2022 Summer Movies and Series

Is it possible for Jordan Peele to release a film without setting the internet on fire? Nope. The 43-year-old writer, director, producer and Academy Award Winner’s highly anticipated third film, Nope, premiered with a $44 million debut last Friday, immediately sending social media into chaos over Peele’s motivations.

The echo of The Terminator – a total cost of $6. 4 million, with post-production and publicity included and a return of over $78 million – established new parameters in the industry: a new, successful take on action movies, and the careers of James Cameron as a filmmaker and Arnold Schwarzenegger as an actor with all the elements of a star.

“Summer, the South of France…She is 18, less than perfect, and dangerous. ” That was the tag line on the 1987 US poster of the erotic thriller The Year of the Jellyfish, adorned with a seductive photograph of its star Valérie Kaprisky, wearing a come-hither look and with arms crossed over her bare chest.

“The summer smiles, the summer knows And unashamed, she sheds her clothes…” In the foreground, are waves, seagulls, and sand. In the distance, World War II is at its height.

Golf is a year-round pastime, especially prevalent during the summer. There is no greater, more beloved, and highly quotable cinematic valentine to the most widely embraced adult sport in the world than Caddyshack, directed by Harold Ramis and anchored by a cast that includes Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray.

On the fourth Saturday of July – falling on July 23rd this year – National Day of the Cowboy celebrates cowboy culture and history. For over forty years in the 20th century, the perception of a cowboy was symbolized by the “Marlboro Man” created by advertising executive Leo Burnett for one of the tobacco industry giants.

In Love You Anyway first-time director Anna Matz finds an inventive and fresh way to tell a coming-of-age story of a young girl who struggles with depression throughout her life. In a social media world, she gets her actors to film the story on cell phones and other media devices as she tells HFPA member Scott Orlin in this exclusive interview.

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) stars in a Reese Witherspoon production of Where the Crawdads Sing. The Costume Design by Mirren Gordon-Crozier blends in with the swamps of the south; the environment is a character in the best-selling book by Delia Owens.

Few movies have successfully utilized the found footage formula that the 1999 juggernaut The Blair Witch Project took all the way to the bank (grossing over 4,000 times its original budget). The technique of narration through a series of (supposedly) discovered raw, candid, and startling, video recordings naturally lends itself to the horror genre.

Making Delia Owens’ bestselling book Where the Crawdads Sing into a film of the same name took a powerhouse like Reese Witherspoon, who cast Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya, the Marsh Girl – ostracized by a small town and accused of murder. Reese then roped in none other than Taylor Swift to contribute a song.