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TRASH IN THE CAN: BLACK MAMBA This week, the boys enter the bizarre, green screen nightmare world of Belinda M. Wilson. Joined by Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle’s Culture Desk editor and film critic, they unpack a vanity project for the ages! Monkey paw wishes, breastfeeding monsters, and enough butt stuff to make even the […]

CLAYFACE MOVIE REVIEW The comic books to movie train keeps chuggin’ along and the results have been of late, hugely varied. But if you fall on the ‘not into those’ camp, you might reconsider your stance for Clayface. Telling the origin story of the DC comics supervillain, writer Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, […]

WICKER MOVIE REVIEW Wedding bells are ringing and shackles are shined, and a bottle maker is forever bound to his beloved. Bring out the feast and let the band play, love has won the day. Amongst the party goers is a very skilled fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who carries the weight of her parents craft as […]

HALLOWARRIOR MOVIE REVIEW Ellen Ripley. Laurie Strode. Nancy Thompson. In the world of horror movies, there is a certain type of woman who is powerful enough, smart enough, and cunning enough to navigate a world of apocalyptic threats and savage killers. You don’t expect them to offer you candy. Milly Shapiro plays Pumpkin, an innocent […]

KLARA AND THE SUN MOVIE REVIEW Some would say that Taika Waititi has been on a downward slope with his most recent films, Next Goal Wins & Thor: Love and Thunder, but he’s back with his latest film adapting the acclaimed novel Klara and the Sun. Starring Jenna Ortega as the titular Klara, she is […]

CARRIE SEASON 1 REVIEW Legend tells that Tabitha, an editor of a spooky scary author, fished a manuscript out of the troubled scribe’s trash can. Reading what had escaped the author’s mind onto crumpled pages, she demanded the story be completed. Thus the novel Carrie was born. Fifty years later and the world is once […]

SACRIFICE MOVIE REVIEW A year after its premiere at TIFF, and a brief theatrical release in Italy, co-writer/director Romain Gavras’ film Sacrifice has found a home on Netflix. It tells the story of Mike Tyler (Chris Evans) a washed up movie star who had a nervous breakdown and (literally) torched his own career. A year […]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE HOUSE OF THE DAMNED MOVIE REVIEW Upon the windswept Yorkshire moors, where passion turns to obsession and the dead refuse to stay buried, Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned offers a decidedly bloodier interpretation of Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic. When the unfortunate Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote estate, he discovers […]

MAKE A NOISE: FATSO (1980) In this episode, Mel Brooks trades the spotlight for the producer’s chair, using Brooksfilms to let other artists make noise. Eric Samaniego is joined by Shira More, host of Necromancer on OneOfUs.net, to discuss Fatso, the only directorial effort of legendary actress and Mel’s great love, Anne Bancroft, a small […]

MASTERPLAN MOVIE REVIEW Masterplan stars Stanley Tucci as Roger Cavendish, a legendary thief of international renown with one last scheme before he retires. Roger plans to steal the Mona Lisa, but to pull off the crime of the century, he’ll need the help of his children, master hacker Chiara (Simona Tabasco) and explosives expert Jay […]

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING MOVIE REVIEW Elizabeth Holmes sits in prison for what seems to be a pretty open and shut case of fraud. Her company, Theranos, claimed it had a device that revolutionized blood testing by being able to take a fingerprick worth of blood and do a giant battery of tests on it. […]

WHALEFALL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get it out of the way right now: Whalefall is a movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale and has to figure out how to escape before his air runs out. Sounds like a Tubi original, right? But no, this is a wide theatrical release with big name […]

MISTY GREEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s not hard to see, given the immense talent of actress Rosalind Eleazar, that despite her mainly having a notable presence just on TV (check out Slow Horses if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing), she definitely can carry the weight of an entire film on her shoulders. She is the titular […]

THE STUNT DRIVER MOVIE REVIEW Some men chase fame. Some chase fortune. And some strap themselves into a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental and attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River at 280 miles per hour. Because dying of old age is for quitters. Based on the spectacularly outrageous true story of Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, The […]

NECROMANCER EP 150 – WHAT’S UP DOC? (1972) Ghoulfriend, Eoin Daly, and the necromancers time warp to 70’s San Francisco in hot pursuit of what else but the magical chemistry only Barbra Streisand and Bugs Bunny can provide. Eoin’s pick, What’s Up Doc? (1972), moves fast so grab that bike, that car, that Chinese dragon […]

FORGOTTEN ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Some friendships last forever. Others come with an expiration date, a magical portal, and a flying demon straight out of Filipino folklore. DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island follows lifelong best friends Jo (H.E.R.) and Raissa (Liza Soberano), two young women preparing to go their separate ways after graduating high school. But one […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 384: A HORROR START AND A ROCKY FINISH John and Chris visit the world of physical media again this week with a look at some of the magnificent and meh titles available for purchase. From one of the first films to do the Spielberg thing without the man himself and do it […]

FINAL FANTASTIC FIVESOME FORUM I know we have been pretty exhaustive this year (and most years) with our coverage of our favorite movie festival Fantastic Fest. Promise, this is the last thing we’re putting up for it this year. But it’s a big one. We get five of our attending critics, Chris, Wright, Martin, Mike, […]

ADULT SUPERVISION MOVIE REVIEW In this Swedish entry this year for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, we get to explore trauma in a different way then we’re used to seeing it of late (in horror movie after horror movie, natch). In Adult Supervision, three dads are roped into being chaperones for their daughters […]

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS MOVIE REVIEW Throughout the years, several students of the pen have been inspired to share their deepest longings with an audience who also longed for a carefree sexy time romance. Some of those ideas may have gained inspiration from works that have already been published. Thus the fanfic was born. Today’s “will […]

THE SOCIAL RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 16 years since David Fincher’s masterpiece, The Social Network, hit the silver screen. It felt timely and acted as a cautionary tale of how one’s ego could effect millions of people. Now, Aaron Sorkin, the original screenwriter, wanted to go back into the Facebook feed and tell another […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? – WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO KENNETH HYMAN? On the second episode of this bonus season, we look at the career of Kenneth Hyman, the influential movie producer who spearheaded the production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, as well as many other classic titles. First up, the […]

WITHOUT BLOOD MOVIE REVIEW Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality, other people get killed; not you”. A more modern writer, multiple award winning Alessandro Baricco, examines the fallout of war in his work Without Blood which now has been adapted and directed […]

UNABOMBER MOVIE REVIEW For two decades, the notorious Unabomber terrorized America, until 1996 when the FBI finally apprehended Ted Kaczynski, a former professor of mathematics now living as a recluse in a small cabin in Montana that lacked running water or electricity, but had a typewriter and lots of bomb-making equipment. A gifted student, the […]

GHOST IN THE CELL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s just get out of the way from the get-go that this is in no way beholden to the film that you almost certainly thought of when you saw the title was Ghost in the Cell. There’s no anime referencing here. Instead you get the modern master of Indonesian […]