Barney is a socially awkward schoolboy who receives a robot named Ron — a walking, talking, digitally connected device that’s supposed to be his best friend. Barney is excited to finally have his own robot – until his new toy starts to hilariously malfunction, drawing the attention of a shady executive who wants to protect his company’s stock price at all costs.

The much talked-about South Korean drama “Squid Game” has displaced the saucy period drama “Bridgerton” as the streaming service’s most-watched program ever. It resembles “The Hunger Games” franchise but with adults instead of young people fighting for their lives, manipulated by a mysterious organization.

As Agent 007 experiences romantic complications in his relationship with his latest girlfriend (Lea Seydoux), he also must contend with the schemes of two villains (Rami Malek and Christoph Waltz), a rift between the British and American intelligence authorities, a dark secret being harbored by his boss (Ralph Fiennes) and competition from a younger operative (Lashana Lynch).

After a mysterious intruder murders her abusive husband (Jake Abel) and attacks her, causing the latest in a series of miscarriages she has suffered, a troubled woman (Annabelle Wallis) inexplicably begins to witness other slayings by the same killer, being somehow transported, by means she can’t figure out, in a paralyzed trance state to the scene of each crime.

Camila Cabello plays the namesake character in the latest rendition of Cinderella. In this take, Cinderella aspires to become a fashionable dressmaker, but finds her ambition thwarted by the wildly retrograde view of a woman’s proper role that prevails in her fictional, quasi-medieval society.

The Marvel movie Shang-Chi “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is led by Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, with Awkwafina as Katy, Fala Chen as Jiang Li, Meng’er Zhang as Xialing, Florian Munteanu as Razor Fist, as well as Ronny Chieng as Jon Jon, and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan. Additionally, Dallas Liu will portray the teenaged Shang-Chi in the upcoming movie.

Searching for fresh inspiration, an artistically blocked painter, investigates the urban legend concerning the hook-handed murderer of the title that long prevailed among the once-deprived area’s residents (including Colman Domingo). What begins, under the direction of Nia DaCosta, who co-wrote the script with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, as an uneasy blend of slasher film and social commentary degenerates, by its conclusion, into a fantasy of racial revenge wholly at odds with Gospel values.

Non-conformity and self-realisation are the main items on the agenda of the droll comic adventure Free Guy (20th Century). By John Mulderig.

Nearly everything about The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros), writer-director James Gunn’s DC Comics-based follow-up to 2016’s Suicide Squad, is intentionally over-the-top.

In 1916 Brazil, an intrepid British researcher (Emily Blunt) forms an unlikely alliance with a fast-talking Amazon River steamboat captain (Dwayne Johnson) and aided by her brother (Jack Whitehall), they set off in quest of a mystical tree the healing flowers of which she believes will revolutionize medicine. By John Mulderig/CNS.