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FUNNY PAGES MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Owen Kline brings the awkward dark and funny with his full length feature debut Funny Pages.  Daniel Zolghadri plays Robert, a high school cartoonist with the inspired style of Robert Crumb and the independent dreams of Bill Watterson.  After the tragic demise of a close inspirational friend.  Robert puts his […]

I LOVE MY DAD MOVIE REVIEW I Love My Dad is a story about Franklin (writer/director James Morosini), a young man struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. To aid his recovery, Franklin cuts all negative influences and toxic people out of his life. Specifically, that means his ne’er do well father, Chuck (Patton Oswalt). Despite […]

BULLET TRAIN MOVIE REVIEW The co-director of John Wick and director of Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde (David Leitch) helms this new action comedy based on a Japanese novel, Maria Beetle. Now, most action comedies don’t seem like there’s enough plot going on to have been based on a novel, but Bullet Train has so […]

LIGHTYEAR MOVIE REVIEW Pixar’s latest is the story of Buzz Lightyear. Not the Toy Story Buzz, but the character that the toy was merch of. You see, an opening scrawl informs us that the young Andy’s favorite movie was…this movie. I guess in the context of the Toy Story universe, the original voice actor for […]

HACKS SEASON 2 REVIEW We never got around to reviewing the first season of HBO’s magnificently clever series Hacks, probably because we had no inkling of how great it would turn out to be ahead of time. But now that the second season is out, Chris, Neil, and Frank were raring to go to review […]

SHORESY SERIES REVIEW Give yer balls a tug boys, “Shoresy” (yes, THAT Shoresy from Letterkenny) is here to make sure that the Sudbury Bulldogs, never lose another game. If it happens, the team will fold… If that happens, all Shoresy will have left is to tell your mom to top up the cell phone she […]

ATLANTA SEASON 3 REVIEW Pour yourself a bowl of coconut Crunch O’s and blow up the speakers with your favourite white girl at a college cover of Paper Boi! Atlanta has returned on FX. Alfred ‘Paper Boi’ Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) an Atlanta rapper looking to make a splash on the rap scene with his […]

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Flight Attendant season 2 is here and Kaley Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden is moving to Los Angeles, The Screener Squad is following right behind her with with a moving van full of haunting family trauma, more international murders, even more family trauma, and a full cast of old friends […]

THE VALET MOVIE REVIEW One of the tried and true rom-com formulas is taking two people from different worlds and contriving a reason for them to have to pretend to be a couple. And now, there’s a new entry into the genre, Hulu’s much smaller albeit more charming The Valet, starring Eugenio Derbez (How To […]

GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM SERIES REVIEW From directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio comes George Carlin’s American Dream, a two part documentary about the legendary stand-up comedian. Clocking in at nearly four hours, this is as definitive a documentary as we’re likely to get on Carlin’s life and career. Made with the participation of Carlin’s […]

CHIP ‘N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS Don’t be fooled. This isn’t a reboot. This is a continuation of the characters Chip and Dale from the old Rescue Rangers series, but in this reimagining, those lil’ chipmunks were actors in a Roger Rabbit style world co-populated by humans and toons, Chip (voiced by John Mulaney)and Dale (Andy […]

SENIOR YEAR MOVIE REVIEW For some people, high school was the best time of their life. They were queens and/or kings of the world, even though they were in fact underdeveloped children with a very narrow world view. And those people who still cling to the magic of those four awkward and uncomfortable adolescent years […]

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT MOVIE REVIEW In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, actor Nicholas Cage, the man, the myth, the meme, plays the role of a lifetime – himself. Sort of. Here he plays the meta-fictional Nic Cage, a once popular movie star whose career has stalled. Nic can’t find work, his […]

THE BUBBLE MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Judd Apatow calls in every last favor to assemble this huge cast to tell the story of a dying franchise slopping out another chapter of their big ‘Jurassic Park‘-esque series, only they’re trying to make it during the height of COVID. As the actors are brought together in a stately […]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SERIES REVIEW The Screener Squad is setting out on the open seas with the new comedy/drama Our Flag Means Death. Stede Bonnet has left his family behind to become a pirate, but not just any kind of pirate. He wants to become the first “gentleman pirate.” From paying his crew a […]

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL SEASON 4 REVIEW Rose, Melina, Justin, and T.C. take the stage to trade jokes and commentary about the fourth season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s dramedy about the foul mouthed, fast-talking, mother/wife/daughter/stand-up comic, The Marvellous Mrs. Miriam Maisel. After being left on the tarmac by Shy Baldwin at the end of season three, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge [&...

THE AFTERPARTY SERIES REVIEW High school reunions can be tricky. Are you there for lost love? To show everyone you’re not the loser they thought you were back then? Relive your glory days? Commit revengeful murder on a now-famous classmate? Well, all that is what brings together the star-studded cast of Apple TV’s murder mystery […]

I LOVE MY DAD MOVIE REVIEW Patton Oswalt plays Chuck, a loser who can’t even get his own kid to talk to him anymore. It very well may even be his history of being a deadbeat dad that leads to the son Franklin (James Morosini) being dangerously unstable with self-harm. For his own mental health, […]

RENO 911! – DEFUNDED SERIES REVIEW Grow your mustache and hike up those bike shorts, because Reno 911! is back, and guess what you liberal turds: they’ve been defunded. Hence the title: Reno 911!: Defunded. Coming off the heels of their latest movie Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon, we find Reno’s finest dealing with […]

SPACE FORCE SEASON 2 REVIEW If you missed out on Netflix’s show Space Force, great news: there’s a season 2 out so you have no excuse not to watch it. Space Force follows 4 Star General, Mark Naird (Steve Carell), and his wacky bunch of co-workers who are navigating how to militarize space and “get […]

MURDERVILLE SERIES REVIEW There’s been a murder! Will Arnett and a host of guest stars are on the case, but the twist is not everyone is on the same page. Each episode of Murderville features a different murder, a different group of suspects, and a different guest detective who must gather clues and solve the […]

THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW SERIES REVIEW Kristen Bell plays a woman suffering from depression, occasional hallucinations, and a crippling fear of rain, who potentially sees something terrible happen to a neighbor and sets her mind to solving the mystery. No, it’s not a Veronica Mars […]

I WANT YOU BACK MOVIE REVIEW The basic plot of any romantic comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately realize their love for one another and reunite. Perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other and the film ends […]

BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you had the ability to see through time? How would you help yourself in the past, if you could speak from the future? Would you attempt to change anything? Affect the world around you? Or, ya know, goof off with your friends and […]