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New movies. No filters. Every week, Justin Henson delivers spoiler-free, brutally honest reviews of the latest theatrical and streaming releases. If you want the truth before pressing play or buying a ticket, whether it’s a box-office smash or a streaming dud, Justin tells you exactly what’s worth your time. before buying a ticket or pressing play. Come for Justin's movie verdict. Stay because someone finally said it out loud.
Episode 258 Reviews For: Street Fighter -- Crawlers -- Whalefall
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To live is to fight, and to fight is to live in this video game adaption comes:
Street Fighter
The odds of being swallowed alive by a whale are not zero in:
Whalefall
and finally
Skin will crawl….well...out of guilt for buying a ticket in:
<...Episode 257 Reviews for: Other Mommy -- Matchbox: The Movie -- The Influencer Project -- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence
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Like follow share subscribe to watch an influencer in parrel in:
The Influencer Project
Save the world bring your friends in the Apple TV exclusive comes:
Matchbox: The Movie
Your mommy won't save you in:
Other Mommy
and finally
there back a...
Episode 256 Reviews for: Digger -- Verity -- Beware Boiúna
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There is no light where we are going. Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett star in:
Verity
A comedy of catastrophic proportions, Tom Cruise stars in:
Digger
and finally
Witness terror on a gigantic scale in:
Beware Boiúna
*S<...
Episode 255 Reviews for: Primetime -- Forgotten Island -- Heart of the Beast -- The Uprising
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Are you ready to make television history in:
Primetime
Survival depends on their bond in:
Heart of the Beast
On unforgettable night changed their lives forever in:
Forgotten Island
(You can also look to a more in-depth convo with my appearance on the Ta...
Episode 254 Reviews for: Resident Evil -- Runner -- The Runner -- The Weight
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Witness the original of evil in Zach Cregger's:
Resident evil
To see his daughter a man has to carry backpack of gold in the wilderness in:
The...
Episode 253 Special Episode: Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass -- Shaun the Sheep: The Monster of Mossy Bottom -- Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie
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In this special edition episode,
We close up the summer, and kids are going back to school, here are the last remaining family films in theaters.
Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass ( Yea...I didn't know there was another one)
Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie (How did this last so long in theaters)
and finally,
Shaun the Sheep: The M...
Episode 252 Reviews for: Practical Magic 2 -- Hope -- Mayday (Apple TV Exclusive) -- Be Any Means
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Here is what you WITCHED for…not all of us in:
Practical Magic 2
Is this how it ends in:
Hope
A friendship with major red flags in the Apple TV Plus exclusive in:
Mayday
and finally
The FBI couldn’t crack it so t...
Episode 251 Reviews for: Fall 2: Deadpoint -- Idiots -- Onslaught -- The Brink of War
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This week on the show!
Don’t worry their pros in:
Idiots
Are you down? I'm feeling kind of down after watching it, in:
Fall 2: Deadpoint
To stop a killing machine, you must become one in:
Onslaught
and finally
And part of our movie wire catch up...
Episode 250 Reviews for: Coyote vs Acme -- The Dog Stars -- Tony -- Buddy
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This week on the show!
Before he was Anthony Bourdain, he was Tony, in:
Tony
The movie ACME doesn’t want you to see... Neither did Warner Bros.:
Coyote vs Acme
At the end of the world no one survives alone:
The Dog Stars
and finally
Wha...
Episode 249 Reviews for: Insidious: Out of the Further -- Mutiny -- The Magic Faraway Tree -- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
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RIP: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry 1946-2026
This week on the show!
Evil found a way out in:
Insidious: Out of the Further
There's blood in the water, Jason Statham stars in:
Mutiny
Step into the tree…and into the impossible in:
The Magic Faraway Tree
...Episode 248: The End of Oak Street -- X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn (Hulu)-- Six: The Musical Live! -- The Last House (Netflix)
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The summer ends on Oak Street in the dinosaur thriller:
The End of Oak Street
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived in the live Broadway recording of:
Six: The Musical Live!
Believe again, Hulu releases a new directors cut of:
X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Fr...
Episode 247 Reviews for: Super Troopers 3 -- One Night Only -- The Dink
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This week on the show!
Crime is the disease. Meow is the time for a cure in:
Super Troopers 3
12 hours of a sex can change everything in:
Once Night Only
and finally
It's pickleball deal with it! Jake Johnson stars in the Apple TV exclusive: The Dink
Ready f...
Episode 246 Reviews for: Spiderman: Brand New Day -- Ice Cream Man -- The Death of Robin Hood
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This week on the show!
The world has forgotten peter parker, but he hasn’t forgotten them in:
Spiderman: Brand New Day
I scream. You scream. We all scream for Eli Roth’s:
Ice Cream Man
and finally
We have a new addition to our Movie Wire Catch Up this week: He was n...
Episode 245 Reviews for: Pinocchio Unstrung -- 72 Hours -- Hadestown: The Musical
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This week on the show!
The night is young…he isn’t Kevin Hart stars in the Netflix exclusive:
72 Hours
Once you’ve gone way down to Hadestown, part of you never really leaves in the live cast recording of:
Hadestown: The Musical
and finally
He has no strings to hold him back now...
Episode 244 Reviews for: The Odessey -- Young Washington -- The Furious
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This week on the show!
Defy the gods in Christopher Nolan's:
The Odessey
Before he led a revolution, he survived one in:
Young Washington
and finally
This week on, The Movie Wire Catch Up: When justice is broken, fury becomes the only law in:
The Furious
Re...
Episode 243 Reviews for: Moana and Evil Dead Burn
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This week on the show!
The ocean is calling Josh from The Talking Smac podcast to help review the Disney live remake of:
Moana
Every family has their demons in:
Evil Dead Burn
(That you can also listen to my appearance to discuss this with Alex on the Talking Smac Podcast.) LISTEN HERE!
...
Episode 242 Reviews For: Minions and Monsters -- The Invite -- Little Brother (Netflix) -- Power Ballad
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This week on the show!
Hollywood has a monster problem in:
Minions and Monsters
It will be fun and everything is on the table Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, Oliva Wilde, and Penélope Cruz star in:
The Invite
An uncomfortably touching comedy John Cena and Eric Andrés star in the Netflix exclusive:
...
Episode 241 Reviews For: Supergirl -- Jackass: Best and Last -- Voicemails for Isabelle
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This week on the show!
Truth. Justice. Whatever. Is the perfect tagline line to:
Supergirl (With a capitalized WHATEVER!)
'The Talking Smac Made Me Watch' returns with Josh from The Talking Smac Podcast joining me after making me watch the new Netflix Rom-Com:
Voicemails for Isabelle
and finally
After 24 years….it's one las...
Episode 240 Reviews for: Toy Story 5 -- Leviticus -- Tuner
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This week on the show!
It will never stop in:
Leviticus
The age of toys is over in:
Toy Story 5
and finally
A new addition to the Movie Wire Catch Up: Everybody has a one hidden talent. Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman star in:
Tuner
Ready f...
Episode 239 Reviews for: Disclosure Day -- Stop! That Train -- Office Romance
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This week on the show!
The greatest trainwreck in herstory in:
Stop! That Train!
All will be disclosed in the new Steven Spielberg movie comes:
Disclosure Day
and finally
It's going down (That’s for sure). In the Netflix exclusive staring J-Lo comes:
Office Romance
Ready for m...
Episode 238 Reviews for: Scary Movie -- The Breadwinner -- Is God Is
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This week on the show!
Last year at 2:17am Anna Farris tripped while texting and accidently agreed to do another and every line will be crossed in:
Scary Movie
One dad, three kids, zero clue which I think this is meant for our filmmakers in:
The Breadwinner
and finally
Part of our M...
Episode 237 Reviews for: Masters of the Universe -- Backrooms -- Pressure -- Remarkably Bright Creatures
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This week on the show!
The More you look the more you find and you're not supposed to be here in: Backrooms
Only one can have the power in:
Masters of the Universe
In the hours before D-Day with the decision that changed the world. Based on the untold true story comes:
Pressure<...
Episode 236 Reviews for: The Mandalorian and Grogu -- I Love Boosters -- Passenger -- You, Me & Tuscany
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This is the way, or is it? In another star ways story comes:
The Mandalorian and Grogu
130million people take road trips every year. 15,400 of them are never seen again:
Passenger
It's like community service in:
I Love Boosters
and finally
we...
Episode 235 Reviews For: Obsession -- Marty, Life is Short -- The Wizard of the Kremlin -- Faces of Death
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This week on the show!
Be careful what you wish for in:
Obsession
Without power your no one in:
The Wizard of the Kremlin
A look into the life of the legendary comedian Martin short in the Netflix exclusive:
Marty, Life is Short
and finally
We div...
Episode 234 Reviews for: Mortal Kombat 2 -- The Sheep Detectives -- Animal Farm -- Beast
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This week on the show!
Rebel without a cage and it's their fight for our future in:
Mortal Kombat 2
A new breed of mystery in:
The Sheep Detectives
A cautionary tale based on George Orwell's famous novel comes an animated telling of:
Animal Farm
and finally
T...
Episode 233 Reviews for: Deep Water -- The Devil Wears Prada 2 -- Hokum
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This week on the show!
Surviving the crash is just the beginning in:
Deep Water
Power never goes out of style in:
The Devil Wears Prada 2
and finally
Horror writer vs a witch Adam Scott stars in:
Hokum
Ready for my verdict? Let’s get into it. <...
Episode 232 Reviews for: Michael -- I Swear -- Busboys -- Apex (Netflix)
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This week on the show!
Discover the making of a king in the Michael Jackson Biopic:
Michael
I blink. I twitch. I jump. I click. I whistle. I shout in:
I Swear
Some Messes can't be cleaned up David spade and Theo Von star in:
Busboys
and finally
Episode 231 Reviews for: Over Your Dead Body-- Lee Cronin's The Mummy -- Normal -- Balls Up
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This week on the show!
Condoms that cover your balls, alcohol, and the world cup….streaming comedys are getting out of hand in the prime video exclusive:
Balls Up
8 years ago, the young daughter of a journalist disappeared into the desert without a trace. Today, she has returned and Some things are meant to be buried in:
Lee...
Episode 230 Reviews for: Exit 8 -- Fuze (early review) -- Thrash (Netflix) -- Outcome (Apple TV)
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This week on the show!
Do not overlook any anomalies. Turn back in:
Exit 8
The truth will set you free, but first, it's going to ruin your life. In the apple tv exclusive:
Outcome
It’s down to the wire in the early review of:
Fuze (releases on April 23rd)
...
Episode 229 Reviews for: The Drama -- Pizza Movie -- Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
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This week on the show!
College is a trip, in the Hulu exclusive:
Pizza Movie
A time Traveling, double crossing, ass kicking comedy in another Hulu exclusive movie:
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
and finally
Witness the wedding of the year in:
The Drama
Ready for my v...
Episode 228 Reviews for: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie -- Ready or Not 2: Here I Come -- They Will Kill You -- Forbidden Fruits
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New game. fresh blood, a little Grace, a little faith…a lot of blood. In the sequel to the 2019 film comes:
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
The Coven just clocked in:
Forbidden Fruits
Let them try in:
They Want to Kill You
and...
Episode 227: DEEP DIVE INTERVIEW AND REVIEW FOR--BEAUTIFUL, PAM
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This week on the show!
While living out of a motel and turning tricks, Pam undergoes a crisis of identity, addiction, and depression amidst the week of their son's 18th birthday in:
Beautiful, Pam.
That you can watch free right now, at: Beautiful, Pam
A deep dive interview with some incredible talent, writer/director J.R. Stokes of...
Episode 226 Reviews for: Project Hail Mary -- Reminders of Him -- Undertone -- Slanted
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Be afraid of the silence, it wants to be heard in:
Undertone
Everybody deserves a second chance, just not this movie in:
Reminders of Him
Believe in the Hail Mary! Ryan Gosling star in:
Project Hail Mary
and finally
If you can...
Season 5 Premiere!! Reviews for: Disney Pixar's Hoppers -- The Bride! -- Dolly
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Welcome to season 5 of The Movie Wire!!
This week on the show!
Human nature... act casual in the Disney Pixar film:
Hoppers
Here comes the mother fucking bride in:
The Bride!
and finally
Mommy knows best in the new horror movie:
Dolly
Ready for my...
EPISODE 224: SEASON 4 FINALE!!!
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This week on the show!
We wrap up 2025's movie season with my top 10 best and worst films of the year, in the most contradicting year from the Academy yet!
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Episode 223 Reviews for: Scream 7 -- EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert -- Psycho Killer -- The Secret Agent
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Fear hits home, and it's always somebody you know in:
Scream 7
Elvis Presley like you’ve never seen before in
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Meet your nightmare he's coming for you in:
Psycho killer
and finally
Leading up to the Osc...
Episode 222 Reviews for: GOAT -- Wuthering Heights -- Crime 101 -- Sentimental Value
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This kids got game, and you're never too small to dream big in the animated family film:
GOAT
One heist connects them all and don’t forget to have an exit in:
Crime 101
Come Undone and drive me mad in the horny film based on the legendary novel that isn...
Episode 221 Reviews for: How to Make a Killing -- Nirvanna: The Band, The Show, The Movie -- Cold Storage -- Solo Mio
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This week on the show!
28 million inheritance. 7 relatives standing in the way Glen Powell stars in: How to Make a Killing
Ditched at his wedding, alone in Rome, Kevin James goes on a solo honeymoon in
Solo Mio
Matt and Jay go back in time in a time travelling RV to become famous in Nirvanna: Th...
Episode 220 Reviews for: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die -- The Strangers: Chapter 3 -- Shelter -- Hamnet
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A time traveler from the future drops in on a diner to recruit a team to save the future in:
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Her safety. His mission. Jason Statham stars in:
Shelter
Embrace your fears…this must mean of actually thinking about buying a ticket to th...
Episode 219 Reviews for: Send Help -- Iron Lung -- Marty Supreme
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This is not an expedition. It's an execution in the movie based on the video game comes:
Iron Lung
Meet Linda. she's from strategy and planning. And she's the boss now in:
Send Help
and finally
leading up to the Oscars and my season finale best films of...
