Category: Comedy
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The Phoenician Scheme: Where Has Michael Cera Been All Wes’s Life?
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Wes Anderson I’m so hyped for my movie-watching June (I’ve got tickets to six different movies already), and it all begins with The Phoenician Scheme. Though I have yet to see every Wes Anderson movie, I’m quite an admirer of his meticulous precision and details-focused style, and The Phoenician Scheme seemed to continue his descent into this stylistic rabbit hole. I had postulated before that Asteroid City was the most Wes…
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Lilo & Stitch (2025): Shades of the Original, But Ohana Left Behind
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Lilo & Stitch (2025) Dean Fleischer Camp I don’t remember the last time there was this much hype for a Disney live-action remake (the box office numbers so far have certainly backed it up), and I gotta be honest. I was sold on Lilo & Stitch thanks to that amazing trailer. As the reviews (and spoiler-full Reels) came in, I grew more and more nervous about the film,…
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Friendship: Robinson and Rudd Go Off the Rails
Friendship (2024) Andrew DeYoung I’ve been waiting to see Friendship for a few weeks now—these dang limited releases keep getting my hopes up too early—and it delighted, being just as crazy as I expected it would be based on the trailers. This was a script and role made for Tim Robinson, and his offbeat, awkward humor worked so well in so many scenes. There were a ton of big laughs from our…
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The Wedding Banquet (2025): Something Borrowed, But Something New
This review contains spoilers. The Wedding Banquet (2025) Andrew Ahn All of a sudden, there is a surplus of films in theaters that I’m interested in, so I was initially nervous that I would get to the theater to see The Wedding Banquet in time. Leave it to me to go see it after school on a Monday so I didn’t miss it. The trailer seemed to convey that this remake (not…
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Freaky Tales: Hard to Describe, But I Love Oakland Now
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Freaky Tales (2024) Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Now that I’ve seen A Minecraft Movie, I’m gonna be really annoyed by all of the Minecraft-related lines at the theater whenever I go to see something else, starting with the 10 minute wait for my Peace Tea before Freaky Tales today. It was nice, though, to subsequently head into a way calmer theater for, yes, a better movie, too.…
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A Minecraft Movie: A Case for Memes as Marketing
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Jared Hess I have recently become re-obsessed with Minecraft in the lead up to this film, downloading the game to my phone again and watching a dang Minecraft documentary earlier this week. I quickly remembered how much I adored this game, and it made me really excited to see the film, even if the trailers and production didn’t promise much. When I got to the usually…
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Death of a Unicorn: Ortega, Poulter, and the Unicorn Kill Shot You’ll See Again and Again
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Alex Scharfman I first caught wind of Death of a Unicorn at the beginning of the year as I was bolstering my 2025 watchlist, and as more information and trailers became available, I became more interested. It was difficult to picture a world where I didn’t enjoy a Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega-led unicorn movie, and luckily I didn’t have to find out the hard way. Death of a…
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Novocaine: A Walmart Deadpool in Everything But Charm
Novocaine (2025) Dan Berk and Robert Olsen Thanks to a perfectly timed showing at my Regal theater, I bought my ticket to Novocaine on my way home and was fully expecting to be in the theater by myself on a Monday afternoon. There was a grand total of two people (myself included) in the theater today, and though Novocaine has actually been doing okay financially, the product matched the crowd. I wasn’t ever…
