#queer-comedy

#queer-comedy

This winter, they present the Alt Awards, a lineup of films from last year that are influential, innovative, and (in their opinion) the all-around best of 2025. Some of the selections overlap with anticipated Oscar darlings (One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value), while others are less mainstream (Fuck My Son!, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You). Categories include most brutal, cover-your-eyes gore (The Ugly Stepsister), most tense family dinner scene (Father Mother Sister Brother),

St. Helens, the town 30 miles northwest of Portland where the 1998 Disney Channel movie Halloweentown was filmed, becomes a citywide Halloween party every October. Actors from the movie show up. Haunted houses, a vendor village, and oddities museum fill the town, and several scenes are restaged for photo ops. It's great. Most impressive, perhaps, is the replica of the huge jack-o'-lantern from the movie-which is ceremoniously lit each night. It's an all-day affair, but staged events turn up the block-party feel.

"I think as a friend, I was both worried about her because I'm like, 'How are you going to shoot?' She was in scenes and she just kept being like, 'Yes, I'm shooting it.'"

"I'm holding ample space for Twinless and look forward to overthinking future press quotes," Sweeney joked.