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Resident Evil Requiem doesn’t feature any narrative choices for most of the runtime, but Requiem’s horror story all builds up to one decision at the end. Grace Ashcroft’s big moment determines how the game will conclude, so it’s important to make the right choice. In the climax, Grace is confronted with a text prompt to confirm the final wish of Oswell Spencer, the Umbrella Corporation CEO responsible for much of the viral outbreak in the world of Resident Evil. At this point, the game offers two options: “Destroy Elpis” or “Release Elpis,” giving her the authority to decide the fate…

In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps if you’ve cultivated a specific vibe and an identifiable audience. Austin’s South By Southwest (SXSW) is eking ever closer to its fifth decade of life, and in that time has become one of the vital destinations for hoovering up all the finest alternative culture while – between movies/​gigs – drinking in the insights of some of the world’s most radical thought leaders in the worlds of culture and commerce.Obviously, being a film magazine, we’re going to zero in on all the great…

Toronto’s Mad Iris has been playing around Canada since 2023, incorporating noise rock, punk, shoegaze, and grunge, into a sound that honors progenitors like Sonic Youth, Swirlies, and early Jesus & Mary Chain. Their self-titled debut album, out May 29, 2026, covers desire, obsession, jealousy, and pettiness, while taking place on back seats, night buses, and gas stations, with gum stuck to desks, and drinks spilled on sticky floors. Throughout, obsessive impulses spiral into emotional meltdowns, with songs lurching between restraint and eruption.A Mad Iris song teeters on disaster, shifting from gritty feedback to a masterful, sloppy haze, employing distorted sounds…

It’s already been five years since the first Mortal Kombat movie. (Technically the second first Mortal Kombat movie if you want to include the one that was released way back in 1995.) Released in the midst of the pandemic, during the year when Warner Bros. released all of its blockbusters in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, the film did well enough to earn a sequel.But then delays hit. First there were the Hollywood strikes of 2023. Then the film got pushed back from its first release date of October of 2025 to May of 2026. Hopefully the filmmakers used all that time to cook up…

Alien is a science fiction franchise unlike any other because it doesn’t have a unifying creator in the same way that George Lucas was for Star Wars, Gene Roddenberry was for Star Trek, or Stan Lee was for every film based on Marvel Comics. The style and tone of each installment in the Alien series depend on the director involved, and the franchise has previously boasted notable artists like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, and Fede Alvarez. Noah Hawley has over a decade of compelling television on his resume, thanks to Fargo and Legion, two shows that succeeded by…

Tom Sandoval is working on his image. The Vanderpump Rules alum is back on TV, this time on the comedy competition series, House of Villains, which has found a new home on Peacock. Hosted by Joel McHale, Sandoval joins 10 reality all-stars — Paul Abrahamian, Tyson Apostol, Kate Chastain, Jackie Christie, Drita D’Avanzo, Plane Jane, Johnny Middlebrooks, Ashley Mitchell, Tiffany “New York” Pollard, and Christine Quinn — who must scheme, strategize, and shade each other in different challenges for a chance to win $200,000 and the title of “America’s Ultimate Supervillain.” And while Sandoval has been branded with that “villain”…

Daniel Blumberg is an omnivorous artist, bringing intense conviction and curiosity to song form, improvised live performance, visual artwork and film composition. As a composer for Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, he is part of arguably the most exciting musician-filmmaker team working today: a partnership that began with The World to Come in 2020 and continued with his Oscar-winning score for 2024’s The Brutalist. For The Testament of Ann Lee, Blumberg has co-authored a maximalist, avant-garde musical of original songs and Shaker-hymn adaptations, performed by the cast alongside a mass of experimental musicians.LWLies: Could you tell us about the process of researching the Shakers…

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No matter who is writing or drawing his adventures, there are a few immutable facts of Spider-Man. He always embodies the lines that closed his very first appearance by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Fantasy #15, that with great power must come great responsibility. And regardless of how often he screws up in his pursuit of that motto, Spider-Man will always try to get things right. He makes tons of mistakes — making a mess of things may as well be his true super power — but he never stops trying to fix them either.So in a way, the news that Sony is now looking to relaunch…

Neytiri, as played by Zoe Saldaña, in a still from Avatar: Fire and Ash.20th Century Studios / courtesy Everett Collection Director James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash has been having an unsteady time in theaters worldwide for over two months. The movie hasn’t performed at the level of its two record-breaking predecessors, which remained dominant at the box office for much longer. Avatar: Fire and Ash, on the other hand, has practically reached the end of the line. The trouble is that it seems to be running out of steam just shy of passing two major box office milestones. The…