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A quiet mother-daughter drama about emotional distance, loneliness, and fragile reconciliationSometimes the smallest everyday moments reveal the deepest emotional wounds.Litle Loves follows Teresa, a 42-year-old woman who unexpectedly spends the summer caring for her mother Ani after changing her vacation plans, forcing both women into an emotionally tense coexistence after years of independent living. Directed and written by Celia Rico Clavellino, the film blends intimate realism, generational tension, emotional restraint, and domestic vulnerability into a deeply human portrait of family intimacy and emotional isolation. The movie explores aging, motherhood, loneliness, emotional repression, female independence, caregiving, unresolved resentment, and fragile affection through…

The Mandalorian and Grogu is not off to a massive start in theaters.According to Deadline, the film earned $12 million from Thursday night previews ahead of its official opening day in theaters on Friday, May 22.While $12 million is not nothing, it’s also not up to the standards of most mega-blockbusters on their first Thursday in multiplexes. In fact, that number comes in behind the previous lowest-grossing movie in Star Wars history, 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.Solo, a prequel about the young Han Solo starring Alden Ehrenreich, grossed $14.1 million in Thursday previews. It went on to earn $103 million over its opening weekend,…

Jamie Dornan leading a mob, with bandanas covering their faces, through town in Robin Hood 2018Lionsgate Of all the public-domain IP that lends itself to diverse interpretation, Robin Hood has to be right up there. Director Michael Sarnoski, who broke out with the drama thriller Pig five years ago, is gearing up to release the Logan-esque The Death of Robin Hood, starring none other than Hugh Jackman. Only a few months ago, MGM+ released a surprisingly traditional 10-episode series that has been renewed for a second season. Fans will no doubt remember Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s 2010 attempt to…

Disney+ has been the home to some of the biggest recurring streaming shows over the last seven years, but the longest-running series on the platform is a surprise. From the moment Disney launched its streaming service, it has been constantly filled with shows tied to some of the company’s most recognizable franchises. For many, serialized storytelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars are considered the biggest and best shows that Disney+ has to offer. The latter is responsible for The Mandalorian and a few expansion series, as well as acclaimed titles like Andor. The former has brought limited…

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona’s feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition dictates, two hundred and fifty candles engulf Claire Fort’s (Rebecca Hall) birthday cake. With two and a half centuries behind her she belongs to the first generation granted immortality in an apparent utopia, provided they adhere to a relentless anti-ageing regimen and avoid any harm that might leave them beyond repair. Though her irksome friends retain their buoyant gratitude for perpetual existence, Claire’s mindset begins to shift as the prospect of eternity slowly drains her life of its lustre. So,…

The Body Horror Film That Turns Diet Culture Into a Ghost Story — James Follows Relic With Her Most Formally Specific Available Statement on What Shame Does to a BodyHana is a lovelorn medical student and compulsive binge-eater who discovers a miracle weight-loss pill. When she runs out and can’t afford more, she reverse-engineers it in the lab — the secret ingredient is human ashes. Her access to cadavers makes the solution obvious. She burns organs from an obese corpse her class has dubbed Big Bertha, makes her own pills, and begins losing weight dramatically. Bertha’s ghost arrives shortly after…

A long time ago …(You know the rest.)As hard as it for some of us Olds to believe, Star Wars is almost 50 years old. For half a century this galaxy filled with Jedi and Sith, Rebels and Empires, has proven an endless source of fascination and sometimes unhealthy fixation. Although it’s gone through periods of inactivity, it always seems to return like the Jedi — most recently in 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu, a continuation of the hit Disney+ series about the mysterious bounty hunter and his youthful Yoda sidekick.But which Star Wars is the best? And, maybe more contentiously, which one…

2025 in cinema had many ups, but also its fair share of downs, from Anthony Mackie’s stuttered start to leading life in the MCU in Captain America: Brave New World and director James L. Brooks’ disastrous latest effort, Ella McCay, to Netflix’s expensive flop The Electric State and Prime Video’s utterly terrible War of the Worlds. However, no movie was more controversial than the live-action Snow White remake, which dominated social media discourse often for valid reasons and sometimes for frustratingly bigoted claims. One of the common criticisms thrown at the film was against director Marc Webb, although others were…

Shawn Ashmore discusses his hopes for Iceman when the X-Men officially join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ashmore portrayed Bobby Drake AKA Iceman in four X-Men movies, starting with the original X-Men in 2000. The last time Ashmore played the frozen mutant hero was in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Hugh Jackman reprising Logan in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine set the stage for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to officially reboot the X-Men. Several actors and characters from Fox’s X-Men franchise will appear in 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday, including Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Ian McKellan as Magneto, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique,…

Who doesn’t love a bit of Richard Avedon? You’ve likely seen the American portrait photographer’s fingerprints without realising just what you’re looking at – think Brooke Shields’ suggestively contortionist Calvin Klein ads, Charlie Chaplin with bared teeth and mimed devil horns, Marilyn Monroe looking uncharacteristically askance; the Audrey Hepburn Hijab Hydra. Avedon’s flair for dynamic composition brought a singular artistry to the commercial work for which he is best known. Ron Howard’s new documentary makes the legendary photographer into a mononym, exploring his instinctive talent and position as an esteemed individual in New York’s artistic community.The film opens with a montage sequence set to Spoon’s a dance-punk…