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Festivals: Hunger Strike Breakfast (2025) by Karolis Kaupinis: The Fight for Freedom on Camera top of pagebottom of page

The Marvel Cinematic Universe really shouldn’t work. It’s too big and too complicated with too many different moving parts that need to be kept in the air at all times. In order to make it work you need a cinematic juggler as good as Kevin Feige to keep all the pieces where they need to be — and you need very important scenes that, especially in the MCU’s beginning, helped to ground the reality of this heightened world.In our latest Marvel video, we take a look at one of those scenes — maybe the single most important scene in the…

[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Season 4 of Fire Country.] Summary In Season 4 of the CBS series ‘Fire Country,’ Vince’s death reshapes Edgewater as Station 42 has to pick up the pieces. Bode inherits a sense of duty as Vince’s son, battles grief and stress, and risks relapsing into old ways. New Battalion Chief Brett Richards, played by Shawn Hatosy, shakes up Station 42, causing clashes. In Season 4 of the CBS series Fire Country, Bode (Max Thieriot), Sharon (Diane Farr), Station 42, and the town are going to be experiencing changes, following the death of…

Warning! Spoilers for Task episode 6 ahead! There’s only one episode left in HBO’s Task, which means it’s time for the crime thriller series to introduce a missing character. The upcoming finale will follow up on the devastating events of episode 6, which involved the deaths of Lizzie and Robbie, as well as Tom’s discovery that Grasso is the Dark Hearts’ informant. It’s bound to be exciting, but we still need some big answers about Robbie’s family. The ending of Task episode 6 saw Maeve receive a bag of cash from Robbie’s connection. This came with the revelation that it…

Try as he might, Aziz Ansari can’t quite seem to read the room. One of the more egregious examples of late was the comic’s decision to perform at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. Ansari defended his choice to help culturally launder the régime’s authoritarian reputation on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, pledging to give a portion of the fee he received to Human Rights Watch. The organisation subsequently rejected the donation, a spokesperson telling Variety last week that it could not accept what essentially amounts to blood money.Ethics under capitalism are a guiding theme of Good Fortune, a high-concept but mostly unremarkable body-swap comedy exploring the death of…

Festivals: Life for beginners (2025) by Paweł Podolski: A witty, blood-soaked Polish dark comedy top of pagebottom of page

Some movies become more than movies. They leave indelible marks on the psyches of millions of fans, and become touchstones in people’s lives. Sometimes, they seep their way into other corners of pop culture as well; they get turned into toys or video games, or they get adapted to television.There are plenty of examples of TV shows based on movies that equaled or even exceeded their cinematic inspirations. For a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind when you say the word “M*A*S*H” is the long-running Alan Alda sitcom, not the earlier Robert Altman movie. The same goes for Buffy the…

Tom Cruise has been virtually undeniable for the last 10 years (if you ignore The Mummy), with Top Gun: Maverick saving movies after the COVID-19 lockdowns and Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning (supposedly) wrapping up a truly incredible series of movies. But he carried a lot of baggage as a movie star before that, mostly because of his dedication to Scientology and a bizarre appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show during the press tour for Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds in 2005. That led to a low period for his career, culminating in a clearly desperate attempt to resurrect…

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been out for over seven years, but the game continues to offer up surprises for people still playing the game and exploring the massive open world. While most of the secrets and hidden details in the game have been discussed by fans in the past, some players are just discovering those secrets for the first time. One such player on Reddit known as MasterChiefOnPS5 has recently learned of the gruesome details and horrifying fate of Gertrude Braithwaite. Another player called Elmo_Chipshop points out that you can see her skeletal remains in an outhouse in the…

In Scott Derrickson’s 1978-set The Black Phone, ​‘the Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) was just a run-of-the-mill masked killer. His boy victims, however, were unrestful spirits, contacting latest abductee Finney (Mason Thames) through a disconnected old phone in the Grabber’s basement dungeon with tips on surviving. Ultimately, the ghost-guided Finney killed the Grabber. Box-office success made a sequel inevitable, but also posed a problem: how do you follow up a story whose iconic villain ends up very dead, and whose narrative threads have all been tied up? The answer is to go back before moving forward. For Derrickson’s Black Phone 2, again co-written with C. Robert Cargill, opens…