A stream of consciousness documentary about a writer trying to figure out how to tell the story of concrete and his many divergences from the topic.
Mommy and Daddo are having trouble, so Bella retreats to having fun with Other Mommy, a normal entity that wants Bella to open her heart. Rather than a sad coming of age story where Bella learns about loss and grows, well, it's still that but while battling a demonic creature with teleportation powers who murders douchebags.
The evil M. Bison plans to suck the power from one of the most powerful fighters in the world, Ryu, so he holds a sequel to a tournament Ryu won years before. Ryu is reluctant to rejoin because he won the previous tournament by tapping into dark powers while his estranged friend Ken wishes to prove his worth by winning the tournament. Chun-Li, an undercover operator in Bison's organization, has her own plans to take down Bison. All this nonsense plus hundreds of cameos and video game references make this a crazy pants watching experience. Oh, and the flashbacks are animated.
A lonely author is hired by the husband of Verity, an acclaimed author who sits around all day, to finish Verity's acclaimed book series. The kind of movie that's better alone and stoned or drunk with a crowd. Real "we have Gillian Flynn at home" energy.
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I loved this movie in a very simple way. It's delightful and charming. My brain wants to say "quirky" but fuck that this movie is weird. The people are strange and for some reason I want to reference Egger's The Lighthouse. If there had been more booze with Isla and Sandy, they might have had that problem. They might have eaten Daniel.
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Memories and friendship are universal. Forgotten Island, the new Dreamworks animated classic, straddles the worlds of adult and childhood and of fantasy and reality. And it has a badass soundtrack. The adult nature of the film (it's essentially The Hangover with some Eternal Sunshine thrown in) may cause it to miss with the younger crowd, but for those who find this it will be in their hearts forever.
Credit: Cardinal Films, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Mongrel Media
You never know when your life will end. Few think of it, really digest what it means to no longer be. Even fewer run toward it, chased by the dream of living on by doing one great thing that will cement them forever in history. It's a pretty damn small number more interested in legacy than safety that drives toward death as a stunt driver in a rocket car.
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Walking into this movie, I had only heard Robert Pattinson's performance was top notch. Otherwise, I had little interest in the story of Chris Hanson, award winning journalist and host of To Catch a Predator, the show where he and his crew lured sexual predators to a fake address and confronted them on camera.
Anything can happen in the woods. You can be sitting and enjoying a nice fire when in stumbles a bit of trouble. Ethan Hawke's character learns that in The Weight, a new thriller from the minds that brought you… Holy s**t this is the director's and the writers' first movie (one writer has one other credit, but that's not really holy s**t worthy). I'll be honest, that lifts my estimations of this movie much higher.
You had me at "set in the world of The Guest (2014)." Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have been favorites of mine (and everyone who likes horror) since You're Next (2011), so to have them back again with supersoldiers attacking a desert trailer park feels great. Sort of a Tremors meets Shane Black with a dash of Evil Dead, our veteran sniper hero must defeat large odds while protecting a precocious young girl in this fun thriller full of chainsaws, cleavers, and odd ball characters. Check it out.
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I've made it a personal mission to never meet my heroes. The few times I have have been awkward as hell, from musicians to artists to comedians except the very rare times I never realized who I was talking to. In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a filmmaker gets to meet their hero and it goes pretty well, all things considered.
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By the time Barney the dinosaur rose to prominence, I was well into lighting fires in the back yard and wondering why Kelly Jo Cochrane looked so good in her bathing suit. The dancing purple love machine was more the target of playground mocking than anything of substance. Buddy targets that mocking and asks the question "what if that mascot was a petty elder god bent on selfish destruction?"
It's refreshing to see a beefy man going through puberty on the big screen. I have not seen such a thing since Jeff Goldblum started spitting on his food in The Fly. At least ole Spider-Man has the comforting presence of a soldier with PTSD to help him fight off a teenage telepath and a green hurricane of violence. Truly a brand new day for everyone involved.
A body face-down in a pool is cinematic language for "I've seen old movies, too." To open your movie that way and have your Norma Desmond bare ass is a bold statement, especially when you have no intention of paying that shit off.
Thoughts and happenings from around the library from February 2026
Ever wanted to know what it would look like to see a mean girl mommy-domm a tech bro on a deserted island on the big screen? Look no further, because Send Help from director Sam Raimi and starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien will scratch that itch and more. Inside this morally complex tale for adults Raimi includes some wild violence and humor to keep the kids entertained. It's great.