Pixar's HOPPERS hits theaters, reminding of some of the great Pixar films of the past. A little too frenetic at times, there are still memorable lines, great characters, and a moment that caused our entire theater to gasp in disbelief.
Go be entertained and have fun.
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📽️ THE BRIDE! was engrossing, unnerving and surprising — Morgen says that Maggie Gyllenhaal has created something incredibly impressive with her imaginative take on the Frankenstein myth. Starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, it's in theaters now.
HOPPERS is delightfully unhinged in the best way — hilariously chaotic but somehow emotionally grounding too. It completely entranced me from start to finish. Just trust it. #SFCS #Hoppers
Check out the full review for more: www.filmfroth.com/hoppers/
Missteps aside, it builds to a really fantastic finale. While neither Tommy nor the film itself was ever likely to be immortal, the closing frames prove to be a fitting sendoff for him as well as his long, sad saga. The movie shines whenever he & Murphy burn bright 📽️
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Easily Pixar’s best movie since TURNING RED, the delightfully anarchic #Hoppers is also one of the studio’s funniest flights of irreverent fancy that they’ve ever released. Loved. ❤️
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Messy. Angry. Wild. Peculiar. Frenetic. Exhilarating. Awesome.
Maggie Gyllenhaal resurrects a legend with ferociously fearless enthusiasm. It doesn’t all work and I could care less. Loved every go-for-broke second.
Jessie Buckley is phenomenal.
#TheBride
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📽️ HOPPERS proves Pixar still hasn’t run out of good ideas -- Morgen reviews Pixar's latest, about a girl who loves animals too much. See it in theaters this weekend!
#ICYMI or just want to read it in print, my piece on the stellar BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS where I spoke to filmmaker Kahlil Joseph is in today’s Seattle Times. You should pick up one for yourself then watch his one-of-a-kind film on VOD today or watch the film then pick up a copy 📽️
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THE BRIDE! (2026) is bombastic in style and thoughtful in its themes. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal swings for the fences, and while the result maybe imperfect, we can't deny the ambition on display. My review.
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Cillian Murphy stares into a lamp with a haunted expression on his face in a still from PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN. Still via Netflix.
PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN: Cillian Murphy captivates in this entertaining enough EL CAMINO-esque Netflix movie. Though often a bit clunky, it's great just to see Murphy light up the screen as Tommy Shelby for what may be the last time 📽️
My review @thewrap.com: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
New for subscribers only: I spent a week watching iQIYI movies again. Films by Chris Huo, Qin Pengfei, and of course, Raquel.
More bad news for Washington theaters: Redmond’s IPIC Theater is closing on April 28 and 64 employees will be laid off, according to a notification filed with the state of Washington late last week and posted Tuesday. Never went, but still a sad headline to see📽️
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Aidan Zamiri’s THE MOMENT, the mockumentary but also not a mockumentary, about Charli XCX, music, & fame, is now available on VOD. Satirical yet also sincere, it's a deceptively fascinating work with a great finale. Finally, you can now be a 365 Party Girl from the comfort of your own home (IYKYK) 📽️
Despite the return of original screenwriter Kevin Williamson and star Neve Campbell, SCREAM 7 (2026) ends up being a low point for the long running franchise. My review.
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... and here we thought the SFCS award for Youth Performance was going to be the most unique statue presented to Jacobi Jupe this season. Well played, SAG.
Late last November, I spoke with Jafar Panahi about filmmaking, the state of the world, and his latest Palme d'Or-winning film IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (now on Hulu). You should give that a read below and see this searing new film as well as all his past work which is now more essential than ever 📽️
What happens when you're blamed for breaking up the biggest band of all time?
MAN ON THE RUN explores Paul McCartney's run through the 1970s - following the end of the Beatles, his marriage to Linda, and the formation of Wings.
Now streaming on Amazon Prime.
In Robinson Devor's entrancing SUBURBAN FURY, Sarah Jane Moore spins her own myth in recounting a life that led to her firing a bullet in the general direction of Gerald Ford. One of the stronger entries from last year's SIFF festival, it plays @SIFFnews.bsky.social film center beginning tonight.
#ICYMI I spoke to director Robinson Devor, who'll be at SIFF for a Q&A tonight, about his fascinating new doc SUBURBAN FURY and its long, winding journey. At one point, Jennifer Jason Leigh or Olivia Colman could've played Sara Jane Moore who attempted to assassinate a president. Read that below 📽️
THE BLUFF (2026) strikes a good balance between serious and silly. This is one of those “Turn Your Brain Off For Two Hours” movies and shouldn’t be seen as anything more than that. My review.
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Ghostface is back, and so is Sidney Prescott, but that doesn’t stop #Scream7 from stabbing the franchise right in the heart. So frustrating.
⭐️1/2
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SCREAM 7 is a moral and artistic failure www.decodingeverything.com/scream-7-rev...
A page from The Seattle Times with the headline Seattle filmmaker Robinson Devor on the long road to 'Suburban Fury' with a photo of 1 cinematographer Sean Kirby, left, and Devor on the set of the film in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood in 2010. (Michael McConville)
For @seattletimes.com, spoke to Robinson Devor, the longtime Seattle filmmaker behind classics POLICE BEAT and ZOO, about why he's had a presidential assassination attempt on his mind for 15+ years and his great new doc SUBURBAN FURY📽️
Read that in print or here: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
DREAMS (2025) has themes involving sex, immigration, class division, and power, but doesn’t articulate any of them well on screen. We walk away confused over what it wants to say about anything. My review.
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A reflective and surprisingly moving look at Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles reinvention, #ManOnTheRun is an engaging intro to the messy, misunderstood, and ultimately triumphant rise of his band Wings. moviepie.com/man-on-the-r...
An adorkable young man has his sexual awakening as a submissive in #Pillion, a leather-clad dom-com that’s as laugh-out-loud funny as it is surprisingly sweet. moviepie.com/pillion-2025/
#ICYMI I wrote about the journey of TRAIN DREAMS that kicked off with a rough plane landing, became what multiple people told me was one of the hardest films they've ever worked on, with one comparing it to APOCALYPSE NOW, and how the crew scrambled to successfully land the plane. Read that below 📽️
A still from the animated short film WEEDS with a plant growing up tall in the middle of a vibrant setting while various other flowers all look on.
Recommend checking out @seasluganimation.bsky.social which, among many great things, is entirely created by people with no AI allowed. In other words, it's about slugs and not slop. Read about all that and the festival’s highlights in my piece @thestranger.com 📽️: www.thestranger.com/film/2026/02...
The cover of The Inlander's February 26, 2026 culture/film section with the headline 'This Is My Apocalypse Now' with the subhead Train Dreams began with an unexpectedly rough plane landing. Now it may fly high at the Oscars with a still of Joel Edgerton as protagonist Robert Granier flying in a plane while looking to his right at the world growing smaller below him as the sun shines behind them in the film's final frames.
NEW: TRAIN DREAMS, Clint Bentley’s transcendent Washington film may fly high at the Oscars, but it began with an unexpectedly rough plane landing. This is the story of the little film that could which one producer called their APOCALYPSE NOW📽️
My piece @inlander.com: www.inlander.com/culture/trai...
