Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik and Cho Yeo-joeng, about a poor family who infiltrate the l...

This week we review and discuss The Naked Gun, a spoof comedy movie, directed by Akiva Schaffer and starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson and Danny Huston, in which the son of Lt. Frank Drebin must follow in his father's footsteps to prevent the closure of Police Squad. We compare favourite jokes, ask whether the humor is a worthy successor of the original Naked Gun and which jokes worked for us a...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Four Brothers from 2005, directed by John Singleton and starring Mark Wahlberg, Andre 3000 and Tyrese Gibson, in which four adopted bro...

This week we review and discuss The Fantastic Four: First steps, a superhero movie and newest entry in phase 6 of the MCU, directed by Matt Shakaman and starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Julia Garner. The film is set in the 1960s of a retro-futuristic world which the Fantastic Four must protect from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus. We discuss how the movie tries very hard to do t...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! from 1988, directed by David Zucker and starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and R...

This week we review and discuss I Know What You Did Last Summer, a slasher horror movie directed by Jennifer Kaytlin Robinson and starring Madelyn Kline, Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt. 27 years after the Tower Bay murders, another hook-wielding killer appears and begins targeting a group of friends one year after they covered up a car crash in which they supposedly killed someone. We...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit I Know What You Did Last Summer, a 1997 slasher movie directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gella...

This week we review and discuss Superman directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult. In the film, Superman must prove to the world that he is their protector after billionaire Lex Luthor enacts a plan to turn public opinion against him. We discuss our thoughts on whether this is a good superhero movie, whether it is a good Superman movie and what it me...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Richard Donner's Superman from 1978 starring Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, which tells the story of how Clark Ken...

This week we review and discuss Jurassic World: Rebirth, a science fiction action movie directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Ed Skrein, which follows a mercenary expedition to a tropical island teeming with genetically engineered dinosaurs in order to obtain samples that could lead to a medical breakthrough. We discuss our thoughts on whether the movie cap...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Equilibrium, dystopian science fiction movie directed by Kurt Wimmer and starring Christian Bale, Taye Diggs and Sean Bean, about an en...

This week we review and discuss F1: The Movie, a sports drama directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and Kerry Condon, about a racing driver who returns to Formula One (F1) after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team, APXGP, from collapse. We discuss our thoughts on sports movies in general, how this movie was able to get our attention with its cha...

We look back on the first half of 2025 and discuss our favourite movies of the year so far, our biggest movie related disappointment of the year, and how 2025 is shaping up in film so far. Check out the video version here: https://youtu.be/qgXmXEKZdLw 0:00 Intro 0:36 Biggest Disappointment of 2025 07:48 3rd Pick 13:00 2nd Pick 17:28 1st Pick 24:17 2025 In Film So Far

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit John Q, a drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Denzel Washington, Anne Heche and James Woods, about a father whose son n...

This week we review and discuss 28 Years Later, a postapocalyptic horror movie by Danny Doyle and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes. 28 years after the rage virus outbreak, the story follows Spike, a boy living in a village in the Scottish Highlands off the coast of infected Britain, who ventures into the mainland to find a doctor in search of a cure for his ill mother....

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Boyz n the Hood, a coming of age hood drama film by John Singleton atarring Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr and Angela Bassett, whi...

This week we review and discuss Tornado, a period action drama movie directed by John Maclean and starring Tim Roth, Kōki and Takehiro Hira, in which Japanese puppeteers travelling the Scottish highlands encounter a gang of thieves. We discuss how the movie caught our attention with its unique premise of a samurai revenge story set in the Scottish Highlands, why the movie fell flat in story and ch...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit Jurassic Park, a 1993 science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg and Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Neill, in which w...

This week we review and discuss Clown in a Cornfield, a slasher horror movie directed by Eli Craig and starring Katie Douglas, Aason Abrams and Kevin Durand, in which the teenagers of a rural town are hunted by killer clowns. We discuss how the movie delivers on the promises made by its name, how it is actually a timely allegory for globalisation and generational grievances and resentment, why the...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit The Returned, a 2013 Spanish-Canadian zombie thriller directed by Manuel Carballo and starring Emily Hampshire and Kris Holden-Ried, ab...

This week we review and discuss Karate Kid: Legends, a martial arts drama movie directed by Jonathan Entwhistle and starring Jacke Chan, Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio, in which Li, a kung fu prodigy who, after moving to New York and confronting with a local karate champion, receives help from his former master Mr. Han and karate sensei Daniel LaRusso. We discuss how character is both the movie's stro...

This week we review and discuss season 2 of Star Wars: Andor, a science fiction spy thriller series directed by Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and Adria Arjona, in which thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative five years that lead to the events of the two films, exploring how he becomes radicalized against the Galactic Empire and how the wider Rebel Alliance is for...

This week we review and discuss Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, a action spy movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atweell and Angela Bassett, in which Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team unite to prevent the Entity, a rogue AI, from unleashing global destruction against humanity. We discuss whether this movie delivers on its promises of br...

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction. This week we revisit 28 Weeks Later, a postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne and Idris Elb...

This week we review and discuss Final Destination: Bloodlines, a supernatural horror movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tony Todd and Brec Bassinger, about a college student who inherits visions of a previous premonition that averted a deadly structural failure in 1968 from her dying grandmother and is warned that Death is coming for her family. We dis...