Film & TV News Bring Her Back Will Wreck You, and the Horror Is the Least of It No jump scares, just emotional devastation. Bring Her Back is a five-star horror film about grief, a care system that fails children, and the fierce love between a brother and his nearly blind sister. By Daria Ershova • 4 min read
Cassandra Kulukundis poses backstage with the Oscar® for Casting during the 98th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026. WALLY SKALIJ, THE ACADEMY Industry Insider The Oscars Finally Gave Casting a Trophy, and the Craft That Waited Longest Was Built by Women A century into the Academy Awards, casting got its first Oscar this year. Four of the five inaugural nominees were women, because the job of deciding who gets to be seen on screen has always, overwhelmingly, been women's work. By Daria Ershova • 4 min read
Courtesy of Focus Features, Working Title Films, November Pictures, Kiddo Films, Working Title and other relevant production studios and distributors. Film & TV News Two Hundred Years Later, Sense and Sensibility Still Knows Exactly Who We Are Georgia Oakley's warm, funny, aching new adaptation understands that the girls Jane Austen wrote in 1811 are the same girls sitting in the cinema today. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
Film & TV News The Roles Weren't There, So They Built the Industry: How Actresses Took Control of Hollywood For a century, actresses told they weren’t getting good roles did something about it. They founded the companies that decide which roles exist. Inside the actress-to-mogul pipeline. By Daria Ershova • 6 min read
Film & TV News Wicker Understood the Assignment, Then Tore It Up Wicker is far more than its provocative reputation. Our 4.5-star review of the Sundance breakout, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, caught at FEST Belgrade. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
Film & TV News The Debut Review: Julianne Moore Delivers the Performance of the Year in Jesse Eisenberg's Devastating Triumph A woman the world stopped seeing refuses to disappear. Our five-star review of Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut and Julianne Moore performance, which should win Best Actress, seen early at FEST in Belgrade. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
Film & TV News Primetime Review: Robert Pattinson Anchors a Lurid, Morally Rotten Portrait of American Ambition Everyone in Primetime is chasing a prize while claiming to serve a greater good. Our review of Lance Oppenheim's astonishing, skin-crawling debut, seen at FEST in Belgrade. By Daria Ershova • 4 min read
Dakota Johnson is a still from Verity, Amazon/MGM Studios Film & TV News Verity Review: A Beautifully Shot Thriller That's Better Than the Critics Are Telling You The chatter says disappointment. We walked in skeptical and walked out surprised. Our four-star review of Verity. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
Photo by Adhitya Sibikumar / Unsplash Film & TV News Your Alternative Halloween Watchlist: The Horror Films Nobody Recommends Everyone recycles the same Halloween watchlist. Here are the horror films worth reaching for instead, from the cozy to the genuinely disturbing, sorted by the kind of October night you're having. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
Film & TV News The Best Female-Directed Films Everyone Should See at Least Once From swoony period romance to career-defining thrillers, these are the films by women that belong on every watchlist. By Daria Ershova • 4 min read
Images via @warnerbros TikTok Film & TV News The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Everything We Know About the Most Anticipated Fantasy Film of 2027 Warner Bros. just dropped the first official behind-the-scenes photos from the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum - and Middle-earth has never looked more like home. By Daria Ershova • 4 min read
Film & TV News ANGEL Review: A Short Film About Grief, Dark Humour, and the Bottle You Bury With Him Angel began as a therapy exercise and became one of the most honest short films about grief and military family dysfunction we have seen. Darkly funny, emotionally precise, and anchored by Nicole Ansari-Cox in a performance that takes your breath away. By Daria Ershova • 3 min read
