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TRASH ON THE TUBE: TEQUILA AND BONETTI Is the only thing keeping you from watching Law and Order: SVU the lack of Mariska Hargitay interacting with a talking dog at a grisly crime scene? You’re in luck! This week, join...
THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL MOVIE REVIEW Broadway actress Lillian Hall is ready to go full showtime with Ivan Chekhov’s stage play “The Cherry Orchard” but a bad diagnosis from her doctor sets her up to have the standard biopic ‘long...
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE MOVIE REVIEW The nasty sound-sensitive alien monsters return, or rather, we see their arrival from a different viewpoint, in this new prequel to the A Quiet Place films, A Quiet Place: Day One. Whereas the...
SWEET TOOTH SEASON 3 REVIEW It has been a long, long journey to get here but we have reached the end of our story. That story being the third and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s comic, Sweet...
THE EXORCISM MOVIE REVIEW What’s hard to believe about The Exorcism is that it was shot pre-pandemic much earlier than Crowe’s other and much better exorcism movie, The Pope’s Exorcist. Yet, after viewing the film, it’s understandable why the studio...
WHAT REMAINS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Ran Huang and Co-Writer Megan Everett-Skarsgård presents What Remains, based on a true story mystery of a man confessing to multiple murders that he may have not committed. The film begins with a chance at...
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON MOVIE REVIEW What do you do when you’re a vampire, and the thought of biting someone’s neck puts you in a moral quandary? This is the dilemma of Sasha, a young teenager of the...
I USED TO BE FUNNY MOVIE REVIEW Wanda Sykes once said “I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.” The following film is about a young woman who raised laughter like...
THE BIKERIDERS MOVIE REVIEW Director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) dives into the world of motorcycle enthusiasts in the 1960s with The Bikeriders. Inspired by a book of photography of the same name that chronicled the lives of outlaw bikers...
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 341: TWO MEN, ONE STACK John and Chris dive in and sip from the stack with some films they both really should have seen before now, and some you wonder why anyone ever saw. From a bizarre...
INSIDE OUT 2 MOVIE REVIEW Riley is now a teen, and as we all know, a BUNCH of new emotions come out of nowhere with puberty, few of them terribly pleasant but all of them rather insistent. Thus have things...
POOLMAN MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad has gathered in the One Of Us City Hall to go to the very bottom of the weekly agenda and discover that they have a review collecting dust and algae. Poolman is a “comedy”...
TRASH IN THE CAN: MOSQUITO We kickoff the summer with camping, barbecues, and giant mutant mosquitoes! A cluess biologist, Leatherface, and Iggy Pop’s bassist team up for a rubber monster roulette. Chris Cox returns to Trash in the Can with...
STAR TREK DISCOVERY – SEASON 5 REVIEW These are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its five-season mission: to set-up spin-off shows; to seek out new fans and new demographics, to boldly go where no Trek series has gone before:...
THE WATCHERS MOVIE REVIEW Nepotism is alive and well with Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of M.Night Shyamalan, in her first feature film, The Watchers. Based on the book by A.M. Shine, the story follows grief stricken Mina, played by Dakota Fanning,...
HIT MAN MOVIE REVIEW Director Richard Linklater is a director who pretty much always turns out a good film, even if it’s not terribly populist entertainment. Hit Man certainly isn’t for the kids, but it’s surprising that Netflix buried its...
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW The bad boys return for this fourth movie (shouldn’t they have saved “for life” for this one) from the same director/writers as the previous entry. This time, Mike (Will Smith) is tying the...
DEAD BOY DETECTIVES SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series is based on the Neil Gaiman/Matt Wagner comic books, which are themselves spin-offs of The Sandman (and some cameo casting establishes that the same is true of the show). Dead Boy...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE MOVIE REVIEW What do you get when you combine Friday the 13th, the serene cinematography of Terrence Malick, and the brooding dread of It Follows? Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature of course! The film, literally,...
ATLAS MOVIE REVIEW Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), is an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. She has committed her life to Blade Runn-er-um-searching for fugitive AI terrorists, specifically Harlan (Simu Liu), the AI who gained sentience 28 years...
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA MOVIE REVIEW I don’t think anyone could have even begun to imagine back in 1979 when the original Mad Max was released that this series would go on for decades (albeit with only five movies...
TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After...
X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints...
TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KILLER EYE It’s hard to describe this week’s movie, but it’s similar to the Tommy Bahama shirt Wright was wearing as we recorded. Painful to look at, confusing, and surprisingly sexual. Jarred Schiff joins us...
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 340: DIE FOR DIGITAL NOISE Chris and Wright have a grand ol’ time with today’s stack, despite having very mixed results. From a giant alligator Jaws rip-off cheapie to one of the best terrible films we’ve ever...
KNUCKLES SERIES REVIEW It’s been thirty years since Knuckles made his Sega Genesis debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Now the chaotic mascot races onto Paramount Plus in a 6 episode mini series before Sonic The Hedgehog 3 lands in...
INFESTED MOVIE REVIEW Creature Features are mostly a thing of the past… post-WWII and pre-space race, a lot of films dealt with the fallout (pun intended) of nuclear weapons. In 50’s cinema, you had all sorts of creepy bugs being...
I SAW THE TV GLOW MOVIE REVIEW The director of experimental art-horror hit from last year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun, returns with their latest experimental art-scifi hit, I Saw the TV Glow. The film follows...
NEW LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time you dressed so fine. Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? People say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall.’ You thought they were all kidding you. You used to...
UNFROSTED MOVIE REVIEW Jerry Seinfeld presents Unfrosted, his feature length directorial debut that offers a fictionalized account of 1963 Michigan business rivals Kellogg’s and Post competing to create a crusted fruit pastry that could change breakfast forever. This is the...
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Ryûsuke Hamaguchi won Global acclaim with the 2022 Oscar winning Best International Feature Film Drive My Car. His first follow up feature parks the car in the garage and takes us up to...
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES The apes and their planet return in their tenth overall outing in this brand new (300 years after the last film) story. Caesar and his revolution have become more of a legend than...
INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 REVIEW Invincible is back! I mean it was back, and then 4 episodes in, Amazon was like “just kidding, still working on it.” but our favorite teenage Viltrumite Mark is back for another soul crushing season. After...
SHOGUN SERIES REVIEW FX on Hulu presents James Clavell’s classic novel adapted into a mini series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, Shōgun. Marooned on the Islands of Japan during the Edo era in the 1600’s, English navigator John...
HUMANE MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that a Cronenberg could make a populist movie?! That’s what we get to some degree with Caitlin Cronenberg’s (daughter of filmmaker, David Cronenberg) first feature, Humane. Set in the not too distant future, the UN...
DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 339: YACHT ROCK THEME SONG John and Chris take on some home releases with a look at the final Leone Western and an analysis of a director through the window of his inspiration from a beloved children’s...
STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and...
THE FALL GUY MOVIE REVIEW While the track record for adapting really old tv shows into feature films has been…mixed, to say the least, director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick) taking on The Fall Guy, which centered around a...
RIPLEY SERIES REVIEW He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality, how they could make people see what you wanted them to see. The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith back in 1955,...
TRASH ON THE TUBE: COP ROCK This week, we watch a show that takes the gravity of Hill Street Blues and combines it with the pizazz of Glee. Does it work? Absolutely not! Is it a fun watch? Debatable! Join...
THE IDEA OF YOU MOVIE REVIEW Anne Hathaway at 40. Man, do I feel old. Not as old as she feels though in the Amazon Prime Video movie The Idea of You. Anne plays single mom Solène. She splits time...
FALLOUT SERIES REVIEW Hey there vault dwellers. I know it’s been a bit much being confined to a Vault-Tec vault for over 2 centuries, but we think it’s time that you zipped up your jumpsuit and wander out to the...
BOY KILLS WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Take one part chiseled action hero, one part post-apocalyptic ‘Running Man‘ wasteland, and the 3rd project Sharlto Copley has been in this year. What do you get? Boy Kills World starring our ever favorite Pennywise...
REBEL MOON PART 2: THE SCARGIVER REVIEW Round 2! Zack Snyder is back with the second part of his sci-fi “epic”, Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver. We last left Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her band of mighty warriors on...
PARASYTE: THE GREY SERIES REVIEW My skin is not my own! You know the quote, but how do you know it? It’s like the word Ewok; sometimes we just know stuff. Or perhaps the alien inside you shared the knowledge...
CHALLENGERS MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a movie about tennis could be so sexy?! Only genre-jumping Luca Guadagnino could bring a fresh take on a sports movie with Challengers. Zendaya plays tennis prodigy, Tashi, who develops a relationship with two rising...
THE GREATEST HITS MOVIE REVIEW We all have those special songs that take us back to a moment in time. We can hear a track, and suddenly, we’re with our first love, or driving across our home town, or hanging...
MARS EXPRESS MOVIE REVIEW In 1940, The Three Laws of Robotics were formulated by Isaac Asimov in his “Robot” series. And since then, these fictional guidelines intended to govern the behavior of robots and artificial intelligences have been used to...
ARCADIAN MOVIE REVIEW It’s a gamble when you watch a Nic Cage film. You never know if it’s going to be a good movie or not, but the man never phones it in. No matter the quality of the overall...
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 12 After 24 years and 12 seasons, the other show about nothing has come to an end. This creation of Larry David gave us the cringiest of comedy as Larry navigated his life and relationships in...
