The Last Movie Guy

Furies (2026): When Survival Becomes a Heist

Posted on 4 Hours Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

In 2019, Lebanon’s financial crisis reached its breaking point. Protests across the country intensified, banks closed their doors, and soon began imposing restrictions on depositors’ withdrawals and transfers. Three years later, the collapse was total: money was frozen in bank accounts, people could no longer access their savings, and many citizens took desperate measures to get their money back. It is precisely in that bleak year of 2022 that Furies, directed by Rami Kodeih, is a work of fiction that comes painfully close to reality.

Resident Evil (2026): A Nightmare in Motion

Posted on 1 Day Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

In his book The Anatomy of Genres, John Truby reflects on horror as a genre that gives narrative expression to one of humanity’s most primal fears: death. Truby takes this idea to a more existential level, defining it as the awareness that we are going to die. The crossroads between life and death is where horror finds its deepest roots, and Zach Cregger understands this perfectly. Following the worldwide fascination generated by Weapons, the director returns with a new horror offering, Resident Evil.

Nosotros (2026): The Weight of Prejudice

Posted on 3 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

In his feature-film debut, director Joaquín Ruano explores the complexities of social prejudice and the way it permeates even the simplest aspects of everyday life. Nosotros speaks of the loneliness of migration, corrosive masculinity, and intolerance. The journey from the countryside to the city, one of humanity’s oldest and most inherent journeys, becomes the canvas upon which Ruano constructs his story. Migration is a physical journey, but it also becomes an emotional odyssey.

The Last Movie Guy – Episode #3: Desire And Tragedy On Screen

Posted on 3 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

Pip: The Last Movie Guy — where the movies are old, the obsessions are timeless, and someone is always lurking outside a window.

Mara: Hugo Pagan Soto has been writing this week about desire and destruction — from psychological crime and voyeurism to the doomed world of postwar Japanese gangster drama. Let’s start with the films where obsession does the real damage.

How to Watch Movies Like a Critic (Without a Film Degree)

Posted on 4 Days Ago by Hugo Pagan Soto

Why I Wrote a Manual for Watching Films

I’ve spent most of my career on the business side of movies moving titles through distribution, figuring out how films find their audiences, watching the industry from the inside. But none of that is why I love film. That started earlier, the way it does for most of us: alone in a theater or in front of a screen, completely absorbed, not yet able to explain why a scene worked the way it did.