April Fools Challenge 2025 🃏
🪞 2. Fool Me Twice: Identity Swap & Doppelgängers

Some great films bowl you over; others sneak up, split your soul in two, and stitch it back together using 70MM thread. Sinners is the latter.

it it, upon seeing the trailer in the months leading up to Sinners, we all instantly leapt to the obvious comparison of From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Color Purple—a blend as audaciously deranged as pairing Jane Austen with zombies. Yet,…

April Fools Challenge 2025 🃏
🌀 6. Smoke & Mirrors: Impersonation & False Identities

At his most candy-colored and gleefully playful, Seijun Suzuki transforms the standard yakuza noir into a neon-drenched fantasia of genre-melding mischief. Imagine Jacques Demy directing a spaghetti western inside a mobster’s nightclub fever dream.

Handsome, idealistic whistling gangster Tetsu ‘the Phoenix’ (Tetsuya Watari) vows to go straight after his boss Kurata retires, rebuffing a rival’s attempts to recruit him, only to realize that the path to freedom isn’t…

As Luca Guadagnino’s best film since 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, I’m tempted to call Challengers a return to form, but that’s not entirely apt. Aside from a certain flair for visual theatrics and creative casting, his films have been constantly evolving thematically and stylistically—which is why he makes for such an intriguing director, even if I’m not always entirely on board with his output.

While all three leads in Challengers turn in extremely impressive performances, Zendaya is the…

Aside from gifting audiences with one of the most perfect performances in horror film history, Anthony Perkins also bestowed upon the world a bonafide artist in command of the genre he helped reinvent in the form of his son Oz.

I went into Longlegs largely blind, having only encountered the trailer theatrically once several months ago, so I successfully avoided a lot of the upfront hype and expectation build, as is typically best for psychological thrillers. And what writer/director Oz…