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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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    Trash in the Can: The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 83:35


    TRASH IN THE CAN: THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL What do you get when you mix disco, Kiss, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a mountain of cocaine? The Paul Lynde Halloween Special! A variety show so baffling, it makes the Star Wars Holiday Special look restrained. Baylor Johnson joins us for a spooky […]

    Screener Squad: Mr. Scorsese

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 23:39


    MR. SCORSESE SERIES REVIEW Martin Scorsese has been one of our most acclaimed filmmakers for so long, that it's easy to forget his reputation and career weren't always as secure as they are now. Scorsese has been the subject of many articles, books, and documentaries before, so it's hard to imagine anything that hasn't been […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 34:36


    DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE MOVIE REVIEW There are few American musicians more iconic and more blue-collar than Bruce Springsteen. Despite huge swaths of choads not actually listening to the words to Born in the USA and using it as a right-wing rallying cry, Bruce has firmly always been a poet of the people. What director […]

    Screener Squad: Stay

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 23:36


    STAY MOVIE REVIEW One of the most famous and spooky scary EVP's (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) ever documented was the phrase “Get out of my house”. Often a haunted house tale is a story of a restless spirit that doesn't want anyone in its space and someone figuring out why it's so restless. Move on? I […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Frankenstein

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 38:19


    FRANKENSTEIN MOVIE REVIEW It's officially getting into that end of the year Oscar qualifying season and you know what that means: elevated horror directors put out their own remakes of classic monster movies time. I mean, lately. This year it's Guillermo del Toro's turn and he dives into the Mary Shelley creation that he's spent […]

    Screener Squad: Marvel Zombies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 20:43


    MARVEL ZOMBIES SERIES REVIEW The dead have risen… and they've got superpowers. Marvel Zombies shambles onto Disney Plus, expanding the fan-favorite What If…? episode that first teased this gruesome alternate Marvel universe. Inspired by the 2005 comic series by Robert Kirkman, the animated show imagines a world where a zombie virus infects Earth's Mightiest Heroes, […]

    Screener Squad: Steve

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 21:40


    STEVE MOVIE REVIEW A famous monologue in the Irvine Welsh novel Trainspotting reads “Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Good Fortune

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 32:27


    GOOD FORTUNE MOVIE REVIEW Aziz Ansari has been wanting to move into feature filmmaking for awhile now but, as most are aware, there were a series of stumbling blocks. But now he writes, directs, and stars in this comedy that crosses Wings of Desire with Trading Places, the aptly named Good Fortune. Ansari plays Arj, […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Black Phone 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 36:31


    BLACK PHONE 2 MOVIE REVIEW Based on a Joe Hill short story, 2021's The Black Phone was a surprise late-pandemic success, a modestly budgeted supernatural horror film that found a sizable audience despite not having any big stars, or recognizable IP. With success comes expectations – and sequels – so director Scott Derrickson and frequent […]

    Screener Squad: Haunted Hotel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 22:00


    HAUNTED HOTEL SERIES REVIEW Whenever I check into a hotel I know I'm in good hands when I see that delicious mint on my pillow. Chocolate and fresh breath? I am loved. Worst case scenario? Cold water showers, paper thin walls, no mints, and a diabolical room 1408 situation. For those of you that haven't […]

    Screener Squad: Peacemaker Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 40:24


    PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 REVIEW Who would have guessed that a D list superhero like Chris Smith AKA Peacemaker would be the cornerstone of DC Comics latest cinematic universe, or that the role would offer former wrestler turned actor John Cena the meatiest role of his career, thus far? Nobody, that's who. And yet here we […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Tron: Ares

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 45:48


    TRON:ARES MOVIE REVIEW Has it really been FIFTEEN years since Tron: Legacy? Disney has been trying to get a third Tron film up off the ground ever since Legacy with multiple stumbling blocks, including the cast of that film being unwilling to return for a third. So of course they go to everyone's favorite leading […]

    Screener Squad: Play Dirty

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 22:16


    PLAY DIRTY MOVIE REVIEW Trim the tree, put up the lights, hang the stockings with care: there's an action film on Amazon Prime with Shane Black as writer/director…Christmas will soon be here! Inspired by the popular Parker book series by Donald E Westlake, Play Dirty starring Mark Wahlberg, is about a heist gone wrong that […]

    Screener Squad: House on Eden

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 21:21


    HOUSE ON EDEN MOVIE REVIEW All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray. I went to a church, and it was so spoooooky SCARY! Halloween is coming and Shudder is ready to assume its final form. Director, writer, and actres Kris Collins finds the camera and supplies the footage for a haunted house […]

    Screener Squad: The Man in My Basement

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 24:10


    THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT MOVIE REVIEW Charles (Corey Hawkins) has fallen on the worst of times in the most apathetic of decades, the 90s. He doesn't have a job, the bank is continually threatening to foreclose on his house, and he is burdened with a past full of trauma and anger. His ancestral domicile […]

    Screener Squad: Killing Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 25:34


    KILLING FAITH MOVIE REVIEW It was a time of tumbleweeds, rawhide, and ghost towns. A time of doctors who traded in bottles of medicine to find the bottom of bottles made of dead families and glass. Ranches with too many horses in a one horse town with no name. Well, the town had a name, […]

    Screener Squad: All of You

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 22:37


    ALL OF YOU MOVIE REVIEW Criss Jami once wrote, “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” Beautiful, profound, and thought provoking. […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Anemone

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 37:11


    ANEMONE MOVIE REVIEW Nepotism is alive and well! Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to co-write and star in his son's (Ronan Day-Lewis) feature film debut with Anemone. The film follows Jem Stoker (Sean Bean) as he travels far and wide to find his estranged brother Ray (Daniel Day-Lewis) who's become a hermit over […]

    Screener Squad: Alien: Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 34:17


    ALIEN: EARTH SERIES REVIEW The common online geek response to a hyped up writer/director being giving the reins to a beloved classic sci-fi franchise is “get away from her you bitch!”. With a track record that includes the Legion and Fargo TV Series, at least some geeks were excited to give Noah Hawley a crack […]

    Screener Squad: Dead of Winter

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 25:38


    DEAD OF WINTER MOVIE REVIEW Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said “Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak”. Had he ever been to Minnesota during ice fishing season? Dead of Winter is the story of Barb's (Emma Thompson) solo pilgrimage through northern Minnesota. It's an annual trip she used to take with her husband […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Martin and Guinevere Thomas Weigh In

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 34:33


    INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2025 – MARTIN AND GUINEVERE THOMAS WEIGH IN In what is becoming a Fantastic Fest tradition at Oneofus.net, we invite our good friend Martin Thomas in to discuss some of the films he got to see and loved but Wright and Chris didn't get to. Only this time, in a first for […]

    Screener Squad: Night of the Reaper

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 21:39


    NIGHT OF THE REAPER MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time we all had a babysitter and once upon a time within that once upon a time we all watched babysitters get massacred by a maniac around Halloween. From the network that brought you such nostalgia as “Kids on bikes solving mysteries” and “Your ghost isn't […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 15:39


    GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE MOVIE REVIEW Despite the ‘official' premiere of the first Gore Verbinski film in eight years being at Beyond Fest on 9/28, the ACTUAL world premiere was at the final secret screening of Fantastic Fest on 9/25. His new film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a dystopian sci-fi […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Bugonia

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 16:02


    BUGONIA MOVIE REVIEW Based on a 2003 South Korean film called Save The Green Planet!, the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos unsurprisingly stars his new muse Emma Stone but it is her co-star Jesse Plemons who steals the show. Bugonia was a secret screening this year and we were here for it (in both a […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – One Battle After Another

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 15:50


    ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER MOVIE REVIEW At Fantastic Fest every year they have a series of ‘secret screenings'. These can vary from tiny films you've never heard of to premieres of giant films. Way back when, the fest got on the map when they did the premiere of There Will Be Blood at a secret […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – When We Were Live

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 18:43


    WHEN WE WERE LIVE MOVIE REVIEW In his documentary about Public Access Television in Austin, Texas in the 80s and 90s, director John Spottswood Moore had a LOT of material to sift through. Austin's station was by far one of the most prolific in the country (second only to NYC, I believe). Let me tell […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Sisu: Road To Revenge

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 13:22


    SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE MOVIE REVIEW Actor Jorma Tommila returns to his character in Sisu (no, his name is not Sisu) in a bigger, bloodier, more insane affair, as you would expect to a sequel to Sisu. Road to Revenge has him returning to the part of Finland that he used to live with his […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – The Forbidden City

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 14:43


    THE FORBIDDEN CITY MOVIE REVIEW Genre-fusing sometimes is an awkward affair, ending up with a film that doesn't know what it is. But sometimes it creates something that feels very new. Sometimes it ends up being epic. Fortunately this is the case for The Forbidden City. The story follows Mei, a girl who along with […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Beast of War

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 10:49


    BEAST OF WAR MOVIE REVIEW When a ship of Australian soldiers goes down in the middle of the ocean on their way to fight in WWII, only a handful survive. They find themselves in a calm, windless sea on a makeshift raft. There's no water, food, several are seriously injured, and there's one big and […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 12:56


    IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU MOVIE REVIEW Linda (Rose Byrne) is so very, very tired. She has a young daughter with severe enough of an eating disorder that she needs to be fed by a stomach tube or she will die. Her husband is away for work so she has to do everything […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Obsession

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 15:26


    OBSESSION MOVIE REVIEW We've all been in a position where we cared so very deeply for someone and wished they felt the same for us but felt hopeless to make it happen. Bear (Michael Johnston) probably isn't hopeless with his feelings for Nikki (Inde Navarrette) being reciprocated but he'll never know. Because he used a […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Primate

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 15:20


    PRIMATE MOVIE REVIEW Lucy is coming home from college to stay with her family in their implausibly awesome home on a cliff in Hawaii. Her two friends Kate and Hannah are coming as well but Hannah is in for a big surprise: there's another member of the family they didn't tell her about: a chimpanzee […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Silent Night, Deadly Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 12:30


    SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW We could understand if trashy slashers from the 80s (no matter how fun they might be to some of us) were not your thing, that you might avoid a modern remake of one of the most infamous of them, Silent Night, Deadly Night. However, you would be doing yourself […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – The Curse

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 10:57


    THE CURSE MOVIE REVIEW Bringing back a 90's J-horror vibe, director/writer Kenichi Ugana (Visitors) dives into technology curses with their new film, The Curse. Riko and her roommate have a friend back in Taiwan who has posted an odd and creepy picture on their social media. Even weirder, the text is uncharacteristically dark as are […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Shelby Oaks

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 15:03


    SHELBY OAKS MOVIE REVIEW A popular online video series of paranormal haunt investigators turns into a huge mystery when after going to investigate an abandoned town, Shelby Oaks, all four members of the cast go missing. The case drags on for years and years until only the sister of one of them still is determined […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Ikatan Darah

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 10:33


    IKATAN DARAH MOVIE REVIEW This Indonesian action film from legend Iko Uwais's new production banner follows Mega, a talented athlete and fighter whose career is sidelined from an injury. Her brother is a serious but unsuccessful gambler and after gambling the deed to their house away, goes to the gangster he owes money to in […]

    Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2025 – Coyotes

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2025 18:58


    INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2025 – COYOTES Justin Long and Kate Bosworth both are a married couple and play one in this horror film set in the Hollywood Hills. When coyotes suddenly start showing up in their neighborhood and attacking/killing the neighbors, the family must band together, with the additional aid of a ‘lady of the […]

    Screener Squad: Demon Slayer Infinity Castle

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 27:44


    DEMON SLAYER INFINITY CASTLE MOVIE REVIEW Over 220 million copies sold world wide across its 23 volumes. Adapted into an anime of 4 seasons and 63 episodes all translated into several languages propelling it into a world wide phenomenon. An empire of merchandising that rivals that of Star wars and The Simpsons. Writer/artist Koyoharu Gotouge's […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Him

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 39:59


    HIM MOVIE REVIEW First, you need to be clear: despite the deceptive marketing, Him is not directed or written by Jordan Peele. It's coming out under his production label and that's it. Second: football is America's #1 religion. At least, it certainly seems that way. Third: Him wants that to be scary. The story follows […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 49:45


    A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY MOVIE REVIEW Welcome to yet another review where Chris is absolutely correct in his opinion and Wright is not (editor: I think you got that backwards). A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a trip into magical realism on a path well, and much better, trod by films such as Eternal […]

    Screener Squad: Wednesday Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 25:14


    WEDNESDAY SEASON 2 REVIEW It's back! Wednesday! No, I'm not talking about hump day, I'm talking about the eldest daughter of that creepy, kookie, mysteriously ookie, all together spooky Addams Family. Snap Snap. Wednesday, the hero of Nevermore, returns to find her new found popularity a dreadful nuisance. New Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) is bursting […]

    Screener Squad: Dexter: Resurrection

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 22:10


    DEXTER: RESURRECTION SERIES REVIEW Previously on Dexter: New Blood: Harrison decides to shoot his father in the chest outside of Ironlake lodge in Massachusetts and flee the scene. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) the Bay Harbor Butcher is no more. RIP Michael C Hall's second-best long running TV series character (after Six Feet Under, of […]

    Screener Squad: The Thursday Murder Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 18:04


    THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB MOVIE REVIEW When four retirees (Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie) trade in bingo night for cold-case crime solving, they get more than they bargained for after stumbling into a very real murder. Suddenly, the cozy English village is buzzing with secrets, suspects, and amateur detective work that's […]

    Screener Squad: Bang Bang

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 22:34


    BANG BANG MOVIE REVIEW Float like a Butterfly. Sting like a bee. Get your head examined and live with CTE. This quote is not quite right, but it's the reality of what boxers are left with after their time in the ring is at an end and the promoters high tail it outta town. Former […]

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