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The curtains have fallen on the 98th Academy Awards, and while the Dolby Theatre has seen its fair share of predictable sweeps in the past, the 2026 ceremony felt like a genuine clash of titans. As we look over the wreckage of the awards season, it is clear that the night belonged to a gritty, sprawling American epic and a supernatural genre-bender that redefined the blockbuster.The evening’s biggest victor was undoubtedly Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Still on my to-watch list, its dominance is impossible to ignore. Taking home Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, Anderson…
Directed by: Ayden MayeriWritten by: Ayden Mayeri, Barry RothbartStarring: Jessica Hall, Janet Kariuki, Ayden MayeriDocumentary Film Review by: William CurzonSummer 2000: The X-Cetra Story follows four childhood friends who recorded an album in the early 2000s and drifted apart due to pursuing careers in different paths. Their music is a love letter to the Y2K era of pop music, in hopes of being like the Spice Girls. When their forgotten music resurfaces online 20 years later, it suddenly goes viral, and the four girls, now adults, reunite to spark their youthful magic once again. Divided into chapters that follow the…
Directed by:Robb BoardmanWritten by:Robb Boardman, Donny Divanian, Cory LoykasekStarring: Cory Loykasek, Donny Divanian, Kirk Fox, Kevin Nealon, Frankie QuinonesRobb Boardman directs this feature crime comedy, written by himself, Donny Divanian and Cory Loykasek and the main cast includes Loykasek, Divanian, Kirk Fox, Kevin Nealon and Frankie Quinones.There is a guy in Los Angeles who is breaking into people’s homes and stealing their plants. He is known as Plantman (Divanian). The main character though, is Cory (Loykasek), a reclusive guy who works for a car park company. A series of events will have him meeting and teaming up with Plantman, initially…
Directed by: Maya Annik BedwardWritten by: Maya Annik BedwardStarring: Mambo Labelle Déese Botanica, Zandashé Brown, Tananarive DueBlack Zombie is a deeply illuminating work about the origin of the zombie and how the concept of a zombie has developed, in popular culture and cinema, since its discovery by Western society in 1927.Directed by Maya Annik Bedward, this documentary includes accounts that are fascinatingly varied, from film historians, to writers, to artists and spiritual seekers. The audience is taken through the origins of the zombie as it developed in Haiti. With the idea of a zombie rooted in the suffering of slavery…
Directed by: Riley Engemoen, Liz MoskowitzForcefield of Love is a short documentary about the eternal ability of love to transform, surprise and inspire.Dan and Doris, an American couple in their 80s, are the subject matter of this hugely life-affirming documentary. Together and very consciously, they go against the grain by embodying the energy of what society often regards as ‘young love’: clamorous, expressive, physical, and sexually active. ‘Dan and I, whatever we wanna do, we do it’, says Doris, fully expressing the freedom with which they live their lives and their relationship. ‘We’re just a couple in love’, says Dan…
Directed by: Jamie Kiernan O’BrienWritten by: Jamie Kiernan O’BrienStarring: Jake Junkins, Fannie Massarsky, Austin CasselA transgender student on a feminist literature course explores her body and her sexuality as she comes to terms with what it means to be a woman in the eyes of others.Maisie (Junkins) is in a room with a class full of girls. There’s one man with them, Aaron (Cassel), the teaching assistant, and he seems to be getting the attention of Rachel (Massarsky), who Maisie deems to be the prettiest girl in the room. Rachel flirts and displays her interest readily as she desires to…
There is something inherently calming about a story that finds magic in the mundane, and if the first teaser for Remarkably Bright Creatures is anything to go by, Netflix might just have found the cinematic equivalent of a warm blanket for the soul. Based on Shelby Van Pelt’s sensationally popular novel, the film appears to be leaning heavily into the quiet, poignant charm that made the book such a word-of-mouth hit. While I have not yet had the pleasure of a full screening, the brief glimpse offered by this new trailer suggests a production that understands the delicate balance between…
Ryan Orton’s I’m On The Loose is the kind of country album that feels more interested in mood than perfection. At its best, it delivers genuine emotion, strong melodies, and flashes of sharp songwriting. At other moments, it struggles to fully separate itself from familiar country themes and structures. Still, there’s enough personality here to make the record worth the ride. The album opens with “All I Really Need is This Guitar Anyway,” a stripped-back introduction that immediately establishes Orton’s blue-collar, independent spirit. It’s not groundbreaking lyrically, but the sincerity in the performance gives it weight. Orton’s voice carries a…