Failurepiece Theater

It's another deep dive into RL Stine's Fear Street-iverse--this time into the warm and totally safe Camp Nightwing circa 1978. I'm no Dean Martin, but it's beginning to look a lot like Friday the 13th up in here, and not the good ones. Let's dig deep and see just how we feel about the surprisingly okay middle chapter of the Fear Street trilogy.

We are back with a run down of the first in a trilogy of RL Stine-inspired slasher flicks releasing over three weeks on our good pal Netflix's digital marquee. Come along with us as we discuss whether or not a thing "homage-ing" this hard can inspire the same kind of love as the original things it's homage-ing (uh, it can't). 

This week it's all about Guillermo as we tour the dilapidated mansion of Crimson Peak-a rare box office misfire from one of cinema's most passionate directors. Try not to get red mud on your feet, but the tour is definitely worth your time. Listen in, won't you?

...And we're back with another trip into Netflix country--this time to visit a friend who just can't stop looking out the window. It's another casualty of the Disney/Fox merger--a very well cast but incredibly dull Rear Window knock-off that can't decide if it wants to thrill or befuddle. Join us to find out why!

This week we break into the super-secret, zombie-filled vault in Zack Snyder's heart--Army of the Dead. A surprisingly well-received action-horror flick picked up by Netflix after Warner Bros. dropped it like a blood-covered potato, it should rock our world, but...doesn't. Listen in to find out why!

This week it's a dip into Netflix's Things Heard and Seen, a quiet sorta "literary horror" exercise that has lots of good ideas, but maybe gets lost in the countryside trying to make them work. It's a fun discussion as we discuss Amanda Seyfried's wide-eyed gazes into various corners, mysterious sparkles that lead to treasure, and Ghoooooooooosts.

It's time to get mysterious with one of the oddest oddball superhero films ever--Mystery Men. With a shockingly excellent cast and a zany take on average Joe superheroes, it might be just the thing you need in our MCU and DCEU saturated media landscape.

MORTAL KOMBAT! The franchise that should probably have died years ago heads to the silver screen again, but this time with more guts and gore than ever before, not to mention a surprisingly fatalistic cast. It's not great, but is it a failurepiece? Just maybe!

It's the film that fans of the books wish didn't exist--Nikolaj Arcel and Akiva Goldsman's 95-minute adaptation of a beloved 7 book series--The Dark Tower. It's not very good, but Idris Elba? Is that enough? Listen in as I mess up the order of the books!

This week we dip into the Netflix ocean for a recent release--J Blakeson's I Care a Lot. Buoyed by some very good performances and a slick premise, even when it wades into muddy thematic waters it asks some good questions and points out a situation in our society that doesn't get nearly enough attention. Listen in as we break it down, won't you?