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THE INVITE MOVIE REVIEW Olivia Wilde as a director hit the ground running with the 2019 very funny comedy Booksmart. Unfortunately, her sophomore effort in 2022, the dystopian sci-fi drama Don’t Worry Darling did not fare nearly so well. So, returning to comedy seemed like the right move. Teaming up with A24, Wilde takes on […]

MOTHER MARY MOVIE REVIEW Nothing is as passionate as a hate that was once love. This is the simmering tension between mega-popstar Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) and famous fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel). Arriving unannounced at Sam’s giant English countryside mansion in the middle of a huge thunderstorm at night, the stage is set […]

UNDERTONE MOVIE REVIEW We here at oneofus.net have some experience with recording/editing podcasts all alone at night in spooky houses (some of us doing it while a beloved family member lies dying nearby). For those of us who can identify, this is a potentially very unsettling situation. Thus it is for Evy (Nina Kiri) who […]

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU MOVIE REVIEW Linda (Rose Byrne) is so very, very tired. She has a young daughter with severe enough of an eating disorder that she needs to be fed by a stomach tube or she will die. Her husband is away for work so she has to do everything […]

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST MOVIE REVIEW Rick Rubin once said “There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across” and Spike Lee once said “I think it is very important that films make people look at what they’ve forgotten”. Apple Plus presents Highest 2 Lowest a film directed by […]

EDDINGTON MOVIE REVIEW No matter how much some of us may want it, Ari Aster seems to be done with horror for now. He certainly isn’t done with horrifying though. His latest film Eddington reteams him with Joaquin Phoenix, this time playing Joe Cross, the sheriff of the titular small town in New Mexico. When […]

SORRY, BABY MOVIE REVIEW Most films that deal with overcoming trauma do it either as it being represented as a growing black gulf of evil (see at least half the horror films made in the last 5-10 years), or with a good deal of saccharine. The debut film from writer/director/star Eva Victor is something new. […]

MATERIALISTS MOVIE REVIEW Take one professional matchmaker for the rich and superficial (Dakota Johnson), one ex-boyfriend with all the looks and personality but no money (Chris Evans), and one absurdly rich dude who is that rare one that doesn’t seem to be a total schmuck (Pedro Pascal), and you get the love triangle that makes […]

BRING HER BACK MOVIE REVIEW The Philippou brothers, who brought us one of the biggest horror surprises of 2023 with their debut film Talk to Me, return with a considerably more sinister and mature second film. Bring Her Back follows step-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and his mostly blind sister Piper (Sora Wong). Their father suddenly […]

FRIENDSHIP MOVIE REVIEW So, this is why men shouldn’t have friends. Friendship is the new film by Andrew DeYoung starring the ever chaotic Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in an absurdist comedy that delves into the nightmare territory of a metaphorical (and occasionally literal) sandbox and just let them weird each other out for 90 […]

THE LEGEND OF OCHI MOVIE REVIEW While A24’s latest release The Legend of Ochi may be a film directed at children, the review Chris, Wright, and Marco did for it is decidedly not (despite Marco’s best efforts to keep it on track). While discussing this little injured cryptid creature the film centers around, it was […]

WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW While working on his previous film Civil War, Alex Garland got to be friends with the military advisor on it, Ray Mendoza. They decided to write a script together based on an experience Ray had gone through in his experiences in the Iraq War. Initially Garland was going to be sole director […]

OPUS MOVIE REVIEW They say, never meet your heroes. Usually it turns out they’re just a bit of a jerk, but in Ariel’s case, it gets a whole lot worse than that. Ayo Edebiri plays Ariel, a young journalist working at a Rolling Stone-esque publication. While she has a seat at the table for decision […]

QUEER MOVIE REVIEW Director Luca Guadagnino dives into the world of transgressive author William S Burroughs with his latest film, Queer. The story follows Burroughs, as his literary stand-in William Lee (Daniel Craig). The writer drinks his way through his days, living in Mexico, and looking for love. Well, sex anyway. He forms an irresistible […]

Y2K MOVIE REVIEW Some of us are old enough to remember New Year’s Eve as we went from 1999-2000. There was a big scare dubbed Y2K that was about fears that all computerized devices were going to shut down (or something) because their internalized clocks were not set up to deal with that calendar change. […]

HERETIC MOVIE REVIEW Just because Halloween is over, that doesn’t mean random young people won’t come knocking on your door; only this time they aren’t asking for candy, they’re asking if you have a moment to talk about their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That’s right, we’re talking about Mormon missionaries. When Sister Barnes (Sophie […]

WE LIVE IN TIME MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that what the world needed right now is the ridiculous amount of charisma of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in a romance? Directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn, Boy A), We Live In Time tells the story of Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) and how their car crash-cute […]

THE FRONT ROOM MOVIE REVIEW Don’t you just hate it when the in-laws move in? In The Front Door, this Mother-In-Law (Kathryn Hunter) is one straight from Hell. First time Directors, Max and Sam Eggers, have produced a film that at first glance appears to be another taut horror flick released by their brother’s (Robert […]

It's sounds like a stunt, taking the real-life folks who had an experience and casting them as versions of themselves. In Sing Sing, it feels like the only way you'd want to do it. The story follows a group of prisoners...

I SAW THE TV GLOW MOVIE REVIEW The director of experimental art-horror hit from last year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun, returns with their latest experimental art-scifi hit, I Saw the TV Glow. The film follows Owen, who first we meet in 7th grade (briefly played by Ian Foreman). He is […]

CIVIL WAR MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Alex Garland is known for his not exactly optimistic but deeply intelligent sci-fi films, like Ex-Machina and Annihilation. It seemed surprising for him to veer so distinctly political with his latest, Civil War, and very near future at that. Needless to say, there has been no small amount of ‘why […]

LOVE LIES BLEEDING MOVIE REVIEW Rose Glass, the director of the hit psychological horror film Saint Maud, has turned her gaze to film noir, albeit in a tangentially Cronenbergian fashion, with her second film Love Lies Bleeding, and trust us, this is no sophomore slump. Set in 1989, a gym manager named Lou (Kristen Stewart) […]

THE IRON CLAW MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready to rumble? Well, you can get it on with A24’s new biopic about the doomed Von Erich family, The Iron Claw. Fritz (Holt McCallany) was a major wrestler in his day, but that time has passed and the mantle has been handed off to his multiple sons […]

DREAM SCENARIO MOVIE REVIEW For some people, Nicolas Cage is the man of their dreams. But with the new film, Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams! Nic Cage stars as Paul Matthews in Kristoffer Borgli’s new film. He plays  a mild-mannered, put upon, nebbish college professor. All of a sudden people […]

PRISCILLA MOVIE REVIEW You got your Elvis biopic recently with the Baz Luhrmann film. But that movie gave mere minutes of screentime to Elvis’s longtime companion and later wife, Priscilla. Now Sophia Coppola takes the helm on this A24 produced film, based on Priscilla Presley’s own biography. Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny) was but a school girl […]