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Hlynur Pálmason winningly channels Bergman in family drama The Love That Remains

https://www.avclub.com/the-love-that-remains-review
Godland's Hlynur Pálmason brings an unconventional yet comforting perspective to Iceland's Oscar entry, family drama The Love That Remains.

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Chloé Zhao on How Her Post-‘Eternals’ “Mid-Life Crisis” Paved the Way for ‘Hamnet’

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chloe-zhao-eternals-hamnet-awards-chatter-podcast-1236486202/
The Chinese filmmaker, a double Oscar winner for 'Nomadland,' also reflects on her path to America and filmmaking, jumping from indies to Marvel and why she almost passed on directing the Jessie Buckley/Paul Mescal project that's now up for eight Oscars (including two for her).

Ubisoft unions call for strike in response to company’s restructuring plans

https://www.avclub.com/ubisoft-strike-struggles
Five French unions have called for an international strike from employees of the struggling video game publisher Ubisoft.

Old school horror and new school survivalism clash in I Hate This Place

https://www.avclub.com/i-hate-this-place-review
I Hate This Place has quite a few pluses, like its unnerving sound design, but its parts don't come together in a cohesive whole.

Jason Statham gives his bargain-bin Bourne some heart in Shelter

https://www.avclub.com/shelter-review
The schlocky Shelter sees Jason Statham play a supersoldier thrust back into a life he left behind with an unexpected ward to protect.

Charli xcx performs an ambivalent brat send-off in The Moment

https://www.avclub.com/the-moment-review
Charli xcx couldn't let the brat era end without a tour movie. But she couldn't leave the tour movie alone, either, in The Moment.

Chloé Zhao and Her ‘Hamnet’ Producers — Among Them Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes — on the Journey From a “Mid-Life Crisis” to the Oscars (Exclusive)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chloe-zhao-hamnet-steven-spielberg-oscars-journey-1236488322/
The all-star producing quintet — which also includes Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris and Nicolas Gonda — discussed Zhao's unconventional directing style, emphasized the importance of seeing 'Hamnet' in a theater and shared, for the first time, Terrence Malick's email about the film.

Cairn doesn't hold the answer to sacrifice

https://www.avclub.com/cairn-game-review
Mountain climbing game Cairn invites you to think about sacrifice and overcoming impossible odds, but never tries to answer why people do this.

‘The White Lotus’ Cast: See Who’s Checking in for Season 4

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/the-white-lotus-season-4-cast/
With the upcoming installment of Mike White’s HBO drama set to take place in Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez, France, the confirmed list of people appearing in the upcoming season has begun trickling in. 

‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Star Finn Bennett Geeks Out on That Sublime Episode 3 Reveal: “It’s Suddenly Really Exciting for Aerion”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-aerion-finn-bennett-interview-1236489451/
The British star of HBO's latest 'Thrones' spinoff explains why he wishes he hadn't seen previous Targaryen portrayals, and talks meeting George R. R. Martin and playing Prince Aerion: "I miss the wig, I miss the armor, I miss all my friends on set. But I don't miss him."

The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in February 2026

https://www.avclub.com/4k-blu-ray-february-2026
4K and Blu-ray must-haves of February 2026 include funeral dirges to democracy and journalism, modernist comedy freakouts, and Gena Rowlands.

Faith-based rom-com Relationship Goals quickly becomes an infomercial

https://www.avclub.com/relationship-goals-review
Kelly Rowland and Method Man find faith-based love in Relationship Goals, a rom-com where the "com" is short for "commercial."

Kevin James takes a surprisingly sweet Roman holiday in Solo Mio

https://www.avclub.com/solo-mio-review
The comic actor breaks out of his comfort zone with the straightforward romance Solo Mio, and it's an impressive late-career pivot.

Markiplier hits the big screen with his satisfying DIY submarine horror Iron Lung

https://www.avclub.com/iron-lung-review
Directed by, written, and starring YouTube personality Mark Fischbach, the horror game adaptation Iron Lung is a future cult classic.

There's a tongue for every boot in the BDSM fairy tale Pillion

https://www.avclub.com/pillion-review
Pillion is an unconventional love story using BDSM to thoughtfully explore ideas about long-term commitment.

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Legendary Production Designer Jack Fisk on ‘Marty Supreme,’ Malick and 50-Plus Years of Making Movies

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marty-supreme-production-designer-jack-fisk-interview-1236493707/
Arguably the greatest of all living film craftsmen, the 80-year-old — whose credits also include 'Badlands,' 'Carrie,' 'Days of Heaven,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'There Will Be Blood,' 'The Revenant' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon' — is Oscar-nominated for the fourth time — and poised to win for the first.

Nioh 3 perfects a certain brilliantly soulless style of game design

https://www.avclub.com/nioh-3-game-review
Dumb as a brick and better for it, Nioh 3 is another wonderful entry in Team Ninja's charmingly mindless video game series.

Sony's sports cartoon Goat knows just enough ball

https://www.avclub.com/goat-review
Goat isn't as inventive as recent Sony-produced cartoons like Across The Spider-Verse or KPop Demon Hunters, but it's a sweet movie for kids.

I wasted 30 minutes of my life watching the Turning Point USA halftime show so you don’t have to

https://www.avclub.com/turning-point-usa-halftime-show-recap
It’s hard to mount a culture war when your big counteroffensive looks like a youth-group lock-in made up of kids who found God in a megachurch but lost their personality somewhere in suburban Atlanta.​

Relooted challenges who gets to own and tell African history

https://www.avclub.com/relooted-game-review
Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists. Read our review.

Wuthering Heights trades transgression for tradition, finding the worst of both worlds

https://www.avclub.com/wuthering-heights-review
Overlong and undersexed, Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights betrays her audience of edgelords and perverts.

Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/gore-verbinski-sounds-off-on-ai-good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-1236500668/
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don't want it to breathe or fuck for me; I want it to solve cancer.”