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ROOSTER SERIES REVIEW Joe Haldeman once said “Bad books on writing tell you to “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW”, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery”. Greg Russo (Steve Carell) is a famous lowbrow author and creator of the edgy detective “Rooster” […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 4 SERIES REVIEW Everybody’s favorite Global Defence Agent justifies sketchy immoral methods by saying “We can be the good guys, or we can be the guys that save the world. We can’t be both”. Cecil’s code of conviction demands that the ends justify the means. Mark is done with that extreme way of […]

THE COMEBACK SEASON 3 Covid restrictions, writers strikes, the ever looming threat on the horizon of AI taking away jobs…How’s an Emmy winning actor supposed to find work? The third season of the cult series on HBO The Comeback explores this, and features Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish. After walking out on a lead role […]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SEASON 2 Jena, Lewayne, and T.C. meet up in the hidden backroom of the One Of Us pub to discuss Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, which wastes no time reminding audiences that New York City is no longer merely corrupt. It’s occupied. What began as a simmering rivalry between Matt Murdock and […]

REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES MOVIE REVIEW Frank, Neil, and T.C. swim to the shallow end of the One Of Us wading pool to discuss a sad woman who works at a facility with an intensely intelligent and sensitive sea creature who wants to escape into the world. The two form an intense bond. Is it… love? […]

LORD OF THE FLIES SERIES REVIEW Unless you’ve been living on a desert island, you’ve probably heard of William Golding’s classic 1954 novel Lord of the Flies; you’ve probably even had to read it in school. The novel has been adapted multiple times for film, as well as for stage, radio, and at least one […]

BALLS UP MOVIE REVIEW To compete with a product that’s the best known of its type in all countries you’d have to come up with a brand new innovation and a very popular sponsor. This is the premise of the new Amazon Prime Video film about a brand new prophylactic, Balls Up. Brad (Mark Wahlberg) […]

APEX MOVIE REVIEW Charlize Theron heads deep into the wild in this straight to Netflix survival thriller, where isolation turns into something far more dangerous. Sasha (Theron), a grieving climber seeking solitude in the Australian wilderness, finds herself thrust into a brutal game of predator and prey when a mysterious hunter (Taron Egerton) targets her […]

OUTCOME MOVIE REVIEW Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves) is one of the nicest and most successful actors in Hollywood who has managed to keep his private life private — a rare feat in the world of the movie making machine. Secretly five years sober and trying to rebuild his life, literally and emotionally, he has stepped […]

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE: LIFE’S STILL UNFAIR As the They Might Be Giants performed theme goes for the 2000-2006 sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, “You’re not the boss of me now and you’re not so big.” Twenty years later, the dysfunctional family and their boy genius returns on Hulu and Disney Plus with a 4 […]

ROOMMATES MOVIE REVIEW High School graduation: that’s the time to steel yourself with courage, say goodbye to those lifelong friendships you made next to the bleachers, the lockers, in algebra, and of course in the confines of your heart. But wait! What if you don’t have any BFF’s to bid adieu to? Roommates on Netflix […]

THE PITT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Pitt returns for Season 2, continuing its unflinching, real-time look at life inside one of America’s busiest emergency rooms. Set ten months after the explosive first season, which was marked by a mass shooting, the new season unfolds over a single 15-hour real-time shift on the Fourth of July, […]

STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ’85 SERIES REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to cancel your Netflix subscription, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is back to deliver another shot of 80s nostalgia, or at least nostalgia for a streaming series that ended less than five months ago. Set between the events of seasons two […]

THE MADISON SERIES REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “I’m in love with Montana. For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognight, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love.”  Paramount Plus presents  the new show by Taylor Sheridan; a story of a man who had two great loves in his life: his wife, and […]

FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END SEASON 2 REVIEW Jonathan Larson once pondered how one would measure a year. Cups of coffee, sunsets, laughter, strife? Regardless, a year is five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Frieren, and elf, by this measure is approximately five hundred twenty five million six hundred thousand minutes. Give or take […]

THRASH MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 4 decades since Jaws chomped beach goers to an iconic John Williams score. Netflix is reminding us that it’s still not safe to get back into the water with the survival horror original feature Thrash. Dr. Dale Edwards (Djimon Hounsou) is an expert on the oldest predator on the planet, […]

THE CHRISTOPHERS MOVIE REVIEW From prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh comes a dramatic comedy about elderly artist, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellan) and his newly hired assistant Lori Butler (Michaela Coel). Unbeknownst to Julian, his greedy children Barnaby and Sallie (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) hired Lori not because of her experience as a personal assistant, but […]

SHRINKING SEASON 3 REVIEW From prolific creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso) comes the third season of Apple TV‘s hit Shrinking. When we first met licensed therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) he was a grief-stricken widower and single father spiraling out of control, lost in a haze of substance abuse and […]

BROTHERS UNDER FIRE MOVIE REVIEW What do soldiers fight for? Some would say that they fight for mom, apple pie, baseball, and a little ideal we sometimes take for granted called freedom. But for those who have actually been a soldier, perhaps they would say that mainly soldiers fight for each other. Brothers under Fire […]

DTF ST. LOUIS SERIES REVIEW Henry David Thoreau famously said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” One can only imagine what he would think of the sex lives of lonely, middle-aged suburbanites suspected of murder. Jason Bateman and David Harbour play Clark and Floyd, two friends who are sexually unsatisfied in their […]

BAIT SERIES REVIEW Tomorrow Never Dies at the James Bond Rumour mill and with Amazon pulling the strings, The World is Not Enough. It’ll take a real GoldenEye casting director to pick the next actor to be On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Comment sections are being real Dr. No about all suggestions stepping away from […]

REFUGE MOVIE REVIEW Lewayne, Mike the Editor, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us cabin in the woods to discuss this tightly wound thriller that starts as a simple fishing trip between four friends, but quickly reveals itself to be something far more sinister. What unfolds in the new film Refuge is less a […]

PRIMAL SEASON 3 REVIEW From his early work on a show about a boy genius with a secret laboratory beneath his family home, to a time traveling samurai with a sword of destiny, Genndy Tartakovsky has created timeless moments of animation that inspire the imaginations of children and adults alike. The legendary animator decided next […]

BODYCAM MOVIE REVIEW “When you were eight and you had bad traits. You go to school and learn the golden rule. So why are you acting like a bloody fool? If you get hot then you must get cool!” These were lyrics in the song “Bad Boys” before the massively popular show “Cops” hit syndication, […]

STRIP LAW SERIES REVIEW “If you are committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it” – Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul. Netflix presents an animated series featuring legal counseling in Las Vegas, Strip Law. Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott) […]