Tag: Streaming

  • Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Peacemaker, Cheer Season 2 – 164

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    Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is relentlessly zany and we’re not sure who it’s for. Peacemaker is committed to chaotic absurdity and Cheer Season 2 on Netflix takes place in a much darker world than season 1, but does it retain it’s joy? Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Hotel Transylvania: Transformania Drac and the Pack are…

  • Don’t Look Up, The King’s Man, The Lost Daughter, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Beanie Mania, Single’s Inferno – 160

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    Awards deadlines approach so it’s a supersized episode for the last reviews of 2021! Don’t Look Up, The Lost Daughter, and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all vying hard for accolades. The King’s Man doesn’t seem to be vying for anything (including logic). As for some lighter fare there’s also the Beanie Baby documentary Beanie…

  • The Power of the Dog, Wolf, Try Harder! – 150

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    Jane Campion brings us Benedict Cumberbatch in chaps in The Power of the Dog. George MacKay channels his inner canis lupus in Wolf. Finally get ready to relive your college admissions trauma through the students of Lowell High in the incredibly watchable Try Harder!. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Power of the Dog…

  • Encanto, The Beatles: Get Back – 148

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    It’s all about family in Disney’s 60th animated feature film, Encanto (but not in a Fast & Furious way sadly). Plus Peter Jackson’s 10 kajillion hour documentary trilogy The Beatles: Get Back hits Disney+. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Encanto In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Encanto,” Mirabel—the only ordinary member of her extraordinary family—…

  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Squid Game – 128

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    Do you have to remember anything about Venom to see Venom: Let There Be Carnage? Probably not – and that’s probably not a great thing. Also WTF is Squid Game on Netflix and why is it on track to be their most streamed show of all time after only 2 weeks? Listen on Apple Podcasts…

  • Dear Evan Hansen, Foundation – 126

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    How can one adaptation go so horribly awry and one go so “meh” so far? The musical Dear Evan Hansen makes its way to the big screen and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation hits Apple TV+. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Dear Evan Hansen The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony,…

  • Vacation Friends, The Chair – 118

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    This week features two streaming options full of bumbling awkward (and sometimes stupid) scenarios with Vacation Friends on Hulu and The Chair on Netflix. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Vacation Friends In this raw and raunchy comedy, straight-laced Marcus and Emily are befriended by wild, thrill-seeking partiers Ron and Kyla at a resort in…

  • The Suicide Squad, Vivo – 111

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    James Gunn takes a crack at The Suicide Squad and thankfully doesn’t ask much of his audience. Meanwhile Lin-Manuel Miranda brings his talents (and Hamilton and In the Heights collaborators) to the new animated film, Vivo. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Suicide Squad Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest…

  • A Quiet Place Part 2, Sweet Tooth – 91

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    It’s a post apocalyptic double feature (again?) with John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part 2 and the new Netflix series Sweet Tooth which is based on the DC Comic by Jeff Lemire. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about A Quiet Place Part 2 Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent…

  • In the Earth, The Circle Season 2 – 74

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    Out of your Sundance nightmares comes In the Earth from Ben Wheatley. Also the reality competition show The Circle returns – except we’re all in the Circle now [Send Message]. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about In the Earth As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout…