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Brendan Fraser and Shannon Mahina Gorman in Rental Family (2025)

Rental Family (2025) | Transcript

An American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection.

Memories (1995)

Memories (1995) | Transcript

A freighter crew responds to a distress call from a station run by an AI opera diva. The AI manipulates life support, VR, and nanosystems, posing dangers the crew must overcome to survive.

Avatar Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) | Transcript

Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet (2025)

Shakespeare in Mourning

Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, transforms Shakespeare’s grief into powerful cinema. An Oscar contender.

Emily Bader and Tom Blyth in People We Meet on Vacation (2026)

People We Meet on Vacation (2026) | Transcript

Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex prefers to stay home with a good book, but somehow they are the very best of friends. They live far apart, but for a decade they have spent one week of summer vacation together.

The Tank - Der Tiger (2025) Transcript

The Tank (2025) | Transcript

The five-man crew of a German Tiger tank is sent on a secret mission far behind the fiercely contested front line. Fueled by the Wehrmacht’s methamphetamine, their mission increasingly becomes a journey into the heart of darkness.

Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid (2025)

The Housemaid (2025) | Transcript

A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Kate Winslet and Cliff Curtis in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) | Transcript

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na’vi race to protect their home.

Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat in Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

Father Mother Sister Brother Review

Father Mother Sister Brother is a game, and like all games, it is deadly serious—a film made by a neurotic who still knows how to laugh and smile (and sometimes cry).

Goring Russell Crowe

Nuremberg Review

The seduction of Evil, viewed from a certain angle, invites misreading.

Tom Felton, Damian Lewis, Katherine Waterston, and Thomasin McKenzie in Fackham Hall (2025)

Fackham Hall (2025) | Transcript

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.

Robert Aramayo in I Swear (2025)

I Swear (2025) | Transcript

John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed.

Wicked: For Good

Wicked: For Good (2025) | Transcript

Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Kayla Wallace as Rebecca Falcone in Landman

Wound Tighter Than Dick’s Hatband

Angela’s jab at Rebecca Falcone in Landman unpacks a Southern idiom that’s less about kings than about tension, jealousy, and verbal dominance.

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