Month: March 2025

MICKEY 17

Mickey 17 is a 2025 science fiction dark comedy film produced, written, and directed by Bong Joon-ho, based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson in the title role alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

Mickey 17 premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2025,^[6] before being theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in South Korea on February 28, 2025, and later in the United States on March 7.

Plot

Mickey Barnes and his friend Timo are financially destitute after a failed business venture and on the run from a loan shark. Unable to pay their debts, the pair sign up as crew for a spaceship that leaves Earth to colonize the planet Nilfheim—Timo as a pilot and Mickey as an “Expendable.” As an expendable, Mickey is treated as disposable and given lethal assignments since every time he dies, he is “reprinted” using cloning technology that has been banned on Earth. During the voyage, Mickey develops a romantic relationship with Nasha Barridge, a security agent.

Upon landing on the snow planet Nilfheim, native lifeforms dubbed “creepers” prevent full colonization. Mickey 17, the seventeenth iteration of Mickey, tries to capture a creeper for analysis but falls into a fissure in the ice. Timo sees Mickey 17 being swarmed by creepers before leaving and reports him dead. However, the creepers collectively push Mickey 17 out of the fissure, enabling him to return to the ship.

Mickey 17 goes to his quarters and finds his replacement, Mickey 18, already there. Multiples are forbidden; Kenneth Marshall, the politician who runs the colony, can only use the cloning technology with the proviso that if multiples occur, all clones will be killed immediately. Knowing this, the more aggressive Mickey 18 tries to kill Mickey 17, who resists and suggests an arrangement where both of them live by rotating duties, meals, and deaths. Mickey 18 is interrupted and leaves with Nasha, while Mickey 17 is taken away for dinner with Kenneth Marshall, Marshall’s wife Ylfa, and security agent Kai. At the dinner, Mickey, 17, reacts badly to a meal of experimental meat and subsequent treatment with experimental painkillers.

When Mickey 17 returns to his quarters, Nasha knows the situation and wants to help them.

Cast

Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes / Mickey 17 / Mickey 18, an expendable employee on Nilfheim on his seventeenth (later eighteenth) iteration
Naomi Ackie as Nasha Barridge, a security agent, Mickey’s love interest and the girlfriend of one of his previous clones
Steven Yeun as Timo, a pilot, and Mickey’s childhood friend
Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth Marshall, an egomaniacal politician with sinister designs for Nilfheim
Toni Collette as Ylfa, Kenneth Marshall’s devious and controlling wife
Holliday Grainger as Gemma
Anamaria Vartolomei as Kai Katz
Thomas Turgoose as Bazooka Soldier
Angus Imrie as Shrimp Eyes
Cameron Britton as Arkady, the head of the science team.
Patsy Ferran as Dorothy
Daniel Henshall as Preston, Kenneth Marshall’s assistant
Steve Park as Agent Zeke, the head of the security team.
Tim Key as Pigeon Man

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NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE

Night of the Zoopocalypse (originally titled as Night of the Zoombies) is a 2024 animated comedy horror film directed by storyboard artists Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro, written by James Kee and producer Steven Hoban, inspired by a concept by Clive Barker loosely based on his short story “ZOOmibes”. The film follows a group of animal survivors in a zoo trying to survive a zombie outbreak when an extraterrestrial virus carried on a meteor turns various zoo creatures into slobbering mutant zombies.

It premiered at the 57th Sitges Film Festival on October 7, 2024 and will release in the United States and Canada by Viva Kids and Elevation Pictures on March 7, 2025.^[2]

Premise

A mysterious space virus meteor crashes into Colepepper Zoo, turning the animals into vicious gummi-like zombie mutants. A young wolf named Gracie teams up with a gruff mountain lion named Dan to find a cure while leading a ragtag group of survivors to stop the leader of the zombies, Bunny Zero, from taking over the world.

Cast

Gabbi Kosmidis as Gracie, a young quirky timber wolf^[3]
David Harbour as Dan, a gruff mountain lion
Scott Thompson as Ash, a sarcastic ostrich
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Felix, an egotistical proboscis monkey
Pierre Simpson as Xavier, a movie-obsessed red ruffed lemur
Heather Loreto as Frida, a fiery capybara
Kyle Derek as Fred, a western lowland gorilla
Christina Nova as Poot, a baby pygmy hippopotamus

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QUEEN OF THE RING

Queen of the Ring is a 2024 American biographical sports drama about female professional wrestler Mildred Burke, portrayed by Emily Bett Rickards. The film is written and directed by Ash Avildsen. It also stars Josh Lucas, Kelli Berglund and Walton Goggins.

Premise

The film chronicles the life of revolutionary female wrestler Mildred Burke.

In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the country, a small-town single mother embraced the danger of changing culture as she dominated America’s most masculine sport to become the first million-dollar female athlete in history.

Cast

Emily Bett Rickards as Mildred Burke
Josh Lucas as Billy Wolfe
Tyler Posey as George William “G. Bill” Wolfe
Kelli Berglund as Nell Stewart
Walton Goggins as Jack Pfefer
Marie Avgeropoulos as Babe Gordon
Gavin Casalegno as Joe Burke
Kamille as June Byers
Toni Storm as Clara Mortensen
Trinity Fatu as Ethel Johnson
Deborah Ann Woll as Gladys Gillem
Francesca Eastwood as Mae Young
Martin Kove as Al Haft
Cara Buono as Bertha
Adam Demos as Gorgeous George
Damaris Lewis as Babs Wingo
Britt Baker as Debbie Nichols
James E Cornette as NWA Commissioner

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RULE BREAKERS

Film synopsis

In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope—and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their courage and unity ignite a movement that could forever transform the world.