Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading

Hail the Best Pictures of the year: Montage showcases all 10 nominees

SNAPSHOTThe Best Picture nominees from 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger), Avatar: The Way of Water (directed by James Cameron), The Banshees of Inisherin (directed by Martin McDonagh), Elvis (directed by Baz Luhrmann), Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), The Fabelmans (directed by Steven Spielberg), Tár (directed by Todd Field), Top Gun: Maverick (directed by Joseph Kosinski), Triangle Continue Reading

Movie review: Aftersun

Normally the remembrance of a pivotal holiday is a thing of wonder and nostalgic charm. A respite from the incessantly exhausting demands of the everyday world, holidays usually represent something to be treasured and held in rose-tinted awe, an escape from the failings of the world-weary present that’s wrapped in Continue Reading

Light those vanilla candles! We’re headed to the Haunted Mansion where things are seriously unhinged

SNAPSHOT“Look alive, foolish mortals!” Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is directed by the American filmmaker Justin Simien, Continue Reading