40 Dates and 40 Nights Review: A Rom-Com Bet With Modest Returns
Forty consecutive dates should make a city feel crowded; here, Houston keeps shrinking around one man. Andy Delaney’s 40 Dates...
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Country stardom is filmed here as a labor of polish: the hat angled right, the bell bottoms doing their mythic work, the tour bus waiting like a second bloodstream. Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, directed by Amy Scott, follows Lainey Wilson at a point where success has become both reward and obligation. Arena shows, brand work, acting visibility, songwriting sessions, social media presence, family access, and romance all move through the frame with a friendly glow. The film is warm by design. Its lighting, literal and moral, rarely cuts across Wilson’s face with much suspicion. That is not a flaw...

The most persuasive argument in Orangutan is vertical. Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz keep returning to the distance between the forest floor and the branches where their subjects live, eat, sleep, learn, compete, and survive. That height gives the film its visual grammar. The canopy is home, school, kitchen, playground, and refuge; the ground is where hunger may force a bad decision and where a Sumatran tiger can turn one search for edible palms into a silent horror scene. Disneynature’s latest Earth Day documentary, now on Disney+, follows Indah, a nine-year-old female orangutan in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra....

Recovery in Thea Gajić’s feature debut has the texture of unpaid council calls, frayed band rehearsals, and a daughter studying her father for signs of weather. Surviving Earth resists the grand tragic architecture often imposed on addiction stories, partly because Vlad’s danger is so ordinary. He does not need a villain. He has a phone, a housing problem, a musical ambition, a family history, and the ancient human talent for making one bad choice feel temporarily sensible. Slavko Sobin plays Vlad, a recovering heroin addict living in Bristol after fleeing the Yugoslav wars. By day, he works as a drug...

Every click in this fractured power grid should feel like a tiny act of rescue. The setup has a lovely small-scale hook: the world has fallen to zombies, the safe zones are running out of power, and the last repairman left alive is trying to keep the lights on. That is a sharper premise than many budget puzzlers get. It gives Gridz Keeper an immediate emotional shape before the first generator turns green. The game itself, developed by Double Mizzlee and published by eastasiasoft, keeps things far simpler than that premise suggests. This is a top-down logic puzzle game built...

Toad venom, cash, and a borrowed motorbike make a sharper noir hook than any suitcase full of diamonds. Wetiko, written and directed by Kerry Mondragon, takes that strange setup and rides it straight into the jungle, where enlightenment looks suspiciously like a business model with better lighting. Aapo (Juan Daniel García Treviño) works in his family’s pet store, surrounded by bright fish tanks, frogs, and the practical rules his mother has built around selling hallucinogenic bufo toads. Luz (Dalia Xiuhcoatl) walks in asking for them on behalf of the Empire of Love, a spiritual community deep in the Mayan jungle....

Protocol does most of the talking in A Royal Setting, which is a problem for a romance built around people who are meant to feel trapped by it. The Hallmark royal fantasy has returned to its familiar kingdom: a tiny European monarchy, a prince with reformist instincts, a commoner whose professional skill somehow doubles as emotional liberation, and a palace full of people saying “tradition” with the solemnity of a constitutional crisis. Ruby Robinson arrives from New York with a reputation grand enough to land her on the cover of Gemologist Quarterly. Prince Luca of Gullion hires her to restore...
Forty consecutive dates should make a city feel crowded; here, Houston keeps shrinking around one man. Andy Delaney’s 40 Dates...
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Read moreDetailsEven before the trailer officially screened, it had already leaked — a fitting start for a romantic comedy about things that refuse to stay contained. Prime Video unveiled the first teaser for The Love Hypothesis at its inaugural Obsessed Fest fan event in Los Angeles on Saturday, with stars Lili...
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Read moreCountry stardom is filmed here as a labor of polish: the hat angled right, the bell bottoms doing their mythic work, the tour bus waiting like a second bloodstream. Lainey...
The most persuasive argument in Orangutan is vertical. Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz keep returning to the distance between the forest floor and the branches where their subjects live, eat,...
Recovery in Thea Gajić’s feature debut has the texture of unpaid council calls, frayed band rehearsals, and a daughter studying her father for signs of weather. Surviving Earth resists the...
Every click in this fractured power grid should feel like a tiny act of rescue. The setup has a lovely small-scale hook: the world has fallen to zombies, the safe...
Toad venom, cash, and a borrowed motorbike make a sharper noir hook than any suitcase full of diamonds. Wetiko, written and directed by Kerry Mondragon, takes that strange setup and...
Protocol does most of the talking in A Royal Setting, which is a problem for a romance built around people who are meant to feel trapped by it. The Hallmark...
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Every click in this fractured power grid should feel like a tiny act of rescue. The setup has a lovely...
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