Tag: Movie

  • TIFF 2024

    TIFF 2024

    As we return from TIFF 2024 we present some of the standout films we saw at the festival. This was our inaugural year attending the Toronto International Film Festival (with special thanks to the TIFF and Rotten Tomatoes Media Inclusion Initiative for helping us participate) so we weren’t able to screen everything there (including some…

  • Speak No Evil, My Old Ass – 484

    Speak No Evil, My Old Ass – 484

    James McAvoy is a psycho parent in Speak No Evil. My Old Ass is surprisingly thoughtful and charming. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Speak No Evil When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a…

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – 483

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – 483

    It’s been 36 years since we last summoned Beetlejuice, but should some things be left to rest in peace? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is back!  Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice.   Keaton returns to…

  • Kaos, The Deliverance – 481

    Kaos, The Deliverance – 481

    Jeff Goldblum and co give divine performances in Kaos. Lee Daniels dips into horror with mixed results in The Deliverance. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Kaos Zeus has long enjoyed his status as King of The Gods. That is until he wakes up one morning and discovers a wrinkle on his forehead. Neurosis sets…

  • Blink Twice, Greedy People – 479

    Blink Twice, Greedy People – 479

    Is the new Zoë Kravitz directed thriller Blink Twice worth a deeper look? Plus can you get on the side of Greedy People? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Blink Twice When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join…

  • Rob Yescombe for Jackpot! – 477

    Rob Yescombe for Jackpot! – 477

    Screenwriter Rob Yescombe drops by to chat going from games to feature films, iconic interview horror stories, and his new film Jackpot!. We also lament the casting for some of his unreleased Star Wars games from LucasArts, swap interview horror stories, and figure out the best possible use for a lottery payout.  Listen on Apple…

  • Alien: Romulus, Jackpot!, Skincare – 476

    Alien: Romulus, Jackpot!, Skincare – 476

    We’re bursting at the seams after having seen Alien: Romulus and feel lucky about Jackpot!. Plus is Skincare able to be more than skin deep? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Alien: Romulus “Alien: Romulus” takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young…

  • Borderlands, The Instigators, The Influencer – 473

    Borderlands, The Instigators, The Influencer – 473

    Borderlands is an entertainment desert. The Instigators is criminally intolerable. Thankfully The Influencer is a captivating social experiment. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Borderlands Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing…

  • Joan Chen for DìDi (弟弟) – 469

    Joan Chen for DìDi (弟弟) – 469

    Legendary actress Joan Chen is here to talk about her new film DìDi (弟弟), relating to raising her own daughters, and contextualizing success. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about DìDi (弟弟) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach…

  • Trap, DìDi – 468

    Trap, DìDi – 468

    M. Night Shyamalan tries to foil us into seeing Trap. DìDi is a perfectly put together coming of age film. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Trap A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Written and directed by M. Night…