Here we are, a day into 2025 and there are....really not that many movies to look forward to this year! There are a couple that have peaked my interest. Here they are!
The Day the Earth Blew Up
It has been a long, LONG time since we had a proper madcap Looney Tunes adventure. I can't believe we're even seeing this at all after chaos at Warner Bros to get this and the Wile E. Coyote movie out, but hey, I'll take it. It doesn't actually look all that great, but I'm pretty interested.
Mickey 17
I don't know what this is exactly about but it's got Robert Pattinson and directed by Bong Joon-ho and appears to be some kind of sci-fi something. We yearn for this! It looks like a great match-up and after some delays and hype, it might be the biggest mainstream movie (and by that I mean, not mainstream at all) that I'm looking forward to.
Life of Chuck
I need to do better, this also doesn't actually look all that great, but Tom Hiddleston is best applying his smarmy charm into really weird stuff and this is kind of a boffo Stephen King adaptation. But it's the Mike Flanagan direction that I'm most interested in. Actually I don't totally dig his movies, but he seems really good at TV! The episodic nature of this maybe fits that style better? We'll see.
Sinners
The Coogler and Michael B. Jordan are back together! The first image looks great, but I'm really just into this for the talent involved. It's really fun when a director / actor pair flex into a big budget blockbuster and then back down for something like this.
Death of a Unicorn
This looks pretty wild and I dug the trailer that just dropped. It seems whimsical, creepy, satirical maybe, and with an expansive cast of charismatic folk. It's nice to see just about everyone in this stretching out into weird horror and I'm totally down.
Trey Parker / Kendrick Lamar film
That's all you have to say. My #1 pick for 2025 is Untitled Trey Parker / Kendrick Lamar film! I know no other info but this is where it is. This is where life is headed in 2025. I can't even conceive of what this might exactly be, who knows. But as you can tell, the only things I really look forward to are the big swings, the interesting pairings, and new product from proven off-beat directors.
I can tell you, 2025 also feels like mainstream superhero Hollywood is going back to the well with the safest possible properties, but giving them some kind of spin to make them new or weird? I have a terrible feeling Superman is going to absolutely fall on its head. The trailer didn't really look engaging at all, but maybe we just need to know what kind of story they're telling? And it's a weird turn of events that Marvel's most iconic First Family feels real late to the gate, but I just don't care about the Fantastic Four. I will be there for the Beta Ray Bill movie. After a few years of multiverse nonsense, it seems like we are really grounding things but I wonder if that well has also run dry. I want another Kraven movie!
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