TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

Every June, Pride Month invites us to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in all its joy and complexity. What began as a movement rooted in protest has grown into a global celebration of identity, chosen family, and the ongoing fight for equality. Pride is a time to honor the trailblazers who pushed culture forward, the artists who never made themselves smaller.  Film has always played an important role in that visibility. Queer cinema gives audiences more than representation; it offers connection and perspective. From romantic comedies to biographical dramas, LGBTQ+ stories help expand the screen into a place where more people can recognize themselves. This Pride Month, we’re highlighting two titles that explore queer identity from very different angles: Alto and Liberace: Behind the Music . In Alto , Francesca “Frankie” Del Vecchio is headstrong, passionate, and caught between love, family, and identity. This LGBTQ+ romantic comedy blends cultural pride, family expectations, and an...

This summer, science fiction is looking up again. With Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day (starring Emily Blunt) arriving in theaters, audiences are once again being invited to ask one of the genre’s oldest questions: what if we are not alone? It is a question Spielberg has returned to throughout his career, from the wide-eyed wonder of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the suburban magic of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the darker futuristic paranoia of Minority Report . His best sci-fi stories are about awe, fear, communication, and the human tendency to believe that there is something bigger happening in the cosmos.  That is what makes “disclosure” such a perfect sci-fi subject. The idea of a hidden truth finally being revealed taps into our collective fascination with government secrets, extraterrestrial encounters, alternate timelines, and futures we may not be ready to face. Sci-fi gives us a safe, spectacular way to imagine: first contact, time travel, dystopian syst...

Something strange is happening at the movies, and for once, that strangeness has caught everyone’s attention, not just the attention of the niche horror community. Horror is having another major moment, but this time, the success stories are not only coming from familiar franchises, legacy villains, or polished studio formulas. Audiences are showing up for the uncanny, the experimental, the internet-born , and the deeply weird. Recent hits like Backrooms and Obsession prove that modern horror fans are not just willing to embrace the strange; they are actively hungry for it. Both films come from young filmmakers who built their voices online before leaping into theaters, and both tap into a kind of fear that feels especially current. This new wave of horror is not only about monsters hiding in the dark. It is about obsession, isolation, digital folklore, liminal spaces, buried memories, and the uneasy feeling that reality itself might be thinner than we thought. Horror has always been...