Tag: in theaters
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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 Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie: A Hidden Animated Gem That I Fear May Stay Hidden
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Peter Browngardt What has this world come to that I was the only one in the theater on opening night of a new, 2D animated Looney Tunes movie? I would say we don’t get movies like these today, but here it is: a movie like this, today! The Day The Earth Blew Up was delightful from start to finish, making far…
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Oscars Shorts 2025: Animated
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. For much of my film-watching life, my short film experience had been limited to the Pixar shorts that played before their feature films in theaters. Stories like Bao and Piper stood on their own for me, but I hadn’t really dived into the vast sea of short films until this year, when Morgan and I got our tickets to see all five Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, and…
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Oscars Shorts 2025: Live Action
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. For much of my film-watching life, my short film experience had been limited to the Pixar shorts that played before their feature films in theaters. Stories like Bao and Piper stood on their own for me, but I hadn’t really dived into the vast sea of short films until this year, when Morgan and I got our tickets to see all five Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts,…
