patayoh's little corner ☕

November 2025 movie/music recap

What do you mean we are already on the last month of the year what

Movie

Les Aventures du Nexus VI (2025)

Nexus VI is a french youtube channel making reviews within a whole narrative set in a science fiction-y world. I've been following them for years and I love what they do!
This movie follows the crew of the Nexus VI (yes, it's a direct reference to Blade Runner, but in this story it's a spaceship) trying to save one of their own and getting stranded on a planet, basically. The actors aren't amazing but you can tell they're having fun and frankly, I'm happy they get to do this kind of things. You might get a bit confused about the story if you're not a regular of the channel, but you can still really feel the passion in this film. Visually speaking, this movie is beautiful! The sfx are really, really well done.
It is available on youtube, for free, both in french and in english!

Frankenstein (2025)

This was a gorgeous movie in every aspect, and it's worth seeing just on that basis alone. Story-wise, I felt it was a bit too long and slow at times to be honest, but most scenes had their importance, even though I felt like the first part was trying a bit too hard to show Victor's reason to become what he is in a "good" way? I don't know if all his childhood memories were necessary (some were, but not all of them). The second act from the creature's perspective was really good though.
Also, I'm talking as someone who is only a bit familiar with Mary Shelley's work, so some of the differences between her work and the movie are completely lost on me (been meaning to read Frankenstein for years but yeah, too many things to read/watch/etc. Anyway.)
The actors' performances were excellent! The way Elordi moved as the creature was mesmerizing, he gave a feel of a big ass puppet who doesn't know how to move right at times, even later in the movie, and that was great to see on screen. Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth were just chef's kiss at their role too. Really enjoyed David Bradley as the blind man as well, he was such a sweetheart.
I could talk more about it but I didn't take a lot of notes at the time of viewing and everything is a bit of a jumbled mess in my head between the themes I enjoyed, the sfx and the work on light/colors that I'll just stop there. One thing I haven't talked about either is the score of this movie for one simple reason - I don't remember it. I know it was there and I know I had one or two moments where I thought it was really good but I couldn't be able to say something specific about it. Which in its own way is also a good thing to say! In the sense that it felt at home with the rest of the movie.
Overall a really good experience!

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

As usual, that opening thooooo (Dench as M is one of the best things the "newer" Bond movies ever did)
There's something terribly funny to see the distrust of media and how it's manipulated in this film and the state of things nowadays. And by terribly funny, I mean it's hard not to feel a little bit defeatist about the messy shit journalism and news channels have become, not only talking about (what little I see of) the USA but even in the EU (and Switzerland).
I might have spent the first 30min of the movie wondering where I saw Jonathan Pryce until I realised it was simply in Pirates of the Caribbean, whoops.
I don't have much to say, Pierce Brosnan is just so good at James Bond, Michelle Yeoh is pretty fucking awesome, too. The story wasn't incredible but was serviceable. Good JB movie!

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

It was an okay movie, some funny jokes, a bit boring in the sense that there's not much happening for a 90+min movie. Thought it would be more interesting!
I do love some good practical effects tho, the transformation scenes were pretty cool.

Music

From the good old 1001 Albums, a lot of mid stuff this month, but some really good classics too :

#log #monthly #movie #music