Our first report from SDCC 2026 on the stories that aren’t being covered everywhere else.
A loving ode to a place that shaped Chicago film criticism.
From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences had begun to appreciate how much they had achieved at a young age, and what incredible potential they had when they were taken. Just added to that awful roll call: Kaylee […]
The lines between cinema, survival, and truth are blurred in three entries from this year’s festival.
On how horror shaped Christopher Nolan’s masterful epic.
A review of the remake of Halo, one of the biggest games of all time.
An interview with the director of Drive, Only God Forgives, and this week’s Her Private Hell.
Thankfully, “Ransom Canyon’s” second season course-corrects many of the mistakes of its first.
The end of the world will probably be funnier.
Aliens, gay superheroes, and alt-comic rug-cutters stud our first dispatch from the festival.


