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I Love Boosters, Boots Riley, 2026

A psychedelic sci-fi treatise on class, labor and fashion served up by Riley with a superb cast having fun with serious politics. The film bursts with color, features Ray Harryhausen style special effects and has egalitarian excellence in filmmaking.

I Love Boosters holds a funhouse mirror to One Battle After Another, personafied by the two films' lead characters, Corvette and Perfidia Beverly Hills. Their similarities and differences are stark. Riley's politics and black woman revolutionaries, even in this absurdist kaleidoscope, are more three-dimensional and authentic than P.T. Anderson's.

Demi Moore has never been better.

See it in the theater.

Bonus takes: – Academy, remember Keke Palmer at Oscar time – The MC5's Kick Out the Jams is my needle drop of the year (so far)

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Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere (Lost Highway, 2026)

No mainstream artist has captured my fan heart over the last eight years like Spacey Kacey. From classic country revivalism, through excursions into disco diva, cottage core and electro-pop, I ride with it. Middle of Nowhere packages all the elements into a cohesive LP.

She adds more western touches like pedal steel, cowboy cornpone, and Mariachi to her brew, grounding the album in her East Texas roots. Mimicking that geography, themes explore expanse, isolation and the duality of joy and pain of being alone.

Most will herald a “return,” but for me, I keep riding the Rose Wave.

Buy it.

Kacey

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Cut Worms, Transmitter (Jagjaguwar, 2026)

The Cut Worms have transformed from the solo vision of songwriter Max Clarke to a collective of collaborators, with Jeff Tweedy jumping on board as a producer and player.

Striking a more melancholic tone than 2023’s self-titled release, Transmitter brings Kinksian songcraft to jangly mid-tempo guitar pop. The melodies provide ample aural canvases to Clarke’s witty wordplay, highlighted on tracks like Evil Twin, Long Weekend, and Shut In. He captures a 21st-century loneliness we all feel.

Tweedy features the band’s sound well, but you can hear his knob twisting, bringing noisy flourishes that punctuate the album’s complicated introspection.

Buy it.

Cut Worms

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The Secret Agent: Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025

A nuanced film about the complexities of life under a dictatorship. Set in 1977 Brazil with time jumps to its modern era, the story follows engineer “Marcello” as he attempts to flee Brazil with his son before a government-backed capitalist finds and kills him.

The movie harkens back to a 70’s Hollywood political thriller with a dense plot, rich characters, and storytelling that trusts the audience. The movie is visually striking, and Filho follows side stories while bending genres.

Actor Wagner Moura, playing two roles, has the most on-screen charisma of any lead performance I saw in 2025.

Watch it.

Agent

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Shoresy Season 5, Episode 2: The Great One. Hulu, 2026

See 100 Word reviews of previous episodes here

After the self-contained season premiere, the second episode slapshots the plot, skating most characters back into action. We even get a phone call from Sanguinet, whom we haven’t seen since season three. Don’t get too excited, Harlan Blayne Kytwayhat is not returning.

The Blueberry Bulldogs’ league is shutting down, their barn is flipping to basketball, the Europeans are beating North American teams, and Shoresy is back in the television studio. Shoresy is a generational talent at banter.

This show is too smart to play the upcoming xenophobia straight to the net. Stay tuned. And, oh yeah, Wayne Gretzky.

Stream it.

EP2

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO (2026)

Episodes 4-6 (Spoilers)

See review of 1-3 here

The origin story of Dunk & Egg’s team-up takes a darker turn in the second half of the premiere season. Due to his innate goodness, Dunk finds himself in power’s crosshairs, and Egg is revealed to be the nickname of princeling Aegon Targaryen.

This show shrinks Westeros down to an intimate experience; we have never spent this kind of quality time with the Smallfolk. Steely Pate, the armorer with a heart of gold, is an elite side character. The closing scene sets up season's worth of storytelling and an effective denouement to the black-and-blue bruising of the previous episode.

Watch it.

Knight

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Shoresy Season 5, Episode 1: Keep It Simple. Hulu, 2026

Note:

I will be reviewing every episode of Season 5

If I showed you the premiere of the fifth season of Shoresy, you’d cycle through:

1. This is the most profane thing I’ve seen on television

2. I can’t stop laughing

3. Am I crying?

4. Can I watch more?

5. Are we drinkin’ beers?

Shoresy is to prestige TV what a dirty limerick is to poetry. It’s also the empathetic but raunchy cis-hetro older brother to the hit show, Heated Rivalry. That isn’t just a good line. Jared Keso, the creator of Shoresy, and HR creator Jacob Tierney partnered on Letterkenney and Shoresy’s early seasons.

Catch up on it.

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Gore Verbinski (2026)

Maybe only absurdist satire can shock society out of the techno-death spiral we are diving into. Verbinski’s movie posits just that, exploring the humor wing of the Black Mirror genre. Cat-centaurs, Mar’s Attacks’ rayguns and malicious toys are mere flourishes in this bonkers cautionary tale.

The plot is Terminator if it were mainlining a chemical cocktail of Monty Python and LSD. Geoffrey Zanelli’s score signposts the plot like video game music.

Sam Rockwell’s messenger from the future is a career time-capsule role, and he leads a talented cast that grounds the film’s hopeful humanitarianism.

Buy a ticket, take the ride.

Good Luck

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Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie (2025)

A frenetic thrill ride beginning in the Lower East Side tenement buildings of NYC to become a globetrotting misadventure, ping-ponging across Europe, Africa, Japan, and New Jersey. Loosely based on real-life Ping Pong shark Marty Reisman, the movie is a mash-up of The Hustler and True Romance.

The plot borders on ridiculous, but the film is fueled by Timothy Chalamet’s charisma, ensnaring us into his madness. Hyper-stylized, with anachronistic needle drops, the movie feels contemporary until you see a car or a rotary phone.

Safdie assembles a cast that includes reality show stars, rappers, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

See it.

Marty

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO (2026)

Episodes 1-3 (Spoilers)

See review of episodes 4-6 here

Based on G.R.R. Martin's Dunk & Egg novellas, the chemistry between Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his tiny squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) powers this funny, bawdy, warm medieval sitcom.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms balances its tonal shifts with the familiarity of Baratheon and Targaryen names and Westerosi lore. Budget constraints help reduce the grandeur; money saved from a RenFair set is applied to bursts of spectacle in thunderous jousts and boss armor.

The episode-three Egg twist takes the story into more familiar GOT territory; hopefully, it brings the small folk with it.

Watch it.

Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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