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No matter how often people repeat the old mantra that quality trumps quantity, Hollywood remains insistent: Actually, quantity is better.2025 showed the limits of that strategy. Yes, some of the year’s big movies delivered their required doses of excitement and humor. James Gunn’s Superman was a fresh new take on the oldest comic-book superhero. Of course, James Cameron once again bombarded moviegoers’ eyeballs with intergalactic spectacle, this time with Avatar: Fire and Ash. And if you want to call Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another a blockbuster — and its budget certainly places it in the blockbuster category — then there wasn’t a better movie…

Editor’s note: The below recap contains spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 3.The first two weeks of Fallout Season 2 have been devoted to catching viewers up with where all the characters are while setting up the pieces for what’s to come. But in the third and best episode of the season so far, “The Profligate,” Fallout returns to its three main characters: Lucy (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten). In doing this, “The Profligate” shows us the limitations of Lucy’s kindness, while the Ghoul moves a bit closer to Lucy’s point of view, and Maximus…

With winter in full swing, the days grow shorter, snowy days become more common, and the world slows down, inviting relaxation and comfortable nights at home. During the days and nights when the snow piles too high, it’s the perfect time to cozy up with your favorite blanket and explore a new anime. Whether through its wintery landscapes, heartwarming narratives, or introspective storytelling, there are plenty of anime that are perfect for a cold winter’s day. These stories are among many that capture the spirit of the season while offering thrills, suspense, or heartfelt moments, making them must-watch anime for…

Festivals: Versailles (2025) by Andrés Clariond: Power’s theatrical collapse begins where democracy’s costume ends top of pagebottom of page

2026 should be a great year for movies. (Feel free to remind me I wrote this in December 2026. I might feel incredibly stupid about this statement. It wouldn’t be the first time!)There are big, swings from auteurs like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg. (I’d say they’re taking big original swings, but The Odyssey was written, y’know, 2,700 years old.) There are up-and-coming directors like Zach Cregger trying their hands at major horror IP. There are pedigreed sequels to beloved franchises like Toy Story and The Avengers. There’s the new version of Street Fighter featuring WWE Champion Cody Rhodes sporting the most magnificent flattop in cinema…

The Rookie has been on ABC for seven seasons now, so it makes sense that the series is sort of at risk of jumping the shark. Some of the past storylines have been pretty outlandish, and the fans are already feeling the over-dramatization of the on-again-off-again romance between Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil) and Tim Bradford (Eric Winter). But there’s one more plot point coming up with the brand-new season that already has us scratching our heads. It appears as though the gang is heading over to Europe on an investigation, and this bonkers narrative makes us think that we’re already…

At first glance, Gintama seems like a humorous, unserious anime series that centers solely on absurdity and parody. This is particularly true at the beginning of the storyline, which creates a first impression that viewers tend to judge the series by, shaping their expectations for its future arcs. However, what many anime fans may not expect is the unexpected turns the storyline takes after its earliest episodes. Beneath the relentless comedy and meta commentary, Gintama hides far deeper, emotionally powerful arcs that take audiences by surprise, effectively reframing everything viewers thought they knew about the anime. Gintama Is a Shōnen…

I first became acquainted with Freida McFadden’s New York Times bestselling thriller ​‘The Housemaid’ earlier in 2025, when I stumbled across a YouTube video entitled ​“Is this the worst book ever written?”. Intrigued by the title I clicked – the reviewer gave a detailed review of McFadden’s book, which concerns a young ex-con who takes a maid position in an affluent upstate New York household only to discover her new employers aren’t as perfect as they appear to be. While ​“worst book ever written” is perhaps a tad harsh, the novel is the sort of pulpy, first-person mystery that values shocking twists over elegant prose and found…

Festivals: Ungrateful Beings (2025) by Olmo Omerzu – When Family Vacation Becomes Psychological Trap top of pagebottom of page

Christopher Nolan is something of an old school filmmaker. He likes to shoot on film. He demands his movies play on the big screen — and preferably on IMAX which is a really big screen.But even by his standards The Odyssey is really a throwback. After all, there aren’t many stories older that are still told and retold in modern times than Homer’s famous epic about the journey of Odysseus — played in Nolan’s version by Matt Damon.The cast of of Nolan’s Odyssey also includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o, with Zendaya and Charlize Theron. An extended prologue for the film has been…