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HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: MOTHER FAYE – BURNING SECRET/THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS/THE YARDS This week on Hollywood Royalty, Faye is mother. Literally. In this episode, we look at three notable times the actress took on mother/matriarchal roles in the years since Mommie Dearest‘s release. First up is the 1988 arthouse film Burning Secret, where Faye plays […]

STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD SERIES REVIEW Luke Skywalker once said “No one’s ever really gone,” and no other character in the Star Wars franchise has taken that to heart more than Darth Maul; a character that has canonically died twice(!) already. And yet, fans can’t seem to get enough of the former Sith […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 375: THIS ONE GOES OUT TO ZACH Chris vs Wright in the ultimate mano y mano critic showdown! Ok, well, not so much as both of your critics largely agree on everything in physical media we take a look at this week. From a reimagining of a long-running slasher series, to a […]

BALLS UP MOVIE REVIEW To compete with a product that’s the best known of its type in all countries you’d have to come up with a brand new innovation and a very popular sponsor. This is the premise of the new Amazon Prime Video film about a brand new prophylactic, Balls Up. Brad (Mark Wahlberg) […]

APEX MOVIE REVIEW Charlize Theron heads deep into the wild in this straight to Netflix survival thriller, where isolation turns into something far more dangerous. Sasha (Theron), a grieving climber seeking solitude in the Australian wilderness, finds herself thrust into a brutal game of predator and prey when a mysterious hunter (Taron Egerton) targets her […]

OUTCOME MOVIE REVIEW Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves) is one of the nicest and most successful actors in Hollywood who has managed to keep his private life private — a rare feat in the world of the movie making machine. Secretly five years sober and trying to rebuild his life, literally and emotionally, he has stepped […]

A BETTER YESTERDAY – EP. 2: THE ONCE AND FUTURE DRAGON In this second episode of A Better Yesterday, Ross O’Brien continues his deep-dive with Hong Kong Cinemissimo Bey Logan, focusing on how Bruce Lee swam through the streams of both Hong Kong and American pop culture to become the most iconic figure in martial […]

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE: LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR As the They Might Be Giants performed theme goes for the 2000-2006 sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, “You’re not the boss of me now and you’re not so big.” Twenty years later, the dysfunctional family and their boy genius returns on Hulu and Disney Plus with a 4 […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 374: CHRIS GETS WEEPY John and Chris get one of those middlin’ stacks of titles. No hate. Just a lot of meh, but there is some love, especially for a film Chris actually gets teary eyed just discussing with his out of character (for him) deep affection for, and a French film […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: MINISODE 8 – CHINATOWN Our next stop through 60s/70s Faye sees us taking a visit to Chinatown, the 1974 Oscar-winning movie that recreates 1937’s Los Angeles for a tale of murder and corruption. An Oscar-nominated Faye enjoys one of the best roles of the decade as a femme fatale harboring dark secrets, which local […]

ROOMMATES MOVIE REVIEW High School graduation: that’s the time to steel yourself with courage, say goodbye to those lifelong friendships you made next to the bleachers, the lockers, in algebra, and of course in the confines of your heart. But wait! What if you don’t have any BFF’s to bid adieu to? Roommates on Netflix […]

THE PITT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Pitt returns for Season 2, continuing its unflinching, real-time look at life inside one of America’s busiest emergency rooms. Set ten months after the explosive first season, which was marked by a mass shooting, the new season unfolds over a single 15-hour real-time shift on the Fourth of July, […]

STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ’85 SERIES REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to cancel your Netflix subscription, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is back to deliver another shot of 80s nostalgia, or at least nostalgia for a streaming series that ended less than five months ago. Set between the events of seasons two […]

THE MADISON SERIES REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “I’m in love with Montana. For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognight, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love.”  Paramount Plus presents  the new show by Taylor Sheridan; a story of a man who had two great loves in his life: his wife, and […]