#Podcast Screener Squad

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Screener Squad: Suncoast SUNCOAST MOVIE REVIEW Back in the 90’s, a famous writer/comedian/late night talk show host did a recurring bit of what the world would be like in the year 2000. Come back to us Conan O’Brien, we miss you. In the distant past, 2004-6 was a time of Juicy T-shirts, PussyCat Dolls, Tom Brady and the Patriots Super Bowls, and the ongoing debate of Terri Schiavo. Who has the right to say if she lives or dies? Her parents, her spouse, or God as interpreted through Florida Televangelists? In the midst of this, a high school teenager named Doris (Nico Parker)… Read More »Screener Squad: Suncoast read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Time Bandits TIME BANDITS SERIES REVIEW Remember as a kid when it was super cool to have a favorite dinosaur? When day-dreaming of sailing the world with vikings like Leif Erikson was a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do? When you could tell the difference between Greek and Roman history without extra scrutiny? Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) will never have those memories. Apple Plus presents a ten episode television series based on the film by Terry Gilliam, Time Bandits. The kids at school, his little sister, and even his own parents all mock Kevin relentlessly for having an encyclopedic knowledge and curiosity… Read More »Screener Squad: Time Bandits read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: My Adventures With Superman Season 2 MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 2 REVIEW Now that we’ve had our run through the animated Superman that would conquer the world and the cartoonishly evil Superman trumping up the place, we’re back with the classic boy scout in blue, now animated on Adult Swim with My Adventures with SuperMan season 2. Clark Kent (Jack Quaid) works at the newspaper The Daily Planet with his co-worker and steady girlfriend Lois Lane (Alice Lee) and with their friend and colleague Jimmy Olson (Ishmel Sahid) who’s just become a millionaire. Lois and Clark have to juggle their love lives with their professionalism… Read More »Screener Squad: My Adventures With Superman Season 2 read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams JOKO ANWAR’S NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS SERIES REVIEW Hey to all you Christmas in July folks! You can get out of here with your awful snow and frozen heart. We are getting into the spooky scarys in the 2024 summer brought to you by Netflix. Joko Anwar Presents Nightmares and Daydreams is an anthology of seven chilling tales that have an odd connection. The show takes place in Jakarta, Indonesia over the decades. “Old House” is a story of long lost youth and an old folks home run by a cloaked cult. “The Orphan” asks if you’d adopt bad luck for… Read More »Screener Squad: Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Ultraman Rising ULTRAMAN RISING MOVIE REVIEW Every parent wants their child to shine on the stage of life and honour the sacrifices made to raise them into a brilliant independent hero amongst so much mediocrity. What happens though if the child in question is pushed in two different directions by their parents? Ken Sato (Christopher Sea) is a young prodigy on the diamond-shaped field. His mother nurtures and cultivates his amazing baseball prowess. On the other hand, his father insists he inherit the family legacy of being UltraMan. Ultraman Rising, a family animated film brought to you by Netflix and directed by… Read More »Screener Squad: Ultraman Rising read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON MOVIE REVIEW What do you do when you’re a vampire, and the thought of biting someone’s neck puts you in a moral quandary? This is the dilemma of Sasha, a young teenager of the vampyric persuasion who, despite her family’s pressure, is unable to bring herself to hunt down a human for their delicious, and necessary for her survival, red ichor. However, an opportunity presents itself with the arrival of Paul, who is depressed, bullied, and on the verge of a suicidal breakdown. Since Sasha needs to kill someone to drink their blood, and… Read More »Screener Squad: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Dead Boy Detectives DEAD BOY DETECTIVES SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series is based on the Neil Gaiman/Matt Wagner comic books, which are themselves spin-offs of The Sandman (and some cameo casting establishes that the same is true of the show). Dead Boy Detectives is the story of Edwin and Charles, two youths cut dead in their prime, stuck between worlds, and their only motivation in (after) life is to solve mysteries for other ghosts. They’re joined by Crystal, who can speak to the dead but has lost all her memories after a demon possession and the demon wants her back. The show… Read More »Screener Squad: Dead Boy Detectives read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: American Dreamer AMERICAN DREAMER MOVIE REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”. American Dreamer is a film about Phil (Peter Dinklage) who is a writer/college professor who wants it all: The hot wife, the fast car, & a little mansion near the coast he can call his own. His realtor Dell (Matt Dillon) wants his big dream to crash back to reality and ponder some purchases in his price range. As luck would have it, Phil finds a listing for a 10 million… Read More »Screener Squad: American Dreamer read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: True Detective - Night Country TRUE DETECTIVE – NIGHT COUNTRY REVIEW Time is a flat circle…again. True Detective is back with its 4th season now with showrunner and director Issa López. This season, aptly named Night Country, takes us to Ennis, Alaska where the town is preparing for the grueling six month period of darkness. On the eve of the first day of dark, a group of scientists from the local Tsalal research facility go missing and Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) leads the investigation. Former partner and now State Trooper Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) pushes her way into the case since a severed tongue… Read More »Screener Squad: True Detective – Night Country read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Hundreds of Beavers HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS MOVIE REVIEW Strap on your snowshoes and grab your best raccoon skin hat! Cause we’re hiking up to 19th Century, Green Bay, WI. No Cheese Heads here (yet) just a lot of snow and mascot animals waiting to be harvested. Our protagonist Jean Kayak is thrown into the bowels of winter and has to learn the art of trapping to survive. He’ll go toe to toe with rabbits, skunks, and even wolves. But that pales in comparison to his biggest challenge; in order to marry the merchant’s daughter, he must pay a dowry… which is exactly Hundreds… Read More »Screener Squad: Hundreds of Beavers read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Merry Little Batman MERRY LITTLE BATMAN MOVIE REVIEW Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batdad! Happy Belated Holidays. If you’re not quite hungover from all the parties, annoying family members, and binge eating… you may want to check out Merry Little Batman streaming on Prime. It’s a mashup of everything you love about the Batman universe and the best Christmas movies. It’s Christmas time in Gotham (which normally is riddled with injustice and rogue villains) but the city is bustling with good cheer. At Wayne Manor, Bruce gives 8 year old Damian his first utility belt, but he is suddenly called… Read More »Screener Squad: Merry Little Batman read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Godzilla Minus One GODZILLA MINUS ONE MOVIE REVIEW Godzilla has been known to overshadow his co-stars (figuratively and literally) but Godzilla Minus One deliberately centers its story around its human characters. During the final months of WW2, a kamikaze pilot named Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), abandons his suicide mission by flying back to base for bogus repairs. No sooner is his cowardice exposed, when Godzilla shows up, destroying the base and killing everyone except Koichi and one other witness. Wracked with shame and survivor’s guilt, Koichi returns to bombed-out Tokyo to discover his home in ruins and his parents dead. Things change for the… Read More »Screener Squad: Godzilla Minus One read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Lessons in Chemistry LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY SERIES REVIEW In the 1950’s there was a post-war boom full of North Korean war vets, denim jeans, form fitting skirts, and the upcoming civil rights movements that would echo into our current age. Elizabeth Zot (Brie Larson) is a single mother and celebrity chef on a famous television show “Supper at Six”. Every evening she entertains by presenting cooking as a science, while mothers and kids across the nation benefit, including her young daughter Medline Zot (Alice Halsey) and their dog Six Thirty (B.J. Novak). Elizabeth dreamed of conquering the human genome which would lead to… Read More »Screener Squad: Lessons in Chemistry read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF SERIES REVIEW What’s up subspace travelers? If you don’t know who Scott Pilgrim is, stop reading this, pick up the comics and watch Edgar Wright’s movie… Are you finished? Did you get all the plot points? Great, now forget everything you just learned because Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has nothing to do with what you just ingested. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off takes a spin in the first act. Normally the story goes that Matthew Patel challenges Scott to a fight at a Sex-Bob-Bomb show, loses, and we never hear anything from Matthew again and Scott is… Read More »Screener Squad: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Blue Eye Samurai BLUE EYE SAMURAI SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Edo-era Japan where isolationism is key to survival. Anyone who is an outsider is ostracized maybe sometimes murdered. The Japanese don’t want to fuck with white folk (for good reasons). But you know what white colonizers are like… A pillage here, a bunch of rapes over there… The rape turns into an unexpected pregnancy, and a baby born to a country that sees them as a half-breed. Meet Mizu, a Samurai on the revenge track to murdering four white men (or potential fathers) so her soul can be at peace. But the road… Read More »Screener Squad: Blue Eye Samurai read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: The Conference THE CONFERENCE MOVIE REVIEW Have you ever been forced to go to a stupid retreat with your stupid co-workers because your stupid boss wants to promote more “synergy” within the workplace? While sitting there, you take a sip from the one free alcoholic drink your employer is covering for the weekend, and while wallowing in your insecurities, a stranger with a mascot head comes and slays half of your co-workers. That’s the premise of today’s film The Conference. Streaming on Netflix, it’s a mixed bag of cat and mouse horror, mixed with dry, European humor. It’s like if you took… Read More »Screener Squad: The Conference read more on One of Us