Casting The Net

When you're still traumatized by the murder of your friends at a secluded location, it makes perfect sense to go on another trip with friends to a secluded location, right?! This week, we're discussing the slasher film, WTF!, where a soon-to-be college graduate named Rachel (Callie Ott) is persuaded by her classmates to go on one last spring break trip at a mutual friend's vacation home. What's the worst that could happen?

Based on the novels by James Patterson, Maximum Ride follows GMO teen Max (Allie Marie Evans) as she struggles to protect herself and others like her against a shadowy organization that seeks to use their powers for their own nefarious gains.

This week, we see if What Happened To Monday can help us through our Orphan Black withdrawal, as Noomi Rapace plays seven identical siblings struggling to survive as one person in a future society where families are only permitted to have one child. So when one of the sisters goes missing, the others have to decide whether to wait and see if she returns, or step out hiding and fight to discover the truth.

On the show this week, we finally get around to sharing our thoughts on Netflix's live-action adaptation of the popular anime, Death Note. When a mysterious notebook falls from the sky and into Light Turner's (Nat Wolff)lap, he quickly discovers that it has the power to kill anyone whose name is written in it. Spurred on by the death god Ryuk (Willem Dafoe), Light sets out to punish those who need punishing, ultimately drawing the attention of an enigmatic investigator named L (LaKeith Stansfiel).

Most comic fans know about the existence of a Roger Corman-produced Fantastic Four movie from 1994, but how many of us know the whole story? This week, we discuss the documentary Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four, which gives us an in-depth look at the development, production, unceremonious demise, and glorious resurrection of a once-buried artifact of 90s comic book film adaptations.

On this week's episode, we discuss veteran filmmaker Walter Hill's gender-bending action thriller, The Assignment. The film follows Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez), a hitman who's past comes back to haunt him in the form of Dr. Rachel Jane (Sigourney Weaver). The sister of a man that Frank has killed, Dr. Jane cooks up rather twisted form of revenge for Frank, who now must live his life as a woman.

One of the most mind-bending time travel movies we've seen in recent memory, Predestination finds Ethan Hawke starring as a temporal agent on the trail of the notorious "Fizzle Bomber". But with his final mission on the horizon, Hawke's character must recruit a new temporal agent (Sarah Snook)who's not without their own sordid history.

We told you guys we'd get around to talking about Okja! A multi-million dollar corporation, environmental activists, a young Korean girl, and a two-ton superpig are at the center of this delightfully strange Netflix original movie from director Bong Joon Ho.

Half-documentary, half-biopic, Becoming Bond chronicles the life and times of one-time 007 actor, George Lazenby. From his early life in Australia to his time as James Bond, this is definitely a fascinating tale, even if parts of it are almost too unbelievable to possibly be true!

Let's be clear, if you've seen When The Bough Breaks, you've seen Inconceivable, in which Nicholas Cage and Gina Gershon star as a married couple who wants to use a surrogate to have a second baby. Unfortunately, they get more than they bargained for when they decide on their mysterious new friend Katie (Nicky Whelan).