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The Odyssey (2026)

There is an unwritten rule in movie-going lore that I am still in pursuit of: seeing Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen (specifically in 70mm). While I have seen the film, I know experiencing it on the big screen is what makes it arguably the greatest of all film epics. While I have seen some epics in my life on the big screen (the LOTR trilogy, a re-release of Gone with the Wind), it is not often that I get to see a film that truly defines the term “epic”. 

Well, after predominantly sweeping the 96th Academy Awards with Oppenheimer, who better to satisfy that epic itch than Christopher Nolan?

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

When The Devil Wears Prada came out in 2006, I had just graduated from high school.

Looking back, the reason I never got around to seeing the film in the theater was a mixture of work (had to save up before college, obviously), still being under the spell of Roger Ebert (who did not like the original much), virtually no knowledge of fashion magazines, and other forgotten factors that led me to simply never seeing the films until…honestly, a few years ago. 

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Armageddon Time (2022)

Anyone who has ever taken any form of creative writing class surely knows one of the first rules: write what you know.

Filmmakers  have been making films loosely based on their own childhoods for sometime now, going as far back as Truffaut’s 1959 masterpiece The 400 Blows. Yet ever since 2018’s Roma (based off of past experiences by it’s director,  Alfonso Cuarón), there has seem to be a slight uptick in these types of films: Lee Issac Chung’s Minari (2020), Kenneth Branaugh’s Belfast (2021), and Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans, which is soon to be released in a few weeks. Now the spotlight is on the childhood of director James Gray, with Armageddon Time.

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