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I have no idea what the inside of a sperm whale looks like, and I have no intention of finding out. For all I know, the squishy, claustrophobic confines in the 2026 film Whalefall could be a far cry from reality. That’s the benefit of telling a story like this. No living person has experienced it. It’s a situation that has
Read MoreYou Can See Everything shows Nathan Fielder asking Elizabeth Holmes one simple question: “Are you being real right now?” It’s a question that drove the marketing to popularity, as the scene shows Holmes radiating big puppy eyes, innocently tilting her head, and responding, “I’m always being real.” Without context, it looks like Fielder is in psychological warfare with one of the
Read MoreJohn Cena-led Matchbox: The Movie released on Apple TV earlier this month. Starring alongside Cena in the Skydance film are Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, and Arturo Castro. Does this movie capture the imaginative mind of a child playing with toy cars, or instead does it just recapture the pain of modern blockbuster action films? Director Sam Hargrave has worked in
Read MoreAnyone who thinks image-making matters less than “the story” (whatever that means) should watch David Fincher’s The Social Network and Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning side by side. Shot by the same cinematographer, Jeff Cronenweth, it won’t be long before you realize why Fincher’s film stands the test of time as one of the most impactful masterpieces of the 2010s. But
Read MoreThe one good thing about Michael Showalter’s Verity is that it has more verve than previous adaptations of Colleen Hoover’s work. It’s not very good, but at least Showalter has fun with compositions that recall the oeuvres of Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven. Plenty of split-diopters and superimpositions create a quasi-campy quality as cinematographer Jim Frohna captures Lowen Ashleigh’s (Dakota
Read MoreDigger is the most interesting film to release in 2026. Not because of its quality, but because, with all its marketing, posters, and Tom Cruise hype, when I sat down to watch the film, I soon realized I knew absolutely nothing about it. Outside an AMC Dolby theater, a few of us mused about what the film might be. Austin Powers
Read MoreOver seven years after its original debut, Avengers: Endgame returned to theaters this past weekend for what has been dubbed as the Avengers: Endgame Encore. The encore screenings of Endgame were revealed months ago to be coming to theaters to give audiences a soft launch into the next installment of the Avengers saga known as Avengers: Doomsday. The Russo Brothers have
Read MoreIn collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks, here comes Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado‘s Forgotten Island. Taking place in the 1990s/early 2000s Philippines, the fantasy comedy film follows two young women about to be separated by a fork in the road. Raissa Molina (voiced by Liza Soberano) is accepted into a university in California, but it comes at
Read MoreDirectorial choices can undoubtedly hamper a film, and no motion picture released this year proves this inextricable fact more than Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising. The film is allegedly a prequel to the legend of Robin Hood, but not really. The marketing desperately tried to convey that this was a thrilling reinterpretation of the archetypal story, but Greengrass’ style proves unsuitable for
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