WKNDwatchlist: Unabomber, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Over Your Dead Body

This week, we take a wild cinematic journey – from the chilling unraveling of an infamous domestic terrorist, to high-octane wartime bravado, to the blood-spattered marital warfare of a brutal cabin showdown in Guerilla Etiquette.

Unabomber ditches the usual cabin lore for a chilling, Fincher-esque origin story. Intertwining the 1996 manhunt with the abusive Harvard experiments that broke a young Ted Kaczynski, it plays like a dark antithesis to A Beautiful Mind. Anchored by an imposing Russell Crowe and Shailene Woodley’s procedural drive, it’s a deliberate thriller that dares to humanize an outlier without pardoning the monster.

Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare plays less like stiff history and more like a rowdy comic book. Henry Cavill leads a swaggering squad of rogues mowing down Axis forces in a barrage of slick violence. While it skimps on real peril, Ritchie’s wink-wink bravado keeps this raucous popcorn romp firing on all cylinders.

Over Your Dead Body

Over Your Dead Body weaponises a clever, Mr. & Mrs. Smith-style cabin showdown. Jason Segel leans into his comedic warmth, but his charm can’t soften characters who remain difficult to champion. It’s an odd, jarring cocktail of pitch-black humour and unrelenting brutality – gleefully unhinged for anyone with a twisted funny bone.

What are you watching this weekend? For more reviews, head over to splingmovies.com. And remember: Don’t WING it, SPL!NG it!