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The Basics Flick — Nightmare Alley (2021) Six — Newburgh Litmus Test Vol. 5: Berry Delicious Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews A captivating yet harrowing neo-noir take on man architecting his own demise 7/10 — Anthony Dark and twisted, from the dark and twisted mind of Guillermo del Toro. A gripping tale with standout performances from the incredibly talented C...

The Basics Flick — The Power of the Dog Six — Cigar City Florida Cracker Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Y tho? 0/10 — Anthony A long, slow, depressing, bland look at frontier life and depression. Come for the Cumberbatch performance, stay for precisely nothing else. 5.5/10 — Al Bookmarks Six — 00:06:51 News & Nuggets — 00:21:33 Consumption — 00:56:34 Fun...

The Basics Flick — The Last Duel Six — Alternate Ending What If? Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Hot Takes A well crafted and immersive portrayal of a devastating yet fascinating piece of manipulated history. 8/10 — Anthony A dour, depressing look at he said/she said through the lens of medieval greed, strife, and struggle. A vile tale, spiced up with Ridley Scott's talent for riv...

The Basics Flick — Movie Title Six — Grand Canyon Prickly Pear Wheat Ale Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Vince Gillian presents John Wick 4: Home Alone. 8/10 — Anthony Part Taken, part John Wick, part slapstick dark(?) comedy… this movie is fun! Where else can you see old ass Christopher Lloyd shotgunning henchmen. 7.5/10 — Al Bookmarks Six — 00:18:58 News &am...

The Basics Flick — Batman: The Long Halloween, Parts One & Two Six — Yonkers Buena Vista Brown Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews One of the best and most influential Batman stories, with a few welcomed fresh changes, held back only slightly by its chosen animation style. 8/10 — Anthony Some confusing plot points can’t drag down an intriguing detective story...

The Basics Flick — The Eternals Six — Troegs When in Doubt Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Eternals is like a course you need to take for your degree that’s only offered once every 4 years. It’s time sensitive and no one really seems to be interested in being there. It’s the MCUs Justice League. 5/10 — Anthony It's fine… it wants to have fun sometimes. It want...

The Basics Flick — Don't Look Up Six — DuClaw Funk Blueberry Citrus Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Hilarious, totally just a joke, nothing serious…. I’m not crying you’re crying. 7/10 — Anthony Cutting satire that probably leans just a touch too heavily on snark and overt sarcasm at times. Its message is fairly universal, even if delivered in a sublimely absu...

The Basics Flick — The Matrix Resurrections Six — Newburgh Purrfect Wheat Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews A pretty cool idea completely bogged down by petty pop shots and a tired unoriginal outlook on society force fed as a breakthrough perspective. 6/10 — Anthony A rehash? A refresh? A reboot? A requel? A sequel? It's all of these and more. What could, and pr...

The Basics Flick — Spider-Man: No Way Home Six — Victory Cloud Walker Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews An absolutely brilliant culmination of decades of super hero movies. Spider-man: Far From Home is far greater than the sum of its parts. 10/10 — Anthony A triumph of writing and performance that gives rare heart and soul to both our heroes and villains. Legiti...

The Basics Flick — Just Friends Six — Alternate Ending Mando with no Name Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Hot Takes Few movies are laugh-out-loud funny every single time you watch them, while some of the cruder jokes and schticks may not age well, Just Friends will always hold a special place in my heart as my number 1 Christmas movie. 10/10 — Anthony Get Anna Faris a retroactive...

The Basics Flick — Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Six — Industrial Arts Metric Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews A wonderfully choreographed return to the origin story. 7/10 — Anthony A fun ride that, mercifully gives us a new take on the superhero origin story, even if it succumbs to the expected CGI conflagration and weak villain of MCU rote. 6.5/10...

The Basics Flick — Dune: Part One (2021) Six — Newburgh Winter Wonderland Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Hot Takes Dune wildly exceeds the lower than low bar set by its predecessor. Unfortunately, this adaptation is a example that needs a trilogy, or at the very least more runtime to reach its full potential. 7/10 — Anthony A breathless, exhilarating race to hand the baton… to pa...

The Basics Flick — Black Widow Six — Newburgh Salted Nut Roll Ale Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Black Widow is far too little far too late. Fortunately the performances are strong unfortunately the writing is not. 6/10 — Anthony It was fine… some fun action, solid banter, but this converted origin story by way of flashback is so out of place in the current M...

The Basics Flick — The Tomorrow War Six — Alternate Ending Walking Carpets Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews lol…k 3/10 — Anthony What the fuck did I just watch? 5/10? — Al Bookmarks Six — 00:06:42 News & Nuggets — 00:15:47 Fun & Games — 01:56:27 Flick — 02:22:37

The Basics Flick — Blade Runner 2049 Six — Newburgh Rye Brown Ale Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Blade Runner 2049 is fan fiction in its highest form, exploring a really fascinating conceptual extension to the original while taking excellent care to build on but not reinvent the original world…. And then it takes that idea and stretches it over the next 3 hou...

The Basics Flick — The New Mutants Six — Boulevard Collaboration 7 Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Panel — Gary Gurecki Tweet-length Reviews I will give the New Mutants review as much care and thought as they gave the movie… meh 4/10 — Anthony What a low bar to clear but… it's fine? I kinda liked it even though I didn't really follow some of the big picture stuff going on. 5.5/10...

The Basics Flick — Wrath of Man Six — Newburgh Brewing Cold Brew Brown Ale Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Wrath of Man is a brutal, over the top, and unforgiving wild ride. Set in a sort of alternate Guy Ritchie universe devoid of the expected charm it still stand on its own.  7/10 — Anthony Much darker and more serious overall, and lighter on the laugh out l...

The Basics Flick — Jurassic Park Six — Alternate Ending Gimme Some Sugar Babe Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Is Jurassic Park a perfect movie? Yes. 10/10 — Anthony An instant classic and all time great, its writing, direction, effects, and performances are all superb. Holds up 20+ years later and it's thrills still do the trick after 100 rewatches. 9.5/10 — A...

The Basics Flick — The Gentlemen Six — Newburgh Brewing Bananas Foster Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Fast, fun, and chaotic with dialogue and story telling mechanics that will have you hooked time and time again. How else can I put it… The Gentlemen is just so Phucking good. 9/10 — Anthony What a phu-hun phu-hucking time. That's it really. 8/10 — Al Bookmark...

The Basics Flick — Tom Clancy's Without Remorse Six — Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is an incredibly heavy, dark, and realistic action thriller that delivers on every level you would expect, and even more so where you don’t.  7/10 — Anthony Solid if unspectacular action fare carried on the back...

The Basics Flick — Mortal Kombat (2021) Six — New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Juice Haze IPA Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Panel — Peanut Gallery aka Dominick Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Mortal Kombat makes some bold choices from trying to make you care about Kung Lau, to completely omitting the tournament. While its definitely not a hit, I wouldn’t say its a miss either. 6/10 — Antho...

The Basics Flick — The Trial of the Chicago 7 Six — Harpoon One Hazy Summer Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews The Trial of The Chicago 7 is a perfect cocktail of ingredients for which I’m a sucker: Equal parts witty banter, Sorkin dialogue, and true story. Barkeep, I’ll have another. 8.5/10 — Anthony Farce-(noun): an empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding,...

The Basics Flick — Godzilla vs. Kong Six — Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Big dumb fun with some of the worst and most painful writing I have ever had to endure since Godzilla: King of the Monsters. 6/10 — Anthony Big. Dumb. There's a running theme to these Godzilla movies. Big & Dumb. But fun, when it wants to be. 6/10 — Al Bo...

The Basics Flick — Bottle Shock Six — Newburgh Brewing Mojito Madness Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews Chock-full of Xenophobia, misogyny and other painfully outdated sensibilities, Bottle Shock, while based on a true story, is flat, bland, and bolstered by some very strange choices for embellishments. 5/10 — Anthony A fun little movie about a very specific thi...

The Basics Flick — Zack Snyder's Justice League Six — Chatham Brewing Work in Progress Hosts — Anthony Costanzo & Alessandro Biolsi Tweet-length Reviews A masturbatory pile of unearned confidence and half concocted ideas. 5/10 — Anthony A 4 hour long exercise in the Law of Diminishing Returns. This movie is literally twice as long as the original but probably only about 30-40% better. Slots in...