Shaurya Thapa

Loves midnight-screening genre films, a healthy dose of Bollywood, and Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Bylines: Screen Rant, Time Out, Dazed, Reuters

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Julia Roberts in After the Hunt (2025)

After The Hunt

When promising philosophy student Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her charming yet sleazy professor Hank (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault, Yale University becomes caught in a whirlwind of legal charges, administrative gossip, and online discourse
CrimeDramaFilm ReviewsThriller
Daniel Day-Lewis in Anemone (2025)

Anemone

Three-time Oscar-winning method actor (and occasional shoemaker) Daniel Day-Lewis returns from his eight-year "retirement" in Anemone, a gritty human drama directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
DramaFilm Reviews

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Unable to film in Palestine, Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi made an online acquaintance with late Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. This haunting yet humanizing documentary explores their conversations and the ground realities in an active warzone.
DocumentaryFilm Reviews
Orlando Bloom and John Turturro in The Cut (2024)

The Cut

A washed-out boxer struggles to make a comeback when he can't match the required weight limit. His sanity and body are tested with dietary experiments and a hardened, remorseless coach.
Film ReviewsThriller
Still from The Long Walk

The Long Walk

In an unspecified dystopian future, fifty boys must compete for an arduous 350-mile walk livestreamed to a nihilist Americana. If they falter as much as below 3 miles per hour, they get three warnings. On the third strike, they’re shot dead. This is The Long Walk, Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name.
Film ReviewsHorror
The Cut - Interview with Film Director Sean Ellis

The Cut – Interview with Film Director Sean Ellis

Orlando Bloom plays a washed-out puncher who endures eating disorders and flashbacks from the era of the Irish Troubles as he gives his all to make the required weight category cut. In this interview, director Sean Ellis breaks down his genre-bending film, Bloom's intense transformation, and his own history with combat sports.
Film Interviews
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses (2025).

The Roses

The Roses very much feels like it’s an original story in its own right; a cautionary parable on the perils of marriage if not planned right.
ComedyFilm Reviews
Joaquin Phoenix in Ari Aster's 'Eddington' (2025)

Eddington

The year is 2020. COVID is peaking. America is divided. But in the sleepy Midwestern town of Eddington, a power struggle brews between an ambitious, gun-toting, antivaxxer sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and an equally ambitious, performatively woke, N95 mask-wearing mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). 
ComedyDramaFilm ReviewsWestern
Dakota Johnson in Materialists (2025)

Materialists

Celine Song raised expectations after the critical success of her debut feature Past Lives. Her sophomore feature film Materialists is a romantic comedy about a love triangle between a matchmaker, her aspiring actor ex-boyfriend, and a charming millionaire.
ComedyFilm ReviewsRomance
Still from 'Weapons' (2025)

Weapons

When an entire classroom of children (barring one) disappears overnight at 2:17 am, their vodka-guzzling teacher becomes the target of a witch-hunt by anxious, angry parents. What happened at 2:17 am?
Film ReviewsHorrorMystery

Bring Her Back

While grieving the sudden death of their father, stepsiblings are placed in the care of their foster mother and are exposed to darker truths and manipulative captivity.
Film ReviewsHorrorMystery