REVIEWS
Even his outfit matched the aesthetic, rocking the Internet Explorer logo as a belt, and decorating his jacket with giant pins of a mouse cursor and the Chrome Dino.
If a film doesn’t engage an audience well, scattered audience reactions can feel lame and serve to reinforce a film’s unfunniness. Fortunately, Tuner’s well-written and well-paced screenplay ensured plenty of laughs and a good time for the Sundance audience.
On a random evening in a Los Angeles diner, a “man from the future” (Sam Rockwell) assembles an unlikely team of strangers to rid the world of a rogue artificial intelligence. What follows is a frantic race to save humanity from its own creation.
INTERVIEWS
Ahead of its screening at South by Southwest 2026, we had the chance to speak with Director Renée Marie Petropoulos and Producer Yingna Lu on their insight into the Souvenir’s depiction of boundaries in relationships and uncomfortable power dynamics.
Through tight acting, eerily realistic practical effects, and a suspenseful climax, the film is a graphic depiction of the dangers plastic poses even more now that it’s inside of us. We sat with Director Guy Trevellyan and Actress Anna Popplewell to discuss these themes.
With decisive visuals, fantastic performances, and a genre-defying story, The Things You Kill is a brilliant dissection of masculinity, patriarchal inheritance, and cyclical violence. We had a chance to sit down with the writer-director to untangle the film’s themes and explore how his background as a self-described man between nations contributed to their development.
ESSAYS
Gun belts, wide hats, and sunset duels, the cowboy has fueled the imagination of many authors, both in literature and film. Yet, the vision we have of these lonesome riders is not so faithful in depicting the real-life workers.
As the video features their tightest choreography to date alongside biting lyrics calling attention to their status as an irreplaceable powerhouse, the imitation begs the question: How does Park’s film factor into BTS’ long-awaited comeback?
Between the blue-haired singer Stuart “2D” Pot, the satanist bassist Murdoc Niccals, the martial arts expert guitarist Noodle, and Russel Hobbs, the drummer haunted by the ghost of his friend, Gorillaz are designed to mark the spirit.
