On Sunday, Mar. 15, one of the most anticipated film events of the year, the 2026 Oscars (98th Academy Awards) will act as the arbiter of fate once again.

The recent development of AI in creative spaces has led to the debate: what makes something art? What makes someone an artist?

Harry Styles’s fourth studio album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (2026) graced listeners' ears on Mar. 6, 2026. This listener has been patiently waiting for this album for what felt like decades.

It has become a common phenomenon for shows to continuously release endless new seasons, adding in new characters and plotlines to keep the show alive. But sometimes these creators take it too far, and the show simply just needs to die out.

Part of what makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, such an esteemed franchise is “The Plan.” Fans trust that each and every installation plays a part in moving some greater plot forward.

The How to Train Your Dragon film franchise must be one of the most beloved franchises in cinematic history. The first film, How to Train Your Dragon (2010), tells the story of a young Viking named Hiccup, who tries to prove he can become a dragon slayer in order to fit in with the rest of his village, only to form a bond with a dragon instead, changing life on the island for the better. It is a wonderful story of friendship and acceptance that went on to inspire two other films, multiple shorts, television shows, and most recently, a live-action remake just last year.

I went into the cinema completely blind—I would not have asked for it any other way. Nivanna: The Band The Show The Movie (2025) is nutty, hysterical, absurd, and somehow, ridiculously genius. Released in U.S. theatres on Feb. 13, 2026 distributed by indie film production company NEON, the ambitious one-of-a-kind film is directed by Matthew Johnson and written by Matthew Johnson and Jay McCarrol.

Recently there has been a resurgence of popularity of the show Sex and the City (1998-2004) with clips of the show being shared on social media sites like TikTok leading more young adults to find comfort in the comedy series. What many may not know about the show is that after its original popularity, a few other shows and movies were added to the franchise.

“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line…” is one of the most iconic lines from David Lynch and Mark Frost’s influential masterpiece Twin Peaks (1990–2017).

In summer 2026, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in the United Kingdom will premier a new, stage-adapted prequel to the TV drama Game of Thrones (2011-2019) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The popular TV series itself was adapted from the A Song of Fire and Ice book series by George R.R. Martin, and according to Playbill, the stage show “will take place a decade before the events of Martin's novels.”

In recent years, indie animation has had a massive surge in popularity. Indie animation, loosely, is basically any animated project that is first created by smaller studios without the influence of an entertainment industry giant such as Disney or Universal.

In the recent couple months, it seems like the hit musical artist Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has been making headlines left and right in the artist world. First, his album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (2025), won the Grammy award for Album of the Year.

In a world full of constant content consumption and doomscrolling, we are losing a very important form of entertainment—going to see a movie at your local movie theater. We continuously see the release of new movies in theaters, but it has become common practice to wait for these movies to be released onto a streaming platform to watch.

The film Geography Club (2013) is about a group of teens at Goodkind High School who form an afterschool club to explore their feelings around their sexual orientations. They call the club “Geography Club” because it sounds boring; they do not think anyone will come to the club without being invited.

Whether you love it or you hate it, unless you live under a rock, the re-use of certain actors in Hollywood is undeniable and ever so prevalent.

Super Bowl LX, which saw the Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots, and whose halftime show was headlined by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, broke records with an average viewership of 124.9 million viewers, according to The New York Times, across NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NBC+, and now sits as the “most-watched show in the history of NBCUniversal,” according to NBC News. 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, better known as the MCU, is well-known for action-packed scenes and the high-stakes battles that the superhero protagonists must fight. However, what makes the MCU so interesting is how their world is pretty much identical to ours, just with a couple alien invasions. It is filled with everyday people who are just trying to live their normal lives, even though magic powers and super villains occasionally get in the way. This is what the latest Marvel series, Wonder Man (2026), centers upon.

The inspiration behind this article comes from a very sad day, where I lost the Ticketmaster war for Noah Kahan tickets on his North American 2026 tour, The Great Divide.

Almost everyone who has indulged in the world of film and literature has come across romantic tropes such as enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, forbidden love, codependency, captor and prisoner, and unrequited yearning. The undebatable success of books and movies where these tropes are present seems pretty standard; however, when you break down the reasoning behind it, it is clear that it goes deeper than entertainment.