The newest film from LAIKA is the stop-motion animated film Wildwood, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis. Written by Chris Butler and directed by Travis Knight, the film adaptation follows a girl named Prue, who finds herself entering a mystical forest alongside her classmate Curtis in order to rescue her brother, who was taken away by a murder of crows. Wildwood is simply stunning on screen from beginning to end, making for one of this d

"It's official, old buddy. I'm a has-been." It’s been over seven years since we saw Quentin Tarantino on the silver screen with a brand-new film. This year, we’ll be getting another adventure within the director’s playground in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, and this time David Fincher will be helming it. But before we get there, I figured it was time to revisit Quentin’s film, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. It had been a long time since I last saw it in full.

Daniel Kraus, author of the book Whalefall published in 2023, co-wrote the screenplay for the new film adaptation with director Brian Duffield. The film follows Jay (Austin Abrams), a college student who takes a dive, determined to find the remains of his father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), a year after Mitt's death. The dive goes haywire when he gets trapped inside a whale and must figure out how to escape. The visuals are the film's greatest strength, thanks to striking visual effe