Summer Movie Recap 2025

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The summer movie season brought the heat with unexpected hits, shocking flops, and plenty of surprises — and Paul and Amy are here to break it all down with their hottest takes. They talk about how Fantastic Four pulled Marvel out of its slump, dissect Pixar’s worst box office opening ever, and much more. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the summer of 2025.
0:03.9	This island was the research facility for the original Jurassic Park.
0:09.0	He's so cute and fluffy.
0:11.0	He is your responsibility.
0:12.4	Got it.
0:12.9	We promise.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:14.7	Your team has been betrayed, Ethan.
0:18.8	Well, I've news for you.
0:22.6	Formula One is a team sport. It always won.
0:25.6	The movie? All of them.
0:31.6	Ah, unschooled.
0:34.6	It's time for Paul and maybe cinematic hot takes and the one of the best will be shot into space.
0:44.6	Oh, Unspool.
0:47.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Unspooh.
0:55.4	Yes, welcome to Unspool, a podcast about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, mustsies, and in case you missed them.
1:02.2	We have covered the AFI top 100, and now we are checking off movies from three major lists.
1:07.9	The Letterbox top 250 films with the most fans, the IMDB top 250, and the New York
1:13.6	Times, 1,000 essential films. And I should say, we were going to do They Live this week,
1:20.5	but it's the end of the summer, and I just had the itch to talk about everything while it's super,
1:23.7	super, super, super fresh. So they live will be next week. And now let's really get into this year and everything we saw.
1:30.8	Summer movies.
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