Kristian Lin
Tuner: Let Me Hear It
There’s no Van Cliburn Competition taking place this summer, but if you yearn to listen to piano music anyway, you could do worse than...
Burning Down the Hutts
I did not have time to catch up on all three seasons of The Mandalorian before I saw Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Nevertheless,...
Film Shorts // May 27 – June 2, 2026
OPENING
Backrooms (R) Kane Parsons adapts his own YouTube series of horror videos about people becoming trapped in an endless labyrinth of yellow rooms. Starring...
Summer Movie Preview
The success of The Devil Wears Prada 2 kicks off a busy season for some of its stars. Anne Hathaway already starred in Mother Mary during...
Film Shorts // May 20-26, 2026
OPENING
Blood Moon Rite 8 (NR) This Vietnamese remake of the Japanese horror-comedy One Cut of the Dead stars Van Son as a movie director...
Obsession: He Is Everything You Want
A low-budget exercise that expertly finds terror of the soul in thwarted love, Obsession arrives this weekend as the indie film you don’t want...
Is God Is: Daughter Vengeance
If not for the smartphones that the characters occasionally use, you might mistake Is God Is for some lost blaxploitation movie from the 1970s....
World Cup Preview (Groups G-L)
We continue giving you snapshots of all 48 teams in the field. England vs. Croatia will be another match at AT&T Stadium, and it...
Film Shorts // May 13-19, 2026
OPENING
Aakhri Sawal (NR) This Indian historical drama stars Namashi Chakraborthy as a professor who accuses his mentor (Sanjay Dutt) of covering up his college’s...
Pacific Rim
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, so instead of devoting this issue to Cinco de Mayo, we’re looking at the history...
