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In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like a supernova – a deliberately-staged explosion that collapsed a lifetime of personas into a single, blinding point of closure. Ten years later, with a glut of posthumous Bowie films in tow, the question is no longer what remains to be said, but how it can still be said. The Final Act treats Bowie less as a subject than as a cosmological apparition. Director Jonathan Stiasny is concerned not with revelation but with design – how an artist who spent his career shapeshifting engineered the conditions of his own disappearance. It’s an endeavour he mostly succeeds in. Get more Little White Lies Stiasny frames his…

What is the Micro-Biopic  Trend: The Narrow Lens of Legend The “Micro-Biopic” trend discards the traditional “cradle-to-grave” narrative in favor of a hyper-focused examination of a singular, transformative creative period. By zooming in on a specific two-year window, filmmakers are able to bypass genre clichés and deliver a high-stakes psychological character study. Surgical Scope:  The film strictly covers the 1981–1982 period, centering on the recording of Nebraska  after the exhaustion of…

At this point Avengers: Doomsday is now a full-fledged Marvel Cinematic Universe reunion. It stars and is directed by people who all claimed they were done (done!) with Marvel after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Not so much. First Marvel coaxed back Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of Endgame (and Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War) to direct Doomsday, after the project was retooled following Jonathan Majors’ firing. (It turns out Kang’s dynasty wasn’t all that dynastic.) Then they got Robert Downey Jr. to come back and play Doctor Doom, even though Downey’s Iron Man heroically sacrificed himself to save half of the…

Anyone who’s a fan of Supernatural remembers the moment where the long-running horror series kicked into a new gear: its Season 4 premiere “Lazarus Rising”, which introduced the angel Castiel (Misha Collins). Castiel’s presence added a new dynamic to Supernatural, particularly when he shared the screen with Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), and new enemies as Dean and his brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) found themselves fighting the forces of Heaven and Hell. Before Castiel stole the show in Supernatural, the Syfy Channel depicted its own version of a heavenly war with the short-lived series, Dominion. Dominion takes place after God mysteriously…

January is already a hard enough month to get through at the best of times, and now it’s looking like the PlayStation Plus free games lineup for next month could be especially bleak. December 2025 saw PlayStation Plus Essential bring us a bumper selection of games, with LEGO Horizon Adventures, Killing Floor 3, The Outlast Trials, Synduality Echo of Ada, and Neon White. A generous serving, to be sure. But going forward, PlayStation Plus gamers will have even less choice. PlayStation Plus Free Games For January Will Be Tough I’m already scared about what’s to come As you’ve probably already…

Nothing brings a family together like a funeral, and at the wake for Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes’ (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) mother, their estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård) strolls through the door as though nothing has changed. His reappearance in his daughters’ lived threatens to disturb the tentative peace they both have, particularly for Nora, a flighty actress suffering from a crisis of confidence. To make matters worse, the long-in-the-tooth filmmaker has a new project in mind, and would like his eldest daughter to star in it, despite Nora’s incredulity at her father’s return as though no time has passed at all.Joachim Trier’s second collaboration with…

In Theaters: Marty Supreme (2025) by Josh Safdie: Hyperkinetic Sports Comedy-Drama Following Table Tennis Hustler’s Relentless Pursuit of Greatness top of pagebottom of page

For those of us Olds who remember life in the 20th century (or even life in [shudder] the 1980s) the fact that the 21st century is already 25 percent complete is slightly unfathomable. (Remember: Although most people and all Y2K-compliant computers celebrated the new millennium on January 1, 2000, the 21st century technically began one year later, on January 1, 2001. And now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to push my glasses up the bridge of my nose, straighten my bow tie, and very carefully adjust my pocket protector to ensure it is properly secured.)While the state of movies (and especially…

With 37 films released in the MCU, we’ve been taken to planets and across timelines, watched our favorite heroes take on their greatest foes, and watched how an entire cinematic universe can change movies forever. As Marvel fans debate their favorite films, there are some that stand out as 10s across the board. Are they perfect? To us, they are. For this list, we are going to explore ten films that are flawless for their entertainment value, thrills and action, and overall story. Of course, that’s all up to interpretation, but these ten satisfy those requirements with the greatest of…

Monkey D. Luffy may be One Piece’s lovable, instantly recognizable hero, but early drafts and prototypes of Eiichiro Oda’s various designs for him hinted initially darker paths ahead. As such, Luffy’s Gears, even at their most fearsome in terms of power, never quite evoked a more malicious tone, characteristically remaining silly, comical even. But as shown by recently-unearthed, extremely rare images of Oda’s early concept sketches, Luffy’s Gear 4 mode had an even darker potential iteration. One Piece Mini Magazine Special Feature: Legend & Next, glimpsed earlier this past weekend, featured a Snakeman looking more ferocious than his final version.…