Pop Cultural Quintessentials with Qubed

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob* (James Knowles) , and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob taking his finals, Ruben and Jonathan are once again joined by honorary Quiros brother James Knowles. First, Ruben gives his thoughts on The Accountant 2. Next, the three give their thoughts on crazy movie blurbs and the possibility o...

Jonathan (JQ), J̶a̶c̶o̶b̶, James Knowles, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob studying hard for his finals, Ruben and Jonathan are joined by honorary Quiros brother James Knowles. Ruben first gives his thoughts on Drop. Then, Jonathan discusses his latest movie side quests: Hell of a Summer , The Legend of Oc...

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. Join Ruben as he once again enters the Hall of the Marcus King to discuss the existential crisis A Minecraft Movie gave him. Then, to end on a more positive note, Ruben dis...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With the three brothers back together, we first reveal a new segment to cover all the streaming television that is coming out now. Journey into Rubeflix for the first time, where this week Ruben reviews Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and The Penguin. Next,...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob missing, Ruben and JQ return to give their thoughts on the Oscar winners, Captain America Brave New World , and Amazon getting control of James Bond. JQ also discusses some recent films he's seen before we reach the main event of the podcast: Emilia Pe...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In this special edition of the podcast, Ruben returns to once again give his predictions for this week's Academy Awards. Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Tribute 1:44 - Ruben's Shorts, Animated, Documentary, and Technical Oscar Predictions 28:19 - Ruben's Predi...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Yes it's mid-February, yes we're still doing it anyway. Here is our chaotic discussion of our most anticipate movies of 2025. And as is tradition at this point, we brought on our buddy James Knowles to join this discussion. Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Luka Trade 4...

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 10 movies of 2024 (JQ decided to overachieve and also gives his top 10 worst movies). Episode Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:50 - Jacob's Top 10 Best Movies list 30:33 - JQ's Top 10 Best (and Worst )...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In the first episode of 2025, the brothers first discuss the announcement of Christopher Nolan's next movie, The Odyssey . They next discuss the latest DC news: the new Superman trailer and The Batman Part II getting delayed...again. Then, Jacob and Ruben give re...

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. Join Ruben as he enters the Hall of the Marcus King for the first time to give reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and Kraven the Hunter . 0:00 - In...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob battling his Finals Demons, Ruben and JQ hold down the fort. They first give their thoughts on a slew of new trailers including Thunderbolts*, Captain America 4, Mission Impossible 8 , and the awful Snow White trailer. They then give reviews for a bunc...

Cover Art Credit: Deana on Pinterest ( Link ) Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. On today's special episode, Jonathan reviews all 31 horror movies he saw in October during his one horror movie a day challenge. And yes, it is a little late for this episode; it's Ruben's fault. Link to JQ's Full Lis...

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 covering Venom the Last Dance and its many, many, issues. Ruben and Jonathan also give their glowing reviews of Saturday Night and Piece by Piece . Finally, during the initial Qubed Quick News segment, the brothers discuss various r...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Today, the brothers talk about one of the most cursed double features of all time, Megalopolis and Joker Folie a Deux . They also briefly discuss some recent movie news (including a first look at Krypto from Superman ) and JQ gives his review of some other indepe...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Jacob is back! The brothers first cover all the latest entertainment news, which consists of an Emmys recap, a bunch of trailers, and Kyle Chandler being cast as Hal Jordan's Green Lantern. Then, Ruben and Jonathan discuss all the surprisingly great films that th...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob busy back at school, Ruben and Johnathan are back in a jumbo sized episode . In this episode, the brothers discuss the trailer for the new animated Lord of the Rings movie and the release of the highly anticipated Sonic 3 trailer. The duo also covers t...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. It's been building to this ( go to Episodes 47 and 55 if you want the ramp up )! It's the Borderlands episode! In this special episode, the brothers have an in depth discussion about the Borderlands movie (with a brief Incredibles 3 discussion at the beginning)....

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Welcome to the Deadpool and Wolverine episode! The brothers cover the movie in spolier-free and spoiler-filled discussions. Plus, the brothers cover the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom along with other Comic Con news (including the new Joker Folie a D...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. With Jacob MIA, Ruben and Jonathan carry on in his absence. The two brothers first discuss the current movie news in the industry including the Emmy nominations and Russo Brothers potential return to Marvel. Ruben and Jonathan then give reviews of most of the maj...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. The brothers start the episode with their take on the Kendrick and Drake beef. Then, they get into the entertainment news with Qubed Quick News (including The Rock's new Disney deal and Superman's new suit). Qubed then disscuss Sony buying the Alamo Drafthouse an...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Today, Jonathan records his first solo episode, a review of the new Garfield movie... which is shockingly not that bad.

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. After our latest (unintentional) hiatus, the brothers recap some of the recent-is movie news that has occurred (including the Gollum movie and the Netflix CEO's delusion about Barbenheimer. Then, the brothers review all the major May releases ( Furiosa, Kingdom o...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In this special episode, the brothers examine the outstanding film year of 2014. Some of the films included in the discussion are The Lego Movie, Captain America The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Gua...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. In this mini episode, the brothers discuss some recent movie news. They discuss Netflix's new Scooby Doo show, the Mufasa trailer, the sale of Paramount, and the new Deadpool and Wolverine trailer. Jonathan and Ruben end the podcast with a brief review of Boy Kil...

Jonathan (JQ), Jacob, and Ruben, the three Quiros brothers (Qubed), explore the past and present hallmarks of pop culture entertainment. Today, the brothers first discuss Jacob's concert experience with 3OH!3 and tell their own stories. They then delve into the movie news with a second attempt at Qubed Quick News ( the announcement of a The Last Ronin movie, the shutdown of Participant Media, Tara...