Tag: Education

Adult Supervision (2026) | Fantastic Fest 2026 | REVIEW

Linus Wahlgren, Fares Fares, and Gustaf Skarsgård in Alex Schulman’s ADULT SUPERVISION. Image provided by Fantastic Fest. Courtesy of Heretic.
Linus Wahlgren, Fares Fares, and Gustaf Skarsgård in Alex Schulman’s ADULT SUPERVISION. Image provided by Fantastic Fest. Courtesy of Heretic.

Directed by Alex Schulman – Screenplay by Alex Schulman.

These are exciting times for writer-director Alex Schulman. Earlier this month, Alex Schulman’s debut feature, Adult Supervision (known as Arkipelag in Sweden), was announced as Sweden’s official submission for the upcoming Academy Awards’ Best International Feature category. Just last weekend, a few days ago, it had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and its theatrical release in Sweden is set to kick off on October 9th. Swedes and audiences around the world have something great to look forward to. Adult Supervision is a well-cast, thought-provoking, and sometimes even disturbing film that takes a closer look at modern parenting and troubling modern social dynamics in school classes. 

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REVIEWS: Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ Film Series (2020)

Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeConte in “Mangrove.” — Photo: Des Willie / Amazon Prime Video.

When British filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen makes a film, you pay attention. McQueen has quietly become one of the best directors of his generation with critical darlings such as the perhaps underseen Michael Fassbender-led films Hunger and Shame, the Oscar-winning Solomon Northup-biopic 12 Years a Slave, and his 2018 heist film Widows, which did not get the awards attention it deserved. In 2020, McQueen released a collection of films — an anthology — titled Small Axe at film festivals and later on, for example, BBC or Prime Video (on the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s streaming service in my territory).

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