SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! You will shimmer and shake, like you’re riding the snake while being wowed by the dynamite animated short A Flame The Colour of Air, written and directed by talented Canadian filmmaker Emily Pelstring. Jessica Mensch’s…
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Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 9, Episode 11.I was hoping that 9-1-1 would take advantage of its month-long hiatus and course-correct after its most recent episode, but while this week is certainly an improvement from last…
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Mercy was a film about AI that AI could’ve written. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die also tackles AI, although it could only come from the mind of Gore Verbinski. As he did with his Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy…
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Vadh 2 (2026): When Murder Is Justified — Starring Sanjay Mishra as prison guard Shambhunath Mishra When evil tries to take control, its destruction becomes necessary. With this theme, Bollywood brings you a spiritual sequel to its 2022 crime-thriller “Vadh”.…
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Michel Franco's Dreams operates under the assumption that its political prescience will be enough to sustain its relatively quick ninety-minute runtime. A portrait of a turbulent and toxic romance between Jennifer (Jessica Chastain) a rich socialite whose business is arts…
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“Chasing Summer” may be the movie that cements filmmaker Josephine Decker’s status as an auteur in the original sense of the word. She’s not a brand name with a set of aesthetics that the average film fan can identify in…
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Paradise was one of the surprise TV hits in 2025. Sure, it had the team-up of This Is Us showrunner Dan Fogelman and his Emmy-winning star Sterling K. Brown. The premiere managed to pull off another surprise in the vein…
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After The Office and Parks and Recreation introduced the mockumentary genre through awkward glances and a camera catching what characters wish it wouldn’t (we still think about you, Michael Scott), The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins most cleverly treats…
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It’s been said that The Testament of Ann Lee is Amanda Seyfried’s answer to not getting cast as Glinda in Wicked. Whether or not that thought ever crossed Seyfried’s head, it’s ironic that neither this film nor Wicked: For Good…
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Corin Hardy’s Whistle arrives with a premise so simple and sinister it practically markets itself: a group of teenagers discover an ancient Aztec death whistle, and each time it’s blown, it summons the embodiment of their own future deaths. What…
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There's a common refrain about marriage that stipulates you'll end up finding yourself in a myriad of new relationships throughout its lifespan. The person you marry is not the person they will be in twenty years. Hell, they're not the…
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There are practically three movies inside genre maestro Sam Raimi’s hilariously bonkers “Send Help,” a deviously dark thriller-cum-horror comedy. There’s its first act—office politics and workplace f*ckery, hinting at power-play dynamics and control-freak dominion. Then comes its second chapter, where…
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