THE FRANCHISE SERIES REVIEW Making a movie involves hundreds of jobs, from key grips to craft services, actors to directors, producers to a marketing team, and don’t even get me started on the writer’s room. Movie magic is a lot less whimsy and wonder and a lot more delegating unforeseen problems to the assistant to […]

JUROR #2 MOVIE REVIEW Whenever a jury duty summons comes in, I’m annoyed, aren’t we all, but definitely not mad about it either. However, if I received this notice while my wife was enduring a second pregnancy in the third trimester, I’d be quite angry. Enter our protagonist Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult). A recovering alcoholic, […]

QUEER MOVIE REVIEW Director Luca Guadagnino dives into the world of transgressive author William S Burroughs with his latest film, Queer. The story follows Burroughs, as his literary stand-in William Lee (Daniel Craig). The writer drinks his way through his days, living in Mexico, and looking for love. Well, sex anyway. He forms an irresistible […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: ALIEN FROM L.A. This week, we see a film that blends Journey to the Center of the Earth, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Mario Brothers, and a Jane Fonda Workout. Sound fun? No? What’s wrong with you? Nathan Flynn joins us for Kathy Ireland’s acting debut as a baby-voiced moron in 1988’s Alien […]

ARCANE SEASON 2 REVIEW Frederick Douglass once said, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” These words carry weight and wisdom in our […]

Y2K MOVIE REVIEW Some of us are old enough to remember New Year’s Eve as we went from 1999-2000. There was a big scare dubbed Y2K that was about fears that all computerized devices were going to shut down (or something) because their internalized clocks were not set up to deal with that calendar change. […]

THE ORDER MOVIE REVIEW Bank robberies, car heist, a disappearance, a terrible work of fiction called The Turner Diaries…What connects them? An offshoot Aryan Nation group calling themselves The Order. The film The Order tells the story of FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) investigating the rise of a Nazi militia led by young charismatic […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: DEMONS AT THE DOOR What do you get when you throw Satan, rubber puppets, a pug, and Richard Elfman into a blender? Nothing good! Guest Josh Santo helps the boys make sense of this Juggalo directed battle of good against evil. Crack open a bottle of Faygo and join us for […]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 3 REVIEW Last time on Vox Machina, our band of fearless warriors rolled the dice against the dragons that would rule the world and it was all kinds of super effective. However, all is not well in the world of Exandria. The most wicked and powerful of all dragons, […]

GET AWAY MOVIE REVIEW Boring families go on vacations to well known attractions surrounded by fellow tourists and the safety of park security. An adventurous family, like Richard (Nick Frost), Susan (Aisling Bea), Sam (Sebastian Croft), and Jessie (Maisie Ayres), prefer something a little more off the beaten path. They take a vacation to a […]