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Glinda and Elphie from Wicked: For Good posing in front of Oz as a backdrop
Glinda and Elphie from Wicked: For Good posing in front of Oz as a backdrop

Movie Crew Newsletter (Nov 2025)

Social Group Update
This is a casual update for friends in one of my activity groups. If you're interested in joining any of them, let me know!

Hi friends!

As you may’ve seen, tickets are available for Wicked: For Good! I bought 4 tickets in the best seats in the house, so buy your own nearby or let me know if you’re interested in one of mine. (Currently I have 1 I’m holding that may become available — I can also buy a couple more if there’s demand)

(I chose December 7th both to give me time to recover from surgery and to allow the hardcore crowds to watch and sing-along for a minute before we go for a more chill viewing. 😇)

In addition to watching the new movie, we’re doing a movie night for watching the first one. Come join us at my place for a cozy movie night on Saturday!

📅 Upcoming Movies

  • November 30: 🛋️ Honey Don’t!
  • December 6: 🛋️ Wicked
  • December 7: Wicked: For Good
  • December 24-26: (possible spontaneous movies) (new)
    • Dust Bunny
    • No Other Choice
  • February 1: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (new)
  • March 9: The Bride! (new)
  • April 19: Normal (new)
  • May 24: The Mandalorian & Grogu (new)
  • June 28: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
  • July 19: The Odyssey

🤔 Review: The Running Man (1987)

This movie was fun to re-watch in 2025. They got so many things horribly correct, even if they did project it out to 2017. It’s massively problematic, super misogynistic, and seems to understand exactly where tech bros were always headed. One of them even drives a cybertruck! A great trash fire of an 80’s sci-fi flick that got me even more excited for the new one. (CW: SA)

🤔 Review: The Running Man (2025)

The Running Man is a popcorn sci-fi flick. After watching the 1987 film, I’m left feeling uninspired. The problematic edges feel sanded so far down that there’s no edges left. I don’t miss the hyper-misogyny, but by removing sexism themes entirely the film feels like it ignores the issues in full force today. Sci-fi is always about the current world, but the corporate surveillance capitalist fascism in The Running Man doesn’t feel striking against our current realities. This cyberpunk dystopia isn’t far enough in the future to feel like the end of our current slippery slope. More like a preview of a few months from now.

They also entirely removed the pro wrestling style characters from the hunters — a highlight of the previous movie. Of all directors, I fully expected Edgar Wright — the director of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, for fuck’s sake — to sink his teeth into that. A fun watch but meh overall. All Goons Are Bastards!

🤔 Review: One Battle After Another

It’s a well-made movie. The lens it’s written, directed, and shot through is a bit weird because of the subject matter. There’s a bit of a voyeuristic exoticism going on with the characters who aren’t played by Leonardo DiCaprio or Sean Penn. It at least seems somewhat self-aware. It’s a good movie if the viewer understands that lens, but it’s not a fun watch. Hard to recommend it.

I highly recommend this video where WTRF and FD Signifier discuss it:

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