‘The White Lotus’ Replacement ‘The Season’ Only Offers Glimpses of a Better Thriller

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‘The White Lotus’ Replacement ‘The Season’ Only Offers Glimpses of a Better Thriller

We’ll cop to our bias up front: put a few billionaires on a deck with champagne and long-held grudges, and we’re fully seated, snacks in hand. There is a reliable pleasure in watching very rich people behave very badly… especially…

‘House of the Dragon’ Finally Delivers on Its Most Game-Changing Promise in Season 3

After an anti-climactic end to House of the Dragon Season 2, there's no better way to reintroduce the Game of Thrones spin-off show to audiences than kicking Season 3 off with a major naval battle, complete with pirates, dragons, and…

Breakfast at Berghain | Film Threat

DANCES WITH FILMS 2026 REVIEW! Writer/director Autumn Palen’s Breakfast at Berghain is almost impossible to describe. It’s a 14-minute midnight comedy about a small-town girl who goes on an Alice in Wonderland–style adventure to a magical German nightclub. Rosie (Dominique…

“Stolen Kingdom” Documents Obsessive Disney Fans

Joshua Bailey (Writer/Director, 31) and Brandon Pickering (Producer/Cinematographer) brought their film about Black Market Disney merchandise profiteering to The Last Picture House in Davenport, Iowa, on June 2, 2026. Both Florida natives dropped out of film school at Valencia College…

Mortal Kombat II Review | Flickreel

From Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, we seem to be having the same conversation every few weeks. A sequel to a video game movie doesn’t get the best reviews, but fans of the IP…

Chris Smith’s HBO Docuseries Tracks Supermodels, Doomsday Beliefs, & A Truly Bizarre Cult Saga

Somewhat recently, the phrase “Both things can be true” has entered the cultural lexicon, typically used by someone to describe a pair of relatively innocuous topics that seem to be in contrast with one another. Obviously, it’s an easy line…

Promising Comedy Gets Its Most Important Character Wrong [Tribeca]

The 2026 Tribeca Film Festival is well underway, and with it comes the premieres of a slew of new movies. One of these is That Friend, which taps into that familiar experience of having a friend in your life that,…

Steven Spielberg’s Sci-Fi Return ‘Disclosure Day’ Isn’t the Alien Movie You Expect

For many, myself included, Steven Spielberg is the filmmaker who made us fall in love with cinema. Few directors have effortlessly moved between genres. He reinvented the summer blockbuster with Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark, made harrowing historical…

Hulu’s ‘Alice and Steve’ Is a Tonally Confused Revenge Comedy With Strong Performances

Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and Spooks’ Nicola Walker team up in Hulu’s new comedy series that leans more towards bromance than romance. Produced by BBC Studios’ Clerkenwell Films, the team behind Baby Reindeer, Alice and Steve follows two…

A Sitcom Premise Stretched Far Beyond Its Shelf Life

Eric Appel‘s The Breadwinner arrives with a simple goal: provide a family-friendly comedy vehicle for stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze. Following the success of his clean, observational comedy and growing mainstream popularity, Bargatze’s feature film debut feels like a natural next step.…

Borderline | Film Threat

imagiNATIVE 2026 FILM REVIEW! Leave it to a Sámi filmmaker to find the comedy in a three-way jurisdictional standoff at the exact point where Norway, Sweden, and Finland share the same patch of dirt. Director Johannes Vang’s Borderline takes the…

Phuong Mai Nguyen’s Tender Animated Romance Moves Through Grief And Memory [Cannes]

Ancient Hawaiians’ relationship to the ocean is depicted in desaturated tones during the opening of the animated feature “In Waves.” For a while, the film’s passages to this earlier time period, which recur a couple of times throughout, seem as…

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