Predators lacks the structure or commitment to completely confront its subject in a satisfying manner, but gets close in some key areas.
Author: James Preston Poole
LUZ is backed by an easy on the eyes aesthetic, but its wandering nature and lack of real insight leaves it as a missed opportunity.
It’s Never Over Jeff Buckley (2025) lifts the curtain back on the lost voice of a generation, revealing someone who contained multitudes.
The Legend of Ochi (2025) stands out due to an open heart and trust in its young audience to handle an emotional, spooky narrative, conjuring up cinematic magic.
Light of My Lion is an effective balm for the soul that could very well serve as a good entry point for international audiences to get into J-dramas.
Dune: Prophecy debuts as an engrossing hard sci-fi series that puts the political intrigue before the spectacle, adopting a cadence all its own.
Eschewing aesthetic flash, Juror #2 is a classically effective drama that thrives off of impeccable staging and layered performances.
Sony’s Spider-Man Universe was a strange little pocket of comic book cinema that deserves to be studied, or at the very least ranked.