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5 days ago | readysteadycut.com | Jonathon Wilson

Summary Tin Soldier is a deeply confounding – and impressively terrible – movie that must have had a production so troubled a behind-the-scenes documentary would have been more entertaining than the final product. I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea.

5 days ago | readysteadycut.com | Jonathon Wilson

Summary Frictionless by design, Nonnas is a big-hearted, generous foodie drama that offers a stellar cast and a lot of affection, even if it doesn’t aspire to be anything beyond that. Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas.

6 days ago | readysteadycut.com | Jonathon Wilson

Summary Bad Influence is more generic teen erotica for Netflix, hitting the usual notes and playing to the typical audience, but it’s undermined by an extremely weak climax. There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a docuseries also from 2025 and also streaming on Netflix that has very different subject matter.

6 days ago | readysteadycut.com | Jonathon Wilson

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The leads get together, lessons are learned, the upstairs/downstairs divide is ignored, and everyone lives happily ever after. Right? Well, not really in the case of Bad Influence (2025).

6 days ago | readysteadycut.com | Jonathon Wilson

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS Summary The net tightens around Coop more than ever in Your Friends & Neighbors Episode 6, but his focus shifts to something even more urgent — his family, and hope that he can regain what he has lost.