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Movies: Flat Girls (2025) by Jirassaya Wongsutin: Love, Class, and the Quiet Rebellion of Growing Up top of pagebottom of page

Netflix has released the first five minutes of Stranger Things Season 5, and it seems the final season of the hit sci-fi adventure series will take fans back to the very beginning of Will Byers’ terrible time spent in the Upside Down.The upcoming season kicks off by revealing what really happened to Will in the Upside Down after he disappeared the night of November 6, 1983. As it turns out, Will bravely held his own for quite awhile, and even encountered Vecna long before the other kids did in Season 4.The clip, released late Thursday (November 6), starts with young…

There’s no such thing as subtlety in Palm Beach — and Palm Royale has finally stopped pretending there is. Returning for its hotly anticipated second season this month, the Apple TV series is funnier, faster, and far more dangerous than before. Of course, it’s still an opulent fever dream about ambition and social survival from showrunner Abe Sylvia, but this time around, every manic smile hides some even sharper teeth. When we last saw Kristen Wiig’s striking performance of social climber Maxine Dellacorte, she had detonated her life at the now-infamous Beach Ball. Stripped of her status, marriage, and most…

Ethan Peck admits to feeling “terrified” when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds does risky episodes. Peck portrays the cool and logical Lieutenant Spock, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ “big swings” into various TV genres test his acting skills as the unflappable Vulcan Science Officer. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds breaks new ground by consistently innovating new ways to present Star Trek. From Star Trek’s first-ever musical episode, to comedic romps, to a Hollywood murder mystery directed by Jonathan Frakes in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, the show’s “big swings” are a challenge for Ethan Peck to play…

The film’s title, renamed from the story’s original Save the Green Planet!, speaks to a central fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut. ​“Bugonia” refers to a mythological process holding that bees would spawn from the carcass of an ox. This sexual and reproductive anxiety is baked into the fabric of Bugonia as one species’ demise becomes another’s opportunity.Concerned about colony collapse disorder and its downstream effects for natural life, Teddy takes up beekeeping with religious devotion for the preservation of humanity. Lanthimos, like Kubrick, understands the slippery slope when people enter into intensive regulation of sexual activity. Teddy’s monomaniacal asceticism…

No shock here: Netflix and Sony have reportedly finalized a deal to make a sequel to this year’s biggest animated hit (as much as any streaming movie can be a “hit”), KPop Demon Hunters.One bit of surprise: It looks like we won’t see it for four full years.According to Bloomberg, the plan calls for Netflix to debut the movie “in 2029.” In case you’re not familiar with how calendars work, that’s four years away.READ MORE: A Brutally Honest Ki’s Review of Kpop Demon HuntersThe lengthy break between movies tells you two things. One, it takes a long time to make an animated movie. Two, Netflix…

There’s something kind of endearing and homey about continuously watching the same characters week in and week out. Fans of long-lasting network shows can confirm this can be comforting, even though the shows could be about murder, crime, death, and so on. I’m referring to, of course, the likes of Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, and Grey’s Anatomy, to name a few. However, sometimes less is actually more, and not every great show needs to have a decade’s worth of seasons to keep people talking about it. Some shows tell their story, and whether they walk away on purpose…

For the most part, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is separate from the rest of the MCU, right up until the post-credits scene. Like many MCU post-credits scenes, it triggered some excitement in many fans, but if you really think about it, the scene ultimately missed the mark of what it should’ve accomplished. The Fantastic Four: First Steps takes place in a different universe from most MCU projects, meaning it didn’t connect to anything else. However, the post-credits scene marked the arrival of the highly anticipated Doctor Doom, who will be the major villain in Avengers: Doomsday. Yet, because they…

When you have need to go into a hospital, most people in their right mind would expect one of two possible outcomes: firstly, you might walk out back out the door with some deeper clarity of your suspected ailments; or secondly, you might not come out at all, if circumstances are particularly grave. In Dolores Fonzi’s roistering legal drama Belén, we see a third option, that’s a little bit of a mix of the above, where you do come back out, but with little clarity of what went on, and also wearing handcuffs.Belén is the codename for willowy young woman (Camila Pláate) who stumbled…

Festivals: Gorgonà (2025) by Evi Kalogiropoulou: Sisters of Stone and Smoke — Rebellion in the Ruins of Tomorrow top of pagebottom of page