Archive for Release Year: 2025

21 posts from 08 March 2025 to 28 January 2026.

  • Mickey 17

    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?

  • Black Bag

    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.

  • A Travessia

    Suck it, rich people! Our broke ass country did it first, with technical trickery (and three planes).

  • Sinners

    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.

  • Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

    Nooo, Luther! He will need to hack his way out of heaven to get away with exploding in a cave.

  • Ballerina

    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.

  • 28 Years Later

    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.

  • Sirāt

    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.

  • One Battle After Another

    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.

  • Honey Don't!

    Yep, half of the Coen Brothers still got it. Making every single bit part and side character count is a superpower.

  • Fallout

    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.

  • Lavagante

    Slow and steady, black and white, reason and emotion, communists and secret police, fado and opera, wrapped in massive amounts of cigarettes.

  • O Agente Secreto

    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.

  • Porta Premium

    The Office, but with suburbs real estate guys. They have a rival realtor in the city centre, and are all around crazies.

  • Justa

    Extremely arthouse, but not as powerfull as A Metamorfose dos Pássaros since it’s about something external to the artists.

  • Situações Delicadas

    This is a remake of Rough Night. Just like The Hangover, this is too nihilist for my liking. Should have remade Bridesmaids instead.

  • Vie Privée

    Jodie Foster was hired to do another Flightplan, but half of the film is a French comedy. Sounds terrible, but it works.

  • Nuremberg

    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?

  • Heldin

    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.

  • Die My Love

    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.

  • The Chronology of Water

    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.