How to Train Your Dragon

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

The only thing the live action improves is your belief in the acting ability of Gerard Butler. 

Im going to try to resist the urge to judge this movie against the morality of the live action remake epidemic… but it’s gonna be HARD. Because they truly said “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and redid the WHOLE MOVIE. 

That being said…. It still works really well!!

There are a few things that actually translated BETTER into live action. The…

Materialists

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

This is by far some of best work that Dakota, Pedro, and Chris have done in YEARS. 

This movie doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It’s three great actors giving honest, solid, romantic performances. This movie surprisingly isn’t about the love triangle as much as you’d think it is. And weirdly, I didn't mind it because I was having such a great time. 

I think the message of the film, the intersection between love and money, will resonate with a lot of millennials.…

Karate Kid: Legends

2025

★★ Watched

If you have seen even ONE karate kid movie or show, I guarantee you have already seen this movie. 

Here’s the thing, this movie ain’t winning any Oscar’s. But I do think it’s par for the course for the entire franchise. The characterization, performances, and logic are paper thin. Like if you think about how in every major city, there is a group training children to become ninjas you might talk yourself out if having a good time. 

The fight…

Lilo & Stitch

2025

★★½ Watched

This is not Lilo and Stitch. This is Lilo, stitch and the WOKE/CONSERVATIVE AGENDA!

Im kidding!…. Kind of.

Ok look, I think it’s very ironic that we begged a lot of these live action remakes to not be a bar for bar recreation of the original and now this movie comes and changes CORE themes of the movie and we all hate it. 

I think the real flaw in this film is the executive, writer, or focus group person that…

Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

This is the worst super hero team in the marvel universe… and somehow it works?

Thunderbolts does exactly what every marvel project should be doing: Introduces new concepts, fulfills character arcs from a previous projects, redeems characters, and pitches to a new and brighter marvel future. AND this movie is full of connective tissue that I’ve been CRAVING from the MCU. (Also some of the best suits we’ve seen in a minute)

Florence Pugh must have the super solider serum because…

Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This movie is so good, it made me angry.

How has nobody thought of this before? Movies could be this good THE ENTIRE TIME?!?! 

Ryan Coogler somehow weaves a story that should have always been told. This movie is thrilling, sexy, devastating, and proof that he the next great American filmmaker. 

Every performance doesn’t miss a single beat. Michael B Jordan proves he is the modern movie star we have been waiting for. And Delroy Lindo is a shoe in…

Warfare

2025

★★★ Liked Watched

The best part of this movie was showing the danger of not knowing how to use an EpiPen. ORANGE TO THE THIGH, BLUE TO THE SKY. 

Alright, is it possible to say something new about the war in the Middle East in 2025? Or are we still too close to it? But interestingly enough, this film says almost nothing about the war itself.

 It’s just war.

Who needs those fancy things like characterization, arcs, or even a score? The war…

A Minecraft Movie

2025

★★ Watched

I’m not gonna hold you. This movie is bad. This feels like the first movie written by a meme. And not a good meme! The type of meme where the joke is that there is a joke somewhere. 

Jack Black does the same thing he’s been doing for the past decade. “ YEAAAH IM SO (insert retro slang like BODACIOUS and sing in a vaguely rock Star voice) Jason mamoa is doing the same thing but only taller. And Danielle brooks….. I…

Novocaine

2025

★★ Watched

Jack Quaid couldn’t feel pain but I did watching this movie. 

Not gonna lie… I had high hopes for this one. The premise seemed very interesting! But the performances really stopped this movie from reaching its full potential. 

Jack Quaid feels like the only person giving it his all. Everybody else has this muted, monotone, low energy feel. Except for the main villain, Ray Nicholson who is giving a performance that feels….over designed and under designed at the same time??…

The Monkey

2025

Watched

The performances? WACK. 

The horror? WACK. 

The CGI? WACK. 

The internal logic? WACK. 

The dialogue? WACK. 

A boring, awkward mess of a film.

This movie made me so angry, like how do you WASTE Theo James TWICE IN THE SAME MOVIE!?!! 

I just…. I can’t….

*deep breaths*

……. Seriously?

Opus

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness pelvic thrust upon them by a 70 year old John Malkovich“ - idk probably Willy Shakes

If you have seen The Menu then you’ve probably seen this movie.
If you’ve seen Midsommar then you have already seen this movie.
If you have seen Heretic then you have definitely seen this movie. 

The difference between this film, and the other films, is that Opus is much more restrained. The victims…

Mickey 17

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

Ya know…. I’m starting to think Bong Joon-ho REALLY doesn’t like capitalism. 

Mickey 17 is a delight! Compared to Bong’s other films like parasite and Snowpiecer, this film delivers the same message but MUCH lighter. 
At times this film can feel ham fisted. Some of the performances are really over the top and goofy. And sometimes  it distracts from the sinister nature of the world. But just when you start to laugh, the movie makes its point ABUNDANTLY clear. It’s…