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I had never heard of Weapons 2025 . My wife had seen a trailer and it was a cheap night at the cinema, so we had little choice but to give it a shot. I braced myself for a film that would either be a spectacular new take on a classic subgenre or just another low-budget bust. What I didn’t expect was something that felt less like a movie and more like a fever dream cobbled together from half-baked ideas and an abundance of reshoots. Image by IMDb A Horror That's Not Quite Horror For a film marketed as a horror movie, Weapons 2025 has very little to do with horror. The scares are non-existent. There is a persistent, gnawing tension from the premise of children vanishing into the night, but it quickly dissolves when you realize that's all there is to it. The initial premise sets up a tantalizing mystery, but that flimsy veil is lifted within minutes, and you know exactly what is going on. What follows is not a mystery, a horror, or even a drama. It's a series of disconnected,...

Let's be honest, the words "comedy reboot" are usually a threat, not a promise. In an age where almost every new comedy feels like it was written by a committee or a child, I had little choice but to set the bar low. I went in fully prepared for a cautious, sanitized imitation that would politely nod to the classics while desperately trying not to offend anyone. And my god I was wrong to have even thought this. This new Naked Gun isn't a cautious, deferential homage; it's a loud, obnoxious, and hilarious successor that understood the assignment completely, and deserves the name the Naked Gun. Image by Wikipedia Drebin, Frank Drebin Jr. The elephant in the room was always going to be the casting of Frank Drebin. Trying to imitate Leslie Nielsen would be a fatal mistake, and thankfully, Liam Neeson doesn’t even try. Instead, he brilliantly weaponizes his own established persona. Where Nielsen’s Drebin was a man of unwarranted confidence, Neeson’s is a man of grim, g...