viewThe Secret Agent: Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025
A nuanced film about the complexities of life under a dictatorship. Set in 1977 Brazil with time jumps to its modern era, the story follows engineer “Marcello” as he attempts to flee Brazil with his son before a government-backed capitalist finds and kills him.
The movie harkens back to a 70’s Hollywood political thriller with a dense plot, rich characters, and storytelling that trusts the audience. The movie is visually striking, and Filho follows side stories while bending genres.
Actor Wagner Moura, playing two roles, has the most on-screen charisma of any lead performance I saw in 2025.
Watch it.
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viewA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO (2026)
Episodes 4-6 (Spoilers)
See review of 1-3 here
The origin story of Dunk & Egg’s team-up takes a darker turn in the second half of the premiere season. Due to his innate goodness, Dunk finds himself in power’s crosshairs, and Egg is revealed to be the nickname of princeling Aegon Targaryen.
This show shrinks Westeros down to an intimate experience; we have never spent this kind of quality time with the Smallfolk. Steely Pate, the armorer with a heart of gold, is an elite side character. The closing scene sets up season's worth of storytelling and an effective denouement to the black-and-blue bruising of the previous episode.
Watch it.
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viewShoresy Season 5, Episode 1: Keep It Simple. Hulu, 2026
Note:
I will be reviewing every episode of Season 5
If I showed you the premiere of the fifth season of Shoresy, you’d cycle through:
1. This is the most profane thing I’ve seen on television
2. I can’t stop laughing
3. Am I crying?
4. Can I watch more?
5. Are we drinkin’ beers?
Shoresy is to prestige TV what a dirty limerick is to poetry. It’s also the empathetic but raunchy cis-hetro older brother to the hit show, Heated Rivalry. That isn’t just a good line. Jared Keso, the creator of Shoresy, and HR creator Jacob Tierney partnered on Letterkenney and Shoresy’s early seasons.
Catch up on it.
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viewGood Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Gore Verbinski (2026)
Maybe only absurdist satire can shock society out of the techno-death spiral we are diving into. Verbinski’s movie posits just that, exploring the humor wing of the Black Mirror genre. Cat-centaurs, Mar’s Attacks’ rayguns and malicious toys are mere flourishes in this bonkers cautionary tale.
The plot is Terminator if it were mainlining a chemical cocktail of Monty Python and LSD. Geoffrey Zanelli’s score signposts the plot like video game music.
Sam Rockwell’s messenger from the future is a career time-capsule role, and he leads a talented cast that grounds the film’s hopeful humanitarianism.
Buy a ticket, take the ride.
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viewMarty Supreme, Josh Safdie (2025)
A frenetic thrill ride beginning in the Lower East Side tenement buildings of NYC to become a globetrotting misadventure, ping-ponging across Europe, Africa, Japan, and New Jersey. Loosely based on real-life Ping Pong shark Marty Reisman, the movie is a mash-up of The Hustler and True Romance.
The plot borders on ridiculous, but the film is fueled by Timothy Chalamet’s charisma, ensnaring us into his madness. Hyper-stylized, with anachronistic needle drops, the movie feels contemporary until you see a car or a rotary phone.
Safdie assembles a cast that includes reality show stars, rappers, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
See it.
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viewWho Is She? Goddess Energy Father/Daughter Records (2023)
Hailing from the enchanted lands of Seattle, Who Is She? is a supergroup of Indie Rockers from bands I don’t know. What I do know is that this platter is a cauldron-brewed mix of jangle pop, sing-songy vocals, and lo-fi production.
What separates this from typical retro la-la-las is sassy, funny lyrics, with songs about witchiness overload, a defense of Anne Hathaway, nostalgia for Movie Pass, and an ode to Marianne Williamson.
The record doesn’t even clock in at 30 minutes. Do you dig labels like Teen Beat, hyper-aware cultural references, and build altars to the divine feminine? Stream it.
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viewAbout Schmidt, Alexander Payne (2002)
This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32.
In 2002, it was a dull Election follow-up; in hindsight, it matches his Nebraska with its suburban inner-sprawl dread. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.
Nicholson gives one of his last great performances, injecting a sneering everyman menace into scenes. Hope Davis at her mousy best, with June Squibb, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, and Dr. Johnny Fever layering the slow-motion cringe with despair.
Pre-smartphone. Schmidt driving to Rush Limbaugh on AM radio? Quaint.
Need motivation to get going? Watch it.
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viewThe Lemonheads Love Chant, Fire Records (2025)
58 Second Song opens The Lemonheads' first album of new material in nearly twenty years. It's three minutes and twenty-two seconds. Typical.
Love Chant is as shambling, warm, and weird as their one consistent but mercurial member, Evan Dando. I'm a lifetime member of the Dando Apologists Club, so I'm already lost, but this is a fun, fuzzy batch of '90s Guitar Rock.
The back half of the record swings more than the first, and begins soaring when Juliana Hatfield and Erin Rae harmonize their way into the chorus of Cell Phone Blues.
Reminiscent of the Lovey album. Stream it.
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viewThe Eternaut, Netflix (2025)
Prepare for a dark, dystopian acid trip of a show, mashing up sci-fi allegories and wink-wink nods to a universe of science fiction stories. Based on the Argentinian comic El Eternauta, which debuted in 1957, it was deemed so subversive by the Argentine military leadership that the author, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and four of his daughters “disappeared.”
The series updates the plot to modern times. The anti-authoritarian rhetoric with a scrappy resistance is as relevant now as it was throughout the twentieth century.
Covertly, also a celebration of middle-aged wisdom and long friendships, adding to the emotional weight. Binge it.
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viewNeko Case – The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir (2025)
Most will start this expecting Neko's tales of Rock & Roll, only to read a memoir about poverty, family pain, and generational trauma. Case presents a stark look at growing up poor and neglected in North America.
There are some music business bits, but they feel like addenda to her rich story. Music helped save her, but it's only part of her narrative. Her quest to find her Slavic heritage resonated with me, from horse-riding women warriors to lady wrestlers to The Muffs.
Her writing crackles with verve. She dashes off analogies, deploying wordplay with a songwriter's touch. Listen to it.
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