Mickey 17 (2025)
Directed by Bong Joon-Ho. Notably starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette.
Have you watched Mickey 1-16 yet?
PLOT SUMMARY
Barnes is his last name, or rather was, before he died. Now it's a number after he registers to become an 'expendable' - someone who would be printed out of a human-replication machine every time he dies. He's made to die - to do those dangerous jobs deemed unfit for both human and machine.…
The Girl With the Needle (2024)
Directed by Magnus von Horn. Notably starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm and Besir Zeciri.
The most disturbing part of this film comes right before the end credits, when it reads, "Inspired by True Events".
PLOT SUMMARY
A widowed seamstress called Karoline in 1919 Copenhagen has a baby that she cannot raise. Alone, she's incapable - she doesn't even have a place to live. But things do seem to take a turn for the…
The Brutalist (2024)
Directed by Brady Corbet. Notably starring Adrien Brody, Guy Pierce and Felicity Jones.
Concrete - not wood, or brick, or terracotta, but concrete in all its rawness and hardness, is the principle of brutalist architecture.
PLOT SUMMARY
László Tóth, a pioneer in this discipline, is a Jewish immigrant stranded in postwar America, estranged from his family. His next project: a library for a certain Van Buren, who would soon hire Tóth for a project on a grander…
Dune: Part 2 (2024)
Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Notably starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya Coleman, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård, Austin Butler and Christopher Walken.
For such an ambitious film, fear is the mind-killer.
This installment in the Dune trilogy picks up from where the first part left off and charts the journey of Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides as he struggles against a fate which compels him to become the messiah of the Fremen. But he foresees many dead in a…
