Casting The Net

This week, we're covering the trippy thriller Braid, because we wanted to experience dropping acid without actually having to do it! In the film, hustlers Tilda and Petula are on the run from the police, and decide to rob their wealth friend Daphne. Upon arriving at Daphne's manor, the two prepare themselves to play a twisted roleplaying game that they'll have to finish if they want...

Since The country's already going to hell in a hand basket, we figured it'd be fun to check out Ike Barinholtz's directorial debut, The Oath. Along with Tiffany Haddish, the two play a married couple hosting Thanksgiving, and trying not to let differing political ideologies get in the way. But with the looming deadline for American citizens to sign a national pledge of loyalty to th...

Big sis Kike joins the party, once again, on this week's episode, as we discuss the gritty crime drama Destroyer. When burnout detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) starts investigating a John Doe murder, she finds herself faced with her trouble past, including an undercover operation gone wrong, and the point at which everything in her life fell apart. The trip down memory lane is a rough one,...

We figured you folks deserved a bonus episode after Clearly Canadian 2: Canuxploitation! Join us as we discuss our favorite Canadian television shows, and we apologize in advance for not mentioning Anne of Green Gables at all. Feel free to shame us for that if you like.

Break ups are rough as hell. So it's always great when your friends can get you through it. This week we're talking about the Netflix Original movie, Someone Great. Jenny (Gina Rodriguez), has just broken up with her boyfriend of nine years, and it's the last thing she needs to deal with as she's about to move from New York to San Francisco for a new job. But her friends Erin (...

Canuxploitation comes to an end as we discuss the post-apocalyptic action adventure film, Supergrid. In the near future, there's a vast wasteland that only a few brave souls will traverse, know as the Supergrid. Tasked with delivering a secret package across the grid, Deke and his estranged brother will have to fight off bandits, scavengers, and gangsters to complete their mission.

Imagine finding out that you're a werewolf, and even more than that, there's a whole town of werewolves who know more about your family history than you. Canuxploitation continues as we get good and spoiler with Wolves. After young Cayden Richards (Lucas Till) discovers his parents brutally murdered, he's instantly pegged as the culprit, and realizes that he's something not qui...

Canuxploitation gets a whole lot bloodier this week, as we discuss the thriller American Mary. Mary (Katherine Isabelle) is an ambitious med student who's struggling to make ends meet. But after a chance encounter puts her surgical skills on display, she quickly finds herself a sought-after commodity among members of the body modification community, and she'll do anything to protect her...

It's like Romeo and Juliet . . . but with pizza! We're kicking off "Clearly Canadian II: Canuxploitation" with a little bit of romance, as Emma and Roberts and Hayden Christensen play old childhood friends stuck in the middle of a years-old feud between their pizza parlor owning fathers. As they try to make up for lost time, they'll realize there might be more to their fri...

The art world can be cutthroat as all hell, as we discussed Velvet Buzzsaw on this week's episode. When a gallery assistant steals a cache of paintings by a dead artist, it'll spark an industry-wide renaissance, but with supernaturally fatal side effects for all parties involved.

Stealing tens of millions of dollars from a drug lord in South America was hard enough. But getting out alive will be more than a group of former military operators bargained for in the Netflix original movie Triple Frontier. Led by Tom 'Redfly' Davis (Ben Affleck) and Santiago 'Pope' Garcia (Oscar Isaac), the team find themselves tested at every turn, and questioning if their...

Breaking up is hard . . . so why not hire someone to do it for you?! This week, we're talking about the Netflix original movie The Breaker Uppers, as two friends have made a business out of ending relationships for people too chickenshit to do it themselves. How can hilarious hijinks NOT ensue?!?!

Imagine Die Hard at a soccer stadium. This is the basic setup for the action film, The Final Score. In the film, Dave Bautista is Michael Knox, a veteran soldier hoping to reconnect with the daughter of his deceased army buddy at a soccer game, only to have a group of terrorist show up and hold the entire stadium hostage, and force him into the role of the reluctant hero.

What would you do if you were burglarizing some rich guy's (David Tennant) house, and a stumbled across a woman he was holding captive? And what would you did once you realized the rich guy found out you were there? That's the predicament Sean Falcon (Robert Sheehan) finds himself in, in Bad Samaritan.

On the show this week, we discuss the action drama Braven, as Jason Mamoa stars as a family man struggling to care for his father (Stephen Lang) who suffers from diminished mental capacity brought on by a previous head injury. As it tries to help his father with a trip to their family cabin, they unfortunately cross paths with a crew of drug runners, who have stashed their latest shipment in said...

Nothing is worse for business than a veteran assassin living out his retirement, and Victor Salva (Mads Mikkelsen) is about to find that out the hard way in the Netflix original movie, Polar. With teams of hitmen gunning for him so he can't collect on his pension, Victor is gonna show them all that "The Black Kaiser" is not one to be messed with!

On this week's episode, we're talking about the Netflix original movie IO, as Margaret Qualley plays Sam, a young research specialist who has stayed behind on Earth despite the toxicity of a majority of the planet's atmosphere, while the rest of the planet's population has migrated to an orbital lunar colony known as IO. Things change for Sam, however, with the arrival of Micah...

On this month's tangent episode, we're doing a deep dive into the works of Mike Flanagan, and discuss why we believe that he is one of the modern masters of horror. From Hush, to Gerald's Game and The Haunting of Hill House, this director has made some of the best horror content in the last few years, and we needed a full episode to praise his work.

What happens when a protection specialist is backstabbed and has to go on the rune with her latest client? We find out on this week's episode, as Noomi Rapace stars in the action thriller, Close. Hired to protect a wealthy young heiress, Sam (Noomi Rapace) will have to wrestle with her own personal demons, as ruthless mercenaries and corrupt officials try to get their hands on her and her you...

It was supposed to be the music festival to end all music festivals. Instead, it became one of the biggest disasters social media had ever witnessed. This week we cover not one by two documentaries detailing the events leading up to the spectacular failure that was the Fyre Festival, as well as its aftermath. Hold onto your butts, people!

On the podcast this week, we're diving' into the Netflix original film Dumplin, starring Danielle McDonald and Jennifer Aniston. No one would have ever pegged Willow Dean (Danielle McDonald) was the type to compete in a beauty pageant, but if she's ever going to get her obsessive mother to see her as anything other than "Dumplin", she's gonna have to show out like she...

We finally talk about the Netflix original movie that EVERYBODY is talking about on this week's episode, as Sandra Bullock plays a mother trying to survive a supernatural apocalypse in Bird Box. Humanity is pushed to the brink of extinction as a people fall victim to creatures that can drive you insane if you look at them, and any excursions outside of the shelter of a house or building, requ...

Ghosts, werewolves, and shitty pizza all collide in a sleepy town where delivery boys are being murdered, as we talk about the horror/comedy Slice on this week's episode. Chance the Rapper plays Dax, a reluctant werewolf with a mysterious past whose return to the town of Kingfisher coincides with a string of pizza deliver boy murders, thus leading authorities to target him as a prime suspect.

WE HAVE DONE IT!!!!! We have reached a major milestone, and we couldn't be happier! We're grateful to the folks who made it out to The Pinch in Washington DC as we recorded our 100th EPISODE!!!!! We put it to a vote, and most folks made it pretty clear that they wanted us to cover the trippy, psychedelic fever dream of bloody revenge that is Mandy, starring Nicholas Cage, Andrea Riceboro...

This week, we're talking' about a ass-kickin', lady-lovin' brotha who's outta sight. . . and he goes by the name of BLACK DYNAMITE!!!!! When some jive turkeys kill his brother, Black Dynamite (Michael J. White) will have to hit the streets hard to get to the bottom of one of most diabolical schemes of all time!