HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: MINISODE #1: NETWORK For the first in a series of minisodes in which we look at the 60s and 70s films that helped make Faye Dunaway a star, we revisit Sidney Lumet’s game-changing Network ahead of its 50th anniversary later this year. The story of a television network that goes from the bottom […]

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE MOVIE REVIEW It’s 28 years after the 28 weeks after the 28 days later and The Bone Temple picks up right where 2025’s 28 Years Later left off, making it the first direct sequel in this franchise of post-apocalyptic ‘infected’ horror films. We find that Spike (Alfie Williams) has […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: EP 1: THE CHAMP/THE FIRST DEADLY SIN/EVITA PERON Welcome to the debut episode of Hollywood Royalty: Dunaway After Crawford, a look at the post-Mommie Dearest career of Faye Dunaway; early 80s to early 00s. Before we dive into the infamous movie itself and some of the projects that came Faye’s way afterwards, we […]

DEAD MAN’S WIRE MOVIE REVIEW From director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting) comes Dead Man’s Wire, based on the true story of businessman turned kidnapper, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård). In 1977, Kiritsis walked into the Indianapolis office of mortgage broker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) and took him hostage by wiring the trigger […]

OBEX MOVIE REVIEW OBEX, the latest film from multi-hyphenate artist Albert Birney, is set in the pre-internet days of the 1980s. In addition to writing and directing, Birney also stars as Conor, a computer nerd and shut-in who lives alone with his dog Sandy. One day, intrigued by an ad, Conor orders a copy of […]

THE ELEPHANT REVIEW According to legend, and a very quick google search, the very first animated story was by French artist Émile Cohl called Fantasmagorie back in 1908. It lasted a little over a minute and featured our protagonist trying to get rid of hats, a clown, and an elephant. Over a century later, a […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 368: JOHN’S BEST STACK EVER? When John picked up this week’s stack of physical media to watch for Digital Noise, he said, “Chris…this might be the best stack you’ve ever handed me”. So, the suspense begins…did they live up to his hopes? With everything from a legendary documentary about one of the […]

BEST OF 2025 PART THREE Chris and Wright gather a different lineup of regulars and friends to discuss more of the best movies and tv shows of 2025 that MAYBE aren’t the things you’ve heard everyone else talking about. Things have gotten a little looser on this second (in person, third overall) segment as the […]

BEST OF 2025 PART ONE We always try to do something a little different every year with our Best Of The Year shows. This year, we decided to get together just the Austin-based folks for a sorta mini-Gathering series of podcasts to take on the best of TV, Film, and Videogames of 2025. The conceit […]

NE ZHA 2 MOVIE REVIEW Ne Zha, the story of a rebellious and powerful child deity in Chinese mythology with origins in Buddhist lore, has been interpreted and adapted throughout the centuries through word of mouth, written folk lore, and like all the best myths, adapted to the silver screen. Therefore it is no surprise […]