Cinephomaniacs

She's not eating people, she's eating boys. Peyton and Andrew review the 2009 horror comedy cult classic ‘Jennifer’s Body’! Megan Fox stars as Jennifer, a popular high schooler who finds herself possessed by a bloodthirsty demon. As Jennifer starts picking off their male classmates one by one, Jennifer’s best friend Needy (Amanda Seyfried) must do whatever it takes to stop her. Written by...

Why would we deceive you? Andrew and Peyton review ‘You Can See Everything’, the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary from A24, in a new episode of Cinephomaniacs. In 2014, Forbes called Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire for her company Theranos. She falsely claimed that their device could perform every test on a single drop of blood. In 2022, Holmes was found guilty of defrau...

We’re continuing spooky season with a review of ‘The Exorcist’ in an all new episode of Cinephomaniacs! 12-year-old Regan is possessed by a demon in this iconic 1973 horror film. Desperate to save her, Regan’s mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests. The showdown between good and evil is one of most thrilling, and referenced, finales you’ll see. ‘The Exorcist’ was the highest grossing film o...

Andrew and Peyton review ‘Digger’, the new Tom Cruise vehicle from Alejandro González Iñárritu. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, a fat, balding oil billionaire so powerful that the president bows to him. After an environmental catastrophe he repeatedly ignored sends a wall of ice floating toward Europe, Digger must manage the political fallout. Digger got us into this mess. Can he dig us out? From th...

It’s officially spooky season, and Cinephomaniacs is starting it with a bang! Peyton and Andrew review Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 cult classic ‘Possession’. Sam Neill (RIP) and Isabelle Adjani play Mark and Anna, a couple living in West Berlin whose marriage is rapidly falling apart. When Anna asks for a divorce and begins exhibiting increasingly strange behavior, Mark suspects she’s seeing another m...

Have a seat and listen to an all new episode of Cinephomaniacs. We’re talking A24’s new psychological thriller ‘Primetime’! Inspired by true events, ‘Primetime’ follows ‘To Catch a Predator’ host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) over one tumultuous season in 2006. As the show reaches peak popularity, Hansen struggles to meet demand for more exciting perpetrators, all the while dealing with a person...

Andrew and Peyton are joined by their friend and fellow film critic Kyle Flynn to review ‘Resident Evil’ in an all new episode of Cinephomaniacs. In the latest movie from Zach Cregger (‘Barbarian’, ‘Weapons’), Austin Abrams plays a hapless organ transport driver unknowingly caught in the first night of a zombie apocalypse.  None of our hosts had ever seen a ‘Resident Evil’ movie before, and they b...

Peyton and Andrew review ‘Onslaught’, an action thriller in theaters now. ‘Onslaught’ has been one of their most anticipated movies of the year, and they were ecstatic when A24 invited them to a press screening earlier this month. Adria Arjona (‘Don’t Blink’) stars as a veteran managing a trailer park whose daughter is staying with her for the weekend. When a trio of super soldiers escape a nearby...

Mmm boy! We mark Andrew’s 30th birthday with a discussion about one of his lifelong favorites, ‘The Iron Giant’! Set in 1950’s Maine, the animated classic follows a precocious and lonely young boy named Hogarth, who desperately wants to make a friend. He soon gets what he wished for in the form of the Giant, a 100-foot-tall metal man. Training a Giant doesn’t prove easy, especially in a Cold War A...

Rise and shine, campers, for an all new episode of Cinephomaniacs! Andrew and Peyton review ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’, a new film from Jane Schoenbrun that hit them like a spear through the chest. Hannah Einbinder (‘Hacks’) stars as Kris, a queer horror director tasked with rebooting a classic slasher franchise. Kris meets Billy (Gillian Anderson, ‘The X-Files’), the star of the origi...

We sat down for an in-depth interview with veteran film curator Tim Anderson! Tim shared insight into what goes into programming a film festival, behind-the-scenes conversations surrounding anniversary screenings, and the X-rated, 160-minute movie from 1975 he’ll always dream of showing. Tim is the Programming Manager for the Academy Award–qualifying Florida Film Festival and Maitland arthouse sta...

Order up! Sarah Genao, aka @just2good on YouTube, joins Andrew and Peyton to talk about the A24 Anthony Bourdain movie ‘Tony’ in a new episode of Cinephomaniacs. Directed by Matt Johnson, ‘Tony’ stars Dominic Sessa (‘The Holdovers’) as a 19-year-old Bourdain who falls in love with cooking during a summer job at a Provincetown lobster restaurant. Based on Bourdain’s hit memoir ‘Kitchen Confidential...

Shark! Peyton and Andrew discuss the new Prime Video survival thriller 'The Devil's Mouth'.  Kathryn Newton (‘Ant-Man’), Lana Condor (‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’), and Gavin Casalegno (‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’) find themselves trapped with a bull shark in the depths of an underwater cave system in Thailand. What will take them out first: the violently territorial shark or t...

It’s a brand new day and a brand new episode of Cinephomaniacs! Andrew and Peyton review 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'. Four years after the world forgot about him, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) lives a lonely life as New York’s full-time friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. But when MJ (Zendaya) moves back to the city and a mysterious telepath threatens to undo all of Peter’s hard work, his power...

Zach Smith (@ZachOnArthouse on Substack and TikTok) joins Andrew and Peyton to discuss the films of Nicolas Winding Refn. They dig into everything from 'Drive' and 'Only God Forgives' to 'The Neon Demon' and 'Too Old to Die Young' before tackling NWR's newest film, now playing in theaters: 'Her Private Hell' . Sophie Thatcher ( 'Yellowjackets' )...

Hark! King Nolan has returned, three years after his victory in the Barbenheimer wars, with 'The Odyssey'. Odysseus (Matt Damon) journeys across the seas, facing a giant Cyclops, a powerful witch, a deadly whirlpool, and more in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s legendary poem. The epic cast also includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, and dozens more. Peyto...

The ‘Evil Dead’ series is back with one of its meanest and goriest installments yet. Join Andrew and Peyton for a trip back to the cabin in the woods as they crack open the Necronomicon and discuss all things ‘Evil Dead Burn’ in a new episode of Cinephomaniacs. Young widow Alice (Souheila Yacoub, ‘Dune: Part Two’) cremates what’s left of her abusive husband at the start of this sixth ‘Evil Dead’ m...

What better way to celebrate America’s 250th birthday than with a trip to Trashtown, USA? Peyton and Andrew review ‘Fucktoys,’ a dreamlike comedy in which a sex worker tries to break a curse. Annapurna Sriram writes, directs, and stars, alongside Sadie Scott, Damian Young, and ‘Heated Rivalry’ actor François Arnaud. We discuss the film’s themes, seeing it early at the 2025 Florida Film Festival, a...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an all new episode of Cinephomaniacs! Milly Alcock stars in ‘Supergirl,’ the latest movie in the DC Universe. When Krypto is put in grave danger, Supergirl has 72 hours to find the antidote. Accompanied by Ruthye, a young girl seeking revenge, they set off on a journey across the galaxies. Is ‘Supergirl’ super or just super-meh? Listen to find out! Discussion also i...

Cozy up to two very different new movies about young love in this Pride Month episode of Cinephomaniacs! In the Australian horror flick ‘ Leviticus ,’ Joe Bird (‘ Talk to Me ’) and Stacy Clausen (‘ Thrash ’) must escape a shapeshifting monster that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other. Maya da Costa and Myra Molloy are friends-turned-lovers in Hayley Kiyoko’s directorial debut...

Dive into two new action movies in episode 6 of Cinephomaniacs! Xie Miao and Joe Taslim fight their way through a criminal network in ‘ The Furious ’ (火遮眼), a new martial arts movie out of Hong Kong directed by Kenji Tanigaki. Then friends of the pod Emma and Shannon join to go deep into ‘ Hungry ,’ in which one hungry, hungry hippo hunts down bayou boat tourists. Plus: we chat about other movi...

Wazzup! Peyton and Andrew break down ‘ Scary Movie ’ (2026) in this new episode of Cinephomaniacs! This newest installment in the ‘ Scary Movie ’ franchise is a slasher parody legacy sequel reuniting the Core Four of Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall for the first time in 25 years. They’ve got a lot of horror movies to catch up on, and nothing is off limits, from ‘ Sinners ’...

Journey into the backrooms in this new Cinephomaniacs episode about A24’s most recent horror movie. ‘ Backrooms ’ follows Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve into an underground, possibly endless labyrinth of the mundane where they might not be alone. 20-year-old Kane Parsons makes his feature film debut in this expansion of his Youtube series. Peyton and Andrew discuss the viral origins of the ba...

On this episode of Cinephomaniacs, Andrew and Peyton are back with reviews of two exciting new releases: ‘ I Love Boosters ’ and ‘ Is God Is ’. ‘ I Love Boosters ’ is a new sci-fi comedy from Boots Riley (‘ Sorry to Bother You ’) about a group of resourceful young women (Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, and Poppy Liu) whose shoplifting sparks a revolutionary class struggle when they find t...

Cinephomaniacs is back for episode 2 with a Charli xcx double feature! In Pete Ohs’ low budget drama ‘ Erupcja ’ (eh-roop-tsyah), Bethany (Charli) sneaks away from her boyfriend on a vacation to Poland to reconnect with an old friend, with whom she shares a, literally, volcanic chemistry. Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary ‘ The Moment ’ follows Charli's battle with burnout and increasingly absurd st...