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Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their spoiler-free thoughts and insights into Borderlands. Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramírez), the universe's most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected allia...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their spoiler-free thoughts and insights into M. Night Shyamalan's latest film TRAP. A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Non-Spoiler Section (07:29) TRAP Trivia (26:01) Final Thoughts and Ratings (35:07) Coming...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Michael give their spoiler reactions to Batman: Caped Crusader. In the grim Gotham City, affluent philanthropist Bruce Wayne goes beyond his humane capabilities and transforms into an enigmatic figure, Batman; his crusade for justice brings in unexpected allies, but his actions also lead to perilous consequences. Stream all episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader on Prime...

Send us Fan Mail Christian, Devin, and Mike celebrate San Diego Comic-Con 2024 by reviewing Marvel Studios' first R-rated movie featuring Deadpool & Wolverine. Deadpool's peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to Twisters. Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to...

Send us Fan Mail In this 4K Blu-ray Review Roundup, Christian evaluates the quality of the 4K Blu-ray editions for 'Twister', 'Challengers', 'Abigail', and 'Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire'. Let's dive into the details! TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Challengers (01:57) Twister (06:41) 'Godzilla X Kong: The  New Empire (11:38)...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their spoiler reactions to season 3 of THE BEAR. A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he's used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing realities of small business ownership, his strong-willed and recalcitrant kitchen staff and h...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to MAXXXINE.  In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) MAXXXINE Review  (08:05) Final Thoughts/ Ratings...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to Yorgos Lanthimos's Kinds of Kindness. Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a specia...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to A Quiet Place: Day One.  A woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) A Quiet Place: Day One Review  (09:24) Final Thoughts  and Ratings (29:09) Coming Up Next / Closing  (3...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give spoiler-free reactions to The Boys Season 4 .   Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the super powerful, t...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to Pixar's Inside Out 2.  The little voices inside Riley's head know her inside and out--but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Inside Out 2  Reactions  (06:20) Final Thoughts  and Ratings (29...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give spoiler-free reactions to episodes 1-3 of The Boys Season 4 .   Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the s...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to Bad Boys: Ride or Die.  This Summer, the world's favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami's finest are now on the run. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Bad Boys: Ride or Die  Spoiler Free Reactions  (08:0...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give spoiler-free reactions to episodes 1 and 2 of Star Wars: The Acolyte.   A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes but discovers the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Star Wars: The Acolyte. Episodes 1&2  (07:43) Final Thoughts  (2...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their free spoiler reactions to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'. Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herse...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their spoiler reactions to season one of  X-MEN 97. A band of mutants use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them; they're challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future. Now streaming on Dinsey Plus, TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) X-Men '97 Spoiler Reactions  (07:...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their reactions to '"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes". Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader buil...

Send us Fan Mail In this 4K Blu-ray Review Roundup, Christian assesses the quality of the 4K Blu-ray editions of 'The Departed,'  ' Dune: Part Two,'  Doom Patrol,'  and 'Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earth Part 2'.  Let's delve into the details! TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Doom Patrol  (02:10) Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2 (0...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their reactions to  The Fall Guy.  He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their reactions to  Challengers.  From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist - West Side Story), Tashi's strategy for her husband's rede...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their reactions to  Fallout Season 1. Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, glee...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin review the first two episodes of SHOGUN. Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Shogun Review (06:12) Final Thoughts and Ratings (29:5...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Devin give their spoiler-free reactions to  Abigail. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Christian and Aamanda give their spoiler-free reactions to  'Civil War' (2024). From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE: Start / Housekeeping (00:18) Spoiler Free Section...