Lanterns

2 weeks, 2 days - James Gunn's DCU returns to the small screen with Lanterns on HBO and HBO Max. Starring Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, the series premiere kicks off in a decidedly less cosmic corner of the Green Lantern mythos. After the reaction to Supergirl and a few cancelled tv shows, there's a lot riding on the success of Lanterns, but is a dusty small town murder mystery investigated by space cops the answer to get the DCU back on track? IGN's Jesse Schedeen reviews the premiere to talk about Damon Lindelof, Hal Jordan's grumpiness and why the casting turned out to be perfect.

2 weeks, 6 days - In brightest day and blackest night, the Green Lantern Corps takes over HBO and brings James Gunn's DCU back to the small screen while X-Men '97 attempts to stick the landing on what has been a pretty solid season. On the big screen, two indie filmmakers, David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and Andrew Patterson (The Vast of Night) drop new films about dinosaurs invading the Spielberg 80s and the cutthroat world of honey in rural Oklahoma. Plus the stoner comedy comes back, high and mighty on IGN's Watch List for the second week of August, 2026!