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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Mabel approaches childhood with a rare patience, treating preteen solitude as a private weather system rather than a problem to be cured. Co-writer and director Nicholas Ma shapes the film around Callie, played by Lexi Perkel, a biracial girl whose attachment to plants carries the weight most coming-of-age stories reserve for first friendships, crushes, or acts of rebellion. Her closest companion is Mabel, a sensitive plant whose leaves fold inward at contact. The image is plain in its symbolism, yet disarming in its accuracy. Callie’s family move from a wooded Virginia home to a tighter suburban space in upstate New...

Made with Love, originally Luka, Makan, Cinta, arrives as an Indonesian Netflix romantic dramedy that blends family tension, professional ambition, and quiet romance against a culinary backdrop. Set in Umah Rasa, a respected Bali restaurant, the series follows Sari Saraswati, a demanding head chef whose precision has maintained the restaurant’s reputation for decades. Her daughter, Luka Amanda, serves as sous chef, expecting to inherit the kitchen, yet her trajectory is complicated when Sari, confronting her own health decline, appoints Dennis Surta, a talented outsider, as head chef. The series maintains a gentle tone, emphasizing food, kitchen routines, and the pressures...

Monster Crown: Sin Eater picks up where its 2021 predecessor left off, offering a turn-based monster-catching experience aimed at players seeking a darker, more mature alternative to traditional Pokémon-style games. You assume the role of Asur, a humble farm boy whose life is upended when his older brother, Dyeus, is murdered at the hands of Lord Taishakuten’s enforcers. This inciting incident sets the stage for a journey of vengeance, self-discovery, and confrontation with the oppressive rulers of Crown Nation. The game situates you in an open, non-linear world where exploration is rewarded. You can wander through diverse regions, take on...

Jerry West: The Logo treats its subject as a figure carved into basketball history, then spends two hours trying to restore the man inside the silhouette. On Amazon Prime Video, timed for playoff-season attention, Kenya Barris’ first documentary feature arrives with a built-in myth: West as player, executive, architect, competitor, and haunted survivor. The NBA turned his body in motion into an emblem, which is about as subtle as sports iconography gets. The film gains urgency from its access. These are West’s final major interviews before his death in 2024, and that knowledge gives even the simpler passages a faint...

Ben Wolf’s Changing Lanes turns McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, into a charged piece of civic storytelling. The documentary follows the fight to redesign the street after the hit-and-run death of teacher Matthew Jensen, a tragedy that pushes residents into action and turns a familiar urban argument into something painfully specific. Safer streets sound agreeable in theory. Then someone has to lose a traffic lane, and suddenly democracy becomes a group chat with zoning maps. Wolf makes his position clear from the start. The film was shot with gear transported by bicycle, a production choice that doubles as a thesis...

Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future is a two-part Channel 4 documentary about artificial intelligence, presented by Grayson Perry with the mix of curiosity, mischief, and moral seriousness that has become his television signature. Perry, the ceramicist, social commentator, and cross-dressing public thinker, enters the AI debate at a point where the subject has moved from science-fiction anxiety into daily life: chatbots, neural decoding, automated labour, corporate optimism, spiritual confusion, and possible human extinction, all queuing politely for screen time. The series works best when it treats AI as a social story rather than a gadget story. Perry meets people...
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Read moreMabel approaches childhood with a rare patience, treating preteen solitude as a private weather system rather than a problem to be cured. Co-writer and director Nicholas Ma shapes the film...
Made with Love, originally Luka, Makan, Cinta, arrives as an Indonesian Netflix romantic dramedy that blends family tension, professional ambition, and quiet romance against a culinary backdrop. Set in Umah...
Monster Crown: Sin Eater picks up where its 2021 predecessor left off, offering a turn-based monster-catching experience aimed at players seeking a darker, more mature alternative to traditional Pokémon-style games....
Jerry West: The Logo treats its subject as a figure carved into basketball history, then spends two hours trying to restore the man inside the silhouette. On Amazon Prime Video,...
Ben Wolf’s Changing Lanes turns McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, into a charged piece of civic storytelling. The documentary follows the fight to redesign the street after the hit-and-run death...
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future is a two-part Channel 4 documentary about artificial intelligence, presented by Grayson Perry with the mix of curiosity, mischief, and moral seriousness that has...
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