In the shadows of summer’s heat, stories sharpen. This week, the cinematic world delivered a slate of trailers drenched in action, myth, and melancholy, alongside casting shifts and directorial moves that hint at genre evolution. Whether you're drawn to swords, street chases, or dystopian futures, there's a fresh pulse in the grey.

This film is entertaining, sure, but at some point we have to stop giving Blockbuster films a free pass because they’re loud, expensive and the IP generates money and nostalgia. Jurassic World: Rebirth isn’t a bad movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s too scary to be an action-adventure, too placid to be a horror movie. We know big-budget films are capable of being written properly. Top Gun: Maverick, Max Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: Rogue One, The Dark Knight the list g

In Star Wars, the speeches, the monologues, the epic quotes, and the one-liners that hit hard. They aren’t filler. They reveal character. They show us who these people are, what they believe in, and what they’re willing to fight for. They carry prophecy, politics, and pain. They offer guidance, conviction… and hope.

The Phantom Menace is the perfect title for a movie with no rhyme or reason in the conceptual world of Star Wars. It’s deliberately ambiguous, the representation of a film that could have layers if it were written with the intent of actually adding to the universe. Instead, it screams of a vanity project, a fantastical reach into Star Wars that implicates at something looming: Sidious is hiding, the Sith are hinted at, Anakin is introduced, but there is no meaning in this fil