Crazy diamond Lanthimos shines again. Bugonia is as weird as it is thought-provoking. Two cousins agree to kidnap a high-value pharmaceutical company CEO believing her to be an alien. Their plan: to have her confess, then contact her Emperor with demands to stop her species from destroying the Earth by systemic means. Director Yorgos Lanthimos…
Tag: 2025
Review: The Running Man (2025)
It is fine? But for being an Edgar Wright film, just “fine” feels wrong. In a dystopian America, jobless father Ben Richards signs up to the televised death game The Running Man to support his family. Can he survive the game with everyone out to kill him? The Running Man is yet another 2025 movie…
Review: Predator – Badlands
Is this the gentrification of the Predator franchise? A young warrior from the Youtja clan seeks to prove himself worthy by defeating a ferocious beast on a deadly planet. But his skills are lacking, and he is forced to work beside a mysterious synthetic lifeform. Predator: Badlands is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who has taken…
Review: Frankenstein
Sympathy for the monster. Doctor Victor Frankenstein seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his father by unlocking the secret of immortality. But his experiments create a creature that, in his eyes, is devoid of intelligence. Written for the screen and directed by visionary director Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein is an adaptation of Mary…
Review: Good Fortune
Narratively busy, but quite a fun time. Arj is at the bottom of the employment ladder; barely holding his life together. Meanwhile, Gabriel the angel wants to fix Arj’s life before it gets any worse… with a solution involving Jeff, a born-to-riches millennial tech bro. Written, directed, and starring Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) Good…
Review: TRON – Ares
Well, that’s the TRON era over I guess. Short lived. Two competing tech companies race to unlock Kevin Flynn’s “permanence code”; a way to make AI last forever in our world. Ares, a defence and hacking program made by Dillenger corp, is one such AI. But he has started to question his master’s motives. “Sequel”…
Review: One Battle After Another
A modern day classic, perhaps? The explosives expert in a modern revolutionary militia finds himself and his daughter hunted by American military police. One Battle After Another is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. No, not the one who makes the symmetrical movies, nor the one who made the Resident Evil movies. This Anderson brought us…
Review: Together
Cool and gross ideas. But lacks that special something to elevate it. Tim and Millie, an unmarried couple, move out to the countryside for Millie’s new job. But a mysterious encounter in the woods affects them unnaturally. Soon they find themselves physically drawn to each other… This directorial debut from Michael Shanks (and also written…
Review: The Life of Chuck
Whoever said this is “The best Stephen King film ever made” is insane. At the end of the world we also say goodbye, and thank you, to Chuck. Directed by Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Hush, Gerald’s Game) comes this adaptation of a Stephen King novella. It stars Tom Hiddleston (Avengers) Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a…
Review: Weapons
A very effective horror thriller. With some concessions. When an entire classroom of children disappear one night, all blame is focussed onto their teacher, Justine. Director Zach Cregger wow’ed critics with Barbarian in 2022, and has returned with the mysteriously titled Weapons. Starring Julia Garner (recently performed in The Wolf Man) and Josh Brolin (Dune),…