Charles Pulliam-Moore

The future of Warner Bros. Discovery’s DC comic book movies has often felt chaotic during the last few months as the company brought James Gunn on to co-lead its efforts, and moved on from Henry Cavill’s Superman and The Rock’s Black Adam.

Out of context, the concept of bending it like John Wick might not make all that much sense, but that’s exactly the energy all throughout a new trailer for director Nida Manzoor’s debut film Polite Society premiering at Sundance this year.

There might not actually be any extraterrestrials in director Jake Van Wagoner’s Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out. But a new trailer that’s dropped ahead of its Sundance debut makes the movie’s story about a space-obsessed boy convinced that his parents have been taken off-planet, and a neighbor who’s willing to hear him out seem like a heartwarming, Spielbergian sort of affair.