Pop Cultural Quintessentials with Qubed

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob on MCAT duty, Ruben and Jonathan hold down the fort as they discuss the remaining June releases. Ruben and Jonathan give their thoughts on Leviticus, Supergirl, and Toy Story 5. They also discuss the exhilarating new Dune: Part 3 trailer and Playstatio...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. On today's episode, the brothers give their thoughts on the plethora of new releases that have come out since the start of June, including Disclosure Day , Backrooms , and Masters of the Universe . The episode wraps up with a discussion of the emotionally satisfy...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. On today's exciting episode, the brothers talk about some of the best movies of the year...and The Mandalorian and Grogu . After JQ gives his thoughts on Is God Is , Ruben and Jacob discuss the middle of the road new Star Wars movie. Then, Ruben and Jonathan talk...

On today's Urban Daredevil episode, Ruben gives his thoughts on the second season of Daredevil Born Again. He then reviews two Karl Urban projects: he gives his full thoughts on The Boys (including season 5) and wraps up with a Mortal Kombat II discussion. Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:44 - Daredevil Born Again Season 2 Review 11:17 - The Boys Season 5 Review 26:26 - Mortal Kombat II R...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. On today's packed episode, Ruben and Jonathan both start out by talking about the movies they saw individually (9 total films including Deep Water, Normal, Exit 8, and Lee Cronin's The Mummy ). Then, Jacob joins in to talk about Joseph Kosinski's new Miami Vice m...

On today's special episode, Ruben gives a run-down of all the great television that he's been watching lately (Invincible Season 4, The Pitt, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Ted Season 2, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, and Abbott Elementary). He also gives his thoughts on a landmark season of television that he watched for the first time. Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:29 - A Knig...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob busy wrapping up his undergraduate degree, Ruben and Jonathan are here for another 'squared' episode. The brothers give their reviews of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , The Drama , and They Will Kill You. They also discuss the changes at J.J. Abrams' Ba...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Join us as we discuss the first great movie of the year, Project Hail Mary ! Ruben also gives his thoughts on Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and reviews Undertone along with Jonathan. The brothers also all discuss the trailers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Dune:...

Cover Art Credit: The Wrap Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. All three brothers reconvene to discuss the disastrous The Bride! and the surprisingly great Hoppers . The brothers also discuss the final marketing materials and news for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie . Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - And th...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In this special episode, Ruben returns for his third annual Academy Awards predictions.

Cover Art Credit: Variety Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. The world is dark right now, but we strive on. With Jacob still busy with his studies, Ruben and Jonathan discuss the latest news in pop culture including the shocking Paramount-WB merger and the end of Smiling Friends. Ruben also gives...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. We are finally reviewing some 2026 releases... separately, but we're doing it. JQ gives his thoughts on a bunch of the latest movie releases and Ruben gives his thoughts on Wonder Man and The Muppet Show Special. Jacob was busy acing the MCAT so he sat this one o...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. James Knowles joins us as we continue the tradition of discussing the 2026 movie calendar all together. Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening 2:13 - January and February 17:28 - March and April 26:50 - May-July 48:57 - August-October 58:15 - November and December 1:...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In this episode, the brothers each separately give their top movies of 2025 lists (JQ once again overachieved and also gives his top 10 worst movies). Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Statement on Minneapolis 3:31 - JQ's Top 10 Best (and Worst ) Movies Lists 36:30 - Ja...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. We're wrapping up 2025...in 2026. As always, better late than never. In this episode, Qubed discuss all the films and shows that they watched in the final part of 2025 ( Stranger Things 5, Avatar Fire and Ash, Marty Supreme, Zootopia 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 2,...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. It's another edition of Squared since Jacob is busy with finals. We begin the episode with JQ discussing the latest films he's watched on his own in his Unsponsored Royal Sidequests (including Rental Family and Keeper ). Then, Ruben gives his thoughts on Vince Gi...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Jacob is back and we're playing catch up! First, Ruben gives his thoughts on A House of Dynamite and Frankenstein . Then, Ruben is joined by Jacob as they finally give their review of Peacemaker Season 2 . Next, Jonathan and Ruben give their thoughts on Roofman ,...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob still MIA, Ruben and Jonathan continue to hold down the fort (to varying degrees of success. First, Jonathan gives his thoughts on The Smashing Machine , Blue Moon , and Good Boy . Then, Ruben gives his review of Good Fortune before the brothers dive i...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Yay we're back from another long hiatus... After over a month off from the podcast, Ruben and Jonathan have a lot of ground to cover (Jacob is out of commission with classes). They go through the Emmy results and the latest movie news (including The Super Mario G...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. We're back...after another long hiatus...and late once again... Anyways, in this episode, the brothers give their thoughts on the August movie releases, including Together, Weapons, and The Naked Gun. They wrap up the podcast by having a discussion about Marvel n...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. War of the Worlds (2025) is one of the worst films ever made. Join Ruben as he reviews it so you never have to watch it.

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. We finally give our review for Superman ! The brothers also give their thoughts on The Fantastic Four: First Steps . Finally, we discuss two great animated streaming movies that just came out: Predator: Killer of Killers and KPop Demon Hunters . Episode Timestamp...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Jacob is back and today we are playing catchup! I'd like to say we will be more on top of things this summer, but I've made that promise last summer and well... The goal is to improve, but I won't promise it this time. Anyways, look at the timestamps below to loo...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. When Jacob and Jonathan refuse to review a movie, there is only one brother left standing. Today, join Ruben as he gives you all an early review of Jurassic World Rebirth.

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Jacob is back and today we are playing catchup! I'd like to say we will be more on top of things this summer, but I've made that promise last summer and well... The goal is to improve, but I won't promise it this time. Anyways, look at the timestamps below to loo...