Rendy Jones

‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Stylish Monster Movie is a Chaotic, Half-Formed Feminist ‘Joker’ Even with Buckley’s showstopping lead and bursts of striking imagery, The Bride never comes alive.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's THE BRIDE is just a *Bo Burnham voice* a whiiiiite womaaaaaaan. A white woman's Joker film.

My review:
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‘Hoppers’ Review: Pixar Gets Weird in Daniel Chong’s Darkly Funny Animal Comedy If the creator of We Bare Bears can make Pixar's best movie in years, who knows what great films lie within every animation television creator?

HOPPERS is the weirdest, most unhinged, and unpredictable movies to come out of Pixar in years. But for Daniel Chong, this is just another Monday. Nevertheless, it's the best shock to the system the studio had to its system since TURNING RED.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Hoppers’ Review: Pixar Gets Weird in Daniel Chong’s Darkly Funny Animal Comedy If the creator of We Bare Bears can make Pixar's best movie in years, who knows what great films lie within every animation television creator?

HOPPERS is the weirdest, most unhinged, and unpredictable movies to come out of Pixar in years. But for Daniel Chong, this is just another Monday. Nevertheless, it's the best shock to the system the studio had to its system since TURNING RED.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

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'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' Review: Canada’s Geekiest Comedy Duo Craft a Time-Traveling All-Timer It's like if Matt Johnson spliced Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and doused it in maple syrup.

Wish I could time-travel to SXSW 2025 and experience NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE all over again. God, I haven’t been obsessed with something this Canadian since Scott Pilgrim.

Better late (and 4 watches) than never. My review:
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‘GOAT’ Review: Sony Animation’s Basketball Flick Slightly Bleats Out Formulaic Story with Heart and Striking Visuals Tyree Dillihay’s directorial debut is sincere and stunning, baaaaaaa-uuuuut lacks the game to appeal to beyond the youngest of viewers.

GOAT: Man, I wished I liked this more. Tyree Dillihay’s directorial debut has bleating heart and stunning visuals, baaaaaaa-uuuuut lacks the innovation as past Sony Animation fare and the game to appeal to beyond the youngest of viewers.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

'By Design' Review: Juliette Lewis Shines as a Chair in Esoteric Feminist Take on the Body Swap Formula | Sundance 2025 Only Amanda Kramer could make me believe that being inanimate feels more exciting than being alive.

Really enjoyed Amanda Kramer's BY DESIGN when I saw it at Sundance last year. Juliette Lewis body switches with a chair. No seriously. It's absurd, theatrical, esoteric and sturdy...like a chair.

Hits theaters Friday. Def check it out.

My review here:
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For the night crowd. Beautiful gowns. beautiful gowns.

The trailer is at least good!

‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: A Fifty Shades Reskin for the Insipid "I Can Fix Him" Audience This all could’ve been prevented if Ao3 was made in Fennell’s youth.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Emerald Fennell's worst film to date. A completely soulless, messy, misinterpretation of the source in favor for a(n even more vanilla) FIFTY SHADES reskin for the "I Can Fix Him" audience.

My #WutheringHeightsMovie review here:
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‘GOAT’ Review: Sony Animation’s Basketball Flick Slightly Bleats Out Formulaic Story with Heart and Striking Visuals Tyree Dillihay’s directorial debut is sincere and stunning, baaaaaaa-uuuuut lacks the game to appeal to beyond the youngest of viewers.

GOAT: Man, I wished I liked this more. Tyree Dillihay’s directorial debut has bleating heart and stunning visuals, baaaaaaa-uuuuut lacks the innovation as past Sony Animation fare and the game to appeal to beyond the youngest of viewers.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

'Sirāt' Review: A Memorable, Hypnotic Dance Through Hell It's like going to a rave and experiencing it through a maximalist, shroomed-up lens.

SIRAT hits theaters in NY/LA this weekend. Possibly one of the most unforgettable cinematic experiences you'd find in a theater this weekend. Electric, exhilarating, and explosive. Wish this would've gotten a Dolby release.

read my review:
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they better play Avril's Keep Holdin On in the reboot.

Hahaha journalism is a joke and dying and it's scary how we're not speaking about how much we're emotionally hanging by a thread right now.

‘Lurker’ Writer/Director Alex Russell on Interplaying Music and Persona Through Debut Thriller In our conversation with writer/director Alex Russell, he discusses how he felt he transitioned from a writer to a director during post-production,  how a random person's feedback during a colori...

I caught up with LURKER writer/director Alex Russell following his DGA & Indie Spirit noms. In our convo, he discuss attuning to his director instincts during post, how feedback fixed a pivotal scene, and accidentally missing Nolan's DGA call. [Paywall]

Read our chat here:

‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die’ Review: Gore Verbinski’s Fun Anti-Ai Romp Goes Against the System A fantastic comeback for Verbinski and a biting, twisted critique of the current state of our digital age.

GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE: through a biting, twisted critique of the state of our digital age, Gore Verbinski returns to form like an old school boxer coming out of retirement, proving he still has the juice.

Read my full review here:

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Ejae being a Grammys Winner and SM realizing their ex-trainee they shitted on accomplished something they never managed to?

Oh I’m loving it here LMAOOOOO. So happy for Ejae.

And fuck SM Entertainment ♥️

'The Moment' Review: Charli XCX’s Metaphysical Farce is a Stroke of Genius Whatever water Aidan Zamiri and XCX held during Brat’s impact and aftermath is spilled in a cathartic release.

I think THE MOMENT is a real stroke of genius. Whatever water Charli xcx and Aidan Zamiri held during Brat’s impact and aftermath is spilled through this hilarious anti-commercialist metaphysical cathartic release.

My review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

The insane part is, it's not even fucking February yet.

Not to get religiously existential on main, but how does one even believe in a God when all he does is taketh the good ones and most talented who bring only joy and entertainment to this world but let the ones who wrought evil run free?

The fuck do you mean Canadian's queen of comedy just passed?! FUCK YOU GOD, you keep taking the wrong goddamn people.

Hollywood in Trump 2.0’s America is going great. 10/10. No notes.

‘Send Help Review: Sam Raimi Returns to His Roots with Gory, Demented Survival Comedy Raimi got his hehe-horror groove back.

SEND HELP or "How Sam Raimi Got his Hehe-Horror Groove" back is a demented return to form. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien are deliciously looney. Linda Liddle and Abigail from Triangle of Sadness would queen tf out.

Read my review here:
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Marvel's "Wonder Man" Builds a Bleary Showbiz Buddy Comedy For the MCU | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert Though its ambition surpasses its grasp, it leaves one yearning for more of this dynamic duo in the franchise's ever-inconsistent future.

Enjoyed Marvel's WONDER MAN, a buddy-comedy 'Birdman'. Was gobsmacked by the “second-gen Haitian pursuing the American Dream” rep, so this viscerally hit close to home. Albeit slightly underdeveloped it's by far the MCU's most ambitious entry in years.

My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

Nah, you took the paycheck. Wear that shit on your IMDb page for the rest of your natural fuckin life.

Looked out my window and saw a mammoth, a bipedal sloth, a sabertooth tiger, and a baby trudging through the snow. It’s that brick outside yall.

‘Mercy’ Review: Atrocious Pro-AI Screenlife Sci-Fi Thriller Deserves the Chair Not even a deliciously smug Rebecca Ferguson can save it. 

MERCY, the awful Chris Pratt-led pro-AI and pro-cop wannabe MINORITY REPORT, is one of the worst screenlife films I've ever seen. We need to go back in time and prevent Timur Bekmambetov from discovering Skype.

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Final Oscars 2026 Nomination Predictions Everyone, we made it. We're nearing the end of the awards season. Now we're at the big one. I am now confident in my ability to predict the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards, having carefully monit...

Well we made it everyone. Oscar noms tomorrow. After tracking intimately via industry events, award shows, and good ol' math, here's my FINAL Oscar 2026 nomination predictions.

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Ponies review: Peacock spy TV series offers compelling thrills A compelling, female-driven buddy spy thriller that is enough to hold out hope for a second season.

”It is a well-made and entertaining period espionage show that, despite the numerous broad strokes it fires, hits its target with solid, entertaining precision,” writes @rendy.bsky.social about PONIES.