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Adam Wingard has spent the last decade directing monsters large enough to flatten cities, so his return to a dusty...
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Simon has found a remarkably efficient way to confuse motion with progress. He flies across borders, collects footage, attends festivals, and speaks about his next documentary with the vocabulary of someone who has already solved problems he has barely begun to confront. Alex Mallis and Travis Wood build The Travel Companion around that contradiction, turning the precarious economy of independent filmmaking into a comedy about dependency disguised as ambition. Simon, played by Tristan Turner, is still circulating his thesis short while supposedly developing an experimental documentary about geography, cultural division, and human connection. His childhood friend and roommate Bruce, played...

Before anyone sits down to talk, Alexis Lloyd gives us the most revealing material in Group: The Schopenhauer Effect: people walking through Manhattan while their private thoughts chatter over the images. Their bodies move through public space with reasonable composure; their minds are busy rehearsing fears, judgments, obligations, resentments. Civilization, apparently, is the art of looking normal while twelve conversations happen inside your skull. The contrast becomes important once everyone reaches Dr. Ezra Hertzfelt’s group-therapy room. Pam, Manny, Rebecca, Frank, Tilda, Stuart, and Karina are returning to an in-person session after meeting through Zoom during COVID, yet their supposed return...

Miyamoto Musashi spends much of Onimusha: Way of the Sword resenting the thing keeping him alive. After Genma kill him and rival swordsman Sasaki Ganryu, Musashi is resurrected with an Oni Gauntlet attached to his arm, a supernatural weapon that absorbs souls and carries the spirit of Shizuka. For a man who defines himself through earned skill, borrowed power feels almost insulting. That contradiction gives Capcom’s returning series a strong protagonist immediately. Musashi is arrogant enough to insult demons while cutting them apart, yet principled enough to distrust strength he did not earn. His likeness draws from Toshiro Mifune, and...

Kakunoshin Yanagida knows how to surrender a Go match without looking defeated. Across the board from Genbei Yorozuya, he gives up stones, absorbs pressure, and refuses to answer aggression with aggression. The gesture looks courteous. It is also tactical. Kazuya Shiraishi builds Bushido around that distinction, asking what happens when a man trained to accept sacrifice discovers that life keeps taking pieces long after the game should have ended. Kakunoshin, played with severe restraint by Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, lives in Edo with his daughter Okinu after disgrace drove them from his former clan. He carves seals, owes rent, and carries himself...

Samuel Beckett trapped four people inside a room and let repetition become its own form of punishment. Alejo Moguillansky takes that dramatic machinery apart in Pin de Fartie, scattering pieces of Fin de Partie, better known in English as Endgame, across several relationships, locations, and layers of performance. The clearest echo comes through Otto (Santiago Gobernori), a blind man living beside Lake Léman in Switzerland, and Cleo (Cleo Moguillansky), the young woman who guides him while absorbing his constant demands. Their exchanges borrow the rhythms of Hamm and Clov, filled with petty questions, irritation, dependence, and routines that seem capable...

The most revealing thing about Mantiz’s Serbian retreat is that the company treats poor communication and experimental weaponry with roughly the same level of oversight. Tom Wilson has barely volunteered to replace his boss before he is shipped into the countryside with colleagues he hardly knows, guided toward a former military site called The Zone, and left with rules nobody bothered to explain to him. Corporate culture has produced stranger training exercises, presumably. Peter Webber’s DRAGN takes a familiar Anglo-American killer-machine template and drops it into an Eastern European landscape of dense forests, abandoned installations, and half-forgotten military infrastructure. The...
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Read moreSimon has found a remarkably efficient way to confuse motion with progress. He flies across borders, collects footage, attends festivals, and speaks about his next documentary with the vocabulary of...
Before anyone sits down to talk, Alexis Lloyd gives us the most revealing material in Group: The Schopenhauer Effect: people walking through Manhattan while their private thoughts chatter over the...
Miyamoto Musashi spends much of Onimusha: Way of the Sword resenting the thing keeping him alive. After Genma kill him and rival swordsman Sasaki Ganryu, Musashi is resurrected with an...
Kakunoshin Yanagida knows how to surrender a Go match without looking defeated. Across the board from Genbei Yorozuya, he gives up stones, absorbs pressure, and refuses to answer aggression with...
Samuel Beckett trapped four people inside a room and let repetition become its own form of punishment. Alejo Moguillansky takes that dramatic machinery apart in Pin de Fartie, scattering pieces...
The most revealing thing about Mantiz’s Serbian retreat is that the company treats poor communication and experimental weaponry with roughly the same level of oversight. Tom Wilson has barely volunteered...
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Miyamoto Musashi spends much of Onimusha: Way of the Sword resenting the thing keeping him alive. After Genma kill him...
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