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Below find reviews of all the best movies, shows, books, games, and more according to Cosmic Circus contributors and writers.


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‘Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse’ Game Review: One of the Best Games of the Franchise

Castlevania is one of those legendary Konami series that, for almost four decades, has built its fanbase and theme around gothic castles, supernatural horrors, rough combat, and the legacy of the Belmont family. It started as a tough, unforgiving platform game, but slowly, over time, it demonstrated that there are many ways to make hunting monsters an unforgettable, stressful adventure. Released

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‘Crystal Lake’ Season 1 Review: A Horror-Drama Prequel for Patient ‘Friday the 13th’ Fans

Once news broke that A24 and Peacock would collaborate on a Friday the 13th prequel series, titled Crystal Lake, I was instantly excited. This isn’t the first project within Sean S. Cunningham and executive producer Victor Miller‘s franchise in recent years. Currently named “Jason Universe,” the franchise got a taste of Sweet Revenge in August of last year. The 13-minute short

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‘VisionQuest’ Premiere Review: Vision’s Return Great So Far

VisionQuest, the concluding chapter of the television trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, has finally been released on Disney+. The series follows the exploration and journey of a reconstructed Vision as he attempts to establish a new identity while confronting his restored memories. To help with this journey, there are some of the known and friendly

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‘You Can See Everything’ Review: A Groundbreaking Documentary

You 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

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‘Control Resonant’ Game Review: An Impressive Addition to the Remedyverse

Control Resonant has been highly anticipated by many fans of the Remedyverse. For years, fans have hoped to see a return of Jesse Faden and that Control was not just a one-and-done game. Instead, Remedy has taken one of its strangest worlds and surprised fans by deciding to push forward, change the protagonist, change the setting, the structure, and even the

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‘Forgotten Island’ Review: Fun Filipino Familiarity At Its Finest

In 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

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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Has Chemistry and Heart | Fantastic Fest 2026

Wild Horse Nine is another Martin McDonagh movie that finds remorse in the scummiest of scumbags. In In Bruges, McDonagh made two unlikely hitmen hilarious and somehow empathetic, mostly through the performances of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. His new film, Wild Horse Nine, does something similar. The film follows two men in a tedious profession and the friendship they have

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‘Resident Evil’ Review: A Masterful Adaptation | Fantastic Fest 2026

Resident Evil does not follow the video game’s exact plot. This has been a frequent complaint online. While that’s true, none of Paul W. S. Anderson’s movies followed the exact plotline. For the most part, almost none of the movies follow the story, and the only one that came close flopped two years ago. So what is a filmmaker to do? Zach

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is an Absolute Masterpiece | TIFF 2026 Film Review

After Marvel Studios fumbled the production of Bassam Tariq’s vision for Blade with Mahershala Ali, the director and actor both left the long-gestating MCU project to do Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. The action movie then used Ali’s training for Eric Brooks to instead put him in a tormented character study about a single Muslim father trying to do right

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