Casting The Net

This week, we're checking out the insanity that is Batman Ninja. In this heavily stylized anime adventure, the Caped Crusader is transported back in time to feudal Japan, and studies the ways of the ninja to do battle with everyone from Gorilla Grodd, to Two-Face, Penguin, Poison Ivy, and The Joker and Harley Quinn.

Things start to spiral for a suicidal army vet turned freelance enforcer in the hauntingly engaging You Were Never Really Here, as Joe (Joaquin Phoenix)is hired to find a missing young girl, and stumbles into the dark corners of corruption and greed.

This week, we're talking about the Netflix original cyber thriller Cam, where a young woman (Madeline Brewer)makes her living online as the cam girl Lola, getting money and gifts for doing racy live video shows. Things are looking up until Alice discovers that someone has taken over her channel . . . someone who looks exactly like her.

Not to be confused with Blumhouse's Truth or Dare which was released earlier this year, THIS Truth or Dare is . . . basically the exact same film! But we knew we had to talk about it anyway, as eight college friends are pulling into a supernatural and game of truth or dare where they have to do the dare . . . before the dare does them!

This week, we dive into one of the most unusual romantic comedies to come out in recent years with Destination Wedding. Frank and Lindsay (Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder) are two miserable people who take little to know shame in expressing how miserable they are. But will they let that get in the way of a little love, is the question.

It's all about some good old fashion ultra-violence, as the stars of the Raid films square off in the ridiculously blood crime thriller, The Night Comes For Us. When Ito (Joe Taslim) wants out of his life as a Triad enforcer, it sets off a bloody chain of events that ultimately leads him to a brutal face-to-face with his former friend and partner Arian (Iko Uwais, but not before he has to tak...

It's been over 20 years since the original Tales From The Hood was released in theaters, but now we've finally got a follow-up to the urban-themed horror anthology that examined racial conflicts and tried the scare the life out of us at the same time. Keith David steps in for Clarence Williams III to tell a quartet of tales that hoping to chill you to the bone.

Happy Halloween, Kiddies!!!! Welcome to the first episode of spin-off show, CTN Tangents! We're kicking things off with a deep-dive discussion into one of our favorite shows, Tales From The Crypt! We touched on this briefly in out Trick R' Treat episode, but now we're giving you a full episode talking about one of the best horror anthology series of all time! Intro Music: "Tale...

Halloween Month wraps up with moody supernatural thriller Thelma, as a young college student(Eili Harbor) discovers that she has strange and terrifying abilities that she can't control or explain. And what dark secrets are her over-protective parents keeping from her?

If there's one thing the folks in this film learn, it's that you have to respect the rules and traditions of All Hallow's Eve, as an All-star cast shines in the horror anthology Trick R' Treat.

Horror Month continues with a "Double Feature" episode, as we discuss and compare two contemporary vampire films that share more than a few similarities, but also couldn't be more different. In Kiss of the Damned, Milo Ventimiglia falls under the spell of a beautiful French vampire, and in Only Lovers Left Alive, Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play a vampire couple struggling with...

Halloween month begins with the killer clown slasher flick, Terrifier, as two partying young ladies find themselves at the mercy of a mute and maniacal serial killer dressed as the scariest clown since Pennywise! This film may just be too extreme, even for us!

We've been waiting for this one! The Wolfcop is back, and harrier than ever! This time, Lou Garou (Leo Fafard) and the deputies of the Woodhaven Sheriff's Department have to stop an alien invasion from taking over their sleepy, beer-loving town. But he'll definitely make time for booze, babes, and even a little moon dust. . .

An angsty teen and a curious robot make for a great pair in the CG-animated Netflix movie, Next Gen. When Mai (Charlyne Yi)crosses paths with Project-77 (John Krazinski)at a robotics presentation, the two form a quick bond, and eventually have to face off against a ruthless tech billionaire's robot army.

Misadventures and hilarity when a group of friends have to venture through the wilderness to get a friend's dismembered "appendage" to him before doctors threaten to leave him . . . less of a young man. The folks behind Workaholics try their hand at raunchy teen comedy with The Package.

The internet can be unforgiving, especially for an aspiring MC who becomes a laughing stock after he blows his chance to impress industry professionals at a local music showcase. But when his best friend declares himself bound and determined to right this wrong, they'll have to strap in for one wild night.

This week's episode is tons of fun, as we discuss the wild and outlandish adaptation of the wild and outlandish comic book, Officer Downe. Kim Coates plays the undying police officer in question, who puts his life on the line every night for the badge, even if it kills him . . . which it usually does!

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It's been a while since the last one, but we have a new movie that is sure to be a hate-watch for the ages, as a group of friends trip out on some extraterrestrial bud in the sci-fi/thriller Star Leaf. When James' (Julian Gavilanes) friends take him into the woods to help him get his mind off of his PTSD from being in the military, they'll discover the the most powerful weed in the...

This week we're talking about Son of a Gun, where after a harrowing jailbreak, two convicts (Ewan McGreggor and Brenton Thwaites) team up for a gold heist that could have them set for life. But who to trust gets complicated with every twist and turn.

An adolescent girl has to learn to face her demons in the comic book-inspired I Kill Giants, as young Barbara (Madison Wolfe), traverses the woods of her quite coastal suburban town, sworn to protect it from an onslaught of giants. Meanwhile, her overwhelmed sister (Imogen Poots) and a school psychologist (Zoe Saldana) try to help Barbara cope with some life-changing events.

This week, we're seeing what lengths two overworked office assistants will go to to get their respective bosses to hook up, in the Netflix original romantic comedy, Set It Up. If Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) want more free time to enjoy their lives, they'll pull every trick in the Parent Trap playbook to get their bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggss) to fall in love with e...

This week, we discuss the perils of artificial intelligence as we talk about the sci-fi thriller. When Julie (Maika Monroe) is kidnapped by an obsessive engineer Alex (Ed Skrein), she finds herself bonding with A.I. program that Alex has been developing, Tau (Gary Oldman).

What's the best way to put out a brain fire? This week we discuss the Netflix original film, Brain on Fire, as Chloe Grace Moretz plays Susanna Cahalan, a real-life reporter in New York who experienced neurological episodes that, for a time, no doctor could properly diagnose, ultimately leading to a month-long hospitalization.

It's "Attack of the Brain Snatchers" in the sequel nobody asked for, Beyond Skyline. This time around, Frank Grillo (The Purge Election Year) and Iko Uwais (The Raid) team up to stop an alien invasion.