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War cinema can lose its nerve in two opposite directions. Some films turn combat into clean hero worship. Others pile on misery until soldiers become symbols instead of people. The masterpieces stay close to the confusion. Orders clash with instinct, courage sits beside terror, and survival often depends on choices nobody should have to make. These eight films understand that war changes shape depending on where a person stands. It can be a street full of gunfire, a muddy trench, or a bomb hidden under rubbish. None of them let the audience leave with an easy answer. Let’s figure why…

It’s been close to a year since Studio Dragon’s time travel hit, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty dropped on Netflix back in August 2025. Even surrounded by phenomenal releases like When Life Gives You Tangerines, Genie Make A Wish, and Squid Game 3, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty has managed to hold on well into 2026. In fact, halfway into the year, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is still ranked among Netflix’s top 20 most-watched K-dramas so far. The series has racked up an impressive 6.6 million views in 2026 so far, according to Netflix’s What We Watched report, proving that it’s still…

This film is aimed at a very specific niche of Tove Jansson fandom – it’s for an elite tier who aren’t interested in her as creator of those lovable moppets, The Moomins, but as an author of soft-edged, new-agey autofiction. It sees young Sophie (Emily Matthews) and her introverted, work-addled father (Anders Danielsen Lie) heading to the Finnish coastal summerhouse of ​“Grandma” (Glenn Close) to work through the grief they are experiencing following the death of her mother/​his wife. The lady of the house is a wrinkled, wise old puffin who acts as a guide for her son and granddaughter’s state of emotional…

A Psychological Fantasy About Identity, Sexual Awakening, and the Fear of Losing LoveContemporary festival cinema is increasingly using fantasy to explore the emotional complexity of growing up, where identity, sexuality, and the longing to belong become deeply intertwined. Rather than treating these themes separately, filmmakers are creating intimate psychological stories in which self-discovery unfolds through fear, attachment, and emotional transformation. Bad Beast embraces this approach through the story of Atenea, an orphaned girl whose adoption offers the possibility of a new life but whose overwhelming fear of losing her newfound family pushes her toward increasingly disturbing choices. Directed by Bàrbara Farré,…

Superhero fatigue … maybe not quite as fatigued as advertised?Spider-Man: Brand New Day had a huge opening weekend at the box office — not big by Marvel standards or Spider-Man standards, but by any measure in history.Everyone expected the movie to do well, but not *this* well. In its opening weekend, the new Marvel blockbuster grossed an estimated $355 million in domestic theaters. That’s second all-time behind only Avengers: Endgame, which grossed $357 million in its opening weekend. Three million bucks more and it would have been the biggest opening weekend ever.SonySonyREAD MORE: ScreenCrush’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day ReviewBrand New Day also earned $573 million…

Tom Cruise has spent an unreasonable amount of his career finding new and increasingly elaborate ways to die on screen, but this one might hold the record. William Cage has a particularly rough time of things in Doug Liman’s endlessly entertaining sci-fi action movie. The good news is that he gets another go every single time. Shot, crushed, blown up, eaten by aliens, run over — sometimes repeatedly — Cruise took a beating in this movie, and audiences can’t get enough of it. Twelve years after it wowed audiences and critics, Edge of Tomorrow remains one of the most popular…

Although Baldur’s Gate 3 primarily revolves around a party of adventurers, many players have embraced the challenge of completing the game solo. This approach is chosen for various reasons and adds a layer of difficulty to the gameplay. Undertaking a solo journey is not for the faint-hearted, as selecting the optimal character build becomes even more critical when you don’t have the support of a party. A successful solo build must endure the numerous challenges encountered and remain engaging through to the end of Baldur’s Gate 3. Versatility is crucial, as it can determine whether you survive a battle or…

A High-Energy Music Drama About Identity, Resistance, and Owning Your VoiceMusic has become one of contemporary cinema’s most powerful ways of exploring identity, culture, and social change. Funk channels that energy through the electrifying world of Rio de Janeiro’s baile funk scene, following a young artist whose rise to stardom forces her to choose between commercial success and remaining true to her community. Directed by Aly Muritiba, the film combines music, drama, and social commentary into a vibrant portrait of ambition, authenticity, and cultural pride.Set against the neon-lit backdrop of Rio’s favelas, Funk is about far more than the music industry. It…

Netflix is being sued for a whopping $105 million after losing an unencrypted copy of an unreleased World War II film starring Nicolas Cage and Ben Kingsley.The film, titled Fortitude, was written and co-produced by Swiss businessman Simon Afram, who spent $45 million to get it made.According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday (July 29), the digital copy went missing from Netflix headquarters after it was dropped off by an associated producer for rights-purchasing consideration back in June.“This is a first for us. Unfortunately, someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week. We’ve been working…

Later this year, one of Quentin Tarantino’s best movies is returning in spin-off form. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, the 2019 epic that starred many of Hollywood’s future including Margaret Qualley, Sydney Sweeney, Austin Butler, Maya Hawke, and Mikey Madison, is getting a Netflix spin-off that will also run on IMAX. The film follows Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth eight years after the events of the film, for which Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Actor, in the inventively titled The Adventures of Cliff Booth. Tarantino has penned The Adventures of Cliff Booth, with David Fincher directing, and the…