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Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet (2025) is made with genuine care for its story; I just never fully understood why it’s about William Shakespeare. Strip away the period costumes and the name, and this could be a story set in virtually any era. A talented but restless father spends most of his time away

I have a soft spot for horror films that clearly don’t have money to waste. When a filmmaker cannot rely on big budgets or a recognizable franchise, every choice has to matter a little more. Curry Barker’s Obsession (2026) was reportedly made for just $750,000, but it rarely feels constrained by that budget.

Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria is built around a joke that becomes more complicated the longer you think about it. Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) is a struggling soprano in 1930s Paris who finds success by pretending to be Count Victor Grazinski, a man who performs as a female impersonator. She is a

Zombie films rarely stay focused on the dead for very long. The initial outbreak provides urgency, but the survivors soon confront harder questions about power, identity, responsibility, and the limits of human cooperation. The zombies destroy the ordinary social order. What people build (or refuse to build) in its place

The following essay contains major spoilers for Colony (2026). Zombies are normally terrifying because they are mindless. In Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony, they are terrifying because they think too well. After a biological weapon is released inside a Seoul high-rise, the infected begin developing a collective intelligence. Each zombie becomes part of a neural