A four-movie marathon for a Friday afternoon/evening.
My wife’s job was to attempt a six degrees of separation while utilizing only one streaming service. We chose Netflix as our platform of choice. It was to a be a go-until-bedtime marathon which gave us four movies to watch. While that isn’t a hefty leap to do, my wife is one of those people who hates watching movies just to watch movies.
Here’s how we got from Zoey Deutch to Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- Nouvelle Vague (Zoey Deutch)
- The Threesome (Zoey Deutch & Jonah Hauer-King)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jonah Hauer-King & Sarah Michelle Gellar)
- Do Revenge (Sarah Michelle Gellar)
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Directed by Richard Linklater
I’ve been wanting to watch more French films, so Nouvelle Vague seemed like a good place to start. Written as a biopic, this film takes place where a young Jean-Luc Godard is making his famous movie, Breathless. You learn from this movie how he was a rebel in the movie business, taking chances and not following the rules set by the industry and his producers.
The movie is a good look into the French new wave, which is the genre I’d love to explore more in depth. And with this film about the making of Breathless, I might start there. I love how the director shot this film in black & white as a well as full-screen ratio. It kept with the authenticity of times.
Overall, great film and looking forward to move new wave Frenchies.
The Threesome (2025)
Directed by Chad Hartigan
With The Threesome, I felt as if I was mislead into what the storyline was about by the title. While we did get a threesome, the story wasn’t truly about that… yet, I wasn’t disappointed in the film. Maybe just the title.
The story is about Connor, a guy who has an unrequited crush on Olivia, yet is not unrequited at all. When Connor accepts Olivia is unobtainable, he introduces himself to a recently dumped Jenny. Olivia gets jealous and suggest they all go out together. One thing leads to another and we find all three of them hooking up together in a drunken stupor.
Now the previews and all the photos from this film show a hot and steamy love affair but that’s not what this film is about. No. That’s just all of ten minutes of sex and two hours of “how did I get myself into this mess.” Because Connor knocks up both girls at the same time. This is no rom-com here. It’s straight up drama, that has no comedic factor to it.
I enjoyed the back and forth of the romance between Connor and Olivia. They story made this on-again / off-again story very true to heart because people just don’t know what they want in their life. At least Connor was a stand-up guy and not a douche. For that, I appreciated the film as a whole. 4-solid stars.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
How the hell are they going to bring Sarah Michelle Gellar back from the dead? Yes, that is the main reason I wanted to watch this. Secondly, to see Freddie Prinze Jr. come out of retirement. YES!
It’s thirty years later and a group of twenty-somethings chose to take the morality low road and not go to the police to report an accident where a man is killed. Nope, they want to keep it a secret and take that secret to their untimely grave. Yet, someone is out for revenge and it’s someone in a fisherman’s slicker and hand-held hook. Sound familiar?
While I wish they hand gone with a different route on the killer, it makes sense being a remake/sequel to the original franchise. Add Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddy Prinze, Brandy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, you have an amazing cast for this film.
Question is… does it hold up? No, not really. Its tired and old with no much new you can bring to the table. BUT I DIDN’T HATE IT.
Do Revenge (2022)
Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Heathers meets Mean Girls in this 2022 revenge film by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who seems to have her pulse on teen movies at the moment.
The story is about a girl who climbed her way up the social ladder of high school without caring who she stepped on until she was ousted by her peers. Destined to get even, she enlists the help of new transfer student, who has her own demons that she needs to vanquish. They agree to help each other and the consequences were not what I had anticipated.
It seemed too easy to be that simple. Sadly, the movie’s ending seemed to blah for what we went through. These are supposed to teen girls. Forgive and forget is just not in their natural nowadays and the story was wrapped up in a nice little bow which isn’t believable for me. I know people want their happily ever afters but really… not every story needs one. This could have used more angst in my book.
And that is how we got from Zoey Deutch to Sarah Michelle Gellar in four movies.
