Kristian Lin
Power Ballad: Steal This Song
John Carney’s films are great because they have that one great song. Sometimes Carney writes that song himself and sometimes other people do it,...
Backrooms: The Yellow Wallpaper
This opening paragraph is for the oldsters. Specifically, for people my age who have other (and I can only hope, better) things to do...
Film Shorts // June 3-9, 2026
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The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (NR) This feature presentation is the last two episodes of the Australian animated series about characters trapped...
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
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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
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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....
