Outer Banks Season 5 Review: The Pogues Finally Come Home
Five seasons of Outer Banks have turned a North Carolina class divide into an international logistics problem. What began with...
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Religious horror usually asks what happens when faith becomes fanaticism. Blood Shine is interested in a nastier possibility: what if fanaticism actually gives someone the purpose they were missing? Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks build their folk-horror film around Clara, played by Bennett, an isolated woman in upstate New York who worships light through rituals designed to free people from what she calls the cage of the body. Brighton West (David Call), meanwhile, has a far less mystical prison. He is a successful horror filmmaker stuck producing another installment of his Craven franchise, unable to finish the script and resentful...

The easiest way to understand Pro Jank Footy is to play one match with its power-ups switched off. Suddenly there are no brick walls in front of goal, no seagulls replacing footballers, no battered sedan tearing across the oval. There is simply a wonderfully uncomplicated version of Australian Rules Football where you kick, handball, mark, tackle, bump, sprint, and hope your opponent arrives half a second too late. Powerbomb Games and Tinker Town have stripped away much of the sport's regulatory clutter. There are no 50-metre penalties or stand rules slowing proceedings down. Matches become contests of territory and momentum,...

A government map can make a place look empty long before anyone is forced to leave it. Casey Carter’s To Use a Mountain keeps returning to that idea through maps, policy language, geological surveys, and images of rural land that federal agencies once considered suitable for storing tens of thousands of tons of radioactive waste. The documentary traces the fallout from the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which tasked the Department of Energy with finding permanent storage for nuclear material produced through weapons programs and nuclear power. Carter organizes the film around six rural communities considered during that process, moving...

Milcho Manchevski makes one decisive choice with Good People: the catastrophe in Kočani will be remembered through Macedonian voices before it is processed through institutions, headlines, or legal language. That choice gives his 86-minute documentary a character closely tied to the place that produced it. The March 16, 2025 fire at the Pulse nightclub killed 63 people and injured 193, many of them teenagers and young adults. Manchevski approaches those numbers by returning them to faces. The survivors reconstruct how indoor pyrotechnics ignited flammable ceiling material during a concert. Several initially mistook the sparks for part of the performance. Then...

The funniest thing French Girls understands about modelling is how little modelling seems to happen. Mia enters this supposedly rarefied Sydney world and discovers women sitting around between shoots, talking nonsense, waiting for makeup, waiting for clothes, waiting for somebody to decide they are ready to be looked at. One model calls the job “90% waiting and 10% work.” Writer-director Hyun Lee treats that ratio almost as a formal instruction. Reportedly made for roughly $28,000, Lee’s debut strips fashion of the usual cinematic seduction. Warehouses, alleyways, cheap rooms and Sydney streets surround Mia rather than champagne, backstage hysteria or luxury...

The sharpest structural choice here is also the source of the film’s biggest weakness: the murder investigation keeps giving way to the story of everything that gathered around it. Director Nontawat Numbenchapol begins with the 2020 disappearance of three-year-old Orawan “Nong Chompoo” Wongsricha from Kok Kork village in Thailand’s Mukdahan province. Three days later, her naked body was found in a forest roughly 1.8 kilometres from home, far beyond a distance investigators believed she could have travelled alone. That should give Chompoo: Lost and Forgotten a straightforward investigative spine. Instead, the film watches that spine buckle beneath television crews, YouTubers,...
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Read moreDetailsJosh Brolin says the long-rumored third "Sicario" film has finally cleared development limbo, telling ScreenRant that the project "is happening" and that production is set to begin "soon." The actor, who has played CIA officer Matt Graver in both prior installments, offered the update while promoting Ridley Scott's "The Dog...
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A government map can make a place look empty long before anyone is forced to leave it. Casey Carter’s To Use a Mountain keeps returning to that idea through maps,...
Milcho Manchevski makes one decisive choice with Good People: the catastrophe in Kočani will be remembered through Macedonian voices before it is processed through institutions, headlines, or legal language. That...
The funniest thing French Girls understands about modelling is how little modelling seems to happen. Mia enters this supposedly rarefied Sydney world and discovers women sitting around between shoots, talking...
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