Weekender: Unicorn Roadkill, Bird Truthers & Mall Rebels

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! This is Bradley Hope, your loyal servant, and this is the newsletter where I share what the team has been watching, reading and listening to this week.

📺 First up, here's what we've been watching this week

Death of a Unicorn (Film, 2025)

What if Big Pharma hit a literal unicorn with its SUV? This deliriously genre-bending satire starts with just that premise, then doubles down. In Death of a Unicorn, a PR executive (Paul Rudd) and his surly teen daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally run over “an actual goddamned unicorn, magic horn and all,” on their way to a Sackler-esque family estate (check out Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain if you want the straight truth). The result is a wild tonal jambalaya – part dark fantasy, part horror-comedy – as the greedy clan weighs monetizing the horn’s “medicinal properties” against surviving the vengeful supernatural fallout.

The movie careens from farcical boardroom banter to creepy woodland suspense, scored by horror legend John Carpenter for extra eeriness. Unicorn’s idiosyncratic spirit isn’t for everyone (critics are mixed on its depth), but its originality casts a quirky spell. This is a midnight movie in the making – a modern fable of corporate hubris and mythic justice that might have you marveling at its sheer nerve and wondering, what on earth will happen next?

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