WVIA Pop Shop

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton take on Clayface , DC's new horror-inspired film about Matt Hagen, an ambitious actor whose life takes a terrifying turn after a disfiguring injury and experimental surgery. With its gruesome transformations, disturbing violence and connections to Gotham City, Clayface promises a very different kind of superhero movie. But does it deli...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton explore Vision Quest , the new Marvel series on Disney+ starring Paul Bettany as Vision and featuring the return of James Spader as Ultron. Picking up the story established in WandaVision and Agatha All Along , the series follows a resurrected Vision struggling to reconcile the memories of his former life with an identity he no longer...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton take on The Social Reckoning , Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network , starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong. The film revisits the world of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg through the story of whistleblower Frances Haugen and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, whose reporting helped expose troublin...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin, Patrick Hamilton and Kara take on Digger , the ambitious new black comedy starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon whose disregard for warnings triggers an environmental—and potentially global—disaster. With a cast that also includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons and Sandra Hüller, Digger certainly looks like a prestige picture. But underneath its Os...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin, Patrick Hamilton and Kara take on Primetime , the new film starring Robert Pattinson in a highly fictionalized retelling of the story behind NBC's To Catch a Predator . The movie portrays Chris Hansen as a man driven by a complicated mixture of justice, ambition, celebrity and ratings—and uses the rise of his controversial television series to ask uncomfo...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton enter Raccoon City for the newest Resident Evil movie—the eighth film in the franchise and its second reboot. The story follows Brian, an ordinary medical courier whose last-minute delivery sends him straight into a viral outbreak filled with monsters, terrible decisions and increasingly deadly obstacles. But rather than only asking wh...

This week on WVIA Pop Shop , Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton take on Practical Magic 2 , the long-awaited sequel to the 1998 cult favorite starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Sally and Gillian Owens are back, but so is a familiar problem: a family curse they thought they'd broken decades ago. As a new generation of the Owens family confronts its consequences, Allan and Patrick ask whether...

Why are Americans still fascinated by The Godfather more than 50 years after its release?

In this episode of WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton take on Coyote vs. Acme, the live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie that finally lets Wile E. Coyote take the Acme Corporation to court over decades of defective—and frequently disastrous—products.

What happens when the most powerful lawmen in the universe come down to Earth?

What happens to a community when survival becomes every family for themselves?

Can kindness actually be a radical act?

Can you really start over when the past refuses to let go?

Can you tell whether a movie will be great from just two minutes of footage?

Can a 3,000-year-old story still explain the world we live in today?

More than 30 years after the original animated series, does X-Men '97 still have something important to say?

Is Supergirl just another superhero movie—or does it have something meaningful to say about justice, trauma, and what it means to be good?

Is Toy Story 5 really about toys—or is it about what children are losing in a technology-driven world?

In this episode of WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton discuss Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's latest science-fiction thriller.

Can a He-Man movie actually say something meaningful about modern masculinity?

In the return of WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton discuss The Mandalorian & Grogu, the first Star Wars movie to hit theaters in years. Is it a worthy big-screen adventure, or does it feel like a streaming episode stretched into a movie?

Join us as we close out Season One of Pop Shop by dissecting Honey Don’t—the latest film from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, starring Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza.

In this episode of Pop Shop, our crew take a Wakandan wild ride through Eyes of Wakanda—the first streaming series of Marvel’s Phase Six, produced by Ryan Coogler. This four-part animated anthology explores the mysterious missions of Wakanda’s War Dogs as they recover lost vibranium artifacts across history and time.

Take a deep dive into Eddington, the latest film from director Ari Aster, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eddington explores power, politics, and personal trauma in a New Mexico town teetering on the edge.

Is the new Naked Gun reboot starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson a worthy successor to the classic spoof series? In this episode of Pop Shop, the crew take a deep dive into the absurd, hilarious, and surprisingly complex world of the rebooted Naked Gun.