and Johnny Knoxville to his bachelor pad for some maintenance in one of the freshest music biopics in quite some time. Now playing at the Belcourt. 

The Doors (Dir. Oliver Stone) The Belcourt’s Music City Mondays pays tribute to Val Kilmer and his eerily accurate turn as Jim Morrison. 

Batman Forever and Dick Tracy @ Belcourt Midnights The Kilmer love continues with his all-too-short stint as The Caped Crusader in one of the most visually impressive blockbusters ever made–a designation only rivaled by Warren Beatty’s pulpy Pop Art take on comics’ favorite detective. 

The Sound of Music  (Dir. Robert Wise) The hills are alive in glorious 4K! Now playing at the Belcourt. Saturday includes an introduction from Von Trapp Brewing, who will be in the lobby before the screening with beer samples

28 Days Later (Dir. Danny Boyle) The movie that kicked off the zombie renaissance 22 years ago gets a one-night-only nationwide rerelease in celebration of next month’s sequel, 28 Years Later. This Wednesday in theaters. 

The Ruse (Dir. Steven Mina) A caregiver travels to a remote island to nurse an elderly patient with horrific results. Now playing in theaters. 

Things Like This (Dir. Max Talisman) A starving writer and a talent agent  meet at a talent showcase and initiate an urban love story built on their surprisingly shared past. Now playing in theaters. 

Bolly/Tolly/Kolly/Lollywood and Other Special Presentations of Asian and Middle Eastern Imports.

Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27:

23 Iravai Moodu (Hindi), DD Next Level (Tamil), Jaar (Nepali), Maaman (Tamil), Unko Sweater - The Woolen Sweater (Tamil)