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WICKED returns with the roar of a tornado…BUT IS IT “FOR GOOD”?  Surprisingly, WillDaBeast loves musicals as much as Cupcake does and so it goes…Part 2 of the Broadway musical Wicked is back! Filmed all at the same time but split into two parts and separated by one year, the Jon M. Chu directed Act Two, still starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jonathon Bailey, rolls out a yellow brick road...

Second verse….just like the first! BAM! … Another Double Movie Review!  The Boyz loved the last double feature movie review so they decided to do it ALL OVER AGAIN! First up, kinetic visualist @edgarwright brings us the second adaption of “The Running Man”. Written by Stephen King (under a pseudonym of Richard Bachman) and famously adapted in 1987 to the screen starring one Arnold Schwarzenegger,...

PREPARE YOURSELVES: the first ever double review episode is upon YOU!!!!  In what can only be described as a historic “creature double feature”, the verbose Watch/Skip Plus guys take on TWO movies in one episode - stripped down, no pluses, quick intro’s, full on movie review glory! First up, yet another reinvention for the Predator franchise, Predator Badlands crash lands in theatres. Dan Trachten...

As you have already gathered...no new episode this weekend. BUT Friday brings a supersized episode - OUR first ever double review! Can't wait for you to hear it! - - - - - - - - - - WE ARE WATCH SKIP PLUS! FOLLOW/LIKE/SUBSCRIBE/REVIEW/LOVE Email us: WatchSkipPlus@gmail.com

FROM YOUTUBE TO INDIE FILMMAKER…SHELBY OAKS IS HERE, BUT DOES IT HERALD A POTENTIAL NEW FILMIC VOICE OR WERE MISTAKES MADE?!?!?! Stop me if you’ve heard this one:  An ex-Jehovah’s Witness, pansexual, YouTube movie reviewer/influencer decides to make a movie…. And so it is with Shelby Oaks, the debut feature of one Chris Stuckmann. Kickstarter’d, delayed, reshot, remixed, edited, EP’d and shepherde...

SCREEN THAT CALL FROM BEYOND…THE GRABBER IS BACK IN BLACK PHONE 2! Blumhouse pictures looks to break its poo-poo streak (Exorcist:Believer, The Wolf Man, M3G4N 2.0, The Woman in the Yard, Drop) with Black Phone 2, the sequel to the wildly successful first film. Based on a short story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, the sequel is directed by genre friendly director-writer Scott Derrickson who also...

IS THE THIRD TIME THE CHARM FOR A BELOVED FRANCHISE WHOSE FIRST FILM BOMBED AND WHOSE SEQUEL WAS ONLY A MODERATE BOX OFFICE SUCCESS?!?? Fun Fact: the original 1982 Tron is one of Cupcake’s favorite nostalgic cornerstone films. This week he forces WillDaBeast to watch the third film in the franchise: Tron: Ares. Directed by one of the co-directors of the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie and star...

*Special thanks to Riverside whose software we use to edit our videos; there was a quirk preventing this clip from being exported/perfected, but despite the delay in release, Riverside tech support has been nothing short of brilliant and amazing in identifying and fixing the issue. SEX AND VIOLENCE COLLIDE IN “BONE LAKE”...BUT DOES IT NAIL ITS MONEY SHOT?!?? Cheeky sexy marketing campaign? Check....

BRACE YOURSELVES!!! PTA #10 HITS THEATRES AND WS+ HAS ALL THE SCOOP!!! When one of cinema’s most brilliant and consistently dazzling American directors puts out his TENTH feature, you know the Boyz at Watch Skip Plus have you covered! On a 2 hour roundtable discussion, WilDaBeast and Cupcake welcome back Kevin from Raiders of the Podcast to discuss “One Battle After Another”, directed by Paul Thom...

PEELE PRODUCER LABEL NOSEDIVES WITH HIM - STULTIFYING MISFIRE! Jordan Peele, the innovative and stunning director of Get Out and Nope, lends his (producer) name to HIM, a new horror film about a young football quarterback facing an aging rival for the top spot on a pro team. Directed by Justin Tipping and starring Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers,  the trailers sold this as a seemingly brutal, gory...

HEAVY STEPHEN KING NOVEL HITS THE SCREEN…BUT DOES IT HAVE LEGS? A 1979 Stephen King novel got a big screen adaptation, and Watch Skip Plus gives you its singular critique and analysis in a brand new episode. WillDaBeast and Cupcake take on the Francis Lawrence directed - JT Mollner written book to screen thriller with a simple premise: Young men compete in a “long walk” where the last man standing...

Episode 138: The Conjuring: Last Rites THE POWER OF  A NEW WATCH SKIP PLUS EP COMPELS YOU! Cupcake experienced some major tech difficulties as he “Resolve”-d to master a new editing software, but the WS+ boyz are back! This time taking on the fourth Conjuring film, itself the 9th movie in the “Conjuring” universe (the “CU”). Directed by CU mainstay director Michael Chaves with returning leads Patr...

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COME ASHORE FOR THE NEW WATCH SKIP PLUS! Cupcake all but ordered WillDaBeast to see the new Ron Howard film solely because advanced word had Jude Law doing a “one for the history books” full frontal nude scene. And so it is: this week the Boyz review Ron Howard’s historically based, “Survivor”-esque 1930’s period drama “Eden” starring Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruehl (BARON ZEMO!), current contro...

Cupcake’s favorite action filmmakers 87North (David Leitch and Kelly McCormack’s production company) return with “Nobody 2” starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielson, Sharon Stone, RZA, John Ortiz, Christopher Lloyd, and Daniel Bernhardt. 87North might be having the same kind of year as BlumHouse with lackluster audience reception to previous releases Love Hurts and Ballerina. Will this action comedy...

COME TOGETHER!!!! … OVER WATCH SKIP PLUS!!!!!  *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTube WS+ takes a break from blockbusters…or rather superheroes…and takes on another type of “busting” with the indie body horror “Together”. Savvy listeners will remember Mike reviewing this for the Annual Sundance Episode where the film, its director Michael Shanks and leads Dave F...

WARNING: Explicit language, ribald jokes, and biting commentary ensue. Episode 134: The Fantastic Four: First Steps FFinally!!! As the BO for the new Marvel film craters...our new episode is up (after tech snafus!) *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTube The Boyz bring back Sam U. Rai from the Gentleman’s Guide to Midnite Cinema to discuss yet another SUPERHERO f...

A LEGACY SEQUEL? 27 YEARS LATER? I KNOW WHAT…THE……???  * Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTube Horror franchises come and go; some endure and some….wake up and get 'requel'd nearly 27 years later (and no…it’s not the prequel to 28 Years Later). Such is “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025)....taking the Scream (2022) route and using the original’s tit...

EPIC SUPERSIZED SUPERMAN ANALYSIS!   * Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTube The year’s most eagerly anticipated film soars into theatres and Watch Skip Plus gives you a KRYPTON-sized critical analysis of the James Gunn-directed superhero epic. Eschewing pluses this week, WilDaBeast and Cupcake are joined by Pod-Father Sam U. Rai from the Gentleman’s Guide to Mi...

Dinosaurs, Mutants, and ScarJo….OH MY!   The 7th film in the Jurassic Park franchise has been released but is it a worthy reboot/spinoff/expansion of the JP universe or a T-Rex sized cash grab? WillDaBeast and Cupcake spare no expense reviewing Jurassic World: Rebirth, directed by visual wunderkind Gareth Edwards and with a wildly photogenic cast (Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Al...

HOLD ONTO YOUR V*&INAS! M3GAN IS BACK….BUT IS IT AN UPGRADE?  Blumhouse/Atomic Monster hit M3GAN is back with a sequel that swings so far from its horror origins the WS+ boys couldn’t review it without bringing on their YouTube brother in arms John Horgan from the “...And Now For Something a Little Bit Different” channel. Director Gerald Johnstone was clearly given free range to give us a sequ...

NEW EPISODE! But uh…..WHAT HAPPENED TO 28 MONTHS? JUST JUMPED TO YEARS I SEE…. * Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTube On an episode SO EPIC not even an exploding transformer-driven power outage could stop, the Boys welcome Rob from the UK gem of a podcast “Caliber 9 From Outer Space” to take on Danny Boyle’s return to the rage zombie-genre busting/reinvention f...

SAY I DO WITH OUR NEW REVIEW OF CELINE SONG’S NEW DEUX! Ahhhhh the eternal dilemma:  Marry for true love or for your partner’s deep endless bank account! But seriously, WillDaBeast and Cupcake take on the second film “Materialists” from acclaimed director / playwright Celine Song whose debut film was the multiple critic society and Oscar nominated “Past Lives”. Her new film is an allegoric tale ab...

A SECOND JOHN WICK SPINOFF? ONE OF US HATED THIS S*^T! Pretty sure the pitch went like this:  “Let’s do a female John Wick with that sexy girl who was in No Time to Die…we’ll get that Underworld director; he knows how to make a female action star…guaranteed box office.” Weeeeeeellllllll…. This week the Boyz take on “Ballerina: From the World of John Wick”, the second spin off (if you’ve been payin...

BRING HER BACK….or rather…..BRING YOUR BARFBAG!   The Boys would write a cogent summary for this episode but they are still gagging and curled up in the fetal position having seen “Bring Her Back”, the latest from YouTube stars-turned-directors/A24 darlings, Danny and Michael Philippou. As if their debut horror film “Talk To Me” wasn’t intense and scary and horrific enough, “Bring Her Back” said,...