Red Team Reviews

The oven is done cooking, the sheets are out of the dryer, and TJ has done a bang up job digesting and excreting the contents of Part 1 into a satisfying meal of an X-Franchise. Last week, Trevor talked a whole bunch about things that feel true to making a better X-Men movie or TV franchise, and now he gets to be silly again as he sits back and listens to the musings of an almost-screenwriter. And...

Yes friends here we are with more strike content - because even though we’re not Drew Barrymore, we still know what it means to not be a scab. That said, if some mouse-based mega corporation likes our ideas, we should be paid for them. This week and next week, Trevor and TJ will be doing a deep dive into X-Men comics history to pitch a better live action adaptation. Today, we begin with Trevor’s s...

It finally happened, gang. Trevor has completed his debt to TJ (per last December’s Reject or Renew Survivor Series) to complete the Mass Effect video game trilogy. And now TJ finally has a friend. As a bonus, we don’t have to be scabs because this is video game content! Join us for an extra long, extra special episode featuring: our space dad, our space raptor best friend, and our space conservat...

Wow. This anime sure is anime-ing. You know, the anime called One Piece? It's an anime called One Piece. It's about Pirates. Wowee! Pirates! Did we mention it's about Pirates? Not the Cypher Chief, but Pirates! I once encountered pirates... (proceeds to talk about it for nine episodes). Welcome to May's Reject or Renew where we finally dig into the first four arcs of the seminal an...

A white woman? NO! And he falls in love with her? TYPICAL! Welcome back to AAPI Heritage month where we finally take a crack at movies representing that big ole Indian subcontinent with Tollywood’s smash hit, RRR, and the Pakistani slugfest, Polite Society. This is the week we learn that if you don’t have anything to say to a woman that isn’t about her womb, just don’t say anything at all. We’re e...

Are straight people okay? Clearly not, since we're launching into unprompted Star Wars rants in the middle of AAPI Heritage Month. Welcome to a big heckin negative review episode as TJ and Trevor chime in about a genre that is very much not for them: the erotic thriller! Featuring 2007's Lust, Caution, 2022's Decision to Leave, and very much not any Marvel movies, why would you even th...

We’ve hired the Cypher Chief to jack into your brains for yet another episode of classic anime franchises. This week’s slate is Ghost in the Shell (not the whitewashed one, we promise) and Lupin III: The First (Yeah, that one. No, the other one. No, the *other* other one. Look, just type in 2018 when you search for it, it’s the one with the CG). Tune in for what basically amounts to a pretty intel...

This episode is somehow simultaneously a warm bowl of soup and an absolute roller coaster ride - that's just the combination you get when you put us together to talk about Studio Ghibli movies. We return to the promised land that Hayao Miyazaki built in a cave with a box of scraps, by diving into the oft-overlooked film The Cat Returns, the classic growing pains of Kiki's Delivery Service,...

They’re not creepy, they’re not kooky, they’re altogether… disappointing. Welcome to this month’s Reject or Renew where TJ and Trevor cover the Riverdale-ification of yet another franchise with season one of Netflix’s Wednesday. We give flowers where due to Jenna Ortega as we wrestle with this wendigo of a mystery plot. Or is it a chupacabra? At any rate, join us for turning gay by moonlight, ques...

No March but all Madness? Sounds like a lotta Hoopla to me. We're sucking down burnt shakes as we carry on with the second half of our 100th Episode (hush), narrowing down our choice for the *Best*, Most *Iconic* episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. We've reached our final 32 contestants - will Band Geeks mosey into the top spot? Will Wet Painters carry on with its run of the century? Will Kw...

IT’S OUR 100TH EPISODE! DO NOT @ ME! Strap in for all of the references because we’re about to FLOOR IT! Welcome to the (slightly delayed) 2023 March Madness Tournament, where we welcome back legacy tourney guest Krista Grevas to simply bathe in the wonder that is the show that defined the humor of a generation: SpongeBob SquarePants. We’re taking 76 of the best, most memed, most heart-stopping ep...

Welcome back to another Reject or Renew where everything’s made up and the numbering of episodes doesn’t matter. This episode is kinda like if Trevor half heartedly played the keep-the-balloon-in-the-air game, and TJ had a knife (insert Vine reference here). Today we cover the Big Mouth of DC properties, the Harley Quinn animated series to close out our Ladies Who Punch series. Join us for Tr...

While it is not the month of his people, Trevor still manages to eke out yet another Marvel episode. He can’t keep getting away with this. In any case, welcome back to our second week of Women's Comic Movie History Month! TJ continues to fawn over our guests, Julienne Bailey (said guest) continues to fawn over women (who can blame her) and we all fawn over Florence Pugh (who can blame us). This ti...

It's Women's History Month, and we're doing something very unusual for us and spotlighting ladies who punch. I’m shocked we never thought to do this before. Please welcome the return of our perennial stage manager Julienne Bailey as we dive deep into 2017's Wonder Woman and 2020's Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (or is it the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn? We don't know! Neither does Wa...

We're going back to school, listeners! We're closing out Black History Month with the first season of Quinta Brunson's trope-encyclopedic sitcom, Abbott Elementary. Meanwhile, TJ and Trevor have war flashbacks to their time as teaching artists. Man, those third graders really do a number on a person. Join us for HOT LUNCH, Elizabeth-Olsen-hands, three first names, and the three pillars of Chicago...

Is this a microphone we see before us? Come, let me podcast into thee. Welcome to another exciting artist spotlight, this time around for a man who can go from noble to crazy in 30 seconds: Denzel Washington. Moving past his award-winning performance in Malcolm X (see episode 24!), this week we are looking at a pair of films that are emblematic of the smooth-talking, cop-adjacent, Magneto-like gra...

WE DEFY YOU, HEART MAN! Welcome back to the kissiest, goo-goo-iest episode of the year, as TJ and Trevor tackle two romance movies with subtitles ahead of Valentine's Day (listen, it's not a strong theme, but to be fair, it's not exactly a strong holiday). Equality will be a pleasant feeling, as you tune in to hear our thoughts on 2019's Portrait of a Lady On Fire, and you'll wonder if you've...

We're Bla-- I mean, we're back! Welcome to the SIXTH (Jeez, the sixth...) season of Red Team Reviews, as we embark on yet another Black History Month of content. And who better to smash through the litany of gangster movies and trauma porn than someone that very well may traumatize a few folks with his thrillers, Jordan Peele himself. This week we take a big ol' slurp of Rogaine for Henry Selick's...

Well this is going just peachy for SOME of us. We bring you the second part in our thrilling onslaught against television mediocrity with the continuation of the Reject or Renew Survivor Series. The stakes are incredibly high as we finish our negotiations on Schitts Creek, as well as decide the fates of Scrubs, Game of Thrones, Sgt. Frog, and Stranger Things. Who will come out on top? Will Trevor...

Season 5? The tribe has spoken. Our slate of renewed shows for our Reject or Renew segment has gotten just crowded enough that we thought, Hey, why not get a good ol’ purge goin? It's the first ever edition of the Reject or Renew Survivor Series, where TJ and Trevor cull the herd by coming to a resolution on the future of each show. They *must* come to an agreement, all bets are off and everything...

Bah Humbug, listeners - it's time for a Christmas Carol round up. Out of the litany of options, we chose to meet our Muppet quota with The Muppet Christmas Carol, and then scratch our heads through the Netflix pop-ified animated remake of the 1970s movie musical Scrooge (yes, all of those words are necessary to describe this), and the absolute turducken of a movie that is Will Ferrell & Ryan R...

Listen. We were having a good run with this segment, watching some shows, bopping along, doing a fan survey every week. But then, Danny McBride happened. As Danny McBride often does. But still, we thought "Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised. It won't happen, but maybe." All of this to say that this week TJ and Trevor destroy the hopes of a dear friend by reviewing the first season of HBO's The...

FIRE! FIRE! EVERYONE GETS PAID TO SHOUT FIRE! Welcome to our little shoehorned edition of Dissin' Franchise, where we're looking at the masterpiece-turned-Johnny Depp-circle-jerk that is the Pirates of the Caribbean original trilogy. Despite a good run, Trevor's attempts of emulating Luis from Ant-Man are about to go downhill very quickly. Join us for Salty Skarsgard, starfish face paint, flat ear...

Welcome back to the final episode of our X-cursion, where we find out how two men who regularly go to therapy react to the patriarchal shitstorm that are the solo “Wolverine” “films” (and we use those terms loosely). Ya know, the one where Hugh Jackman shows us Logan’s origin by… Skipping the actual origin. Or the one where Hugh Jackman punches a Japanese guy for… Speaking Japanese. Or the one whe...

Welcome back to the X-Men movie tour, where the characters are randomly plucked and the timelines don't matter. We're taking a look at the reboot-sequel trilogy (yes, there are only three, shush) because we're just so darn fascinated with that thing that happened between Professor X and Magneto during the Cold War. And how they never seem to age… Join us for the start of lovely fridge-able familie...