Thursday, June 26, 2025

6 Off My Head: A 2025 Peek Ahead


Inspired by the Bugonia teaser I just shared (along with the fact that it's Paul Thomas Anderson's birthday today which reminded me he has a new movie out in several weeks) I decided to go ahead and make a list of the movies left to be released in 2025 that I'm most looking forward to. I did this (as with everything I do here) mostly for myself because I've been bad about keeping an eye on what's ahead -- I can be very much in the moment; planning ahead's not my strongest suit! So I will myself probably be referring back to this list often. But perhaps this will help you along the same lines! That'd be nice! So sans further ado I give you...

My Top 6 Anticipated Movies of 2025

Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) -- Oct 24th 

One Battle After Another (dir. PT Anderson) -- Sept 26th

The History of Sound (dir. Oliver Hermanus) -- Sept 12th 

After the Hunt (dir. Luca Guadagnino) -- Oct 10th 

Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier) -- Nov 7th

Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) -- TBD

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(Sidenote: There is no word on Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex and any kind of release date for it yet, otherwise it would very much be listed above.) 

(Sidenote #2 - literally five minutes after I posted this list it was announced that Neon has bought Park Chan-wook's new movie No Other Choice for release and it's premiering at Venice so add that one too!)

Runners-up: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson), Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie), Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao), A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir. Kogonada), It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi), The Roses (dir. Jay Roach), Avatar: Fire & Ash (dir. James Cameron), Together (dir. Michael Shanks)...

... Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger),  Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach), Caught Stealing (dir. Darren Aronofsky), Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo Del Toro), The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt), Highest 2 Lowest (dir. Spike Lee), A House of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay), The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright)

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What movies are y'all most looking forward to?

6 comments:

Tom M said...

You list the next Avatar here. I skipped the sequel. Are you telling me I need to see these? Oh man, I trust your opinion but...

Jason Adams said...

I like the Avatar movies, sue me! I know they're a popular thing to rag on and I agree that they're super dumb but James Cameron still knows how to make my jaw drop with his visuals and action scenes. Out of any popcorn movies coming out I will very much be seated for this. Especially since I think this one is supposed to spend a lot of time underwater and I'm a huge nerd for underwater creatures and cannot wait to see what he comes up with.

mrripley said...

I can't wait to see what they do with the remake of one of the films of my teen years,the Hand That Rocks The Cradle,I don't think anyone can top Julianne Moore's iconic camp rendering of Marlene Craven,talk about overshadowing the leads.

Jason Adams said...

I love THTRTC soooo much. Why haven't I watched that in ages? I gotta rewatch that. God I would love for that 90s subgenre, the "Evil [fill-in-the-blank]" movies, to come back. I miss basic dumb trash that didn't cost 300 million dollars to make and wasn't aimed at all four quadrants

Anonymous said...

To be honest, Rooftop looks like a lot of fun, the way I Love You, Philip Morris was.

Anonymous said...

Oops. I mean Roofman. The one with Channing Tatum.