This week we review and discuss Resident Evil, a horror zombie movie directed by Zach Cregger and starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry and Kali Reis, about a medical courier who is hired to make an urgent delivery to Raccoon City during a zombie outbreak.

We discuss the movie's theme of being scared of change and doing the right thing, how the movie weaves this theme into a competent survival horror story and where the story falls short, what we thought of the nontraditional ending that has divided audiences, how the movie compares to previous Resident Evil movies and whether the backlash that led the director to publicly apologise before the movie even came out is justified, we discuss how much you can change a franchise before you lose your audience and how to define what is essential for a given franchise in the first place, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:15 Movie Recommendations (Bad Apples, Lanterns, Chad Powers Season 2)
05:44 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
12:41  Spoiler Discussion
51:46 Conclusion & Ratings (7/10, 6.5/10, 5/7)

This week we review and discuss Pressure, a historical drama movie directed by Anthony Maras and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon, about a meteorologist in World War 2 responsible for forecasting the weather on D-Day.

We discuss the movie's theme of the consequences of wrong choices and how this is reflected throughout the movie, how the movie's portrayal of events compares to real history and the changes it makes improve the story, how the movie is driven by a conflict that is poorly motivated and fleshed out which drags down an otherwise competent movie and how this is a sympton of the general sloppiness in the movie's writing that highlights the difference between genuine conflict and cheap drama, how the movie compares to other movies dealing with scientific expertise making a difference in World War 2, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Movie Recommendations (Deep Water (2026), Invincible, Troy)
04:36 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
11:14  Spoiler Discussion
51:08 Conclusion & Ratings (strong 7/10, 5/10, 5/9)

This week we review and discuss Mayday, an action comedy movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh and Maria Bakalova, about a US Navy pilot who is shot down over the USSR in the last years of the Cold War while on a spy mission and has to make his way back home with the help of a retired KGB agent.

We discuss how we were pleasantly surprised by this movie which initially didn't look like much but on closer look is actually much better than most streaming movies like it, how the symbolism that underpins the story  is some of the best we've seen in a while in a movie, how the movie ends up being less than the sum of its parts because it doesn't quite put in the effort to realise its ambitions, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:18 Movie Recommendations (The Gentlemen Season 2, Lanterns, New Zealand Spy)
05:37 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
12:08  Spoiler Discussion
46:56 Conclusion & Ratings (6.5/10, 8/10, 5/8)

This week we review and discuss Coyote vs. ACME, a courtroom comedy movie directed by Dave Green and starring Will Forte, Lana Condor and John Cena, about Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products.

We discuss the movie's history that led to it being released after years of controversy and whether it was worth it in the end or it is as bad as the official story said it was, how the movie handles themes of persistence, dedication and never giving up and how it strikes the balance between nostalgic toon antics and real character drama and whether it ends up having anything worthwhile to say, what we thought of the heated discourse surrounding the movie, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:18 Movie Recommendations (Spa Weekend, Stuart Fails To Save The Universe)
07:15 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
13:36  Spoiler Discussion
56:14 Conclusion & Ratings (5/10, "meep meep"/5)

This week we review and discuss Insidious: Out of the Further, a supernatural horror movie directed by Jacob Chase and starring Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, about Gemma who discovers she can interact with and bring spirits to the mortal world while reckoning with a dark family legacy.

We discuss the movie's handling of generational trauma and the movie's refreshing spin on that topic, how the story was surprisingly engaging once you look past the excessive filler that makes up the first half of the movie, whether the new villain Cyrus was compelling and if the movie undersold the sinister nature of the Further, how the success of the Insidious franchise fits into what has been going on at the box office this year and whether this movie made us want to go back to the earlier movies in the franchise, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:17 Movie Recommendations (Lioness Season 3, The Postman (1997))
04:39 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
07:43  Spoiler Discussion
52:06 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The End of Oak Street, a science fiction movie directed by David Robert Mitchell and starring Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway and Maisy Stella, about a family whose suburban neighborhood has been transported from 1982 into the age of dinosaurs.

We discuss how we were on board with the movie's unique premise and the callbacks to 80's adventure movies but were unconvinced by the movie's story, how the movie sets up several details that could be the basis for a compelling story but fails every time to make them matter when doing so would have been easy and how most of the movie is competently made but hollow filler as a result, how the ending is the most interesting part of the story but falls flat in the end because it wasn't thought through, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:18 Movie Recommendations (The Cleaning Lady, The Captain/Der Hauptmann (2017))
05:58 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
13:11  Spoiler Discussion
54:15 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a superhero movie directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Sadie Sink and the newest entry in the MCU, about Peter Parker dealing with the ramifications of being forgotten by the world following the events of No Way Home, while dealing with the emerging threat of a villain with mind control powers.

We discuss how the movie moves the story of Peter Parker and the wider MCU forward, how it handles themes of loneliness and balance, whether Jean Grey is a good Spider-Man villain and the thematic space explored by Jean Grey and Punisher and how this reflects Spider-Man's story, how this movie improves on a lot of worldbuilding and story mistakes that have plagued the MCU in recent years, the movie's awkward fit with the upcoming Doomsday, how the movie sets up Peter Parker as a villainous figure in future MCU movies and why that is the most interesting storybeat the MCU has done in years, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:16 Movie Recommendations (The Wire, The Cleaning Lady, Rick And Morty season 9)
05:25 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
13:57  Spoiler Discussion
53:31 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss 72 Hours, a comedy movie directed by Tim Story and starring Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernandez and Mason Gooding, about a 40-year-old man joins a bachelor party weekend with strangers after being added to their group-chat by accident.

We discuss how this movie compares to similar movies such as The Hangover, Date Night and Superbad and what lessons it should have learned from its inspirations but didn't, how the movie handles the generational dialogue between Millenials and Gen Z and whether it has something to say on the subject, why the middle part of the movie left us cold when that should have been the main attraction and how the themes of the movie feel tacked on as a result, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:17 Movie Recommendations (I Will Find You A Better Home (安家), The Wire Season 1)
08:34 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
15:16  Spoiler Discussion
52:29 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Odyssey, a fantasy action movie directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway, about Odysseus who undergoes a perilous journey home after the Trojan War in his attempt to reunite with his wife Penelope.

We discuss what The Odyssey gets right and what it doesn't, why the character payoffs are the movie's strong suit and are among the best we've seen all year, why Antinous is the best villain we've seen in a long time, how the movie ignores much of the source material and instead uses the story of the Odyssey to tell a new story about a world falling from grace and slipping into a dark age and whether that choice worked for us and if the movie did enough work to earn that, and much more.

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00:00 Intro
00:29 Movie Recommendations (Due Date, Animal Control Season 1-4)
05:06 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
12:14  Spoiler Discussion
49:30 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Evil Dead Burn, a supernatural horror movie directed by Sebastien Vanicek and starring Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright and Hunter Doohan, about a woman who following the death of her husband is stuck with her toxic in-laws when Deadites attack their home in search of a magical dagger.

We discuss whether the movie delivers on the franchise's signature body horror effectively, how it compares to previous entries in the franchise, how the movie handles the idea that family is hell and how that connects to the body horror of the Deadites and the arc of the main character who is stuck with these very different kinds of evil thoughout the story, whether the movie's story and expansion of the Evil Dead mythology works or whether it just gets in the way and takes up too much space without adding enough, how viewers should judge a movie that tries to be about more than just good fun, and much more. 

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Movie Recommendations (Polygamous, Spawn Director's Cut, X-Men 97)
07:16 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
15:35  Spoiler Discussion
51:24 Conclusion & Ratings