Archive for Release Year: 2025
27 posts from 08 March 2025 to 24 February 2026.
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Such a nice Starship Troopers spiritual remake. It’s all there, but trades some satirical punches for a more uplifting message. Would you like to know more?
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Ocean’s Eleven. The music and overall direction is straight out of Vegas, bit the visuals are quite weird. It’s better to no think too much of the plot either, the heroes are non-ideological Cambridge Five, but for Putin instead of the Soviet Union.
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Suck it, rich people! Our broke ass country did it first, with technical trickery (and three planes).
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Is this… O Brother, Where Art Thou meets Carpenter’s Vampires, with just a dash of The Banshees of Inisherin? A smashing combination, another great bona-fide musical.
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Nooo, Luther! He will need to hack his way out of heaven to get away with exploding in a cave.
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More John Wick, but with grenades and flamethrowers. As if there wasn’t already Atomic Blonde, Gunpowder Milkshake, Monkey Man, Anna, Silent Night, etc etc etc.
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A Bildungsroman, an allegory about fascist Others, and a pure action zombie film, struggling between one another to get to the front. They cannot decide if the zombies are allegorical immigrants or mindless monsters – the synthesis of that idea is simply repugnant.
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From Boom Festival to hell on earth it doesn’t take too long. Just a prior disappearance, running away from the army, stepping on mines left for the Saharaui people. None of that is explicit, it’s all in the subtext.
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Incredible. The spiritual sequel to The Big Lebowski, but with more politics and a non-joke plot. That middle part is truly brilliant, it’s almost Apocalypto in its relentless rush.
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Yep, half of the Coen Brothers still got it. Making every single bit part and side character count is a superpower.
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Nhe, a big hodgepodge of all the best Fallout ideas, but without a big overarching plot per-se, a bunch of set-pieces, mostly disconnected. Every human body is made of plasticine, malleable and squishy.
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Slow and steady, black and white, reason and emotion, communists and secret police, fado and opera, wrapped in massive amounts of cigarettes.
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Humour and homages to horror films, in my political commentary? What’s this, Bergman? Coen-esque, the way every single bit part has some incredible actor going all the way.
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The Office, but with suburbs real estate guys. They have a rival realtor in the city centre, and are all around crazies.
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Extremely arthouse, but not as powerfull as A Metamorfose dos Pássaros since it’s about something external to the artists.
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This is a remake of Rough Night. Just like The Hangover, this is too nihilist for my liking. Should have remade Bridesmaids instead.
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Jodie Foster was hired to do another Flightplan, but half of the film is a French comedy. Sounds terrible, but it works.
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What a terrible film about an interesting time. The reaction shots to the film shown on the court are offensive and abhorrent, do people need emotional manipulation to find footage of bodies being shovelled with a backhoe moving?
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Heldin means “Heroine”, “Late Shift” is a bad translation. This is eerily realistic, as someone who spent over a week in a hospital recently. Should have really been a 8 hour long film, in real time, with the alarms beeping all the time.
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Depressing song and dance, featuring very uplifting music. I wouldn’t raise a baby in the sticks either, away from civilisation, it takes a village.
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This is almost an epic movie for first time director Kristen Stewart, following large parts of the life of some pitiful girl, as she turns into a fully grown woman, with some setbacks.
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Supreme quality, no question about it. Gotta eat my hat, the hype was worth it. Still think One Battle After Another is better, but this is incredible.
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This is a high-concept gunk movie, with kids. It kinda works, but there are some ham-fisted decisions that make it falter. It should have polished its stakes a bit more.
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It’s no Upstart Crow, jusk like modern “biopics”, it leaves so much of the information outside the subtext, let alone the text. Fitting that Spielberg produces another film about daddy issues.
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How did this collaboration came up? It’s spoken in three languages at least: Portuguese, Icelandic, and English to cross the language barrier.
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The alternative to The Office, where David Brent is made redundant after 25 years but he actually likes the work, it has meaning to him. He doesn’t want to tour in a band.
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It’s motherhood season out here. The Chronology of Water, Die My Love, and now this. This pays its dues to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind too. Hole-y unsane.