“Forbidden Fruits” (2026)
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.

Unit 9 was the prison where the brutal military dictatorship held thousands of political prisoners, separating their leaders into two Death Rows, only to murder them without trial. Not only would the prisoners be murdered by the army, but their families as well. The struggle for life and dignity was renewed every day, and will, ingenuity, and humor were weapons of resistance.
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.
A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.