Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

This week we review and discuss Captain America: Brave New World, a superhero movie and the 35th installment of the MCU directed by Julius Onah and starring Anthonie Mackie, Harrison Ford and Giancarlo Esposito, in which Sam Wilson has taken up the mantle of Captain America and has to investigate a conspiracy amid the emergence of adamantium, a super material that promises to usher in a Brave New...

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 New Guy" from 2002 starring DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku and Eddie Griffin. The high school comedy follows Dizzie who gets valuable lif...

This week we review and discuss September 5, a historical thriller movie directed by Tim Fehlbaum and starring, Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin. It tells the story of a news crew covering the 1972 Olympics in Munich that finds itself in the middle of a hostage crisis and has to figure out how to cover the event against all odds. We discuss why this movie is not only a very well constr...

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 Captain America: Winter Soldier starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Anthony Mackie, in which we talk about how the movie continues St...

This week we review and discuss Flight Risk, an action thriller film directed by Mel Gibson and Starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace, about a US Marshal who has to transport a witness to give crucial testimony when it turns out that the pilot she hired is a mob hit man who has been tasked with ensuring the witness never makes it to his destination. We discuss whether this is r...

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 comedy classic "Airplane!" from 1980 starring Leslie Nielsen and Julie Hagerty, in which we talk about our favourite gags, why the humo...

This week we review and discuss Presence from 2025, supernatural thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Lucy Liu, Chris Suillivan and Callina Liang, about a family that moves into a new house following tragic events and discover that there is a ghostly presence in the house watching them. We discuss whether Presence's gimmick of being shot in the first person from the ghost's point of...

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 Captain America: The First Avenger starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Lones and Hugo Weaving, in which we talk about how the movie deals with the...

This week we review and discuss Wolf Man from 2025, a body horror movie directed by Leigh Whannel and starring Christopher Abbot, Julia Garner and Matilda Firth, about a man who is turning into a wolf man and becomes a danger to his family while being confronted with the legacy of his own past. We discuss whether the movie adequately addresses its themes of generational trauma, why this is one of...

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 "Scary Movie" from 2000, the spoof comedy that launched a decade of spoof movies including 3 direct sequels as well as the upcoming Sca...

This week we review and discuss Survivre (aka Survive), a French postapocalyptic disaster movie directed by Frédéric Jardin and starring Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann and Lisa Delamar. It follows the adventures of a family trying to survive as the world oceans disappear following a solar flare. There are also murder crabs. We discuss how the movie tells only the most basic story and avoids...

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 start by looking at Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" from 2002 starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe and Kirsten Dunst, in which we talk about how the movie ho...

This week we review and discuss Nosferatu, a 2024 Gothic horror vampire movie directed by Robert Eggers and starring Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe. A direct remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name, it follows the story of a woman who has a psychic bond with a vampire. We discuss what we liked and disliked about Nosferatu, why the Gothic horror genre might just not be for...

We look back on 2024 and discuss the best and worst movies we saw in 2024, what movies surprised or disappointed us the most, and what movies we look forward to in 2025. 0:00 Best Movies of 2024 20:55 Worst Movies of 2024 43:19 Biggest Surprise of 2024 48:47 Biggest Disappointment of 2024 55:42 Most Anticipated Movie of 2025

This week we review and discuss Carry-On, a 2024 action thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson and Jason Bateman, about a TSA agent who is blackmailed into auding a terrorist plot in the middle of Christmas travel chaos. We discuss how Carry-On is the okayest Netflix movie in a while, how it's a throwback to 90's high concept thrillers with a terrorism plo...

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 discover "Dinner for One", a comedy sketch recorded in 1963 that is aired on German television every New Year's Eve. Watching it every year is...

This week we review and discuss Sonic the Hedgehog 3, an action-adventure comedy movie directed by Jeff Fowler and starring Jim Carrey, Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves. It follow Sonic, Tails and Knuckles as they face a new enemy, Shadow the Hedgehog, who allies with the mad scientists Ivo and Gerald Robotnik in pursuit of revenge against humanity. We discuss how Sonic 3 manages to deliver what fans e...

We discuss our reactions and thoughts to the recent Superman teaser trailer, why it's made us more optimistic about the movie, where the story might go based on the trailer, and what major problem DC and James Gunn need to solve to succeed with the Superman movie. Check out the full movie review of Superman 2025 here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6emK8FqUUZQCpuHfICYqHC Check out other superher...

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 discover family comedy classic "Home Alone" from 1990, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Catherine O'Hara,...

This week we review and discuss Kraven the Hunter directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose and Russell Crowe. The sixth and maybe last installment in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC) follows Kraven the Hunter as he protects wildlife from poachers, assassinates crime bosses and deals with his family legacy. We discuss how in this movie Kraven...

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 discover "Rising", the 2004 pilot episode of Stargate Atlantis, which was the science fiction spinoff to Stargate SG-1 and follows a scientific...

This week we review and discuss The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière and starring Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon and Pierfrancesco Lafitte. It is the 287th adaptation of the classic French novel about justice, revenge and redemption that follows a French noble wrongly imprisoned for treason, who escapes his imprisonment and then plots revenge agai...

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 discover Wes Craven's horror slasher classic Scream 3 from 2000 which follows Sidney Prescott emergy from her self imposed isolation after a ne...

This week an Atheist and a Protestant walk into a movie review about the Catholic Church in Conclave, which follows a cardinal's crisis of faith during the papal conclave that seeks to elect the next Pope and will decide the future of the Church. The movie is directed by Edward Berger and stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini. Having solved racism in last week's review, we now...

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 discover "Children of the Gods", the 1997 pilot episode of science fiction classic Stargate SG-1 which launched a ten season spinoff from the 1...