Bugonia (2025) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos @ Regal Columbus Stadium 12

Which Yorgos Lanthimos are we going to get, the director of The Favourite and Poor Things (which I'm a fan of) or the director of The Lobster (which I'm not)? Anyway, I'm seeing this one Thursday night if anyone wants to join.

Emma Stone seems to be playing a lot of bizarre characters lately.

RUNTIME: 120 minutes

SYNOPSIS: Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

BLURBS:
"The characters might be demented, but Bugonia is a crueller, funnier, sharper proposition, more grounded and gritty than the wigged-out weirdness of the film on which it is based." - Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)

"Bugonia is one of the best films in recent memory to capture what it feels like to be alive right now. Because of that, it is Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkest and most timely work." - Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK)

"'Bugonia' is a hilarious movie with no hope for the future of humanity. What optimism there is lies only in the title, an ancient Greek word for the science of transforming dead cows into hives, of turning death into life." - Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times