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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 go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined by Omega, a young female clone with unique qualities of her own found within her blood, which have made her extremely valuable to the Empire. The head of Project Necromancer, Dr. Hemlock, believes Omega’s blood could very well be the key to cloning the Emperor (though why anyone would do that strictly from a narrative perspective would be idiotic, right?) This final season sees the Batch separated, with Omega and Cross Hair captured on Mount Tantiss, and Hunter, Wrecker, and Echo searching far and wide for them, with cameos from some of the favorite faces of the Clone Wars era. Melina, Marco, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us Jedi Council Chambers to praise the series and the continued efforts of Dave Filoni to lay the retcon bricks to validate certain choices within the canon.

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CREATED BY: Dave Filoni

STARRING: Dee Bradley Baker, Michelle Ang, Jennifer Hale, Corey Burton, Noshir Dalal, Nika Futterman, Seth Green, Jimmi Simpson, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Helen Sadler, Ian McDiarmid, Stephen Stanton, Wanda Sykes, Ming-Na Wen, Gwendoline Yeo

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.

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.

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!”

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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 Hollywood stuntman, seems like a match made in heaven. Ryan Gosling plays Colt Seavers, the best stuntman in the business who stays busy being the go-to fill in for giant action star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Unfortunately for him, a big stunt goes wrong and leaves him laid up for a long time. He leaves the business as well as his romance with Jody (Emily Blunt) a camera operator he regularly worked with. But Jody finally gets her shot to direct, with Tom as the star of a big sci-fi action film, only Tom disappears. The film’s producer (Hannah Waddingham) convinces Colt to come back not only to be the primary stunt man again, but to try to track down what happened to Tom. But all Colt really cares about is reconnecting with Jody. She had already written him off but Colt is determined to apologize and do whatever she requires to give him another chance. Bad news for him is that there appears to be a lot of people willing to kill him to keep him from finding Tom. Chris, Spidermike, Alan, and Wright put the dots on their face and strap into the wirework suits to give this movie the review it deserves.

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DIRECTED BY: David Leitch

STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Jason Momoa

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 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 community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. 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.

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 Smallville. 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.

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

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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, has seen many adaptations over the decades. This time around, Steven Zaillian is running the show presented by Netflix, as an 8 episode miniseries called simply Ripley. Thomas Ripley (Andrew Scott) is a con man, always looking for one more rube to pad his pockets but lately has been feeling like his house of cards is on the edge of tumbling down. Luckily, he’s approached by the parents of an old classmate who propose the perfect opportunity to get out of Dodge. Their son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), has fallen in love with Europe and is living the bohemian life with his writer girlfriend Marge (Dakota Fanning). The Greenleafs wish for Thomas to travel to Rome and persuade there son Dickey to come home, all on their dime, all expenses paid. What then transpires is a bit of a crime spree involving a several stops through Europe, two private investigators (Maurizio Lombardi and Bokeem Woodbine) and one cat who’s seen it all. Bradly, Frank, and Melina discuss the importance of Patricia Highsmith’s work, give a run down of all the usual suspects who’ve stepped in the shoes of Mr. Ripley, and carefully dissect the thin line between transcendent works of art and the art of selling jeans.

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CREATED BY: Steven Zaillian

STARRING: Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner, Margherita Buy, Maurizio Lombardi, Kenneth Lonergan, Ann Cusack, Bokeem Woodbine, Vittorio Viviani, Louis Hofmann, Fisher Stevens, John Malkovich

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.

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.

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.

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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 us for Steven Bochco’s musical misfire Cop Rock!

YOUR HOSTS

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

Eric Samaniego (Trash in the Can)

Eric is a multi-award show watching, sometimes comedian, sometimes writer that began life as a Muppet and 1930’s screwball comedy obsessed goon and continues to carry a torch for all things felt and funny. With a passion for genre films, poor taste, and whiskey, he and co-conspirator, Wright Sulek, indulge in the best/worst films the world has to offer with One of Us’s podcast, ‘Trash in the Can’. When not podding, Eric works as an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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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 taking care of her teen daughter Izzy with her ex-husband while also running an art gallery. One day just as she’s leaving to go on a camping trip by herself, her husband pulls up with daughter and her friends in tow and tells her that she has to take the kids to Coachella, because ‘something came up’. Exasperated, she nonetheless steps up and goes to spend the time in as much seclusion as is possible to find at a gigantic music fest. Unexpectedly, a meet-cute comes out of nowhere (well, maybe not so unexpectedly, it IS an Anne Hathaway film) and it’s with a 24 year old mega-rock star Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) who apparently prefers the older ladies. He chases, she demurs, but what are ya gonna do? He’s hot, rich, and charming as hell. Soon it’s a whirlwind romance but what will happen when it goes public and her daughter finds out? Ok, it’s not much of a plot but as always, Hathaway brings a lot of charm and Michael Showalter could direct this sort of affair with both hands tied behind his back. Chris, Alan, and Frank don’t all see eye-to-eye on The Idea of You but it’s alway fun to hear the HSR guys disagree.

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DIRECTED BY: Michael Showalter

STARRING: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Jordan Aaron Hall, Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr., Viktor White, Dakota Adan, Annie Mumolo, Perry Mattfield

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 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 community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

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.

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.

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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 Wasteland. There’s raiders, rad roaches, and these cute little things called Yao Guai (basically giant, mutated black bears with a constant stick up their ass). So take that vault-schooled brain of yours out in the Wasteland and make shit happen. On the way you’ll meet a Knight of The Brotherhood of Steel and a bounty hunting ghoul, hopefully you have enough time in between shooting each other to make peace… or blow each other’s heads off… the Wasteland does not care. While this could be just talking about any one of the popular RPG video games from this series, now we’re discussing the new and shiny Amazon Prime Video live-action adaptation of them. Starring Ella Purnell as Lucy, a Vault dweller who has made her way into the wasteland for the first time determined to get back her father (Kyle MacLachlan) from raiders who took him. With our review, watch out for Marco, Kimberly, and Chad… they were assimilated into a raider group and don’t respond to their names anymore… but if you got jet and caps, they’ll find a way to “borrow” it from you.

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CREATED BY: Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet

STARRING: Ella Purnell, Luciana VanDette, Aaron Moten, Amir Carr, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Walton Goggins, Sarita Choudhury, Leslie Uggams, Johnny Pemberton, Zach Cherry, Annabel O’Hagan, Dave Register, Rodrigo Luzzi, Leer Leary, Elle Vertes, Teagan Meredith, Frances Turner, Michael Cristofer, Mykelti Williamson, Matt Berry, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Mike Doyle, Michael Emerson, Michael Rapaport, Dale Dickey, Jon Daly, Michael Abbott Jr, Neal Huff, Michael Esper, Matty Cardarople, Chris Parnell, Cherien Dabis, Glenn Fleshler, Dallas Goldtooth, Eric Berryman, Angel Desai, Fred Armisen, Erik Estrada, Michael Mulheren, Rafi Silver, James Yaegashi, Rebecca Watson

YOUR REVIEWERS

Chad Halvorsen (Screener Squad)

Chad Halvorsen currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, where he produces and edits commercials, films, and everything in between. He was always a fan of film/television growing up, spending days in the Summer, making (terrible) home movies with his brothers. Little did he know that passion would carry on into adulthood. Since 2006, Chad has worked for several agencies in various departments. Shooting, producing, editing, production management, directing, and when forced to, writing copy. In 2015, Chad decided to take the big leap and become a freelancer. Since then, he’s produced content for Lyft, AT&T, Target, and Discovery Network. His passion lies in entertaining people, making them feel better, even for a moment. All the pain and suffering of this business is worth it, if even just one person views his work. Chad is a frequent podcaster, most notably posing as a co-host for the podcast “The Film Illogical Society.”

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!”

Kimberly Brown (Highly Suspect Reviews)

Kimberly wants to live in a world filled with blue telephone boxes, speedsters, and ice dragons but through an ironic twist of fate, she’s stuck in this reality where these wondrous things only exist on page or film. Kim’s perpetual desire to consume sci-fi and fantasy media as a teen led her to the study of illustration/design at university to better understand its creation. Currently an Austin transplant, when she’s not wearing her critic hat you can find her pretending to like hiking, fielding questions about her hair or maybe even enjoying a local brew at the nearest dive bar.

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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 the clown, Bill Skarsgard! Skarsgard stars as Boy, a deaf-mute man riddled with grief and vengeance seeking right the wrongs committed to his family as a child by the evil Van Der Koy family. Famke Janssen plays the matriarch, Hilda, who commands her adult children (Michelle Dockery & Brett Gelman) to carry out her vicious annual “Culling” (very Hunger Games-esque). As Boy trains with his mentor played by Yayan Ruhian, he becomes restless, jumpstarts his plan of revenge, and sets to take out the Van Der Koy’s one-by-one in a bloody fashion. The real trick that this film has is that the non-verbal boy has an internal voice played by H. Jon Benjamin which brings insight into the boy’s past and over confidence in completing his goal. Another nice surprise is the Van Der Koy’s top assassin June27 played the breakout star of Happy Death Day, Jessica Rothe. With all of these elements, does Boy Kills World stick the landing as a solid entry into the action film world? Listen as Wright, Mike, and Drew discuss Moritz Mohr’s first feature film, Boy Kills World.

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DIRECTED BY: Moritz Mohr

STARRING: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Crovetti, Cameron Crovetti, H. Jon Benjamin, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Andrew Koji, Famke Janssen, Sharlto Copley, Yayan Ruhian, Quinn Copeland

YOUR REVIEWERS

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

Mike J. McAllister (Screener Squad, Staff Writer, Head Video Editor)

Mike J. McAllister is a filmmaker, editor, writer and animator. He is also a film junkie, dog lover and Surge-aholic (Hi, Mike). He grew up in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where he earned the reputation as the “human IMDb” and was on a first-name basis with every video store clerk in town. He later studied film in Pittsburgh. He has since written several unproduced screenplays and TV pilots. He has also produced a number of short films, some of which have appeared in festivals across the country. He is a ninja with Final Cut Pro and is armed with a mind full of mostly useless pop-culture trivia. He also enjoys animation, MST3K, classic video games and being the “music geek” among his friends (which really just means he buys vinyl and listens to music that doesn’t come from an anime soundtrack). He resides in Austin, Texas, and can be followed on the Instamagrams at @ohheyitsmikejm.

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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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 the titular rebel moon, Veldt. They are welcomed by the thankful villages saving them from the tyrannical empire known as the “Realm”. Kora and Gunnar (Michiel Huisman), grow closer and the rest of the returning cast (Djimon Hounsou, Bae Doona, Staz Nair, Elise Duffy) acclimate to their new home. Yet, evil rises once again as slain villian from part 1, Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) is resurrected and sets a course of vengeance against Kora and team. This second entry tends to focus more on slow-mo wheat gathering and lazy exposition dumps rather than earned character building or anything new to bring to the genre. As most Snyder films, the last 40 minutes ends up becoming an orgy of laser blasts and slow-mo yelling to wrap up the saga of Kora’s Scargiver. Listen as Wright, Rae, and Neil return to complete the story of Rebel Moon and ponder if this was worth a watch to begin with.

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DIRECTED BY: Zack Snyder

STARRING: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Anthony Hopkins, Staz Nair, Fra Fee, Cleopatra Coleman, Stuart Martin, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Alfonso Herrera, Cary Elwes, Rhian Rees, Elise Duffy, Sky Yang, Charlotte Maggi

YOUR REVIEWERS

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

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.

Neil Anderson (Screener Squad)

I first got hooked on movies when I saw Star Wars at a drive-in theater as a kid. Growing up in a small, rural town meant not having access to a lot of movies. In college, that all changed. I couldn’t get enough. I love it all — flicks, films, movies, and cinema. I still have that wide-eyed wonder of that kid watching movies from the back of a pick-up truck at the drive-in.

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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 with you in a dream. Parasyte The Grey is a live-action Netflix miniseries adapted from the world of popular anime Parasyte the Maxim. Jeong (Jeon So-Nee) Is brutally attacked at a party only to wake up with fatal wounds healed and memory of the incident a hazy fog. During her assault you see that the invasion of earth was happening by lil wormy parasytes straight out of The Wrath of Khan. These creepy crawlies enter the human body through an open orifice and attach to the brain, erasing the consciousness of the host. Later they all plan to meet up and execute phase two. A special task force lead by Choi (Lee Jung-hyun) called The Grey, is tasked to stop this alien invasion and kill all invaders as indiscriminately as possible. Jeong, a human who’s maintained her consciousness with a parasyte living inside her called Heidi is caught in the middle of colonization vs survival, good vs evil, and freedom vs bureaucracy. Bradly, Dogget, and Matt discuss the success of Netflix niche anime adaptations, dubs of all languages with subtitles being a gateway into new kinds of storytelling from all around the globe, and the importance of the impactful season 1 cliffhanger.

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CREATED BY: Yeon Sang-ho and Hitoshi Iwaaki

STARRING: Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim In-kwon, Yoon Hyun-gil, Lee Hyun-kyun, Moon Ju-yeon, Masaki Suda

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.

Danny Dogget (Screener Squad)

Hey persons, it’s your favorite canine Dogget! As many of you know, I don’t identify as a critic as much as a classy shock jock. That being said, I do my best to give all of you a well-balanced review filled with my true opinions and hopefully a few laughs. You can occasionally find me on other persons podcast like Mission Impodible (that’ll be 10 dollars Nathan). For the most part, you can find me doing reviews on Oneofus.net.

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.

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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 stars in the game, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor), which ultimately becomes a steamy affair between the three in a decades long story. After a tragic accident that leaves Tashi as Art’s new coach, we follow Art’s rise to stardom and Patrick’s fall from grace. As the story moves forward, we witness Art’s current losing streak in the league and Tashi’s strategy to bring him out of his funk. Tashi signs him up for a non-league challengers match where we find down-and-out Patrick which leads to an exhilarating match between former partners. Guadagnino effortlessly uses the framing of the current match between Art and Patrick to dive into their past and how Tashi is intertwined in their past, present, and ultimate future. The film moves at a breakneck pace along with an excellent score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. Listen as Wright, Mike, Frank, and Nathan serve each other a great discussion ranging from the acting, the editing, directing, and the brilliant score of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers.

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DIRECTED BY: Luca Guadagnino

STARRING: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist, Darnell Appling, AJ Lister, Nada Despotovich, Naheem Garcia, Hailey Gates, Jake Jensen

YOUR REVIEWERS

Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

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 Smallville. 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.

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.

Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

A recent transplant to Austin originally hailing from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the Midwest, Nathan Flynn has been a movie super freak since he saw “An American Werewolf in London” way too young and grew up worshipping the James Bond franchise and all things related to Cold War-era spycraft. When he’s not watching movies and being a constant defender of the Tron franchise, he can be found practicing his second biggest love: cooking (having been a chef for 10+ years) and hitting his head up against a desk to write screenplays that nobody reads. He also spearheads his own podcast on the Mission Impossible franchise titled “Mission: Impodible”. He can be found rarely posting on his personal twitter.

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