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Brief Encounter on Aisle Five

Brief Encounter on Aisle FiveIt is this way:She sees him first—aisle five, cereals— where the honeyed light fall softly on him— and her. The way he cradles Cheerioson the cart’s edge—firm in his handsso if they slip, they fallinto the safety of the cart,into the touch of his little girl-—lets her knowhe once belonged to her. And that daughter of his— swinging her knees, that laughter—same bell…

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War of the Worlds: “War of the Wha?”: Surveillance, Aliens, and Baby Showers in the Apocalypse

Universal Universal Rich Lee’s War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube as Will Radford, is not so much an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel as it is a bureaucratic meltdown with aliens, flash drives, and a baby shower that somehow ends the apocalypse. It’s a film that asks: what if the fate of humanity depended on a disgruntled dad, a pregnant daughter, and a gamer son with a vendetta against cloud…

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Whoppers

WhoppersI keep the malted milk orbnestled inside my cheek,waiting for the next film cut—this Hershey-forged planet,slowly spinning toward legend,its lacquered chocolate shellwhispering to my molars,then sliding past my throat,down the cathedral of my gut,until my bowels, reverent and ready,release the myth in a soft, brown comet.I was watching—Odysseus Rex: The Iliad Reckoning—the inferior parody…

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The Siege at Thorn High: The Thorn That Remains

Prime Video Prime Video Joko Anwar’s The Siege at Thorn High opens not with violence, but with memory. The prologue, set during the 2009 Jakarta riots, is a wound that never closes. It introduces Edwin, Silvi, and Panca as children caught in the crossfire of racial hatred. The assault that follows is not just physical—it is generational. The film does not forget this. It carries the trauma…

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Night Always Comes: The Mercy of the  Clock

Netflix Netflix Vanessa Kirby’s Lynette does not walk through Night Always Comes—she scrapes, pleads, and burns through it. Her performance is a tremor held in the jaw, a woman whose body has become a ledger of debts unpaid and promises broken. The film opens with her already exhausted and cornered, and the following night is not a descent but a continuation. Benjamin Caron directs with a…

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Meeting Ms Leigh:  The Stillness Between Words

Dream With Me Productions Dream With Me Productions In Meeting Ms. Leigh, director R.S. Veira crafts a quiet meditation on the nature of love, memory, and the ache of being known. It is a film that resists movement, choosing instead to linger in the spaces where conversation becomes communion. Landen Amos plays Carter, a young writer adrift in search of meaning, and Jeanine Harrington embodies…

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Ghost Americana; Ghost Shirts and Gasoline

Lionsgate Lionsgate Tony Tost’s Americana arrives- a dusty jukebox in a half-lit bar—full of promise and static. It’s a film that wants to sing the ballad of a broken country, and sometimes it does. Sometimes it just hums. With a Lakota ghost shirt as its sacred MacGuffin and a cast of misfits chasing it like salvation, the movie spins its tale across South Dakota’s haunted plains, where…

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Harvest:  The Land Was Never Ours

Mubi Mubi Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest is a film of slow erosion, where the soil of a village is not merely tilled but stripped of its memory. Adapted from Jim Crace’s novel, the story unfolds in a remote Scottish hamlet, its medieval rhythms disrupted not by monsters but by the quiet arrival of enclosure, surveillance, and suspicion. Horror arrives late, but when it does, it is not a…

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Movie Review

Universal Universal “Nobody 2 arrives not with the sleek vengeance of its predecessor, but with a bruised heart and a broken pinky. Bob Odenkirk returns as Hutch Mansell, the weary assassin who once danced through Russian mobs with a coffee mug and a snarl. This time, he’s limping toward redemption in Plummerville, a theme park that smells of funnel cake and corruption. Directed by Tinto…

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KFC Nocturne with Drive-In Fugue

KFC Nocturne with Drive-In FugueBack when Kentucky Fried Chickencame only in Original Recipe—before Extra Crispy,before the Colonel turned cartoon—and Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidrahruled the Drive-Ins in rubber vestments—my mother packed us four kids and mystepdad into that yellow Chrysler Newport,its trunk already echoing with chicken bonesand the breath of last week’s feast.We drove…

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Moon: The Body Knows Before the Mind

Mubi Mubi In Moon, Kurdwin Ayub directs with a quiet pulse, letting the body speak before the mouth does, letting silence stretch across gilded rooms and dusty training mats. Florentina Holzinger’s Sarah is a woman of muscle and memory, a fighter who has lost her fight, now wandering through a world that doesn’t know what to do with her strength. The film opens in a cage, and though the bars…

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The Testicle Gospel of Bull

Netflix Netflix There’s a moment in Fixed when Bull, the Staffordshire Terrier voiced with manic sincerity by Adam DeVine, gazes at his testicles and calls them his “hairy, dangling muses.” It’s absurd, grotesque, and weirdly poetic—an emblem of everything Genndy Tartakovsky’s latest animated fever dream dares to be. This is not a film for the faint of heart or the easily scandalized. It’s a…

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Sharp Corner: The House That Watches

Vertical Vertical There is a quiet dread that pulses beneath Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Corner,” a film that never shouts but always trembles. It opens with a promise—a family moving into a new home, a fresh start, a clean slate. But the slate is cracked from the beginning, and the cracks widen with each passing car, each screech of tires, each shattered windshield. Ben Foster, in a performance…

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Caught by the Tides: The River Remembers

Janus Films Janus Films Jia Zhang-ke’s Caught by the Tides is a film of quiet persistence, a meditation on time’s erosion and the stubborn dignity of a woman who refuses to be erased. It moves not with urgency but with endurance, tracing Qiao Qiao’s journey through the shifting landscapes of China, both geographic and emotional. Shr carries the film’s weight with a gaze that absorbs and…

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Prayers Between Us

I do my laundryin the rhythm of my mother’s prayers—each crease a rosary,folding divineto divine.I count the timesher perils met mine—with hands that trembledat my fever,hands burntin a kitchenunseen,List the register of her and mine shared frailties:the way we flinched at sudden joy, unsure it would stay,All the letters written to my heart—the notes she tuckedinto my lunchbox— spelling love with…

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Movie Review

Lionsgate Films Lionsgate Films There’s a pulse beneath the pavement in Freaky Tales, a throb of resistance and rage, of grief and neon hope. Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, this horror-tinged anthology unfolds across four interwoven tales set in 1987 Oakland, each steeped in real locations and historical echoes. The film is a fever dream of punk fists, rap verses, blood debts, and…

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Weapons:, “The Roots Beneath Maybrook”Weapons:

New Line Cinema New Line Cinema There is a sickness in Maybrook, and it does not arrive with thunder or blood, but with silence. Weapons, directed by Zach Cregger and starring Julia Garner, opens with a quiet horror: seventeen children vanish at 2:17 a.m., leaving behind only one boy and a teacher who will not be believed. What follows is a film of converging griefs, of lives unraveling in…