Welcome fellow movie goers, this Pop Date will go over a look at 2025 thus far and what’s planned to be reviewed. Maybe some hidden secret gems. Some disappointments? We’ll review in 2025 December to see the outcome.
By each month in bold will be movies I’ll lock in a review of, all going well. The Italic number is either a polled or a surprise random movie watch to add to months reviews.
August 2025 – 8 | 3
Bad Guys 2, Sketch & Naked Gun – Reviewed | Freakier Friday | Weapons | Nobody 2? | Witchboard | Honey Don’t! | Ne Zha 2 (Eng Dub) | Caught Stealing | Toxic Avenger
September 2025 – 4 | 2
Conjuring | Long Walk | Sound of Music? (Never watched more than 5 minutes) | Him | One Battle After Another | Spinal Tap 2?
October 2025 – 7 | 1
Smashing Machine | Roofman | Tron | Black Phone 2 | Good Fortune | Mortal Kombat 2 | Chainsaw Man | Stitch Head
November 2025 – 5
Predator | Running Man | See Me 3 | Wicked | Zootopia 2
December 2025 – 4
Freddy’s 2 | Avatar 3 | SpongeBob | Housemaid
This was using firstshowing.net on August 6th – 100 Movies for 2025 is looking certain!
Currently at 82 with 2 of those movies having caveat – 1 Streamer 1 Released 2024 Christmas going wide in America 2025 January…. Does it count ? :p either way 80 currently with a potential of adding at least 25 movies form the bold minus the re-releases. Yet along bonus movies and surprises along the way :D.
Top 5 thus far from 2025:
Ne Zha 2, F1 & Bring Her Back (Wasn’t even on my radar!) | Sinners | Life of Chuck (Glad I Watched) | (Betterman if allowed)
My hopes of a top 10:
Love Hurts (Big ooof) | Lilo & Stich (We’re talking about the animated one right? :s) | Ballerina (I feel bad) | Train Your Dragon (Was good but not top 10 good) | Jurassic World (Ouch) | Trey Parker Movie (Got delayed to 2026)
Dark Horse Shoutouts:
Captain America (In a different universe) | Looney Tunes (Still had fun!) | Mickey 17 (Ouch) | Minecraft (HAHAHAHA Dark Horse – slayed) | Until Dawn ( It is what it was) | M3GAN 2.0 (Way to not read the room) | Fantastic Four (Can we switch marvel movies to Thunderbolts :D) | Mortal Kombat 2 (Let’s GO!! There’s still hope!)
Love to hear your thoughts on this list – Anything stick out / Missing from the list?
Lots added to wrap the year up. Podcast R.I.P haha. Happy Watching All ❤
Last shout outs:
Weapons | Long Walk | Predator | Wicked | Avatar 3
My last hopefuls to make the top 10 list of 2025 – Let’s see if there’s any surprises and fails.
Thus far, here’s my personal bottom 5:
| 1 | Screamboat – 2.5/10 |
| 2 | The Legend of Ochi – 2.5/10 |
| 3 | A Minecraft Movie – 2.5/10 |
| 4 | Death of a Unicorn – 2.5/10 |
| 5 | Hurry Up Tomorrow – 3.0/10 |
How’s your 2025 looking thus far? In line with your expectations or having surprises along the way like Ne Zha 2 did for myself :D.
Popped! 