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'Red Sonja' To Make Hollywood See Red This Weekend

As in red ink, as in going broke from all the woke

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Matt Osborne
Aug 15, 2025
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Michael J. Bassett is the director of the new Red Sonja movie out this weekend. He has also been a ‘transwoman’ named M.J. Bassett ever since his “coming out” in 2017. Tasha Huo is a screenwriter with a background in shelter management and a career in video games. Together, they have turned another boy-brand comic book into a failed franchise film with a girlboss in the leading role, the phenomenon that has all but destroyed Hollywood. Slow clap.

The reviews for Red Sonja 2025 are bad — not just bad for the film, the reviews themselves are bad, and Disparu explains why. He is a British YouTuber, one of the successful pop culture critics that progressive dudebros on Reddit love to hate. In this video, he explains why the new film is failing — and exposes the dissonance of reviewers who can’t understand why they dislike it.

Put simply, bad things must happen to good people in order to drive conflict, and plot, but the new rules of storytelling do not allow strong women to have weaknesses…

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