Together (2025)

IMDb plot summary: Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh.

Directed by Michael Shanks. Stars Dave Franco, Alison Brie, and Damon Herriman.

Together stars James Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move from their city home to a remote location for Brie's job. The move reveals some cracks in their relationship, and that's even before they get temporarily trapped in a mysterious cave and start having bizarre physical symptoms. This movie is definitely horror, but it's equal parts relationship drama, and I didn't anticipate that, going into it. The film has such a claustrophobic feel to it, particularly as we sit inside Dave Franco's discontent in the relationship as it is. The body horror actually takes a long time to kick in, but when it does, it ramps up fast and spikes in really intense ways. Some spoilers ahead here: The final scene is such an optimistic ending to what has been, up until that point, a pretty horrific series of events, and then suddenly it culminates in something that I found extremely... life-affirming. Definitely a unique movie, definitely a strange one, but I had a good time with it.

🎥 Together (2025)

📊 Ranked #837/4200 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 80

beat How I Live Now (#2098 → #2099)

beat Heathers: The Musical (#1038 → #1039)

lost to All Quiet on the Western Front (held at #518)

lost to True Lies (held at #778)

beat Support Your Local Sheriff! (#907 → #908)

beat Manon of the Spring (#842 → #843)

lost to Mars Attacks! (held at #810)

lost to Weapons (held at #826)

lost to Pather Panchali (held at #834)

beat The Wild Robot (#838 → #839)

lost to Cats (held at #836)

The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

IMDb plot summary: James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Stars Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, and Britt Ekland.

The Man With the Golden Gun is a Roger Moore James Bond film, in which the titular Man with the Golden Gun sends Bond a threat, which leads to 007 traipsing around the world looking for his potential assassin, and the piece of technology that he's stolen. This definitely cements for me that the Roger Moore era of Bond is the one I'm most likely to enjoy. It's big and bold and often silly, especially in its final moments -- one of Bond's near scrapes with death comes from a scantily clad woman accidentally hitting the wrong lever with her rear end. Since the story is set in Asia, there's an unfortunate amount of orientalism, which is certainly hard to watch at times. The film is on much surer footing once we get to the island, as Christopher Lee is delightful as the villainous Salamanca. There are now two Bond films I can confidently say I like, and both are Moore. Guess I should watch the rest of his!

How it entered my Flickchart:

🎥 The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

📊 Ranked #971/4199 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 77

beat Deep Impact (#2098 → #2099)

beat The Other Boleyn Girl (#1038 → #1039)

lost to All Quiet on the Western Front (held at #518)

lost to True Lies (held at #778)

lost to Support Your Local Sheriff! (held at #907)

beat Little Women (#972 → #973)

lost to Kwaidan (held at #939)

lost to Westworld (held at #955)

lost to Sisters (held at #963)

lost to The Beguiled (held at #967)

lost to The House (held at #969)

lost to Mirage (held at #970)

beat The Impostors (#971 → #972)