“Mufasa, you’re about to be eaten!” - said kid Scar enthusiastically.

Happy new year everyone! May 2025 be good to you all and bring you nothing but the best! Speaking of Christmas travesties, I paid to see Mufasa: The Lion King on release day. Yeah, my jester hat’s very much chiming away at me for that one. Now how’s about I resurrect my with a long rant? 

Barry Jenkins, my man! What did The Mouse do to you? It’s…

Who’d have thought 2024’s next rug pull would be Transformers One serving as a better anti-establishment movie than Megalopolis? Okay, they’re not entirely comparable, since Megalopolis was about working within your infrastructural means to build a brighter tomorrow, but Transformers One burns its foundations down in full power to the people mode over Megalopolis’s questionable governmental faith, and Josh Cooley’s prequel kinda rocks for that! Baby’s first authoritarian uprising for sure, yet there’s a little more going on than the…

I needed this. God I really needed this! What a return to form after Downsizing! I can only imagine what it says about me that Alexander Payne’s filmography has connected with me streets ahead of others since my early teens, and I’m ecstatic to say that The Holdovers is everything about my love for Payne personified! This is his A Christmas Carol/How The Grinch Stole Christmas, if Scrooge/the Grinch’s new lease on life emerged from Tiny Tim/Cindy Lou being abandoned…

I’m kinda gutted about this one, I can’t lie. Dream Scenario is very much my brand of weird. I love me a bit of disorienting psychodrama. The ugly catacombs of our repressed consciousness arisen from a tirade of provocation, manifesting themselves into and upending the surrounding world is one of my storytelling fascinations not sated often enough. Films like this arrive at the doorstep once in a blue moon, and I was so amped for what was surely gonna be…