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 28 Days Later, a  postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccles...

This week we review and discuss The Surfer, a psychological thriller movie directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon and Miranda Tapsell, about a man who plans to surf at an idyllic beach with his son but becomes thwarted and tormented by the locals. We discuss why this movie may be the most polarising one we've reviewed so far, our interpretation of the movie's themes...

In this week's movie conversation we talk about our reactions to watching Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell, after not having seen a Mission: Impossible Movie in over a decade. We talk about our memories and expectations for a Mission: Impossible movie, how we felt about the storytelling, characters...

This week we review and discuss Thunderbolts*, a superhero movie and 36th film in the MCU, directed by Jake Schreier and starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, about a group of antiheroes that are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission to defeat the Void. We discuss our reaction to the movie's attempt to revive the MCU, whether it delive...

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 Shutter Island from 2010, a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffa...

This week we review and discuss The Accountant 2, an action thriller movie directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson, about a neurodivergent accountant hit man who investigates a series of murders related to human trafficking. We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of the theme of found family, ask whether that theme is able to support th...

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 Psycho from 1960, a psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh,...

This week we review and discuss Sinners, a period horror movie directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Miles Caton, about twin brothers in 1930s Mississippi who return to their hometown to start again, only to be confronted by a supernatural evil. We discuss our reaction to the film's portrayal of Jim Crow era Black American culture, we try to make sense of th...

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 Godzilla from 2014, a kaiju monster film directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe, abou...

This week we review and discuss Drop, a thriller movie directed by Christopher Landon and starring Meghann Fahy, Violett Beane and Brandon Sklenar, about a widowed mother who receives threatening messages during her first date in years, which cause her to question her date and fear for her safety. We discuss our reaction to the movie's treatment of domestic violence, its use of blackmail as an all...

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 Cube from 1997, a science fiction horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett and Julian Riching...

This week we review and discuss Death of a Unicorn, a horror comedy movie directed by Alex Scharfman and startring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega and Tea Leoni, about a father and his daughter who accidentally kill a unicorn, causing them to be hunted down by its parents. We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of themes such as privilege and healthcare, why this movie has received a bad to mixed...

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 Paycheck from 2003, a science fiction film directed by John Woo and starring Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart and Uma Thurman, about an engin...

This week we review and discuss The Woman in the Yard, a psychological horror movie directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili and Russell Hornsby, about a widowed single mother who was disabled after a car accident that killed her husband, when a mysterious woman draped in black appears in the front yard, claiming that "Today's the day". We discuss our react...

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 Evolution from 2001, a science fiction comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones and Julianne Moore, a...

This week we review and discuss The Alto Knights, a biographical cime drama film directed by Barry Levinson starring Robert DeNiro, Robert DeNiro and Debra Messing, about the rivalry of two mob bosses as one tries to retire from a life of crime and the other tries to make a name for himself. We discuss whether the movie's nonlinear storytelling worked for us and why the ending is by far the best p...

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 Incantation (咒), a 2022 Taiwanese religious folk horror found footage movie based on Buddhist ideas and teachings, about a woman who i...

This week we review and discuss In The Lost Lands, a science fiction/ post apocalyptic movie based on a George R.R. Martin short story of the same name, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista, about a witch and a hunter who venture into the dangerous Lost Lands to find a shapeshifter's skin for a queen. We discuss why we keep trying and failing to like action...

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 classsic ghost horror movie "The Fog" from 1980 directed by John Carpenter, starring Adirenne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet L...

This week we review and discuss episodes 1 and 2 of Daredevil: Born Again by Dario Scardapane and starring Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio and Ayelet Zurer. Years after the events of Season 3 of Daredevil, Matt Murdock has given up vigilantism to focus on practising law when Wilson Fisk returns and is elected mayor of New York on an anti vigilantism platform. We discuss our impressions of the serie...

Join us for a new series we're calling "Superhero Hall of Fame" in which we go back to classic superhero movies and ask whether these movies hold up and whether the superhero genre has anything going for it, or whether it was all a fad. This week we look at The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart and Heath Ledger, in which Batman battles the Joker f...

This week we review and discuss The Gorge, a science fiction action horror romantic comedy directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Miles Telley, Sigourney Weaver and Anya Taylor Joy about two depressed snipers who sign up for guard duty at a monster filled gorge. We discuss what The Gorge does right and what it does wrong, why it has received such a negative audience reaction that is in our opin...

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 science fiction movie "Moon" from 2009 directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey and Kaya Scodelario, about a h...

This week we review and discuss The Monkey, a horror comedy directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany and Elijah Wood, about a family that is cursed by an evil monkey toy that causes death and suffering in that family across the generations. We discuss how the monkey treats its topic of generational trauma and abuse and whether it lives up to the weight of those topics, h...

Join us for a new series we're calling "Superhero Hall of Fame" in which we go back to classic superhero movies and ask whether these movies hold up and whether the superhero genre has anything going for it, or whether it was all a fad. This week we look at Batman Begins directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson. Batman Begins follows the transformat...