2025 Recap – Cinema rages against the machine (much to the audience’s benefit)

Top 10 Films of 2025

As much as I did enjoy Avatar: Fire and Ash, I’m ready for Cameron to move on to telling new stories far removed from this one.

The Housemaid is such gloriously smarmy and snarky fun that even the bits that don’t work so well aren’t a big deal.

This Silent Night, Deadly Night remake is a nicely naughty jolt of blood-soaked holiday horror worth unwrapping.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 offers up pretty much the same gateway horror delights that its predecessor did, and I don’t have any problem with that whatsoever.

Zootopia 2 thing is a madcap jolt of comedic adrenaline that the whole family will almost certainly love. I know I sure did.

Much like the con man Wizard hiding behind the curtain, utilizing sleight of hand and subterfuge to convince the easily fooled that his powers are beyond all imagining, Wicked: For Good has precious little in the way of any actual magic.

If a picture can be worth a thousand words, then Peter Hujar’s Day offers up 76 mesmeric minutes of them that are nothing short of priceless.