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Screener Squad: The Other Side of the Wind
Orson Welles never finished this movie in his lifetime due to legal and financial complications, but Netflix and a dedicated team finally assembled the hundreds of hours of footage left behind into the product we have today: The Other Side of the Wind. This self-reflexive Hollywood satire centers on the birthday of a veteran director (John Houston) as he screens his
Screener Squad: Welcome to Mercy
The Screener Squad has called upon Brad and London to tackle yet another spooky film set in a European country. This time, they follow the story of a single mother (Kristen Ruhlin, who also wrote the script) as she deals with a stigmata and is sent to a remote convent. There, she must rely on those she can trust to
Screener Squad: Bodied
The Screener Squad is laying down some fresh beats with this review of Neon and YouTube Premium’s Bodied. Directed by music video titan Joseph Kahn, the story follows a white progressive graduate student named Adam Merkin (“American Vandal‘s” Callum Worthy). While writing a thesis about the use of offensive racial language in rap battles, he is put into a situation
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
You knew Disney was going to get around to it eventually. Can’t you leave well enough alone? But, I suppose if even Barbie has done an adaptation of The Nutcracker, the Mouse House would at some point. And here we are. Closer in tone to the original short story that Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet was an adaptation of as well (but
Highly Suspect Reviews: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy takes a break from her usual absurd comedy hijinx (thank FSM) to play real-life lady Lee Israel, a biographer who when her books stopped selling she found an alternate cash flow: forging letters by literary figures and selling them to collectors. Accompanied through her miserable existence largely just by her aged cat and a homeless fellow alcoholic played
Highly Suspect Reviews: Bohemian Rhapsody
In this hotly debated film (I mean, Brian Singer directed a film about one of the most iconic gay figures of all time, go figure) Rami Malek takes on the role of Queen front man Freddy Mercury and does it with aplomb. There’s no getting away from how great a performance this is, even if some folks weren’t totally thrilled