Do We Like Movies?

We're finally back! After a lengthy hiatus we've returned just in time for spooky season to cover this 2012 found footage horror anthology movie. We follow a Droog-like group of scumbags who are paid to break into to a stranger's home to collect a VHS tape. What they find is a collection of bizarre and horrifying experiences.

The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best friend Miles in an ever changing (due to gentrificat...

The second movie in our Oakland on Film festival is this 2018 surrealist comedy from activist/musician turned Director Boots Riley. It revolves around Cassius Green, an Oakland telemarketer who discovers a major key to success in his job, and later has to choose between his own financial gain or joining his friends who are try to form a union. 

We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and the location make this one of the most unique episo...

Ghostface takes Manhattan? After rebooting the popular 1990s meta slasher last year, the good folks of Radio Silence bring us another chapter in this long running horror franchise. We pick up one year after the evens of 2022's Scream where our new "Core Four" has now moved New York City, but unfortunately, a familiar white masked killer has now followed them to the Big Apple.

Do We Like Scary Movies? In 1996, the slasher craze of the 80s was long gone and movies series like Halloween, Hellraiser, and Child's Play were considering the move to home video. Oddly enough it took the director of Nightmare on Elm Street, and the guy who created Dawson's Creek to bring us the great 90s comeback of horror movies. This film is the hybrid of slasher, mystery, true crime, and melo...

“My ancestors would often say only the most broken people can be great leaders” - Namor The death of star Chadwick Boseman left a huge hole in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that may never be filled. Ryan Coogler decided that instead of recasting his hero, that his follow up to the 2018 Best Picture nominated film would be a film that dealt directly with the loss of the Black Panther. Focusing inst...

For Wakanda? Without question. We return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first of two Black Panther films starting with Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero epic. The late Chadwick Boseman stars as the titular hero and king of the fictional African nation who must ascend to the throne after the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Among those looking to challenge his reign i...

Ready for some 2020 nostalgia? Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson along with Katelyn Crabb bring us this pandemic era slasher movie.  It's April 2020, the world is locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best friends Parker and Miri decide to quarantine together at Parker's family vacation home where they will be terrorized by an intruder who is looking to kill them.

We're finally at Episode 150! This highly requested movie based on the popular book series from Stephanie Meyer follows rural Washington high schooler Bella Swan and her romance with the mysterious teenaged(?) vampire, Edward Cullen.

On Wednesday we wear pink... and podcast.

We kick off the New Year with this streaming rom-com about two "20-somethings" that decide to avoid the awkwardness of casual dating by spending each holiday together without catching feelings for each other (Good Luck!)

Nothing says Christmas like Tom Cruise visiting a mysterious masked s*x party! Join us as we take a trip where the rainbow ends where we discuss the final film of Stanley Kubrick and Angel tries to explain why he like it so much.

It's the Christmas season so we figured what better way to return than watching Santa Clause kill people with his bare hands. David Harbour stars as Santa himself in a movie that is cheesy enough to be a family film, but gory enough that you could not let a child anywhere near it.

David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's Halloween sequel trilogy ends with "The Corey Cunningham Story (featuring Michael Myers and Laurie Strode)"

We have such rebooted sights to show you. Following the success of the Predator reboot "Prey" earlier this year, Hulu is back with another re-imagining of a horror franchise.

Spooky season is upon us so we figured what better way to make our grand return than to put together a list of 10 of our favorite scary movie moments to celebrate our love of horror movies and to get us all in the Halloween spirit early and it includes many films that have already been discussed on the show! We got the idea for this episode from Bravo and Shudder who have excellent talking heads d...

We're about a month late but finally talking Jordan Peele's UFO epic. 

Our discussion on the Black Phone got us down the path of another Ethan Hawke starring horror film from the early. 2010s. In this film he plays a true crime novelist who moves his family into a murder house to find inspiration for his next great book. If The Shining has taught us anything, it's that moving your family into a notorious murder property to write a book will never bring favorable resu...

We're back at the theater for this week's movie. The latest Blumhouse horror flick takes us back to 1979 where we follow a kid names Finney, an often bullied quiet kid in his Denver suburb. When a frightening serial killer named The Grabber (played by the excellent Ethan Hawke) kidnaps Finney and locks him in his basement, he finds an old Black Phone (GET IT?!) that may be his only way out.

Sam Raimi makes his return to Marvel films with the 2022 sequel to Dr. Strange. A sequel of sorts to Spider-Man: No Way Home, we catch up with Dr. Stephen Strange who teams up fellow superpowered being America Chavez as they try to stop Scarlett Witch from taking over the Multiverse.

Nothing says Jurassic Park sequel like potential Global food shortages, irreversible ecological changes, and the evil of capitalism. Colin Trevorrow returns to the director's chair for "The End of the Jurassic Era". The final film in this franchise combines plotlines from all 6 films and brings together the stars of both franchises to stop Billionaire and CEO of BioSyn (aka obviously Evil Corporat...

In 2015,  Colin Trevorrow was selected by Steven Spielberg to take us back to Jurassic Park. Following a gaggle of unmade movies including a bizarre Dino/Human mutant movie, the simplest way to bring us back into this world was finding out what a fully functioning park with Dinosaurs would look like. Similar to the original film, the genetic modification goes too far, and our main characters have...

We are back talking Sam Raimi's directorial debut. One of the older "cabin in the woods" films, we follow a group of young adults as they escape to a relative's cabin for a fun 80s teen horror getaway. These plans are foiled by a demonic force that moves through the surrounding forest. Also the film debut of Bruce Campbell as Ash! 

Our third (and final for now) entry in the Heist movie film festival is a real throwback to 1956. This crime film is one of the early films of Stanley Kubrick and revolves around a group of criminals who decide to rob a San Francisco Bay Area racetrack.