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TRASH IN THE CAN: BLACK MAMBA This week, the boys enter the bizarre, green screen nightmare world of Belinda M. Wilson. Joined by Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle’s Culture Desk editor and film critic, they unpack a vanity project for the ages! Monkey paw wishes, breastfeeding monsters, and enough butt stuff to make even the […]

CLAYFACE MOVIE REVIEW The comic books to movie train keeps chuggin’ along and the results have been of late, hugely varied. But if you fall on the ‘not into those’ camp, you might reconsider your stance for Clayface. Telling the origin story of the DC comics supervillain, writer Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, […]

KLARA AND THE SUN MOVIE REVIEW Some would say that Taika Waititi has been on a downward slope with his most recent films, Next Goal Wins & Thor: Love and Thunder, but he’s back with his latest film adapting the acclaimed novel Klara and the Sun. Starring Jenna Ortega as the titular Klara, she is […]

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING MOVIE REVIEW Elizabeth Holmes sits in prison for what seems to be a pretty open and shut case of fraud. Her company, Theranos, claimed it had a device that revolutionized blood testing by being able to take a fingerprick worth of blood and do a giant battery of tests on it. […]

WHALEFALL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get it out of the way right now: Whalefall is a movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale and has to figure out how to escape before his air runs out. Sounds like a Tubi original, right? But no, this is a wide theatrical release with big name […]

MISTY GREEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s not hard to see, given the immense talent of actress Rosalind Eleazar, that despite her mainly having a notable presence just on TV (check out Slow Horses if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing), she definitely can carry the weight of an entire film on her shoulders. She is the titular […]

TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE TIM CONWAY SHOW & LAUGH-IN On a very special episode of Trash on the Tube, critic Frank Calvillo brings the boys two episodes of television that have been long forgotten, but contain Hollywood Royalty. The short lived The Tim Conway Show has a very special guest star, Joan Crawford, where […]

FINAL FANTASTIC FIVESOME FORUM I know we have been pretty exhaustive this year (and most years) with our coverage of our favorite movie festival Fantastic Fest. Promise, this is the last thing we’re putting up for it this year. But it’s a big one. We get five of our attending critics, Chris, Wright, Martin, Mike, […]

THE SOCIAL RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 16 years since David Fincher’s masterpiece, The Social Network, hit the silver screen. It felt timely and acted as a cautionary tale of how one’s ego could effect millions of people. Now, Aaron Sorkin, the original screenwriter, wanted to go back into the Facebook feed and tell another […]

DONKEY PRINCESS MOVIE REVIEW From the directors of the politically charged, surreal, animated fairytale film The Wolf House comes the politically charged, surreal, partially animated fairytale film Donkey Princess which was featured at Fantastic Fest this year. The story follows Princess Diana who lives in a magical kingdom with her father the king. When the […]

PHREAKER MOVIE REVIEW If you’ve ever listened to us talk about Fantastic Fest, you’ve heard us say that often it’s the films that weren’t on your radar at all that end up on your ‘best of the fest’ lists. It’s rare for one of those films to be one of the minority of entries in […]

DIGGER MOVIE REVIEW Director/Co-writer of Digger Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman) has made a film that is structured in such a way that it is completely impossible to discuss without giving away the game it plays with the audience. Thus, this Highly Suspect Review of the film spends only a little time upfront in non-spoiler territory […]

KICK ON MOVIE REVIEW After being kicked out of a club for fighting, a group of young party folks make a decision to go up the drug food chain and head to the 9th floor apartment of the son of a Russian gangster to acquire more ‘party favors’. Eden is in a relationship with Drew […]

FUTURE TENSE MOVIE REVIEW The past is filled with many key points that if one small thing changed, history would be completely different. This comes as a bit of a complication to a corporation in the Fantastic Fest film Future Tense. They offer time travel to places in the past far enough away from these […]

THE HERETIKS MOVIE REVIEW Horror website Dread Central has gotten into the filmmaking game with their first ever production, The Heretiks, which premiered at this year’s Fantastic Fest. The story follows a coven of witches who have aims to awaken their goddess who dreams the world which will bring about the end of all things. […]

JANUR IRENG – SEWU DINO THE PREQUEL MOVIE REVIEW If you have yet to dive into the world of Indonesian horror films, the time is now. With their industry regularly releasing some of the most original and graphic films out there, it’s no surprise that any given genre festival, like Fantastic Fest, is going to […]

RIVER MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like a lazy day floating down a river on your boat, hanging out with your family, drinking beer, scattering your father’s ashes, and being set upon by masked serial killers. Man, these summer days really are the memories we cherish. In the horror film River, three estranged siblings (Jane Levy, Jessica […]

PRIMETIME MOVIE REVIEW Perhaps you remember the NBC early 2000s show To Catch a Predator. Host Chris Hansen had a team of folks catfishing child predators online and eventually getting them to show up to a meet where a younger looking actor would pretend to be the child until Hansen himself and his cameras walked […]

THE CYCLE MOVIE REVIEW Meg (Deborah Ann Woll) is a forensic examiner who specializes in the decay of human bodies. When the police show up to ask her to consult on a mysterious case of a body found outside of a murder house that seems out of place, she’s interested…until they tell her it’s the […]

GODMOTHER MOVIE REVIEW Theo and Colby are going to the desert to a cute little air b&b run by a delightful old couple (horror stalwarts Dee Wallace and Bruce Davidson). Unfortunately, Theo’s party girl sister Katie got invited along kinda making Theo’s plans for a romantic weekend get quashed. Much more unfortunately, the delightful old […]

VICTORIAN PSYCHO MOVIE REVIEW The director of Sanctuary is back with another seriously weird little horror film, Victorian Psycho. Maika Monroe (It Follows) plays Winifred Notty, a new governess at the remote and huge Ensor house for the wealthy Lamb family. The mom (Ruth Wilson) doesn’t like her because she thinks she’s screwing her husband. […]

WILD HORSE NINE MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Martin McDonagh has become one of our ‘never misses’ creatives. Since moving from stage to screen in 2008 masterfully with In Bruges, he’s made one delightfully dialogued film after another. This year at Fantastic Fest we got to see his latest work of hysterical somberness, Wild Horse Nine, and […]

BEWARE BOIÚNA MOVIE REVIEW I am not sure anyone was clamoring for another film about folks traipsing around the Amazon who are set upon by a giant killer snake, but here’s Beware Boiúna to take up that space anyway. The second film we saw at this year’s Fantastic Fest is directed by Mike P. Nelson, […]

RESIDENT EVIL MOVIE REVIEW There have been seven Resident Evil live action film adaptations. SEVEN. That’s not even counting a whole slew of animated film ones to boot. So why can’t anyone translate the terrifying and legendary game series into a film that works on a level past ‘campy’ or ‘the director just wants to […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: DIRE DUPLICITY This week, the boys attempt to make sense of Neil Breen’s latest cinematic fever dream! Joined by Martin Thomas from Double Toasted, they try to unravel a story they think involves international cyber attacks and political assassinations, but honestly your guess is as good as theirs. Fighter jets, horses, […]