Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

This week we review and discuss Kraven the Hunter directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose and Russell Crowe. The sixth and maybe last installment in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC) follows Kraven the Hunter as he protects wildlife from poachers, assassinates crime bosses and deals with his family legacy.

We discuss how in this movie Kraven is a bad hunter, how it had more story and character potential than most recent superhero movies but failed to do something with it, what's wrong with Sony in general, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Best Recent Thing Watched
7:07 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
17:18 Spoiler Discussion
01:04:02 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 discover "Rising", the 2004 pilot episode of Stargate Atlantis, which was the science fiction spinoff to Stargate SG-1 and follows a scientific expedition to the lost Ancient city of Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy.

We talk about what it feels like to watch the pilot episode in 2024 not having seen the rest of the series or the seven seasons of SG-1 preceding it, the show's handling of the main themes of insurgency and unintended consequences and how it distinguishes itself from SG-1, our favourite and least favourite characters, and much more.

This week we review and discuss The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière and starring Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon and Pierfrancesco Lafitte. It is the 287th adaptation of the classic French novel about justice, revenge and redemption that follows a French noble wrongly imprisoned for treason, who escapes his imprisonment and then plots revenge against those who betrayed him under the assumed identity of the Count of Monte Christo.

We discuss how this newest attempt to adapt the classic story comes across to someone who is not familiar with the original story, the movie's overall plotting that tries to condense a very complex story into 3 hours, what the movie has in common with Game of Thrones and why it's secretly a heist movie, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:20 Best Recent Thing
7:04 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
15:43 Spoiler Discussion
55:10 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 discover Wes Craven's horror slasher classic Scream 3 from 2000 which follows Sidney Prescott emergy from her self imposed isolation after a new Ghostface killer begin killing the cast of Stab 3, forcing her to confront her past.

We talk about whether Scream 3 is a good conclusion to the trilogy and whether it deserves the reputation as the worst Scream movie, the context in which the movie was made and how that informs the movie, and much more.

This week an Atheist and a Protestant walk into a movie review about the Catholic Church in Conclave, which follows a cardinal's crisis of faith during the papal conclave that seeks to elect the next Pope and will decide the future of the Church. The movie is directed by Edward Berger and stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.

Having solved racism in last week's review, we now tackle religion and discuss politics and messaging in movies, the controversy surrounding the movie's ending and how most discussions and reviews of Conclave are more a proxy for the critic's personal politics than the actual movie itself, and how the movie manages to have some of the most nuanced political drama we've seen all year, right up until the end when it's time for a simplistic message.

0:00 Intro
0:26 Best Recent Thing
7:15 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
15:45 Spoiler Discussion
55:21 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 discover "Children of the Gods", the 1997 pilot episode of science fiction classic Stargate SG-1 which launched a ten season spinoff from the 1994 movie Stargate and was followed by three more spinoff series.

We talk about what it feels like to watch the pilot episode in 2024 not having seen the rest of the series, how Stargate managed to feel unusually grounded given its out there premise, and how the show excels at crafting a nuanced exploration of its themes that sets it apart from most other science fiction franchises.

Check out the review of the Stargate movie here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HjogPz8PTWC4dzbbrV3tw

Check out the review of Stargate Atlantis here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qEKKRVb8FWnb8fU4Si7h7

Check out other science fiction movie reviews here:

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This week we review and discuss Wicked Part One, a musical fantasy movie direct by Jon Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, about two witches who become unlikely friends.

Join us for our light and fun in depth spoiler movie review and analysis of Wicked that will surely upset nobody, in which we discuss how the movie handles the dynamics of its main characters, how it mismanages its long runtime and spends it on the wrong things, and whether the movie falls short in its treatment and discussion of its main themes and subject matter.

Check out the the review of Wicked For Good here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/60TfyS3PumJKfz5OnJNm5c

0:00 Intro
0:18 Best Recent Thing Watched
4:56 Synopsis and Overall Impressions
17:25 Spoiler Discussion
55:25 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 discover Wes Craven's slasher horror classic Scream 2 from 1997 which follows Sidney Prescott who is being stalked by another Ghostface killer while at university following the release of a movie based on the events of the original Scream.

We talk about what Scream 2 has to say about the interplay between fact and fiction including related moral panics past and present, whether Scream 2 is a good sequel and much more.

This week we review and discuss Gladiator 2 by Ridley Scott starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, about a Roman gladiator who seeks revenge against the general who caused his wife's death during a time when Rome is ruled by corrupt twin emperors.

Join us for our in depth spoiler movie review and analysis of Gladiator 2 in which we talk about what we expected from a sequel to the 2000 original, why the movie felt most of us frustrated with its characters and story choices, and much more.

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

0:00 Intro
0:40 Best Recent Thing Watched
6:23 Synopsis and Overall Impressions
14:29 Spoiler Discussion
01:09:05 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 discover Roland Emmerich's science fiction movie Stargate from 1994, about an expedition to another planet using an ancient alien artifact found in an archaeological dig in Egypt.

We discuss what makes this movie such a classic for us, how movies can sell an audience on an out there premise if the characters are compelling enough, how this movie spawned the largest science fiction franchise you've probably never heard of, and much more.