u/-Atmosphere-7927

I'm on a quest to see 100 films in theaters this year, so I've watched a lot of movies throughout 2026. I saw a trailer for The Rivals of Amziah king maybe twice, and both times were a few weeks ago. I was predicting yet another 70's style action drama like Carolina Caroline or Motor City (both of which are in my top 10 of 2026 so far); but as I found out, that doesn't really describe this film. The Rivals of Amziah King has so many twists and turns (I don't want to spoil anything) that it keeps you on edge... but not the way a thriller keeps you on edge. There's a strange warmth to the unpredictability that I can't say I've ever seen before. THE LESS YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS MOVIE GOING INTO IT, THE BETTER.

And it's set to a killer soundtrack. And I don't even like country music! I want the CD.

Matthew McConaughey is going to get a well-deserved Oscar nod for this.

By all means, go see it. I'm an unapologetic fan Nolan's The Odyssey, and if The Odyssey wins Best Picture (as I think it will), I won't complain. But The Rivals of Amziah King has me questioning who I'm going to root for at the Oscars.

It so smacks of wokeness that they had to include a cat from India in the film!!! Why not, you know, only include cats from that part of the world??? So unrealistic and woke! Blah blah blah woke! An outrage, I tell you! An outrage!!! Anger! Anger! Anger! Mad mad mad!

I saw four films this weekend in theaters (I have Fridays off): Masters of the Universe, Power Ballad, Ghostbusters (1984, rerelease), and Carolina Caroline. All of these have their merits, but I'm worried that Carolina Caroline doesn't have a wide enough release to gain traction, because it deserves it.

What a powerhouse, at times heartbreaking, exciting film. Had it been released in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, it would have had wide exposure, but we're living in a time where effects-heavy blockbusters sit in theaters for week after week. Masters of the Universe and The Mandalorian and Grogu are fine enough, and I enjoyed them, but it's a shame that they take up so much silver screen real estate that films like Carolina Caroline slip under the radar.

If your local theater does offer screenings, please go see it.

I'm a hobbyist animator, and just got accepted into a film festival. I'm working on a second animation now, and this time I'm trying to draw as many 2- and 3-point perpective backgrounds as I can, so I have that on my mind.

I went to see Backrooms on Thursday. I kept paying attention to all the lines in the ceilings and walls and floors, which wasn't hard to do given the setting. Now, as I understand it, point perspective is an illusionary technique used to imitate what the eye sees but on a flat, 2-dimensional surface, and that starting with 3-point perspective it starts to warp and get all wonky. But there was one scene in which the Mary Kline character, standing in a doorway (or rather a doorless end of a passageway opening up into a bigger space in the Backrooms), seemed to look like a 3-point perpective. With my eyes I could trace the lines to three different vanishing points.

Was this achieved through a certain kind of lens, or an I just thinking about it way too much?

Sorry for my beginner's question, but I'm genuinely curious.

I'm just a hobbyist filmmaker. I have no aspirations to enter the professional filmmaking world. My highest hope is to someday have a short that will be shown on a movie screen to an audience at some film festival. So keeping that in mind, this is my question.

I caught a preview screening of "One Spoon of Chocolate" a few days ago. There's always something I find to like in any theatrical release, and with this one I paid attention to the graininess of the film on screen. It was shot on 35mm. A few weeks ago I also attended a screening of the original The Evil Dead, and that was even grainier, but it was shot in 16mm.

I found a grain filter in the editing program I've been using, and after checking it out, I to agree that it makes the short I'm currently working on look better.

HOWEVER, I realize that the screen size I'm working with, a typical iPad, is significantly smaller than a theatrical projection screen. When watching the trailer for One Spoon if Chocolate on my phone, the grain is far less apparent.

I don't have access to a large theatrical front projection screen. Am I correct in guessing that a little grain can go a long way, that if it's barely visible on an iPad, that it will still be highly visible in a theater?