Tag: watched with morgan
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Eddington: Mask Mandate Time Machine
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eddington (2025) Ari Aster With a cast as stacked and enjoyable as Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, it wouldn’t have mattered what the plot of Eddington was; I would be seated. I had only seen one Ari Aster film—Midsommar—prior to tonight, so I truly didn’t know what to expect out of Eddington, and what I got was quite the mixed bag. In theory, I would’ve…
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Superman (2025): A Hopeful, Heroic Return to Form
Superman (2025) James Gunn Rarely do I anticipate a movie’s release so excitedly or for so long as I have James Gunn’s Superman. In these seven months since the first trailer that I’ve been waiting, I have shockingly rekindled a love for superhero movies that has seemingly hit its climax tonight, in glorious IMAX, which I don’t think I’ve experienced since our elementary school field trip to the downtown IMAX theater. Superman had…
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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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Elio: One of the Pixar Movies of All Time
Elio (2025) Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian With each subsequent Pixar movie, I have become more and more nervous for the studio’s future. Between their newfound focus on sequels and a few lackluster original films, I’m starting to lose hope. Elio wasn’t a total failure or anything—I still enjoyed it decently—but it was a far cry from the classics I had come to expect from Pixar as a kid. What I can…
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How to Train Your Dragon (2025): Disney, Take Notes (and Lots of Them)
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Dean DeBlois While I’m usually cautiously optimistic for each new live-action remake—a trend which has completely overstayed its welcome—I’m not always excited for the product, since the animated original it’s based on will remain better. I’ve developed quite a love for the How to Train Your Dragon franchise (all three films have gotten 4-star reviews from me), so I was actually looking forward to this…
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The Life of Chuck: Living in the Little Moments
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Life of Chuck (2024) Mike Flanagan Though it wasn’t technically an entry into my Adaptation Appreciation list for this year, I did read The Life of Chuck ahead of seeing the film and absolutely loved it. I’m game for any sort of existential, “life-affirming” (as the reviews have said) story, and the trailers for this film got me super hyped. Thankfully, The Life of Chuck absolutely delivered, and…
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Materialists: Checking Boxes Left and Right (Though That’s Not Everything)
Materialists (2025) Celine Song After enjoying Celine Song’s debut feature in 2023, I was obviously excited to see her return with a love story told by three of the most attractive and admired actors in the business right now, in my cinematic opinion. Materialists promised to be dramatic and quick and passionate in its trailers, but the level of depth that Song pulled out of this story and cast was impressive, though…
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The Phoenician Scheme: Where Has Michael Cera Been All Wes’s Life?
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Wes Anderson I’m so hyped for my movie-watching June (I’ve got tickets to six different movies already), and it all begins with The Phoenician Scheme. Though I have yet to see every Wes Anderson movie, I’m quite an admirer of his meticulous precision and details-focused style, and The Phoenician Scheme seemed to continue his descent into this stylistic rabbit hole. I had postulated before that Asteroid City was the most Wes…
