Films you've seen in 2025

[Sardonicus]

Capote (2005)

Having read "In Cold Blood" several years back. Well dramatised & compelling.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor of rare talent, supported strongly by the often overlooked & supremely talented Catherine Keener as Harper Lee. The less heralded Clifton Collins Junior didn't get many notices as Perry Smith, but he really impressed me. Hell of a tricky ask to pull off something between charming & sinister & his speech to Capote about the murders was the most powerful scene in the film.

Would definitely recommend reading the book first though.

 

[straightorbroken]

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

 

[straightorbroken]

The Last Showgirl (2024)

 

[straightorbroken]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

 

[jyxz]

The Parenting (2025)

Parker Posey being suitably bonkers

 

[jyxz]

The Summer with Carmen (2023)

Lots of Greek nudity

 

[Ellie]

I just saw Restless on a recommendation from a friend. I can see why he thought of me. It’s hard to believe this film is only set over the course of one week, when I had it twice, the first time for 4 months and the second time for 6.

I actually want to recommend the film to my local council people so they might have an idea of what they were ignoring.

Anyway:

Spoiler: Spoiler

I absolutely hate it when films think it’s acceptable to kill cats but people only make a fuss when it’s a dog

 

[Shirley]

The Summer with Carmen (2023)

Lots of Greek nudity

Now I LIKE THE LOOK OF THIS

 

[straightorbroken]

Barbie (2023)

 

[straightorbroken]

I feel like this voice over by Dame Helen Mirren really ought to have been Annie Lennox in a "dreaming like a Texan girl" rage.

 

[jyxz]

Riley (2023)

Coming of age USA American Football high school quarterback LGBTQIA+ drama

 

[jyxz]

Once a year on Blackpool Sands (2020)

 

[jyxz]

Lonesome (2022)

Yet more penises on show.