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WILLOW SERIES REVIEW

Nearly 35 years after the theatrical feature Willow, a television series on Disney Plus, also titled Willow, seeks to continue the story of Elora, Willow, Sorcha and a cast of bright, new exciting young people. Harmoni, Matt, Jordan, and Trevor found themselves hit with nostalgia, anachronism, queer representation, and some light Brownie humor as they join Willow on his newest adventure. Warm up your dice and get your character sheets ready for a fantasy campaign that seems to have jumped from the gaming table to the streaming screen.

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CREATED BY: George Lucas and Jonathan Kasdan

STARRING: Warwick Davis, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Bryk, Joanne Whalley, Ralph Ineson, Sifiso Mazibuko, Kenny Knight, Derek Horsham, Talisa Garcia, Eileen Davies, Simon Armstrong, Joonas Suotamo, Daniel Naprous, Vitas Le Bas, Claudia Hughes, Simeon Dyer, Graham Hughes, Annabelle Davis, Sarah Bennett, Hannah Waddingham, Jane Carr, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Jean Marsh, Mario Revolori, Sallyanne Law, Mark Slaughter, Kevin Pollak, Amelia Vitale, Adwoa Aboah, Charlie Rawes, Christian Slater, Tom Wilton, Dee Tails, Danny Woodburn, Julian Glover, Val Kilmer

YOUR REVIEWERS

Trevor Trujillo (Screener Squad)

Trevor T. Trujillo is a One Of Us contributor in addition to being the co-host, co-founder, and co-producer of the Nighthawks Podcast. Trevor’s 17-year media career spans multiple arenas including television, radio, podcasting, and online journalism; and he is currently the editor-in-chief for a regional online news provider in the Rocky Mountain West. Often a nomad, Trevor has found himself “at home” in places like Austin, Texas; West Hollywood, California; and throughout central and southeastern Wyoming. Get the pause button ready, Trevor also manages to pop up in blink-and-you’ll-miss-them featured extra roles in Nickelodeon’s FRED, TruTV’s OPERATION REPO and the Todd Rohal/Zack Carlson short THE SUPLEX DUPLEX COMPLEX.

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

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.

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.

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THE RIG SERIES REVIEW

A new six-episode series from Amazon, featuring a mostly Scottish cast, has splash-landed and One Of Us has a full panel to discuss the latest sea horror offering. A crew of blue collar laborers must not only contend with surviving on board a deep-sea oil rig, but must also face the challenge of being at the epicenter of a global event that threatens the lives of thousands of innocent bystanders. Laden with superior performances and a surprising amount of pathos Jordan, Melina, Matt and Trevor do their best to drill to the bottom of The Rig.

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CREATED BY: David Macpherson and John Strickland

STARRING: Emily Hampshire, Iain Glen, Martin Compston, Mark Bonnar, Rochenda Sandall, Owen Teale, Richard Pepple, Calvin Demba, Emun Elliott, Abraham Popoola, Stuart McQuarrie, Molly Vevers, Dougie Rankin, Nikhil Parmar, Mark Addy

YOUR REVIEWERS

Trevor Trujillo (Screener Squad)

Trevor T. Trujillo is a One Of Us contributor in addition to being the co-host, co-founder, and co-producer of the Nighthawks Podcast. Trevor’s 17-year media career spans multiple arenas including television, radio, podcasting, and online journalism; and he is currently the editor-in-chief for a regional online news provider in the Rocky Mountain West. Often a nomad, Trevor has found himself “at home” in places like Austin, Texas; West Hollywood, California; and throughout central and southeastern Wyoming. Get the pause button ready, Trevor also manages to pop up in blink-and-you’ll-miss-them featured extra roles in Nickelodeon’s FRED, TruTV’s OPERATION REPO and the Todd Rohal/Zack Carlson short THE SUPLEX DUPLEX COMPLEX.

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.

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.

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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CHAINSAW MAN SERIES REVIEW

From the internationally acclaimed haunted and depraved mind of Manga writer/artist Tatsuki Fujimoto comes Chainsaw Man. Yes, he’s pretty much what he sounds like: a man made of chainsaws revving up from hell to chop of demons and cop some feels. Denji, a lonely orphan adolescent with despair for a pillow and his father’s debt for a blanket, lives a cold life of scrounging for leftovers outside of restaurants and performing odd jobs for the Yakuza. Denji ends up befriending a dying demon dog named Pochita and together they form an unbreakable bond that’s considered taboo amongst the human population. After a chance encounter with a particular nasty demon, Pochita offers up his heart to Denji granting him the power of hell’s engine to rev up the fear in his enemies and spread violent justice across the land: the power of the Devil Chainsaw Man. This attracts the attention of Makima, a high ranking public safety devil hunter. Under her command, he’ll team up with Aki, a by-the-books stoic devil-hunter out for vengeance. He’ll also become best buds with a fiend named Power, an abrasive bombshell corpse inhabited by a devil who’ll do just about anything for praise. Bradly, Jena, Dogget, and T.C. discuss their favourite animes in comparison to this 2022 contender, and ponder over Denji’s profound quest to the grope some boobies.

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CREATED BY: Ryū Nakayama, Masato Nakazono, and Tatsuki Fujimoto

STARRING: Kikunosuke Toya, Ryan Colt Levy, Tomori Kusunoki, Shogo Sakata, Suzie Yeung, Reagan Murdock, Fairouz Ai, Sarah Wiedenheft, Mariya Ise, Karin Takahashi, Katelyn Barr, Bryn Apprill, Taku Tashiro, Jarrod Greene, Shiori Izawa, Kenjirô Tsuda, Daiki Hamano, You Taichi, Lindsay Seidel, Jason Douglas, Jason Marnocha, Emi Lo, Mitsutoshi Shundo, Hitomi Ueda, Kengo Kawanishi, Hironori Kondo, Noriyuki Tsuyuki, Marina Inoue, Yuuki Sanpei, Christina Marie Kelly

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.

Jena Perry (Screener Squad)

Jena Perry. Aka Luna. Aka Dion. Aka Memori. Aka Dog whisperer. Aka whiskey connoisseur. As you can see, depending on when you met this Oakland, California native, you have experienced a completely different person, each time. After finally deciding on a 13+year career choice as a Videographer and Radio Personality, Jena balances her time between pursuing her Doctorate in Philosophy, providing insightful and funny critiques on films and Television, raising her daughter and dog in Ohio, and constantly fighting off the existential dread that is being a dope black woman in America in the 20th century.

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.

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.

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THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN SERIES REVIEW

1200 years before the tales of Yennefer, Princess Ciri, and Geralt of Rivia, monsters are unknown in the land, as are humans, and the kingdom of Xin’trea is ruled by high elves. However, not all is as it seems, for a dangerous chess game of political power is being waged behind the scenes. The selfish machinations of the ruling class are leading to a dark cataclysm unlike the world has ever known. Seven unlikely outcasts consisting of fighters, mages, and a delightfully brutal dwarf, join forces in an attempt to destroy the evil magic that threatens the entire world. Thus begins the tale of The Witcher: Blood Origin, Netflix’s latest foray adapting the Andrzej Sapkowski’s highly successful fantasy stories. In the set up to this prequel, our beloved bard, Jackier is tasked by the elf Seanchai (Minnie Driver) to create a song based on the creation of the first witcher, and the events leading up to the Conjunction of the Spheres. But one question remains: Will this song be as big a banger as Toss a Coin to Your Witcher? Our adventurous critics, Mindy, Jena, Matt, and Neil, battle their way through overused tropes, actors who are underutilized (Sorry, Michelle Yeoh), and unexplained lore to discuss whether this witcher story deserves being tossed coins, or if you should pelt it with tomatoes instead. So gather around the mysterious glowing monolith, and check out their review.

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CREATED BY: Declan de Barra and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

STARRING: Sophia Brown, Minee Mais, Laurence O’Fuarain, Mirren Mack, Lenny Henry, Jacob Collins-Levy, Joey Batey, Zach Wyatt, Lizzie Annis, Huw Novelli, Francesca Mills, Amy Murray, Minnie Driver, Michelle Yeoh, Dylan Moran, Mark Rowley, Hiftu Quasem, Ella Schrey-Yeats, Ozioma Whenu, Kim Adis, Kerri Quinn, Karlina Grace-Paseda, Shanika Ocean, Tomisin Ajani, Samuel Blenkin, Nathaniel Curtis, Aidan O’Callaghan, Zachary Hart, Hebe Beardsall

YOUR REVIEWERS

Mindy Rast-Keenan (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

Having grown up in Nairobi, Kenya, and being very disappointed at the lack of riding elephants her cartoons had promised her, Mindy spends the majority of her time as a film, theater, and voice over actress in the Austin, Texas area. They still give her money for being on HBO that one time, with her name in the credits spelled wrong. A nerdy geek, this award-winning actress joined One of Us figuring she’d put her summa cum laude BFA acting degree to good use…by judging other people’s acting. In the few seconds she gets to herself, Mindy bakes for charity, knits eccentric plushies, plays original RPG’s with her gamemaster husband, and spends time with her soulmate, Batman.

Jena Perry (Screener Squad)

Jena Perry. Aka Luna. Aka Dion. Aka Memori. Aka Dog whisperer. Aka whiskey connoisseur. As you can see, depending on when you met this Oakland, California native, you have experienced a completely different person, each time. After finally deciding on a 13+year career choice as a Videographer and Radio Personality, Jena balances her time between pursuing her Doctorate in Philosophy, providing insightful and funny critiques on films and Television, raising her daughter and dog in Ohio, and constantly fighting off the existential dread that is being a dope black woman in America in the 20th century.

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.

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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DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 315: INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE REVIEWS

Right on the heels of our last episode, Wright and Chris probably foolishly continue onto a second show (Twas the night before Christmas and all through Wright’s house, two critics were drinking more than…oh hell, a giant mouse). This time around we look at some of the best tv shows this year from HBO, a almost-hit Idris Elba movie, that OTHER Quentin Dupieux film that came out this year, and more.

All titles were sent to Digital Noise by the distribution companies in question for the purpose of review. No other compensation was involved. The opinions here are our own.

PLEASE USE OUR IMAGE LINKS TO BUY ANY OF THESE TITLES ON AMAZON. IN FACT, PLEASE USE THEM AS YOUR STARTING POINT FOR ANYTHING YOU BUY OFF OF AMAZON. WE ARE AN AFFILIATE AND RECEIVE COMPENSATION FOR PURCHASES MADE FROM OUR LINKS.

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.

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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WHITE NOISE MOVIE REVIEW

Ever since it was published in 1985, filmmakers have attempted to adapt White Noise, a benchmark in postmodernist literature from acclaimed novelist, Don DeLillo. Despite the book’s reputation for being unfilmable, Netflix gave writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story) the greenlight to try, as well as a blockbuster sized budget rumored to exceed $100M. Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is a college professor who lives in an idyllic Midwestern college town with his fourth wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their large blended family. When a train crash releases a deadly chemical into the air, the Gladneys pile into the family station wagon and try to evacuate. Brief exposure to the toxic cloud exacerbates Jack’s mounting fear of death, and spurs his need to uncover Babette’s darkest secret. That being said, both the novel and the film are less about plot and more about examining a wide array of themes through the kaleidoscopic lens of satire: everything from academia, collective trauma, anxiety, conspicuous consumerism, pharmaceutical therapy, environmental pollution, the nuclear family, crowd dynamics, the news media, pop culture icons, simulations vs reality, religion, and more get tossed into this thick stew of darkly funny sociopolitical commentary. It’s no easy task for Baumbach to blend genres, and juxtapose psychological realism onto characters who live in a hyperreal recreation of Reagan era America, and who often feel like satirical constructs designed to communicate in arch, stylized dialogue, dueling academic lectures, and dance routines set to LCD Sound System. No, really. Our reviewers Neil, Beau, and Marco put on their thinking caps and tried to make sense of this epic ode to modern day anxiety. Will contemporary viewers embrace this oddball period piece, or is this a case of too much noise and not enough signal? Listen to our review to find out.

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DIRECTED BY: Noah Baumbach

STARRING: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André Benjamin, Sam Gold, Carlos Jacott, Lars Eidinger, Bill Camp, Barbara Sukowa, Francis Jue, Henry Moore, Dean Moore, Gideon Glick, Chloe Fineman, Kenneth Lonergan

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.

“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”

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.

Beau Paul (Highly Suspect Reviews, The Original Gentlemen, Screener Squad)

Beau Paul is an Austin native, an actor, and a writer. Sometimes all at once! Previously he has attempted to be an internet entertainer (the funny ha-ha kind, not the naked moneymaking kind) at Spill.com, and now here on OneOfUs.net. You can read his pithy witticisms and the retweeted material of funnier, cleverer people on Twitter or Facebook, and can buy him stuff on Amazon.

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ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW

Musicals are a film genre that never truly vanishes. Rather, it booms and wanes in popularity. We’ve had the Rodgers and Hammerstein films of classic Broadway shows, the 50’s road movies, the Disney’s animated Renaissance era that tricked two generations into watching and loving musicals, Heck, Chicago even snuck on in and won the Oscar for best picture in 2002, and lest we forget the god awful jukebox musicals being crapped out every couple of years. Last year gave us some real gems with West Side Story, tick,tick… Boom, and Encanto, and this year is kicking off with a little magical girl who might as well be blasting Twisted Sister and Pink Floyd, because she’s ready to destroy a fascist regime with spectacular choreography and toe-tapping musical numbers. Netflix’s Matilda the Musical is based on the Tony and Oliver winning Broadway show, which was adapted from the 1988 Roald Dahl book. It tells the tale of Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir), a little girl with a huge imagination and utterly terrible parents. She and Harry Potter could trade stories. On meeting her inspirational teacher, Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch), Matilda is motivated to conjure her own fantastical tales and unlock her true powers. At Crunchem Hall, Matilda faces off against the villainous Miss Trunchbull (Emma Thompson). Harmoni, Michael, Mindy, and T.C. agree on a lot of the wonderful things this movie offers, while disagreeing on how much scenery should or should not have been chewed by Ms. Thompson in this extraordinary musical tale about blazing your own path and writing your own destiny.

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DIRECTED BY: Matthew Warchus

STARRING: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee, Carl Spencer, Lauren Alexandra, Winter Jarrett-Glasspool, Andrei Shen, Ashton Robertson, Meesha Garbett, Charlie Hodson-Prior, Rei Yamauchi Fulker, Katherine Kingsley, Amber Adeyinka, Matt Henry

YOUR REVIEWERS

Harmoni Anderson (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Unstabletop Gaming)

Harmoni is a mermaid-haired, millennial, rum drinking, Section 31, Slytherin (who’s divorced J.K. Rowling) preschool/nursery teacher and multi genre geek who also loves all things film, tv, fashion, makeup, and an embarrassingly huge BTS stan. Like really embarrassing. As in, mention them and then sit back and watch the insanity. Harmoni likes being able to game and talk movies/TV with people that aren’t 3 feet tall or all that demanding of her. Plus she can curse at us and not get fired….so bonus!

Michael Van Slyke (Screener Squad)

Michael is a second-generation Air Force brat born in Tucson, raised in San Antonio, and living in Austin since the mid ’80s. Since being introduced to Star Trek as a child by his mother Michael has had an obsessive love of all things sci-fi. He is a cartoonist, illustrator, costumer, leatherworker, amateur luthier, singer, aspiring voice actor, and a motion graphics artist. With all these interests and skills, he thinks the term “Renaissance Man” sounds better than “artsy guy with ADHD”. He lives with his lovely and nerdy wife Harmoni Anderson and their two cats. When not watching and discussing sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV he looks for new hobbies and skills to try. He also listens to Harmoni try and teach him things about K-pop band BTS. Like… all the things about BTS.

Mindy Rast-Keenan (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)

Having grown up in Nairobi, Kenya, and being very disappointed at the lack of riding elephants her cartoons had promised her, Mindy spends the majority of her time as a film, theater, and voice over actress in the Austin, Texas area. They still give her money for being on HBO that one time, with her name in the credits spelled wrong. A nerdy geek, this award-winning actress joined One of Us figuring she’d put her summa cum laude BFA acting degree to good use…by judging other people’s acting. In the few seconds she gets to herself, Mindy bakes for charity, knits eccentric plushies, plays original RPG’s with her gamemaster husband, and spends time with her soulmate, Batman.

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.

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RICK AND MORTY SEASON 6 REVIEW

Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s multiverse-traveling Doc Brown and Marty McFly animated absurdist satirical comedy is back for it’s sixth season. You get the returning voice talents of Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke and loaded with a community of cameos such as Jack Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Lisa Kudrow, and Matt King. We last saw Rick and Morty within the desolate remains of the destroyed citadel of Ricks. The reality hopping adventurers will have to rely on their family in order to bring down the unionized Creepshow inspired Night Family, survive the long awaited return of the dinosaurs, topple a fortune cookie house of cards, take down the terrorists at Blitz and Chitz, and overcome the meta commentary of The Story Lord and his Self Referential Six. Also they’ll be dealing with some less threatening hijinks such as a run in with the master of flour and water, the Cookie Magneto. Bradly, Matt, and Eliot discuss the staying power of the Smith family within the multitude of universes. If we are indeed living in one universe among an infinite amount of possibilities, are we witnessing the one where Rick and Morty will go on forever or one in which the joke has grown tired and stale?

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CREATED BY: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon

STARRING: Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke, Keith David, Kari Wahlgren, Peter Dinklage, Heather Anne Campbell, James Adomian, Patricia Lentz, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Mraz, Dan Harmon, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Meloni, Jeff Loveness, Susan Sarandon, Diedrich Bader, Will Forte, John Early, Jack Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Matt King, David Mitchell, Robert Webb

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.

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.

Eliot Nelson (Screener Squad, Staff Writer)

Soaked in the soggy rains of Seattle, Eliot developed a love of sci-fi, movies, cartoons, heavy metal, and all of geekdom. Pursuing his passion for the written word, he got his BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He has since worked exclusively in the foodservice industry, like any liberal arts major worth their salt. Eliot wiles away the hours listening to movie reviews, writing his epic sci-fi novel, and consuming as much media as possible. His favorite movies include The Lord of the Rings, City of God, Dawn of the Dead, and Groundhog Day. When not rambling to himself about the ineptness of entertainment executives, Eliot posts infrequently on Twitter and squawks regularly on his podcast The Debasement Tapes.

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A MAN CALLED OTTO MOVIE REVIEW

Tom Hanks is grumpy and sad Tom Hanks who we all root to turn into happy Tom Hanks in Tom Hanks: The Movie. A Man Called Otto is an adaptation of a popular 2012 novel and later a Swedish film called “A Man Called Ove”. This new American version by accomplished director Marc Forster puts it through the ‘lighten it up’ machine and it’s a shame that we don’t get to see the smarter and more nuanced version of this story. All that being said, nobody can do this sort of thing like Tom Hanks and he’s in his final form here. Otto is a curmudgeonly and grumpy old coot that everyone in his neighborhood puts up with largely with a look of pity in their eyes. That’s because he didn’t always used to be this way. His wife passed away a year ago and since then, all he’s wanted to do is to join her in death. He has pulled away from his job, his former friends/neighbors, and even turned off his utilities in preparation for taking his own life. Which, as it turns out, isn’t as easy as he initially thought. Also complicating things are two new bright-eyed latino neighbors who Otto ends up helping with their various and consistently mounting difficulties because dammit, he just can’t bear to see people doing stuff wrong. Eventually you’re gonna cry; we sure did. Even if all of the proceedings are more than just a bit sappy and predictable as hell, it’s still well-crafted treacle with Hanks playing it to the most lovable hilt. Chris, Marco, and Spider-Mike take a look and admit they are all big softies.

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DIRECTED BY: Marc Forster

STARRING: Tom Hanks, Truman Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Cameron Britton, Mike Birbiglia, Mack Bayda, Juanita Jennings, Peter Lawson Jones, Max Pavel, Kailey Hyman, Christina Montoya, Alessandra Perez, Greg Allan Martin, Julian Manjerico, Jon Donahue, Josephine Valentina Clark, Josefine Lindegaard, Kelly Lamor Wilson

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.

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!”

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 small ville. 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.

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M3GAN MOVIE REVIEW

Blumhouse Productions can certainly smell a new franchise from some distance, even when that distance is a rejected Chucky script that gets retooled into a new monster. Said monster is the titular M3gan, a robotic life-size child doll that uses advanced AI programming designed by Gemma (Allison Williams) to learn and interact with the child she’s bonded with. The child is Cady, Gemma’s orphaned niece who recently lost her parents in an accident and who has the not really a people person Gemma as her new caretaker. All seems well as M3gan works great and Cady just LOVES her. But you know how AI goes in movies. Sooner or later it’s gonna be looking to kill people. Not exactly how we pictured Judgement Day getting started but hey, it’s a different take on the Terminator franchise to be sure. While Chris, Mars, Ben, and Kim would have much preferred to see the R-cut of this horror comedy (that critics saw initially as recently as last week), the new and more ‘funny-forward’ PG-13 cut still proves that M3gan has legs. And those legs can dance, run, scissor-kick, and kill.

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DIRECTED BY: Gerard Johnstone

STARRING: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis, Ronny Chieng, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Stephanie Garneau-Monten, Arlo Green, Lori Dungey

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.

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.

Mars Garrett (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Mars enjoys bad movies, motorsportsball, and the internet. She’s been the resident pop-culture and toy/collectibles editor at BoLS for the better part of a decade. An ardent action and horror fan, she takes pride in the number of movies she’s seen with a 10% or lower RT rating. Just don’t ask her to watch a rom-com.

Ben Glasthal (Highly Suspect Review, Screener Squad, Breakfast Pub, Unstabletop Gamers, Video and Audio Editor)

Born in Boston, then ending up in Dallas, Texas in the early 2000s, Ben has always had a passion for film. He started in film school not long after where he launched MovieReelizations.com where he still writes reviews to this day. He’s since moved to Austin where he has been also hopping on podcasts and both editing and shooting videos for One of Us. A fan of films from almost all genres, and many that predate him more than makes sense, he is anything if not eclectic in what he’s watching at any point. For the rest of his free time, he can be found biking, drinking craft beer, being an amateur photographer, and playing video games by himself or on Twitch. He’s best found on Instagram or Twitter as @MovieReelBen.

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