The first batch of movie reviews for 2023 from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy arrives with quite the show. 14 reviews in all ranging from some late acclaimed 2022 catch-ups from the international scene (Broker, Saint Omer) and another mystery with Edgar Allan Poe as a participant (The Pale Blue Eye). Erik describes what could be the nuttiest plotline of the new year (The Devil Conspiracy) and Steve looks at a new horror film drawing both ecstatic praise and hatred (Skinamarink). Speaking of the Blair Witch, Joshua Leonard co-writes and co-stars in a comedy about baby mishandling (The Drop) and Gillian Jacobs takes on multiple roles in an anthology from various filmmakers (The Seven Faces of Jane). Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are thieves who didn’t get the memo about farmhouses in horror movies (The Price We Pay) and Nicolas Cage is out for revenge in his first released western (The Old Way). The horror continues as the duo look at sex workers and religious extremism (Candy Land), the conflicting screenplay of a rousing pandemic-era slasher (Sick) and if a killer doll that is all the rage is worth the hype (M3GAN). Finally, Gerard Butler crash lands into a war zone (Plane) and Tom Hanks is a very grumpy man with a big heart (A Man Called Otto).

0:00 - Intro

1:52 – Broker

8:10 – The Drop

13:58 – Saint Omer

20:09 – The Devil Conspiracy

28:17 - Skinamarink

37:22 – The Price We Pay

43:08 – The Seven Faces of Jane

51:00 – The Old Way

59:48 – The Pale Blue Eye

1:10:42 - Sick

1:26:00 - Candy Land

1:39:56 - M3GAN

1:54:42 - Plane

2:03:04 - A Man Called Otto

2:18:24 - Outro

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