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“The unforgettable true story of a UFC legend.” Director: Benny Safdie Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk Synopsis: “The story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr.” __________________________________________________ I’ve really been looking forward to this one. It never dawned on me until I started to write this, but The Smashing Machine feels like a personal milestone for me. The first A24-distributed movie I’ve seen in a theater was Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler back in 2019, and I vividly remember being physically on the edge of my seat after that. I had such a visceral reaction to Uncut Gems , and I can also remember what I thought when the credits finished and the audience began to clear out: “I wanna make movies.” I can point out other movies in my life that I really love and are my personal favorites, but this is the movie that convinced me to commit to going to film school. Six years have passed since then, and I...

  F1  (2025) Director: Joseph Kosinski Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem. Synopsis:  In the 1990s, Sonny Hayes was Formula 1's most promising driver until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, the owner of a struggling Formula 1 team convinces Sonny to return to racing and become the best in the world. Driving alongside the team's hotshot rookie, Sonny soon learns that the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

Sports movies have never really been my thing. To double down on it, sports in general really isn’t my thing. Sure, I like watching basketball and baseball, but I don’t want to actively play them. I’m admittedly partial to some baseball movies like Field of Dreams and Moneyball , but I don’t know anything about tennis. Like, anything at all. The most I know is from Wii Sports, just to give you a sense of how much I really know. However, I am familiar with director Luca Guadagnino, even though I haven’t seen what’s probably his most popular movie, Call Me By Your Name . The only movies I’ve seen of his are his remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (which I think is one of the only horror remakes that has elements that surpass the original) and Bones and All , his last film. This movie, Challengers , originally was supposed to come out in September of last year but was delayed because of the strikes in Hollywood from last summer, but I do think it benefitted Challengers because it’s curr...