I’m not going to get into the mess that is currently inflicting film festivals, with COVID-19 forcing many to go fully digital. However, there have been a few films building positive buzz over these last few weeks, primarily among them is Suzanne Lindon’s “Spring Blossom.”

The action-thriller “Ava,” directed by Tate Taylor (“The Help”) stars Jessica Chastain as Ava, a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe and specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Netflix will debut a brand new animated adventure in 2020, with director Glen Keane (animator on “Aladdin”, “Beauty and the Beast” “The Little Mermaid”) stepping behind the camera for the first time with “Over the Moon.”

After Spike Lee, Michel Gondry, and David F. Sandberg, here’s a new batch of directors who made films with no crew, and no budget during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Instagram is filled with “fitness influencers,” or, in a nutshell, physically fit men and women who motivate their followers to work out and attain that next level (whatever that may be).

Slate plays a struggling artist traveling to Lofoten, located at Arctic Norway, in search of inspiration - they should have just called it ‘Eat, Pray, Lofoten”. The film is about the communal bonds Slate’s character shares with new friends at a remote village, those include a fellow New Yorker (Alex Sharp) who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find out that the Chief (Zach Galifianakis) is a fraud and actually hails from Cincinnati.

I have seen actor Dave Franco’s directing debut, “The Rental,” a horror movie opening theatrically, in select drive-ins, and on-demand on July 24. The cast is uniformly indie; Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White, and Sheila Vand, more intriguingly, and what gives the movies its kick, is that the it was not only written by Franco, but also Mumblecore legend Joe Swanberg.

South Korea’s 2016 film “Train to Busan” became a worldwide hit for horror fans, mostly due to its unique take on the zombie genre. And now, the film’s sequel, “Peninsula,” looks to continue on that path.

I’ll watch anything starring Kelly Macdonald, but “Dirt Music,” set for VOD release on July 17th, has been critically shamed ever since its subdued debut at TIFF last September. Check out that 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, that 33 on Metacritic or even the laughably bad poster, which makes the movie look more like a faith-based Christian drama than the down-and-dirty product the newly-released trailer hints at. “Down-and-dirty” won’t be enough to lift this drama up when it is released on the same day as Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” Yikes.

After “Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey,” the duo, still played by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, are yet again here to save the day in the threequel, “Bill And Ted Face The Music.”

Naomi Kawase was going to bring “True Mothers” to Cannes 2020, unfortunately, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film won’t get to premiere in the Croisette. It was, however, recently added to the list of Cannes 2020 Official Selections. And now, we finally have a trailer for “True Mothers.”

As seen in the new trailer, the series is set in the Deep South ‘50s, as a Black man and woman attempt to fight off monsters whilst uncovering the truth behind the man’s family legacy. Since this takes place in Jim Crow-era America, our lovebirds also encounter rampant racism along the way.

Showtime has unveiled the first trailer for documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris’ latest film. The current title for this one is “A Film By Errol Morris,” I presume because they haven't yet decided on an official one. The documentary will focus on LSD and the "High Priest of LSD" Timothy Leary. I’m already sold. The film is inspired by Harcourt-Smith's memoir, "Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story” and has Morris interviewing Harcourt-Smith as she talks about her history with the drug and Leary before he became an informant for the FBI.

The most anticipated movie of the summer is still set to be released in July. Christopher Nolan is hopeful that his latest mindbender “Tenet” will be the movie event that relaunches a lagging film industry. At the moment, we are still mired in the unpredictable when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, will cities deem it safe enough for audiences to go back to theaters? Will sitting in a darkened room with coughers and sneezers going to cause a panic? Those are questions that just don’t have answers at the moment.

Although not in the same league as the very best of the genre, Natalie Erika James’ directorial debut will please plenty of genre fans this summer, hungry for new fare during the COVID-19 lockdown. Starring Emily Mortimer and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal, the film, much like “Hereditary,” deals with haunted genetics, following a daughter (Emily Mortimer) troubled by the disappearance and sudden reemergence of her elderly mother (Robyn Nevin). I won’t say more about the plot, the less you know the better.

I’m perfectly fine with Mel Gibson delivering these B-movies for the rest of his career. I dug the hell out of “Blood Father” “Get the Gringo,” but, most especially, “Dragged Across Concrete.”

The trailer for Spike Lee’s upcoming Vietnam war movie “Da 5 Bloods” has been released by Netflix and the result is a collage of archival footage, music video, and story. The film is about Four African American veterans who return to Vietnam decades after the war to find a stash of buried gold, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it because the trailer is all about a certain mood: psychedelic chaos, baby.

Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest and eventual suicide sent shockwaves last year and unleashed a slew of conspiracy theories which, come on, admit it, may not have been invented at all. Was he murdered? Did he commit suicide? The Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” will tackle all of these questions and then some.