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Catching Up on My Thoughts on New Theatrical Movies I Saw in December 2025, aka Will Christmas Last Forever?

January 6, 2026

jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Albert Brooks, Avatar, Avatar: Fire and AsH, Ayo Edebiri, Bailey Bass, Brendan Cowell, Britain Dalton, Bryan Fuller, CCH Pounder, Cliff Curtis, David Dastmalchian, David Thewlis, Dileep Rao, Duane Evans Jr., Dust Bunny, Edie Falco, Ella McCay, Emma Mackey, Filip Geljo, Giovanni Ribisi, Jack Champion, Jack Lowden, James Cameron, James L. Brooks, Jamie Flatters, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jemaine Clement, Joel David Moore, Julie Kavner, Kate Winslet, Kumail Nanjiani, Mads Mikkelsen, Matt Gerlad, Oona Chaplin, Rebecca Hall, Rebecca Henderson, Sam Worthington, Sheila Atim, Sigourney Weaver, Sophia Sloan, Spike Fearn, Stephen Lang, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana Leave a comment

Dear Pandora Santa Claus… (CREDIT: Screenshot)

Dust Bunny

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sophia Sloan, Sigourney Weaver, Sheila Atim, David Dastmalchian, Rebecca Henderson

Director: Bryan Fuller

Running Time: 106 Minutes

Rating: R

Release Date: December 12, 2025 (Theaters)

Ella McCay

Starring: Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Woody Harrelson, Kumail Nanjiani, Spike Fearn, Julie Kavner, Albert Brooks, Ayo Edebiri, Rebecca Hall

Director: James L. Brooks

Running Time: 115 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: December 12, 2025 (Theaters)

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi, David Thewlis, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jamie Flatters, Bailey Bass, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans Jr., Matt Gerlad, Dileep Rao

Director: James Cameron

Running Time: 197 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: December 19, 2025 (Theaters)

Hey hey, ho ho ho! And now for something completely the assessment of a few movies I saw in the run-up to the End-of-Year 2025 Holiday Season. I considered doing this before Christmas reared its festive rump, but I didn’t quite get around to it. So now here we are in January, hopefully with the benefit of a little more digestion. For this selection of flicks (whose current theatrical availability ranges from “nowhere” to “everywhere”), I shall now discuss how much seeing them and then writing about them has (or has not) kept the holiday spirit alive.

I’m Thinking of Writing Things (‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review)

September 8, 2020

jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Charlie Kaufman, David Thewlis, i'm thinking of ending things, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette Leave a comment

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (CREDIT: Mary Cybulski/Netflix)

Starring: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Running Time: 134 Minutes

Rating: R

Release Date: September 4, 2020

I’m Thinking of Ending Things features a couple of things that I REALLY love in a pair of crucial scenes: a furry doggie and a trip to the ice cream shop! But there appear to be sinister elements lurking beneath the surfaces, as Jimmy the fluffy border collie seems to be stuck in a time loop of shaking himself dry, and Jake (Jesse Plemons) and the young woman (Jessie Buckley) buy their frozen treats in the middle of a snowstorm. Ice cream might taste great year-round, but if you’re going to eat it in the winter, you’d probably want to do it while snuggled up at home! (Also, that girl at the ice cream shop hints at … something nefarious.)

Really, the entirety of I’m Thinking of Ending Things is about events that I love but that have something terrifying bubbling (barely) beneath the surface. Meeting your s.o.’s parents for dinner?! Great, but the time-space continuum seems to be coming undone. Having a conversation in the car about whatever the hell pops into your head?! I love it, but often this scene is so dark that I can’t see anything at all. Dancing in a school hallway?! Hurray! … but is the janitor okay?

You’re thinking of ending things? I’m thinking of making them last forever!

Grade: 45 Dog Shakes out of 60 Ice Cream Cones

This Is a Movie Review: Wonder Woman

July 8, 2017

jmunney Cinema, Movie Reviews Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, David Thewlis, Elena Anaya, Eugene Brave Rock, Ewan Bremner, Gal Gadot, Jack Huston, Lasso of Truth, Lucy Davis, Patty Jenkins, Robin Wright, Saïd Taghmaoui, Wonder Woman 1 Comment

Has Wonder Woman always been noted for her blunt honesty? Obviously the truth has been a big part of her mythos from the beginning, what with the Lasso of that particular quality. Anyway, I am glad her debut film leans into that. Gal Gadot is strikingly perfect at playing Diana’s frustration that those in the world of man are often not straightforward or honorable. What really sells it are the moments when the truest explanations are beyond the scope of the Lasso. So good on Chris Pine as Steve Trevor for zeroing in on the motivation she needs to become the superhero this world needs right now. Diana’s not giving up on us, so I won’t give up on DC.

I give Wonder Woman 95 Ricochets out of 100 Bullets.