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HAVOC MOVIE REVIEW

A good house is built on a solid foundation with primo materials and a foreman that knows that hard work and honest labor with no cut corners will create not just a home for one generation but a domicile for future generations. What if that foreman was a crooked, backstabbing politician whose platform was to clean up all the rot and mold in the foundation of that house. Only, the rot and mold is permeating from his own soul. Written and directed by action super-director Gareth Evans (The Raid), Havoc puts us alongside a crooked homicide cop named Walker (Tom Hardy) who owes the sketchy politician Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker) a favor. When he calls it in to have Walker save his son from gang war retribution, it’s not going to be an easy task. A major crime family and his cronies have been gunned down during a cocaine and cocktails party and homicide detective Vincent (Timothy Olyphant) is hot on the trail of suspects Charlie (Justin Cornwell) and Mia (Quelin Sepulveda). Charlie, the son in question, and his girlfriend must elude the police and avoid the bullets of the gang with the help of Walker in order to reveal the true mastermind behind the Havoc! Bradly, Nate, and Rae put on their best funny voices to discuss Tom Hardy’s new and familiar acting choices, discuss and compare the writing talents of Mr. Evans juxtaposed against his eye for gore and mayhem, and name drop a couple of other movies that may or may not be much better than this one.

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DIRECTED BY: Gareth Evans

STARRING: Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker, Richard Harrington, Narges Rashidi, Jeremy Ang Jones

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.

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.

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ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART TWO

The One Of Us Rebellion gathers once more under the cover of darkness to dive into the second triptych of episodes for the final season of the prestige Star Wars series. The Empire has begun to upset the Ghorman population, Cassian evaluates the growing totally not French/German mashup resistance, Syril Karn continues to prove himself a complete tool of ISB and Dedra Meero, Bix “adjusts” to her and Cassian’s safehouse on Coruscant, Saw Guerra plans an explosive attack with Wilmon, and Mon Mothma attends another party. Melina, Lewayne, Marco, and T.C. gleefully praise this series for being a political thriller with a level of spycraft espionage that would make John Le Carre proud, while also digging into the deeper, important, and poignant themes of the rise of a rebellion that is destined to topple a fascist empire.

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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.

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.”

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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THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE REVIEW

The final film of Marvel’s Phase 5 (is anyone keeping track anymore) follows a group of d-listers gathered together reluctantly because of forces arrayed against all of them. No, this isn’t The Suicide Squad, it’s Thunderbolts*. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is our central character and first point of contact, as we watch her take on a mission destroying a laboratory, with great ennui, at the behest of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). She’s tired of being the new (sorta) Black Widow and taking on these shadow ops and wants to be more public facing. Valentina assures her that if she does just ONE more mission, then they can change her her job duties. Unfortunately for Yelena, Valentina is under impeachment proceedings because word is starting to leak out about her more clandestine and illegal activities and it’s time to burn the proof. Said proof includes Yelena, as she discovers when she shows up to her “last” assignment only to find out it’s a death trap, not only for her, but for John Walker/US Agent (Wyatt Russell), Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen). Oh, and also Bob (Lewis Pullman) a seemingly normal guy who no one, included Valentina, is sure how he got in there. After a near-death escape, the team, eventually with the help of Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour) and Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) will have to survive Valentina’s desperate attempts to kill them before she gets busted, and to solve the mystery of Bob. Chris, Wright, Drew, and Frank decide how this places in the quality list of Marvel’s recent films and Chris realizes sometimes you can hate a character so much that it’s impossible to even have any appreciation for a good new take on them.

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DIRECTED BY: Jake Schreier

STARRING: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wendell Edward Pierce

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.

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.

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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THE SHROUDS MOVIE REVIEW

David Cronenberg does not make normal movies. This is a given. But the question always is going into one, what KIND of abnormal is this gonna be? With The Shrouds, Cronenberg directs one of his most personal films, perhaps a conduit for his grief after the death of his wife. Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a widower who runs a cemetery with monitoring systems built into the headstones, and accessible through private web links, so that the bereaved can watch the decomposition of their loved ones anytime they want. And yes, while this does seem like a business model with limited range, this is Cronenbergia where you just go with it. It’s been long enough since his wife Becca (Diane Kruger) died that her decay is advanced, but he still tunes in regularly, although he has begun to try dating again. His brother-in-law Maury (Guy Pearce) who seems a little unhinged, but who helped him initially build the gravetech, seems concerned that Kruger might try to get with his wife’s sister and Maury’s ex-wife, Terry (also Diane Kruger). Nonetheless, he’s there to help when Kruger enlists him to try to find out who broke into his cemetery one night and desecrated the technologically enhanced graves. So, while this is an odd premise, just wait. Cronenberg’s gonna Cronenberg. Chris, Wright, and Drew take on The Shrouds and agree while it’s certainly not a Cronenberg all-timer, it’s one of his better recent efforts.

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DIRECTED BY: David Cronenberg

STARRING: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Eric Weinthal, Steve Switzman, Jeff Yung

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.

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.

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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DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 355: THE GREATEST STACK OF ALL TIME

It’s vanishingly rare that we have a week that both reviewers ‘more or less’ enjoyed every movie in our stack (I don’t think it’s EVER happened that we LOVED every title) so for John and Chris, this was a landmark of ‘yeah, this was okay’. More so for John. Anyway enjoy our coverage of home releases of some of the biggest movies of 2024, some 90s gems of varying quality, and at least one Chinese film that got slipped into the ‘ok you have to see this one to believe it’ qualifier list.

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.

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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 eventuall

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.

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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.”

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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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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