Tag: watched with morgan
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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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The Running Man: Quick Out the Blocks, Stumbled to the Finish
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Running Man (2025) Edgar Wright I’ve been hyping up The Running Man since I added it to my watchlist at the beginning of the year and decided to read it for my Adaptation Appreciation adventure. I was even more excited once I finished the book, which was fantastically and horrifyingly written. I figured that Edgar Wright would do the story justice, and he was doing just that…for…
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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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Roofman: The Man Who Stole My Heart, Among Other Things
Roofman (2025) Derek Cianfrance Heading into Roofman tonight, I had been led to believe by its marketing that this was going to be a straight studio comedy, and that couldn’t have been much further from the truth. While there were certainly plenty of laughs to go around—and I mean plenty—Roofman really surprised in its emotional storytelling and family dynamics, which had me not only cheesing for most of the movie, but on the…
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The Smashing Machine: The Boulder Has Entered the Ring
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Smashing Machine (2025) Benny Safdie I’ve always been a fan of athletes finding a second life in acting, whether they gun for the more dramatic roles like Dave Bautista or they go full comedy like John Cena and Marshawn Lynch. I’ve always enjoyed The Rock’s movies, but his résumé was always missing a dramatic turn that The Smashing Machine has now impressively satisfied. I totally get that…
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: This Really Should’ve Worked
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Kogonada After being disappointed by HIM yesterday, I was hoping that A Big Bold Beautiful Journey would be able to defeat its lackluster Letterboxd rating, and for honestly some of the same reasons, it couldn’t get the job done. It boggles my mind a little bit that the Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie-led sweeping romance didn’t work out, because it totally should have. Where the…
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The Bad Guys 2: A Little Bit Bad, A Lotta Bit Good
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Pierre Perifel My last two visits to the theater for a DreamWorks movie have been pretty fantastic, to say the least. How to Train Your Dragon (2025) was surprisingly awesome and well-realized, and The Wild Robot currently sits in my Top 25 movies of all time. This studio had a lot to live up to going into The Bad Guys 2—the sequel to a messy first…
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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…
