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Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Superhero Review: When Comic Book Fantasy Hits Real Streets

Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Superhero is the kind of documentary that sounds like a fake movie pitch until the footage begins proving otherwise. Directed by Bayan Joonam, the film follows Benjamin Fodor, the Seattle man who turned himself into Phoenix Jones, a costumed crimefighter who patrolled the city streets in a rubber suit while superhero cinema was busy conquering multiplexes. The film traces his rise around 2010 and 2011, when Phoenix Jones became a local curiosity, then a national oddity, then a figure whose story grew harder to frame as harmless spectacle. He led...

Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava Review: Family Silence Breaks Open in Nông Nhật Quang’s Feature Debut

Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava is the kind of documentary that looks small from a distance and then quietly expands until it seems to contain an entire family history. Directed, shot, and shaped around Nông Nhật Quang’s own life, the film follows a Vietnamese family negotiating queerness, mental illness, motherhood, duty, and the strange pressure that comes from loving people who do not always know how to love you back. The title carries the film’s tender oddness. Ngoc Mai, Quang’s older sister, was nicknamed Baby Jackfruit as a child. Her newborn becomes Baby Guava, a tiny new presence whose arrival shifts...

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World Heroes Perfect Review: History’s Strangest Warriors Return to Battle

World Heroes Perfect is the fourth and final entry in ADK and SNK’s 1990s fighting game series, now returned through the Neo Geo Premium Selection line. First released in 1995, it remains a strange artifact from the arcade fighting boom: a historical fantasy brawler built around Dr. Brown, a time-traveling scientist who gathers warriors from different eras to decide the strongest fighter in history. That premise gives the game its immediate flavor. This is a fighter where Hanzou can clash with Jeanne, Rasputin can turn combat into surreal comedy, Muscle Power can bring wrestling theatrics into the arena, and bosses...

Reverse Review: A Dark Thriller Where Memory Becomes the Crime Scene

Reverse is an eight-episode Korean psychological thriller with a premise that seems familiar for roughly five minutes, then starts rearranging the furniture while the viewer is still standing in the doorway. Ham Myo-jin survives a brutal car crash after fleeing a villa explosion that leaves Choi Hee-su and her powerful father dead. She wakes from a coma with partial amnesia, unable to remember her own past, her connection to the dead, or the true nature of her relationship with architect Ryu Jun-ho. That setup could have led to a standard amnesia mystery, complete with soft-focus panic and suspiciously convenient revelations....

In Memoriam Review: Fame, Mortality, and One Man’s Absurd Final Campaign

In Memoriam takes a premise that sounds like a cruel joke whispered in the Dolby Theatre lobby and turns it into a melancholy showbiz dramedy about ego under fluorescent medical lighting. Langston Stanfield, played by Marc Maron, is a fading actor who learns he has terminal cancer, then responds to mortality with the grace of a man arguing over billing on a poster. His final wish is not reconciliation, wisdom, or peace. He wants a slot in the Academy Awards’ “In Memoriam” reel. That absurd desire gives Rob Burnett’s film its black comic pulse. Langston once had artistic promise, then...

The Symphony of Dance Review: Hayley Erbert Hough’s Return Gives This Documentary Its Pulse

The Symphony of Dance finds Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert Hough at a moment when private love, public performance, and physical terror collide with startling force. Newly married and touring a stage show built around movement, romance, and theatrical polish, the pair seem to be living inside the kind of entertainment-world fairytale that invites soft lighting and swelling strings. Then the body interrupts the myth. During the 2023 tour, Hayley suffers a traumatic brain injury after a head collision during a performance. What follows is a documentary about recovery, marriage, fear, and the strange violence of losing trust in one’s...

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