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HALLOWARRIOR MOVIE REVIEW Ellen Ripley. Laurie Strode. Nancy Thompson. In the world of horror movies, there is a certain type of woman who is powerful enough, smart enough, and cunning enough to navigate a world of apocalyptic threats and savage killers. You don’t expect them to offer you candy. Milly Shapiro plays Pumpkin, an innocent […]

BELOW SERIES REVIEW On an island in Canada called Newfoundland, winters are hard, but the people are harder. With rod and sail, they mastered the elements and found wealth in the Cod. Back in the 80’s, the Penney family was relocating their home from harbour to harbour, when the sea took their house and their […]

LANTERNS SERIES REVIEW For a show about space cops armed with powerful cosmic jewelry, this new DCU show spends a lot of time in rural Nebraska. Pitched as a “True Detective” style series set in the DC Universe, Lanterns is a a small-town murder mystery spanning several decades, multiple generations of family trauma, and dark […]

THE DEPUTY MOVIE REVIEW When good men refuse to do nothing, the long arm of the law has the power to deputize the men who just need a chance but don’t test so well on exams and probably couldn’t pass the physical. In The Deputy, local town screw up Toby (Duke Nicholson) is awoken from […]

THE YETI MOVIE REVIEW Pack your parka, grab a rifle, and for the love of God, stop following the enormous footprints. Set in 1947, The Yeti sends Ellie Bannister (Brittany Allen) and Merriell Sunday Jr. (Eric Nelsen) into the frozen wilderness of northern Alaska after the vanishing of their fathers, famed adventurer Hollis Bannister (William […]

THE LAST HOUSE MOVIE REVIEW Home is where the heart is. Unfortunately, it’s also where the doors won’t open, the windows won’t break, and something deeply unpleasant is wandering around outside in the rain. Netflix’s The Last House traps Jason (Wagner Moura), Ann (Greta Lee), and their two children inside their family home with absolutely […]

HELLCAT MOVIE REVIEW How’s this for a horror movie setup? Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes up injured, confused, and locked inside a camper trailer hurtling down the highway. The mysterious Clive (Todd Terry), communicating from the truck ahead, insists she’s been infected with something nasty and they have only an hour to reach a doctor. Lena […]

THE DEVIL’S MOUTH MOVIE REVIEW A wise Pixar fish once sang, “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” It’s a clever mantra reminding us all that when the storm hits, you’ve gotta hold onto hope and never give up. Amazon Prime presents The Devil’s Mouth, a survival-horror shark attack film set in the beautiful country of […]

BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER SEASON 2 REVIEW When crime haunts the night, a silent crusader carries the torch of justice. He is vengeance. He is the night. He is Batman! For the second season, executive producers J.J. Abrams with Bruce Timm (creator of the iconic and award-winning Batman: The Animated Series) take us back to the […]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SEASON 2 Jena, Lewayne, and T.C. meet up in the hidden backroom of the One Of Us pub to discuss Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, which wastes no time reminding audiences that New York City is no longer merely corrupt. It’s occupied. What began as a simmering rivalry between Matt Murdock and […]

REFUGE MOVIE REVIEW Lewayne, Mike the Editor, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us cabin in the woods to discuss this tightly wound thriller that starts as a simple fishing trip between four friends, but quickly reveals itself to be something far more sinister. What unfolds in the new film Refuge is less a […]

THE SERPENT’S SKIN MOVIE REVIEW Since the dawn of time, snakes have been given a terrible rep. Sketchy marketing practice? Snake oil salesmen. Surprised by bad news? Snake in the grass! Really good at lying? Forked tongue, like a snake! Poor reptiles have suffered the slander for years but with that bad boy reputation also […]

THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT MOVIE REVIEW Based on the video game of the same name, The Mortuary Assistant stars Willa Holland as Rebecca, a young woman with a troubled past who has just completed her training as a mortician. One night, her boss, the mysterious Mr. Delver (Paul Sparks), asks her in to come in and […]

THE BLUFF MOVIE REVIEW Avast, ye scurvy-ridden dogs! It’s a rare entry into the swords and sails action-adventure genre! Lewayne and T.C. set sail on the One Of Us schooner to chart whether this new, bloody, swashbuckling Amazon original sinks beneath the waves or turns out to be a treasure. Set on a secluded island […]

STARFLEET ACADEMY SERIES REVIEW It’s the 32nd century and in an effort to restore themselves to their former glory, a shattered Starfleet relaunches Starfleet Academy, which had been replaced by the more bellicose War College. Former Starfleet Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) has been appointed Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, which will operate alongside the still […]

THIS IS NOT A TEST MOVIE REVIEW Suburban living can be tough when your dad won’t get off your back about skipping class, and your Mom isn’t around to provide that parental balance, and your older sister bailed on the family. The only thing worse than that kind of anxiety is the emergency broadcast system […]

GHOST TRAIN MOVIE REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to use public transportation, here comes Ghost Train, a South Korean horror anthology film about a cursed subway station. Da-kyung (Joo Hyun-young) calls herself the Horror Queen of YouTube, and hosts a once popular channel about ghost sightings and other paranormal events. Desperate to […]

THE CONFESSION MOVIE REVIEW Back in the dark ages there was a tale of a pied piper who led all the rats out of town. Take that, plague! Upon request for payment the the people of the town gave thanks but found no coin in their pockets nor charity in their hearts to pay the […]

THE ABANDONS SERIES REVIEW ‘The way of the gun’ crashes against the power of wealth while the law watches with a big bucket of popcorn in this Netflix series by The Shield and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, The Abandons. Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) is a ruthless calculating homesteader who adopted several orphans to […]

THE LOWDOWN SERIES REVIEW Mark Twain once said “If you tell the truth, you won’t have to remember anything”. This great advice seems to go largely unobserved in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa in the FX series, The Lowdown. Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke) is a bookstore owner that also happens to moonlight as a self […]

MUZZLE: CITY OF WOLVES MOVIE REVIEW Surprise! A sequel to a movie you didn’t know exists! Well, at the very least The Screener Squad didn’t know about it. Muzzle: City of Wolves storms onto the scene as the surprise sequel to 2023’s Muzzle, once again centered on Aaron Eckhart’s LAPD K-9 officer Jake Rosser. Still […]

STAY MOVIE REVIEW One of the most famous and spooky scary EVP’s (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) ever documented was the phrase “Get out of my house”. Often a haunted house tale is a story of a restless spirit that doesn’t want anyone in its space and someone figuring out why it’s so restless. Move on? I […]

THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT MOVIE REVIEW Charles (Corey Hawkins) has fallen on the worst of times in the most apathetic of decades, the 90s. He doesn’t have a job, the bank is continually threatening to foreclose on his house, and he is burdened with a past full of trauma and anger. His ancestral domicile […]

KILLING FAITH MOVIE REVIEW It was a time of tumbleweeds, rawhide, and ghost towns. A time of doctors who traded in bottles of medicine to find the bottom of bottles made of dead families and glass. Ranches with too many horses in a one horse town with no name. Well, the town had a name, […]

ALIEN: EARTH SERIES REVIEW The common online geek response to a hyped up writer/director being giving the reins to a beloved classic sci-fi franchise is “get away from her you bitch!”. With a track record that includes the Legion and Fargo TV Series, at least some geeks were excited to give Noah Hawley a crack […]