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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: BUGONIA review
Description: In which the Mister and Kid 1 join me in reviewing BUGONIA (2025), from writer Will Tracy, the film is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Based on South Korea's cult classic, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET (2003), two conspiracy-obsessed cousins (Jesse Plemons as Teddy and Aidan Delbis as Don) kidnap a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO named Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), convinced she is a malevolent alien from the Andromeda galaxy plotting humanity's destruction. While holding her captive in a rural basement, the duo attempts to force a confession and a meeting with her "Emperor" to stop an invasion, during an upcoming imminent lunar eclipse.  The film clo...