While the meat of this movie certainly owes a lot to FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, THE THING, and ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, you can still see Ryan Coogler's blood pulsing through this film's jugular. Sex, laughs, music, gore, and scares, yet somehow this movie finds time to say some pretty profound things. Those complex statements never conceal the straight-up fun this throwback blockbuster is having, though. SINNERS is a sweaty clown car full of fleshed-out people and ideas. A cinematic turducken and the most audacious audio/video onslaught that I've experienced on the big screen since BABYLON. Catharsis was achieved.

40 years after the release of Terry Gilliam's 1985 masterpiece BRAZIL, Bong Joon Ho's MICKEY 17 has captured the same satirical mishmash of dark comedy, romance, science fiction, and expressionistic fantasy. It still has his anti-captialist DNA running through it's veins but like each of the many Mickeys in the film, it feels unique. It's certainly a descendent of SNOWPIERCER and OKJA but somehow feels slightly less cynical. The absurdist world he creates, filled with caricatures of people and cgi monsters, is oddly grounded by moments of humanity that brought me to tears. This will be my most watched movie of 2025.

This film sees the same twisted darkness in Lithgow that De Palma saw.

How can something so raw be this meticulously constructed? IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is proof that cinema is the only medium that can harness the red-hot yearning power of the human soul.

A baseball game, like life when you're young, feels as if it could last forever. EEPHUS is an enchanting but sobering reminder that it doesn't. I played baseball my whole life until... I didn't. At some point I ran to first base for the last time and may not have even realized it was the final time I'd do that in cleats. This movie is 98 minutes of that feeling. Loved it.