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ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART ONE

After the events of Season 1 and the first true sparks of the rebellion, Andor Season 2 begins one year later. Cassian is on an undercover mission that goes south fast. Bix, Brasso, and Wilmon’s sanctuary is threatened, Mon Mothma prepares a Chandrilan wedding as Luthen keeps his grand schemes from cracking, and a chilling Imperial plan begins under the menacing eyes of Admiral Orson Krennic. Melina, Lewayne, Marco, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us Rebel base to discuss the first three episodes of the most prestigious Star Wars series in the franchise.

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CREATED BY: Tony Gilroy

STARRING: Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgård, Fiona Shaw, Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Joplin Sibtain, James McArdle, Rupert Vansittart, Alex Ferns, Gary Beadle, Kathryn Hunter, Alastair Mackenzie, Anton Lesser, Alex Lawther, Sule Rimi, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Gershwyn Eustache Jr., Stanley Townsend, Ben Miles, Andy Serkis, Duncan Pow, Forest Whitaker, Richard Dillane, Dave Chapman, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk, Benjamin Bratt

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.

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.

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.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”

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THE LEGEND OF OCHI MOVIE REVIEW

While A24’s latest release The Legend of Ochi may be a film directed at children, the review Chris, Wright, and Marco did for it is decidedly not (despite Marco’s best efforts to keep it on track). While discussing this little injured cryptid creature the film centers around, it was impossible not to make comparisons to Grogu (Baby Yoda). It was possible to keep from making about fifty dick jokes and overly-sexualizing Baby Grogu, but we took the path less traveled. The story follows Yuri (Helena Zengel) a young girl living in the Carpathians of Transylvania with her monster-hunting dad Maxim (Willem Dafoe). She is taken along with Maxim’s adopted son Petro (a barely utilized Finn Wolfhard) and a group of young boys on her first ‘hunt’. The Ochis, orangutan-esque cryptid creatures in the mountains, are blamed for livestock deaths and more, so Maxim has taken up the mantle of the hunter and destroyer of the beasts. Yuri realizes quickly that these creatures, while odd, are not necessarily her enemy, and she certainly feels some degree of enmity towards her overbearing father, and sense of loss for her missing mother (Emily Watson). When she discovers a baby Ochi injured in one of her father’s traps, she frees it, makes peace with it, and decides the time has come to leave home for good and also return the baby to its family. Certainly, first-time feature director Isaiah’s film seeks to capture of the feel of children’s adventure films of the 80s, our critics felt there wasn’t all that much new or interesting on offer here, aside from music composer David Longstreth’s (from The Dirty Projectors) fantastic score and some reasonably solid, albeit CG altered, puppet work. Which is probably why this review descended into NC-17 silliness. Well, at least we had fun reviewing it.

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DIRECTED BY: Isaiah Saxon

STARRING: Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)

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 and theater 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).

Wright Sulek (The Other Boss, Trash in the Can, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

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. As of 2024, Wright has now been inducted into the Austin Film Critics Association as well as co-owns the One of Us network with Chris Cox.

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.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”

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SINNERS MOVIE REVIEW

Up until now, Ryan Coogler has written and directed several successful films based on either a true story, or pre-existing IP, but Sinners marks his first time crafting a completely original work on his own terms. Michael B. Jordan, in a dual role, plays Smoke and Stack, identical twin brothers from the Mississippi Delta who fought in WWI, and made their fortune working for Al Capone. Now they’ve come back home with a bag full of money, a truck full of liquor, and a dream of opening the best juke joint in town. Over the course of a single day, the twins recruit their friends and family to work at the club, and provide the musical entertainment, notably master bluesman Delta Slim (a scene-stealing Delroy Lindo) and their guitar playing cousin Sammie (Miles Caton in a star-making debut). In addition, the twins cross paths with the women they left behind; Stack’s former lover Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who passes for white, and Stack’s estranged wife Annie (the always reliable Wunmi Mosaku), a healer with knowledge of the supernatural that will come in handy later. Despite the restrictions of the Jim Crow South, and the looming threat of the KKK, Coogler packs that day full of joy, passion, and music as his large ensemble cast weaves their way through a sprawling, Altmanesque exploration of black music and southern culture. But then night falls, and the goddamned vampires show up. Needless to say, our critics were excited to check this one out, but the studio chose not to screen the picture for Austin critics. Nevertheless, we trekked to the theater to see the film for ourselves. Unfortunately, one of our reviewers was attacked by vampires right after the screening, so it’s only not-so-identical non-twins Marco and Nathan on the review. Despite having fewer voices to compete with, our two reviewers couldn’t begin to cover half of what they wanted to talk about regarding Coogler’s jam-packed, genre-twisting film, but trust us, this is one you definitely want to watch!

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DIRECTED BY: Ryan Coogler

STARRING: Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Buddy Guy, Jack O’Connell, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, Delroy Lindo, Li Jun Li, Yao, Lola Kirke, Peter Dreimanis, David Maldonado, Helena Hu, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Nathaniel Arcand, Tenaj L. Jackson, Nicoye Banks

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.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”

Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

Nathan Flynn is the resident goofball of One of Us. Net, often found overly caffeinated, slightly stoned, and ready to unleash the hottest takes imaginable. As the resident Letterboxd Lunatic, his movie opinions are as bold as his love for Top Gun: Maverick — a film he considers less of a movie and more of a religion. When he’s not passionately defending his latest cinematic obsession, Nathan manages a comedy club in downtown Austin, where he’s somehow avoided being heckled… so far. Around here, he’s usually the punching bag, but hey, someone’s gotta do it.

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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 3: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE & HUSH…HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE

“Oh, really, did she like it?”

In this sisters and cousins episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, podcaster Jerry Downey and I look at the film that took Bette Davis and Joan Crawford from one-time studio greats to instant icons of horror. As we revisit 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, we explore the many different facets that would help make it a horror staple and a true movie classic. We also take an equally fun look at its unofficial follow-up, 1964’s Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, which valiantly, yet unsuccessfully, attempted to reunite the two stars for a second time.

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Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?)

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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THE PITT SERIES REVIEW

Noah Wyle is back in the scrubs with latex gloves covered in blood in this new Max medical drama about a day in the lives of an emergency room crew in a Pittsburgh hospital. The Pitt is a 15 episode series shot dramatically in real time. Each episode is approximately one hour of a shift in which the staff needs to fill a bed, help a patient, release the patient, and repeat as much as possible. Doctor Rob (Noah Wyle) is the veteran doctor, keeping things moving as efficiently as possible with the least amount of mistakes that could cost the least amount of lives also while maintaining his staffs’, and his own, emotional and mental health. Resident doctors include: Dr. Heather Collins (Tracy Ifeachor) who’s getting through morning sickness. Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball), a handsome & confident doctor with a couple of vices. Dr. Cassie McKay (Fiona Dourif) who has turned her entire life around to help save the lives of others. Dr. Melissa King (Taylor Dearden) whose social awkwardness is both enduring and inspiring. Dr. Trinity Santos (Isa Briones) An over confident and arrogant young student who’s loving the experience of hands on medical oddities. And LOTS more. Bradly, Nathan, and Dogget discuss the earnest and serious tone the show sets like a broken bone that may or may not heal correctly but at least the doctors have done all they can. From TV critics to actual medical staff across the country, The Pitt is being praised for its emotional storytelling and gruesome realism but what say One of Us’s trio of critics? Don’t just let them drag you in with vague platitudes. Take your audio experience further by getting all the gory details in the Spoiler Discussion review for Brown Coat Subscribers and above.

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CREATED BY: R. Scott Gemmill

STARRING: Noah Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, Shabana Azeez, Amielynn Abellera, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Brandon Mendez Homer, Kristin Villanueva, Ned Brower, Ambar Martinez, Ken Kirby, Shawn Hatosy, Ayesha Harris, Tedra Millan, Deepti Gupta, Alexandra Metz, Michael Hyatt, Krystel V. McNeil, Tracy Vilar, Johnath Davis, Jeanette O’Connor, Joanna Going, Jackson Kelly, Drew Powell, Devon Gummersall, Arun Storrs, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Brandon Keener, Ashley Romans, Samantha Sloyan, Mike Abdalla, Abby Ryder Fortson, Marguerite Moreau, Taj Speights, Shu Lan Tuan, Coby Bird, Taylor Poelle, Sasha Bhasin, Courtney Grosbeck, Shani Atias, Henry Samiri, Rob Heaps, Sloan Mannino, Brad Dourif

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.

Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

Nathan Flynn is the resident goofball of One of Us. Net, often found overly caffeinated, slightly stoned, and ready to unleash the hottest takes imaginable. As the resident Letterboxd Lunatic, his movie opinions are as bold as his love for Top Gun: Maverick — a film he considers less of a movie and more of a religion. When he’s not passionately defending his latest cinematic obsession, Nathan manages a comedy club in downtown Austin, where he’s somehow avoided being heckled… so far. Around here, he’s usually the punching bag, but hey, someone’s gotta do it.

Danny Dogget (Screener Squad)

An avid defender of modern tv from olds. Shamer of hate watchers. Eager beaver pleaser for anyone who just wants a laugh.

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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SERIES REVIEW

Daredevil: Born Again has kicked, punched, headbutted, and billy clubbed its way into placing Matt Murdock where he’s always rightfully belonged in the MCU: in more than just a cameo. In his own series and returning with the subtlety of a flaming confession booth and the fury of a thousand Catholic guilt trips, Hell’s Kitchen’s favorite blind ninja-lawyer is back in this dark, brutal, and season four in all but name series. Wilson Fisk is now tightening his vice-grip on the city in his most criminal position yet: Mayor. Matt must confront his broken faith, his fractured alliances, and the terrifying question: Does New York need Daredevil? Jordan, Lewayne, and T.C. gather in The Screener Squad Counsellor’s Chambers to reach a verdict on whether this is a triumphant return for the Man Without Fear, or if Disney has filed the horns off of our crimson crusader.

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CREATED BY: Dario Scardapane, Matt Corman, and Chris Ord

STARRING: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki M. James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, Ayelet Zurer, Kamar de los Reyes, Jon Bernthal, Mohan Kapur, Tony Dalton

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.

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.

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.

You can subscribe to the Highly Suspect Reviews and Screener Squad series of podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, and more, or use our RSS feed on whatever podcast service you use: https://oneofus.net/feed/theatrical-movie-review-podcast/ and please leave us a review!

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INVINCIBLE SEASON 3 REVIEW

Over encumbered with the weight of a possible dead villain on his soldiers, a death caused by his own hands, Mark, who set out to be a shining beacon of hope and light to a violent and dark world, promises to never kill again. Can a young man with the powers to punch with the force of a megaton bomb live by such a creed? With Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead, as mastermind behind the story? I don’t think so. Amazon Prime Video presents Invincible Season 3, with eight episodes spanning across major events from the comics, and minor events that really flesh out the characters we’ve come to know and love. Mark (Steven Yeun) has taken on a young ward, his little half brother Oliver (Christian Convery) and has his heart set on teaching him the sanctity of life. Unfortunately, lil’ Ollie feels that life would be better protected if villains were killed before they could kill people. Mark’s love life has also taken quite the turn when his feelings for Eve (Gillian Jacobs) are suddenly reciprocated. Two superheros falling in love, a tale as old as time. Like many relationships with high stress jobs looming. Mark and his employer Cecil (Walton Goggins) butt heads; Mark’s altruism is tested when he finds out Cecil believes and practices a method in which the ends always justify the means. After losing Omni-Man (J. K. Simmons) Cecil isn’t about to let another Viltrumite go on a rampage. Meanwhile Allen the Alien (Seth Rogan) is putting together a team to try and rebel and stop the Viltrumite empire from conquering more planets. Their next target? Earth. Bradly, Dogget, and Kim discuss what elevates a hero above the rest in current new TV content, and how Invincible has set itself apart from Marvel and DC. Also, they get sassy by discussing all the wonderful and cringe relationships and hookups.

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CREATED BY: Robert Kirkman

STARRING: Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons, Gillian Jacobs, Zazie Beetz, Andrew Rannells, Walton Goggins, Chris Diamantopoulos, Calista Flockhart, Eric Bauza, Ross Marquand, Malese Jow, Khary Payton, Ben Schwartz, Cleveland Berto, Zachary Quinto, Jason Mantzoukas, Grey Griffin, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jay Pharoah, Fred Tatasciore, Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Todd Williams, Clancy Brown, Gary Anthony Williams, Luke Macfarlane, Sterling K. Brown, Cliff Curtis, Seth Rogen, Peter Cullen, Tatiana Maslany, Shantel VanSanten, Phil LaMarr, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christian Convery, Tzi Ma, Jeffrey Donovan, Simu Liu, Mae Whitman

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)

An avid defender of modern tv from olds. Shamer of hate watchers. Eager beaver pleaser for anyone who just wants a laugh.

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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DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES REVIEW

From arcade cabinets to your prefered console system in the living room, Capcom has brought hundreds upon thousands of hours of entertainment with video game classics like Mega Man, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and the 2000s combo-juggling, demon-themed, first-person, sword-swinging, pistol-pulling, action-adventure, Devil May Cry. 25 years later Netflix is proud to present an eight episode anime adaptation created by Ari Shankar and animation studio Mir. Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) is a gun for hire caught between a terrorist themed after the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland (Hoon Lee) and a devil hunting organization led by Chairman Baines (Kevin Conroy). Both sides want Dante’s help and an heirloom his mother betrothed to him before her untimely death. This amulet could be the key to piercing the veil between Earth and Hell. Dante must decide whether to team up with a special task force agent of these devil hunters named Mary (Scout Taylor-Compton) or step through the looking glass and discover just how deep the white rabbit’s hole goes. Bradly, Dogget, and Kim show no sympathy for the devil in this fast-paced, well-animated, take down of a capcom adaptation. Will this be the end of the line for Dante and his adventures or does the show earn the right to keep roll’n roll’n roll’n roll’n.

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CREATED BY: Adi Shankar

STARRING: Johnny Yong Bosch, Kue Lawrence, Scout Taylor-Compton, Evie Hsu, Hoon Lee, Chris Coppola, Kevin Conroy, Ian James Corlett, Zeke Alton, Jon Gries, Robbie Daymond, Marcel Nahapetian, Sunkrish Bala, Fryda Wolff, Leilani Barrett, Tina Majorino, Benjamin Abiola, Kenny Omega, Erica Lindbeck, Ray Chase, James Marnocha, Roger L. Jackson, Kari Wahlgren

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)

An avid defender of modern tv from olds. Shamer of hate watchers. Eager beaver pleaser for anyone who just wants a laugh.

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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MAKE ME FAMOUS MOVIE REVIEW

Writer/Director Brian Vincent presents the story of an artist community in the East Village of New York in the 1980s. Make Me Famous is about an artist community coming together and supporting each other in the pursuit of notoriety, fame, and the capability to keep buying paint and sharing their work. The primary subject of this community was a starving artist named Edward Brezinski. Peter McGough, James Romberger, Frank Holiday, Claudia Summers, Eric Bogosian, Sur Rodney Sur, and archived footage of Jean Michel Basquiat, are few of the many voices discussing Edward’s pursuit to paint and survive in the heart of the art scene dominated by experts praising Warhol and Haring. Edward’s talents go beyond the brush as he brought other artists into the community and exposed their work to the world. His passions, friendships, loves, and losses are explored in his pursuit of opportunities to create works that may one day make him a legend. Bradly and Frank duo up to discuss their own experiences with the art world, the eighties, documentaries on obscure figures, and the meaning of expression through colours on canvas.

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DIRECTED BY: Brian Vincent

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, What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?)

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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DROP MOVIE REVIEW

Remember when everything was “Die Hard on a _____”? No? Ok, you may have been too young for that but trust me, it was incessant. With the streaming success of Carry-On when seeing what the plot of Drop was, I couldn’t help but think “Carry-On but in a restaurant”. Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a widow with a young special-needs kid. Since her husband died, she hasn’t gone out much. She runs her therapy for abuse survivors over Zoom calls. But it’s time to get out into the real world again, particularly because the guy she’s been chatting with on an online dating site is Captain McDreamy-pants. She agrees to meet with him on a first date, at a sky-high fancy restaurant while her sister (Violett Beane) babysits for her son. Upon arrival at the date, everything seems perfect. Her date Henry (Brandon Sklenar) is hot, compassionate, interesting, and even has a cool job as a photographer for the city government. What could ruin such a perfect evening? How about her starting to get messages on her phone from a mysterious party who can see and hear everything she does insisting she kills her date or they’ll kill her sister and child? Yeah, that’d do it. Chris, Wright, Kim, and Marco discuss the Hitchcock-esque ambitions of Drop, how they work and don’t, and why Christopher Landon probably took this one on as a last minute work for hire gig.

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DIRECTED BY: Christopher Landon

STARRING: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, Travis Nelson

YOUR REVIEWERS

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Deliberations of Doom)

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 and theater 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).

Wright Sulek (The Other Boss, Trash in the Can, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

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. As of 2024, Wright has now been inducted into the Austin Film Critics Association as well as co-owns the One of Us network with Chris Cox.

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.

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.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”

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