A24 On The Rocks

The A24 Rocks crew delves further into the Alex Garland universe, continuing their reviews of the 28 "Blank" Later series. This time, it's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple starring Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Erin Kellyman, and Jack O’Connell. We left off at the end of 28 Years Later with Spike finding a gang of Jimmy's, and quickly learning in The Bone Temple that they're a sadistic group of Sa...

As we continue our trek through the lost year of 2020, the A24 Rocks crew reviews their fourth A24 documentary: Boys State. This documentary covers a group of 1,100 teenage boys creating a mock government in Austin, Texas. The prestigious camp has previously hosted politicians and politco personalities such as Dick Cheney, Cory Booker, Bill Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh. The difference between those...

On this week's A24 vibe discussion, the A24 Rocks crew is back with another blind ranking, this time they take on the top 16 Catholic films of all time. They're joined by cradle catholic film-buff Bill Holland from Morally Offensive, a podcast that reviews movies deemed morally offensive by the Catholic church (https://www.morallyoffensive.com/). The crew digs deep into the history of Cath...

And WE'RE BACK! The A24 on the Rocks crew goes back to the year we'd all like to forget... 2020. Due to the Covid 19 Lockdown, there were only three films distributed by A24 in 2020, and the first one was First Cow. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, First Cow is about two men named Otis Figowitz and King Lu trying to hustle in 1820s Oregon. When Otis and King Lu figure out the Chief Factor have a cow,...

96 films and 159 podcasts later, Eric and Kevin have made it atop the A24 mountain after watching every single A24 film from the 2010 decade of A24. Three fellow podcasters quit in the process of this arduous journey, yet Eric and Kevin somehow kept their eyeballs fresh and their vocal boxes running. In this intimate conversation, Eric travelled all the way to Wisconsin to record this podcast in p...

Every year these cinephiles get together to decide what movies, actors, actresses, writers, and directors get to take home a golden-coveted Oscar Isaac statue that is as big as Oscar Isaac himself. After the 21 A24 films in 2019, it was the toughest competition yet for the A24 Rocks crew to decide who should win (and lose). 7 Oscar Isaacs, and 1 bronze piece of poop, up for the taking. Who will wi...

Unccccuuuutttttt Jaaaaahhhhhhmmmmms. In our final review of the 2019 year of A24, the A24 Rocks crew has finally reached The Safdie Brothers' gambling New York City anxiety rollercoaster Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Lakeith Stanfield, and Kevin Garnett. Uncut Gems is about a gambling addict named Howard who owns a gem shop in New York City's diamond district. When Howard im...

For the holiday celebration this year, these cinema lovers rewind to 1999 and review the crime-comedy Go starring Sarah Polly, Katie Holmes, William Fitchner, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, and Scott Wolf. These film reviewers invite on Lamb, who rented out a movie theatre this past year and imported the film reel for "Go." In this triptych tale, Ronna needs to make her rent... and that's all you nee...

On the second from last film review for the 2019 year of A24, these A24 film reviewers discuss the 2019 horror-comedy In Fabric, written and directed by Peter Strickland. In Fabric starts with a woman named Sheila Woolchapel (portrayed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who works as a bank teller at a British bank. She is a single middle-aged lady with a dismissive son, and one day, she scores a date with...

The A24 Rocks crew looks back at the first feature film Harmony Korine directed, the controversial Criterion classic Gummo. Korine directed one of the most famous A24 films in Spring Breakers, so these film reviewers wondered what kind of filmmaking themes Korine established early in his career. And to say the least, controversy was always in his wheelhouse. Gummo is a non-linear story about Xenia...

Today on the A24 on the Rocks podcast, these film reviewers review the third Trey Edward Shults film in the A24 catalog: Waves starring Kelvin Harrison Jr and Taylor Russell. Waves focuses on an African-American family in southern Florida tackling themes such as family trauma, forgiveness, toxic masculinity, and race in America. It's unique storytelling structure has divided some critics, but...

The A24 Rocks crew goes back to Jane Schoenbrun's debut film, the psychological horror movie We're All Going to the World's Fair. When Casey participates in an online World's Fair Challenge, she starts to see disturbing changes in herself. A middle-aged man named JLB watches her videos and reaches out to her. Is Casey actually experiencing changes from the World's Fair Challenge, or is it all an M...

The Kill Team is a 2019 "war" drama starring Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgaard that is a based on a true story of the war crimes of a U.S. military platoon in Afghanistan. Nat Wolff portrays U.S. Army member Andrew Briggman who joined the military believing he would serve his country valiantly. But soon after Sergeant Deeks (portrayed by Alexander Skarsgaard) takes over as leader of his...

In this A24 vibe discussion, these film reviewers discuss what many critics are calling "the film of the decade" in One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson directed this Thomas Pynchon adaptation while Leonardo Dicaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti star in it. It revolves around a revolutionary group named the French 75, and a love triangle that forms between two...

For the fourth documentary in the A24 distribution chronology, the A24 Rocks crew visits the African Savannah and a herd of elephants. Narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this nature documentary is about a 50 year old Elephant Queen named Athena and her family who are struggling through a historic drought. The family searches for water while also attempting to maintain milk for their children, who need...

On a special Halloween episode and A24 Vibe Discussion, these A24 fans invite on fellow sinner Bill Holland from The Morally Offensive Podcast (https://www.morallyoffensive.com/) to review an all-time David Fincher classic in Se7en (AKA Seven) and give the history of the seven deadly sins. Starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs are often credited as making the se...

HARK TRITON HARK! Bellow bid our father Robert Eggers rise from the depths of cinema for this podcast. Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother the A24 Rocks crew with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging their microphones till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and film reviews and can scream no more - only when Robert Pattinson - crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' Willem Dafoe a...

In light of A24's latest release "The Smashing Machine" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: the A24 Rocks crew invites on fellow podcaster, sports fan, and film-buff Naaim Siddiqi to blind rank the top 16 sports films of all time. These movie-lovers randomly generate numbers 1-16, and whatever number a co-host ends up at, they must pick at that number. BUT each co-host has two...

For the 90th film in the A24 chronology, the A24 Rocks crew discusses the Jersey Shore mystery-thriller Low Tide starring Keean Johnson and Jaeden Martell. Low Tide was distributed in a limited release and certainly didn't create much buzz back in 2019 and is not a film many remember, yet it holds a 72% Critic's Rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's placed in the early 90s and follows a grou...

On this A24 Vibe Discussion, these reviewers discuss the most famous A24 TV show of all time: Euphoria starring Zendaya. When Euphoria came onto the scene in 2019, there wasn't much nuanced media covering the Gen Z generation, and somehow Sam Levinson put his finger on the pulse. The main character of the show is Rue (portrayed by Zendaya), a drug addict who recently overdosed and went to reha...

Before Everything Everywhere All At Once, and after Swiss Army Man and the "Turn Down for What" music video, Daniel Scheinert directed a commercially unsuccessful indie film called "The Death of Dick Long." It's about two friends who get into a heap of trouble horsing around in Alabama. They drop their curiously injured friend Dick Long off at the emergency room one night, and the suspense that en...

The A24 Rocks crew does another blind ranking, and this time they get to the bottom of the bag on "drug films." What is a drug film? Well, it might not all be stoner comedies. If this list was a person, it's not the blissed out dude in the corner of the party, but maybe a disheveled mess of guts and blood on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A drug film is about drug culture, and the peril...

Share was a 2019 HBO film written and directed by Pippa Bianco and starring Rhianne Barreto. Barreto portrays a high school girl named Mandy who wakes up in her front yard, before she finds strange bruises on her body. She then is confronted with a video that is being shared throughout her high school, that seems to insinuate she was sexually assaulted. Her parents find out and press charges again...

For this week's A24 vibe discussion, the A24 Rocks crew invite on music store owner Kyle Kanon and turn the volume up to 11 for the classic rock mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap" starring Christopher Guest and Michael McKean. With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues coming out soon, these film reviewers revisit what made the original so innovative and what other comedies it inspired. Wh...

On the 87th A24 film review for A24 on the Rocks, these film reviewers tackle the 2019 doozy of a movie "Skin" starring Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald. Skin is loosely based on the true story of Bryon Widner, a neo-nazi who was part of the white supremacist gang called the Vinlanders Social Club. After getting arrested for a horrific act of violence, Bryon meets a woman named Julie wh...