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Festivals: Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) by Oscar Boyson: Satire, Self-Delusion, and the Search for Meaning in Modern America top of pagebottom of page

It ain’t just mean old clown. This creature has a far more complicated backstory, one you might not know if you haven’t read Stephen King’s novel, or might not remember if you haven’t seen the It films in a while.If so, we’re here to help. Our first Easter egg breakdown for the new series It: Welcome to Derry, will point out all the hidden details and little Stephen King references you might have missed in the pilot — which is appropriately titled “The Pilot.” Not only is this the pilot episode of the show, but it introduces us to Welcome to Derry’s main…

Editor’s Note: The recap below contains spoilers for Watson Season 2, Episode 3. With Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle) in the rearview mirror (for the moment), Watson has returned to what it does best. Strange and unusual medical maladies. Ever since the Morris Chestnut-led series debuted earlier this year, it has been compared to the early-aughts hit drama House, which drew less obvious inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic mystery series. One of the long-running bits in Hugh Laurie’s series was how his patients’ illnesses were never lupus — but that isn’t the case in tonight’s episode of Watson. Episode…

In the last two years, as Israel’s onslaught in Gaza has wrought at least 67,000 deaths, the Palestinian genocide has been live-streamed on our phones and social media feeds. It is “the first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something,” charged Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh in January of 2024. At least 20,000 of those deaths have been children — at a rate of one child per hour. The same month that she said so, one of those children’s deaths…

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for film club, Two Lane Blacktop. Joining host Leila Latif are David Jenkins and Lillian Crawford. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with…

Trends 2025: The Great Pop Culture Convergence: How Fandom, Fashion, and Fortnite Are Redefining Entertainment top of pagebottom of page

If you have an HBO Max subscription (the price of which is about to go up, by the way) the big new show you can watch in the month of November is I Love LA from creator/star Rachel Sennott, best known from her work in the excellent Shiva Baby and Bottoms and Saturday Night. Her show, per HBO Max, is about “an ambitious friend group navigates life and love in LA.”Other titles coming to HBO Max in November includes two A24 releases from 2025: Ari Aster’s Eddington, about a mayor and a sheriff feuding in Covid-era America, and Materialists, a romantic comedy from Past Lives director Celine Song. (Past Lives is…

Bruce Springsteen has a reputation for making rousing and cathartic songs, but lots of the time, his inspiring ones aren’t just inspiring, and end up bittersweet, too. And then when he wants to make a full-on sad song, he’s brutally effective at it. Certain Springsteen songs are surprisingly soul-crushing, well-demonstrated by the majority of the tracks on Nebraska, with the recent biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, focusing on the creation of that album. In the interest of highlighting that side of Springsteen’s music, here’s a rundown of some of his most emotional songs. A few of these are musically…

These TV shows are the greatest ones that premiered every year of the 2000s. After the most exciting TV releases of the 1990s, which included the beloved Friends in 1994, television audiences were about to be introduced to some captivating prestige dramas and charming sitcoms. From a miniseries that started a cool trend to a medical drama that is still on the air today, we could tell that these 2000s shows would be a big deal when their pilots aired. Although many years have passed since then, we still think about these series now, and they’re just as impactful as…

In The Memory of Butterflies, Peruvian filmmaker Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski takes us on a journey that resists the brutality of Western colonialist savagery and offers us an exquisite, painful and dream-like odyssey that dares us to face the reality of our past. The inspiration for this documentary film came from an album of photographs used by the Peruvian Amazon Company in the early 20th-century as propaganda for their industrial rubber concerns. Within it, Sadowski found a posed image of two boys called Omarino and Aredomi, (slaves from the Witoto tribe in Putemayo, Colombia) looking directly at the camera. This image was the beginning of…