Category: Sci-Fi
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Bugonia: Are WE the Bees?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Bugonia (2025) Yorgos Lanthimos November has suddenly become jam-packed, not only with films that I want to see, but some real heavyweights, both in my personal rankings and probably at the Oscars, too. Bugonia fell squarely into both categories, and I’m glad to say that the Yorgos-Emma Stone experiment is now 2-for-3 (maybe 2.5-for-3, if I’m feeling generous towards Kinds of Kindness) in my book. Morgan and I had a…
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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…
