Category: NEW MOVIES: “The Bad Guys 2”

NEW MOVIES: July 31 – Aug 6, 2025, “The Bad Guys 2,” “Architecton,” “Naked Gun,” “Together”

THE BAD GUYS 2

The Bad Guys 2 is a 2025 American animated heist comedy film loosely based on the children’s book series The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to The Bad Guys (2022), it was directed by Pierre Perifel, co-directed by JP Sans, and written by Yoni Brenner and Etan Cohen. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, Lilly Singh, and Alex Borstein, reprising their roles from the first film, alongside Danielle Brooks, Maria Bakalova, and Natasha Lyonne, who join the cast. The film sees the Bad Guys come out of retirement and join forces with an all-female criminal squad to perform one last heist.

Perifel stated that he would love to do a sequel to The Bad Guys in March 2022, before the release of the first film. Two years later, DreamWorks Animation announced a sequel, with Perifel and the voice cast returning, while Sans served as co-director. Lyonne joined the cast in July 2024, with the involvement of Brooks and Bakalova being announced in November. Daniel Pemberton composed the score, returning from the previous film.

The Bad Guys 2 was released in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2025, and is scheduled for release in the United States on August 1.

Premise

The Bad Guys 2 follows the crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws who are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys. However, they’re pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals.

— Deadline[4][5]

Voice cast

In addition, Jorge R. Gutierrez was cast in an undisclosed voice cameo role. [‡ 2]

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ARCHITECTON

Architecton is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, exploring how stone and concrete architecture reflect the values of various societies.[3]

The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 19 February 2024,[4] where it was nominated for the Golden Bear and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award.[5] It was released on 3 October 2024 in Germany by Neuer Visionen and is scheduled for release in the United States on August 1, 2025, by A24.

Content

Kossakovsky presents a poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction—and offer hope for survival and a way forward. He reflects on the rise and fall of civilizations, focusing on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi. The project utilizes imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to the 1st century AD. It contrasts with the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023.

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NAKED GUN

The Naked Gun is an upcoming American action comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer, who co-wrote the script with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. It serves as a legacy sequel to Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) and is the fourth film in The Naked Gun franchise. The film stars Liam Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., alongside Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, and Danny Huston.

Neeson plays ‘Frank Drebin Jr.,’ the son of Leslie Nielsen’s character, and is joined by Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser in the new comedy. Doug Hyde contributed to this story by David Daniel. Only one man has the particular set of skills to lead the Police Squad and save the world.

The Naked Gun is scheduled for release in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 1, 2025.

Cast

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TOGETHER

Together is a 2025 supernatural body horror film written and directed by Michael Shanks in his directorial debut.[2] The film stars real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move to the countryside but find themselves encountering a mysterious force that horrifically causes changes in their bodies.[3]

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

Together premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025, and is scheduled for release in the United States by Neon on July 30, 2025, and in Australia by Kismet Movies on July 31.

Plot

Millie Wilson gets a job teaching elementary school English and moves to the countryside with her longtime boyfriend, aspiring musician Tim. Shortly before the move, Millie proposes to Tim at a going-away party held by their friends, but he hesitates to respond, embarrassing her.

One day, while hiking, they fall into a cave during a rainstorm and resolve to spend the night there. Tim drinks from a pool in the cave, then recounts a traumatic incident from his childhood in which he found his mother in bed with his father’s rotting corpse. Upon waking up the next morning, Tim and Millie find their legs stuck together with a glue-like substance, but dismiss the incident after separating.

Tim begins to experience episodes where he becomes inexplicably physically drawn to Millie, despite the couple previously experiencing a lack of sexual intimacy, but pulls back after regaining consciousness, much to Millie’s frustration and bewilderment. Millie’s coworker Jamie shows up at their home to welcome them to the neighborhood, and she invites him in for dinner. The couple recounts their experience at the cave; Jamie explains that the cave is the site of an abandoned church.

Millie drops Tim off at the train station so he can travel to town for a musical gig, but Tim experiences another episode and drags himself back to Millie’s workplace. An outraged Millie confronts him in a bathroom stall, whereupon they have sex, after which their genitals become stuck together. As they painfully force themselves to separate, Jamie spots them. Millie later visits Jamie’s house to apologize. In the ensuing conversation, she begins to open up about some of the problems she and Tim have been facing in their relationship. Jamie encourages her not to let go of her “other half,” then begins to reminisce on his relationship with his seemingly deceased husband. Still, Millie abruptly leaves after spotting a disoriented Tim outside.

Tim visits a doctor, who dismisses his symptoms as panic attacks and prescribes him muscle relaxant pills before mentioning that a local couple, Simon and Keri, recently went missing. Using EXIF data from their social media photos, Tim discovers that they visited the same cave he and Millie fell into and unsuccessfully tries to convince Millie that the two of them may suffer the same fate as Simon and Keri. That night, both Tim and Millie lose control of their bodies, crawling toward each other and contorting into impossible shapes until their arms become partially fused. Tim manages to prevent any further fusion after consuming his pills in a panic, subsequently passing out and awakening tied to a chair, where Millie saws through their fused limb. As Millie is about to drive them to the hospital, she realizes she has left her keys at Jamie’s house and orders Tim to wait for her while she retrieves them. He secretly returns to the cave and finds Simon and Keri, now completely fused as a grotesque humanoid.

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