Movies

Batman vs Joker, but filmed like a crime epic. It’s the superhero movie people cite when they want to sound serious. Fair enough.

A man ages backwards, and the movie quietly asks what ‘a life’ even means when time refuses to cooperate.

Man says yes to everything and accidentally becomes alive again. It’s a self-help book, but funnier and with fewer scams.

Parody that exists to bully superhero tropes. Stupid on purpose. Sometimes that’s the point.

A superhero with zero PR skills tries to become a decent person. Messy, funny, and refreshingly not sacred about heroism.

An overachieving London cop gets transferred to the quietest village in England, which is not quiet. Somehow both a loving tribute to action movies and a better action movie than most action movies. The third act goes completely insane and earns every second of it.

Teacher fights chaos with notebooks and empathy. A bit idealized, but it lands if you’re in the mood for hope with a side of anger. Plus it actually is a tru story.

A spy who is confidently wrong about everything. Elegant stupidity, perfectly executed.

A group of North African soldiers joins the French Army during World War II, fighting through some of the war's most brutal campaigns while facing discrimination from the very country they are risking their lives to defend. Rather than focusing on generals or grand strategy, Indigènes follows ordinary men as they build friendships, endure loss, and struggle for recognition. It's a war film filled with courage, sacrifice, and frustration, but above all, it's a deeply human story about dignity and belonging. Hundreds of thousands of men from French colonies crossed the Mediterranean to liberate a country that paid them less, fed them less, and remembered them not at all. They fought the same war, in the same mud, next to men who would go home to pensions and monuments. They went home to nothing. This film told their story for the very first time. It came out in 2006, got shown at Cannes, and something rare happened, people actually did something about it. The French government, embarrassed into action, revalued the pensions of surviving veterans from former colonies and integrated their story into the history books we teach to our children. Real people. Real money. History. A film changed that, this film. Not a protest, not a lawsuit, a film.

A man must keep his adrenaline up or die, so the movie becomes two hours of unhinged sprinting. Loud, dumb, and committed.

Dance movie with zero shame. Training, rhythm, and social bridge-building through movement. It earns its place.

Bond reboot where the punches hurt and the poker is life-or-death because cinema logic. Peak modern spy movie.