DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

Tag: 2025-movies

  • CAUGHT STEALING 2025 Movie Review – Is He Caught Stealing?

    Normally, I would love any movie about Catwoman, who even Marvel (Professor, of course – see Drawma Kingg Episode 2) agrees is the best superhero of all. This Caught Stealing movie where Catwoman falls in love with Elvis in the ’90s made no sense though. Didn’t Elvis leave this world in the ’70s? They both look very youthful for two people born before the end of the second world war. Triumphantly, Dis Drawma Kingg powered through to the end, because I had to know ONE THING! Is he caught stealing?

    One time when I was a kid I found a penny on the ground on the road next to a neighbor kids house. As I picked it up off the ground, the kid walked over to me and said it was his penny, because it was by his house. We argued what little we knew about property rights for two kids until his dad came out to review the situation. The neighbor kid, Little Johnny Johnson of the esteemed Jhonifus family, explained the situation more accurately than I would have expected to his Jhonified dad. Little Johnny Johnson Senior, the dad, sided with his son and demanded that I return the penny to his “family’s full monetary estate” immediately. Anticipating an adult to agree with me, I was mortified at his response. They, the Johnsons, got their penny back, and I have been cursed with a not-wanting-money complex ever since. Caught Stealing sounded like a movie title I could really RELATE to because of those couple of minutes I refused to give up a penny.

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ain’t Pretty:

    Good1: The acting was perfectly good, no complaints there.

    Good2: Great ’90s soundtrack!

    Good3 or Ain’t Pretty1: Walkin’ On Da Sun is in the soundtrack.

    Bad1: The plot: Oooh there’s a key that goes to something!

    Bad2: If you suspected the trailer kind of gave away the whole movie, you were right!

    Ain’t Pretty1: (or 2 if you count Walkin’ On Da Sun in this category) Catwoman is in less than half of the movie! You thought I was watching this movie for Elvis?

    Is He Caught Stealing?: No. The movie ends shortly after he takes the money.

    Final Thoughts: 6/10 Crowns. The actors are the only reason it deserves above a 5 (totally average) Crown rating. To be fair, 6/10 is pretty high for a movie about Catwoman and Elvis in their 20s with Walkin’ On Da Sun playing in the background. With that being said, Caught Stealing is oddly a very normal movie for director Darren Aronofsky. I was disappointed that the main character never really gets caught with the money. Under these circumstances, there was absolutely nothing my childhood self could relate to in the story. 

  • PREDATOR: BADLANDS 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    Forget all about aliens n’ androids. Predator: Badlands doesn’t really have anything to do with that. Science fiction other world is just a disguise for a movie about fightin’ with your family over TRIVIAL things.

    One time, two boys I don’t know were trying to get some cookies out of a jar. The older one boosts the younger one onto the countertop. Youngbro opens the lid and eats one cookie immediately. Oldbro: “Hey, I want some!” All of THE sudden light fills the room as they are discovered by their switch-flippin’ parents. Just then, a startled Youngbro knocks the jar to the ground, smashing it into fragmented pieces. Now, the angry parents have to clean this up and throw away all the cookies due to contamination! Oldbro was furious with Youngbro! “You got one cookie, and I got none!” he said. Their adult relationship is tumultuous to this day, primarily because of that incident. Obviously, the point I’m trying to make is that this is the kind of family in-fighting the movie is about on a deeply philosophical level.

    Back to events in the actual film for a second. There were two android sisters in the midst of a family disagreement. Having had difficulty hearing in the IMIN theater, I can’t guarantee I heard all of the following dialogue correctly.

    Tessa: You’re planning to run off with my boyfriend!

    Thia: You don’t even have a boyfriend!

    Tessa: That’s beside the point!

    The director portrayed their fight in a very serious and intense manner. Tessa must have been REALLY mad. I just couldn’t understand why the imagined future boyfriend would lead to such a threatening altercation. 

    Ending Explained: Mom’s mad.

    Final Thoughts: 7.5/10 Crowns. In a way, that rating is kinda lower than it maybe should be, because PB without J was a top-notch theater experience for fans of action/sci-fi. The two main characters were totally awesome, the special effects were cool, and the directing was highly skilled. I guess my only real criticism is that the writing had certain things I loved but also had other things that I thought were disappointing. No hate though, that is just my critical opinion as to why I did not go higher than 7.5 Crowns. Overall, I loved the experience and would recommend the movie to anyone that likes aliens n’ androids.

  • GOOD BOY 2025 Movie Review – Does The Dog Survive?

    After the first 10 seconds of Good Boy, it dawned on me that the movie didn’t have to be good. The dog is cute. Who cares about anything else? He is such a good boii you just love him right away and want to get your own dog (or several). Wanna just talk about dogs instead of movies? We certainly could do that. I want to get me one o’ them good boiis so I can feed him some french fries. Are there dog french fry diseases I have to worry about as a new dog peer (rather than owner, my best friend isn’t a possession!)? I’m sure I won’t be able to stop more stoopid stuff from being written in the course of creating this episode, but we must save room to talk about Good Boy being an awesome film!

    Indy, the lead actor, is so good at acting that it makes you wonder why we don’t only hire dog actors exclusively. Why pay millions of dollars to people with mediocre abilities when dogs that are way better at everything would do it for treats? They don’t even want 1 million paper dollars! New Drawma Kingg campaign: Dogs for ALL acting roles! Sorry hoomans, you’re just not cute fuzzballs with hearts of gold. Would anyone contest my campaign? I’m making solid points.

    Some important thoughts (arrogantly assuming I’ve had at least 2 ever) on Good Boy: There is a chillingly effective creep factor from the apparitions/ghosts/creatures or whatever they are. You have to interpret most of the movie as there is very little speech/explanation. Do you refuse to watch horror films that contain zero dream sequences? Rest easy, Tiger! Apparently Hollywood won’t even endorse canine scary movies without dream sequences. So yes, an otherwise ART FILM included a DOG DREAM SEQUENCE! Indy also appears to hallucinate like people often do in horror movies. Upon witnessing dog nightmares and hallucinations, all I could think about the director was “YOU DIRTY DOG!” I hope that joke isn’t dogcist, because I am not trying to offend dogs (likely 37% of my readership based on unreceived information).

    Does the dog survive?: Yaaa Boiii he do! I hope he canonically got treats after the credits.

    Final Thoughts: 8/10 Crowns critically, 10/10 Crowns cute dogically (c’mon we all want that to be a word). Good Boy is a masterclass in independent filmmaking and dog acting. One particular moment strongly stood out as a hair-standing-up monster scare. I’m pretty sure Indy’s human turns into muddy Trent Reznor from Woodstock ’94 at the very end. HA! You had no idea this review was a sequel to the last NIN episode! HINT: All Drawma Kingg episodes are connected in my cinematic universe that currently only consists of words!

  • WEAPONS 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    Weapons starts out claiming “This is a true story.” Yeah but how troo? I mean, there are different levels of chrooth! Dis Drawma Kingg was very hyped to see this movie. I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed. It’s not bad by any means, it just left me wanting in a number of areas. I would say this is more of a mixed opinion review because weapons definitely had its merits.

    Generally the acting was very good in the film. Also, I shouldn’t prolong mentioning that this review is ULTRA SPOILER – so you should only read on if you’ve already seen the movie or do not want to. OK, so I did really like the villain in Weapons. She was this odd sorta witchcraft practicing kinda aunt I guess? They don’t really fully explain her backstory. I would like to note that I really thought she was going to transform into a monster ant that was collecting a hive of people to do her bidding. There is a scene where some characters are watching ants on the television, so I was like is she gonna be a big creepy bug monster ANT AUNT? How wrong I was! As time continues to pass, I’m still pretty sad there was no ant aunt.

    Sos first the movie starts out with the teacher as the main character. Then maybe 30 minutes or sos into the movie it switches to another character’s perspective. I think “Oh cool! A movie with two different main characters!” Again, how wrong I was! One time a dog ate some crispy potato chips, but that has nothing to do with this review. There were like six different main characters. You keep getting the events from different perspectives. This was fun at two and three, but then I just started to realize they weren’t going to move the story much further in time because they were going to run out of minutes. How right I was this time! The movie has a climax with barely any resolution after. Then it just ends abruptly.

    Ending Explained: The villain is defeated and the kids are saved. It was the aunt.

    Final Thoughts: 6 or 7 out of 10 crowns. I think the movie started out strong but got almost lighthearted and silly in the middle. Plus there was no ant aunt monster at the end. It definitely loses points for that and more points for having a double dream sequence.

    “Oh noooo wayyyy that right there waz just a dream? At least I’m fully awake now! Ahhhhhh! [sumtin’ scary wakes them up again] Oh noooo wayyyy that one waz just a dream too!!”