Category: Review

  • Fire Island, The Boys Season 3 – 212

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    Fire Island is the latest in a long line of Pride & Prejudice adaptations, but we’d say it’s certainly amongst the most fun. Also The Boys are back and more extreme than ever (which is hard to do considering the society they’re mirroring is even more unhinged than one would think possible). Listen on Apple…

  • Top Gun: Maverick, Prehistoric Planet – 210

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    Tom Cruise undeniably knows how to make a quintessential summer blockbuster and does so with “Top Gun: Maverick.” Also who can resist Sir David Attenborough and Dinosaurs in “Prehistoric Planet.” Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Top Gun: Maverick After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick”…

  • Downton Abbey: A New Era, Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, The Valet – 208

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    There’s not much new about Downton Abbey: A New Era but that’s not unexpected. What was unanticipated was how delightful Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers is. Finally there’s the Eugenio Derbez vehicle The Valet. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Downton Abbey: A New Era From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event…

  • Operation Mincemeat, Senior Year, Bling Empire Season 2 – 206

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    Perhaps some stories are meant to stay hidden with Operation Mincemeat. Meanwhile Rebel Wilson heads back to school with mixed results in Senior Year. Finally it’s the return of some rich Asians in Bling Empire Season 2. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Operation Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary story of two intelligence officers…

  • Under the Banner of Heaven, Shining Girls – 202

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    Crime, crime, and crime is the theme of the week with Under the Banner of Heaven (adapted from the Jon Krakauer book) and Shining Girls. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Under the Banner of Heaven As Detective Jeb Pyre investigates the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in a suburb in…

  • The Northman, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Bad Guys, White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch – 199

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    Robert Eggers brings us his Viking epic The Northman. Nic Cage reaches peak Nic Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Crime doesn’t pay in the new animated film The Bad Guys. Speaking of criminal, there’s also the new documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch. Listen on Apple Podcasts…

  • Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – 197

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    While Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a slight improvement over previous entries into the franchise, it’s not good enough as a film to overlook the fact that it’s supporting She Who Must Not Be Named. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful…

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2, All the Old Knives, Cow – 195

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    It’s time for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, All the Old Knives, and Cow. 2/3 of this week features films we don’t think live up to their potential. One of these things is not like the others… Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Sonic the Hedgehog 2 After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to…

  • Morbius, The Bubble – 191

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    Yes, Morbius is bad, and its greatest crime is being boring. We had slightly higher hopes for Judd Apatow’s latest film, The Bubble, but it lacked heart and consistent humor – in spite of what is usually a very talented cast and crew. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Morbius: One of the most compelling…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once, Pachinko – 189

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    Michelle Yeoh’s performance is everything we ever thought we wanted from her and things we didn’t even know we wanted from her in Everything Everywhere All at Once which is ultimately a story of family wrapped in a spectacular maximalist package. Pachinko also covers the story of a family through many branches and generations in…