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Local television used to have a texture you could almost smell: discount furniture stores, personal injury lawyers, muffled jingles, restaurants promising food that looked better in the voiceover than on the plate. Buffet Infinity takes that half-remembered broadcast world and turns it into a delivery system for cosmic horror. Simon Glassman’s Canadian horror comedy is built from fake commercials, news clips, PSAs, and channel-surfing fragments, set in Westridge County, where a beloved sandwich shop and a faceless all-you-can-eat buffet become locked in a rivalry that slowly stops looking like business competition and starts looking like the end of days. The...

Rachel House keeps asking childhood to carry grief without losing its odd little jokes. The Mountain, her feature directing debut, sends an 11-year-old cancer patient out of the hospital and toward Taranaki Maunga, which could have turned into a neat lesson about courage very quickly. The film is better than that when it lets Sam be difficult. Sam, played by Elizabeth Atkinson, has learned the geography of the hospital like a prisoner mapping a weak wall. With help from Peachy, a fellow young cancer survivor whose deadpan calm could freeze a nurse mid-sentence, she escapes after learning her cancer has...

Pressing A in Rhythm Heaven Groove rarely feels like pressing one button. It feels like accepting a contract. Nintendo gives you a clean input, teaches the timing in a few seconds, then starts changing the terms through pauses, half-beats, visual tricks, and tempo shifts. That has always been the central bargain of Rhythm Heaven, and Groove keeps the bargain intact on Switch. The campaign is built from compact rhythm games grouped into sets, each one built around a small action with a ridiculous skin. You might fling frogs, push bubbles off a conveyor, open and close an umbrella, roll cat...

Netflix has turned social proximity into a content category, which sounds absurd until Worst Neighbor Ever makes the front lawn feel like disputed territory. After Worst Roommate Ever and Worst Ex Ever, this four-part true-crime docuseries takes the same franchise machinery and applies it to people separated by a fence, a driveway, a wall, or the thin civic fantasy that living near someone means knowing them. The premise is brutally efficient. Each episode follows a case where neighborly conflict curdles into violence, fraud, intimidation, or death. Interviews sit beside 911 calls, police material, diagrams, text records, and animated reenactments. The...

Paid leave turns the beach into a crime scene before anyone finds the corpse. That is the sharpest idea in Summer of ’36, a six-episode French period mystery set on the Côte d’Azur in August 1936, when France’s first paid worker holidays send working families into spaces the rich had mistaken for private property. The sand has not changed. The guest list has. The series opens with prosecutor Jacquart found dead in his room at the Riviera Hotel, blood seeping under the door for maximum housekeeping inconvenience. Around him gathers the necessary suspect buffet: Eugénie, the working-class woman he once...

Hemlock Gulch has the civic anxiety of a Western town and the old hunger of a European nightmare. That mixture gives The Wolf and the Lamb its best idea: corruption does not arrive with the monster. The monster simply finds a community already trained to feed. Directed and scripted by Michael Schilf from a story by Schilf and Miah Smith, the film is set in Montana Territory in 1873, where missing children and slaughtered animals disturb an unstable truce between settlers and the Indigenous people living near the surrounding woods. Jo Beckett, played by Cassandra Scerbo, is a tutor and...
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Read moreDetailsMichael Byrne, the British character actor whose piercing stare and stage-trained authority made him one of film's most reliable villains, has died at 82. He passed away on June 20, according to a report from The Guardian, though the cause of death has not been disclosed. Byrne earned lasting recognition...
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Rachel House keeps asking childhood to carry grief without losing its odd little jokes. The Mountain, her feature directing debut, sends an 11-year-old cancer patient out of the hospital and...
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