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A private user reviewed Blue Moon (2025)

Blue Moon

If this doesn’t get Ethan Hawke some statuettes this coming winter, then I don’t know what will. He is on great form delivering a pithy series of monologues as if he really were the renowned lyricist Larry Hart. Most of this is told by way of his chat with his favourite barman “Eddie” (Bobby Cannavale) whilst he is waiting for the after show party for “Oklahoma!” to begin. He had famously worked with Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) for many a year, but this latter man had become tired of his booze-driven ...

A private user reviewed Marshmallow (2025)

Marshmallow

This is a typical camp slasher movie and it plays itself very well. The characters are engaging, you feel that you know what is going on and what is about to happen, and the twist hits out of left field and still feels completely earned. The ending is impactful and it's just a lovely story overall. The movie is technically proficient, it is well acted and well directed and if you enjoy camp slasher movies you're definitely going to enjoy this one.

A private user reviewed The Siege at Thorn High (2025)

The Siege at Thorn High

After such a long time, Joko Anwar has finally returned to directing a film outside of the horror–supernatural genre, and honestly, I’m satisfied with this one. As always, Joko Anwar’s opening scenes immediately trigger me—my heart pounding, thump-thump-thump!! Truly terrifying, yet this isn’t even a horror film. Almost every aspect of this movie comes close to perfection: from its neatly woven plot narrative, to its amazing world-building and production design. The dystopian world is portrayed as being in total chaos, yet it feels so realistic that it makes us feel as ...

A private user reviewed Arco (2025)

Arco

On a futuristic world, the population travel by making their own rainbows - but you have to be twelve before you get your own empowering cape and diamond. Ten year old “Arco” is impatient, though, especially when his parents and sister return from an exhilarating trip. One night, when all are asleep he pinches his sister’s kit and sets off for his maiden flight. Of course, he’s hardly adept and so soon plummets through the clouds, and the timeline, and finds himself stuck in a past world with “Iris”. She’s an ...

A private user reviewed A Private Life (2025)

A Private Life

"Lilian" (Jodie Foster) is a professionally successful psychiatrist who is divorced from optomatrist "Gaby" (Daniel Auteuil) and who has a strained relationship with her son "Julien" (Vincent Lacoste) and her new grandson "Joe". One of her regulars called "Paula" (Virginie Efira) hasn't being showing up lately, but she is still very shocked when her daughter "Valérie" (Luàna Bajrami) calls her to explain that her mother had taken her own life. She goes to the funeral only to discover that her now widower husband "Simon" (Mathieu Amalric) blames her for her suicide ...

A private user reviewed The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026)

The Wizard of the Kremlin

I suppose to be fair to Paul Dano, he does have something of the look of an apparatchik to him, but otherwise he really fails to deliver anything of the complexities or menace in this depiction of the rise of Vladimir Putin. OK, so Jude Law doesn't exactly convince in that latter role, either, but at least he does resemble his man! "Vadim" (Dano) is an aspiring film-maker of no great skill who ends up working as a television producer just as Boris Yeltsin is beginning to lose his grip. His ...

A private user reviewed Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Well I’ve seen plenty of fly on the wall documentaries over the years, but rarely one that’s so fly in the ointment. The ointment in question being Vladimir Putin’s overt manipulation of school children in Russia to make sure the pupils and their teachers all dance to the tune of his “special military operation” in Ukraine. Pavel “Pasha” Talankin is a teacher in a town hitherto known as the most toxic place on the globe - Karabash. Famed for it’s copper industry, this place pollutes like nowhere else, but Pasha has ...

A private user reviewed Scarlet (2025)

Scarlet

Based very loosely on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, this follows the perilous adventures of the princess “Scarlet” as she seeks retribution for the assassination of her kingly father by her uncle “Claudius”. He is aware that she is going to try something and so arranges for her to join him in the Land of the Dead. That plan doesn’t quite go to plan and though she ends up there, she is not yet consumed by it's nothingness. No sooner has she arrived than she encounters and allies with the confused young 21st century ...

A private user reviewed The Rats: A Witcher Tale (2025)

The Rats: A Witcher Tale

# LARPing the basic

again, Netflix crap.

The vultures who grabbed the Witcher "franchise" have done it again. Even this strong side story about the Rats, they managed to corrupt. And I'm not talking about "we need to have a PoC everywhere" in which is supposed medieval Poland and surroundings.

A private user reviewed Protector (2026)

Protector

The casting for this is not particularly noteworthy, with the exception of the main protagonist, and some of the camera work and writing is a bit underdeveloped. Some of the effects leave a bit to be desired as well, but I don't think that takes away from the enjoyment of this movie.

This thing is still on point and the directing is more than adequate for what this wants to convey. It's sort of like ...

A private user reviewed Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026)

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

**?? 3.3 / 5 ?? — It throws as much at the screen as it does names in the title… more fun than it deserves to be, but way more movie than it needs to be**

_Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice_ is the kind of film that shows up on a streaming platform with a weird title and a cast that makes you do a double-take. Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez… and ...

A private user reviewed They Will Kill You (2026)

They Will Kill You

This was completely bonkers, in both the best and worst ways. Imagine a wild mash-up of Ready or Not, Kill Bill, and Looney Tunes, with flashes of countless other films thrown into the mix. It’s chaotic, and doesn’t always land, but it’s never dull.

The trailer does a great job of hiding a key element that I genuinely didn’t see coming. That surprise is also where the “mixed results” come in. I won’t spoil it ...

A private user reviewed It Was Just an Accident (2025)

It Was Just an Accident

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/it-was-just-an-accident-review/

"It Was Just an Accident is a testament to the unwavering courage of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker who refuses to be silenced.

It's a brave protest executed as a psychological thriller that, despite occasionally stumbling in its own need to be overtly political — with the message sometimes delivered too directly — manages, in ...

A private user reviewed The Dog Stars (2026)

The Dog Stars

Life in a post-apocalyptic world is a common theme in movies (especially, if you believe what’s published in the media, the increasing prospect that such an outcome may be coming closer to a reality than any of us might like). In many cases, these films follow the experiences of a resourceful, innovative protagonist who quietly but skillfully struggles to survive, successfully managing to fend off foes while cerebrally wrestling with feelings about what’s been lost. That scenario is apparent once again in this latest release from legendary director Ridley Scott. Unfortunately ...

A private user reviewed Another Simple Favor (2025)

Another Simple Favor

Coming into Another Simple Favor, I was ready to dive back into the delicious, twisted world that the original film so brilliantly established. While I appreciated the opportunity to revisit these characters, the movie's saving grace is undoubtedly the electrifying chemistry between stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. The ease and spark they share on screen, trading barbed dialogue and suspicious glances, proves both actresses are far more talented and compelling than the general audience perception often gives them credit for. They're the engine of this sequel, effortlessly selling their intricate ...

A private user reviewed Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

Jurassic World Rebirth

_Jurassic World Rebirth_ tries to revive the magic but mostly goes through the motions. The dinosaurs look fine, but the sense of wonder’s long gone. The plot recycles old beats—corporate greed, a betrayal, someone shouting “Run!”—while new characters feel like action figures with catchphrases. A few set pieces land, and it’s refreshing to see a Hispanic family in the lead, even if they feel a bit gimmicky. It’s not bad, just safe. If you want thrills, it delivers. Just don’t expect awe.

A private user reviewed Mortal Kombat II (2026)

Mortal Kombat II

Remember the start of "Galaxy Quest" (1999) when a group of actors are drafted in to help rescue the universe from a nasty megalomaniac bent on intergalactic domination? Well, this time it's poor old "Johnny Cage" (Karl Urban) who's the past his sell-by-date Thespian reluctantly recruited by "Lord Raiden" (Tadanobu Asano) to help save the Earth realm from certain doom. He is to join four other somewhat sceptical fighters, all with various skills, to combat the five soldiers of "Shao Kahn" (Martyn Ford) who has been hitherto indestructable as the princess ...

A private user reviewed Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/predator-badlands-movie-review-dan-trachtenberg-earns-the-franchise-keys-by-flipping-the-hunt/

"Predator: Badlands is an audacious exercise in reinvention that takes a risk and triumphs. The movie excels in every technical department, featuring a spectacle of creature design and sound work, and offering a new thematic vision for the saga's longevity ...

A private user reviewed How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

How to Train Your Dragon

Whatever happened to Brenton Thwaites? For some reason that crossed my mind as this thoroughly entertaining fantasy adventure gets off to a rollicking start and keeps going. Now if you are the “Hagar”-esque Viking chief (Gerard Butler) expecting your son to take over as fearless dragon-chaser after you, why would you call him “Hiccup”? Might as well call him “Buttercup”? Anyway, that hapless lad (Mason Thames) maybe isn’t the most adept on the muscle front but cerebrally he has something of the Leonardo Da Vinci to him as he determines to ...

A private user reviewed 10DANCE (2025)

10DANCE

10 Dance explores dance as an emotional language, pairing two rival dancers whose opposing styles reflect their inner emptiness and desire to connect. As ambition and forbidden feelings blur the line between competition and intimacy, their pursuit of perfection demands both technical and emotional sacrifice. Though rich in theme and rhythm, the film stumbles in execution, leaving its powerful ideas slightly short of a truly resonant finale ...