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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025): The AI Apocalypse

Posted on February 18 by Hugo Pagan Soto

If we mix Terminator 2 (1991) with Groundhog Day (1993) and 12 Monkeys (1995), the result would surely be something like Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025). Director Gore Verbinski borrows the Terminator’s mission, the time-loop repetition of Groundhog Day, and the fatalism of 12 Monkeys to craft a sharp satire with a voice of its own. The peculiarity suggested by the title feels like a warning to the viewer who dares to venture into this film. Verbinski opts for a discourse that unsettles, both because of the truths it exposes and the way it delivers them.

Marty Supreme (2025): Ambition as a Moral Abyss

Posted on February 4 by Hugo Pagan Soto

It only takes a few minutes to realize that Marty Mauser is not a trustworthy person. In the opening sequence of Marty Supreme (2025), we see our protagonist working in a shoe store. Through his interaction with a female customer, we discover a storyteller, a swindler, a smooth-talking hustler willing to do anything to sell a pair of shoes, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. This Marty lacks a moral compass; ambition is his only guide.

Sentimental Value (2025): Memory, Guilt, and Redemption

Posted on January 26 by Hugo Pagan Soto

With Sentimental Value (2025), director Joachim Trier portrays life from its most intimate perspective. The narrative unfolds as a chronology of multigenerational trauma, told from multiple viewpoints, with the family home at its center as both nucleus and metaphor. Within that centuries-old house lie roots, memories, attachment, pain, and a structural flaw that feels like a condemnation present since its creation, akin to an original sin.

Christy: Sydney Sweeney Steps Into the Ring – TIFF 2025

Posted on September 22 by Hugo Pagan Soto

On the night of November 23, 2010, Christy Martin was brutally attacked by her husband. After stabbing her several times, he shot her in the chest, left her for dead on the floor of their bedroom, and went to take a shower. Miraculously, Christy managed to stand up and walk to the street, where she found a driver who took her to a hospital. This episode in the turbulent life of the former welterweight champion feels like something out of a horror movie. In Christy (2025), directed by David Michôd, we revisit the life inside and outside the ring of one of the most dominant female boxers of all time.

Weapons (2025): Horror That Hides a Social Critique

Posted on August 13 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Horror has long been fertile ground for exploitation cinema, but it has also served as a playground for filmmakers to smuggle in sharp social commentary, tucked between jump scares and visceral set pieces. Weapons (2025), the latest from Zach Cregger, confidently walks both paths. It’s a taut, impeccably crafted genre film and, at the same time, an unsettling meditation on violence and its chilling presence within schools and in the lives of children.