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THE BRIDE! MOVIE REVIEW The 2020s seem to be the era of the return of the Universal monster. Not that you’d always recognize them as such. I suspect original director of The Bride of Frankenstein James Whale would be very confused by the existence of The Bride! but given that he was, in his time, […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 371: THAT’LL DO, PODCASTERS Chris and Wright punish themselves and you with some more bad Drumpf impressions as they cover some of the best physical media coming out. With apologies to Arrow and Shaw Brothers fans for a truncated look at the really great Shawscope Vol. 4 set, we nevertheless trudge through. […]

HOW TO MAKE A KILLING MOVIE REVIEW The human quokka Glen Powell stars as Becket Redfellow, a man on death row telling a priest his life story hours before his execution. His mother was the heir to an enormous fortune when she got impregnated by a…gasp…’commoner’. Her father, Whitelaw (Ed Harris) demanded she terminate it […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 370: Yo! DN RAPS! I swear to you as my cats as my witness, John and Chris do not even attempt rapping on this episode. If this was a concern for your continued sanity, we understand and fear not. However, we do discuss the first hip-hop movie ever made as well as […]

CRIME 101 MOVIE REVIEW We love a good heist movie, especially when it focuses on both the cops and the robbers as primary characters. Here, in writer/director Bart Layton’s Crime 101 you’ve got a lot of the genre tropes ticking. There’s the good master thief (Chris Hemsworth) who never lets anyone get hurt and has […]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS MOVIE REVIEW There have been a LOT of film and tv adaptations of Wuthering Heights, author Emily Bronte’s single novel from 1847. It’s been translated into different languages, different settings, times, and genres. Like a lot of romantic dramas, the love story is deeply problematic in the sense that these are two very […]

PILLION MOVIE REVIEW One of the biggest award winning and best reviewed films of 2025 was one that might not be on your radar at all. With an American release from A24 this directorial debut by Harry Lighton has garnered lots of attention in the indie cinema world. But why have you not heard about […]

SHELTER MOVIE REVIEW There are three kinds of Jason Statham films. #1- Part of an ensemble cast of folks, pretty much always action-based, and more often than not a Guy Ritchie movie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ghosts of Mars). #2 – Action with some comedy but usually batshit crazy cartoon stuff (Crank, […]

SEND HELP MOVIE REVIEW Legendary director Sam Raimi isn’t the most prolific of filmmakers. His last film was Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022 and before that it was 2013’s Oz The Great and Powerful. But to go back to the genre he is certainly best known for, horror, you have to […]

MERCY MOVIE REVIEW Imagine that an AI that has taken control of our legal system as judge, jury, and executioner. Those accused of capital crimes who are ranked above a certain percentage of being likely to be guilty are given 90 minutes to defend themselves in front of an AI judge and prove their innocence […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 369 – CHRIS KNOWS MORE ABOUT JAWS THAN WRIGHT More on that title in the the third act of this typically epic length episode of Chris and Wright discussing the latest in physical media. But the other stuff you have to look forward to is legion: the film that beat out Jaws […]

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE MOVIE REVIEW It’s 28 years after the 28 weeks after the 28 days later and The Bone Temple picks up right where 2025’s 28 Years Later left off, making it the first direct sequel in this franchise of post-apocalyptic ‘infected’ horror films. We find that Spike (Alfie Williams) has […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 368: JOHN’S BEST STACK EVER? When John picked up this week’s stack of physical media to watch for Digital Noise, he said, “Chris…this might be the best stack you’ve ever handed me”. So, the suspense begins…did they live up to his hopes? With everything from a legendary documentary about one of the […]

BEST OF 2025 PART THREE Chris and Wright gather a different lineup of regulars and friends to discuss more of the best movies and tv shows of 2025 that MAYBE aren’t the things you’ve heard everyone else talking about. Things have gotten a little looser on this second (in person, third overall) segment as the […]

BEST OF 2025 PART TWO If you have listened to our Best Of podcasts in the past, you expect to hear Professor Jeff from Rage Select give some of his favorite games (and usually animes) of the year. This year the timing didn’t work out for him to join us at our ‘big crew’ recording, […]

BEST OF 2025 PART ONE We always try to do something a little different every year with our Best Of The Year shows. This year, we decided to get together just the Austin-based folks for a sorta mini-Gathering series of podcasts to take on the best of TV, Film, and Videogames of 2025. The conceit […]

IS THIS THING ON? MOVIE REVIEW Comedy can be good for a lot of things but personal healing is not one you hear as much about. Writer/Director Bradley Cooper offers this year in an unusually low-key release his take on the subject, Is This Thing On? Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John […]

ANACONDA MOVIE REVIEW If you’ve ever seen the 1997 horror film Anaconda starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, and Eric Stoltz, you know that it’s not exactly a masterpiece of the genre. And yet, it stubbornly exudes a weird cultural fascination that only comes with movies that are very bad yet oddly […]

SONG SUNG BLUE It’s Christmas time so you can expect a few things: people acting like Mariah Carey is some horror movie villain, reconsiderations of the Grinch as a powerful anti-capitalist figure unjustifiably bullied by a bunch of yokels, and lately Hugh Jackman playing a singing role in a film. Song Sung Blue tells the […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 367: HIDEOUS MUTANT FREAK CRITICS A long time ago Wright and Chris were walking down a long and lonesome road when all of the sudden shined some shiny…physical media. And our audience said, “Give the best reviews in the world or we’ll eat your souls”. And Chris and Wright looked at each […]

THE HOUSEMAID MOVIE REVIEW Ready for some trashy Paul Feig twisty silliness? The Housemaid is one of those films that you’re either going to be with its over-the-top, elevated Lifetime movie dramatics as super fun, or totally bored by it. Sydney Sweeney plays Millie, a desperate woman with a troubled past who is sleeping in […]

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH MOVIE REVIEW James Cameron has constantly been pushing the needle throughout his career in terms of visual F/X. If there’s a new Cameron movie, you can be sure you’re going to see some digital work that is the newest and shiniest thing out there. With the third in his Avatar series, […]

ELLA MCCAY MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director/Sitcom creating legend James L. Brooks is back with his first feature film in fifteen years with Ella McCay. Emma Mackey plays the titular role and she is a force of nature. When we meet her in the film, she’s a schoolgirl telling off her dad (Woody Harrelson) for being a […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 366: DOCTOR LORD SIR JOHN GHOLSON ON HOME RELEASES Ok, before you do anything else, go buy the movie Man Finds Tape which is available right now on VOD. John plays the antagonist in this horror film that is getting stellar reviews and lots of attention. It’s well worth your time. And […]

HAMNET MOVIE REVIEW It’s important to remember when looking at biopics about real people that we actually know very little about, that being queeny about the historical details is entirely besides the fact. Guarantee that director Chloé Zhao knew that when she signed up to make the film Hamnet and it was never intended to […]