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“The difference between a poison and a cure is the dose,” forest witch Selveig (Toby Poser) tells the skeptical father of a dying young woman in the horror film Mother Of Flies. This concept can be applied in both science and magic, and Mother Of Flies is informed by both Western medicine and occult practice, syncretizing these opposing forces by filtering them through its creators’ personal experiences with illness. The result is occult horror as potent as the snake venom in one of Selveig’s dreadful “cures.” Specifically, writer-directors John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser draw parallels between the powerful chemicals used in chemotherapy and the baneful magic of its title character, a necromancer who offers a college student a last-ditch treatment for her terminal cancer. Selveig first contacts Mickey (Zelda Adams) in a dream, a fact that Mickey declines to share with her dad Jake (John Adams) until they’re already at the witch’s Baba Yaga-esque hut. He wouldn’t have agreed to drive her there if he knew; she’s skeptical herself, but given her recent diagnosis, she has nothing left to lose. Selveig’s “cure” will take three days, and will be extremely painful. It will require Mickey to wade into the rot and decay that fuels Selveig’s power, confronting her own mortality in the process. Mother Of Flies accompanies the two step-by-step through the ritual, which is informed both by actual occult practices and Selveig’s fictional backstory. Selveig loves death. She’s intimate with it, both emotionally and physically. Poser gives herself completely to this strange, serious character, and her commitment is key to what makes the film work. The woods are an invaluable asset as well. As in their films Hellbender and Where The Devil Roams, the filmmakers favor a high-contrast look that renders the forest in saturated shades of green punctuated with eye-singing orange. The colors of death—bruised purple, deoxygenated blue—are similarly vivid, giving shots of maggots writhing in a pool of decomposing flesh an undeniable Gothic beauty. Images of bones and blood and corpses abound, and the overall vibe is like a heavy-metal music video in the best way possible. This is accompanied by an emotional gravity that comes from the film’s real-world context. Poser and John Adams are a married couple, and Zelda their daughter; together with older daughter Lulu Adams (who plays a small role as a hotel clerk), they’ve been making movies together for over a decade, developing their style as they go. Mother Of Flies is a new high for this tight-knit unit, drawing power from their own story as a family: Both Poser and John Adams are cancer survivors, and they have transformed that painful experience into an awesome work of art. An Adams family production is an inherently DIY affair: The writing, directing, editing, producing, cinematography, sound design, camera operation. costume design, set design, and set building for Mother Of Flies were all handled by Poser, Adams, and their children, who also make up the film’s core cast. (Even the doom-rock soundtrack was composed in-house by H6LLB6ND6R, a contender for the world’s coolest family band.) Combined with a minimal budget, this does mean the film has a few technical limitations. But getting hung up on those moments where the sound mix or video compositing are rough around the edges is missing the point. In a world where film production is increasingly consolidated into the hands of a few risk-adverse corporate entities, the Adams family embodies the spirit of true independent filmmaking. That wouldn’t matter if they weren’t doing it well, however, and Mother Of Flies outdoes many of its more well-funded peers in terms of both audacity and emotion. This is no paean to witchcraft as pop-feminist empowerment: Solveig’s magic is dark and dangerous, and the film is unblinking in terms of its relationship with death. Midway through their ordeal, Mickey asks her father what he will do if Solveig’s…

The next big Mattel movie looks like it’s pulling a few cues from Barbie. Both movies see an otherworldly hero relegated to a sterile and hostile Earth where they don’t fit in, but then have the chance to bring the lessons they learned here back to save their home. In Barbie, that meant embracing womanhood in all its forms and reaching a détante with men to live in something like harmony. In Masters Of The Universe, it looks like Prince Adam, aka He-Man, will get really buff and fight Skeletor (Jared Leto). But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In the first full trailer for Masters Of The Universe, which Amazon MGM shared today, Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) has been living in our capitalist dystopia for a while already. He’s got a job in HR, which bristles against his passion for swords: talking about them, drawing them, trying to steal them from mannequins. But he answers the call to heroism back to Eternia to try to save the day. Galitzine and Leto lead the cast along with Idris Elba as Duncan/Man-At-Arms and Camila Mendes as Teela. Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Morena Baccarin, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, and Charlotte Riley also star, with Kristen Wiig joining as the voice of “Roboto.” Masters Of The Universe will open in theaters on June 5, 2026.

Another year of film history is just about in the books. This morning, Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman announced the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. At this point in awards season, it can start to feel like the categories are a bit locked, but there were still a couple of things we could count as surprises. Wicked: For Good was completely shut out from the running this year, after racking up a whole slew of nominations (and a couple of wins) with its first part last year. Overall, Sinners led the charge with 16 nominations, becoming the most nominated-film in Oscar history. It was followed by One Battle After Another with 13 nods, and Frankenstein and Marty Supreme, each with 9. The 2026 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 15 in Los Angeles and will air—for one of the final times—on ABC with host Conan O’Brien. Check out the full list of nominees below. BEST PICTURE Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams BEST DIRECTOR Ryan Coogler, Sinners Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao, Hamnet Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another BEST ACTOR Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon Michael B. Jordan, Sinners Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent BEST ACTRESS Jessie Buckley, Hamnet Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value Emma Stone, Bugonia BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein Delroy Lindo, Sinners Sean Penn, One Battle After Another Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value Amy Madigan, Weapons Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Blue Moon, Robert Kaplow It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Sinners, Ryan Coogler BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Bugonia, Will Tracy Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro Hamnet, Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM ARCO Elio Kpop Demon Hunters Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain Zootopia 2 BEST EDITING Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Olivier Bugge Coutté, Sentimental Value Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another Stephen Mirrione, F1 Michael P. Shawver, Sinners BEST COSTUME DESIGN Avatar: Fire And Ash Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme Sinners BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Butterfly Forevergreen The Girl Who Cried Pearls Retirement Plan The Three Sisters BEST CASTING Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sinners BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM The Alabama Solution Come See Me In The Good Light Cutting Through Rocks Mr. Nobody Against Putin The Perfect Neighbor BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM All The Empty Rooms Armed Only With A Camera: The Life And Death Of Brent Renaud Children No More: Were and Are Gone The Devil Is Busy Perfectly A Strangeness BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM Brazil, The Secret Agent France, It Was Just An Accident Norway, Sentimental Value Spain, Sirât Tunisia, The Voice Of Hind Rajab BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM Butcher’s Stain A Friend Of Dorothy Jane Austen’s Period Drama The Singers Two People Exchanging Saliva BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING Frankenstein Kokuho Sinners The Smashing Machine The Ugly Stepsister BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet One Battle After Another Sinners BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Dear Me from Diane Warren: Relentless “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters “I Lied To You” from Sinners “Sweet Dreams Of Joy” from…