Inspired by Swedish writer-director Lovisa Sirén’s own experience as a young parent, Without Kelly (Utan Kelly) is an independent short film with a profound maternal connection that explores motherhood and female intimacy.

The film was deeply moving and evoked a strong sense of empathy within me. Baby Kelly is simply adorable and melted my heart. I felt compassion for her mother Esther (Medea Strid ) who struggles with maternal separation anxiety and is unable to sustain a relationship, hence sharing custody with the baby’s father (Truls Carlberg). There was a deeply ingrained altruistic impulse to reach out and assist this mother and beautiful baby.

Sirén’s vision and personal life experience was emotionally resonant in every frame. She seamlessly incorporated cultural aspects – exploring the struggles and sacrifices that come with being a young single mother. The strong bond between a mother and her child is emphasized during the moment Esther comforts her baby with breast feeding. As for Esther’s demeanor of being carefree yet vulnerable to her indiscretions, the director used the practical sounds of squawking seagulls that are indicative of the psychological turmoil.

The performances are authentic and well-grounded. Medea Strid creates an emotional depth and resonance that draws you in with minimal words. The explicit displays of affection and physical touch transpire an open narrative to vast development of paths for the characters, which this short film has great potential to be converted into a full length film.

Without Kelly (Utan Kelly) will screen at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Short Film Program 3 — premiering on January 24 at 9:15pm MST. Find more information here.

Emerging from the underperforming 28 Years Later comes the fourth installment of the post-apocalyptic series 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, written by Alex Garland and directed by Nia DaCosta. This time the right director was selected in creating an engaging and visually driven adaptation of Garland’s screenplay. The principal characters are well rounded, with revealing backgrounds and how they transitioned to survival mode after the epidemic – highlighting themes of bereavement, faith, fear, anger, and psychosis.

The Bone Temple would not have reached my high praises without an interesting cast to display the weirdness and intense moments: Starring accomplished actor Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Ian Kelson, Jack O’Connell as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, and young talented actor Alfie Williams as Spike. Let’s not forget the apex-alpha zombie, aka Samson, played by Chi Lewis-Parry. Each gave unique performances, stepping out of their comfort zone expanding horizons. Fiennes and Lewis-Parry pushed their character’s limit with no shame, no judgement while dancing buck naked, exposing it all to the song “Ordinary World” by Duran Duran – a literal take on rock out with one’s cock out.

The premise of this film respectfully presents the topic of struggle of losing hope and longing for eternal peace. It creates the pivotal moment that arcs the principal characters’ background and the new evolution of the infected. There is a good balance of humor throughout the film that paired well with the ghastly moments – certain situations might be perceived as comedic, however, Director DaCosta cleverly snaps the audience back into fright mode as a reminder that it is still a terrifying setting created by the diabolical character Sir Jimmy Crystal (much modeled after the late Jimmy Savile) and his minions, “The Jimmies”.

When it comes to facing fear, DaCosta artistically portrays the topic of faith – getting philosophical on atheism vs Old Nick (Satan) that leads up to the epic scene of Dr. Kelson creating a satanic arena around the bone temple with Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast” blasting in the background. Ironically, the song was inspired by the movie “Damien: Omen II.” Ralph Fiennes has the moves of a rock star. He was electric like a guitar amplifying the volume to climatic levels, deserving an encore!.. Iron Maiden should invite him up on stage during one of their concerts.

The songs selected for the film score are not only the best throwbacks to British 80s and 90s music but provides deep connections to the narrative, making this a bloody fantastic horror film with all the right elements that rocks you to the core. The Bone Temple is the proper way to start 2026.

So, the big question: Do we see Cillian Murphy as Jim, the survivor of the original outbreak? Stay in your seat during the post credit for the huge reveal and cliffhanger that sets up the stage for a fifth chapter of the post-apocalyptic saga.

We had the opportunity to attend the world premiere plus interview the director/producer, pilots, PhDs, member of Congress that appear in THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE at this year’s SXSW in Austin, TX and it was revelatory, logical, interesting, and above all else believable.

Director/Producer Dan Farah (above) told us he approached the doc as a journalist and to investigate what was real and wasn’t real. His hope that the film would inform at a base level of what is happening and that humanity would take this topic more serious as a culture, government, and world. Watching the documentary you really feel that as revelatory after revelatory piece of information is clearly conveyed to the audience.

U.S NAVY Fighter Pilot (RET.) Commander David Fravor also spoke with us on the red carpet. He told us he thought Dan Farah did the best job up to this point in regards to revealing the truth to bring archival footage from the 70s, 90s, the 2000s to sitting congressman, sitting senators, and people in the know that are going to talk about this topic to remove the stigma and take this seriously.

Commander Fravor is the pilot who chased the now infamous TIC TAC UAP and talks about the experience in the documentary along with LT. COMMANDER ALEX DIETRICH U.S. NAVY Fighter Pilot (RET.) and LIEUTENANT RYAN GRAVES U.S. NAVY Fighter Pilot (RET.) who gives a secondhand description of a up close encounter of a UAP by a fellow pilot that is chilling.

LIEUTENANT RYAN GRAVES U.S. NAVY Fighter Pilot (RET.)

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE | TENNESSEE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT & ACCOUNTABILITY TIM BURCHETT explained to us he was a very conservative republican and this is a very bi-partisan issue and has asked his friend A.O.C. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) to get involved with this issue. There is a serious committee that has testified which have nothing to gain and Tim Burchett has lost contributors due to his stance. I also asked him about the drone UAP phenomena in the New Jersey area at the time and he thought it really had nothing to do with the UAP/UFOs in this documentary.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CIA, AATIP, UAP TASK FORCE | ADVISOR DR. GARRY NOLAN told us of an experience he had when he was a paperboy seeing a UFO/UAP fly over his head and exclaimed “as a boy in the 70s what do you do with that information?” Dr. Nolan also explained with current events and this documentary made it easier to talk about his experience and talk to others with similar experiences and interest. He also excitedly mentioned he has students that want to work in his lab on UAP at STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

NAVY INTELLIGENCE | DIA SENIOR EXECUTIVE (RET.) JAY STRATTON pictured above on the red carpet and in the documentary is maybe the most direct, forthright, non sensationalistic person that will tell you WE ARE NOT ALONE. He said we have been in an almost 80 year secret war to harness the technology and whoever wins will rule and this is TRUE DISCLOSURE. I asked him how many personal experiences he had with UAP/UFO and he said more than I want to talk about here. He said this is no sensationalism and as the guy who led the U.S. government’s UAP program, we are not alone. Jay does go into more depth in his involvement in the UAP program and makes a very shocking claim.

Watching this documentary in the Paramount theater with the creators and cast alongside some very famous directors and actors, it felt heavy and important. A watershed moment in one of the most talked about, controversial, and ponderous topics humanity has ever encountered. There are tons and tons of UFO docs on cable and streaming but none with the collection of reputable former military, current government officials, and scientists that supply a clear understanding of where we are at now, what has taken place, and a logical explanation on how the technology for the UAP/UFOs work which break the laws of all known physics and science. Other accounts of many different types of UAP/UFOs in excellent animation are also detailed as well as the pushback from various higher up officials due to reputation and religion. This documentary is great and once it was available on Prime Video, I had to buy it and watch it again.