Category: 2025
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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…
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Snow White (2025): A Remake That Compares to the Original…and Wins!
Snow White (2025) Marc Webb This Review Contains Spoilers. From when I watched the original Snow White for the first time at the beginning of the year until now, my stance on the remake was both clear and hopeful: the original is so paper-thin that whatever the remake could add would be an improvement, especially as it concerned the depth of both Snow White and her Prince, who’s alarmingly absent from the…
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Opus: I Think I’ve Seen This Film Before
Opus (2025) Mark Anthony Green I first heard about Opus as I was perusing the selection of Sundance movies that Morgan and I could watch from the comfort of our couch, and though it wasn’t available to us at that time, it’s available now and we even caught it in a theater! I had middling expectations coming in, but I was there for Ayo and an interesting concept, and that’s what I…
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Black Bag: Sleek, Clever, But Do Spies Only Talk?
Black Bag (2025) Steven Soderbergh Man, I love Spring Break. Mickey 17 yesterday, Black Bag today, Opus tomorrow, and Snow White this weekend. I’m spoiled with free time, which allowed me to see a movie today that I didn’t have a lot of interest in at first, but once I started hearing good things about it, I wanted to check it out. As my dad accurately predicted, the film was very British, but also very satisfyingly so. I…
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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…
