Red Team Reviews

One thing is for certain: Trevor and TJ sure don't like schadenfreude. We're bringing this year’s Black History Month coverage to an unfortunate close with Eddie Murphy's comedy classic Coming to America, followed by a Reject or Renew of the first season of the HBO series Insecure (and frankly, if we said anything more, it would be a spoiler). Join us for TJ explaining away his mental illness, a d...

Wakanda Forever means Wakanda *forever.* It's been a long time coming (not helped by TJ forgetting to actually send the episode audio, whoops), but today's episode is another spotlight, this time on an artist taken from us far too soon: the king of black biopics, the incredible and impactful Chadwick Boseman. After much deliberation, where mistakes were surely made, we've selected three films to t...

The central premise of this episode is that we're watching rom-coms. Alas, it is the week before that dreaded day of St. Valentine, which means it's time for morbid humor, and men just... just really needing therapy. This week we're going big, weird, and new with the classic When Harry Met Sally, the very-2000s "nice guy" film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the new kid on the block, 20...

It's the start of our FOURTH SEASON and it's Black History Month, which means it's time to cue LaKeith Stanfield (if Trevor can remember his name correctly that is)! Today we're zooming out of the typical Black history movies and focusing on the surging genre bending trends of contemporary Black artist: the new Netflix western The Harder They Fall, and the biting economic satire of Sorry to Bother...

You know it's a near 20 year old reboot when an aging character shows up just to say Facebook = Bad, blah blah blah, Millennials ruin everything. Welcome to the final episode of 2021, just before our winter break, as we jack in to the desert of the real one last time with The Matrix Resurrections, and a kinda sorta [spoiler] with The Good Place teed up for their first season on Reject or Renew. It...

Happy Holidays! Thanks for listening to the podcast. You're our #1 customer! This year Trevor got a hankering for some Turboman, so we decided to dive into the absurd world of Christmas comedies. Somehow we ended up with these three nostalgia picks and watched them going "Oh yeah, that was pretty crazy, huh?" TJ puts his good ole Grinch cap on for his favorite holiday, as we usher in the season wh...

That's right! It's time for a mega media corporation to create copyright holds on classic stories! It's a pre-holiday doozy as Cat Patterson joins us to rank the Disney Renaissance Movies: (almost) everything from The Little Mermaid to Tarzan. Join us for Trevor's continued fascination with Adam Driver, unexpected 80s synth, that 20% of Hunchback that's just unnecessary, and giving due respect to...

Welp, we better grab an antacid, because we're having a hard time digesting all these convoluted story elements. Yes, we are nearly finished with our foray into the early aughts juggernaut that is The Matrix by finishing the original trilogy. To set the scene for you, Trevor had to look up the synopses to understand what the hell they *apparently* were doing all along. Which is a surefire way to s...

All we’re offering is a choice. You can continue on the path you've been on your entire life… But you’ve been down there. You know where it goes… Or, you take the Red Pill Reviews podcast, and we show you just how deep the reference hole goes. In anticipation of the soft reboot/four-quel coming out this month, we're taking half of December to get all leathery and gun shooty to talk about the Matri...

*Whistle* Newbie, we dunno if you've ever -listened- to our podcast, but lemme tell ya we are sohohohohoHO not interested in beating around the bush when it comes to narcissism, okay Nancy? Yes, it's yet another full episode Reject or Renew, where we tackle the bizarre medical growth found deep with the bowels (literally) of the first season of Scrubs. Join us for heaps of gender politics, self ag...

Welp. Trevor’s upset, and TJ is relatively calm (for him). That can only mean one thing. Dogs and cats are living together, folks, we got ourselves a "Blue Team" episode. We're digging into the mid-aughts sensation that was Rush Hour, and boy time sure does pass when your not lazily using tired cliches and stereotypes for cheap laughs! Join us for 2000’s movie bingo, diminishing returns, surprise...

It's time to play the intro, it's time to make some critical insights, it's time to talk about the Muppets on the Red Team Pod tonight! Yes, we're here for some good wholesome content in our season full of never-ending franchises with the Muppets! We're taking a look at the original, The Muppet Movie, the towering parody of Muppet Treasure Island, and the oft debated resurgence in The Muppets (201...

Okay. Okay. There's no time. We're talking about just *some* of the movies in the massive event that is Marvel's Phase Three, and already we’ve got like 500 notes, with 250 just on Captain America: Civil War. We’ve also got Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Thor Ragnarok, and Ant-Man and the Wasp (yes you read that right, listen to the episode to know why we picked those specifically)...

Happy Halloween, Gotham Scum! Welcome to a full episode Reject or Renew, where we're talking about the legendary cartoon classic, Batman: the Animated Series. Talk about perfectly timed for the season, we've got 26 episodes of classic villains and plot tropes, soooo strap in! Join us as we discuss painfully  generic gangsters, villains on the right side of history, poor use of dissociative id...

TJ must have been replaced by [spoiler] because he has willingly agreed to do his first dive into horror movies! Long live the new Prince of Spoops, Jordan Peele, as we jump into his breakout horror films, Get Out and Us. We ain't scare. We ain't scare no things. Join us as we discuss inherent racial overtones, the complacency of white women, convoluted backstories, and ask TJ to finally shut up a...

What's New Red Team Pod? Certainly not our deep feelings and traumas around the indefatigable Scooby-Doo franchise (franchises? It's a forever reboot). This week we decided to bite off as much as Scooby and Shaggy in a diner can chew and rank EIGHT feature length Scooby-Doo movies: the late 90's "real monster" films, the live action sequel at Trevor's behest, 2020's Scoob, and the WWE crossover fo...

MOR TAL KOM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!! See? That opener is almost as extra as these movies. Clearing up (albeit a little late) our coverage of video game movies from last month, we're looking at the insanity that is 1995's original Mortal Kombat and it's much anticipated reboot. Join us for cryptic Palpatine-esque mentors, excessive visual effects budgets, a TJ rewrite, and souls exchanging possession...

HEY! YOU! WHATCHA GON DO? I hope it's not make an aggrandizing sequel to an otherwise perfectly fine movie. Looking at you,  LeBron . We're back for a two-segment episode where we'll be covering both the original Space Jam and Space Jam: a New Legacy, followed by the Reject or Renew second season return of Schitt's Creek. It's all about character growth; just, ya know, in one case it's method...

Welcome to part three of our month of video game movies, as we look at the proverbial before and after film adaptations of the (checks notes) most successful interactive video-game character in history*… Lara Croft. We check so many bad movie boxes this time around that we genuinely think we should make a bingo game out of it. Join us for badly written puzzle sequences, warranted disparagemen...

ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND - YOU TEACH ME AND I'LL TEACH YOU! It's time for some 90's kid nostalgia babeeeeey! Here we are, in week two of our month of video game movies, and while these are newbies in the cinema, the franchises are far from newbies in our hearts: Sonic the Hedgehog & Detective Pikachu (well, Pokémon in general, but close enough). We're here to evaluate Jim Carrey is...

Mammia Mia! Issa video game month! Why-a do we-a do this to our-a-selves? Because of TJ's hubris, we indeed will be covering the armpit that is the video game movie adaptation genre this month, and we figured we'd let ourselves only go up from here by starting with the absolute bottom of the barrel: Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter. It would only be more  rock bottom  if we...

Linkin Park was right when they asked the Transformers franchise to "give me reason" because lemme tell ya, there was none. That's right: the boys are on the SAME PAGE for once, as we EVISCERATE these military propaganda, Megan-Fox-diminishing, dumpster fires of movies. And we didn't even cover Mark Wahlberg's entries. We're closing out our second season before a long summer break with a truly aby...

Lights up on the Red Team’s Podcast, up at the break of day, and we got this Roland Schitt we gotta chase away -- it's a good old fashioned two-fer with our coverage of the newly released In the Heights movie musical, followed by our Reject or Renew segment for Schitt's Creek season one, featuring the return of the lovely Molly Burdick from Pod & Prejudice! Trevor gets to nerd out about the fi...

Eyyyy babadaboopy! Pasta Ravioli! Homo-a-sexuality! Issa new-a release-ah a-da episode-ah! We're jet-setting across fictional worlds with an overview of Disney's newest animated releases with Raya & The Last Dragon and Luca (but  not  Cruella). You know we gotta get all gushy about a-da animation styles, miei amori! Between shipping Raya and Namaari, to the truly overt themes of...

Though considering Thor: The Dark World, this premise is questionable. Welcome to the sequel that's been a long time coming, where we’ll be covering the second phase of the MCU (writing this out makes them sound so much more pretentious but we love it damnit). See Trev in his element, simping for Stan Lee’s superpowered superstars, especially when he starts talking about movies that aren't even in...