Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

Welcome to our full review of The Naked Gun 2025, the latest movie of the classic slapstick comedy franchise! In this video, we give our honest thoughts on the film’s humor, cast performances, direction, and whether it lives up to the legacy of the original Naked Gun series starring Leslie Nielsen.

Topics Covered:
The Naked Gun 2025 plot summary
Cast & characters including Liam Neeson as Frank Dreben
Comparison to the original film
Best jokes & moments
Final verdict: watch it or skip it?

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Four Brothers from 2005, directed by John Singleton and starring Mark Wahlberg, Andre 3000 and Tyrese Gibson, in which four adopted brothers set out to avenge the murder of their adoptive mother in Detroit.

This week we review and discuss The Fantastic Four: First steps, a superhero movie and newest entry in phase 6 of the MCU, directed by Matt Shakaman and starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Julia Garner. The film is set in the 1960s of a retro-futuristic world which the Fantastic Four must protect from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus.

We discuss how the movie tries very hard to do the Fantastic Four right both through its story and the attention paid to getting the details right, whether its story was compelling to us and the challenges of building a...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! from 1988, directed by David Zucker and starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and Ricardo Montalban, in which Frank Drebin uncovers a plan to use mind control to kill Queen Elizabeth during a baseball game.

We talk about why the...

This week we review and discuss I Know What You Did Last Summer, a slasher horror movie directed by Jennifer Kaytlin Robinson and starring Madelyn Kline, Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt. 27 years after the Tower Bay murders, another hook-wielding killer appears and begins targeting a group of friends one year after they covered up a car crash in which they supposedly killed someone.

We discuss whether this movie is an effective legacy sequel and whether it is a good slasher movie, how it compares to the original and how it tries to build on the formula...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit I Know What You Did Last Summer, a 1997 slasher movie directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr, about four teenage friends who are stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they supposedly...

This week we review and discuss Superman directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult. In the film, Superman must prove to the world that he is their protector after billionaire Lex Luthor enacts a plan to turn public opinion against him.

We discuss our thoughts on whether this is a good superhero movie, whether it is a good Superman movie and what it means for the future of the DCU and where it might go in the next movies, whether DC betting on James Gunn paid off, what we think of a...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Richard Donner's Superman from 1978 starring Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, which tells the story of how Clark Kent becomes Superman in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane while battling the villainous Lex Luthor.

We talk about the movie's historic role in the superhero...

This week we review and discuss Jurassic World: Rebirth, a science fiction action movie directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Ed Skrein, which follows a mercenary expedition to a tropical island teeming with genetically engineered dinosaurs in order to obtain samples that could lead to a medical breakthrough.

We discuss our thoughts on whether the movie captured our imagination and got us excited for some dinosaur action, dissect the numerous unnecessary story and character issues that drag the movie down, ask whether that even matters for a CGI spectacle such as a Jurassic...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Equilibrium, dystopian science fiction movie directed by Kurt Wimmer and starring Christian Bale, Taye Diggs and Sean Bean, about an enforcement officer in a future in which feelings and artistic expression are outlawed, and a society where its citizens are forced to take psychoactive drugs to suppress emotion.
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This week we review and discuss F1: The Movie, a sports drama directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and Kerry Condon, about a racing driver who returns to Formula One (F1) after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team, APXGP, from collapse.

We discuss our thoughts on sports movies in general, how this movie was able to get our attention with its charming characters despite its standard plot and our limited interest in Formula 1 in the first place, discuss whether the movie's story was satisfying and managed to cross the finish...

We look back on the first half of 2025 and discuss our favourite movies of the year so far, our biggest movie related disappointment of the year, and how 2025 is shaping up in film so far.

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0:00 Intro
0:36 Biggest Disappointment of 2025
07:48 3rd Pick
13:00 2nd Pick
17:28 1st Pick
24:17 2025 In Film So Far

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit John Q, a drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Denzel Washington, Anne Heche and James Woods, about a father whose son needs a heart transplant which he can't afford, so John takes an emergency room hostage to force the hospital to perform the operation.

We...

This week we review and discuss 28 Years Later, a postapocalyptic horror movie by Danny Doyle and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes. 28 years after the rage virus outbreak, the story follows Spike, a boy living in a village in the Scottish Highlands off the coast of infected Britain, who ventures into the mainland to find a doctor in search of a cure for his ill mother.

We discuss how the movie fits in with the rest of the franchise, why it is the most sophisticated zombie story we have ever seen despite serious story and worldbuilding...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Boyz n the Hood, a coming of age hood drama film by John Singleton atarring Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr and Angela Bassett, which follows Tre Styles, who is sent to live with his father Furious Styles in South Central Los Angeles, where he reunites with his childhood friends...

This week we review and discuss Tornado, a period action drama movie directed by John Maclean and starring Tim Roth, Kōki and Takehiro Hira, in which Japanese puppeteers travelling the Scottish highlands encounter a gang of thieves.

We discuss how the movie caught our attention with its unique premise of a samurai revenge story set in the Scottish Highlands, why the movie fell flat in story and character, what it would have taken to fix the story, whether this movie is jidaigeki or if that is giving it too much credit, and we discuss how important premise a...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Jurassic Park, a 1993 science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Neill, in which wealthy businessman John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.

We talk about how Jurassic Park spawned one...

This week we review and discuss Clown in a Cornfield, a slasher horror movie directed by Eli Craig and starring Katie Douglas, Aason Abrams and Kevin Durand, in which the teenagers of a rural town are hunted by killer clowns.

We discuss how the movie delivers on the promises made by its name, how it is actually a timely allegory for globalisation and generational grievances and resentment, why the social commentary worked for us in this movie when it falls flat in so many others, how it is an above average slasher movie, and much more.

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In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit The Returned, a 2013 Spanish-Canadian zombie thriller directed by Manuel Carballo and starring Emily Hampshire and Kris Holden-Ried, about a physician and her infected husband go on the run to avoid angry demonstrators when a rare and difficult to obtain medicine that requires daily doses to stave off the effects...

This week we review and discuss Karate Kid: Legends, a martial arts drama movie directed by Jonathan Entwhistle and starring Jacke Chan, Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio, in which Li, a kung fu prodigy who, after moving to New York and confronting with a local karate champion, receives help from his former master Mr. Han and karate sensei Daniel LaRusso.

We discuss how character is both the movie's strong suit and it's biggest weakness through its likeable characters even though in several cases their character arcs leave much to be desired, how Hollywood tends to struggle with martial...

This week we review and discuss season 2 of Star Wars: Andor, a science fiction spy thriller series directed by Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and Adria Arjona, in which thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative five years that lead to the events of the two films, exploring how he becomes radicalized against the Galactic Empire and how the wider Rebel Alliance is formed.

We discuss whether season 2 lived up to the hype created by season 1 and whether it was worth the wait, whether it lives up to its reputation of being smart Star Wars for...

This week we review and discuss Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, a action spy movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atweell and Angela Bassett, in which Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team unite to prevent the Entity, a rogue AI, from unleashing global destruction against humanity.

We discuss whether this movie delivers on its promises of breathtaking stunts and action set pieces, why keeping promises is important for movies, which parts of the story worked for us and which didn't and whether that mattered in this kind of movie, whether the...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit 28 Weeks Later, a postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne and Idris Elba, about the efforts of United States-led NATO forces to establish a safe zone in London, the consequence of two young siblings breaking protocol to find a photograph of their...

This week we review and discuss Final Destination: Bloodlines, a supernatural horror movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tony Todd and Brec Bassinger, about a college student who inherits visions of a previous premonition that averted a deadly structural failure in 1968 from her dying grandmother and is warned that Death is coming for her family.

We discuss why this movie is so successful at reviving its franchise while building of the premise and delivering on its promises, compare favourite kills, why watching this movie made us feel 12 years old again, and...

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This week we revisit 28 Days Later, a  postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccleston, about a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society.

We talk a...

This week we review and discuss The Surfer, a psychological thriller movie directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon and Miranda Tapsell, about a man who plans to surf at an idyllic beach with his son but becomes thwarted and tormented by the locals.

We discuss why this movie may be the most polarising one we've reviewed so far, our interpretation of the movie's themes of ambition and compromise, what we thought of Nicolas Cage's performance, how The Surfer is really a Christmas movie, and much more.

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In this week's movie conversation we talk about our reactions to watching Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell, after not having seen a Mission: Impossible Movie in over a decade.

We talk about our memories and expectations for a Mission: Impossible movie, how we felt about the storytelling, characters and practical action of Dead Reckoning: Part One, what we want out of action movies in general and how that lines up with this movie and how the experience compares to action movies that have come...

This week we review and discuss Thunderbolts*, a superhero movie and 36th film in the MCU, directed by Jake Schreier and starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, about a group of antiheroes that are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission to defeat the Void.

We discuss our reaction to the movie's attempt to revive the MCU, whether it delivers on the character focus that we've wanted from superhero movies for a long time, what the movie sets up for the MCU going forward, the movie's treatment of depression...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Shutter Island from 2010, a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley, about a Deputy U.S. Marshal who comes to Shutter Island to investigate a psychiatric facility after one of the patients goes missing.

We talk about...

This week we review and discuss The Accountant 2, an action thriller movie directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson, about a neurodivergent accountant hit man who investigates a series of murders related to human trafficking.

We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of the theme of found family, ask whether that theme is able to support the movie in a satisfying way, why the movie's reliance on coincidences reduced our enjoyment of the movie, how close a sequel needs to be to its original, and much more.

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In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Psycho from 1960, a psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh, about an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates and its aftermath, in which a private investigator, Marion's lover Sam Loomis and her sister Lila...

This week we review and discuss Sinners, a period horror movie directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Miles Caton, about twin brothers in 1930s Mississippi who return to their hometown to start again, only to be confronted by a supernatural evil.

We discuss our reaction to the film's portrayal of Jim Crow era Black American culture, we try to make sense of the metaphor surrounding Blues music and the vampires, whether Sinners is as accessible to general audiences as it could or should be, what this means for Black cinema going forward...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Godzilla from 2014, a kaiju monster film directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe, about an American soldier attempts to return to his family while caught in the crossfire of an ancient rivalry between Godzilla and two parasitic monsters known as MUTOs.

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This week we review and discuss Drop, a thriller movie directed by Christopher Landon and starring Meghann Fahy, Violett Beane and Brandon Sklenar, about a widowed mother who receives threatening messages during her first date in years, which cause her to question her date and fear for her safety.

We discuss our reaction to the movie's treatment of domestic violence, its use of blackmail as an allegory for domestic violence, whether Drop succeeds in creating the necessary suspense, and what we thought of the ending's reveal, and much more.

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In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Cube from 1997, a science fiction horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett and Julian Richings, about seven individuals trapped in a bizarre and deadly labyrinth of cube-shaped rooms.

We talk about the nostalgia some of us have for Cube, how when...

This week we review and discuss Death of a Unicorn, a horror comedy movie directed by Alex Scharfman and startring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega and Tea Leoni, about a father and his daughter who accidentally kill a unicorn, causing them to be hunted down by its parents.

We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of themes such as privilege and healthcare, why this movie has received a bad to mixed reception, why it tries to do too much at once and ends up doing nothing at all despite an original and intriguing premise, and much more.
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In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Paycheck from 2003, a science fiction film directed by John Woo and starring Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart and Uma Thurman, about an engineer who after completing a project finds out that before having his memory erased he waived his life altering paycheck.

We talk about how Paycheck has...

This week we review and discuss The Woman in the Yard, a psychological horror movie directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili and Russell Hornsby, about a widowed single mother who was disabled after a car accident that killed her husband, when a mysterious woman draped in black appears in the front yard, claiming that "Today's the day".

We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of its themes of grief and trauma, why The Woman in the Yard handled its subject matter better than trauma focused horror movies of recent months, why the movie...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we revisit Evolution from 2001, a science fiction comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones and Julianne Moore, about a group of scientists who investigate a meteor crash in Arizona, only to discover that it harbors rapidly evolving extraterrestrial life forms.

We talk about how Evolution's...

This week we review and discuss The Alto Knights, a biographical cime drama film directed by Barry Levinson starring Robert DeNiro, Robert DeNiro and Debra Messing, about the rivalry of two mob bosses as one tries to retire from a life of crime and the other tries to make a name for himself.

We discuss whether the movie's nonlinear storytelling worked for us and why the ending is by far the best part, how it stacks up against other crime movies about the mob, whether DeNiro's dual performance worked for us, and much more. 

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