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THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER MOVIE REVIEW Helena (Daisy Ridley) has an ordinary life. A loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a job that fills her days. Life is fine, until she realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of […]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER REVIEW Every Hallow’s eve the corporate ghouls and ghosts gather in the stream from hell to celebrate the return of Michael Flanagan to Netflix. Last year the master of horror gathered inspiration from one of the most diabolical existential hauntings that have plagued mankind’s existence, terminal illness. This […]

RESERVATION DOGS SEASON 3 REVIEW Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s Reservation Dogs returns to Hulu for its third and final season. We last left the dogs stranded at a beach in California after the four bid farewell to their friend Daniel. Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon A-Tai) says he is not returning to the reservation and […]

IT LIVES INSIDE MOVIE REVIEW Overy 30 years ago a very ignorant and self assured TV dad once said “The code of the schoolyard… Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…” and to this day those […]

AHSOKA SERIES REVIEW Rosario Dawson returns to the role she’s been destined to play since her appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, the former Jedi Knight (and easily one of the most beloved characters in the new EU) investigates an emerging threat […]

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (AND 3 OTHER STORIES) REVIEW How lucky are we that we get not 1, not 2, not 3, but 5 new projects from Wes Anderson in 2023?! Along with Asteroid City earlier this year, Wes Anderson has released 4 new short films on Netflix based on the works of […]

FLORA AND SON MOVIE REVIEW Once you have seen a John Carney film, the world changes and no matter what you’re going through you feel as if you can begin again. From On The Edge to Sing Street, John’s view of the world isn’t so much about what we see but how we listen to […]

ELEVATOR GAME MOVIE REVIEW Based off of the urban legend of the same name, Elevator Game shows us a team of YouTubers who test out said urban legends. To play the game, you enter an elevator, punch in a specific combination of floor numbers, and if completed successfully you’ll be in a nether world. And […]

THE GOOD MOTHER MOVIE REVIEW What is a good mother? Webster has no definition. I mean sure the words ‘good’ and ‘mother’ are both in the pages but separately and never defined together. Stuffy old Oxford is no better. Is a ‘good mother’ a baker of pies, sewer of buttons, assorter of sack lunches? Maybe […]

DARK WINDOWS MOVIE REVIEW Tracy Chapman once asked do you got a fast car in a great song about an impoverished woman trying to break the cycle of poverty set to folk rock. Bradly Martin is asking, why not call an uber if you’re drunk? Do not drink and drive and do not get into […]

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE MOVIE REVIEW Romantic comedies tend to have a pretty pat formula. They epitomize lighthearted love stories filled with charming predictability. These films thrive on familiar tropes—meet-cutes, quirky protagonists, and inevitable misunderstandings that tear the lovers apart. There are comedic sidekicks or best friends who provide comic relief and sage advice. […]

DREAMIN’ WILD MOVIE REVIEW Back in 1979, Don Senior (Beau Bridges) built a state of the art $100,000 recording studio for his two teenage sons Donnie (Noah Jupe) and Joe Emerson (Jack Dylan Grazer). The two brothers self recorded and self produced their first album “Dreamin’ Wild”. Don Sr. and Joe see the heart and […]

THE POD GENERATION In the not-too-distant future, we’ve moved beyond our smartphones and laptops. We’ve got fully autonomous vehicles, created Oxygen Bars and park pods, and pretty much made the whole world artificial, but like super nice looking in an Apple product sorta way. We’ve automated everything, and amid this society madly in love with […]

THEATER CAMP MOVIE REVIEW If you’re a theater kid, raised on a healthy dose of show tunes, spirit gum, musty stages, polite applause from audiences of mostly family, and plenty of delusions of grandeur that your high school production of Sweeney Todd is pretty much as good as the one in New York, then we’ve […]

BIRD BOX BARCELONA MOVIE REVIEW Netflix streaming horror surprise Bird Box has leveled up this summer with the lore-expanding sequel Bird Box Barcelona. Sans Sandra Bullock, we now follow the blindfolded by black tinted goggles protagonist Sebastián played by Mario Casas. The world has been overrun by beings that some call angels and some fear […]

THE FULL MONTY SERIES REVIEW Back in 1997 a film from across the pond debuted in the states from director Peter Cattaneo and writer Simon Beaufoy about six recently sacked steel workers who come together to perform a male stripper act. A quarter century later FX/Hulu presents The Full Monty: The TV series. Gaz (Robert […]

BARRY SEASON 4 REVIEW Well everyone, as they say in the world of theater, the final curtain has fallen on the beloved HBO series…pause for dramatic effect…Barry. That’s right, the show has officially concluded with it its fourth season and HOLY FREAKING DAVE AND BUSTER’S if we nerds at Oneofus.net haven’t been busting at the […]

THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL SEASON 5 REVIEW Midge Maisel is back for her final set in the last season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. As we left her in season 4, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge found herself at a crossroads yet again trying to figure out with her manager Susie, played by Alex Borstein, what their […]

STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE REVIEW Michael J. Fox was just a short kid from Canada with a dream of being an actor. When he turned 18, he drove to Hollywood and started chasing that dream, barely making ends meet until the stars aligned, and in 1982, he landed the career making role of […]

STAR WARS: VISIONS VOLUME 2 REVIEW Star Wars is back with a second season of Visions, the Disney Plus 2021 animated short series that featured the visions of several animators across the globe. The nine animation studios put to task this time are El Guiri, Cartoon Saloon, Punkrobot, Aardman, Studio Mir, Studio La Cachette, 88 […]

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? MOVIE REVIEW Love, true love, is what brings us critics here today to talk about a movie about marriage. Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. Director Shekhar Kapur and writer Jemima Khan present a romantic comedy that looks at the arrangement of marriage and asks […]

ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME MARGARET. MOVIE REVIEW Are you there, God? It’s me, OneofUs. I’m watching a movie today. I’m so scared, God. I’ve never had a film adaptation of the book Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret before. Suppose Judy Blume’s beloved masterpiece about adolescence and personal discovery is reduced down […]

SUZUME MOVIE REVIEW Following up the international success of his 2019 films Weathering with You and the 2018 anime classic Your Name, writer/director Makoto Shinkai is bringing back the magic and beauty of Japan’s ancient culture with Suzume. The title is the name of an adventurous teenage girl brought up by her reserved and cautious […]