Streaming Without A Paddle

This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle", Andrew and Ted jump on board a big ole' yellow "Lost Bus" being driven by Mr. Texas Cool himself, Matthew McConaughey. Based upon the 2018 Northern California forest fire known as the "Camp Fire" the real life story follows bus driver Kevin McKay (McConaughey) as he has been tasked to go to Ponderosa Elementary and rescue 22 children a teacher (portrayed by America Ferrera). What would normally be a 45 minute drive turns into a 5 hour navigation nightmare as McKay is forced to circumvent fire engulfed roadways. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this two hour and ten minute runtime drama!

This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original "Ballad of a Small Player" from "Conclave" director Edward Berger and starring Colin Farrell. Billed as a black comedy psychological thriller, Brendan Reilly (Farrell) assumes the fictitious identity of "Lord Doyle" in the gambling capital of the world Macau after embezzling nearly 1 million pounds from a client back in England. Having lost pretty much all of it playing baccarat and running up a tremendous tab at a luxury hotel Reilly / Doyle is struggling to win money to stay afloat. That's when he meets a female loan shark ... Dao Ming (Chen) who seemingly shows him compassion after being confronted by the wife of another client that has taken his own life due to his debt to her. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought.

This week on the show Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original feature "House of Dynamite", starring Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Idris Elba, and strongly featuring Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Jared Harris. This Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) directed thriller counts down the departmental actions of the US Government as they have 20 minutes to make decisions before a suspected nuclear warhead, secretly launched from the far western waters of the Pacific Ocean strikes Chicago. Tune into the show to find out what element of this feature blew both Andrew and Ted out of the water and what, if any, misses there were.

This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss this monster based thriller "Wolf Man" now available on Prime Video. This horror-esk movie stars Christopher Abbott (Blake) and Julia Garner (Charlotte) as this husband and wife take their young daughter to Blake's now presumed to be deceased father's off-grid home deep in the mountains of Oregon as it is now his. Once Blake's childhood home he feels it is necessary for this troubled couple to get back to basics to save their marriage from he believes a city life driving a wedge between them. Childhood horrors aside, Blake loads up a rental truck with their belongs and they head out. As they near the house the childhood horrors return as they are forced off the road by a mysterious force, the wolf man. They struggle to make it safely to the home where the spend their first night fighting this demon creature. Tune into the show to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this Prime Video acquisition.

This week, as the guys look towards Halloween, Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Netflix original thriller series "Wayward", starring Mae Martin, Toni Collette, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Sydney Topliffe. Deputy Alex Dempsey (Martin) and their wife move to the sleepy little town of Tall Pines, Vermont to raise their yet born child. Little did Deputy Dempsey know that the town is not only home to a reform school for wayward high school age children but the reform school itself is wayward as it's academics are geared to brain washing the children. If that wasn't enough, the towns people, majority former students themselves, are protecting the school from outside inquiries ... such as deputy Dempsey who is bend on exposing the school after finding out about what it is doing.

This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss this Mark Wahlberg starring streaming original feature by Prime Video. Parker (Wahlberg) is a professional high end thief with his marks and potential scores being a little bigger and classier (if that is even a thing when it comes to robbing) than your average bank heist. In "Play Dirty", Wahlberg and his team knock over a horse racing track but things go south when they have an unexpected visitor while exiting the heist and then things go even further south when one of his crew members double crosses the team by killing all but one (Parker) and keeps the cash from the track heist all for themselves. Parker now has to track that person down, recover the cash, and make his long-time partner's wife (played by Gretchen Mol) whole after he was murdered by this turncoat. Tune into to find out what Andrew and Ted thought of this action / drama feature.

This week Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix Colombian born original mystery / thriller series "The Guest". In this soap meets 50 Shades of Gray 20 episode series ... a couple at the beginning of trying to save their marriage, after he has had an affair, is thrown a curveball when an attractive woman that the wife met while traveling solo on a vacation comes knocking at their door late one night.

This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss what they thought of the first two episodes (out of 8) of the new Netflix original series "Black Rabbit", starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman. This drama / suspense follows two brothers (Law & Bateman) as they struggle with their personal lives as well as each other. While both struggling, personally, Bateman's character seems to be in deeper as he is trying to escape his past with some shady characters while Law's character is struggling chasing a dream. Their lives intertwine as their bonds as brothers, now that both parents have passed, hold onto what semblance of family remains as one (Law's character) is now dragged into the mess of the other (Bateman's character).

This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle", Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Prime Video original feature "Last Breath" ... starring Finn Cole, Woody Harrelson, and Simu Liu. Based on the true story of deep-water diver Chris Lemons. Lemons (Cole) and his dive partner David (Liu) are 300+ feet below the surface of the ocean in a dive to replace a faulty gas valve when their ship loses it's gps position hold capabilities that cause the divers to be pulled from their work location. Lemon's umbilical cord is severed leaving Lemons on the bottom of the ocean. Once the captain and crew are able to regain manual positioning hold David (Lui) returns to the sight to retrieve Lemon. Found lifeless on top of the underwater manifold David brings Lemon back to the diving bell where he is given mouth to mouth by the dive leader Duncan (Harrelson). Amazingly Lemon starts breathing again after being without oxygen for nearly 30 minutes.

This week on the show Andrew and Ted discuss the newly released feature "ARCADIAN", starring Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, and Maxwell Jenkins. In a post-apocalyptic world Paul (Cage) is trying to raise his two boys Joseph (Martell) and Thomas (Jenkins) in a world where these subterranean creatures are forced hibernate underground during the day and rule the nights above ground as they burrow up looking for food. It's a nightly game of wits.