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Our group-conversational review style of theatrical release films and new television series creates a fun and often quite funny podcast.

Chris Cox

Austin, TX


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    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – They Will Kill You

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2026 25:25


    THEY WILL KILL YOU MOVIE REVIEW Russian writer/director Kirill Sokolov (Why Don't You Just Die!) is continuing on with his actiony weirdness wearing its influences on its sleeve with They Will Kill You. Zazie Beetz plays Asia Reeves, a woman who ten years ago was on the run with her little sister trying to protect […]

    Screener Squad: One Piece – Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2026 27:13


    ONE PIECE SEASON 2 REVIEW Hoist the colours and set sail into the long time coming season two of One Piece streaming on Netflix, adapted from the still ongoing manga and anime by Eiichiro Oda. Even if you are not a fan of the magnum manga opus but you are a fan of swashbuckling adventures, […]

    Screener Squad: The Gray House

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2026 28:30


    THE GRAY HOUSE SERIES REVIEW Sam Houston once said “Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not fiery, impulsive people as you […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2026 14:10


    MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE MOVIE REVIEW Writer director BenDavid Grabinski steps into the spotlight with the soft sci-fi crime caper Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. Not to be confused with the 1969 rom-dram Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Grabinski's film takes place over the course of one tumultuous […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Buddy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2026 24:37


    BUDDY MOVIE REVIEW “It's Buddy” is an older children's tv show centered around a lovable orange unicorn who lives in a clubhouse with lots of Pee-Wee's Playhouse style anthropomorphic friends (the mailbox, the couch, a child's backpack, etc). A group of human children sing with and learn lessons from Buddy. Only, sometimes one of them […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Kill Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2026 21:45


    KILL ME MOVIE REVIEW Jimmy (Charlie Day) wakes up in his bathtub, filled with his own blood from his slashed wrists. He manages to call a 911 dispatcher named Margot (Allison Williams) who sends in paramedics to save his life. His family (Aya Cash and Jessica Harper) gather around him in his hospital room; this […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Beast Race

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2026 14:10


    BEAST RACE MOVIE REVIEW The director of the legendary City of God returns for his first Portuguese language film since that one, teaming up with two other directors for Beast Race. Set in a post-climate disaster Rio de Janeiro, the city has come under the control of the very rich who host a violent race […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – I Love Boosters

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2026 19:53


    I LOVE BOOSTERS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Boots Riley made his bizarre debut in 2018 with the enormously popular Sorry to Bother You. There's been much anticipation for his second film I Love Boosters and for fans of his socialist surrealism there's plenty to like here. Keke Palmer plays Corvette, the leader of a group of […]

    Screener Squad: She Dances

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 23:24


    SHE DANCES MOVIE REVIEW She Dances stars Steve Zahn as Jason, a divorced father who owns a successful whiskey distillery with his best friend and business partner, Brian (Ethan Hawke). They're in the middle of negotiations to sell their company for a lot of money, when Jason receives a call from his ex-wife Deb, (Rosemarie […]

    Screener Squad: The Mortuary Assistant

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 26:55


    THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT MOVIE REVIEW Based on the video game of the same name, The Mortuary Assistant stars Willa Holland as Rebecca, a young woman with a troubled past who has just completed her training as a mortician. One night, her boss, the mysterious Mr. Delver (Paul Sparks), asks her in to come in and […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Normal

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2026 19:31


    NORMAL MOVIE REVIEW A decade ago if you told me that Bob Odenkirk was going to have a rebirth as a brutal action movies star, I would have assumed you were talking about a Mr. Show sketch that I must have forgotten about. But here we are, first with the Nobody series, and now he […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Hokum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2026 20:45


    HOKUM MOVIE REVIEW While Irish director Damian McCarthy is a big name in the serious horror fan community, especially after two fantastic films Caveat (2020) and Oddity (2024), his latest film Hokum that premiered at SXSW might just be the one to break him wide. Adam Scott plays Ohm, a successful author on a trip […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Over Your Dead Body

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2026 16:58


    OVER YOUR DEAD BODY MOVIE REVIEW If you never got to see the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, you missed out on a crazy, bloody, constantly surprising good time of an action, horror, comedy film. While you can still find it on Netflix, now we've got the American remake Over Your Dead Body. And you […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Power Ballad

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 20:50


    POWER BALLAD MOVIE REVIEW If you don't recognize the name of the director of Power Ballad, John Carney, you should. He fills a niche in film that you didn't know you needed: smart, funny, and endearing films about people for whom music plays an important part of their lives. Go see Once, Sing Street, and […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Pretty Lethal

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 16:33


    PRETTY LETHAL MOVIE REVIEW A troupe of ballerinas who are having trouble working together effectively somehow still get invited to a prestigious competition in Hungary. When their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they find a giant hotel to give them shelter. The place is run by a former ballerina, Devora (Uma Thurman) […]

    Infestation: SXSW 2026 – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 17:31


    READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME MOVIE REVIEW This sequel to the successful 2019 horror comedy begins exactly where the first one ended: Grace (Samara Weaving) having a smoke after having completely smoked her new in-laws. But a power vacuum has been created by the elimination of this rich clan, and other wealthy clans […]

    Screener Squad: The Bluff

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 24:56


    THE BLUFF MOVIE REVIEW Avast, ye scurvy-ridden dogs! It's a rare entry into the swords and sails action-adventure genre! Lewayne and T.C. set sail on the One Of Us schooner to chart whether this new, bloody, swashbuckling Amazon original sinks beneath the waves or turns out to be a treasure. Set on a secluded island […]

    Screener Squad: Starfleet Academy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2026 41:14


    STARFLEET ACADEMY SERIES REVIEW It's the 32nd century and in an effort to restore themselves to their former glory, a shattered Starfleet relaunches Starfleet Academy, which had been replaced by the more bellicose War College. Former Starfleet Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) has been appointed Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, which will operate alongside the still […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Project Hail Mary

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2026 30:57


    PROJECT HAIL MARY MOVIE REVIEW Waking up in deep space on a ship with the only other crew members dead and with no knowledge of how you got there on a one-way trip to save the universe is one of my greatest fears. I'm sure if it was more likely to happen it would rank […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Undertone

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2026 34:18


    UNDERTONE MOVIE REVIEW We here at oneofus.net have some experience with recording/editing podcasts all alone at night in spooky houses (some of us doing it while a beloved family member lies dying nearby). For those of us who can identify, this is a potentially very unsettling situation. Thus it is for Evy (Nina Kiri) who […]

    Screener Squad: For Worse

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 23:02


    FOR WORSE MOVIE REVIEW Winter is wrapping up and romance is in the air, whether you're a young adult taking your first steps into a relationship or an adult abandoning the burning wreckage of a sinking relationship. Directed, written, and starring Amy Landecker, For Worse is the story of a woman rediscovering the awkward vulnerability […]

    Screener Squad: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 27:07


    A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS SERIES REVIEW A century before Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the first of her name, Queen of the Andals, Khaleesi of the great grass sea, the unburnt, breaker of chains and mother of dragons met Jon Snow, the King of the North, there was a hedge knight and squire […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: The Bride!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 48:25


    THE BRIDE! MOVIE REVIEW The 2020s seem to be the era of the return of the Universal monster. Not that you'd always recognize them as such. I suspect original director of The Bride of Frankenstein James Whale would be very confused by the existence of The Bride! but given that he was, in his time, […]

    Screener Squad: Dreams

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 22:20


    DREAMS MOVIE REVIEW Whenever I see a movie about marginalized groups of people in pursuit of a better life, I am tempted to quote Steinbeck and the nightmare that is the American dream. I'm not going to do that to introduce this film though I will quote the character Professor Walter Vale played by Richard […]

    Screener Squad: Undercard

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 24:06


    UNDERCARD MOVIE REVIEW There are several ways to explain it but this obscure quote might help: “He who conquers the left side conquers the world, chief”. What does it mean? Work your jab. In theaters and featuring the Florida boxing locations of Liberty City and Miami, Undercard is led by Wanda Sykes in her first […]

    Screener Squad: Breakdown: 1975

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2026 24:12


    BREAKDOWN: 1975 MOVIE REVIEW At times, film has the power to give a voice to the voiceless and speak truth to a power that would ignore those voices. When a culture shifts its thinking and changes the method and way stories are told about people, and the world in general, a massive culture shift can […]

    Screener Squad: Cold Storage

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2026 14:58


    COLD STORAGE MOVIE REVIEW When a long-forgotten government experiment goes very, very wrong, a sealed biological threat awakens beneath a quiet long-term public storage facility and begins spreading fast, leaving our minimum wage heroes Naomi (Georgina Campbell) and T-Cakes (Joe Keery) scrambling to stop an outbreak before it reaches the outside world. What begins as […]

    Screener Squad: This Is Not A Test

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2026 24:27


    THIS IS NOT A TEST MOVIE REVIEW Suburban living can be tough when your dad won't get off your back about skipping class, and your Mom isn't around to provide that parental balance, and your older sister bailed on the family. The only thing worse than that kind of anxiety is the emergency broadcast system […]

    Screener Squad: Ghost Train

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2026 22:27


    GHOST TRAIN MOVIE REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to use public transportation, here comes Ghost Train, a South Korean horror anthology film about a cursed subway station. Da-kyung (Joo Hyun-young) calls herself the Horror Queen of YouTube, and hosts a once popular channel about ghost sightings and other paranormal events. Desperate to […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: How To Make a Killing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2026 47:38


    HOW TO MAKE A KILLING MOVIE REVIEW The human quokka Glen Powell stars as Becket Redfellow, a man on death row telling a priest his life story hours before his execution. His mother was the heir to an enormous fortune when she got impregnated by a…gasp…'commoner'. Her father, Whitelaw (Ed Harris) demanded she terminate it […]

    Screener Squad: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2026 23:20


    AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS MINISERIES REVIEW For countless years, master storyteller and queen of the “who done it” genre, Agatha Christie, has entertained and thrilled us with her mysteries. Even if you've never read a single story, you're almost certainly familiar with her thanks to countless adaptations and homages through television, film, and plays. With […]

    Screener Squad: The Muppet Show TV Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2026 24:34


    THE MUPPET SHOW TV SPECIAL REVIEW The Muppet Show premiered on TV in 1976. The show was about a failing live variety and sketch comedy show hosted by The Muppets with weekly celebrity guests. 120 episodes later in 1981, they cut the music, turned out the lights, and closed the curtain forever on Jim Henson's […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Crime 101

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2026 40:55


    CRIME 101 MOVIE REVIEW We love a good heist movie, especially when it focuses on both the cops and the robbers as primary characters. Here, in writer/director Bart Layton's Crime 101 you've got a lot of the genre tropes ticking. There's the good master thief (Chris Hemsworth) who never lets anyone get hurt and has […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Wuthering Heights

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 50:46


    WUTHERING HEIGHTS MOVIE REVIEW There have been a LOT of film and tv adaptations of Wuthering Heights, author Emily Bronte's single novel from 1847. It's been translated into different languages, different settings, times, and genres. Like a lot of romantic dramas, the love story is deeply problematic in the sense that these are two very […]

    Screener Squad: The Wrecking Crew

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 25:20


    THE WRECKING CREW MOVIE REVIEW Abraham Maslow once said “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”. These two brothers just vacated the home depot, and there was a sale on sledgehammers. Also, the hardware store was exploding! Amazon Prime […]

    Screener Squad: Wonder Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 22:44


    WONDER MAN SERIES REVIEW If you've been out of the MCU for a few, Marvel's Wonder Man arrives on Disney+ as not only one of the MCU's most self-aware projects to date but as a perfect re-entry point that doesn't require you watching or even knowing anything that took place after Avengers: Endgame. An industry […]

    Screener Squad: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 21:54


    COSMIC PRINCESS KAGUYA! MOVIE REVIEW Teenagers these days have all sorts of wild ambitions that blur the lines of dreaming big and living in a fantasy world. They want to get rich as young as possible and retire in your early 20's. Fear not young listeners, such ambitions can be achieved! You could become a […]

    Screener Squad: Fallout Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 39:27


    FALLOUT SEASON 2 REVIEW Who needs a nuclear armageddon to turn America into a barren wasteland when water-hungry AI data centers belonging to Amazon and other tech giants can do the job just as well? It's an irony befitting the world of Fallout, the long running video games series and now critically acclaimed TV show… […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Pillion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 43:40


    PILLION MOVIE REVIEW One of the biggest award winning and best reviewed films of 2025 was one that might not be on your radar at all. With an American release from A24 this directorial debut by Harry Lighton has garnered lots of attention in the indie cinema world. But why have you not heard about […]

    Screener Squad: 100 Meters

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 21:09


    100 METERS MOVIE REVIEW Good cardio may make the difference between life and death in an apocalypse but in this animated feature, it's the difference between life and a shuffling zombie existence in a 9 to 5 desk job pushing pencils and remembering days long past when the act of running was an expression of […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: The Moment

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 34:06


    THE MOMENT MOVIE REVIEW There have been plenty of musical biopics, concert films, and documentaries about incredible music artists, but none like The Moment. The film stars pop music star, Charli XCX, playing a version of herself in this warped comedic mockumentary about the tail end of her iconic “Brat Summer” tour. As Charli prepares […]

    Screener Squad: The Confession

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2026 24:25


    THE CONFESSION MOVIE REVIEW Back in the dark ages there was a tale of a pied piper who led all the rats out of town. Take that, plague! Upon request for payment the the people of the town gave thanks but found no coin in their pockets nor charity in their hearts to pay the […]

    Screener Squad: Islands

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 22:09


    ISLANDS MOVIE REVIEW Sometimes people take a vacation and they never go home. Then vacation then becomes a routine, and that routine becomes a whole lot of work. Islands follows a Tennis coach named Tom (Sam Riley) who at one time went by the pro nickname of Aces. His kindness, charisma, and all around chill […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Shelter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 50:25


    SHELTER MOVIE REVIEW There are three kinds of Jason Statham films. #1- Part of an ensemble cast of folks, pretty much always action-based, and more often than not a Guy Ritchie movie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ghosts of Mars). #2 – Action with some comedy but usually batshit crazy cartoon stuff (Crank, […]

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