Chum Review: A B-Movie Without Enough Bite
Chum, directed by Jonathan Zuck, enters the 2026 shark-thriller cycle with a premise that sounds ready-made for grisly B-movie pleasure....
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TerraTech Legion takes the familiar bullet heaven formula and bolts it onto the frame of a modular vehicle builder. That single design choice gives the game its personality. You are still dropped into hostile arenas, swarmed by enemies, showered with XP, and pushed toward escalating chaos, yet the usual upgrade menu has been replaced by something far stranger and far livelier: a growing combat vehicle assembled by hand. The result feels like Vampire Survivors after a collision with a toy box full of LEGO Technic pieces. Weapons, wheels, stat modules, armor plates, saw blades, drones, and structural blocks are physically...

Ben McKenzie’s Everyone Is Lying to You for Money takes cryptocurrency, a subject often smothered in jargon and missionary zeal, and treats its confusion as evidence. The film marks McKenzie’s feature directorial debut, adapted from his 2023 book Easy Money, co-written with Jacob Silverman, and it arrives with the strange charge of seeing a familiar television face walk into a financial carnival with a notebook, a camera crew, and a raised eyebrow. McKenzie, known to many from The O.C. and Gotham, frames himself as an “undercover econ dork,” which gives the documentary its cleanest entry point. He is neither a...

A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough returns to Rwanda’s misted highlands, following the descendants of the gorilla family Attenborough first met in the 1970s during Life on Earth. Netflix presents this short-form feature as both a wildlife portrait and a meditation on time, inheritance, and conservation. The Pablo Group, named after the young gorilla once observed closely, forms the documentary’s central focus. Through lush cinematography, viewers witness the group navigating the rhythms of existence across generations. The film positions Attenborough simultaneously as narrator, historian, and emotional anchor. His voice, measured and near-mythical in its calm, overlays the jagged, unpredictable...

Fireflies at El Mozote, the final work of Salvadoran filmmaker Ernesto Melara, situates itself firmly within one of Latin America’s most harrowing historical moments: the 1981 massacre in El Mozote. Its premiere arrives as a cultural milestone, a rare cinematic project originating entirely from El Salvador, imbued with both local authenticity and the emotional weight of lived trauma. The film is dedicated to victims of war violence, a gesture that frames every scene with the gravity of remembrance. At the center is José, portrayed with remarkable acuity by young Mateo Honles, a boy who survives the destruction of his village...

By His Hand positions itself as a quietly intense indie psychological thriller rooted in rural Utah. The film centers on Emma, a young woman raised entirely within Fowler’s fundamentalist cult, whose life has been shaped by strict rituals, rigid hierarchy, and enduring humiliation. After a particularly demeaning act, she chooses to leave, accompanied by Sam, another member whose own escape is driven by a mixture of guilt, rage, and unresolved trauma. The narrative functions as a tense road story, where physical distance from Fowler and his sect does not equate to instant freedom. Each stop along their journey emphasizes that...

Rachel Rose’s The Last Day turns a Fourth of July schedule into an emotional pressure chamber. Loosely shaped by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the film follows Julia, played by Alicia Vikander, through a day of errands, social obligations, and private reckoning as she prepares for an evening party at her suburban home. She is a former novelist, a mother, a wife, and a daughter still carrying the grief of her father’s death. None of those roles sits comfortably on her. Running beside her story is Taylor, played by Victoria Pedretti, a young mother of three whose mental health is fraying...
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Ben McKenzie’s Everyone Is Lying to You for Money takes cryptocurrency, a subject often smothered in jargon and missionary zeal, and treats its confusion as evidence. The film marks McKenzie’s...
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough returns to Rwanda’s misted highlands, following the descendants of the gorilla family Attenborough first met in the 1970s during Life on Earth. Netflix...
Fireflies at El Mozote, the final work of Salvadoran filmmaker Ernesto Melara, situates itself firmly within one of Latin America’s most harrowing historical moments: the 1981 massacre in El Mozote....
By His Hand positions itself as a quietly intense indie psychological thriller rooted in rural Utah. The film centers on Emma, a young woman raised entirely within Fowler’s fundamentalist cult,...
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