Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

This week we review and discuss The Bride!, a Gothic romance movie directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Penelope Cruz, in which a woman who was killed by the mob in 1930's Chicago is reanimated as the bride of Frankenstein, and the two then go on a crime spree in search of freedom.

We talk about the movie's handling of its numerous themes and whether it does any of them well, whether it makes enough sense, whether it needs to and when you should just accept that a movie is simply not for you, we dissect the meaning of various ideas throughout the movie including the monster's quest for companionship, the bride's anger and rage at the injustices of the world, the theme of names defining characters, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Movie Recommendations (The Industry, Hoppers, The New Adventures of Old Christine)
04:49 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
12:55 Spoiler Discussion
45:19 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Scream 7, a horror slasher movie directed by Kevin Williamson and starring Neve Campbell, Isabel May and Courteney Cox, in which Sidney Prescott and her daughter are targeted by another Ghostface killer who appears to be an old enemy.

We talk about the movie's handling of themes such as nostalgia and making reality conform to fiction and how that intersects with the idea of generative AI, whether Scream 7 is a worthwhile addition to the franchise that continues Sidney Prescott's story after the iconic original trilogy or if this is just cashing in on franchise inertia, whether the Scream formula is played out and if this movie does enough with the familiar formula to be interesting, our favourite kills and what to expect from slasher movies, and much more.

Check out our reviews of the original trilogy here:

Scream
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pOBqHAHLcHTLgmRETMRFR

Scream 2
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NUNzsIJl9YSjk30Fs0iAJ

Scream 3
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jt5T3luJ8TWKJR20IpwlN

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0:00 Intro
0:18 Movie Recommendations (Animal Kingdom season 5, Scrubs)
06:08 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
10:24 Spoiler Discussion
50:52 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Cold Storage, a horror comedy movie directed by Jonny Campbell and starring Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery and Liam Neeson, about attempts at containing a parasitic fungus that leaks out of an abandoned military base.

We talk about how the movie stacks up against its inspirations which include classics such as The Thing, Tremors and The Blob, discuss the movie's solid premise that sets up an interesting scenario with likeable characters who all explore the theme of living with the consequences of past mistakes in various ways, how the movie's ending disappointed us by turning into generic action without making good use of what was set up in the beginning, whether the movie succeeds in critiquing government incompetence through its sci fi scenario of the mutant fungus, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:19 Movie Recommendations (Waste Man, Men in Black)
02:55 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
07:41 Spoiler Discussion
47:13 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.

This week we revisit Office Space, a satirical comedy from 1999 directed by Mike Judge and starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston and Gary Cole, about employees of a struggling tech company who are weary of their jobs and are looking for a way out of the monotony of the corporate rat race.

We talk about how Office Space became such an iconic classic that still gets quoted 27 years later, how relatable it is to anyone who has worked a corporate job and why hell really is other people, what the movie does right that so many satires get wrong and why Mike Judge's satire hits different than most, what an Office Space sequel would look like in 2026 if it was made today, the meaning of life and much more.

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This week we review and discuss Crime 101, a crime thriller directed by Bart Layton and starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo, about three people whose lives are caught up in the world of jewel heists.

We talk about how the movie is not quite what it presents itself as and rather than a heist movie delivers a character drama focused on themes of risk, the cost of making it, and selling out your principles, we discuss whether those ideas were well realised in the character arcs of the three main characters and the choices they make throughout the story, whether the ending is a pyrrhic victory that fits the movie's themes or is a miss overall, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:18 Movie Recommendations (Animal Kingdom, Dick (1999))
05:51 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
11:31 Spoiler Discussion
48:28 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Strangers - Chapter 3, a horror film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath, which features the conclusion to the story of Maya who tries to escape the masked Strangers who continue to try to kill her. 

We talk about whether the final chapter of the Strangers trilogy delivers a payoff that was worth sitting through the first two chapters, whether expanding on the Strangers' backstory and motivation made sense and added value to the story, we go through some of the more baffling scenes and try to find intention in them, wonder what a Strangers reboot could have been like had it been handled with more care, and much more.

Check out our other reviews of the Strangers franchise:
The Strangers (2008)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6euIp0uzbixlgdGLtfUZKW
The Strangers - Chapter 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QhEvLQDJTRvqJSRoaqnxP
The Strangers - Chapter 2
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XUbZLB8oGeUdrjcpQh9dY

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0:00 Intro
0:16 Movie Recommendations (Love of my Life, Hamnet, English Teacher)
06:30 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
14:18 Spoiler Discussion
57:54 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.

This week we revisit Catch Me If You Can, a crime comedy drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken, about a con artist who evades the FBI for years while being one of the most accomplished forgers of his time and posing as various professions including airline pilots, doctors and lawyers.

We talk about how the movie has held up and why it is the product of a different era in Hollywood, how the movie makes a scammer and con artist a sympathetic character we can root for, whether the scams hold up on rewatch or whether it's all in the presentation and production values, whether being accurate to the life of the real Frank Abagnale is important for a movie like this, whether the movie was improved by embellishing Frank's life and adding a family subplot and increasing the role of his father that did not happen like it was shown in the movie, and much more.

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This week we review and discuss Primate, a horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Jonny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander and Troy Kotsur, about an adopted chimpanzee who gets bitten by a rapid animal and becomes violent towards his human family.

We talk about how this is the okayest movie we have seen in a while that delivers exactly on what it promises and nothing else, how review scores are surprisingly high for a movie this basic, whether the movie delivers on suspense and violence enough to carry the movie, how the movie actually does a lot of things right that many (especially horror) movies tend to get wrong, the numerous instances of ideas that are introduced throughout the movie and then never paid off and how each of these could easily have elevated the movie, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:18 Movie Recommendations (Steal, Wonder Man)
08:34 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
14:02 Spoiler Discussion
50:38 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Return to Silent Hill, a psychological horror film directed by Christophe Gans and starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson. The movie follows the story of James who ventures into the abandoned town of Silent Hill and encounters various nightmares in search of the woman he loves.

We talk about the metaphor that drives the third act and try to make sense of it as someone who is not familiar with the games, why this movie has been treated unfairly by reviews and why reviewers on balance have let the audiences down when it comes to the discourse surrounding this movie, why Return of Silent Hill is held back by sometimes trying to be an adaptation of a beloved video game, and much more. 

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0:00 Intro
0:20 Movie Recommendations (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, His & Hers, Rush Hour)
09:24 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
16:03 Spoiler Discussion
53:32 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.

This week we revisit the first three episodes of Frasier, a sitcom that ran from 1993 to 2004 starring Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves.

We talk about why Frasier is our favourite sitcom of all time, how it manages to make characters who are not usually the protagonists of sitcoms relatable while drawing comedy from their unrelatability, why Frasier was the smartest show on television and why comedy benefits from smart writing, we discuss the lost art of farce and why Frasier was a masterclass in that genre of comedy, how its legacy sequel series is one of the few that actually worked, and much more.

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