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  • Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines

    Spoiler Review: Final Destination Bloodlines
    2025/05/21
    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
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    56 分
  • Have You Seen: 28 Days Later

    Have You Seen: 28 Days Later
    2025/05/18
    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 分
  • Spoiler Review: The Surfer

    Spoiler Review: The Surfer
    2025/05/14
    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 分
  • Catching Up With The Mission: Impossible Franchise

    Catching Up With The Mission: Impossible Franchise
    2025/05/12
    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 分
  • Spoiler Review: Thunderbolts*

    Spoiler Review: Thunderbolts*
    2025/05/08
    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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  • Have You Seen: Shutter Island (2010)

    Have You Seen: Shutter Island (2010)
    2025/05/05
    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 Shutter Island from 2010, a neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley, about a Deputy U.S. Marshal who comes to Shutter Island to investigate a psychiatric facility after one of the patients goes missing.

    We talk about our reactions to Shutter Island after having seen it for the first time, whether the movie's mystery holds up, why paying attention to the details makes for better movies, what goes into a proper mystery that holds up on repeat viewings, our interpretation of the movie's ending, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/gC25ulupXj8
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    51 分
  • Spoiler Review: The Accountant 2

    Spoiler Review: The Accountant 2
    2025/05/01
    This week we review and discuss The Accountant 2, an action thriller movie directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson, about a neurodivergent accountant hit man who investigates a series of murders related to human trafficking.

    We discuss our reaction to the movie's handling of the theme of found family, ask whether that theme is able to support the movie in a satisfying way, why the movie's reliance on coincidences reduced our enjoyment of the movie, how close a sequel needs to be to its original, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/EUcXjSO2fWQ

    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Best Recent Thing Watched
    5:58 Summary and Non-Spoiler Impressions
    12:07 Spoiler Discussion
    53:11 Conclusion and Ratings
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    56 分
  • Have You Seen: Psycho (1960)

    Have You Seen: Psycho (1960)
    2025/04/28
    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 Psycho from 1960, a psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh, about an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates and its aftermath, in which a private investigator, Marion's lover Sam Loomis and her sister Lila investigate her disappearance.

    We talk about whether the movie's famous twists still work for someone watching Psycho for the first time in 2025, how the movie elegantly evaded the censors of the time, which one of us thinks the name Hitchcock is funny, how Hitchcock anticipated spoiler culture by a good 50 years in the movie's promotion at the time, and much more.

    Check out the video version here:
    https://youtu.be/G37-bAsEfls
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    47 分