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Paul Rai

October 11, 2025

2026 Best Actress Oscar Nominations Predictions

The Best Actress race has been the most unpredictable and complicated for the last few years. Last year, Demi Moore ran the awards gambit for...

Essays

October 4, 2025

2026 Best Director Oscar Nominations Predictions: October

The Best Director race has yielded some of the most satisfying wins in recent memory. Longtime filmmakers, such as Sean Baker, Christoper Nol...

Essays

October 4, 2025

2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominations Predictions: October

Part of the fun of early Oscar predictions is the act of throwing darts into the dark and seeing the light shine on how far off and on we wer...

Paul Rai

October 2, 2025

'The Strangers: Chapter 2' Review: What Are We Doing Here?

This review contains spoilers for The Strangers film series. The Strangers (2008) was an independent horror that utilized minimalist f...

Danny Jarabek

October 1, 2025

Summer 2025 Box Office Draft Finale

As previously discussed in the first two episodes of this summer mini-series, we’re tracking box office for the movies on our radar between t...

News

September 15, 2025

Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' Wins TIFF People's Choice Award

The people have spoken–Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet has won the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) People’s Choice Award, voted on by festival...

Paul Rai

September 7, 2025

Review: 'The Conjuring: Last Rites' is a Sincere, Jumbled End to a Prolonged Franchise

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) would sound like a non-cynical, fitting end to the nine-film franchise that revolves around the prolific gho...

Bryan Sudfield

August 27, 2025

RETROSPECTIVE 025: Darren Aronofsky

Before we review Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing next week, we’re discussing his career up to this point through his 8 eclectic feature fi...

Essays

August 26, 2025

KPop Demon Hunters Tops Box Office Amidst Ted Sarandos's War Against Theaters

If a Netflix film tops the domestic box office two months after it premiered on streaming, will Netflix care? That’s the most prescien...

Paul Rai

August 17, 2025

'Fixed' Review: Genndy Tartakovsky's Gorgeous 2D-Animation Mines Cheap Humor

It was two years ago (almost a week apart), yours truly had the pleasure of reviewing the R-rated comedy, Strays (2023), a film obsessed with...

Paul Rai

July 25, 2025

Review: 'House on Eden' Pits Social Media Stars in Found-Footage Trappings

Ever since the monumental success of The Blair Witch Project (1999), found-footage films have always benefited from being made on a small bud...

Paul Rai

July 23, 2025

Review: Big Tech Divides and Conquers in Ari Aster's 'Eddington'

Ever since the viral sensation of his short film, The Strange Things About the Johnsons (2011), Ari Aster has been known as a provocateur of ...

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