My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, December 12th, 2025. 1) ELLA MCCAY It has been fifteen years since James L. Brooks made a film, and that is far too long to wait for one of the greatest writers and directors this country has ever had. I’m not exaggerating when I say that James L. Brooks has shaped American entertainment in ways almost no one

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, December 5th, 2025. 1) FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 I'm going to start this by saying something that will immediately get me yelled at by teenagers, Twitch streamers, TikTok lore theorists, and anyone who has ever spent more than ten minutes on a FNaF subreddit: I have never played a Five Nights at Freddy's vid

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 28th, 2025. 1) ZOOTOPIA 2 It's been nine years since the first Zootopia came out, which in animation time is, I don't know, two Ice Ages and a half? And honestly, I barely remembered the details of the original... outside of loving it. Great time. Great cast. Gorgeous animation. And, of course, the sl

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 21st, 2025. 1) RENTAL FAMILY Every now and then, a movie comes along that shouldn't really work, and yet somehow, against all odds, it does. Rental Family is one of those movies. The concept itself (a lonely American actor living in Japan who joins a "rental family" service to play pretend in other pe

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 14th, 2025. 1) THE RUNNING MAN Edgar Wright's The Running Man is the second adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novel (originally written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym) and a remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger cult favorite. Set in a dystopian future ruled by media manipulation and gov

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 7th, 2025. 1) PREDATOR: BADLANDS So here we go again. Another Predator movie. The sixth live-action one, if you're keeping score, though, at this point it feels like the fourteenth because they've been trying to keep this thing alive for decades. Dan Trachtenberg , who made the actually-pretty-good Pre