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PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN: THE TONY HAWK VIDEO GAME STORY MOVIE REVIEW The remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 kickflip onto consoles September 4, 2020. What made these games such major hits that even all these years (and consoles) later are held up as so good as to be worthy of a […]

IMMIGRATION NATION MINISERIES REVIEW This Netflix documentary series consists of six episodes that take a front line look at the immigration issues under the Trump administration. Directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz, it’s the Netflix hit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t want you to see. Torn apart families, deported veterans, overworked agents, and […]

MORGANA MOVIE REVIEW The decidedly NSFW documentary “Morgana” chronicles one woman’s journey from repressed housewife to feminist pornographer. After years in a loveless marriage, Morgana Muses gets a divorce but the thought of starting over as a lonely, overweight, fifty year old woman is just too daunting. She decides to treat herself to one last […]

RED PENGUINS MOVIE REVIEW After the collapse of the Soviet Union, their legendary Red Army hockey team was out of money, out of luck, and out of favor. Along comes the Pittsburgh Penguins to invest in the team and transition them from state property to capitalist success story. Things didn’t quite go the way they […]

FEAR CITY: NEW YORK VS THE MAFIA MINISERIES REVIEW By the 1980s, five mafia groups ruled New York City with an iron fist: the Gambino, Colombo, Bonanno, Lucchese, and Genovese families. Together they formed the powerhouse known as the Commission, with fingers in everything from sanitation to the garment district, construction to labor unions. This […]

INMATE #1: THE RISE OF DANNY TREJO MOVIE REVIEW F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote “there are no second acts in American lives”, but he might have changed his mind had he lived long enough to watch the new documentary, “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo”. A drug addict and violent career criminal, Trejo spent […]

TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME – COMEDY AND CAMP The Time Warp documentary series comes to its conclusion (for now) with this entry that celebrates comedies, making this probably the most accessible of the entries in the series, campy films, which is essentially just films that got left out of part […]

THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS MOVIE REVIEW No, this movie is not about the ghost of Peter Sellers haunting a film studio by reenacting his famous characters. As fun as that would have been, this is actually a very personal documentary about the catastrophic production of the 1973 movie, “The Ghost in the Noonday Sun”. […]

YOU DON’T NOMI MOVIE REVIEW In 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s “Showgirls” opened to terrible reviews, and poor box office. A notorious bomb, it derailed the careers of its writer, director, and leading lady, swept the Razzies, and has since become a byword for abject failure. Despite “Showgirls” horrible reputation (or perhaps because of it), the film […]

KATE NASH UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL MOVIE REVIEW Back in the old days of 2007, a star had been born. Kate Nash flew onto the world stage with her hit pop song Foundations and a popular Myspace page. Unfortunately, like many rising artists, she went through many of the pitfalls that come with new celebrity status: […]

HAVE A GOOD TRIP: ADVENTURES IN PSYCHEDELICS MOVIE REVIEW There has been a decent amount of documentaries made about psychedelic drugs. Most chart the history or the science behind them. Some chart the cultural impact. This one should have been called, “So, You’ve Decided You’re Taking Psychedelic Drugs…”. A vast array of famous faces came […]

SPACESHIP EARTH MOVIE REVIEW On September 26, 1991, a group of eight scientists locked themselves into a giant vivarium in the Arizona desert. The purpose of their two-year experiment was to see if people could sustain life in an ecosystem completely closed off from the outside world. They named it Biosphere 2, and as time […]

TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME PART 2 – HORROR & SCI-FI MOVIE REVIEW Our crew from the Time Warp Part 1 review returns to delve back into this documentary series. Part 2 narrows its focus to horror and science fiction films (so you know Chris is happy). Taking a look at […]

A SECRET LOVE MOVIE REVIEW When Terry Donahue was drafted into the Peoria Redwings (a team within the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) in 1946, she thought she was living a dream come true. She never expected to find the love of her life, and she certainly never expected that love to be another woman. […]

CURSED FILMS TV SERIES REVIEW Who doesn’t love the idea and stories around films that were ‘cursed’, where they angered some dark spirit and so were cursed by accidents and deaths? You know who doesn’t? The people who made them, generally speaking. There’s not exactly a dearth of the actors, writers, and directors of the […]

MISS AMERICANA REVIEW Taylor Swift has spread to Sundance and Netflix with the release of her new documentary Miss Americana. Built around the recording and release of her album Lover, the documentary also details much of Swift’s personal life from her sexual assault trial, her weight challenges, and opening up on discussing politics. This documentary […]

FOR SAMA MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad got a chance to watch one of the nominees for Best Documentary at the Oscars with For Sama. The majority of the story follows Waad Al-Kateab, a young woman in Syria during the Syrian Civil War. Over the course of five years, we see her fall in love, […]

MOONLIGHT SONATA MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad is back to catch up on some releases left on the back burner with Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements. Released through HBO, the documentary follows a family whose deaf son is processing the trial of losing his hearing. Through the power of music, especially Beethoven, he is […]