Movie Review Adult Best Friends

Adult Best Friends

Directed by Delaney Buffett

Written by Delaney Buffett, Katie Corwin 

Starring Delaney Buffett, Katie Corwin, Mason Gooding 

Release Date February 28th, 2025 

Published February 26th, 2025 

Adult Best Friends stars Delaney Buffett and Katie Corwin as Delaney and Katie, childhood best friends who grew up together and are beginning to grow apart. While Katie is embracing the conventions of adulthood, including a long term relationship with John (Mason Gooding), Katie remains in young adulthood, drinking and partying and begging Katie to join her. As Katie would rather stay home with John and Katie wants only to go out and party, the two struggle to maintain their lifelong bond. 

The plot kicks in when John proposes to Katie and she accepts. Now, Katie must find a way to tell her best friend that she’s getting married while worrying that Delaney’s disdain for John will cause an irreparable rift in their friendship. In order to break it to Delaney gently, Katie plans a beach vacation for them, returning to a beachside town where they’d vacationed and partied more than a few times. Delaney thinks it will be a weekend of drinking and partying, while Katie hopes they can find quiet moments for a heart to heart conversation.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 

Movie Review The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Directed by James Ashcroft 

Written by Eli Kent, James Ashcroft 

Starring Geoffrey Rush, John Lithgow 

Release Date March 7th, 2025 

Published March 6th, 2025 

The Rule of Jenny Pen stars Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortenson, a judge who suffers a stroke in the midst of the sentencing for a murder trial. Waking up in a nursing home, Judge Mortenson finds his mind and body assaulted on all sides but is what happening real or only in his mind? Leading the assault is Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), a bully who has lived in this nursing home since childhood. Crealy wears a puppet on his arm named Jenny Pen that he uses as part of his torture. 

Throughout the run time of this remarkably unique horror movie, the scares come as much from Lithgow’s unhinged performance as from the ravages of age. If you have a deep seated fear of infirmity and the loss of faculties due to age, The Rule of Jenny Pen will be leaning on that particular nerve throughout the entire film. The nursing home setting is not a new one for a horror movie but co-writer and director James Ashcroft uses the setting remarkably well in crafting scenes of creeping terror.

Find my full length review at Horror.Media, linked here. 

Movie Review Mickey 17

Mickey 17 

Directed by Bong Joon Ho

Written by Bong Joon Ho

Starring Robert Pattinson, Naomie Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun 

Release Date March 7th, 2025 

Published March 7th, 2025 

Mickey 17 is a dark sci-fi comedy from the brilliantly unique mind of writer-director Bong Joon Ho. The film covers topics that Bong Joon Ho has addressed in his previous films, sympathetically examining the lives of those at the bottom of the economic ladder, rot and corruption in the moneyed class, and the little things that make life matter. In the case of Mickey 17, the question boils down to whether you believe death gives life meaning. Does living life to the fullest mean nothing when you know you’re not actually going to die? 

Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has a tendency to trust the wrong people. A lovely guy, Mickey first placed his faith in Timo (Steven Yeun), and paid the price when Timo lost all of their money to a gangster with a fetish for watching people die. Narrowly avoiding the gangster, Mickey and Timo sign up for a dangerous job off of planet Earth. A failed politician, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife, Yifa (Toni Collette), are leading an expedition to colonize an alien planet and they need a crew.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media linked here.