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Trash in the Can: Cybernator
TRASH IN THE CAN: CYBERNATOR What do you get when you take Bladerunner, add some Robocop, slash all but $7 from the budget, and throw in some remedial stripping? Find out as OneofUs.Net founder Chris Cox joins the boys for a raucous dicing of the inaudible sci-fi mess known as Cybernator! YOUR HOSTS […]
What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan? Episode 4 – Strait-Jacket and Dead Ringer
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 4 – STRAIT-JACKET AND DEAD RINGER On this episode, we jump in head first (no pun intended) into grande dame guignol cinema and Bette & Joan’s part in helping to establish it. After What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? proved that horror and older actresses were a […]
Screener Squad: Havoc
HAVOC MOVIE REVIEW A good house is built on a solid foundation with primo materials and a foreman that knows that hard work and honest labor with no cut corners will create not just a home for one generation but a domicile for future generations. What if that foreman was a crooked, backstabbing politician whose […]
Screener Squad: Andor Season 2 – Part Two
ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART TWO The One Of Us Rebellion gathers once more under the cover of darkness to dive into the second triptych of episodes for the final season of the prestige Star Wars series. The Empire has begun to upset the Ghorman population, Cassian evaluates the growing totally not French/German mashup resistance, […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Thunderbolts*
THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE REVIEW The final film of Marvel’s Phase 5 (is anyone keeping track anymore) follows a group of d-listers gathered together reluctantly because of forces arrayed against all of them. No, this isn’t The Suicide Squad, it’s Thunderbolts*. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is our central character and first point of contact, as we watch […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Shrouds
THE SHROUDS MOVIE REVIEW David Cronenberg does not make normal movies. This is a given. But the question always is going into one, what KIND of abnormal is this gonna be? With The Shrouds, Cronenberg directs one of his most personal films, perhaps a conduit for his grief after the death of his wife. Vincent […]
Digital Noise Episode 355: The Greatest Stack of All Time
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 355: THE GREATEST STACK OF ALL TIME It’s vanishingly rare that we have a week that both reviewers ‘more or less’ enjoyed every movie in our stack (I don’t think it’s EVER happened that we LOVED every title) so for John and Chris, this was a landmark of ‘yeah, this was okay’. […]
Screener Squad: Andor Season 2 – Part One
ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART ONE After the events of Season 1 and the first true sparks of the rebellion, Andor Season 2 begins one year later. Cassian is on an undercover mission that goes south fast. Bix, Brasso, and Wilmon’s sanctuary is threatened, Mon Mothma prepares a Chandrilan wedding as Luthen keeps his grand […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Legend of Ochi
THE LEGEND OF OCHI MOVIE REVIEW While A24’s latest release The Legend of Ochi may be a film directed at children, the review Chris, Wright, and Marco did for it is decidedly not (despite Marco’s best efforts to keep it on track). While discussing this little injured cryptid creature the film centers around, it was […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Sinners
SINNERS MOVIE REVIEW Up until now, Ryan Coogler has written and directed several successful films based on either a true story, or pre-existing IP, but Sinners marks his first time crafting a completely original work on his own terms. Michael B. Jordan, in a dual role, plays Smoke and Stack, identical twin brothers from the […]
What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan? Episode 3: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane & Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 3: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE & HUSH…HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE “Oh, really, did she like it?” In this sisters and cousins episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, podcaster Jerry Downey and I look at the film that took Bette Davis and Joan Crawford […]
Screener Squad: The Pitt
THE PITT SERIES REVIEW Noah Wyle is back in the scrubs with latex gloves covered in blood in this new Max medical drama about a day in the lives of an emergency room crew in a Pittsburgh hospital. The Pitt is a 15 episode series shot dramatically in real time. Each episode is approximately one […]
Screener Squad: Daredevil: Born Again
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SERIES REVIEW Daredevil: Born Again has kicked, punched, headbutted, and billy clubbed its way into placing Matt Murdock where he’s always rightfully belonged in the MCU: in more than just a cameo. In his own series and returning with the subtlety of a flaming confession booth and the fury of a thousand […]
Screener Squad: Invincible Season 3
INVINCIBLE SEASON 3 REVIEW Over encumbered with the weight of a possible dead villain on his soldiers, a death caused by his own hands, Mark, who set out to be a shining beacon of hope and light to a violent and dark world, promises to never kill again. Can a young man with the powers […]
Screener Squad: Devil May Cry
DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES REVIEW From arcade cabinets to your prefered console system in the living room, Capcom has brought hundreds upon thousands of hours of entertainment with video game classics like Mega Man, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and the 2000s combo-juggling, demon-themed, first-person, sword-swinging, pistol-pulling, action-adventure, Devil May Cry. 25 years later Netflix is […]
Screener Squad: Make Me Famous
MAKE ME FAMOUS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Brian Vincent presents the story of an artist community in the East Village of New York in the 1980s. Make Me Famous is about an artist community coming together and supporting each other in the pursuit of notoriety, fame, and the capability to keep buying paint and sharing their […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Drop
DROP MOVIE REVIEW Remember when everything was “Die Hard on a _____”? No? Ok, you may have been too young for that but trust me, it was incessant. With the streaming success of Carry-On when seeing what the plot of Drop was, I couldn’t help but think “Carry-On but in a restaurant”. Violet (Meghann Fahy) […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Amateur
THE AMATEUR MOVIE REVIEW Imagine yourself as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller. You look like Rami Malek, you’re decidedly a huge dork, and somehow you land Sarah (the stunning Rachel Brosnahan) as a wife. If she was on a trip to London and terrorists killed her, and then your bosses at the #1 spy agency in […]
Screener Squad: The Luckiest Man in America
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA MOVIE REVIEW In 1984, an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson went on the game show Press Your Luck and broke the record for most money won on an American game show. That true story is the basis for The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Warfare
WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW While working on his previous film Civil War, Alex Garland got to be friends with the military advisor on it, Ray Mendoza. They decided to write a script together based on an experience Ray had gone through in his experiences in the Iraq War. Initially Garland was going to be sole director […]
Trash in the Can: Angels with Angles
TRASH IN THE CAN: ANGELS WITH ANGLES How did movies resurrect and exploit dead celebrities before Rogue One? Easy! Impressionists in Party City makeup and a budget so low the estate doesn’t bother to sue. Host of podcast Whatever Happened to Bette & Joan, Frank Calvillo, joins us for a bizarre vanity project about a […]
What Ever Happened To Bette & Joan: Ep 2 – The Best of Everything & Pocketful of Miracles
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN: EP 2 – THE BEST OF EVERYTHING & POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES “They Live in Dreams” In the second and final pre-Baby Jane episode, critic Elizabeth Stoddard joins me for the pair of movies our former studio queens would appear in just before signing on to star in the […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Ballad of Wallace Island
THE BALLAD OF WALLACE ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Imagine you had more money than you knew what to do with that came upon you like unexpected manna from heaven. After you had traveled the world, bought your perfect house on your perfect island, what then? If you’re Charles (Tim Key) you make an offer to your […]
Screener Squad: Severance Season 2
SEVERANCE SEASON 2 REVIEW The mysterious corporation called Lumon doing mysterious work involving a floor of “Severed” employees is back for season 2 of Severance on Apple TV Plus. Under the severed program, a mental division is created so that while at the office, an employee has no memory of their outside life and vice-versa. […]
Digital Noise Episode 342: Stairway to Podcast Heaven
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 342: STAIRWAY TO PODCAST HEAVEN Wright and Chris indulge in a mega-length review session of a whole bunch of movies. But if you listen very hard, it’ll come to you at last…. We talk about part two of the crisis that never ends for superheroes, and three parts of the con that […]
Digital Noise Episode 354: That Orca Deserves His Revenge, And Those People Deserve to Die
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 354: THAT ORCA DESERVES HIS REVENGE, AND THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE TO DIE Chris and Wright have a ton of goofy fun with this week’s stack of home releases. To what is probably the best of the Jaws rip-offs of the 70s (a low bar), to a horror movie where the joke is […]
Screener Squad: Ash
ASH MOVIE REVIEW Steven Wright once said “Right now I am having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before”. Now imagine this hilariously terrifying scenario in space, where no one can hear you reminisce! From musician and director Flying Lotus with a script written by Joni Remmler comes […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: A Working Man
A WORKING MAN REVIEW Say what you will about this new found collaboration between David Ayer and Jason Statham, but they really know how to turn b-movie action plots into ridiculous and eccentric flicks. Jason Statham stars as Levon Cade who works as a foreman on a construction site run by mild mannered Michael Pena. […]
What Ever Happened To Bette & Joan: Ep 1 – Humoresque & The Letter
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN: EP 1 – HUMORESQUE & THE LETTER “Don’t You Like Martinis?” In the debut episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan, we go back a couple of decades before the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? to look at classic Bette & Joan with […]
Screener Squad: The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE REVIEW Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were a series of animated cartoons created by Warner Bros in 1935. The very first of these characters was Porky Pig created by Friz Freleng. On April 17, 1937 animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett created an insane little […]
Screener Squad: Seven Veils
SEVEN VEILS MOVIE REVIEW John the Baptist was a total hottie. He had that wandering the desert skin tone and preaching the gospel six pack, and long flowing silky black hair. That’s probably why Salome, the step daughter of King Herod, wanted to seduce and steal a kiss from him. Heads up, things didn’t turn […]
COMING SOON: What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?
PREVIEW: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN Critic, blogger, and podcaster Frank Calvillo examines the later careers of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford following the success of 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and the resurgence in popularity it brought. In looking at the various roles the two actresses took on throughout the […]
Screener Squad: The Electric State
THE ELECTRIC STATE MOVIE REVIEW Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Those Avengers Endgame fellas) and their frequent screenwriting collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (those other two Avengers Endgame fellas) continue their Netflix contract obligations by delivering one of the most expensive movies ever made (none of it going to Chris Pratt’s wigs) with an […]
Screener Squad: Trigger Happy
TRIGGER HAPPY MOVIE REVIEW In a world where you must buy a gun in order to get health care, where the number one show on television is an infomercial for a sponge and the most watched kids program is about a dino-gun character named Tricera-Glock, one man struggles to escape the inescapable mundanity of suburban […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Black Bag
BLACK BAG MOVIE REVIEW Who knew after Steven Soderbergh’s retirement back in 2017 that he would ultimately make another fifteen feature films? We all did. Now with his 40th film, Black Bag is a return to sexy form for Soderbergh with an all star cast. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play husband & wife spies […]
Screener Squad: Borderline
BORDERLINE MOVIE REVIEW From the psychotic mind of the man who brought you Cocaine Bear, writer and director Jimmy Warden returns with Borderline. Sofia (Samara Weaving) is the current Hollywood It girl with a walk that can turn heads in traffic and a smile that can light up the stars. Her life is full of […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Novocaine
NOVOCAINE MOVIE REVIEW Full disclosure: This was our first experience seeing a film in 4DX, which are, as Beau puts it, massage chairs that kick the crap out of you. Some of us loved the experience. Some of us had to gag a few times. But either way, it definitely affected our experience of watching […]
Highly Suspect Reviews: Opus
OPUS MOVIE REVIEW They say, never meet your heroes. Usually it turns out they’re just a bit of a jerk, but in Ariel’s case, it gets a whole lot worse than that. Ayo Edebiri plays Ariel, a young journalist working at a Rolling Stone-esque publication. While she has a seat at the table for decision […]
Screener Squad: The Accidental Getaway Driver
THE ACCIDENTAL GETAWAY DRIVER MOVIE REVIEW When you need a Uber in a hurry, you just wanna be gone in sixty seconds, and hopefully your wheelman will just shut up and drive. Once at your final destination however, don’t forget before you put in that star rating that your driver is a real human being. […]
Digital Noise Episode 353: Faster Digital Noise, Review! Review!
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 353: FASTER DIGITAL NOISE, REVIEW! REVIEW! John and Chris have a mighty stack of home releases to review this week (again). From expressing adoration for the best soft-core filmmaker ever, to outright love for one of the best and darkest films of the 90s. From Lovecraftian slow-burn horror, to DePalma (but not […]