Trailer Blitz! Forbidden Fruits, Obsession, California Schemin’, The Magic Faraway Tree and More
🎥 Here's a list of films coming to screens soon!
🎥 “Forbidden Fruits” Trailer: Lili Reinhart Leads a Mall Coven in This Diablo Cody-Produced Witch Satire with Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp & Lola Tung — Debuting at SXSW and Opening in Theaters March 27th
A coven of witches conjures up a certain image in one’s mind, perhaps one where three decrepit old ladies hover over a black cauldron inside a darkened cave. Well, erase that. Because this time around, the broomsticks have been traded for beauty counters, the spell books are tucked behind pastel storefront displays, and the real ritual happens after closing time at the local mall.
Premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Forbidden Fruits is a pastel-soaked dark comedy with a witchy edge. Directed by Meredith Alloway (Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween: First Date) and produced by Oscar-winner Diablo Cody, of Juno and Jennifer’s Body fame, this mall-set coven thriller stars Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart as Apple, a relentlessly chipper employee at suburban mall boutique Free Eden who, by night, is the high priestess of a hyper-feminine witch cult where sisterhood is sacred and loyalty is enforced in blood.
Apple leads her devoted “fruits,” including Cherry (Victoria Pedretti, of The Haunting of Bly Manor) and Fig (Alexandra Shipp, of X-Men and Barbie), in after-hours ceremonies involving goat’s milk, truffle oil, and a shared fantasy of overthrowing management. It’s sisterhood as performance art. All soft colors and wickedly sharp intentions.
But when new hire Pumpkin (Lola Tung, of Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty) enters the fold, bringing a new energy of snark and defiance, the group’s curated harmony starts to crack. Resentments simmer. Loyalties wobble. And what began as empowerment with a wink threatens to spiral into something far more dangerous and feral.
Think a cross between Mean Girls and The Craft, with a dash of Heathers, Practical Magic, and Jawbreaker thrown in for good measure.
Influencer Emma Chamberlain co-stars alongside Gabrielle Union, rounding out the cast. The screenplay is written by Alloway and Lily Houghton, based on Houghton’s own play, which appears to revel in the absurdity of corporate bubblegum femininity while skewering the fragility of performative sisterhood.
Following its world premiere at SXSW next month, Forbidden Fruits will head to theaters on March 27th, followed by a streaming release on Shudder at a later date.
🎥 “Obsession” New Teaser Trailer: Viral Filmmaker Curry Barker Reimagines the Monkey’s Paw Curse as a Twisted Supernatural Thriller Starring Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette — Arriving in Theaters May 15th
Quick question: Would you rather have someone love you and truly mean it… or have someone love you and just say they mean it? Because if we’re being honest, those are two very different things.
The upcoming supernatural thriller Obsession explores just how much some are willing to give up just to hear the words “I love you,” even when those words don’t mean a damn thing.
Part cautionary fable and part dark, twisty horror romance, Michael Johnston (from MTV’s Teen Wolf) stars as Bear, a lonely music store clerk who purchases a mysterious supernatural trinket known as the “One Wish Willow” in hopes of finally winning over his longtime crush, Nikki, played by Superman & Lois standout Inde Navarrette. But love, as Bear quickly learns, can either bloom naturally or be forced into existence with terrifying side effects. And when affection is magically manufactured, consent and consequence get tangled fast. Now just having someone say “I love you” isn’t the dream come true he imagined… it’s the beginning of a nightmare where every whispered word feels hollow, if not downright terrifying.
Reworking the classic monkey paw’s curse with a modern twist, writer-director Curry Barker examines how control can be disguised as devotion and how the desire to be loved can twist into utter obsession.
Making his feature debut with Obsession, Barker is the 25-year-old viral filmmaker behind the breakout found-footage short Milk & Serial, an internet phenomenon that not only launched his first feature but also sparked a multimillion-dollar deal with Focus Features, along with a two-picture pact with Blumhouse honcho Jason Blum. Barker comes on the heels of other YouTube filmmakers who are carving out real estate in Hollywood, proving that popular internet content can, in fact, translate into legitimate studio opportunities.
Co-starring Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter, Obsession hits theaters May 15th.
🎥 “California Schemin’” International Trailer: Two Scottish Dreamers Reinvent Themselves as West Coast Rappers in James McAvoy’s Stranger-Than-Fiction Hip-Hop Biopic Starring Samuel Bottomley and Séamus McLean Ross — Arriving in U.K. Theaters April 10th
How far would you go to achieve your lifelong dream? Would you pretend to be American rappers and tour around Britain and Europe in a complete lie? Hey, as far as hoaxes go, this one wasn’t exactly the crime of the century. But this stranger-than-fiction true story about how two Scottish knuckleheads were able to convince the entire British music industry that they were legit West Coast hip-hop artists is the kind of tale that makes you both shake your head and slow-clap their sheer audacity.
Marking the directorial debut of James McAvoy, California Schemin’ is a new hip-hop biopic that dramatizes the most infamous music hoax of all time, perhaps only second to Milli Vanilli. This is the outrageous true story of Silibil N’ Brains, a Scottish rap duo who, in the early 2000s, couldn’t get anyone to take them seriously with their natural accents... so they reinvented themselves as West Coast American MCs. Fake accents. Fake backstories. But very real ambition. And what do you know? They took off like a rocket.
Samuel Bottomley (Ladhood) and Séamus McLean Ross (Outlander: Blood of My Blood) star as Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two best mates mocked off a London stage for daring to rhyme in Scottish brogues. So they do what any scrappy dreamers might do when the industry laughs in their faces: they double down and commit to the bit. Donning flimsy California drawls, they tour the U.K. as the next big American rap import. They somehow land a record deal and the slot to open for Eminem. And for a brief moment, the con works. Until it doesn’t.
McAvoy co-stars as their slightly unhinged record-label boss, leaning into the chaos as the lie spirals into a full-time fabrication. Also featuring James Corden, Amber Anderson, and Jennifer Winn, the film is based on Bain’s autobiography Straight Outta Scotland and builds on the story first explored in the 2014 documentary The Great Hip Hop Hoax.
After premiering last year at TIFF to strong reviews, California Schemin’ now heads to U.K. theaters on April 10. No U.S. release date yet. But we imagine the star power of James McAvoy will eventually land a U.S. distributor sooner or later.
🎥 “The Magic Faraway Tree” New International Trailer: Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield Discover a Storybook World Above the Clouds in Simon Farnaby’s Whimsical Adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Classic Children’s Books — Arriving in UK Cinemas March 27th
Sometimes the best escape isn’t a vacation. It’s a tree. A faraway tree tucked deep inside a magical forest, waiting to be climbed.
In this new British fantasy comedy adventure The Magic Faraway Tree, Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield play parents who relocate their family to the English countryside for a quiet reset, only for their children to stumble upon something extraordinary towering in the nearby woods.
That “something” is the Faraway Tree; a magical gateway to ever-changing lands perched high above the clouds. Each branch opens into a new fantastical realm populated by eccentric characters like Moonface (Nonso Anozie; of Sweet Tooth), Dame Washalot (Jessica Gunning; of Baby Reindeer), and Silky (Nicola Coughlan; of Bridgerton).
It’s the kind of story that feels plucked straight from a dusty storybook shelf and given a modern polish. And, well... it kind of is. The film adapts Enid Blyton’s beloved children’s novel series, where curious kids climb into surreal, candy-colored worlds high above the tree line, discovering lands that shift as quickly as imagination itself.
Adapted for the screen by Simon Farnaby (the sly, warm-hearted mind behind Paddington 2) and directed by British TV helmer Ben Gregor (whose credits include Brassic, Cuckoo, and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret), the film looks poised to deliver a family spectacle with that distinctly British blend of charm and cheekiness.
The Magic Faraway Tree is slated to open in UK cinemas on March 27th. As of now, there’s no official U.S. release date.
🎥 “The Revenant: 10th Anniversary” Re-Release Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio and Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Oscar-Winning Frontier Survival Epic Returns to the Big Screen — Exclusively in IMAX February 26th and March 1st
Leonardo DiCaprio delivered a career-defining performance that finally earned him an Academy Award in this punishing frontier survival drama. As real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass, DiCaprio endures a savage bear attack and is left for dead by his own crew, including Tom Hardy’s treacherous John Fitzgerald. For the film’s 10th anniversary, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu has supervised a new remaster as it returns to IMAX screens next week. So it’s time to revisit DiCaprio’s staggering portrayal of a man unwilling to quit in the face of impossible odds, battling nature, betrayal, and his own breaking point.
🎥 “Psycho Killer” New Promo: A Highway Patrol Officer (Georgina Campbell) Hunts the ‘Satanic Slasher’ in This Twisted Road-Trip Horror Film From the Writer of Se7en — In Theaters February 20th
Evil doesn’t stay parked on the side of the road. Sometimes you have to chase it down. In this relentless cross-country horror thriller, Barbarian actress Georgina Campbell plays a Kansas highway patrol officer who turns hunter after her policeman husband is brutally murdered, pursuing a drifter she soon realizes is a calculating serial killer. As the chase stretches across state lines, justice twists into obsession, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the man she’s tracking is playing by rules no badge can contain. From screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, of Se7en fame, this nerve-shredding cat-and-mouse spiral suggests some predators aren’t running from the law… they’re daring it to follow them into the dark.
🎥 “Los Lobos: Native Sons” Teaser: The Iconic East L.A. Band Gets a Definitive 50-Year Chronicle in This Authorized Music Documentary — Premiering This March at SXSW
Some bands don’t just play music... they rewrite the soundtrack of an entire culture. In this definitive, authorized documentary from filmmakers Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush, Los Lobos’ fifty-year journey unfolds from East L.A. backyard weddings and quinceañeras to the White House and stages around the world. With intimate archive access and candid reflections from figures like Linda Ronstadt, Rubén Blades, Tom Waits, Dolores Huerta, and Cheech Marin, the film captures the brotherhood behind a genre-defying sound that fused rock, L.A. roots, and Mexican tradition into something unmistakably their own. This isn’t just a celebration of endurance; it’s a reminder that heritage, when amplified, can echo far beyond the neighborhood it started in.
🎥 “Sandiwara” Trailer: Michelle Yeoh Embodies Five Characters in Sean Baker’s iPhone-Shot Short Film — Premiering at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival
Following his Oscar win for Anora, indie filmmaker Sean Baker returns to scrappy experimentation, once again shooting on an iPhone for this 11-minute short starring Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh. Set against the vibrant backdrop of a Malaysian city, Yeoh transforms into five distinct women: an influencer, a food critic, a chef, a restaurant server, and a singer; each moving through the city on separate tracks until their stories begin to quietly intersect. Written, directed, shot, and edited by Baker, this lyrical character study turns bustling streets into an intimate canvas, suggesting that identity isn’t something we perform once, but something we keep rediscovering.
🎥 “Rose of Nevada” Trailer: Callum Turner and George MacKay Board a Long-Lost Fishing Vessel in Mark Jenkin’s Time-Slipping Folk Thriller — In Theaters June 19th
Mark Jenkin, the Cornish auteur behind cult favorites Enys Men and Bait, returns with another hypnotically eerie folk thriller steeped in salt air and superstition. Shot in his unmistakable vintage aesthetic, the film stars Callum Turner and George Mackay as two desperate men who sign on to work aboard a fishing vessel that vanished thirty years ago without a trace, only to suddenly reappear in the harbor as if it never left. Once they set sail, the tide turns, and the pair discover the sea has carried them backward in time. Mistaken for the ship’s original sailors, they’re forced to inhabit a history that never resolved, where memory and fate blur like ripples across dark water. Shot in Jenkin’s signature old-timey style, this haunted maritime tale suggests some voyages don’t move forward… and sometimes the past doesn’t drift away. It waits.
🎥 “Finding Emily” International Trailer: Spike Fearn Chases The Girl of His Dreams in This Charming British Campus-Set Rom-Com with Angourie Rice — In UK Cinemas May 22nd
Love can be maddening... especially when the person you fell for accidentally hands you the wrong phone number. A simple texting mix-up sparks a campus-wide quest when a lovesick musician named Owen (Spike Fearn) realizes he’s been pouring his heart out to the wrong girl in this charming British rom-com about chasing the idea of a dream girl. He soon teams up with Sami (Angourie Rice), a sharp, hyper-focused psychology student writing a paper on the ills of romantic attachment, to track down his supposed soulmate, fellow student Emily. What begins as a harmless search quickly snowballs into a viral tale of unrequited love that sweeps through the university. But as the frenzy grows, so do the unexpected feelings neither Owen nor Sami planned for, forcing them to question whether destiny was ever about the girl he was chasing... or the one standing beside him all along. Directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, with Minnie Driver co-starring, this is a reminder that the heart rarely follows a straight line.
🎥 “The Napa Boys” Trailer: A Mysterious Sommelier Sends Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman on a Vineyard-Fueled Adventure in this Boozy Ensemble Comedy — In Theaters February 27th
The wine is flowing again, and so is the chaos. In this fourth chapter of the cult comedy franchise (albeit a totally fake franchise that never actually existed), Jack Jr. (Nick Corirossi) and his reluctant co-captain Miles Jr. (Armen Weitzman) reunite the Napa Boys for one last Wine Wagon misadventure after a cryptic mission is handed down by a shadowy figure known only as “The Sommelier.” Joined by Puck, an overeager podcaster and self-proclaimed superfan, the crew barrels headfirst into an absurd, wine-soaked quest that quickly spirals beyond their control. As egos clash and loyalties wobble, the gang must decide whether they’re legends in the making or just hungover history. Think Wet Hot American Summer meets Sideways; a parody franchise where the canon is bogus but the laughs are very, very real.
🎥 “Mi Amor” International Trailer: Guardians of the Galaxy’s Pom Klementieff Hunts for a Missing Friend in Guillaume Nicloux’s Canary Islands Thriller — In Theaters May 6th
Guardians of the Galaxy star Pom Klementieff trades cosmic demeanor for raw vulnerability in this French-English missing-person thriller from acclaimed French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux (Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq). Pom stars as Romy, a globe-trotting DJ whose Canary Islands tour turns personal when her friend (Industry’s Freya Mavor) suddenly disappears without explanation. As Romy pushes past indifferent police and tight-lipped locals, she finds herself entangled with a charismatic stranger (Benoît Magimel) whose charm masks something far more unsettling. And the deeper she digs, the less certain it becomes that anyone wants her to leave with the truth.
🎥 “Deep Water” Teaser Trailer: Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley Brace for Impact in Director Renny Harlin’s Plane-Crash Survival Thriller — In Theaters May 1st
Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley take to the skies in this pulse-pounding disaster thriller from director Renny Harlin, of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger fame. Playing the pilots of a doomed Los Angeles–to–Shanghai flight, Eckhart and Kingsley guide their aircraft into an emergency ocean landing that leaves passengers adrift in shark-infested waters. What begins as relief at surviving the crash quickly gives way to dread as predators circle the floating wreckage. It’s a stripped-down survival suspense thriller that turns the open ocean into a tightening trap where rescue may not come soon enough... or ever.
🎥 “Girls Like Girls” Trailer: A Teen’s Summer Awakening Sparks Romance and Self-Discovery in Musician Hayley Kiyoko’s Feature Debut Starring Maya da Costa & Myra Molloy — Arriving in Theaters June 19th
Actress-musician Hayley Kiyoko steps behind the camera for her feature writing and directing debut, expanding her hit song and best-selling novel into a full-fledged coming-of-age romance. Maya da Costa stars as Coley, a timid new arrival whose world shifts when she falls for Sonya (played by Myra Molloy) during one transformative summer. As first love blossoms, insecurities and social pressures test their connection, pushing Coley to choose between safety and self-acceptance. With Levon Hawke and Zach Braff costarring, this heartfelt teen romance leans into vulnerability and the thrill of discovering who you are.
🎥 “Yes” Trailer: A Jazz Musician (Ariel Bronz) Faces the Cost of Nationalism in Nadav Lapid’s Biting Political Satire About Art and Propaganda — Hitting U.S. Theaters March 27th
Filmmaker Nadav Lapid, one of Israeli cinema’s most confrontational voices, returns with a sharp, biting political satire that questions the government’s shift toward brutal nationalism in the wake of a national tragedy. In his latest audacious effort, Ariel Bronz stars as Y., a jazz musician who, alongside his dancer wife (Efrat Dor), pledges total compliance to a nation in crisis, offering their talent to the very establishment Lapid has long challenged. The film begins as provocation but deepens into a study of artistic surrender, as Y. is commissioned to compose a soaring national anthem meant to unify his countrymen, despite his own doubts about the government’s response to October 7th. As art and artistic integrity become folded into a propaganda machine, the film interrogates how easily dissent can be absorbed by the very systems it seeks to resist.
🎥 “Erupcja” Trailer: Charli XCX and Lena Góra Navigate Desire and Disaster in Pete Ohs’ Eruptive Polish Love Story — Opening in Theaters April 17th
Pop star Charli XCX continues her move into acting, starring alongside Lena Góra in this simmering, Polish-set relationship drama from music video director–turned–indie filmmaker Pete Ohs (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, Jethica). When Bethany (Charli XCX) returns to Warsaw with her new boyfriend (Will Madden), she unsettles the carefully arranged life of her childhood friend Nel (Góra), who works quietly at a neighborhood flower shop. What follows is less a warm reunion than a slow emotional detonation, as old intimacy rubs against new loyalties and unresolved feelings begin to surface. As tensions rise and friendships fracture, the metaphorical eruption becomes impossible to ignore.
🎥 “Omaha” Trailer: A Father’s Road Trip Hides a Hard Truth in This 2008-Set Coming-of-Age Drama Starring John Magaro — Opening in New York April 24th, Expanding Nationwide in May
In this quiet coming-of-age drama, John Magaro plays a father who wakes his children before dawn and steers them across the American West, telling Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and her younger brother Charlie (Wyatt Solis) just enough to keep the engine running while the truth trails close behind. As the miles stretch on and the weight of a 2008 foreclosure settles in, Ella begins to understand that this road trip isn’t spontaneous… it’s survival. Directed by Cole Webley and written by Robert Machoian, this tender family portrait suggests that growing up sometimes means realizing home isn’t a fixed destination but something already slipping further into the rearview mirror.
🎥 “The Shark That Roared” Teaser: Jaws: The Revenge Stars Lance Guest and Mario Van Peebles Revisit the Cult, Widely Panned Sequel in This Crowd-Funded Indie Documentary — Coming Soon
Cult infamy never dies... it just circles back for another bite. In this self-aware documentary, Jaws: The Revenge stars Lance Guest and Mario Van Peebles resurface to confront the sequel’s long-standing reputation, joined by filmmaker Kevin Smith, comedian James “Murr” Murray and others as they unpack how a widely panned franchise chapter somehow earned cult endurance. Built from fan passion and crowdfunded momentum, this indie retrospective leans into the legacy of a film once dismissed as the shark that sank the series, only to discover that time has a funny way of rewriting failure, or at least giving it a long-overdue reexamination.
🎥 “ChaO” Trailer: A Timid Shipyard Worker Is Swept Into Mermaid Royalty in Yasuhiro Aoki’s Genre-Bending Anime — In Theaters April 10th
In this wildly colorful sci-fi romance from veteran animator Yasuhiro Aoki and STUDIO4°C, a timid shipyard employee named Stephan finds his carefully ordered life detonated when a bubbly mermaid princess proposes marriage out of nowhere. As humans and mermaids navigate a fragile coexistence, shopping sprees escalate into giant robots and fireworks, forcing Stephan to confront feelings he can’t engineer his way out of. Seven years in the making, this genre-defying animated fantasia suggests that coexistence isn’t negotiated... it’s tested in the heart.
🎥 “Do Not Enter” Trailer: Jake Manley and Adeline Rudolph Livestream a Night of Terror Inside an Abandoned Hotel — In Select Theaters and On VOD/Digital March 20th
A livestream stunt meant to skyrocket a fanbase turns into a night no one can log off from. When a crew of thrill-seeking urban explorers known as the Creepers break into New Jersey’s abandoned Paragon Hotel, they expect ghosts, mob lore, and maybe a buried fortune rumored to be worth $300 million. Instead, they find rival treasure hunters, fractured loyalties, and something far more predatory stalking the halls in this savage horror thriller starring Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, and Javier Botet. The only thing scarier than the dark is how far they’re willing to go for views.
🎥 “Two Prosecutors” Trailer: Aleksandr Kuznetsov Confronts Stalin-Era Paranoia in Sergei Loznitsa’s Stark Soviet Thriller — Opening March 20th in New York, March 27th in Los Angeles
Written and directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, this stark historical thriller plunges into the paranoia of the Soviet Union in 1937 at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror. Starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, and Anatoli Beliy, the film follows newly appointed prosecutor Alexander Kornyev (Kuznetsov), who receives a secret letter from a prisoner claiming wrongful imprisonment. Determined to uncover the truth, Kornyev travels to Moscow, only to find himself navigating a system built on fear and silence.
🎥 “W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause” Trailer: From Emancipation to Civil Rights, This New PBS Documentary Traces the Life of a Scholar Who Shaped a Movement — Airing May 19th on PBS and Streaming the PBS App
In this sweeping PBS documentary, part of the American Masters lineup, the life of W.E.B. Du Bois unfolds from his birth just after the Emancipation Proclamation to his death on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington, tracing how one scholar’s intellect helped ignite a movement. Through archival insight and historical reflection, the film charts his evolution from academic trailblazer to uncompromising civil rights advocate whose ideas refused to stay confined to the pages of history. It makes clear that his words weren’t just written for their time... they were meant to outlive it.
🎥 “Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere” Teaser: Investigative Journalist Enters the World of Online Masculinity in His First Netflix Feature Doc — Premiering March 11th on Netflix
Investigative journalist Louis Theroux returns with his first Netflix feature-length documentary, stepping directly into the volatile online world known as the manosphere. Traveling to Miami, New York, and Marbella, he meets controversial influencers including Myron Gaines, Sneako, Justin Waller, Ed Matthews, and Harrison Sullivan, whose ultra-masculine messaging is reshaping how young men define identity and power. With his trademark patience and disarming style, Theroux presses on ideas like “red-pilling,” probing both the appeal and the consequences of this resurgent men’s rights movement. It’s Theroux doing what he does best: listening closely where others shout and asking straightforward questions that refuse to let easy answers slide.
🎥 “Ghost Elephants” Trailer: Werner Herzog Chronicles Dr. Steve Boyes’ Decade-Long Quest to Find Angola’s Mythic Elephant Herd — In Select Theaters February 27th, Airing March 7th on National Geographic, and Streaming March 8th on Disney+ and Hulu
At 83, Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) shows no signs of slowing down. The prolific filmmaker turns his gaze toward the Angolan wilderness with this meditative wildlife odyssey about myth, memory, and obsession. Following conservation biologist Dr. Steve Boyes, the film traces a decade-long pursuit of a rumored herd of Ghost Elephants said to roam unseen through remote forest highlands. Alongside master trackers whose knowledge borders on instinct, Boyes navigates terrain that feels both physical and philosophical, where absence carries as much weight as discovery.
🎥 “The Plastic Detox” Trailer: A Coalition of Scientists Sounds the Alarm on Plastic Exposure and Its Impact on Fertility and Development in This New Netflix Documentary — Arriving March 16th on Netflix
In this urgent environmental documentary, Dr. Swan and a coalition of researchers confront the growing evidence that microplastics are quietly reshaping human health, from fertility rates to the timing of puberty. As the science sharpens and the data grows harder to ignore, the film traces how everyday plastic exposure may be altering development in ways we’re only beginning to understand. It’s a stark wake-up call that argues the threat isn’t distant or theoretical... it’s already inside us, and looking away won’t make it disappear.