Tidbits 2025

Solid films you may have missed.

You Should Also Watch - 2025

The second edition of my mid-year check-in post.

F1

Kosinski attempts to cash in on the popularity of "Drive to Survive".

28 Years Later

"Memento amoris - remember you must love."

The Life of Chuck

"I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes."

Materialists

"It's like they say: you're not ugly, you just don't have money."

The Phoenician Scheme

"I supposed I'm moved by this absurd performance."

Dangerous Animals

Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that

Ballerina

The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.

Sister Midnight

"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."

Bring Her Back

Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.

Friendship

"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."