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Screener Squad: Bel Canto
A South American country is throwing a birthday party for a rich Japanese industrialist (Ken Watanabe) trying to woo him into opening a factory there by getting his favorite opera singer (Julianne Moore) to perform. But when rebels storm the party and hold all the guests hostage, mistakenly thinking the President of the country is in attendance, things turn into
The Gathering – The Fifteenth Party
In what might be the largest assemblage of oneofus-ers and friends we’ve yet assembled for our show, our party-podcast takes on its first topic-centric episode with Cult Movies. Everybody gets a chance to give one or two of their personal favorite examples and defend them and we even get a few first-timers on the show, including the much-missed Jason Murphy.
Screener Squad: Lizzie
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave Davey Peppers forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave Justin Zarian forty-one. All skipping-rope rhymes aside, Lizzie is Chloe Sevigny’s long-gestating passion project depicting the murders of the Borden family, which scholars continue to debate on how culpable their daughter Lizzie was. Was she innocent? Did she kill them
Screener Squad: The Basement
Justin has kidnapped Shak and Brad once again to subject them to horrors from the bargain bin. This time, they’ll experience a story about a crazy person who kidnaps a guy and ties him in a basement where he seemingly tries to get him to confess to…wait….is this 3: An Eye for An Eye all over again? Not quite. This
Screener Squad: Slice
We all know that A24 as a film distributor or producer has of late become the mark of a certain level of quality. Which is why we were surprised by Slice. I mean, it’s a Slasher-horror-comedy, which didn’t seem particularly A24’s line…and then we saw the movie. I mean, what? The story follows a pizza place run by Paul Scheer
Highly Suspect Reviews: Mandy
Nicholas Cage reaches new heights of insanity in this revenge horror from the director of Beyond the Black Rainbow. A Manson-esque cult leader (Linus Roache) decides that he’s fated to have Nic’s girlfriend (Andrea Riseborough) for himself and then the movie takes about 10,000 hits of acid and starts killing everything. Or Cage does. Something like that. The anticipation for
