THE WATCHLIST From comfort rewatches to new obsessions: THE WATCHLIST is your space for everything film & TV. Reviews, recommendations, deep dives and the stories everyone’s talking about. LIFESTYLE 'Hamnet' Hurts, And That Is A Good Thing In the last months, 'Hamnet', the new movie by Chloé Zhao, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, has been ever-present. Often criticized for being emotionally manipulative, the movie is, rather, a complex analysis of love and grief, and a reminder that grief is irreversible. Words: Annabelle / January 28th, 2026 LIFESTYLE The Physical Burden of the Past: Fatherhood in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Frankstein remains one of the most adapted novels to this day. In November 2025, director Guillermo del Toro presented his adaptation of the Gothic classic, creating a haunting story about fatherhood, moral agency, and the burden of the past. Words: Annabelle / December 27th, 2025 STORYTELLING What Andor teaches us about Fascism, the Monopoly of Violence and Western Imperialism In uncertain times and the rising threat of facism, the question of how to fight these troubling development arises. The Star Wars show "Andor" sets out to explore the multiple facets and ways on how to rise up against tyranny, delivering what may well be one of the best shows this decade. Words: Lars / July 27th, 2025 LIFESTYLE The Nightmares and Terror of Reality - Can Goth make a Comeback to 21st-century Hollywood? Over the last decade, Hollywood has produced one superhero movie after another, presenting the ultimate hero journey—the classic good vs. evil. But do the moral untouchables still represent the societal turmoil we are currently facing? Some of the biggest movie makers do not think so and have chosen Goth as their expression – the transmission of daily terror and the sublime. But does a tradition from the 19th century prevail and contribute to a Hollywood that tells stories in which the sublime of reality becomes the new star? Words: Annabelle / June 1st, 2025 LIFESTYLE The Oscars 2025: The Winners, The Losers, and Everything In Between The 97th Academy Awards went down last night, and once again, the nominations and results have left us all in a spiral of confusion, rage, and the occasional "Well, at least they got that one right." But let's get real: what is going on with the Oscars this year? Emilia Pérez racking up 13 nominations like it's the second coming of Titanic? Challengers getting completely ignored? No nomination for Denis Villeneuve as Best Director for Dune: Part Two? Make it make sense! Words: Ilayda / March 3rd, 2025 STORYTELLING Hollywood hates Weird: The Strange Normalization of Abstract Stories Within Hollywood`s large roster of stories, one noticeable trend is the insistence to make fantastical stories "normal" and less removed from our own world. This obsession has a large impact on how we view the stories being told, as well as how the themes are being portrayed. Let`s take a small look at a few shows and movies from the last couple of years and see, how Hollywoods obsession with normalcy harms entertainment. Words: Lars / November 18th, 2024 ← Newer articles
