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The Life of Chuck (2025)

Jun 13th 2025

Can the Studios Sue Their Way Out of the AI Apocalypse?

Images generated via MidJourney by the New York Times demonstrating the company’s disregard for intellectual property rights.
Sorry to harp so much on AI in recent weeks, but things seem to be coming to a head with the rollout of the new lifelike video models. The studios certainly seem to think so, if the lawsuit filed this week by Disney and Universal against Midjourney are any indication.
Here’s...

The Life of Chuck (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 13th 2025

Donald Trump’s Middle East Tinderbox

Yesterday was one of those days when the news seemed to grow more existential by the moment. There was Trump’s apparent about-face on immigration enforcement, the manhandling of Sen. Alex Padilla at a DHS press conference, a judge’s ruling that Trump’s use of California’s National Guard was unconstitutional, and then Israel’s attack on Iran.
For today’s newsletter, we are going to focus...

The Life of Chuck (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 13th 2025

‘The Life of Chuck’ Review

Annalise Basso and Tom Hiddleston in The Life of Chuck. (Courtesy of Neon)
[The plot of The Life of Chuck will be discussed below; read on at your own risk.]
THE LIFE OF CHUCK IS SIMULTANEOUSLY EFFECTIVE—it jerks those tears—and almost terrifyingly ineffective, a movie that feints at a sort of transcendent human depth but has a nullity at its center that undercuts the entire premise...

The Continental (2023)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 12th 2025

No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash

(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)
JUNE 14 IS A SPECIAL DAY. It was officially designated in 1949 as Flag Day—not one of the federal holidays for which anybody gets time off from work, but an honored day to remember the adoption by the Second Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.
But Donald Trump has chosen another...

The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 10th 2025

Plotting 'The Phoenician Scheme'

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the latest effort by conservatives to break into the world of big-time film production, this effort headed by Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. Then they review The Phoenician Scheme, a movie some might describe as … conservative? Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ for...

Bring Her Back (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 7th 2025

Bring Her Back, 2025 - ★★

This is not really a review in the film criticism sense, more of a gut reaction sort of thing. But: I don't have much stomach for "child in peril" stuff since having kids, and one of the reasons TALK TO ME more or less worked on that front was because it was couched as "look at these stupid kids paying the price for their own actions." The reason this movie didn't really work for me was because...

The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 6th 2025

The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★½

I didn't mention this in my review and I won't spoil precisely what I mean by explaining it here, but the way Wes Anderson uses F. Murray Abraham and Bill Murray (both of whom have dealt with pseudo-cancellations over the last couple of years thanks to onset jokes that coworkers found offensive) can only really be read a Straussian rebuke of the folks who said Anderson will/should stop working...

Lilo & Stitch (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

Jun 3rd 2025

Why 'Lilo & Stitch' Is a Big Hit

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if the fractured media landscape makes it harder to mint movie stars. (You can read the discussed piece by Nicholas Quah here.) Then they review Lilo & Stitch, which has turned out to be a smash hit for Disney. Turns out families like having things to take young kids to,...

Lilo & Stitch (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 26th 2025

Lilo & Stitch, 2025 - ★★½

In the closing moments of this movie there’s a moment where the older sister goes to pet Stitch while Lilo hugs him and she is very clearly just petting the air. Like it’s not even close. Just janky as hell. And then, I swear to God, the *exact same shot* repeats like two minutes later? I mean, maybe it’s just a similar shot but it looks like they just cut and pasted it right in there? I was...

Silo (2023)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 22nd 2025

Are You Prepared for the ‘Geophysical Event’?

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Stoking fears of a looming ‘near-extinction event’A LITTLE-KNOWN OFFICIAL from the George H.W. Bush administration has become the face of a growing conspiracy theory on the right: that some sort of “geophysical event” will soon kill off most of humanity, and world elites know about it and are stealing our tax money to prepare to live underground.
In...

Friendship (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 20th 2025

A Difficult 'Friendship'

‘Friendship’ (MovieStillsDB)
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) say goodbye to Max and take a mild victory lap in the process. Then they review Friendship, the new cringe comedy from Tim Robinson and A24. Is it the feel-bad movie of the year or just a feel-bad movie? Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ for...

Friendship (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 20th 2025

A Difficult 'Friendship'

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) say goodbye to Max and take a mild victory lap in the process. Then they review Friendship, the new cringe comedy from Tim Robinson and A24. Is it the feel-bad movie of the year or just a feel-bad movie? Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ for our summer preview episode on Friday. And...

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 16th 2025

Final Destination Bloodlines, 2025 - ★★★★

This movie does a dangerous thing by appearing to muck with the formula we've seen in the first five. Formulas are good, formulas work. But, as the film reveals, they didn't muck with the formula, they just extended it to its logical, quasi-extirpational conclusion. Which is kind of thrilling in its own way. Great kills! Many laughs were had by me. At the death. Of young people.

Friendship (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 16th 2025

AI Abuse of Fair Use Must Stop

(Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
When Donald Trump fired the head of the Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter—a move he arguably does not have the power to make, given that the office falls under the jurisdiction of the Library of Congress, which is by law and tradition overseen by the legislature and not the executive—I kind of assumed that this was a move organized by the White...

The Studio (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 16th 2025

Revisiting 'Sinners' and 'The Studio'

‘Sinners’ (MovieStillsDB)
Alyssa saw Sinners and wanted to gush, while we discuss if The Studio explains why viewers are to blame for the shoddy state of Hollywood, as a recent New York Times op-ed suggested they are.
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The Studio (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 13th 2025

Star Wars Gets Dark with 'Andor'

‘Andor’ (MovieStillsDB)
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Spencer Kornhaber’s feature in The Atlantic asking if this is the worst period of American pop culture ever. Then they review the first nine episodes of Andor ahead of the series finale that hits Disney+ today. (Some spoilers through...

The Studio (2025)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 13th 2025

Star Wars Gets Dark with 'Andor'

On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Spencer Kornhaber’s feature in The Atlantic asking if this is the worst period of American pop culture ever. Then they review the first nine episodes of Andor ahead of the series finale that hits Disney+ today. (Some spoilers through the ninth episode, but none for the...

The Watchers (2024)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 12th 2025

The Watchers, 2024 - ★½

At a certain point you can tell when the director doesn’t really care at all about their movie’s metaphor (in this case, the crass ugliness of reality TV serving as a sort of killing ground for Irish folk monsters). In the case of this film, it’s when a 30-minute (!) coda kicks off that just throws the whole idea right in the trash and is like [Judy Gemstone Voice] “fuck it, we’re doing...

The Oath (2023)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 10th 2025

The Bulwark at the Briefing

Happy Saturday!
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Karoline Leavitt’s “the president’s crypto ventures abide by all conflict of interest...

Turn of the Tide (2023)

Sonny Bunch #CenterRight

May 9th 2025

An American Pope and the Turn of the Tide

So, look: Your Morning Shots correspondents aren’t highly acclaimed Vatican watchers. But what’s this we’re hearing about the new American pope, Leo XIV? He voted in Republican primaries in Illinois in 2012, 2014, and 2016—but seems to have departed the Republican fold since. Recently he’s been a resolute antagonist of Vice President JD Vance.
Hey, on the off chance he’s a subscriber:...

Can the Studios Sue Their Way Out of the AI Apocalypse?

Donald Trump’s Middle East Tinderbox

‘The Life of Chuck’ Review

No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash

Plotting 'The Phoenician Scheme'

Bring Her Back, 2025 - ★★

The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★½

Why 'Lilo & Stitch' Is a Big Hit

Lilo & Stitch, 2025 - ★★½

Are You Prepared for the ‘Geophysical Event’?

A Difficult 'Friendship'

A Difficult 'Friendship'

Final Destination Bloodlines, 2025 - ★★★★

AI Abuse of Fair Use Must Stop

Revisiting 'Sinners' and 'The Studio'

Star Wars Gets Dark with 'Andor'

Star Wars Gets Dark with 'Andor'

The Watchers, 2024 - ★½

The Bulwark at the Briefing

An American Pope and the Turn of the Tide

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