Agatha Bock doesn’t need your help. The 90-year-old tends her massive garden, bakes and cans everything she eats, and hasn’t had running water in a decade. She’s doing just fine, thank you.

Her niece, filmmaker Amalie Atkins, spent six years filming Agatha’s daily routines on her rural Manitoba farm, and the result is stunning. AGATHA’S ALMANAC opens May 15 at New York’s Film Forum for its U.S. theatrical premiere.

Shot on 16mm by an all-female crew led by cinematographer Rhayne Vermette, the doc captures Agatha’s fierce independence with visual poetry. Watch her harvest a 15-pound watermelon by kicking it along with her rubber boot. See her preserve heirloom seeds and maintain her ancestral farm without a car, cell phone, or functioning landline.

The film already won Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs and made TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten list for 2025. Critics are calling it “tender and melancholy but so full of life” and praising its “wondrously luminous” cinematography that makes Agatha’s strawberries look impossibly red and her watermelons eye-poppingly pink.

This is what indie documentary filmmaking looks like when it’s done right. No agenda, no manufactured drama. Just a niece learning from her aunt that a handmade, independent life can be its own kind of art.

The post-apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer is pulling into new territory. Radial Entertainment just dropped the series on Roku, Pluto TV, Tubi, and Plex, with a CW premiere set for mid-April.

It’s a smart play. Free, ad-supported streaming is where the eyeballs are moving, and Snowpiercer has the goods to capitalize. Set seven years after Earth becomes a frozen wasteland, the series follows humanity’s remnants aboard a perpetually moving 1,001-car train. Class warfare, survival politics, and power struggles fuel the drama across every carriage.

The pedigree is there. Executive producers include Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone), Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), and Park Chan-wook (Oldboy). The cast brings serious heat too: Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean, and Alison Wright lead a roster stacked with award winners.

Seasons 1-3 are streaming now. Season 4 drops this summer.

The move puts quality serialized drama in front of cord-cutters and free streamers who might have missed it the first time around. For creators watching how legacy content finds new life, this is the model: take something with built-in fans, strong production value, and a bingeable hook, then put it where people actually watch. No paywall, just ads and accessibility.

The film formerly known as The Shitheads just got a rebrand. Independent Film Company is now calling it IDIOTS, and it hits theaters August 28.

Director Macon Blair’s road comedy stars Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as two completely unqualified guys hired to drive a rich kid (Mason Thames) to rehab. Naturally, things go sideways fast. The cast also includes Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage.

The film is produced by Alex Orr, Brandon James, Nathan Klingher, Ford Corbett, Joshua Harris, Mark Fasano, Macon Blair, and Dave Franco. O’Shea Jackson Jr. executive produces alongside Jatin Desai, Greg Freidman, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, David Gordon Green, Jeremy Saulnier, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, and Thomas Mann.

Blair, best known for directing I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore and acting in Blue Ruin and Green Room, has built a reputation for dark, offbeat storytelling. IDIOTS sounds like more of that energy, just aimed at multiplex crowds this time.

Independent Film Company clearly sees commercial potential here, slotting it into the late summer release window when comedies can still break through. Whether audiences will show up for a gonzo road trip about incompetent kidnappers remains to be seen, but the cast alone makes it worth watching.

Film Forum will host the U.S. theatrical premiere of Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), the first feature documentary from acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, beginning Friday, May 1.

In her latest work, Martel (Zama, The Headless Woman, La Ciénaga) turns her focus to the 2009 murder of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar, who was killed while defending his community’s land from outside interests. The documentary examines both the killing and the broader, ongoing displacement of the Chuschagasta people, weaving together footage from the long-delayed trial, firsthand testimony from community members, and sweeping aerial views of Argentina’s Tucumán province.

Blending investigative storytelling with a deeply personal lens, Our Land highlights the complexities of justice, land rights, and systemic inequality. The case itself, which relies in part on contested cell-phone footage, underscores the challenges faced by Indigenous communities seeking accountability.

The film premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival and later screened at the New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival, where it received the award for Best Film. It also earned a special honor from the National Society of Film Critics.

The official trailer for Our Land is now available.

Andrew MacLean’s sword-swinging barbarian epic is coming back. Head Lopper returns in April with an extra-length issue that kicks off a new story arc, perfectly timed to mark 10 years since the series first launched from Image Comics.

The book follows Norgal, who goes around beheading mythic beasts while carrying around the severed head of a witch named Agatha. She talks. A lot. Think high-fantasy carnage meets buddy comedy, except one of the buddies is a decapitated head.

MacLean delivers what he does best: kinetic action sequences and dark humor that lands. The art is visceral and gorgeous, the kind of stuff that makes you want to flip back through the pages just to catch all the details you missed while your eyes were glued to Norgal’s oversized blade.

The return comes with a murderer’s row of variant covers. Alex Horley (Conan the Barbarian), Jeffrey Alan Love (News from the Fallout), Dylan Burnett (Arcade Kings), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), and James Harren (Rumble, Ultramega) all contributed covers. That’s the kind of artist lineup that makes collectors sweat.

MacLean recently sat down with the Let’s Talk Comics podcast to talk about where the series has been and where it’s headed. After a decade, he’s clearly still got stories to tell about this beheading bastard and his chatty companion.

Head Lopper (2026) #1 hits comic shops April 22. Eight different covers will be available, including retailer incentive variants and a team-up cover with I Hate Fairyland. Digital versions drop the same day on Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

It’s been a long wait, but fans of brutal fantasy and MacLean’s distinctive art style finally get their fix next month.

Willie Nelson is scaling back his road schedule, which makes the 2026 Outlaw Music Festival Tour all the more special.

The legendary festival, entering its second decade, just announced a limited run of summer dates featuring Nelson alongside The Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Lukas Nelson, and a deep roster of talent including Stephen Wilson Jr., Margo Price, Sierra Hull, Robert Randolph, Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, and Lily Meola.

“Being on the road and playing for the fans is what I love to do,” Nelson said. “We don’t get to do as many shows as we used to, so every night out there means a little more.”

The tour kicks off July 3 in Irving, Texas, and includes Willie’s annual Fourth of July Picnic in Austin, which will feature special guests Billy Strings and Rodney Crowell. From there, the festival winds through the Midwest and Northeast, hitting venues like Alpine Valley in Wisconsin, Pine Knob in Michigan, and Jones Beach in New York.

Since its debut in Scranton in 2016, the Outlaw Music Festival has become one of the biggest annual touring franchises in North America. The festival has hosted everyone from Chris Stapleton and Neil Young to Tyler Childers and Bonnie Raitt, with each stop featuring local food, drinks, and vendor villages at amphitheaters nationwide.

Rolling Stone called last year’s 10th anniversary run “undoubtedly the most exciting and eclectic multi-artist festival of the 2025 summer amphitheater season by a wide margin.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 27, at 10 AM local time via OutlawMusicFestival.com and Ticketmaster. Citi cardholders get early access to presale tickets through Thursday, March 26.

With Willie slowing down his touring pace, this summer might be one of the last chances to catch the 93-year-old icon in his element, surrounded by a community of artists who carry the outlaw spirit forward.

A small coastal city grapples with its colonial past in “təm kʷaθ nan – Namesake,” a documentary tracking what happens when the Tla’amin Nation asks Powell River, BC to reconsider the name on its welcome sign.

The film just landed a spot at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, where it will world premiere in the Canadian Spectrum competition section. Screenings are set for April 29-30, 2026 at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto.

The story centers on a request that cuts deep. The city is named after Israel Wood Powell, who served as BC’s Superintendent of Indian Affairs for 17 years and played a key role in establishing residential schools, banning the potlatch, and seizing Tla’amin territory. Now the Nation is asking, what if we called this place something else?

Co-directors Eileen Francis and Evan Adams have been filming since 2022, capturing community meetings, heated debates, archival footage, and the oral histories that tell a different version of this place’s story. The result is 76 minutes that sit in the tension between who gets to name a place and what those names mean.

“This film comes from this place,” says Francis. “It was important for it to take root here first, with the people and conversations that shaped it, and with the history that continues to be felt.”

Adams puts it plainly: “It sits in the tension between memory and responsibility. It does not turn away from difficult truths, and it asks what it means to live well with each other in a place where we have different histories.”

The Tla’amin Nation is a self-governing First Nation with over 1,200 citizens on BC’s upper Sunshine Coast. Under its Treaty and Constitution, the Nation governs its own lands, resources, and services, guided by ancestral teachings and relationship to the land.

The documentary was supported by TELUS originals, part of a funding program aimed at locally-rooted stories from BC and Alberta. It’s exactly the kind of small-town, nationally relevant conversation happening across Canada as communities reckon with reconciliation in real time.

The film is in English and ʔayʔajuθəm. More info at namesake.film.

Douglas Tirola’s archival documentary *Bernstein’s Wall* hits Film Forum on April 24, and it tells the story of Leonard Bernstein entirely through the maestro’s own words.

The doc centers on Bernstein’s 1989 Christmas Day concert in Berlin, where he conducted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” as the Berlin Wall fell. From there, Tirola pieces together a career spanning decades using only television interviews, news footage, home movies, audio clips, and personal letters. No talking heads. No modern narration. Just Bernstein.

The film captures the conductor as celebrity, activist, and closeted cultural diplomat. It’s a portrait of contradictions: the New York Philharmonic maestro who became a household name, the political firebrand who used his platform to fight for causes, and the public figure who navigated his personal life behind closed doors.

*Bernstein’s Wall* premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and went on to play Telluride, CPH:DOX, and AFI Fest. Critics have praised Tirola’s collage approach. Variety called it “galvanizing,” noting how Bernstein evolved from “a dreamy-eyed Hebraic Rock Hudson” into “a towering figure with the bearing of an eagle.” IndieWire described it as “a lovely film that will appeal to Bernstein’s most ardent fans, while warmly inviting neophytes into his world.”

The April 24 opening at Film Forum marks the doc’s U.S. theatrical premiere. A press screening is set for April 8 at 10 AM at the theater. Filmmaker Douglas Tirola is available for interviews.

The film runs 100 minutes and is presented with support from The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund.

Image Comics announced that Friday, the award-winning paranormal mystery series from Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín, will be released in a collected hardcover edition this November. The Friday Deluxe Edition compiles all nine issues of the digital-first comic originally published through Panel Syndicate.

Blending supernatural horror with nostalgic mystery, Friday follows Friday Fitzhugh, a former teen sleuth drawn back to her hometown during college break. Reuniting with childhood friend and detective partner Lancelot Jones, she’s pulled into a dark investigation that forces her to confront both eerie new threats and the growing pains of adulthood.

The series, praised for its mix of noir, small-town unease, and coming-of-age emotion, features colors by Muntsa Vicente and has received both Eisner and Harvey Awards since its debut.

The Friday Deluxe Edition arrives in comic shops on November 12, and will be available in bookstores and online retailers beginning November 25.