Lioness Season 3 Review: The Mission Comes Home
The third season’s first cut is from catastrophe to “Six Months Earlier,” and the edit does half the season’s interrogating...
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Few Soulslikes ask you to admire the grass before preparing to die. Lunarium does. Team Lunarium places its collapsing world beneath soft watercolour skies, fills its ruins with piano melodies, then hands Ave a sword and expects exact parries against enemies capable of cutting her down in seconds. Ave is a knight in training travelling with Lune, a primordial Starfarer who attacks from range and assists with environmental puzzles. Their goal is to stop the Nihilus, a blight consuming the land and its history. The premise follows familiar action RPG ground, yet the presentation separates it from the grey castles...

The most revealing line in Summer of ’94 is about avoiding disgrace. When the United States prepares to host the 1994 World Cup, the national team’s first ambition is painfully modest: do not embarrass the country before the world. That fear gives Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker’s documentary its real subject. This is less a record of a tournament than a study of how institutions manufacture belief before earning it. The evidence for panic was strong. The United States had returned to the World Cup in 1990 after four decades away, lost every group match, and absorbed a 5-1 defeat...

Police bodycams and a climber’s GoPro record the same Cincinnati pursuit from opposing moral systems. From Isaac Wright’s camera, the Great American Tower is a route, a canvas, and refuge above the city. From the officers’ cameras, every locked door and stairwell becomes evidence. Deon Taylor cuts between the two views with split screens and tightening crosscuts, turning a real chase into a sequence American crime cinema usually has to manufacture. That collision defines Drift, Taylor’s 104-minute documentary about the army veteran and photographer known by his adopted name. Wright enters skyscrapers, stadiums, and bridges without permission, climbs without ropes,...

Las Vegas is condemned before Ethan sets foot in it. The opening voiceover separates the casino fantasy sold to tourists from the districts where losing means eviction, debt, or blood, then a tracking shot carries us through a strip club toward murder. Drew Kirsch announces his feature debut through movement, color, and threat. The film’s ethics arrive through décor. That confidence matters because the story itself is familiar. Ethan, played by Joe Cole, escaped a youth of petty crime, built a real-estate career in Los Angeles, and became engaged to a woman whose family offers the permanence he never had....

The most affecting choice Luchina Fisher makes is to let fear arrive through logistics. Stephen Chukumba worries about which dorm his son Hobbes will choose. Ed Diaz studies the reality of sending his daughter and her mother to Canada while he stays behind in Texas to settle family matters. Christoph Heizner faces a similar rupture in Arizona. The political threat is vast, but The Dads keeps bringing it back to forms, housing, passports, tuition, and the question of where a child can sleep without attracting danger. That focus gives Fisher’s 72-minute documentary its emotional force. Policy becomes a bedroom left...
Television is labor in Dystopicon, and every second spent watching becomes a wage. Palitroque’s solo-developed management game imagines a society where robots have replaced conventional workers and the authoritarian Trinity government has found a use for everyone left behind: citizens may earn their keep by consuming approved broadcasts inside assigned apartments. The arrangement sounds generous until the refrigerator charges for access. Eating costs money. Washing costs money. Heating the room costs money. The citizen’s body becomes a private expense, while attention belongs to the state. That premise places Dystopicon inside a long international tradition of bureaucratic dystopia. Its numbered protagonist...
The third season’s first cut is from catastrophe to “Six Months Earlier,” and the edit does half the season’s interrogating...
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Read moreDetailsChilean filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will world premiere their third feature, "Donkey Princess," in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival on August 7. The stop-motion animators, who have collaborated with Ari Aster on previous projects, describe the film as an attempt to reinvent the visual language...
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Read moreFew Soulslikes ask you to admire the grass before preparing to die. Lunarium does. Team Lunarium places its collapsing world beneath soft watercolour skies, fills its ruins with piano melodies,...
The most revealing line in Summer of ’94 is about avoiding disgrace. When the United States prepares to host the 1994 World Cup, the national team’s first ambition is painfully...
Police bodycams and a climber’s GoPro record the same Cincinnati pursuit from opposing moral systems. From Isaac Wright’s camera, the Great American Tower is a route, a canvas, and refuge...
Las Vegas is condemned before Ethan sets foot in it. The opening voiceover separates the casino fantasy sold to tourists from the districts where losing means eviction, debt, or blood,...
The most affecting choice Luchina Fisher makes is to let fear arrive through logistics. Stephen Chukumba worries about which dorm his son Hobbes will choose. Ed Diaz studies the reality...
Television is labor in Dystopicon, and every second spent watching becomes a wage. Palitroque’s solo-developed management game imagines a society where robots have replaced conventional workers and the authoritarian Trinity...
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Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will world premiere their third feature, "Donkey Princess," in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival on August 7. The stop-motion animators,...
Japanese broadcaster WOWOW has cast Yukino Kishii, an actress who broke through internationally at Cannes, to lead its television adaptation of Riku Onda's bestselling crime novel "The Aosawa Murders." The...
Few Soulslikes ask you to admire the grass before preparing to die. Lunarium does. Team Lunarium places its collapsing world...
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