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IRON LUNG Review: The Most Immersive Reaction Video Ever Made

IRON LUNG Review: The Most Immersive Reaction Video Ever Made

Not so long ago, it was really not very fun to watch someone else play a video game. Whether it was your sibling, your cousin or your pal, the pained cries of “Mom says it’s my turn on the Xbox” would fall on deaf ears. But in our lifetimes, we’ve seen a shift. Suddenly, sitting back and letting someone else do the heavy lifting with a controller has become loved by millions, especially when the ones doing it are wacky, amiable and tireless internet personalities on the edge of an amusing nervous breakdown. At the top of the pile is Mark Fischbach, or Markiplier to his 38.2 million subscribers, whose love for vidya of all kinds has led him to unprecedented success, being the first…

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European Film Awards 2026 Interview: FRANZ Star Idan Weiss on Becoming Kafka, Rejecting the Biopic Formula, Trusting Agnieszka Holland’s Process

European Film Awards 2026 Interview: FRANZ Star Idan Weiss on Becoming Kafka, Rejecting the Biopic Formula, Trusting Agnieszka Holland’s Process

The German actor reflects on the risks of inhabiting an over-mythologised literary figure, the freedoms and uncertainties of a fragmented docu-fiction form, and how performance emerges when authorship, history, and interpretation remain deliberately unresolved.

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Sundance 2026 Review: BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, A 14-Year-Old Girl Assimilating the World Only Through the Other

Sundance 2026 Review: BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, A 14-Year-Old Girl Assimilating the World Only Through the Other

“I want to become anyone except myself.” — Mary and Max What occupies the mind of a preadolescent girl at fourteen? For Sid Bookman (Ani Palmer), it is a liminal period marked by an unexamined sensitivity to changes in both body and psyche. New Zealand filmmaker Paloma Schneideman’s latest work, Big Girls Don’t Cry, offers an intimate, quietly piercing coming-of-age story that speaks to stirring curiosity and confusion in puberty. It is nothing less than a heartfelt reflection on the uneasy process of being a “qualified” grown-up. Living in a small town in New Zealand, Sid resides with her mellow older sister Adele (Tara Canton), a partygoer closely tied to a lively circle of friends. She forms a reliable bond with Tia (Ngataitangirua Hita), a…

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