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‘Tenzing’ Movie Review: A Biopic of Immense Grandeur

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  4 min read

As flawed as Jennifer Peedom’s narrative feature debut, Tenzing, might be, something undeniable about her filmmaking instantly makes me keen to explore her earlier mountain-related documentaries, Mountain and Sherpa. The way in which she visualizes Tenzing Norgay’s (Genden Phuntsok) connection with Mount Everest, or, as he calls it, Chomolungma, is so emotive (almost reaching spiritual awareness). It immediately positions the audience

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‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Season 2 Review: A Thrilling Case of Déjà Vu

Tristan Jurkovich ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  4 min read

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a standout anime that launched on Netflix in 2022. It was a collaboration between CD Projekt Red, the developer of the video game Cyberpunk 2077, and Studio Trigger, one of the best anime studios. Slick animation, mature stories, gruesome deaths, and, by all accounts, a wonderful take on Night City. Four years later, Studio Trigger and CD Project

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‘Animals’ Movie Review: How the Mighty Have Fallen

Maxance Vincent ,  6 min read

The embrace of artificial intelligence in mainstream cinema has been the most depressing sight the medium has ever seen. It’s a total abdication of creativity at every turn as high-profile filmmakers use a technology built on theft to “craft” images that are both unappealing and emotionally hollow. Many might say that “X movie feels like it was made by AI,” but

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‘La Bola Negra’ Review: A Sprawling Generational Epic Hampered by Its Own Sense of Indulgence

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  6 min read

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra is a lot to take in. The decade-spanning epic tracks three queer characters at distinct moments in history. The film often feels grand and emotive, simply by looking at the succession of visual (and thematic) juxtapositions thrillingly brought to life by cinematographer Gris Jordana’s eye for painterly, almost God-like, compositions. It can also

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‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: Taika Waititi Destroys Kazuo Ishiguro in Ridiculous Adaptation

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  5 min read

Anyone who turned on Taika Waititi post-Hunt for the Wilderpeople may be the most vindicated individuals in the universe upon seeing his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. The Japanese-British writer’s thought-provoking, emotive prose is reduced to a bevy of unfunny TikTok-lite jokes that hamper a genuinely heartfelt story. This adaptation might have been something truly special on the

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‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Begins a Grim Era for Hollywood

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  5 min read

David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are two of the producers of Sam Hargrave’s Matchbox: The Movie, an adaptation of the popular Mattel IP of the same name. They now run Hollywood’s biggest media conglomerate, Skydance, a company that owns some of the country’s most significant assets and makes Disney’s acquisition of the 20th Century library seem tame by comparison. There’s lots

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‘Valor Mortis’ Game Review: A First-Person Soulslike in a Historic Napoleonic Era

Wiktor Reinfuss ,  ,  ,  ,  5 min read

War has always been a rough foundation for stories about suffering, ambition, and the collapse of humanity, but in Valor Mortis, it is something more. The game takes those ideas, twists their meaning, and makes them much darker. Valor Mortis is set in an alternate Napoleonic era of France in a nineteenth-century world where soldiers, the military, and the empire are

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‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXXVII’ Review: Halloween Special Memorable Moments

Tristan Jurkovich ,  ,  4 min read

The Simpsons Halloween specials were yearly traditions for me growing up. In syndication, there were always marathons of the collected episodes up to that point. I’ve probably watched the horror shorts in the first eight The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror episodes more than individual episodes. Even though I am a waning fan of The Simpsons, having stopped around season fifteen, I

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