With the 98th Academy Awards over, we can officially say goodbye to the 2025 movie year and look at the movies coming out in 2026. 2025 was a great year for movies, and 2026 looks to be the same, if not even better. We’ve already gotten excellent movies like Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, Hoppers, The Rip, André Is an Idiot, GOAT, and Project Hail…
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The 2025 Academy Awards are here, which means the 2025 movie year is almost officially over. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads this year’s pack of nominees with a record-setting 16, followed by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with 9. This year’s group of Best Picture nominees is one of the best we have seen in quite some time. While only three of the ten nominated films landed in my personal list of the ten…
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Hollywood’s biggest night is here! The 98th Academy Awards are just days away. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has the most nominations out of any film with 16, setting a new record for most nominations for one film, followed by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with 13 and Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein with 9, respectively. This is the most excited I have been for the Oscars in a long time. Not only do we have…
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Project Hail Mary opens with Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) waking up alone on a spaceship following an induced coma. He has no memory of how he got on the ship or why he is in space. As he searches the ship, he finds that everyone else on the ship has died. As his memory returns, he uncovers that he is on a mission to find a way to stop a mysterious substance from killing…
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Delmer Daves’ classic western 3:10 to Yuma recently got a 4k upgrade from the Criterion Collection. In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison. This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man’s particular brand of honor. Based…
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Growing up in the golden era of Pixar, a standard was set for what made a great Pixar movie. The movies had to feature unique characters and stunning animation. It balanced its tones perfectly, making fun movies and at times hilarious, while also being dramatic and at times intense. It had thematic and story elements that appealed to both kids and adults. A great Pixar movie wasn’t just a kid’s movie; it was a…
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is an epic sci-fi journey that expects its characters and the audience to hop on board to its absurdity after only the first few minutes. The film opens at Norm’s, a diner in present-day Los Angeles. It seems to be a busy, but normal evening at Norm’s, when a man claiming he is from the future (Sam Rockwell) busts through the front door, saying he needs volunteers to…
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The Midnight category is always one of my favorite categories at the Sundance Film Festival, as the category has turned out some historic films throughout the years, like The Blair Witch Project, Saw, Oldboy, and Hereditary, to name a few. But the 2026 lineup is one of the weakest I have seen in my sixteen years of attending the festival. The lineup was a mixed bag of films that had potential and fell short,…
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Wicker is a movie that features quirky characters, a unique setting, and fantastical elements, yet it is quietly an amazing film. It features spectacular production design and makeup, great performances from the entire ensemble, and a universal and heartwarming core theme. Based on the Ursula Wilis-Jones short story The Wicker Husband, Wicker stars Olivia Colman as the Fisherwoman, a woman who, as her name suggests, fishes and sells the fish to the local townspeople….
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The Musical is the cinematic version of “men would rather (insert activity) than go to therapy.” The “activity” is a middle school play, but it’s not a school play you’ve ever seen and probably never will. Any more information about the play would ruin the fun of Giselle Bonilla’s entertaining but uneven comedy. Tony Award-winning actor Will Brill stars as Doug, a middle school theater teacher and aspiring playwright who recently got dumped by…
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