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Back to Search"Joker: Folie à Deux
Episode 227
This week, we review Todd Phillips' highly anticipated sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. Is it a misbegotten misfire? Or is it a movie with a strange set …
1 year, 9 months ago
"Megalopolis"
Episode 226
Self-financed and over 40 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is the most divisive movie of the year. Is it an unmitigated disast…
1 year, 9 months ago
"The Substance"
Episode 225
Once again transmogrifying old-school exploitation into her own feminist styling of New French Extremity, Coralie Fargeat trades in the empowered blo…
1 year, 10 months ago
"Rebel Ridge"
Episode 224
Director Jeremy Saulnier follows up his brutal downers of Green Room and Hold the Dark with a politically angry new action thriller. With a star-maki…
1 year, 10 months ago
"Life After Fighting"
Episode 223
It's a deeper cut this week as we dive straight into a smaller, VOD action gem with Bren Foster's kinetic martial arts actioner, Life After Fighting.…
1 year, 11 months ago
"Alien: Romulus"
Episode 222
Fede Álvarez takes over the reins of Xenomorph terror with Alien: Romulus. In this episode, we review the first Alien movie in seven years, and the f…
1 year, 11 months ago
"Trap"
Episode 221
It's not an M. Night Shyamalan film without some divisiveness. We discuss his new Josh Hartnett vehicle, Trap, his late career stylings, and the pros…
1 year, 11 months ago
"House of the Dragon" Season 2
Episode 220
We return to television this week to conduct a postmortem on the controversial second season of HBO's House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones spinof…
1 year, 11 months ago
"Deadpool & Wolverine"
Episode 219
Deadpool joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper in Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine. Or does he? We review the 34th film in the MCU. Can the Mer…
1 year, 11 months ago
"Twisters"
Episode 218
Sequel, reboot, re-quel, revival, whatever you call it, Twisters is here. We review Lee Isaac Chung's followup to the 1996 smash hit. Does it avoid l…
2 years ago