VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE MOVIE REVIEW

Tom Hardy returns as Eddie Brock, the investigative journalist who is cursed/blessed with a symbiotic relationship with Venom, an extremely powerful alien creature that both gives him immense power and totally f**ks up his life at every turn. As they unsuccessfully try to establish boundaries in their coexistence, Eddie is dealing with his ex-girlfriend (Michelle Williams) finalizing the end of their relationship by announcing her engagement to someone else, a nosy and annoying cop (Stephen Graham) who is all up in Eddie’s business, and worst of all, a psychotic serial killer (Woody Harrelson) who ends up infected with a symbiote alien of his own, becomes the relentless killer Carnage, and is on the hunt for Eddie. The first film was met with extremely mixed reviews. What will our reviewers (Chris, Danni, Frank, and Spider-Mike) have to say about the sequel? Well, mixed reviews again. Listen to them dither between outright hatred and grudging acceptance in their review.

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DIRECTED BY: Andy Serkis

STARRING: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson, Peggy Lu, Sian Webber, Scroobius Pip, Larry Olubamiwo, Michelle Greenidge, Rob Bowen, Laurence Spellman, Little Simz, Jack Bandeira, Olumide Olorunfemi, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Beau Sargent, Brian Copeland, Stewart Alexander, Sean Delaney

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Danni Button (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Danni’s expertise lies in comic books, superhero movies, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and cheesy dad jokes. They spent 5 years creating YouTube content about comic books for The Weirdlings, and now they’ve awoken from the Geeksleep ready to speculate about various multiverses, fandom life, and weird but adorable ‘ships.

 

 

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – A SOPRANOS STORY MOVIE REVIEW

The first new piece of “Sopranos” media in over a decade is here with “The Many Saints of Newark.” Serving as a prequel to the series, we follow Christopher Moltisanti’s father Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) in 1960’s Newark as part of the DiMeo crime family. On top of his usual mob related duties, which involves handling a brewing conflict with one of his underlings Harold (Leslie Odom Jr.), Dickie also has to deal with his insufferable father ‘Hollywood’ Dick (Ray Liotta), his various associates from the crime syndicate, the infamous Newark race riots, and his nephew Tony Soprano (William Ludwig and Michael Gandolfini) who is already showing inclinations towards a criminal lifestyle. And uh…yeah, then you watch a lot of “Sopranos” stuff happen involving A LOT of fanservice. Justin, Adrian, Chad, and Eliot were very eager to talk about this movie since they are all passionate fans of the show. Did it live up to the hype? Or is it a two hour pilot for a prequel show that may or may not happen? Listen here to find out.

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DIRECTED BY: Alan Taylor

STARRING: Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Ray Liotta, Michela De Rossi, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Samson Moeakiola, Joey Diaz, Germar Terrell Gardner, William Ludwig. Alexandra Intrator, Mattea Conforti, Gabriella Piazza, Lesli Margherita, Talia Balsam, Kathryn Kates, Nick Vallelonga, Ed Marinaro, Robert Vincent Montano, Matteo Russo, Chase Vacnin, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Lauren DiMario

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Justin Zarian (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub, Assistant Site Manager)

Justin’s fate as a movie fanatic was written in the stars when his birth forced his parents to cancel their planned Oscar viewing party. While growing up in California, he was often seen in front of the television watching and re-watching Star Wars, Jurassic Park, classic Disney movies and a steady stream of animated shows. This eventually led to a B.A. in Film at Brigham Young University and an Outstanding Student Teacher Award for displaying a level of film knowledge so insane that even his fellow film students couldn’t compete. He received his M.A. from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a teaching certificate, but still volunteers at One of Us every so often for the fun of it. His hobbies include non-stop film conversations, wondering how Mass Effect 3’s ending went so wrong, espousing the joys of shooting guns (but not hunting, as he’s quick to note), writing the next great American television show in his head, and anything else entertainment related. You can find him on Facebook once in a blue moon.

 

 

Eliot Nelson (Screener Squad, Staff Writer)

Soaked in the soggy rains of Seattle, Eliot developed a love of sci-fi, movies, cartoons, heavy metal, and all of geekdom. Pursuing his passion for the written word, he got his BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He has since worked exclusively in the foodservice industry, like any liberal arts major worth their salt. Eliot wiles away the hours listening to movie reviews, writing his epic sci-fi novel, and consuming as much media as possible. His favorite movies include The Lord of the Rings, City of God, Dawn of the Dead, and Groundhog Day. When not rambling to himself about the ineptness of entertainment executives, Eliot posts infrequently on Twitter and squawks regularly on his podcast The Debasement Tapes.

 

 

Adrian El Critico (Screener Squad)

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE MOVIE REVIEW

It’s October, that magical month when pumpkin spice gets added to everything, Spirit Halloween Stores appear overnight, and Netflix drops scary movies faster than we can review them. The streaming giant’s latest entry in the horror genre, “No One Gets Out Alive”, is a socially conscious chiller based on a novel by Adam Nevill, author of “The Ritual”. The movie centers around Ambar (Cristina Rodlo), an undocumented Mexican immigrant struggling to survive in Cleveland. Desperate for affordable lodging, Ambar agrees to rent a room in a dilapidated old building. The creepy landlord Red (Marc Menchaca) only rents to single, undocumented women; one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in society. Payments are cash only, no visitors are allowed, and the basement is strictly off limits. Ambar spends her days working in a sweatshop, terrified that she’ll be deported before she can earn enough money to buy forged documents on the black market. By night, she is haunted by visions of her past, hears frightening noises coming from somewhere in the building, and sees spectral figures in the dark shadows of the house. Is Ambar losing her mind to stress and anxiety, or is there a more sinister explanation? Our reviewers Matt, Adrian, Trevor and Marco called a tenants meeting to discuss whether this movie is worth a rental or should be evicted from your Netflix queue.

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DIRECTED BY: Santiago Menghini

STARRING: Phil Robertson, Joana Borja, Victoria Alcock, Cristina Rodlo, Jose Palmer, Pepe Duarte, Jeff Mirza, Moronke Akinola, Mitchell Mullen, Marc Menchaca, Vala Noren, Claudia Coulter, Cheherezada Oko, Teresa Banham, David Barrera, Alejandro Akara, David Figlioli, Cosmina Stratan, Ioana Ilinca Neacsu, Alina Petrica, Scott Shirai, Ioana Barbu, Baba Oyejide

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

 

 

 

Matt Foster (Screener Squad)

Matt Foster is a stand up comic, podcaster, and movie critic currently living in the greater Salt Lake City area. His lifelong love of genre film began early, when he realized they freaked out his mom. He performs (epidemics permitting) regularly on Dungeons and Comedy, a DND live play with standup comedians, and is the slightly less mustache-y half of the Nighthawks Podcast, a cinema-centric discussion cohosted by Trevor T. Trujillo.

 

 

 

Adrian El Critico (Screener Squad)

Though born and raised in Chicago, this film critic is Mexican to the bone. Adrian has been watching movies since he was a child, many of which might not have been age appropriate. Still, he couldn’t get enough. All throughout his life, friends and family would look to him for his recommendations and reviews on whatever films had come their way. Inspired earlier in life by the likes of Ebert and Roper at The Movies and then later Spill.com, Adrian decided film criticism and analysis provided a great outlet to further his love of film. He began to craft his reviews and thoughts on film in ways he thought would be accessible to devout film hounds as well as the casual viewer. Mixing in jokes, entertaining observations and robust critical analysis, Adrian El Critico may be new to OneOfUs, but he is already making a name for himself on our site. If Horror movies are your thing, get ready to hear his voice.

 

 

Trevor Trujillo (Screener Squad)

Trevor T.

THE STARLING MOVIE REVIEW

Melissa McCarthy has reteamed with her “St. Vincent” director Theodore Melfi with this new Netflix movie “The Starling.” The story follows Lilly Maynard (McCarthy) and her husband Jack (Chris O’Dowd) as they are working to overcome the untimely death of their infant daughter. While Jack is still not ready to move on, Lilly is being encouraged by people around her to reach out to other people to overcome her grief rather than isolate herself. This leads her to the office of Larry Fine (Kevin Kline), an ex-psychiatrist turned veterinarian who forms a bond with her. And this attracts the attention of a starling who is constantly harassing her outside her home. Can this couple overcome their trauma? Marco, Melina, and Frank sat through this whole thing to find out and…well, they have some thoughts on whether it’s even worth clicking the play button on this film.

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DIRECTED BY: Theodore Melfi

STARRING: Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, Kevin Kline, Skyler Gisondo, Kimberly Quinn, Timothy Olyphant, Daveed Diggs, Loretta Devine, Rosalind Chao, Ravi Kapoor, Laura Harrier, Emily Tremaine, Scott MacArthur, Elisabeth Rohm, Veronica Falcón, Brock Brenner, Edi Patterson, Dan Bakkedahl, Don McManus

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

 

 

 

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

 

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I’M YOUR MAN MOVIE REVIEW

From writer/director Maria Schrader comes a love story about an archeologist (Maren Eggert) who works at a museum and has no interest or time for ‘human’ relationships, but who finds herself as the only choice to be the subject for a new project about human companionship (due to her single status). For three weeks, Alma participates in an experiment in which lives with a man named Tom (Dan Stevens). During this time, Tom will attempt to court and woo Alma proving that the perfect partner is just a click away. The catch is that Tom is a very realistic robot. If Alma is going to be able to fund her research, she’ll have to set aside her loneliness and put up with the enchanting algorithms and piercing eyes of the automaton Casanova. Bradly, Harmoni, Beau, and Mike discuss the depth of Dan Stevens’ blue eyes, ponder the possibility of a cure for loneliness in the age of swiping left, and wax poetic about the philosophies of love in cinema.

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DIRECTED BY: Maria Schrader

STARRING: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck, Jürgen Tarrach, Henriette Richter-Röhl, Monika Oschek

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)

Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and Eye on the prize and maybe even provide some comments of his own.

 

 

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

 

 

Beau Paul (Highly Suspect Reviews, The Original Gentlemen, Screener Squad)

Beau Paul is an Austin native, an actor, and a writer. Sometimes all at once! Previously he has attempted to be an internet entertainer (the funny ha-ha kind, not the naked moneymaking kind) at Spill.com, and now here on OneOfUs.net. You can read his pithy witticisms and the retweeted material of funnier, cleverer people on Twitter or Facebook, and can buy him stuff on Amazon.

LADY OF THE MANOR MOVIE REVIEW

It’s not often that a scathing review comes with so much praise for the filmmakers involved, but here we are. Mike, Chad, and T.C. show their appreciation for Justin Long after viewing his directorial debut, but then turn their sights on the film as a whole. It’s not that the squad is mad. They aren’t. They’re just… disappointed, but isn’t that worse? And hey, there are still plenty of laughs to be had in discussing this buddy comedy(?). The guys are sure that brothers Justin and Christian Long had a great time getting Melanie Lynskey (“Heavenly Creatures”) to play Hannah, a flatulent, aimless stoner who loses her job as a PostMates delivery driver but then becomes the cosplaying tour guide of a historic Southern estate owned by a quintessential spoiled rich d-bag Tanner, played by Ryan Phillippe. While living in the manor and portraying the former owner of the property Lady Wadsworth, whose restless spirit is played by the always wonderful and oh-so-often underutilized Judy Greer, Hannah is soon haunted and reprimanded by the ghost of the Lady, and hijinks ensue. Well, more like lowjinx. >sigh< We really do like Justin Long. Really.

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DIRECTED BY: Justin Long & Christian Long

STARRING: Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long, Ryan Phillippe, Luis Guzmán, Patrick Duffy

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Michael Riojas (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

The man with the ever-changing nicknames. Born in Austin, Riojas was rocketed to Del Rio, Texas, a literal small ville. In his youth, he was bitten by a radioactive… okay, look. Mike is not very good at this whole “talking about himself” thing. But he has been so obsessed with comics, video games, and anime since childhood- that if one has to choose between listening to Joe Quesada or Mike over any obscure Spider-Man trivia, they go to him (or, at least Martin Thomas once said so). He is also a big fan of “Ghostbusters” (he even owns his own jumpsuit and two, that’s right, TWO proton packs!), collects toys and video games, and will defend “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” if provoked. He lives in Austin with his beloved Dachshund-Maltese and trusted sidekick, Dean. He can also be heard on RageSelect. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram.

 

 

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films,

COMING HOME IN THE DARK MOVIE REVIEW

A family in New Zealand is off on a country trip and are just enjoying the nature (as I suppose some people are wont to do) when two strangers appear, commit an unspeakable atrocity upon them, and take the mother and father in their car on a trip to a place they’ll only describe as ‘home’. As the ride goes on, it starts to become clear that these two psychotics maybe didn’t just pick these two at random. There’s a method to their madness, of a sort, but it’s definitely still madness. “Coming Home in the Dark” is an especially apt title for this relentlessly dark horror movie that Chris, Rae, Matt, and Lewayne more admired than enjoyed. Come join them on their review adventure.

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DIRECTED BY: James Ashcroft

STARRING: Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson, Miriama McDowell, Matthias Luafutu, Billy Paratene, Frankie Paratene, Desray Armstrong, Alan Palmer, Ike Harmon, Sam Carter, Bailey Cowan, Timon Zeiss, Tioti O’Donnell, Kaira O’Donnell

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Lyrae Anderson (Screener Squad)

You can call me Rae. You can also call me a film lover. I’ll watch it all — small screen; big screen, and everything in between. I have attended and worked for Fantastic Fest and South by Southwest for many years. I married a film geek as well. While we don’t agree on everything, we agree on our love of movies.

 

 

 

 

Matt Foster (Screener Squad)

Matt Foster is a stand up comic, podcaster, and movie critic currently living in the greater Salt Lake City area. His lifelong love of genre film began early, when he realized they freaked out his mom. He performs (epidemics permitting) regularly on Dungeons and Comedy, a DND live play with standup comedians, and is the slightly less mustache-y half of the Nighthawks Podcast, a cinema-centric discussion cohosted by Trevor T. Trujillo.

 

 

 

 

Lewayne White (Screener Squad)

Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.

 

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2021 – SECOND ROUND

Our coverage of this year’s Fantastic Fest continues with Chris, Alan, and Drew discussing:

-The new horror film from C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson, “The Black Phone”. Based on a Joe Hill short story, this takes place in the 70s and tells the story of a scary child killer (Ethan Hawke) and his latest young abductee who gets help through a disconnected phone in his cell through the ghosts of his previous victims.

– A seriously epic Italian WWII weird superheroes film called “Freaks Out”. Four gifted mutant circus performers use their abilities versus a precognitive six-fingered circus pianist Nazi who is trying to gather them together to fight for the Reich instead of against it (and yes, it’s as batshit as it sounds).

-The newest entry in the found footage anthology series “V/H/S 94” that we conclude might even be the best of the entire series.

Check out our fun discussion and watch for many more in the days/week to come!

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Alan Galinsky (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)

Born and raised in Texas, Alan Galinsky is a lifetime movie fan. As a youth, he would rent multiple movies every weekend and go to the theater for the latest releases, and that pace has remained steady. When Alan isn’t watching movies, you can find him talking about movies. When he’s not talking about movies, you can find him playing music in the band Delicate Boys.

 

 

Drew Tinnin (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Deliberations of Doom)

Drew Tinnin is a Rondo Award nominated interviewer and critic who has worked at SiriusXM’s Fangoria Radio and Fangoria magazine in NYC, as well as the London-based Dazed Digital. Currently a regular contributor to the Dread Central Network, he’s excited to join up with some old friends and other film fans on One of Us as a new contributor to Screener Squad.

 

 

 

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INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2021 – FIRST ROUND

It’s that time of year with the festival in Austin that plays some of the coolest, weirdest, craziest films coming out that you’d ever want to see. Naturally, INFESTATION will be covering all the films we saw with this being the first in a series of review podcasts talking about 2021’s Fantastic Fest! In this episode, Chris, Alan, and Drew discuss:

-Edgar Wright’s newest film “Last Night in Soho” featuring Thomasin McKenzie getting accepted into a prestigious fashion academy in London only to discover that she has some sort of psychic link with the past, specifically to the experiences of a ingenue singer played by Anya Taylor-Joy and some truly horrible stuff that happened to her.

-A Norwegian horror/thriller called “The Innocents” that follows a group of under 12 years old actors who develop powerful psychic abilities and go to war with each other that ended up being one of the hits of the festival for us.

-The seriously wacky and hilarious ‘structural comedy’ that is “Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes”, a Japanese comedy about a man who discovers that one of his computer monitors is broadcasting to the other one two minutes into the future and the hijinxs that ensue from there.

Check out our fun discussion and watch for many more in the days/week to come!

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Alan Galinsky (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)

Born and raised in Texas, Alan Galinsky is a lifetime movie fan. As a youth, he would rent multiple movies every weekend and go to the theater for the latest releases, and that pace has remained steady. When Alan isn’t watching movies, you can find him talking about movies. When he’s not talking about movies, you can find him playing music in the band Delicate Boys.

 

 

Drew Tinnin (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Deliberations of Doom)

Drew Tinnin is a Rondo Award nominated interviewer and critic who has worked at SiriusXM’s Fangoria Radio and Fangoria magazine in NYC, as well as the London-based Dazed Digital. Currently a regular contributor to the Dread Central Network, he’s excited to join up with some old friends and other film fans on One of Us as a new contributor to Screener Squad.

 

 

 

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STAR WARS: VISIONS SERIES REVIEW

It’s no secret that George Lucas drew inspiration from Japanese culture when creating the world of Star Wars. Now Lucasfilm returns the favor by teaming up with several prominent Japanese anime studios (Kamikaze Douga, Studio Colorido, Geno Studio, Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Production I.G, Science SARU) to produce “Star Wars Visions”, a new series where Japanese storytellers explore the themes of Star Wars, from a certain point of view. Each non-canonical short features all new stories, characters, and planets, and is defined by its own individual animation style. With the exception of one episode, no legacy characters appear, and the animators were free to set their stories anywhere within the established Star Wars timeline. Considering how central samurai and Eastern philosophy are to both Japanese culture and Star Wars, it’s no surprise these shorts focus heavily on the Jedi. Still, there is enough aesthetic and tonal variety here to appeal to both Star Wars and anime fans. Harmoni, Tessa, Spider-Mike, and Marco convened a meeting of the Jedi Order and search their feelings about this new streaming series . Is “Star Wars Visions” strong with the Force, or did our critics get a bad feeling about this? To find out, listen to the review you must. Listen. Or do not. There is no try.

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DIRECTED BY: Takanobu Mizuno, Taku Kimura, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Hitoshi Haga, Kenji Kamiyama, Abel Góngora, Masahiko Otsuka, Yuki Igarashi, Eunyoung Choi

STARRING: Masaki Terasoma, Brian Tee, Akeno Watanabe, Lucy Liu, Yūko Sanpei, Jaden Waldman, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kōsuke Gotō, Bobby Moynihan, Akio Kaneda, Temuera Morrison, Masayo Fujita, Shelby Young, Anri Katsu, Marc Thompson, Junya Enoki, Neil Patrick Harris, Ryoko Shiraishi, Alison Brie, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Jonathan Lipow, Asami Seto, Karen Fukuhara, Megumi Han, Nichole Sakura, Yuma Uchida, Christopher Sean, Takaya Kamikawa, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Yoshimitsu Shimoyama, Andrew Kishino, Mariya Ise, Stephanie Sheh, Chinatsu Akasaki, Kimiko Glenn, Tetsuo Kanao, Andrew Kishino, Shin-ichiro Miki, Simu Liu, Hiromu Mineta, Masi Oka, Kazuya Nakai, Greg Chun, Akio Ōtsuka, Neil Kaplan, Daisuke Hirakawa, Michael Sinterniklaas, Masako Nozawa, Jaden Waldman, Tsutomu Isobe, Kyle Chandler, Takaya Hashi, David Harbour, Kenichi Ogata, James Hong, Yuichi Nakamura, Jordan Fisher, Seiran Kobayashi, Anna Cathcart, Risa Shimizu, Hiromi Dames, Tadahisa Fujimura, Paul Nakauchi, Taisuke Nakano, Kyle McCarley, Yū Miyazaki, Henry Golding, Lynn, Jamie Chung, Chō, George Takei, Wataru Takagi, Keone Young, Yukari Nozawa, Lorraine Toussaint

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)

By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

 

 

 

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

 

 

Tessa Morrison (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Unstabletop Gamers)

Well-rounded nerd and artist,