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The Best Movies of 2025
From vampires to aliens, from Tollywood to Hollywood, from indies to blockbusters, here are the best movies of 2025.
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Delivers Dazzling Visual Spectacle with Simplified Story
James Cameron’s ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ gives us some of the most spectacular visuals of the year, but maintains the saga’s simplified storytelling.
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‘Marty Supreme’ a Propulsive Story of Drive, Dreams, and Delusion
Timothée Chalamet delivers a captivating performance as a ping-pong player in relentless pursuit of greatness in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.
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‘The Girlfriend’ Presents a Poignant Portrayal of Toxic Relationships
Fueled by a stellar performance from Rashmika Mandanna, The Girlfriend packs a punch, offering an important story about toxic relationships, self-discovery, and the healing power of female friendship.
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‘One Battle After Another’ Funny, Frantic, and Fantastic
Make some room on your top 10 list because Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a frantic, funny, and heartfelt father-daughter story that feels incredibly relevant in our current political climate.
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‘Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra’ Is the Hero We Need
We’ve seen cinematic universes, supernatural stories, and otherworldly action heroes a million times, but Dominic Arun’s Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra gives us a refreshing and meticulously-made take on the superhero genre.
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Let Me In far exceeds expectations
When people heard director Matt Reeves was remaking Let The Right One In, the popular vampire movie from Sweden, there was an immediate uproar. People were afraid it would be Americanized and dumbed down. I was skeptical as well. Based on the previous work of Reeves, I felt Let Me In would definitely be a
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The Social Network could be career defining for Jesse Eisenberg
By the time I had joined Facebook it was already passed the stage were it was only available to college students. Now it’s even more readily available to folks than it was when I got on board. It feels as though literally everyone has a Facebook profile. It’s much more than a social networking website.
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Misguided Sympathies of Flowers is certainly misguided
Misguided Sympathies of Flowers is supposed to be about isolation. It’s supposed to be about how a mentally ill homeless woman deals with being alone. It’s supposed to be dramatic and disturbing. At least this is what the IMDB.com page for this short tells us director/writer Gregory Dyke was trying to get across to us.
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Care a sad tale of mental illness
Care directed by Erika Gronek was the one documentary piece I screened as part of the Celluloid in the Sun Showcase at the AZ Underground Film Fest and it was an interesting doc to say the least.
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Return to Mayhem more teaser than short film
One of two animation shorts I saw at the Arizona Underground Film Festival was The Villikon Chronicles: Return to Mayhem. The three minute short, written by Bryan Kinnaird and directed by Rebecca Friedman, is just a very small segment in The Villikon Chronicles series created by Kinnaird.
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Zach Galifianakis talks to MTV about his new movie
Zach Galifianakis sat down with MTV to talk about working with two directors on his new film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story Movie Trailers – Movies Blog
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Which new TV shows will get the chop?
Trashwire friend and writer Greg Esposito wants to know what you think. Which of the new shows for the fall season will get canceled and which will be hits? Post your comments to let us know. New Shows: CBS: Mike & Molly (Comedy) Monday 8:30 Hawaii 5-0 (drama) Monday 9:00 The Defenders (Dramedy) Wednesday 9:00
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The Coen Brothers take on a John Wayne classic with True Grit remake
This Christmas Ethan and Joel Coen, the award winning sibling directing and writing team behind such classics as No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski, take their first crack at the western genre with their adaptation of the Charles Portis novel, True Grit.
