For the subject of his documentary, director Andres Veiel turns his camera on the complicated figure of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl who rose to prominence during the rise of Germany’s Third Reich. Regarded as an innovator in the art of filmmaking, Riefenstahl’s friendships with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, along with her work in help create and style Nazi propaganda films, creates a controversial legacy to parse.
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The 2025 film adapts the 1890s play setting it in the 1950s by casting Tessa Thompson in the starring role of Hedda Gabler, a once vibrant woman now stuck in a marriage and a house she has no love for and the key cog in a party full of mostly insufferable socialites being awful to each other for most of the 107-minute runtime.
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The second and third episodes of The Mighty Nein continue to introduce most of the remaining core charactrs and put them on a path that will converge at the Fletching & Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities. We meet the young sailor Fjord Stone (Travis Willingham) whose ship and entire crew are killed by a sea monser. Brought back to life by something deep underwater with glowing eyes, Fjord finds himself alive, on shore, and with a set of new magical sword and powers to explore. He won’t be the last character we’re introduced to touched by some unknown powerful force.
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As with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey released earlier this year, Eternity puts a supernatural twist on your basic romcom. After a full life Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) wakes up in a sort of train station for the afterlife one week after her husband Larry (Miles Teller) died. Returned to their ideal ages of themselves, each gets a week to choose a different perfect world in which to spend eternity, although those who can’t decide can choose to stick around the station which is where Joan’s dilemma arrives as her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, has been doing that for 67 years waiting for the love of his life in order for them to wade into eternity together.
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