Tag: Focus Features
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Top Films 2025
Ready for our top films 2025? In a year of films with runtimes that pushed the limits of our bladders and patience here are the ones we found worth sitting through. Here are some of the standouts of 2025. Here is the list in alphabetical order. Top Films 2025 Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s…
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Marty Supreme, No Other Choice, Song Sung Blue, The Testament of Ann Lee – 625
A holiday release day jam packed with awards bait, but only some are actually worthy of the nice list. We take on Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, Park Chan Wook‘s No Other Choice. Plus two musical(ish) films with Song Sung Blue and The Testament of Ann Lee Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Marty Supreme Marty Mauser,…
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Hamnet, Left-Handed Girl, Fackham Hall – 618
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is one of the most haunting and best films of the year. Left-Handed Girl is a love letter to Taipei. Fackham Hall satirizes the likes of Downton Abbey. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Hamnet From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the…
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Bugonia, Hedda – 610
Buckle up for the bonkers and brilliant ride that is Bugonia. Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson try to update Hedda – but does their big swing pay off? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Bugonia From visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos comes BUGONIA, an explosive psychological thriller that offers a pitch-black comic window into our modern age…
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The Long Walk, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Spinal Tap 2 – 596
Stephen King’s The Long Walk proves as timely a film adaptation as there could be. Also two films made as (perhaps unnecessary) fan service with Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Long Walk From the highly anticipated adaptation of master storyteller Stephen…
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Ne Zha 2, Honey Don’t, Eden, Eenie Meanie, Long Story Short – 591
A jam packed week (for better and for mostly worse) with the animated epic Ne Zha 2, the Margaret Qualley led Honey Don’t, Ron Howard’s the trouble in paradise catastrophe – Eden, the crime thriller Eenie Meanie, and finally the brilliant and heartfelt Long Story Short. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Ne Zha 2…
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Ballerina, The Phoenician Scheme, Dangerous Animals, Predator: Killer of Killers – 570
Ana De Armas joins the John Wick-iverse in Ballerina. Wes Anderson continues to rinse and repeat his work with The Phoenician Scheme. Jai Courtney gives a swimmingly scary performance in Dangerous Animals. Predator: Killer of Killers is a more than worthy entry into the franchise. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Ballerina: From the World…
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Nosferatu, Babygirl, A Complete Unknown – 523
Robert Eggers sinks his fangs into Nosferatu. Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson smolder in Babygirl. We’re feeling about as settled as a rolling stone after seeing the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Nosferatu A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated…
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Nightbitch, Flow, Y2K, That Christmas – 518
Amy Adams rips into motherhood in Nightbitch. You’ll absolutely want to go with the beautifully animated Flow. Kyle Mooney’s Y2K will send you tripping down memory lane. That Christmas is a sweet holiday blast. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Nightbitch A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon…
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Venom: The Last Dance, Anora, Conclave – 499
Here’s hoping the title for Venom: The Last Dance is a promise… Sean Baker continues his exploration of the overlooked members of society with Anora. Finally Conclave can consider us a convert. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Venom: The Last Dance In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest…