


2025
There continues to be a complete undervaluing (arguably an active devaluing) of animation, but Trachtenberg & Company seems to understand its immense potential. Sequences and kills that simply could not exist in live-action exist within Killer of Killers. The gadgets are more twisted, the deaths more ferocious, and none of it coming at the expense of the storytelling.
Add it to the long list of live-action franchises that are better animated, because for some reason, Hollywood thinks it’s the reverse.

2025
All that money Netflix spent on that embarrassing TUDUM event should have been used to market Lost in Starlight.

2025
All things considered, it’s not entirely shocking the script is a mess. Takes some big emotional swings that don’t feel particularly earned and even I can it the presence of Wick himself is a bit shoehorned (despite giving us that great line from the random henchman).
Fortunately, Ana De Armas is so intensely committed to Eve Macarro that the savagery of her action is enough to keep even the messiest of scripts afloat. It also helps that the action still…

2025
About a hundred 80s needle drops to hide its inept direction and sauceless performances.

2025
Obvious highlight from Cannes, few people can capture an honest tenderness and vulnerability between people like Trier.


2025
The movie from Cannes I’ve been thinking about the most. Mostly because of how radically I went from, this is not very good to this might best movie I’ve seen this year?
It’s kind of like watching the 2014-2015 Knicks play and then at halftime prime Ewing and Starks come off the bench to play. Spike is constructing scenes and images that are so powerful, so exciting, it felt like I had seen Starks dunk on the Bulls for the…

2025
First video game adaptation to premiere at Cannes? Pour one out for Uwe Boll.
The brilliance of the indie game that went viral in early-2024 was its simplicity— identify the anomaly and then walk in the other direction. Innately tense, horror existing in the banality of our routine commute. As you can guess, it’s why the game is also enjoyable. Rounding the corner, holding your breath, did I find the anomaly?
Yet the game’s primary appeal is mostly an afterthought in…

2025
The evolution of Wes is fascinating to chart and like most of his films, The Phoenician Scheme will grow on me with time, but it lacks so much of the emotional fervor that buzzed through Asteroid City or even The French Dispatch. Fully embrace the Mia Threapleton takeover though!