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We are back for the final instalment of the Heartstopper series. Based on the graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper has been loved around the world for celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. With three seasons, Netflix decided to close out one of its beloved series with a two-hour film rather than giving it a fourth and final season. In Heartstopper Forever, we are reunited with Charlie (Joe Locke), Nick (Kit Connor), and all of their friends for one last adventure. A

Ten years after his victory in Troy, Odysseus (Matt Damon) has yet to return to his kingdom of Ithaca. In his absence, dozens of suitors have overrun his palace, each hoping to win the hand of his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway). Unknown to them, Odysseus is still alive, enduring a perilous voyage where monsters, gods and unimaginable dangers await at every turn. Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest and most influential stories ever told. For nearly three thousand years, it ha

The Fantasia International Film Festival turns 30 this year, running July 16 through August 2 in Montreal. That's over 125 features and more than 200 shorts crammed into eighteen days. If you have never paid attention to Fantasia, here is the pitch: it is the largest genre festival in North America, and it operates almost entirely outside the machinery that dominates the fall circuit. No campaign consultants. No Telluride-to-Toronto handoff. Just horror, sci-fi, animation, ku

A small fishing village is in quite a slump. Thirty years ago, their livelihood depended on a fishing vessel called Rose of Nevada, and a storm took out the ship and its crew. One morning, the ship mysteriously returns into the harbor. Local businessman and owner of the boat Mike (Edward Rowe) is stunned, but sees this as an opportunity. Nick (George MacKay) is a husband and father, struggling to make ends meet. While trying to fix the roof of his home, it collapses in on him

"Cheers! To your perfect family." We've finally made it to the most anticipated film of 2026 for sickos. And the film I'm referring to is Evil Dead Burn! I don't know about anyone else, but I've been pretty hyped to see this entry ever since they showed off a teaser trailer in front of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Despite not being a big horror aficionado like my colleagues, I've slowly become a fan of these grotesque films. In fact, I made an attempt to revisit some of the earlie

As of this writing, it's July 1st. Coming into today, I had seen 56 movies released in 2026. Not quite the pace I was on last year, but not a bad one by any stretch. With most of the days of the year in the backend, I'm likely easily going to crush 100 new releases in the calendar year. And that's got me excited. So how has 2026 been so far on the cinematic front? Pretty good! After having just one 4.5 out of 5 movie and no 5 out of 5 offerings in 2025, I've already got one p

Hayley Kiyoko has spent eleven years being called Lesbian Jesus by a generation of women who found themselves in a four minute music video, and Girls Like Girls the feature film is, more than anything, an act of devotion to those people. It is a love letter to a fandom rather than a fully realized film, and once you understand that, almost everything about it makes sense. The bones of the original video are all here. Sun soaked Oregon, a yellow bike with butterfly handles, sh

The highly acclaimed FX series The Bear returned to fans' screens on Thursday night, heightening anticipation for its final season. In the series' tradition, all eight episodes were dropped for binge-watching. Straying from the series organic flow of travelling to new food scenes across Chicago and the globe, season 5 boldly chooses to take on its own rendition of a chamber piece. Rather than travelling outside of the restaurant, the majority of the season takes place either

Many people who are going to see Supergirl have seen an endless amount of superhero movies. We know the formula, the tropes, the way villains function. We've seen it all many times before. As these movies continue to be made, they really have to find ways to rise above that and stand out from the pack. Supergirl doesn't even try. The film follows Supergirl herself, Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock), as she goes on a journey to find the antidote to a poison dart in order to save her

Leviticus follows two gay teens, unaccepted for who they are by the people around them, as they see an entity that's trying to harm them after being subjected to a religious conversion ritual. The entity takes the shape of the person they're most into, in this case each other. Only they can see it, making it impossible to prove to anyone else around them. The two main performances are where this movie shines. Joe Bird plays the protagonist, Naim, and we follow him through a w

Kraken opens on old news footage. Eyewitness interviews. People describing something massive in the water near a Norwegian fjord. The helicopters searched. They found nothing. Cut to present day. Two kids on a jet ski fall into the water and don't come back up. Johanne (Sara Khorami) is a marine researcher who gets called in to inspect a fish farm in Vangsnes. Her first instinct is to pass. She has her reasons. Then she sees video of fish voluntarily jumping out of the water

Disclosure Day finds Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) as a cybersecurity expert who steals a piece of extraterrestrial technology from the Wardex corporation, containing proof of multiple instances of alien contact. Intent on exposing the truth to the public, Daniel becomes the target of Wardex CEO Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), who sends federal authorities to hunt him down, forcing Daniel and his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) to go into hiding. Meanwhile, in Kansas City, meteorol

The fifth film in the Toy Story franchise deals with the transition from kids playing with toys to having tech to waste their time on instead. Bonnie, the young girl who Andy gave his toys to at the end of Toy Story 3, is gifted a Lilypad by her parents, partially in hopes that it will help her connect with and make friends with other kids who also play on this device. The feeling that the toys are being left behind in favor of this new gaming device brings up a lot of feelin

There is a scene in Tell Me Everything where a twelve-year-old boy sees just enough of something in a public bathroom to understand that his entire world is about to change, and Moshe Rosenthal shoots it with such precise, suffocating restraint that you feel the moment land in your chest before you have even fully processed what happened. This is a film that knows exactly where to look and exactly when to look away, and that discipline is everywhere. The setup is deceptively

Office Romance is about, as you may have guessed, an office romance. Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) is the President and CEO of an airline, dealing with a lawsuit. Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) is her new lawyer. Everyone can see where this is going. Jennifer Lopez has such a natural screen presence that I always enjoy regardless of the quality of the movie. Mediocre movies that involve her are still worth watching to some extent. That was no different here as she plays

Nothing makes me feel more pretentious and pseudo-artsy-fartsy than a thought I had earlier today: I have really eclectic taste in movies. Now, do I think most everyone has an eclectic taste in film, whether they realize it to not? Yes, I really do. So I don't think I'm too darned special in this regard. But still... it's good to know that I can get my cinematic jollies from many different kinds of flicks. It's no secret whatsoever that even now, when so many other folks are

Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a down on his luck furniture salesman in the Bay Area. His wife kicked him out and he currently lives inside of the furniture store. After a series of mysterious events, he stumbles upon the titular Backrooms, an unexplainable series of yellow rooms that appear to go on forever. He details this with his therapist, Mary (Renate Reinsve), who meets him with some skepticism, but eventually decides to explore herself. What they find, to quote the film,

Nate Wilcox (Nate Bargatze) is left to take care of his three daughters by himself when his wife Katie (Mandy Moore) has to go out of town for a business related trip. The premise alone is already very been there, done that. The concept that the dad has no idea how to parent because the mom does all the hard work is a stereotype that has been played to death. That wouldn't matter as much if we got one of the best versions of that trope or even a movie that's actually really f

I've written so many times about Shudder. No other streaming service brings me as much joy while, at the same time, also inflicting upon me so much suffering. Shudder Roulette is real; I never have any idea what I am going to get from that service. I was quite pleased earlier this year with Honey Bunch, sure. But it's been rough sledding since then. Just one disappointment after another for me. Nothing else has even hit close to my top ten of the year, even at this point. Hon

No one has ever made a film about weather forecasting before, and somehow, inexplicably, it is one of the most tense things I have watched this year. With Pressure, Anthony Maras has taken a story about a Scottish meteorologist arguing with an American meteorologist over whether it will rain on June 5th, 1944, and turned it into something that had me actually leaning forward in my seat. The fate of the entire Allied invasion of Europe rests on a man reading cloud formations c