Category: 2026
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Rough Forecast for “Pressure” (2026)
There is a wonderful film buried inside Pressure, and it lasts about fifteen minutes. The history it draws on is irresistible, and almost no one knows it. In the seventy-two hours before D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion ever attempted hinged not on a general’s nerve but on a forecast. Group Captain James Stagg, a punctilious…
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“The Devil Wears Prada 2” – A Legacy Sequel Done Right
There is a moment near the end of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — Miranda Priestly turns to Andy Sachs from the back of a car and says, quietly, “I just love working, don’t you? I love what I do and I feel I have a few more good years to do it.” Andy says…
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“Lorne”: The Last Man in Show Business
I have loved Saturday Night Live for as long as I can remember loving anything on television. I came to it the way most people do, through reruns and clips and the slow accumulation of the cultural shorthand the show has been generating for half a century, and I have stayed with it through the…
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Here Comes “The Bride!”
There is a moment, fairly early in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s audacious and maddening The Bride!, where the film seems to dare you to keep up with it. Mary Shelley — speaking from the afterlife, played with electric, aristocratic menace by Jessie Buckley — leans into the camera and announces that she has a story she never…
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