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Rainbows, as the song goes, are visions, but only illusions.The same goes for Muppets — although they, unlike rainbows, do have something to hide. (Those puppeteers with their arms shoved up their keisters. You can’t let those guys be seen on camera.) For well over half a century now, the Muppets have delighted generations of families with their quirky humor, catchy songs, and wholesome messages about dreams and friendship.Although they’ve suffered through some fallow periods in the 21st century, they’re having a pretty good 2026. Although they lost their long-running attraction at Walt Disney World, Muppet*Vision 3D, back in 2025, they’re now the…

Rick and Morty Season 9 premiered on Sunday night on Adult Swim, and, so far, the interdimensional grandfather-grandson duo’s return is off to a strong start. It’s early, but the latest run currently holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes across eight reviews, serving as a testament to the enduring nature of Dan Harmon’s sci-fi comedy, even if it’s not quite at the heights of its early years. “There’s Something About Morty” kicks things off in bombastic fashion with the return of Evil Morty (Harry Belden) as he uses the Omega Device to blackmail Rick (Ian Cardoni) into helping…

The world of seinen anime can be a deceptive environment, especially as it’s far more than the already-excellent dark fantasy world of Berserk. It can include intense psychological dramas, saccharine romances, and more than a few historical epics, as seinen audiences positively crave stylized stories that are either powerfully character-driven, deeply philosophical, or somewhere in between. While recent seinen hits are already pushing the barriers of becoming all-time memorable hits like the case of Witch Hat Atelier, it’s always best to let recency bias simmer until any given season is over, in order to see whether a series stands the…

An unthinkable tragedy binds together Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her daughter Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling) and Lux (Tristan Lopez). He’s the ex-boyfriend of Ella’s elder daughter, Jessie (Carla Hüttermann), and the last person to see her alive before she plunged to her death from a high-rise building while high on drugs. A year later, all are still reeling from their insurmountable loss, but when Lux reenters Ella and Melli’s lives unexpectedly, he stirs up old feelings of guilt and blame that have been just about kept at bay. Everytime is Sandra Wollner’s third feature following well-received efforts The Impossible Picture and The Trouble With Being…

Body-horror coming-of-age cinema exploring adolescence, class anxiety, and female transformationFifteen reimagines the traditional quinceañera as a chaotic blend of body horror, dark comedy, and adolescent psychological trauma. Directed by Jack Zagha Kababie and Yossy Zagha, the film follows two best friends navigating desire, cruelty, class division, and social pressure until one girl’s body begins transforming into something monstrous. Set in Mexico City, the movie combines kitsch aesthetics, grotesque physical horror, teenage insecurity, and biting social critique into a visually exaggerated coming-of-age nightmare. Led by Greta Martí and Macarena Oz, the film explores adolescence through fear, transformation, humiliation, and unstable identity…

Everyone wants a souvenir from Walt Disney World. When I was a kid, I got a hat that looked like Goofy’s head. I loved that thing. On another visit, my parents bought me a stuffed animal of Figment, the purple mascot of Epcot’s Imagination pavilion.But some adult Disney fans these days want Disney memorabilia of a slightly more exotic variety. On eBay and in other less-well-traveled corners of the internet, obsessives buy and sell bits and pieces of Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Props, costumes, manuals — anything, really, that people can get their hands on. Quickly searching eBay while I prepped this piece, I found…

After creating a juggernaut series like Mad Men, Matthew Weiner was likely given carte blanche by any studio or network to realize his most ambitious project to date. As a part of the Sopranos writing staff, Weiner pushed the envelope for dramatic cable television to transcendent heights during the medium’s heyday in 2007 with his award-winning AMC show about the inner world of advertising executives in New York in the 1960s. After Mad Men’s conclusion in 2015, Weiner returned three years later on Prime Video with another lavish period drama featuring a star-studded cast, including Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks…

The martial arts movie trilogy that is arguably the most famous example of the genre still to date is set to become available on Netflix in a matter of just days. Over the years, the martial arts genre has provided some hits that remain dazzlingly famous to this day – and for good reason, given the sheer level of high-octane and mindboggling stunts that are present in this corner of the world of movies. Thanks to the talents of iconic figures like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Donnie Yen, the martial arts genre has also featured many of…

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides around a Bulgarian village on foot and horseback, wandering through a rugged landscape populated by wary natives and rowdy outsiders, a taciturn loner facing down his rivals in a series of masculine standoffs. Though set in the present day, and alluding to the wider dynamics between the EU’s haves and have-nots, the film was accurately titled Western. Her long-anticipated new feature is also set in Bulgaria, and is likewise a moral tale about contemporary economic realities shaped around the contours of a classic Hollywood genre – The Dreamed…