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  • Spoiler Review: Star Wars Andor Season 2

    Spoiler Review: Star Wars Andor Season 2
    Jun 1 2025
    This week we review and discuss season 2 of Star Wars: Andor, a science fiction spy thriller series directed by Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard and Adria Arjona, in which thief-turned-rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative five years that lead to the events of the two films, exploring how he becomes radicalized against the Galactic Empire and how the wider Rebel Alliance is formed.

    We discuss whether season 2 lived up to the hype created by season 1 and whether it was worth the wait, whether it lives up to its reputation of being smart Star Wars for grownups, whether it is proper Star Wars and what that even looks like, why some of us couldn't get on board with the storytelling style, and much more.

    Check out the video version:
    https://youtu.be/wSFwfmyE4_0

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    7:25 Spoiler Discussion
    55:46 Conclusion and Ratings
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    59 m
  • Spoiler Review: Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    Spoiler Review: Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning
    May 28 2025
    This week we review and discuss Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, a action spy movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atweell and Angela Bassett, in which Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team unite to prevent the Entity, a rogue AI, from unleashing global destruction against humanity.

    We discuss whether this movie delivers on its promises of breathtaking stunts and action set pieces, why keeping promises is important for movies, which parts of the story worked for us and which didn't and whether that mattered in this kind of movie, whether the movie has its full effect for people not immersed in the franchise, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/wkjdkDBE9oY

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Best Recent Thing Watched
    5:11 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    11:41 Spoiler Discussion
    48:29 Conclusion and Ratings
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    53 m
  • Have You Seen: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

    Have You Seen: 28 Weeks Later (2007)
    May 25 2025
    In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

    This week we revisit 28 Weeks Later, a postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne and Idris Elba, about the efforts of United States-led NATO forces to establish a safe zone in London, the consequence of two young siblings breaking protocol to find a photograph of their mother, and the resulting reintroduction of the Rage Virus into the safe zone.

    We talk about our disappointment in 28 Weeks Later after we liked 28 Days Later, how this movie squanders its potential and undoes any unique elements the first movie used to differentiate itself from the zombie genre, how the movie is thematically empty and how other zombie media handle the reconstruction story better, how it relies on idiot plots, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gofxavw9tO4
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    44 m
  • Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines

    Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines
    May 21 2025
    This week we review and discuss Final Destination: Bloodlines, a supernatural horror movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tony Todd and Brec Bassinger, about a college student who inherits visions of a previous premonition that averted a deadly structural failure in 1968 from her dying grandmother and is warned that Death is coming for her family.

    We discuss why this movie is so successful at reviving its franchise while building of the premise and delivering on its promises, compare favourite kills, why watching this movie made us feel 12 years old again, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/Y4VG27Sk9i8

    0:00 Intro
    0:18 Best Recent Thing Watched
    8:38 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    14:49 Spoiler Discussion
    52:49 Conclusion and Ratings
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    56 m
  • Have You Seen: 28 Days Later

    Have You Seen: 28 Days Later
    May 18 2025
    In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

    This week we revisit 28 Days Later, a postapocalyptic zombie film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccleston, about a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society.

    We talk about our reactions to watching this zombie classic 23 years later, how the movie impacted the zombie genre and whether its innovations to the zombie genre are less impressive now that they have become genre staples, how the movie hits different if you lived through a pandemic in London, how 28 Days Later breaks just about all genre conventions of zombie movies and on balance is a better story for it, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/OnIYqfu3orw
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    46 m
  • Spoiler Review: The Surfer

    Spoiler Review: The Surfer
    May 14 2025
    This week we review and discuss The Surfer, a psychological thriller movie directed by Lorcan Finnegan and starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon and Miranda Tapsell, about a man who plans to surf at an idyllic beach with his son but becomes thwarted and tormented by the locals.

    We discuss why this movie may be the most polarising one we've reviewed so far, our interpretation of the movie's themes of ambition and compromise, what we thought of Nicolas Cage's performance, how The Surfer is really a Christmas movie, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/nRoRCcYQW6M

    0:00 Intro
    0:16 Best Recent Thing Watched
    8:56 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    18:27 Spoiler Discussion
    50:40 Conclusion and Ratings
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    54 m
  • Catching Up With The Mission: Impossible Franchise

    Catching Up With The Mission: Impossible Franchise
    May 12 2025
    In this week's movie conversation we talk about our reactions to watching Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Hayley Atwell, after not having seen a Mission: Impossible Movie in over a decade.

    We talk about our memories and expectations for a Mission: Impossible movie, how we felt about the storytelling, characters and practical action of Dead Reckoning: Part One, what we want out of action movies in general and how that lines up with this movie and how the experience compares to action movies that have come out recently, what expectations we have for Final Reckoning, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/sbImbXETRug
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    44 m
  • Spoiler Review: Thunderbolts*

    Spoiler Review: Thunderbolts*
    May 8 2025
    This week we review and discuss Thunderbolts*, a superhero movie and 36th film in the MCU, directed by Jake Schreier and starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, about a group of antiheroes that are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission to defeat the Void.

    We discuss our reaction to the movie's attempt to revive the MCU, whether it delivers on the character focus that we've wanted from superhero movies for a long time, what the movie sets up for the MCU going forward, the movie's treatment of depression and loneliness in the form of the Void, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/czS8zXpdrPE

    0:00 Intro
    0:19 Best Recent Thing Watched
    5:29 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    10:39 Spoiler Discussion
    59:49 Conclusion and Ratings
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    1 h y 2 m
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