Blog - Page 9 of 631 -

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

WATCH HERE

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

WATCH HERE

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.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

WATCH HERE

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.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE/TRAILER

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.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

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.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE/TRAILER

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.”

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

THE AMATEUR MOVIE REVIEW

Imagine yourself as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller. You look like Rami Malek, you’re decidedly a huge dork, and somehow you land Sarah (the stunning Rachel Brosnahan) as a wife. If she was on a trip to London and terrorists killed her, and then your bosses at the #1 spy agency in the world seemed like they were doing nothing about it, well, you’d pretty much be forced to go rogue. Revenge is on Charlie’s mind and even though he certainly wasn’t trained on operations, he’s going let his genius IQ do the work for him as he hunts down overseas the four terrorists and kill them one by one. Unfortunately, his CIA bosses have skin in the terrorists game and they have sent their own man to kill Charlie, Henderson (Laurence Fishburne). What you end up with should be a ‘smartest guy in the room’ thriller with a lead that constantly surprises the audience with his inventiveness. But what you get is a film lazily not even bothering to suss out how he achieves what things he does, which except for one deeply implausible kill, are not particularly that interesting. Chris and Frank don’t mind a spy film if it’s silly, but it should at least be fun, which The Amateur decidedly is not. Check out their review here.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE/TRAILER

DIRECTED BY: James Hawes

STARRING: Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Danny Sapani, Jon Bernthal, Adrian Martinez, Takehiro Hira, Marc Rissmann, Joseph Millson, Alice Hewkin, Henry Garrett

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).

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.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA MOVIE REVIEW

In 1984, an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson went on the game show Press Your Luck and broke the record for most money won on an American game show. That true story is the basis for The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser as Larson, and frankly, that’s really all you need to know before watching the movie. While this isn’t a spoiler review, it’s all but impossible to assess the film’s merits without discussing the publicly known facts of Larson’s legendary winning streak, or talking about some of the creative decisions that co-writer/director Samir Oliveros made when adapting this decades old story for the screen. Our reviewers Ryan, Lewayne, and Marco all agree that the less you know, the more likely you’ll enjoy the movie. So maybe watch the movie first, and then come back and listen to us talk about it. We still haven’t been forgiven for accidentally spoiling the ending of Lincoln so we’re not gonna make that mistake again!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE/TRAILER

DIRECTED BY: Samir Oliveros

STARRING: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, Shamier Anderson, Brian Geraghty, Patti Harrison, Haley Bennett, Lilli Kay, James Wolk, Shaunette Renée Wilson, David Rysdahl, Ricky Russert, Johnny Knoxville

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.”

Ryan Aleck Hill (Screener Squad, Video and Audio Editor)

Ryan is a Washington D.C. based filmmaker & video editor who loves watching and talking about movies more than just about anything. He currently works at a creative agency as a director of photography/video editor, and does freelance video editing for Anthony Fantano/TheNeedleDrop. He also has a YouTube channel (Downhill Media) where he works on a weirdo art explainer series called “Artsplained” with his partner Michelle. He was a part of the Spill.com community way back in the day, where he was cursed with an obsession for movies. In an effort to break the curse, he shows up on the Screener Squad podcast every once in a while and edits for One Of Us. Chris Cox claims that this is the only way it can be broken. You can follow him on Twitter but you’ll probably regret it.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW

While working on his previous film Civil War, Alex Garland got to be friends with the military advisor on it, Ray Mendoza. They decided to write a script together based on an experience Ray had gone through in his experiences in the Iraq War. Initially Garland was going to be sole director but then he announced that his role on Warfare would be more of a supporting role with Mendoza actually helming the film. Certainly, the marketing doesn’t reflect this (Garland puts butts in seats). The film follows a platoon of Navy SEALS on a mission into insurgent territory in 2006. They hole up in an apartment only to find that they are surrounded by a steadily growing group of people who know where they are, and plan to attack. Chris, Wright, Marco, and Ben got to see this projected in IMAX and boy…it is loud. While they all certainly express nothing but respect for the soldiers actually involved (although most chose not to be directly identified, their images during the end credits overwhelmingly blurred) and the incredible toll that this must have taken on all of them, it’s not exactly a pleasant watch.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE/TRAILER

DIRECTED BY: Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza

STARRING: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henry Zaga, Charles Melton, Alex Brockdorff, Nathan Altai, Aaron Deakins, Donya Hussen

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.

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.

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!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (trashinthecan): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

TRASH IN THE CAN: ANGELS WITH ANGLES

How did movies resurrect and exploit dead celebrities before Rogue One? Easy! Impressionists in Party City makeup and a budget so low the estate doesn’t bother to sue. Host of podcast Whatever Happened to Bette & Joan, Frank Calvillo, joins us for a bizarre vanity project about a poor schlub getting a celestial assist from the late George Burns, Fidel Castro’s fight to get back his stolen cigars, and, you guessed it, Frank Stallone. We watched 2005’s Angels with Angles.

YOUR HOSTS

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.

Eric Samaniego (Trash in the Can, Highly Suspect Reviews)

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

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Whatever 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.

You can subscribe to the Trash in the Can podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and more, or use our RSS feed on whatever podcast service you use: https://oneofus.net/feed/trashinthecan/ and please leave us a review!

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Podcast (miniseries): Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN: EP 2 – THE BEST OF EVERYTHING & POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES

“They Live in Dreams”

In the second and final pre-Baby Jane episode, critic Elizabeth Stoddard joins me for the pair of movies our former studio queens would appear in just before signing on to star in the film that would change their careers forever. In 1959’s The Best of Everything, we see a nervous Joan Crawford return following a two-year absence where she is surrounded by a trio of up-and-comers, all of whom she acts off the screen. Meanwhile, after a five-year absence (save for some TV guest spots and small appearances in minor international films), Bette Davis enjoys a plum role in what would be Frank Capra’s final effort, 1961’s Pocketful of Miracles. IG: @betteandjoanpod

YOUR HOST

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

Please think about becoming a paid subscriber to Oneofus.net, support our huge network of shows, and get access to tons of bonus shows and videos in our forums! We cannot keep this site going without support from our listeners. For added information about being a subscriber, the benefits, and the forums, please go here.