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A quiet coming-of-age relationship drama about emotional distance, identity, and changing connectionYouth slowly fades into emotional uncertainty.Segundo Amor follows a group of young friends during a summer shaped by emotional transition and shifting relationships. At the center are Saura and Filipe, whose once-intense bond begins to quietly dissolve as they struggle to understand what remains between them. The film explores how language, intimacy, and friendship evolve during the fragile period between adolescence and adulthood. Rather than relying on dramatic conflict, the story focuses on emotional subtlety, silence, and interpersonal change. The shared language between the characters becomes symbolic of emotional closeness…

The Mandalorian and Grogu isn’t just the first Star Wars movie in theaters in seven years. It’s the continuation of a television series that produced three seasons on Disney+, and touched on events in several other TV series, all of which are rooted in a bunch of older movies as well.If you have a hard time keeping track of it all, the good news is you don’t have to. That’s why we are here. Our latest Star Wars video will refresh your memory (or introduce you for the first time) to the wide and wooly world of Mando, Grogu, and all his allies and enemies.…

You’d think that Matt Damon broke out as a star in the early 2000s with The Bourne Identity, but he had already delivered a handful of major hits in the 1990s. The first was Good Will Hunting, which grossed more than $225 million worldwide and won Damon and Ben Affleck Oscars for their original screenplay. The very next year, Damon played the titular role in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, which grossed nearly $500 million worldwide. In 1999, he showed the world that he could also play more complex characters and delivered arguably his slipperiest performance ever. The 1999 movie…

One underrated Prime Video sci-fi show blends genres in a clever way, making it the perfect mix of the mystery-driven Bosch and the mind-bending story Dark. Genres have a practical function for audiences, but they can also be limiting when creators restrict themselves to the conventions of a single label. While this applies across the board, it’s particularly true with science fiction. Some of the best sci-fi shows of all time defy the norms that could have ruined them. The Twilight Zone’s lasting legacy wouldn’t be nearly as profound if the show didn’t combine sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. Doctor Who…

When we talk about ​“set pieces” in relationship to cinema, we often think of a jaw-dropping, computer-assisted visual sugar rush that is primed to leave the audience banjaxed with a sense of breathless awe. In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s tremendously beautiful and wise new film, All of a Sudden, there is one such set-piece, and it involves a character, Tao Okamoto’s experimental theatre director Mari, using a whiteboard and two colour markers to meticulously illustrate the self-destructive folly of capitalism to another character, a progressive care home director named Maire-Lou played by Virginie Efira. Through the immaculately chosen words and delicate actions delivered by his actors, Hamaguchi dismantles and…

Theatre are an emerging force from Limerick, Ireland — a city long woven into the country’s alternative rock legacy. The band first turned heads with their debut single “The Fall,” introducing a grand, churning sound that feels both classic and contemporary.Fronted by Maeve O’Shea, Theatre channel sweeping emotional intensity through towering instrumentation and a distinctly Irish sense of melodic drama. Their debut EP Incarnate signals the arrival of a band unafraid of scale — emotionally or sonically.“You Are” is the second offering from Incarnate, and it places O’Shea’s titanic vocal presence front and centre. Her delivery carries a wailing urgency that nods…

For the first time in seven years, there’s a new Star Wars movie headed to theaters.So the most important question is: Does it at least not suck as much as the last Star Wars movie? Because that one sure did stink.Well, based on the first reactions out of The Mandalorian and Grogu world premiere in Los Angeles and some early press screenings that took place earlier tonight, the new movie is an improvement, if not a gigantic one.The overall tone of the first wave of social-media reviews is positive, with praise for the action, the creatures, and especially for Baby Yoda himself and the amazing…

For those who love Stargate, it’s no secret that we’ve been waiting for the franchise to continue for some time. With news that Prime Video is rebooting the science fiction staple, we have hope for the first time since Stargate Universe concluded that more adventures across the galaxy — and through the gate — are underway. But several years back, in honor of Stargate SG-1’s 20-year anniversary, MGM briefly revisited the franchise in a mythology-rich 10-part miniseries that aired across several weeks in 2018. If you’re looking for a quick sci-fi-flavored binge on Prime Video this weekend, look no further…

Netflix has a new thriller series shooting its way to success. Netflix’s best TV shows include several crime thriller series, with multiple genre shows climbing the streamer’s charts in the last couple of months. Those include two high-stakes foreign series: Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole and The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek. While the first is no longer at the top of the streamer’s charts, the latter remains firmly trending in several countries. It could soon be joined by Netflix’s latest detective series, as the 8-episode show just debuted this Thursday, May 14, and comes with the status of a critically…

SXSW London returns for its second edition this June, bringing its multifaceted tangle of film, TV, music, technology and culture back to East London. This year, the festival has made things a little easier by centralising its campus around the Truman Brewery, while also dividing the Screen Festival into six strands: Headliners, Competition, Heartwarmers, Collisions, Shivers and Visionaries. In practical terms, that means a mixture of prestige premieres, global discoveries, genre oddities, crowd-pleasers and various uncategorisable items.The Screen Festival kicks things off with the Headliners strand, which includes Peter Glanz’s Savage House, a satirical takedown of the upper classes starring Richard E. Grant and Claire…