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Mickey 17 (2025)
He's dying to save mankind.
Filmmaker(s): Bong Joon Ho

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Animal Love love story, a very clever and dear love story. I like anything Bong Joon Ho does, but find his social commentary often gets in the way. So, subtract that out here. It has little to do with his overlap of cinematic and story...


Published September 15, 2025
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Locked (2025)
No escape. No mercy. Just survival.
Filmmaker(s): David Yarovesky

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

Eye Outside no value here; this comment is about a key technique, and setting aside my aversion to the acting stance that Hopkins has settled into. I don’t think it quite earns the right to be a genre, but we do have ‘containment’ films, where...


Published September 15, 2025
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Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025)
Filmmaker(s): Skye Borgman

Vulgar, taunting texts blow up the phones of a teen and her boyfriend. Who's sending them — and why? This twisty documentary reveals the shocking answer.

What’s known and unknown a story here that many folks find interesting: in a tiny US town, hundreds of disturbing text messages are sent to a teen couple, and then later focusing on the girl. School chums are suspected, accused. Turns out to disturbingly be...


Published September 14, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
Dance with the devil.
Filmmaker(s): Ryan Coogler

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Visual Music like Jodorowsky but instead of Chilean mysticism, African voodoo, or what we think so through prior films. Something culturally like ‘Snatch’, ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, and ‘Kill Bill 2’ rolled together. Grand cinematic skill but in the small. Like another recent film (‘The...


Published July 30, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
It takes a spy to hunt a spy.
Filmmaker(s): Steven Soderbergh

When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.

Section 39 am designating this as the first ‘four’ of 2025. I allow myself only two films from a year that have this recommendation. They are the films that I think either changed filmdom, or changed me and it is rare that a mainstream film...


Published July 28, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
A new era is born.
Filmmaker(s): Gareth Edwards

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.

Clones really dislike David Koepp’s work, with one exception. He seems to absorb the world of the filmmaker, and amplifies his (always his) vision. In this case, we have a few set pieces that deliver no unexpected situation whatever — just sequences of narrow escapes...


Published July 21, 2025
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The Residence (2025)
132 rooms. 157 suspects. 1 dead body.

A brilliant, eccentric detective must solve a murder in the White House residence — where the staff and guests at a state dinner are all suspects.

Layers history of film centres on an understanding of noir and how it has become a game between filmmaker and viewer. Central to that is the detective story. The pinnacle of that genre is Agatha Christie but no film has translated well until now. I...


Published July 21, 2025
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Legomasters Grandmasters of the Galaxy (2025)

Eight pairs of Brick heads are pitted against each other in a quest to impress with their creativity, design and flair, driven by their unparalleled passion for the possibilities that will start with a single LEGO brick.

Sophie’s Choice little family has watched this since the beginning, which I believe was before the COVID lockdowns. It is part of a franchise in other nations — this is the Australian version. I’ve dipped into a few of the other nations and found the...


Published July 19, 2025
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Our lives are the sum of our choices.
Filmmaker(s): Christopher McQuarrie

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Comparative Truths live in era of extreme local situated information. Trump and his ilk exploit this model, refined by Fox News, but I think it is a set of deeper and more global effects. Here’s how it works: If you want certain elements in your...


Published June 26, 2025
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Fountain of Youth (2025)
The best secrets are the hardest to find.
Filmmaker(s): Guy Ritchie

A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.

Architecture Under normal circumstances, I would warn you away from this. It is an unintegrated collection of elements designed to take a few dollars and hours in exchange for an escape. It supposes to triangulate that zone among ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘National Treasure’, and ‘The DaVinci Code’....


Published June 17, 2025
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