Res Ipsa Summer 2024 Watchlist | RES IPSA

Our summer list is here for the movies and television we're most anticipating and excited to watch this summer. We love a good story -- and film and TV offers a great lens for story-telling, a chance for popcorn consumption, and a nice time away from everything else. Whether you are home or traveling this summer, we find it a fun luxury activity on the plane, on the couch, or in the theatre to sit back and enjoy others' art. 

Read on for our summer 2024 watchlist. 

Movies 

Sing Sing

Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. When a wary outsider joins the group, the men decide to stage their first original comedy, in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.

Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

DIRECTED BY
Yorgos Lanthimo
RELEASE DATE
Now playing in theatres
STARRING 
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.

Inside Out 2

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

DIRECTED BY 
Kelsey Mann
RELEASE DATE
Now playing in theatres
STARRING
Maya Hawke, Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Tony Hale, and Liza Lapira.

Didi

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

DIRECTED BY 
Sean Wang
RELEASE DATE
July 26, 2024
STARRING
Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua. 

Close to You

Follow Sam (Elliot Page) who has the chance to encounter with an old friend  (Hillary Baack) on his way back home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories. 

Sam hasn’t been home since his transition, and after four years in Toronto, he takes a long-dreaded trip back to Cobourg for his father’s birthday. On the train there, he runs into Katherine, a friend from high school with her own complicated life now, and feelings from their unresolved past begin to bubble to the surface. It’s a serendipitous encounter, as Sam worries about seeing his family after so much time apart — not for fear that they’ll reject him, but because of the unsolicited comments and questions he’ll receive about his transition, placing the weight of his family’s ignorance and discomfort squarely on his shoulders.

RELEASE DATE
August 16, 2024
STARRING
Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, and Wendy Crewson.

Television

The Bear (season 3)

The Bear is about Carmen (aka Carmy), a world-renowned chef who’s left with his brother’s ailing sandwich shop, The Original Beef, after his sudden passing. Giving up the high-class career and name he has made for himself, Carmy returns home to Chicago and tries to turn The Original Beef around. But he quickly discovers the intense pursuit of success comes at a price — mentally, physically, and financially — especially when coupled with grief and loss. 

Fast-paced and intense, The Bear is a drama and dark comedy hybrid that accurately illustrates the stressful environment of a restaurant kitchen.

DIRECTED BY
Joanna Calo
RELEASE DATE
Streaming now on Hulu
STARRING
Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Lionel Boyce, Liza, Colon-Zayas, Abby Elliott, Matty Matheson, and Edwin Lee Gibson.

House of the Dragon (season 2)

Following King Aegon II’s coronation and the death of Queen Rhaenyra’s son, House Targaryen is divided in two. In King’s Landing, Aegon II rules from the Iron Throne, supported by Alicent and the Green Council, under the protection of the largest dragon in Westeros. From exile on Dragonstone, Queen Rhaenyra and her Black Council consider their next move. Civil war looms as both sides seek support from the great houses of Westeros, ultimately amassing armies — and dragons.

DIRECTED BY
George R.R. Martin & Ryan Condal
RELEASE DATE
New episodes Sunday nights at 9 pm EST
STARRING
Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, Rhys Ifans, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, and Matthew Needham.

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