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Bloody Tennis (2026) | Fantastic Fest 2026 | REVIEW

An image from Nikias Chryssos' BLOODY TENNIS. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release.
An image from Nikias Chryssos’ BLOODY TENNIS. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release.

Directed by Nikias Chryssos – Screenplay by Nikias Chryssos.

Ahead of its streaming release on Shudder in the US this Friday, September 25th, Nikias Chryssos’ Bloody Tennis had its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest in recent days. It went quite well for Chryssos, as he won the festival’s Best Director prize in the horror category. For my remote coverage of the festival, I also had the opportunity to check out Chryssos’ picture. I was quite intrigued by this film given its cast, which includes a Danish lead actor and a supporting role for a beloved Croatian-Danish character actor. Chryssos’ film shows a lot of ambition, but it is a little bit of a mixed bag. Despite certain shortcomings, I had a pretty solid time with the film, and I thought many of its horror images worked quite well.

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2026 TV Review Catch-Up, June Update | Bite-Sized Reviews

Top Row: The Chestnut Man (Netflix); DTF St. Louis (HBO); Fallout: Season Two (Prime Video).
Bottom Row: Ponies (Peacock); Rooster (HBO); Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (Netflix).

We’re right around halfway through 2026, and there have been so many shows to watch that I almost feel a little bit overwhelmed at times. Therefore, I like to do these TV Review Catch-Ups, so as to get my thoughts out there on a wide variety of shows that I watched and perhaps enjoyed, but which didn’t really inspire me to dedicate entire solo reviews for. So, instead, here I’ve collected my thoughts in bite-sized form in a review compilation. This time around, I’m giving you my thoughts on 1) a returning Danish Netflix series, 2) a very odd HBO dramedy, 3) a video-game adaptation whose second season may not have fully blown me away, 4) an underseen period piece spy-dramedy, 5) another Bill Lawrence comedy, and 6) an unsettling Netflix original series from earlier this year.

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REVIEW: Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Woody Harrelson (right) plays a drunken American captain of a yacht that’s about to be bought by a wealthy Russian capitalist (played by Zlatko Burić) in Ruben Östlund’s TRIANGLE OF SADNESS — PHOTO: NEON / SF Studios..

Directed by Ruben Östlund (The Square) — Screenplay by Ruben Östlund.

Alongside the Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo 31. August) and the Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Druk), the Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund is one of the very best Scandinavian filmmakers working right now. Östlund has been working as a filmmaker for more than a decade, but I think it’s fair to say that it is with his 2014 effort, Force Majeure, that he had his true international breakthrough. Including his latest film, Östlund’s last three films have all received awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. With Triangle of Sadness, the Swede is now a two-time Palme d’Or winner (winning his first one for the utterly hilarious The Square from 2017). Having swapped the square out in favor of a triangle (the title refers to an area between your eyebrows and your nose bridge that can be ‘fixed’ with botox), Östlund has managed to keep his satirical writing equally sharp and at times outright hilarious. Triangle of Sadness is one of the best films of the year.

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