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Screener Squad: Roll Red Roll
ROLL RED ROLL PODCAST REVIEW The Screener Squad are changing things up this week with a documentary review. Roll Red Roll is a movie covering a real-life rape case and the impact of social media on it. The ‘boys will be boys’ culture at this Ohio high school is frankly pretty shocking (or is it more shocking that it’s NOT
Screener Squad: Giant Little Ones
GIANT LITTLE ONES PODCAST REVIEW It’s another whimsical tale of childhood and coming-of-age here on Screener Squad. This time, Justin, Brad, and Lexie will tell you what they thought of the story of Franky (Josh Wiggins), who lives in Vancouver with his mother (Maria Bello) and sister (Olivia Scriven) after his father (Kyle MacLachlan) abandons the family for another man.
Digital Noise Episode 213: “It’s Fine”
John and Chris have a REALLY big stack of home release titles to cover this week (SXSW puts a crimp in your coverage timeliness) and lo, bravely they go into the breach… MOVIES REVIEWED: A Star is Born Lord of War Dynasties (TV Series) My Name is Julia Ross So Dark the Night The Prisoner Rampant The Possession of
Screener Squad: Out of Blue
OUT OF BLUE PODCAST REVIEW A Martin Amis adaptation is generally not going to turn out well. I mean, historically. Sure, he may be one of England’s most successful and lauded modern day writers, but his stuff just doesn’t seem to translate that well to film. Enter Out of Blue, an adaptation of his novel Night Train. Patricia Clarkson plays
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Mustang
THE MUSTANG PODCAST REVIEW The Mustang is basically an advertisement for a program that lets convicts train wild horses to be brought to auction. However, considering that, as the film touts, it boasts the lowest recidivism rate for prisoners involved with it, we’ll let that slide. Matthias Schoenaerts plays an incarcerated violent felon. Laconic and misanthropic, he would rather keep
Highly Suspect Reviews: Gloria Bell
GLORIA BELL PODCAST REVIEW Academy award-winning director of A Fantastic Woman in 2017, Sebastián Lelio, follows up his win with the English language remake of his 2013 Chilean film Gloria. What you’ve got here is a display piece for Julianne Moore’s impressive talents as a performer…but not a whole heckuva lot else. Here she plays Gloria, a long-divorced empty-nester who
