Tag: netflix
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Frankenstein (2025): It’s Alive (Cinema, That Is)! ALIVE!
Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo del Toro I had been itching to watch Frankenstein for the last two weeks, but Morgan’s nursing schedule and the plethora of theater releases I needed to attend to kept us from it until tonight. I read Frankenstein in high school and enjoyed it, but I don’t think it (nor my viewing of Young Frankenstein in October) prepared me for how much I would love this. What stood out earliest, of course, were the…
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In Your Dreams: A Netflix Nightmare
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. In Your Dreams (2025) Alex Woo I like to get ahead of the game when it comes to Oscar-nominated movies, so I’ve been checking Variety’s list of predictions and gave In Your Dreams, one of their Best Animated Feature predictions, a go. I shouldn’t have. Netflix has always been hit-or-miss on their original films, and while they usually fare well with acquiring and then distributing animated films—think KPop Demon…
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A House of Dynamite: Lit Fuse, Dud Finale
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. A House of Dynamite (2025) Kathryn Bigelow I had received a lot of mixed signals before my viewing of A House of Dynamite, from the early Oscars buzz to the Letterboxd rating that continued to drop the longer it was out, so I had no idea what to expect. A House of Dynamite oozed with promise, given its engaging premise and great cast (and I mean great—Idris Elba, Rebecca…
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KPop Demon Hunters: So That’s How It’s Done, Done, Done!
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang Pardon my French, but what the frick? I saw KPop Demon Hunters pop up in the popular movies on Letterboxd like a week ago and thought nothing of it, but then the positive and obsessed reviews started rolling in. As a film loyalist, I knew had to check it out, but I didn’t know I’d contribute to the pile of positive and obsessed…
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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…
