Category: Drama
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Sinners: A Gospel of Blood and Blues
This review contains spoilers. Sinners (2025) Ryan Coogler It seems fitting that I spent my Good Friday seeing a film called “Sinners”, and though Ryan Coogler’s original story rarely dealt directly with religion as the movie’s title would have one assume, Sinners was a thrill and a huge surprise regardless. I initially wrote Sinners off as more horror fluff, but once the Letterboxd rating started going up after its debut, I got…
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The King of Kings: Has the Power of God, But Not Anime, On Its Side
The King of Kings (2025) Jang Seong-ho As my closest followers know, my newly-crowned favorite movie of all time is The Prince of Egypt, which has sat in the top 4 since I got Letterboxd. It is a biblical adaptation done right—grand, heroic, and complex—so when Angel Studios started throwing around this “The King of Kings is the first major animated Biblical epic since The Prince of Egypt” rhetoric, I had to see…
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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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Porcelain War: An Artful Look at War That Needed More Art
Porcelain War (2024) Slava Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I’m beyond excited that I’ve now completed my first ever Oscar death race (that’s what I’ve seen it called on Reddit, so I’m going with it), and Porcelain War made for a strong finish to a whirlwind last month. It’s certainly hard to keep absorbing such tough, gut-wrenching stories like this and No Other Land (and a myriad…
