The Bear S3
Out 27 June, Disney+
Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Carmy (White) is an ambitious young chef who takes over his dead brother’s sandwich shop and starts to whip it into shape as a serious dining establishment. What used to be called The Beef, an Italian beef sandwich joint, has evolved into a new restaurant called The Bear. Within the kitchen, there is conflict between Carmy and Richie (Moss-Bachrach), while Carmy mentors his sous-chef Sydney (Edebiri) and tries to come up with an inventive new menu. As the highly-strung Carmy pushes himself to breaking point, his team strives to make The Bear a success.
Ayo Edebiri: Grin and bear it
Seemingly an overnight success, the 28-year-old comedian has won multiple awards playing a talented chef on the critically acclaimed dramedy, The Bear.
You may not yet know her name (yet), but Ayo Edebiri is almost everywhere these days.
Since she first played a wet-behind-the-ears young chef in the sleeper hit series, The Bear, in 2022, Edebiri’s career has been on a steep rise.
In 2023, she was in five movies, including the teen comedy Bottoms, and voiced characters in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
That same year, she also starred in an episode of Black Mirror (“Joan is Awful”) and appeared in six other series, including the popular award-winning American sitcom Abbott Elementary.
Edebiri’s first acting credit came in 2014, when she acted in an episode of the series Defectives. She then focused on her career as a stand-up comic, before first getting attention for her 2000 digital series Ayo and Rachel Are Single.
She was working mostly as a writer and supporting actor for a number of shows, including the adult animated sitcom Big Mouth, when she crossed paths on Dickinson with director Christopher Storer, who would go on to create The Bear.
Her breakthrough role as the smart and hardworking sous-chef Sydney has seen Edebiri recognised with multiple award nominations and wins – she has taken home the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Emmy awards, among others.
She returns as Sydney for the third season of The Bear and can currently also be heard in Inside Out 2, as she voices a new emotion, Envy. In 2025, she will star in the James L Brooks comedy Ella McCay, opposite Emma Mackey and Woody Harrelson.
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Out in cinemas now (available at Shaw Theatres)
Stars: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod
Two immigrants, one Danish, the other French-Canadian, fall in love and settle in Nevada in 19th-century America. Though they do not have much, Holger (Mortensen) and Vivienne (Krieps) begin to create a life of simple bliss together. However, the Civil War breaks out and Holger feels compelled to enlist in the Union Army. Angry at his decision, Vivienne nevertheless agrees to await his possible return. In his absence, while working as a barmaid in a nearby town, she attracts the unwanted attention of an ill-tempered alcoholic man.
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Longlegs
Out in cinemas 11 July (available at Shaw Theatres)
Stars: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood
Lee (Monroe) is asked by a child if it’s scary being a “lady FBI agent”, and she responds, “Yup.” This is especially true when Lee, a rookie agent, gets assigned to the case of a serial killer. At first, the deaths in suburban households look like murder-suicides, with no signs of anyone breaking in. Then, coded letters are found at the crime scenes, each signed with the word “Longlegs”. Convinced that a deranged killer is out on the loose, Lee starts to find more clues of the occult, and has a strange intuition that she can start to sense him.
Twisters
Out in cinemas 17 July (Available at Shaw Theatres)
Stars: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, David Corenswet
Most people who get to see a tornado run away from it. This is not a movie about most people. During tornado season, two teams of storm-chasers bump up against each other as they seek out powerful and fearsome twisters in Oklahoma, deep in the Tornado Alley region. One team has Kate (Edgar-Jones), who is haunted by a bad experience in the past; the other is led by Tyler (Powell), a cocky glory-hunting “tornado wrangler”. As extreme weather descends upon them, Kate and Tyler see their death-defying missions converge.
Sunny
Out 10 July, Apple TV+
Stars: Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Jun Kunimura
Suzie (Jones) is a recently widowed expatriate living in Kyoto. Her husband Masa (Nishijima), whom she believed was working in a home appliance company, and her son are presumed dead after their plane crashed. One evening, Suzie is visited by his ex-colleague bearing an unexpected gift: a humanoid domestic robot created by Masa. As she grapples with grief and attempts to unravel her husband’s secret life, she realises that shadowy figures are out to get her, and that the robot named Sunny could hold the key to everything.
Sweet Home S3
Out 19 July, Netflix
Stars: Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, Lee Si-young
In a post-apocalyptic world where society has collapsed, the military attempts to maintain order after a mysterious phenomenon sees some people turning into terrifying monsters. In some cases, people turn into mindless blood-thirsty creatures of varying shapes and sizes; in others, people like a young man named Hyun-su (Song) are only half-monsterised – he can control his transformation and sprout unearthly wings at will. As the military seeks to cultivate the so-called “neohumans”, Hyun-su and others struggle to survive.
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