Do We Like Movies?

We're finally back! After a lengthy hiatus we've returned just in time for spooky season to cover this 2012 found footage horror anthology movie. We follow a Droog-like group of scumbags who are paid to break into to a stranger's home to collect a VHS tape. What they find is a collection of bizarre and horrifying experiences.

The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best friend Miles in an ever changing (due to gentrification) West Oakland. 

The second movie in our Oakland on Film festival is this 2018 surrealist comedy from activist/musician turned Director Boots Riley. It revolves around Cassius Green, an Oakland telemarketer who discovers a major key to success in his job, and later has to choose between his own financial gain or joining his friends who are try to form a union. 

We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and the location make this one of the most unique episodes of this podcast ever.

Ghostface takes Manhattan? After rebooting the popular 1990s meta slasher last year, the good folks of Radio Silence bring us another chapter in this long running horror franchise. We pick up one year after the evens of 2022's Scream where our new "Core Four" has now moved New York City, but unfortunately, a familiar white masked killer has now followed them to the Big Apple.

Do We Like Scary Movies? In 1996, the slasher craze of the 80s was long gone and movies series like Halloween, Hellraiser, and Child's Play were considering the move to home video. Oddly enough it took the director of Nightmare on Elm Street, and the guy who created Dawson's Creek to bring us the great 90s comeback of horror movies. This film is the hybrid of slasher, mystery, true crime, and melodrama with a 90s Tarantino splash. Join your hosts as we travel back to 2019 on the podcast and discuss our thoughts on Wes Craven's 1996 classic, Scream.

“My ancestors would often say only the most broken people can be great leaders” - Namor The death of star Chadwick Boseman left a huge hole in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that may never be filled. Ryan Coogler decided that instead of recasting his hero, that his follow up to the 2018 Best Picture nominated film would be a film that dealt directly with the loss of the Black Panther. Focusing instead on the great surrounding characters from the original film, this sequel takes us to a Wakanda where Queen Ramonda and Shuri are the only remaining members of its royal family, the world wants to mine it's land for Vibranium, and they are about to go to war with the underwater kingdom of Talokan led by Namor the Submariner. 

For Wakanda? Without question. We return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first of two Black Panther films starting with Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero epic. The late Chadwick Boseman stars as the titular hero and king of the fictional African nation who must ascend to the throne after the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Among those looking to challenge his reign is the dynamic villain Erik Killmonger played by Michael B. Jordan. Join us as we fangirl over the work of Ryan Coogler and revisit this cultural touchstone that also has the great distinction of being the first and only Marvel film to score a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

Ready for some 2020 nostalgia? Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson along with Katelyn Crabb bring us this pandemic era slasher movie.  It's April 2020, the world is locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best friends Parker and Miri decide to quarantine together at Parker's family vacation home where they will be terrorized by an intruder who is looking to kill them.

We're finally at Episode 150! This highly requested movie based on the popular book series from Stephanie Meyer follows rural Washington high schooler Bella Swan and her romance with the mysterious teenaged(?) vampire, Edward Cullen.

On Wednesday we wear pink... and podcast.

We kick off the New Year with this streaming rom-com about two "20-somethings" that decide to avoid the awkwardness of casual dating by spending each holiday together without catching feelings for each other (Good Luck!)

Nothing says Christmas like Tom Cruise visiting a mysterious masked s*x party! Join us as we take a trip where the rainbow ends where we discuss the final film of Stanley Kubrick and Angel tries to explain why he like it so much.

It's the Christmas season so we figured what better way to return than watching Santa Clause kill people with his bare hands. David Harbour stars as Santa himself in a movie that is cheesy enough to be a family film, but gory enough that you could not let a child anywhere near it.

David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's Halloween sequel trilogy ends with "The Corey Cunningham Story (featuring Michael Myers and Laurie Strode)"

We have such rebooted sights to show you. Following the success of the Predator reboot "Prey" earlier this year, Hulu is back with another re-imagining of a horror franchise.

Spooky season is upon us so we figured what better way to make our grand return than to put together a list of 10 of our favorite scary movie moments to celebrate our love of horror movies and to get us all in the Halloween spirit early and it includes many films that have already been discussed on the show! We got the idea for this episode from Bravo and Shudder who have excellent talking heads documentaries on this. 

We're about a month late but finally talking Jordan Peele's UFO epic. 

Our discussion on the Black Phone got us down the path of another Ethan Hawke starring horror film from the early. 2010s. In this film he plays a true crime novelist who moves his family into a murder house to find inspiration for his next great book. If The Shining has taught us anything, it's that moving your family into a notorious murder property to write a book will never bring favorable results. Join us this week as we talk Sinister.

We're back at the theater for this week's movie. The latest Blumhouse horror flick takes us back to 1979 where we follow a kid names Finney, an often bullied quiet kid in his Denver suburb. When a frightening serial killer named The Grabber (played by the excellent Ethan Hawke) kidnaps Finney and locks him in his basement, he finds an old Black Phone (GET IT?!) that may be his only way out.

Sam Raimi makes his return to Marvel films with the 2022 sequel to Dr. Strange. A sequel of sorts to Spider-Man: No Way Home, we catch up with Dr. Stephen Strange who teams up fellow superpowered being America Chavez as they try to stop Scarlett Witch from taking over the Multiverse.

Nothing says Jurassic Park sequel like potential Global food shortages, irreversible ecological changes, and the evil of capitalism. Colin Trevorrow returns to the director's chair for "The End of the Jurassic Era". The final film in this franchise combines plotlines from all 6 films and brings together the stars of both franchises to stop Billionaire and CEO of BioSyn (aka obviously Evil Corporation, Inc.) Lewis Dodgeson from using the technology that brought dinosaurs back to life to make himself more money. Oh yeah there's dinosaurs in this too. Join us as we talk about the final film in this tentpole franchise.

In 2015,  Colin Trevorrow was selected by Steven Spielberg to take us back to Jurassic Park. Following a gaggle of unmade movies including a bizarre Dino/Human mutant movie, the simplest way to bring us back into this world was finding out what a fully functioning park with Dinosaurs would look like. Similar to the original film, the genetic modification goes too far, and our main characters have to save parkgoers from the Indominus Rex, a T-Rex/Raptor monstrosity.

We are back talking Sam Raimi's directorial debut. One of the older "cabin in the woods" films, we follow a group of young adults as they escape to a relative's cabin for a fun 80s teen horror getaway. These plans are foiled by a demonic force that moves through the surrounding forest. Also the film debut of Bruce Campbell as Ash! 

Our third (and final for now) entry in the Heist movie film festival is a real throwback to 1956. This crime film is one of the early films of Stanley Kubrick and revolves around a group of criminals who decide to rob a San Francisco Bay Area racetrack.

We're back from a 2 week hiatus and we've brought an all star cast with us. This 2001 Heist movie starring George Clooney, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac (R.I.P.), Don Cheadle, and others revolves around a group of criminals who plan to rob 3 Vegas casinos at once on the night of a big Heavyweight fight.

This week we go back to 2008 to check out a movie that we both know but have never actually seen with Let The Right One In. This Swedish horror film revolves around a romance between a 12 year old boy, and a new neighbor who happens to be a vampire. We also decided it was worth while to review the 2010 American remake from Matt Reeves at the same time. 

This week we take a break from the regular format to talk more BATMAN. Since we are still on the post The Batman high we went ahead and ranked all Batman feature films in order. We included animated movies like Mask of the Phantasm and The Lego Batman Movie. Because Batman (1966) is based on the televisions series it has not been ranked. Hope you enjoy one last trip to Gotham City before we take a good Bat break.

You're everything they say, ain't ya? We're finally here. Ten years after the end of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, and several years after the disastrous DCEU we finally return to Gotham City to see the Matt Reeves vision of The Batman. Inspired heavily by fan favorite comics like The Long Halloween, Year One, and Zero Year, this story shows us Batman who has only been in existence for 2 years. With the help of Jim Gordon, and Catwoman, this Dark Knight tries to solve a series of murders being committed by a Serial Killer who calls himself The Riddler. 

This episode was originally recorded in early 2019. After the first major DC Movie disaster that was Batman & Robin, the Dark Knight was truly dead on film. In 2003, the indie director of Memento, Christopher Nolan, embarked on the journey of bringing Batman's origin story on film for the first time. Largely adapted from the Frank Miller graphic novel "Batman: Year One", this movie was one of the first "reboots" of the 00s and would leave a lasting imprint on the Comic Book movie genre that is still felt and imitated to this day. Join us as we review Nolan's 2005 classic, Batman Begins.

Though it came to theaters in November of 2021, few movies in the last year have had both the cultural impact, and caused more dialogue on our community than this Disney film. We are introduced to the Madrigal family who are given the gift of an Enchanted (GET IT?) candle that grants each family member a special ability, with the exception of our main character Mirabel. Get ready to talk about generational trauma! 

We're back doing the exact same thing we did last time. This week we are going into the extremely meta world of 22 Jump Street. Schmidt and Jenko find themselves going under cover as college students this time trying to find the supplier of a dangerous new drug called WyPhy. 

Happy New year! We missed nearly the whole month of January but we are back for Year 4 of the show. In this episode we explain what we have been up to since our Spider-Man No Way Home episode, and we kick off two episodes covering the comedy reboot of 21 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.

We are finally here. Maybe the most anticipated movie of the year and the one that finally got everyone back in theaters during a pandemic. This week we review the final chapter of the MCU version of Marvel's web-slinging hero. Please only listen to this podcast if you have already seen the film because we get into HEAVY spoilers.

Right before we went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home we decided to watch and cover Andrew Garfield's final outing as the web slinging Marvel Super-Hero. In this movie that effectively killed this second franchise, we catch up with Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy as they try to balance their on and off again romance with saving the city and preparing for the future.

In anticipation for No Way home we are looking back at the Amazing Spider-Man series to see if it's any better or worse than we remember. Find out how we feel about this 2012 reboot now.

This week we cover one of the latest MCU offerings. This film features the first leading Asian super hero in the Marvel movie cannon. Shang Chi (Now "Shawn") is a San Francisco parking Valet who is forced to return to his true home of Ta Lo, an enchanted realm filled with creatures of Chinese folklore, to save this place from the wrath of his vengeful father Wen Wu, the leader of the Ten Rings.

New movie week! Our second episode of this Marvel Movies month is the newest MCU offering based on the cosmic heroes, the Eternals.

It's here. After nearly 3 years Angel is watching this movie once again to see if his extreme distaste for this movie back in 2018/2019 was warranted or not. 

Our final episode of the Halloween season is the original Halloween sequel. Released 3 years after the original, most of the original team has returned with a higher budget to pick up right when John Carpenter's original movie left off. We follow Michael Myers who has somehow survived being shot by Dr. Loomis. He travels through Haddonfield right as the news of the murders begins to spread making his way to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he is looking to finally kill Laurie Strode.

In the late 90s, Horror Movies had become a trendy genre. Most of them were meta slasher movies with attractive TV teens in lead roles, none of them were particularly scary. In come Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's indie chiller about a group of 3 college students investigating the legend of The Blair Witch. The template for modern found footage horror films, this is a film that seemingly gets better over time with the countless theories about what actually occurs. Join us as we get lost in the woods and on the original website that made this the first real example of viral marketing in a horror film.

EVIL DIES TONIGHT! We finally cover another highly anticipated Blumhouse horror film that was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the follow up to David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel. In what is the second part of a trilogy that will end with next year's aptly titled Halloween Ends, we pick up right where the last film left off on Halloween Night 2018. Laurie Strode is in this film, but takes the backseat to the town of Haddonfield who has taken it upon themselves to get revenge against Michael Myers via Mob violence.

Our October movie series continues with this indie horror flick starring former Pro Wrestler Phill "CM Punk" Brooks in his acting debut. He stars as Don Koch, a new homeowner who has fled a spotty criminal past by moving out of the big city into the privacy of suburbia. The main problem is the house he has just bought and is repairing to move his pregnant wife into also has a sordid history.

In anticipation of Halloween Kills this week, we have re-uploaded our Halloween (2018) review from January 2019 (Our THIRD episode!). This film is a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic by Director David Gordon Green and Writer Danny McBride.

This week we cover Guillermo del Toro's 2004 adaptation of the Dark Horse Comic Book. 

This week we dive into one of the early films of Michael Mann. A bomb at the time of its release, this adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel "Red Dragon" featuring the introduction of Dr. Hannibal Lecter is now a cult classic. The film follows a retired FBI agent named Will Graham who returns to help capture a serial killer who murders entire families while trying to keep himself from losing his own mind.

Our first horror review of Spooky Season is here in the form of James Wan's latest film.

FULL REVIEW - It's finally here! The highly anticipated Candyman remake from Jordan Peele and director Nia DaCosta. In this reboot/sequel we return to what remains of the Cabrini Green project to learn what the urban legend of Candyman means in the modern world.

SPOILER WARNING - finally here! The highly anticipated Candyman remake from Jordan Peele and director Nia DaCosta. In this reboot/sequel we return to what remains of the Cabrini Green project to learn what the urban legend of Candyman means in the modern world. While we plan to cover the film in a normal long form episode we wanted to share our immediate thoughts on this film leaving the theater.