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The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki’s Oscar Winner vs. GPT’s Ghibli Trend

Sliding into the website with a hot take several moons late, but trust: The Boy and the Heron still slaps. Here’s the tea on why I’m only now waxing poetic about it, why Miyazaki deserves every ounce of respect, how it snagged that shiny Oscar, and why GPT’s “Ghiblification” is basically spitting on a masterpiece. […]

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Squid Game Season 2: Thinking Out Of The Box… Literally

Yes, I know – I’m way late to the party. But with Season 3 dropping on June 27, 2025, there’s no better time to hit rewind on Squid Game Season 2’s pastel-colored nightmare. Buckle up for a quick tour of survival, satire, and seriously messed-up playground games. The Hero Who Can’t Quit Three years after

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The Royals

The Royals: Drama, Drip, and Desi Dynasty Vibes From Netflix

You would end up with The Royals – Netflix’s glitzy 2025 Hindi rom-com series delivering royal anarchy with a side of champagne – if Bridgerton flew business class to Jaipur and received business counsel from Shark Tank. Under Priyanka Ghose and Nupur Asthana, and with Pritish Nandy Communications producing, this eight-episode binge-fest combines palace protocol

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Dandadan

Dandadan: A Fresh Breath Of Weird And Fun

Let’s face it: modern anime might start to feel somewhat… trained on copy-paste. Enter Dandadan, a show that turns the oddness up to eleven, adds aliens, ghosts, love, high school drama, and somehow makes everything fit. Dandadan, directed by Fuga Yamashiro and animated by the wildly inventive staff at Science SARU (Devilman Crybaby, Keep Your

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Final Destination Bloodlines: Does It Do Justice To Its Franchise?

Picking up the site after a year, I thought this movie would be just right to start a new season of FilmScopes. Final Destination Bloodlines comes like an old buddy bringing fresh nightmares – an appropriate rebirth of a brand created on the beautiful fear of narrowly escaped death. Almost fourteen years have passed since

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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: A Fever Dream To Revisit

Have you ever longed to excise a painful memory from your mind? Perhaps a bitter fight with a loved one, a moment of humiliation that still stings, or the heartbreak of a lost relationship? Michel Gondry’s visually arresting and emotionally resonant film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind delves into the seductive yet unsettling prospect of

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The First Omen

The First Omen: STOP Making Movies That Should Be A Series

“The First Omen” takes us back to the roots of evil, chronicling the origin story of the Antichrist. We meet a young nun, Sister Katherine (Nell Tiger Free), devoted to her faith and her life within the hallowed halls of the Vatican. The film opens with a hauntingly beautiful yet unsettling scene in Rome. An

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes: Does It Live Up To The Trilogy That Came Before?

Decades after Caesar, played by Andy Serkis in the previous films, led his apes to a promised land, a new generation has risen in the world crafted by director Wes Ball and brought to life by stars Owen Teague, Freya Allan, and Kevin Durand. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes throws us headfirst into a

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