BREAKING NEWS: CRITICS DISMISS CARPENTER’S ‘THE THING’ AS “INSTANT JUNK”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE THING’ AND ‘BLADE RUNNER’ BOTH BOMB ON SAME WEEKENDBREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK NOMINATED FOR WORST DIRECTOR FOR ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ UP FOR WORST PICTURE AT FIRST-EVER RAZZIESBREAKING NEWS: ‘HOCUS POCUS’ FLOPS IN JULY; EBERT GIVES IT ONE STARBREAKING NEWS: HARPER’S CALLS ‘TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’ “A VILE LITTLE PIECE OF SICK CRAP”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTUREBREAKING NEWS: STEPHEN KING HATES KUBRICK’S ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: CRITICS DISMISS CARPENTER’S ‘THE THING’ AS “INSTANT JUNK”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE THING’ AND ‘BLADE RUNNER’ BOTH BOMB ON SAME WEEKENDBREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK NOMINATED FOR WORST DIRECTOR FOR ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ UP FOR WORST PICTURE AT FIRST-EVER RAZZIESBREAKING NEWS: ‘HOCUS POCUS’ FLOPS IN JULY; EBERT GIVES IT ONE STARBREAKING NEWS: HARPER’S CALLS ‘TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’ “A VILE LITTLE PIECE OF SICK CRAP”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTUREBREAKING NEWS: STEPHEN KING HATES KUBRICK’S ‘THE SHINING’
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Sundance ‘26: ‘AMERICAN DOCTOR’ a Charged Account of Gaza’s Humanitarian Breakdown

Sundance ‘26: ‘AMERICAN DOCTOR’ a Charged Account of Gaza’s Humanitarian Breakdown

American Doctor forces audiences to confront the carnage inflicted on Gaza’s civilians, particularly children, early and often. For anyone who somehow avoided footage of dead babies across social media in 2025, the film offers a corrective almost immediately. One doctor argues it would be “journalistic malpractice” not to show the corpses, claiming that omitting them...

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Sundance ‘26: A Childhood Displaced in Syrian Refugee Doc ‘ONE IN A MILLION’

Sundance ‘26: A Childhood Displaced in Syrian Refugee Doc ‘ONE IN A MILLION’

Aleppo, Syria, 2025. A bombed out shell of its former self. Ten years prior, it was a flourishing city filled with bustling markets, food stalls, prayer, and congregation. Co-directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes chronicle that ten year transformation through the lens of Israa, an Aleppo native. Filming for One in a Million began in...

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Commercialism, Competition Breeds Tragedy In ‘THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2’

Commercialism, Competition Breeds Tragedy In ‘THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2’

Now streaming: The Last First: Winter K2 is streaming on Apple TV+. Originally reviewed at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. In the winter of 2021, a group of 60 climbers—a mix of professional mountaineers, Sherpas, and an uncomfortably large number of novices on a paid expedition—gather at a Himalayan base camp to attempt one of...