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Song Sung Blue
"Do you know why singer-song writers/ rockstars have such great hair? Song Sung Blue says 'cause they live fast and die young. With that pronounced jawline Jackman was about to cut the land down under in half when Kate Hudson comes in drags him back to Milwaukee and anchors this music-drama. The issue with these types of celebrity biopics is if not focused into a specific period of someone's life, these are always gonna feel rushed cramming everything on screen…"
Blue Moon
"A washed-up artist's best and the only friend is the bartender. Ethan Hawke plays the grandeur kind of the former and Bobby Cannavale, the latter. Hawke oes an one-eighty from a smooth charming Before-After handsome romantic in this Linklater movie which got unfairly overshadowed in a year in which biopics reigned supreme. Aside from the barrage of objectification, inappropriate remarks full of vulgarity and coarse jokes and anecdotes, which I am sure must be very accurate for the period, Hawke's…"
Zootopia 2
"The buried lost cities do have remnants of light and life in them.... Yup. Turns out it is possible. They really outdid themselves this time. The sequel is much more complex and sprawling this time. The conspiracy is elaborate. The emotions are nuanced as compared to its predecessor and the fun is twice. Although, the comedic elements hit a little bit differently than the first one, may be because of the freshness factor to it for the first time but…"
No Other Choice
"I am amazed how the director keeping his funny bone intact while listing all the harrowing details of a man's life falling apart as his family watches along with him. It's unbelievable how preposterously humorous this movie is given the sad subject of the woe of the "Worthless Man" as society labelled them. Park Chan-Wook makes a laughing stock out of a family as they are about to lose everything and be out on the streets and why shouldn't he?…"
The White Ribbon
"The Europeans always have this innate sense of filmmaking that revolves around the cold, callous and matter-of-fact facet often attached with injustice, violence and the disturbing nature of it. If Lars Von Trier's Dogville seemed unsettlingly malevolent, The White Ribbon distilled every ounce of realism from the former and hence, it felt even more blood-curdling due to the minimalist aspect of it all. This way one's focus doesn't automatically magnetize towards the scenic beauty of the village and rather stays…"
Sentimental Value
"Science Fiction's darling genre Big Dumb Object and Stephen King/Sherley Jackson style haunted house with secret history takes a subversive prop route to Big Soulful House that has witnessed it all through thick and thin for generations in this Joachim Tries drama about generational trauma, the kind that widens the fissure between a dad and a daughter.Imagine not being able to look in the eyes of your daughter and tell your side of the story or apologize, instead put all of it into a screenplay. Such a Norwegian thing to do."
Frankenstein
"The regretful estranged Father and his abandoned cursed child. The ninth Chiranjeevi. A rather simple story revolving around the so-called monster towering over man, both literally and by character and soul in the end becomes a siren call for the monster harkening back to all the sins of the quintessential man and back. Bar the blood, gore and heaps of corps, Frankenstein at its core feels more like a live-action DreamWorks adaptation than a movie directed by a celebrated storyteller…"
H Is for Hawk
"Claire Foy, a grief-stricken "crazy bird lady" searches for solace by hunting together with Brendan Gleeson as a majestic Hawk. A daughter's attempt at catching her father's soul inside a bird. H Is For Hawk becomes a heart-felt journey through bereavement while she tries to grab ahold of as many memories of her father as she could."
I Swear
"One honest guy who could look into the eyes of those free speech absolutist and make them blink. If mothers weren't here by our side, what would have been the state of the world, I wonder. A agonizingly debilitating and tiresome condition brings out the most wholesome found family story of 2025 in celebration of perseverance, patience, forgiveness and empathy as well as friendship, motherhood and mentorship.It's an affront that Maxine Peake didn't get a nomination. At least Aramayo won the BAFTA."
Black Phone 2
"Black Phone 2 has a splash of Joe Hill's dad's style to it. One can notice Doctor Sleep garnished all over this sequel. The whole using the sources of dread to thwart the original terror that the prequel implied to be vanquished in the first place. However, it got caught busy in its own lore dwindling in a knot. But, hey, everyone loves a comeback story. Heroes or villains."
Return to Silent Hill
"Are you kidding me? This is definitely a B movie. As it appears even 20 years seems too little time to attain redemption for the original disaster (pun intended). Man finds Illuminati, bailed, comes back to retrace his steps through the original Silent Hill. There. No need for anybody else to suffer through that 90 minutes of nothing. Another one of those fodder for the whiners and ranters who have been complaining ad nauseam how "everything on screen looks so…"
Silent Hill
"Usually what happens is they create a game which after getting popular becomes a movie or they create a game following the success of a movie, here Konami designed a video game and then somehow they managed to put the whole darn thing into another game, just for a much bigger screen. Hence, it seems as though there is no rhyme, no reason, no point to the whole ordeal except clearing missions for the sake of it. Also, if there…"
Don't Look Now
"One of the most beautiful cities in the world turns into a labyrinthine passageway to hell in this fever dream of a ordeal of loss which blurs the line between reality and illusory visions like those times the mind feels lost after suddenly being woken up from a nightmare. Donald Sutherland gradually loses his mind day by day inside a maze he isn't supposed to escape out of and Julie Christie plays a grieving mother in this Daphne du Maurier…"
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
"The tale of Ser Duncan The Tall, The Hedge Knight, he who knows how to train the dragons and his clever little squire…"
Dead Man's Wire
"Wait!! Is this movie alluding to a time when in the US Luigi could have actually had a chance? Veteran director Gus Van Sant comes out of his slumber to deliver us the climax scene of Rang De Basanti in this true story reenactment of a man who had had it up to his neck with the predatory corporate America and took matters into his own hands with a drastic step after being pushed to his limits. Dead Man's Wire…"
KPop Demon Hunters
"This animated one must have spoiled millions of Gen Alpha already. I'm sorry! I couldn't see the appeal. Shallow characters, lazy recycled arcs, unoriginal resolution and too many bright neon colors."
Presence
"Presence tries to rewrite the code of the mystical without writing a coherent plot or interesting players to fill that plot. It's the foundational element underlying the disposition of the protagonist of The Shining but programmed for the consumers of Apple products. It borrows major details from Oculus, the Ouija Universe and the Lorraines and rearranges the pov incorporating a floating peering camera work to eke out, well, a supernatural presence. It seems Soderberg will keep doing this current era…"
KPop Demon Hunters
"This animated one must have spoiled millions of Gen Alpha already. I'm sorry! I couldn't see the appeal. Shallow characters, lazy recycled arcs, unoriginal resolution and too many bright neon colors. In general, I am not like one of those insufferable boomers who makes a hobby out of generation bashing and trashing but is this supposed to be one of those K-drama Gen Z and Alpha love and rave about like their lingo and slangs that I don't believe I…"