The Commentary Booth

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Corrina Mabey to review the new war epic coming to Prime Video on Friday, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant . Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, starring Jake Gyllenhaal & Dar Salim , is set during the war in Afghanistan & follows a local interpreter working for the US military as he risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grue...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Jason Hauth & Corrina Mabey to draft our dream AEW & ROH rosters. As we gear up for the debut of AEW Collision we decided to get into the spirit & draft our fantasy lineups for each show. In order to do so Corrina took on AEW Dynamite , Jason went with AEW Collision & Jamie drafted on behalf of Ring Of Honor . Find out who we pic...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Jason Hauth to review All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) annual Las Vegas PPV, Double Or Nothing . Headlined by an Anarchy In The Arena match pitting The Elite (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks & Hangman Adam Page) against Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta). This card also featured a 4-Pillars Wor...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Buddy McClelland to review the latest AppleTV+ documentary film, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie . This brand new documentary film chronicles the life story of Michael J. Fox from his childhood to his early years in Hollywood & finally his struggle with his Parkinson's disease diagnosis & life since. Check out more great content from Pario...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Blake Robinson to review The Pope's Exorcist , a 2023 supernatural horror film directed by Julian Avery & starring Russell Crowe . Based on the 1990 book, An Exorcist Tells His Story , & the 1992 book, An Exorcist: More Stories both by Father Gabriele Amorth . This film follows Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he inves...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Corrina Mabey to review Scream 6 , the latest entry into the slasher franchise. This time, much like Scream 2 & 3 , this film takes Ghostface out of Woodsoro as a new killer begins targeting the survivors of the "Woodsboro legacy attacks" in New York. Scream 6 is now available on Paramount+ in the US & digitally in Australia. Check out m...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Blake Robinson to review Infinity Pool , the latest sci-fi horror film by Brandon Cronenberg . The film follows James ( Alexander Skarsgård ) & Em Foster ( Cleopatra Coleman ), a rich couple who decide to take a vacation to a fictional foreign country where they’re advised never to leave the boundaries of their resort. The couple has gone th...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by the founder of video game & pop culture podcast network, ATEBIT , Brendan White . As the host of the anime appreciation podcast, More Then Hentai , Brendan was the only choice for this episode diving into the world of anime via the Netflix series, Agent Elvis . Created by Priscilla Presley , John Eddie and Mike Arnold Agent Elvis follows the...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by 2 sports fanatics, Ben Davis & Jordan Pini, to debate the best sports documentary series of 2023 so far. This year sports fans have been treated to a plethora of sports documentary series' on streaming. Inspired by the likes of Hard Knocks & All Or Nothing  these shows give a unique insight into their chosen sport. For this special...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by the host of The House Of Mario to review The Super Mario Bros. Movie . Growing up there was one particular video game that everybody knew & loved, Super Mario Bros on the NES . Capitalising on that passion & with the benefit of nostalgia now incredibly strong for our favourite Italian brother plumbers Nintendo , Illumination & Univer...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Jason Hauth to review the first PPV of the new era of Ring Of Honor , Supercard Of Honor 2023. Headlined by ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs Eddie Kingston this PPV was thrilling & emotional from top to bottom. In particular the ROH Television Championship match between Samoa Joe & Mark Briscoe, which was dedicated to Mark's rece...

Corrina Mabey joins us this week on The Commentary Booth to review the historical true crime film, Boston Strangler , which is now streaming on Disney+ in Australia & Hulu in the US. Inspired by the infamous Boston Strangler murders, this is the true story of Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightly ), the first reporter to connect the murders and break the story. Along with fellow reporter Jean Col...

This week on The Commentary Booth Jamie is joined by Blake Robinson to review, The Pale Blue Eye , a grisly Netflix murder mystery starring Christian Bale . In The Pale Blue Eye Bale plays detective Augustus Landor as he investigates a series of grisly murders at the US Military Academy West Point in 1830. During the course of the investigation, Landor recruits Edgar Allen Poe to assist. The film...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 9. In the final episode, we witness Joel & Ellie come to the conclusion of their epic journey to find a cure for the cordyceps infection. DISCLAIMER: Impressions recorded in advance of the air date based on preview screeners, provided...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 8. In this episode, Joel & Ellie are separated for the first time since coming together. During this period Ellie attempts to support Joel's healing but soon encounters an enemy even scarier than the infected. DISCLAIMER: Impressions...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 7. This episode sees us rejoining Joel & Ellie in the aftermath of the attack at the University. During this episode, we get a lot more of Ellie's backstory, built around the Left Behind DLC for The Last Of Us game. DISCLAIMER: Impres...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 6. In this episode, the show shifts into Winter as Joel & Ellie continue searching for Tommy. A slower episode that really cements the bond between Joel & Ellie in a terrifying, moving & dread-filled manner. DISCLAIMER: Impres...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 5. In this episode, Joel & Ellie make uneasy allies with Henry & Sam in order to escape Kansas City. Episode 5 is a perfect encapsulation of everything The Last Of Us has to offer from character building to action & ultimately...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 4, which sees a few more key changes made to the narrative. In this episode, Joel & Ellie continue their journey westward when they arrive at a roadblock just outside Kansas City. After navigating the roadblock our duo encounter their...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . Today Jamie is again joined by Corrina Mabey to review episode 3, Long Long Time . In this episode, we take our most significant deviation from the game as we spend most of this episode with Bill & Frank. During our time with Bill & Frank, we witness their relationship & love story develo...

This week we continue our new feature on The Commentary Booth , focusing on HBO's The Last Of Us . For episode 2 & beyond Jamie will be joined by Corrina Mabey to review each episode. Today we're reviewing episode 2, Infected. Directed by the original game's creator, Neil Druckmann, episode 2 sees us join Joel, Ellie & Tess as they spend their first day outside the walls of the quarantine...

This week we're beginning a new feature on The Commentary Booth . Typically we would do 1 new topic every week, but for the next 9 weeks, we're focusing on a single topic & diving deep into every episode as they air. The HBO tv adaptation of The Last Of Us is the topic we're about to be infected by . A post-apocalyptic drama series written for TV by Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann . Based on...

This week on The Commentary Booth we're joined by Jason Hauth to react to the biggest wrestling show of 2023 so far. We're talking about New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) Wrestle Kingdom 17 , which was headlined by the debut of Mercedes Moné (formerly Sasha Banks), Will Ospreay vs Kenny Omega & Kazuchika Okada vs Jay White . The full lineup for the show was: IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match Kaz...

I'm joined by colour commentator Corrina Mabey this week as we move into a new era for The Commentary Booth . Moving forward each episode will focus on only 1 topic, allowing us to go deeper with our conversation before we give you our individual ratings. Our rating scale is a 5-point scale & is the same scale as used on Pario written reviews. Under the Pario gem scale each score means the fol...

This week on The Commentary Booth, I'm joined by colour commentator Jaxon & we're feeling a little mysterious. During today's episode, we review The White Lotus before then jumping across to do a Knives Out refresher to help get everyone ready for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery . Check out more great content from Pario Magazine on our website: www.pariomagazine.com.au ----------------------...