Where the Blade Meets the Cradle: A Review of Bassam Tariq's Powerful New Film

11 Nov 2026 14:37

A man asks a Prophet who most deserves the best of him and is told: your mother. He asks again and receives the same answer, then asks a third time. Nobody repeats a question like that out of curiosity. It's what we do when we suspect we already know the answer, know we haven't lived up to it, and are hoping that one more asking might change what we hear. Bassam Tariq plays this story as a voiceover across the killing of a stranger in a Houston public restroom, and that collision of scripture and slaughter sets up a film that lives entirely in the gap between what a man says he owes and what he actually pays.

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Monsters Born of Memory: A Review of DreamWorks' Forgotten Island

11 Nov 2026 14:30

Childhood is a frantic, technicolor universe built on fleeting echoes and the fierce, unbreakable pact that the friends standing beside us will remember who we were even after we forget ourselves. In their brilliantly manic animated adventure for DreamWorks, directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado unleash a tidal wave of vibrant, hallucinatory imagination that leaves contemporary animation competitors scrambling to keep pace.

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