Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

This week we review and discuss Weapons, a mystery horror movie, directed by Zach Cregger and starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner and Benedict Wong, about the seemingly inexplicable case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time, having been apparently abducted by an unseen force.

We discuss the movie's central mystery and its themes of trust, public perception and assumptions people make about others and whether the mystery the movie is built around worked for us, the movie's treatment of folklore and whether the movie's symbolism is the good kind or the bad kind, whether the movie deserves its nearly perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and why the reviews are so polarised, and much more.

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 Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik and Cho Yeo-joeng, about a poor family who infiltrate the life of a wealthy family.

We talk about whether the New York Times was right to name the movie the best movie of the 21st century, the movie's treatment of class and inequality and how it has a refreshing take that is different to how Western movies treat similar subject matter and how the discourse of the movie does injustice to the actual movie itself, how expensive it is to be poor, the subtle symbolism of monsoons and stir fries, why good movies should change the rules half way through, and much more.

This week we review and discuss The Naked Gun, a spoof comedy movie, directed by Akiva Schaffer and starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson and Danny Huston, in which the son of Lt. Frank Drebin must follow in his father's footsteps to prevent the closure of Police Squad.

We compare favourite jokes, ask whether the humor is a worthy successor of the original Naked Gun and which jokes worked for us and which didn't, debate how important plot is in a movie like this and if the ending lived up to its potential and whether we should have expected more from it, whether this movie saved comedy and speculate what its larger impact on movies and the comedy genre will be, and much more.

Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:
https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

Also check out our review of the original Naked Gun:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GKEJTuFkaDYsNrnaWQ4xw

0:00 Intro
0:20 Movie Recommendations
7:13 Synopsis and Non-Spoiler Review
12:48 Spoiler Review
54:29 Conclusion and Ratings

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 plot around technobabble, how it deals with its theme of family and sacrifice, how it compares to Superman which in many ways is a very similar movie, and much more.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Movie Recommendations
3:29 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
8:57 Spoiler Discussion
51:08 Conclusion and Ratings

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 movie didn't land as well with us as Airplane!, compare favourite jokes, discuss our expectations for the upcoming sequel, what comedy today looks like and why there have not been many straight comedies in cinemas in recent years and whether that might be changing now, and much more.

Also check out our review of the newest Naked Gun from 2025:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PwuV2126RbSliqBHaZTve

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 on the original, discuss its main theme of remembering trauma, try to make sense of the fever dream hat is the third act, and much more.

0:00 Intro
0:22 Movie Recommendations
5:42 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
13:24 Spoiler Discussion
57:52 Conclusion and Ratings

Also check out our review of the original I Know What You Did Last Summer from 1997:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kxzDWU7BmvHGKwl19ZRXO

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 killed a man.

We talk about why the movie is so well known and has received so many sequels without ever achieving critical success, how it somehow feels like the embodiment of 90's teen slashers even though the plot is mostly forgettable, whether the movie's mystery that makes up most of the movie is engaging, the movie's surprisingly deep treatment of themes like trust and class, and much more.

Also check out our review of the newest installment of I Know What You Did Last Summer from 2025:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/72DMoxTkaff0A05K1ct2lO

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 Superman who is the only one who wants to do the right thing but doesn't always know how and who is challenged throughout the movie without making him a chump, whether this movie's Lex Luthor is the best he's ever been in the movies, and much more.

Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:
https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

Also check out our review of the original Superman movie from 1978:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FS6gCBltpvJvBsssSWNTL

0:00 Intro
0:23 Movie Recommendations
4:40 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions 
11:57 Spoiler Discussion 
01:13:25 Conclusion and Ratings

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 and comicbook movie genre, whether it still is as compelling in 2025 as it was in 1978, which parts of the Superman mythos the movie gets right and which it doesn't, and whether it made us believe a man can fly.

Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:
https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

Also check out our review of the newest Superman movie from 2025:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6emK8FqUUZQCpuHfICYqHC