Alan Ng

Has television been trying to brainwash you by subtly conditioning you to engage in certain commercial activities? Or is it harmless advertising and marketing? From the creator of VHS Massacre, Tom Seymour's documentary, Enter the Television, explores television's subversive nature over the decades. The documentary opens by claiming that advertising back then had its roots

If it's for the sake of art, surely there are lines that can be crossed? In Meta Take One, co-directors John Dierre and Ryan Dutter push one filmmaker way past that line, turning a scrappy overnight shoot into a crime story where the camera never stops rolling and cinematic glory is just around the corner.

The great director Christopher Nolan has taken the challenge upon himself to create the definitive...or at least his version of The Odyssey. Will lightning strike twice after the brilliant Oppenheimer? Well, you know what they say about lightning striking twice. Ten years after the Trojan War ended, Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca, still

Faith and undercover police work make an unlikely duo, but writer-director Ralph Cinque teams them up in In God's Hands. A crime story where your badge and your heart are inseparable. Detective Tyrell Banks (Claude Xavier) is still picking up the pieces, raising his 17-year-old daughter, Kayla (Sophia Colwell), after the death of his beloved

DANCES WITH FILMS 2026 REVIEW! In writer/director Jordan Rowe's Hamilton House, being young, broke, and chasing the dream in New York City that keeps moving further out of reach is at the heart of this Gen Z tale. Zach Harris (Elijah Lawrence) is stuck. He's a struggling actor living in a cramped basement apartment in

NOW IN THEATERS! "Welcome back, Pixar." That's the feeling Toy Story 5 left me with, and a lot of it comes down to director Andrew Stanton trusting an eight-year-old's loneliness as much as he trusts the toys themselves. While Toy Story 1-3 is Andy's story, this one is decidedly Bonnie's and taken from a girl's

Jeff Hamm's Pickleball takes America's fastest-growing sport and wraps an underdog comedy around it that's as much about family as it is about dinking and volleying. At its heart, it's a story about two brothers scrambling to hold onto the one thing their late father left them. Solomon's Porch is a special kind of community

Royal: A Journey of Faith, Music, and Purpose profiles Christian singer and filmmaker Omar Cook as he, at 33, is on the verge of releasing his debut album, Royal. It is with this album and documentary that Cook reflects on what God has done in his life and career. Up until this point, Cook was

The Palm Springs International ShortFest has announced the full lineup for its 32nd edition, and the numbers alone tell the story of just how big short-form cinema has gotten. Running June 23–29, 2026, at the Festival Theaters in Palm Springs, CA, the festival will screen 329 films from 71 countries and territories across 50 curated

Comedian/filmmaker Bradley Rabinowitz has gotten his hands on special effects for his films, and we see how he uses this new tool in his arsenal in the short film The Adventures of Dash and Crash Raygun. Dash (Bradley Rabinowitz) and Crash Raygun (Peter Devita) are intergalactic kung fu fighting brothers from a planet somewhere near—but