Tag: watched with morgan
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Lilo & Stitch (2025): Shades of the Original, But Ohana Left Behind
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Lilo & Stitch (2025) Dean Fleischer Camp I don’t remember the last time there was this much hype for a Disney live-action remake (the box office numbers so far have certainly backed it up), and I gotta be honest. I was sold on Lilo & Stitch thanks to that amazing trailer. As the reviews (and spoiler-full Reels) came in, I grew more and more nervous about the film,…
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Friendship: Robinson and Rudd Go Off the Rails
Friendship (2024) Andrew DeYoung I’ve been waiting to see Friendship for a few weeks now—these dang limited releases keep getting my hopes up too early—and it delighted, being just as crazy as I expected it would be based on the trailers. This was a script and role made for Tim Robinson, and his offbeat, awkward humor worked so well in so many scenes. There were a ton of big laughs from our…
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Freaky Tales: Hard to Describe, But I Love Oakland Now
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Freaky Tales (2024) Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Now that I’ve seen A Minecraft Movie, I’m gonna be really annoyed by all of the Minecraft-related lines at the theater whenever I go to see something else, starting with the 10 minute wait for my Peace Tea before Freaky Tales today. It was nice, though, to subsequently head into a way calmer theater for, yes, a better movie, too.…
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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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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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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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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…
