Category: Sci-Fi
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The Assessment: Parents and Normalcy in Short Supply
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Assessment (2024) Fleur Fortuné For the last night of the Estes Park trip, we wanted to end on a banger, so we sidestepped Happy Gilmore 2 for The Assessment, which was undoubtedly more memorable. The jury is still out on whether that’s a good thing; Sammy and Abby logged their displeasure on Letterboxd, I’m sure my parents would’ve done the same if they had the app, but Morgan…
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps: Super Style, Substance, and Score!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Matt Shakman While I am growing a bit tired of having to drive an hour to the IMAX theater in Dallas on a traffic-laden Thursday night, I’m only becoming more enamored with my IMAX experiences, namely because we keep picking absolute bangers to go see. This includes The Fantastic Four: First Steps—one of two 2025 superhero movies whose trailers all those…
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Mickey 17: Bong Joon Ho Masters Yet Another Genre
Mickey 17 (2025) Bong Joon Ho Admittedly, I’ve just barely dipped my toe into Bong Joon Ho’s filmography, but that man is a certified killer. Mickey 17 was just as fantastic as I was hoping it would be, even if it won’t pass Parasite just yet (it may have the chops to do it, but with a rewatch or two). What I expected this movie to excel at, it did, starting with the bonkers…
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The Electric State: The MCU-ification of Great Literature
The Electric State (2025) Joe Russo and Anthony Russo I really enjoyed reading The Electric State a couple weeks ago—its slow and observation-minded story was haunting and poignant—but I had a feeling that the Russos weren’t going to be able to honor Stålenhag’s work…and I hate to be right. Simply put, The Electric State movie was horribly misguided and really only borrowed a few robot designs, leaving behind the vast majority of the book’s…
